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krisgenre

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    Comment #49119988

    Yes, I am surprised that no one talks about the 'live' feature in Gemini app. With camera turned on, it has helped me fix things which I have no clue about.

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    Comment #47748001

    Eleventy + Decap CMS + gitlab has been working well for our marketing team for the past 3+ years. Also, with Claude/Gemini/Copilot it is a lot easier to edit templates and add new …

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    Comment #47658777

    .. and Claude Code for Linux, the CLI binary is 200+ mb :(

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    Comment #47610541

    Reminds me of a question that I asked couple of years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176689

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    Comment #46715807

    +1. AI agents can also fix minor bugs easily in open source software (it already did in two of the apps I use).

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    Comment #46680862

    18 years here (more if I can count my non professional years). Agreed, coding isn't as much fun as it used to be but AI has only increased my enthusiasm for tech. Its a lot more ea…

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    Comment #46494616

    I have nearly two decades of programming experience which is mostly server side. The other day I wanted a quick desktop (Linux) program to chat with an LLM. Found out about Viciane…

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    Comment #46324958

    Filling out forms, booking tickets, summarizing content ... Even at work, have seen few junior developers use AI browsers to attend mandatory compliance courses and complete quizze…

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    Comment #46322594

    + Children are growing up with ChatGPT and Gemini. It has already become the de facto standard for learning. AI in browsers is inevitable.

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    Comment #46255960

    Okay, but is that a bad thing?

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    Comment #46228564

    Maybe they want more free users to better train their models and don't care about the money (which they already have in plenty?). In the grand scheme of things, paid users are minu…

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    Comment #46203308

    Is this similar to the indexing done by Jetbrains IDEs?

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    Comment #45614152

    So far, I have had a very good experience using Gemini Live with the camera turned on. Just today, I wanted to find out the name of a spare part inside a bathroom faucet. First, Ge…

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    Comment #45603137

    Exactly! I too bought the M1 Macbook Air in 2021 because of its great battery life. I wanted a powerful device for hacking on personal projects at home (I use a Dell running Ubuntu…

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    Comment #44324955

    IntelliJ has one too https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

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    Comment #44070181

    For desktop integration you can use Gear Lever https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever . It can also update AppImages with some configuration changes.

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    Comment #43276628

    My wife is still using her 2020 M1 Air and it’s still as snappy as the day we got it, still works for all her use cases. Ah! my early 2015 13" Macbook pro died only few weeks back.…

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    Comment #42665878

    Why do people keep saying Steve Jobs invented the iPhone? He at best could have pushed people to do the best but that alone should not let him steal all the credit.

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    Comment #42385388

    Thank you. Seeing this as the top comment actually makes me feel better as I now know that I am not alone.

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    Comment #42349877

    I let candidates use the Internet (except AI tools) during coding interviews. All I care is if given a problem can they do the necessary research to solve it. It usually involves m…