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Wild times when one can go from a HN post about an interesting open source code to a port to a new language in a matter of hours (wip, but almost complete: https://github.com/theol…

For me it was even worse than that. One laptop has copilot blocked by policy, and it shows a blocking modal every time you press the key by mistake

If I remember correctly the status page was not precise before the acquisition - so take with a big grain of salt the 100% pre-acquisition values

It's worse than that - the feature exists in the paid OneDrive app, it lets you scan, edit, add pages etc just like the office lens. It just doesn't save the output - scanned files…

Seems like this is going to be the year of AI slop being released everywhere by Microsoft. Just wish they'd put as much effort into a post morten for this one as they're doing for …

Maybe I'm not seeing it but wouldn't it be just easier to pump the river water back up instead of letting it flow on the sea?

I got tired of shelling out to dotnet-gcdump to investigate memory leaks, so I made a tiny C# library that lets you trigger .gcdump captures programmatically. Useful for debugging …

See here for more info: https://github.com/Cysharp/ZLinq?tab=readme-ov-file#differen...

There are some minor breaking changes like the order of iteration is not always the same as the official Linq implementation, or Sum might give different values due to checked vs u…

To add on that, you can define your lambdas as static to make sure you're not capturing anything by mistake. Something like dates.Where(static x => x.Date > DateTime.Now)

There's also a really nice implementation of Rope for C# here: https://github.com/FlatlinerDOA/Rope

Specially because there are no network effects and no lock in.

Netflix did that many years ago, interesting idea even if a bit disruptive in the beginning https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/

What a bunch of corporate newspeak. Their demand of 8% of gross revenue in annual license fees, or >$30M for 2024, shows how much this was only about profits and not about contribu…

I think the original quote was "One in a million is next Tuesday": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...

Isn't that precisely what they were doing? Forcing landlords to follow the recommended prices? "RealPage thus makes it hard for customers to override its recommendations, according…

Reminded me of their Command-E acquisition from a few years ago ( https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/welcome-command-e-to... )

That's what our app does: curiosity.ai, local index, support for many files types and apps out of the box, and integrated local OCR, STT and even local LLM

You forgot to mention how he also single-handed solved search at Twitter /s

And nowadays by ego

They turned into an online version of the mob. Pay them and they'll take care that your bad reviews are gone. Don't pay and risk getting a few extra bad reviews

If you want to try our software (includes search, RAG, file handling, and a bunch of integrations, and can be deployed on prem or cloud), happy to give you a license in exchange fo…