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kcbanner

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    Comment #45198038

    > users want the results intelligently synthesized into a text response with references rather than as raw results. The reason I pay for Kagi is that I specifically don't want this…

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    Comment #42214735

    It would be possible to employ an expert doctor, instead of writing a script.

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    Comment #42100234

    It's not pointless, because you get to select exactly the design pattern that is best for the situation. Other languages may decide this for you.

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    Comment #42098928

    You don't need to comment out the print function - it could gate its behavior on a comptime-known configuration variable. This would allow you to keep your debug variables in place…

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    Comment #42096846

    After you've been writing zig for a while, seeing `.{}` in an argument list intuitively means "default arguments".

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    Comment #41825117

    Thanks again for resinator! I recently used it to ship a small win32 utility ( https://github.com/kcbanner/multi-mouse ) and it worked perfectly.

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    Comment #39250596

    It's fairly obvious they are asking if the content was licensed

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    Comment #38807728

    Did you read the comment you replied to?

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    Comment #38615110

    > Because refactoring requires understanding, which LLMs completely lack. It's obvious from context here that the refactoring that was mentioned was specifically around concurrency…

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    Comment #35993581

    The package manager is designed to download archives (.tar.gz) of packages, not the composite files.

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    Comment #34549004

    TurboSearch: A MSVC extension frontend for the excellent command line utility, The Silver Searcher (Ag). https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CaseyBan... Price: $12 …

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    Comment #34264813

    I've been using https://glogg.bonnefon.org/ . The mark / matches feature is really handy. However there are a few bugs with highlighting and it hasn't been updated in a while. Will…

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    Comment #34169329

    Can you explain what would satisfy your criteria?

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    Comment #33790660

    Check out good-scroll: https://github.com/io12/good-scroll.el You can configure a custom refresh rate.

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    Comment #33069738

    https://javalin.io/documentation#views-and-templates

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    Comment #33069720

    Javalin has been powering one of my projects for years now without issues. Really great framework. Thanks!

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    Comment #32459743

    I built TurboSearch, an ag frontend for MSVC: https://kcbanner.gumroad.com/l/turbosearch I was frustrated with how slow and clunky all the existing solutions were for regex searche…

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    Comment #32458889

    I think you may have quite a large blind spot here. The games industry is primarily Windows based.

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    Comment #32188683

    "This is the story of a clever trick that's been around for at least 35 years, in which array values can be left uninitialized and then read during normal operations, yet the code …

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    Comment #30303558

    I haven't benchmarked it, but it could probably just be a drop-in replacement as I believe the arguments are compatible. Would be interesting to try!

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    Comment #30297680

    I built a Visual Studio extension that wraps ag (the silver searcher), because I was constantly flipping to the terminal to use it to search the UE4 codebase I work on. The built i…

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    Comment #29922694

    "SQL is a query language. Why would Google treat it like code?" Because...it's a programming language, and therefore...it is code?

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    Comment #27748907

    I feel like UX improvements would be best driven by user feedback, not inferred from telemetry.

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