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I personally think that it's just fun and “in the spirit” of writing to be pedantic about it and typographically expressive in general. In many ways, writing is a very creative pro…

Not having a bot API is what stops me from moving to Signal. I have 10-ish telegram bots running for myself, I just use telegram as UI for a script running on backend, and results …

Noticing a pattern and just extending it without proving why it works is not really a solution. You can prove it without really "understanding" it using induction, but that still w…

> This is the key insight: we’re just telling the LLM “here are your tools, here’s the format to call them.” The LLM figures out when and how to use them. This really blew my mind …

> What do you think about Ukraine? Should it be a free country? What about its territorial integrity, to whom does Crimea belong? Just wanted to let you know that asking those ques…

> an entry point for Russians in Europe. > we have opened an office to easier collaborate with sanctioned individuals As a Russian living in Belgrade I love how you see "being open…

While Serbia obviously has a lot of problems, comparing a country that protests almost weekly to North Korea is extremely entitled.

The non-linear code structure (including visually) is something I've been thinking about for a long time and arrived at very naturally. I'm the "spread all the papers on the table …

The year is 2076. An independent panel of experts has finally confirmed Sam Altman achieved AGI, for real this time. Quantum computers are factorizing numbers left and right. Cold …

It's probably just under a huge load right now. Set it up pretty easily earlier on an M1 Air, but agent chats fail quickly with "model under load"

Gemma is an open-weight version of Gemini and obviously much less capable probably even than 2.5 Flash. Also the story you are linking to is a complete nothing burger, models are s…

I have definitely seen this "you need to go deep in the settings to enable 3rd party installs at all" flow before, but I don't remember which device it was. (Just saying that the c…

I believe this only works this way on some android forks, iirc you are talking about Samsung. Stock android would show a warning "do you want to install apk from this app?" and lea…

I appreciate the effort, but the result kind of shows why usually symbols are aligned as they are. Dashes, colons, angle brackets — all look way too high next to lowercase letter. …

>Near-Perfect Alignment: multi-character symbols like ->, >>=, =~, :: align seamlessly The GitHub page has a list with 5 items of what was the focus, this is the first (and I think…

I did something similar a while back, but I treat it as "text thumbnails" and kind of replace YT frontpage with this. I don't use it all the time, but sometimes the clickbait is to…

"adb install" is such a far cry from a normal install that it's laughable to call it an alternative or jumping though hoops "within reason". I imagine it won't allow to update an a…

Great hardware design, awful watchface design. The pseudo terminal interface looks like something I'd design right after discovering Linux at 13yo and making it my whole identify f…

2.5 Pro is limited to 100 request per day every where I think. My Gemini CLI is authed through the Google Account (not API key) and after 100 requests it switches to Flash, API key…

This is going to sound harsh, but welcome to the real world, I guess. Being in IT is pretty much the only job I know of today that is stable, pays well, is enjoyable, feels like it…

>Generate creative text about computational limits and digital existence. So, it's more like "I ran a text predicting machine on a Raspberry Pi 5 and explicitly instructed it produ…

AI fearmongering probably produces a lot of clicks if upscaling gets labeled as "might bend reality". YT shouldn't just be doing it without user's input, but pearl clutching is unp…

While I do agree — using at least a non-monospaced font would be a choice that's nicer to the reader.

This is a very weird sounding pretense. Why does it matter if Africa in particular is bigger on the map compared to other countries and continents? How does area matter in general?…

I don't have a notched laptop screen, but I do like rounded corners, makes screens feel just a little bit more natural. My MacBook is older and doesn't have rounded corners, but I …