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frangonf

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About frangonf

10⁻¹X Engineer

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    Comment #49110628

    Autonomous kamikaze drones don't need spools.

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    Comment #49040271

    I am a heavy viber that uses a lot of resources in github now after LLMs compared with pre-LLMs for my personal projects. I find great that there are places that are still human fi…

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    Comment #49034815

    I read that data centers in Frankfurt use 40% of city energy, and seems that some fossil fuel based workarounds are being pushed. I hope we do better than the US in the energy and …

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    Comment #48846738

    Is this the model trained on Meta "draftees"? Are we seeing this in the jump on JobBench?

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    Comment #48834733

    I enjoy: The Pragmatic Engineer, Peterman Podcast, Rate Limited, State of Agentic Coding and linkarzu.

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    Comment #48716491

    Surprising that the banking industry has not come up yet with the AI native consumer product loan for GPUs.

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    Comment #48692939

    I never write thanks specially if we are finishing. If there are no more interactions is simply wasting money. But when adding new messages I almost always start with "ok great, no…

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    Comment #48687728

    Meta is also going at it [0], which inevitably makes me ponder some orwellian questions for the near future: If I bring my pet mouse to the cinema and my friend scans the movie bac…

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    Comment #48674638

    I tend to specify oss/free/self hosted solutions when looking for things and it usually get appropiate results. I think if commercial options are more popular and more present in t…

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    Comment #48631858

    Safetyxploitation seems to be the key selling keyword for "old" business. Management won't approve any proposal without less than 100 safety mentions.

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    Comment #48623819

    I always thought that the donate tokens thing would be done by sending some tokens from your personal sub to the maintainer's pool with some sort of proxy for tokens with rules, in…

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    Comment #48590955

    I saw it the other day in the release notes and I'm definitely setting this up since I already use mise for many of my global tools and projects. Some months ago I ported part of m…

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    Comment #48569392

    The best I can do now (in absence of this machine) is trying to remember we are already slowly dying day by day, and that we can drop dead in any instant. But even using this machi…

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    Comment #48567677

    A serious AI-native founder should not waste time reading this brochures, they should make agentic loops instead where their agents autonomously read and produce brochures for thei…

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    Comment #48560245

    So it's a model that's sovereign as in sovereign kingdom of the Netherlands vs sovereign for the people's?

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    Comment #48560149

    Maybe it was needed until recently and today the scale and monopoly is sufficiently well oiled that a couple 1M$/month programmers with some clankers can ship some new buttons and …

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    Comment #48555483

    I was on Claude Code the past year, now I use chinese models, but I've used Cursor and they have an ok pricing offering today because of their mix of sota models with usage based p…

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    Comment #48420771

    In the web I use Vimium, I tried mouseless in the past and loved the idea but it just didn't click with me. Now I use a lot a mouse layer in zmk and also a trackball.

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    Comment #48403494

    Happy customer here. Found you last month while looking for searxng and related alternatives for API search with clankers in a personal setting.

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    Comment #48377549

    I went fro regular keyboard to happy user of (slightly modified) Glorious Engrammer here. I use qwerty and I'm really not a fast typist, but the "primitives" and thought put on thi…

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    Comment #48358654

    Having grown up with an unreliable sluggish gsm dial up connection when the web was already getting heavier payloads, and forced to have developed the virtue of patience and love o…

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    Comment #48354020

    They are targeting the kind of makers that use Excel and Teams more than make.

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    Comment #48336393

    I don't understand the fuss about this. Offering freeware as marketing gimmick so you can work in the most propietary closed software domain (fpgas toolchains)?

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    Comment #48308588

    Now I understand the rumors of Anthropic starting to get profitable... by ralph looping fortune 500

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    Comment #48297588

    Isn't this the dream? Let marketing ship and own their features while swe do the engineering?