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nirv

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    Comment #48424852

    This Reuters article provides some useful context about Yandex: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/after-months-negotiati... . Yandex was split for a while into a Russian-contro…

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    Comment #47381064

    Do you suggest using manual brushes instead of content-aware fill, or am I supposed to not want to retouch the images in the way that GenAI makes so quickly and easily? My argument…

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    Comment #46790077

    Exactly. Meanwhile, I have to use the en_DK.UTF-8 system locale as there's no better alternative.

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    Comment #46423638

    > he believes GOG’s approach is more relevant than ever: no lock-in, no forced platforms, sense of ownership I really hope that we'll be freed from the forced Windows platform. Sur…

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    Comment #46096195

    CachyOS would require Arch Linux to implement the support first. Progress is slow but steady: - https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@li... - https://rfc.archli…

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    Comment #46096150

    Here are benchmark rounds of CachyOS against current Ubuntu and Fedora workstations as fresh as early November: https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu-2510-f43

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    Comment #46076140

    This is why I dismissed Penpot as even the simplest tool for quick, basic prototyping. I could tolerate some visual and workflow bugs, but encountering this limitation was a deal b…

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    Comment #46003292

    I appreciate your viewpoint and the time you took to share it.

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    Comment #46000721

    I see your point about the scope, which is why I led with "framework" as a fallback in my question. With that in mind, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on what a practical F…

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    Comment #45992364

    Could you share your thoughts on interesting and worthy development paths or vision for a universal FOSS CAD tool/framework? If you were leading a funded team, what goals would you…

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    Comment #45192561

    > It’s hard to believe that Mistral isn’t the right choice to invest €1.7B in for economic reasons. Why? Cursor, essentially a VSCode fork, is valued at $10B. Perplexity AI, which,…

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    Comment #45081840

    That's an interesting point that I'd never considered before. Thank you for sharing it.

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    Comment #45060681

    > Chinese government [...] gives tons of freedom for business owners to run wild This claim is provably incorrect. > Analysis of all 37.5 million registered firms in China reveals …

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    Comment #45060465

    Rather than bombarding your interlocutor with a barrage of questions, please articulate your position clearly and save everyone's time instead.

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    Comment #44587707

    > Very open to ideas on things to improve... Grade 316 stainless steel SD cards by Lexar come to mind[1]. [1] https://www.lexar.com/global/news/Lexar-Announces-Worlds-Fir...

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    Comment #44472157

    No browser on Linux supports any other backend for video acceleration except VAAPI, as far as I know. AMD and Intel use VAAPI, while Nvidia uses VDPAU, which is not supported anywh…

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    Comment #44361289

    I suppose you didn't accompany the command `uvx` with the necessary `--with=` arguments[1] for each dependency. [1] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/#commands-with-plugin...

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    Comment #43911113

    I tried it once, and I couldn't run RAG without the GPU either (only using external APIs). Considering that they pull all the heavy deps even with the local compute flags disabled,…

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    Comment #43901752

    Not sure about the moat, it's mostly a SvelteKit web app with extra utils after all. But it has a rather unique combination of advanced features (RAG integrations, workspaces[1], p…

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    Comment #43901585

    Sorry for the resubmission, you beat me for a minute while I was typing the title.

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    Comment #40469726

    #275727 Dozens of megabytes of text, jokes, arguments, dramas, casual and professional socialising, and hundreds of new acquaintances that have shaped my interests in life. Thanks …

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    Comment #40047533

    As far as I understand from what I've read, Iran even separated the attack times of missiles and UAVs to make them easier to monitor and shoot down without overloading air defense …

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    Comment #38471857

    You're either pretending or incapable of understanding the point that is being reiterated in this thread. The OpenAI company, that was supposed to be non-profit open research think…