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Nothing wrong with CMOS/APA/MLA dashes, I quite like them but usage in LLM prose has ruined it for me. AP dashes are weird, too much horizontal spacing, looks horrible and can real…

What caught my eye was: Model Lines of Code File Size Gzip Size GPT-5.6 Sol 1,264 35.5 KB 10.0 KB GPT-5.6 Terra 827 20.0 KB 6.7 KB

I am not sure it is the management consulting partners or their associates that are doing the vibe coding . The more likely scenario is that they "consume" the output of designated…

Presented at ASAC 2023. See also: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3627106.3627138

There is also the possibility of using Toolbx (formerly [Fedora] Toolbox), distrobox or a container, and the underlying container's package manager. The issue then ends up being ab…

Thanks for all the hard work. We are not many [1], but Homebrew has been a great way to quickly bootstrap an environment in immutable Linux distributions. Note that certain operati…

I am not sure it is recommending more than it is commenting on the current state of developing public-facing APIs in Python. The downstream users that import the package either hav…

This is what I do for the former: floor( nextafter( 256, 255 ) * value )

I recently installed Fedora Kinoite [1] and I have been very pleasantly surprised by how stable and performant it is. I am afraid I cannot say the same for their new KDE Linux dist…

Yes. The discount was most likely a "post-market trial" of how efficient the caching works for the new generation models.

Microsoft has already gone down this road some three years ago... https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...

Tasks are taken from commit histories in public Git repositories which defeats the purpose.

Or become a major investor on a largely public funded project with commitments set to start at a delayed time in order to benefit from R&D before bearing financial burden. (See [1]…

Unsure if this is what the announcement is referring to: https://resources.wolframcloud.com/PacletRepository/resource...

Seems very promising but then you realize the LLM behind said agent was trained on public but otherwise copyright encumbered proprietary code available as improperly redistributed …

Please elaborate, I am curious to why would you think WebGPU would meaningfully beat their Metal/DirectX renderers.

Nice although I think the ASCII comma feels wrong as part of a filename even if for purely aesthetic reasons. If we want to stay within (lowercase) alphabetic Latin characters I th…

Zotero is built on top of Firefox ESR.

Thanks for all impressive work on AdGuard. Any particular reason to adopt Rust for this project instead of Go as many of your other products? Because I think since you have quite e…

Debian testing is about as stable as it gets while also being a rolling distribution. The promotion of package updates from unstable to testing does not take that long either depen…

> over Debian/Ubuntu And over Fedora/RHEL. If I had to guess, it could be that new entrants find it easier to submit changes to Arch Linux packages [1]. ChromeOS also steered away …

Monotype does not have the same consolidation with CJK when compared to the virtual monopoly it has with Latin script typefaces. They still have a healthy selection of competitive …