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vitamark

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About vitamark

passing by, tinkering with stuff and writing code

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    Comment #49033573

    I entered my birth date and this calculator said I will eat a leather shoe some time in the near future. Very accurate, thanks, looking forward to that.

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    Comment #48991897

    As for switching between sessions — it's the hierarchy that's lost on tabs. in 1.17 I get basically a three-level hierarchy: project -> workspace -> session I could say I rarely us…

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    Comment #48980202

    Can you shed some light on what's the deal with the new interface (web/desktop)? I updated one of my opencode containers today and had to downgrade it back because: 1. Worktree/wor…

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    Comment #48781667

    I don't see how reading has anything to do with internal monologue. Do you hear the words you read when reading? If so, it surely has to be slow as hell. I did get relatively good …

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    Comment #48781636

    I have no problem with AI as-is, but writing should be concise and to the point, and without heavy tweaking current models write pretentious hard-to-read stuff like this article. A…

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    Comment #48775697

    I personally encode flacs as 192/256k opus from the start and that's fairly enough for most data save purposes, so no reencode for streaming is needed that's a bitrate of 1GB per 9…

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    Comment #48756497

    at least bun vibe-coded rust rewrite had a test suite (which doesn't justify it) we're all very grateful for cool toolchains and tools but I think people wouldn't even poke a stick…

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    Comment #48734757

    No, I actually say that there are no words unless I think of them. Ideas appear out of nowhere and are made of nothing, like they just are integral part of my mind state

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    Comment #48733628

    Well, I can't say for the general population, but for me there's just nothing unless I actively try to think of words, sentences and other things. One moment you don't have an idea…

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    Comment #48733416

    Well, language is not really required for thinking and conscious experiences, a huge chunk of people don't even have an internal monologue, and some (that'd be me) don't have any "…

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    Comment #48733293

    "For an LLM, it is exactly the opposite". Is it really? LLMs don't have words inside, for the most part they operate by applying transformations to a vector that does not contain a…

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    Comment #48515324

    I see the point, but really this is solved better by having a solid foundation of UI components (might be an existing UI-kit or own thing, a piece of CSS anyway), and then you can …

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    Comment #48515286

    Probably just the convenience. Expression `select(User).where(User.id == user_id)` does look simpler and cleaner than `select(User).where(eq(User.id, user_id)))`. Maybe there is an…

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    Comment #48502853

    anything except that it's malware installed via npm

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    Comment #48501610

    Tailwind, IMHO, doesn't bring any real value to the developer or the codebase. It's just a weird way to write CSS right in the classes. We have a tool for that, it's called "writin…

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    Comment #48445960

    There are examples like ORM query builders (something like `User.id == user_id` should not return a boolean, but rather some inspectable query part), multi-value comparisons (e.g. …

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    Comment #48401018

    The fact that you know it literally means you understand, at least to some extent, how an internal combustion engine works (i.e. it is powered somehow by combustion, and jumping go…

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    Comment #48396749

    This "are LLMs conscious" question keeps somehow being thrown into the discourse and it's always the same arguments discussed. I don't get it. We don't have a definition of conscio…

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    Comment #48284480

    If I remember correctly, fatal insomnia shares most symptoms with other prion diseases (in which there might be no lack of sleep involved), so it's probably the brain damage that c…

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    Comment #48047342

    I thought we already have LinkedIn for that?

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    Comment #47929998

    Many Slavic languages do that, as well as Albanian for some reason? Russian speakers broadly consider sky blue / turquoise / cyan a distinct color right between green and blue http…