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xaviervn

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xaviervn··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
I don't understand how this changes anything. IIRC, the complaints were about Apple making the Hide My Email addresses different than regular ones.

They're now saying the new domain will be private.icloud.com. Isn't it just as targetable?

xaviervn··on Building a Rust Inference Engine That Matches Llama.cpp
Oh, man. This is giving me conditioned aversion to Rust and I'm not even against AI code or Rust code.
xaviervn··on GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2
This is not GNU/Linux. GNU Hurd is a totally different kernel.
xaviervn··on Netflix Raising U.S. Prices for Second Time in Less Than Two Years
No, it can be one year and two months, for example. The last price hike was in January 2025 [0].

[0] https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-price-hike-ad-plan-...

xaviervn··on Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs
The major breakthrough here is that they managed to write a project in Rust and not mention it on the headline!

Jokes aside, great project and documentation (manual)! Getting started was really simple, and I quickly understood what it can and cannot do.

xaviervn··on AI made coding more enjoyable
Me too, and I'm glad to see that this point keeps being brought up. I noticed that what shapes my satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) about working with AI depends on whether have understanding of what's being built or not.

For a prototype, it's pretty amazing to generate a working app with one or two prompts. But when I get serious about it, it becomes such a chore. The little papercuts start adding up, I lose speed as I deal with them, and the inner workings of the app becomes a foreign entity to me.

It's counterintuitive, but what's helping me enjoy coding is actually going slower with AI. I found out that my productivity gains are not on building faster, but learning faster and in a very targeted way.

xaviervn··on Made codex app run on Windows
That's great!

Yesterday I stumbled upon the same concept for Claude Desktop and Linux [0]. I wonder why the companies themselves don't want to ship their Electron apps for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Spotify has a sensible approach: they ship the builds, although unsupported for Linux. Not ideal, but that's something. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian

[1]: https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/