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zwarag··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
What are the other phases. Or what are you referring to in general?
zwarag··on The war on terror primed America for autocracy
> Crying eagle photos in chain-emails

Can someone elaborate? Whwre is this reference comming from? A simple web search did not yield much

zwarag··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
I have yet to see an application outside of harnesses and LLMs itself where adaptation has happened on a larger scale. Devs are fine with babysitting their LLMs. People like to use LLMs to improve their mails and so on. But outside of that, the adaptation is not there yet.

Don't get me wrong. I love LLMs and use them myself. But the biggest gain for me is easier context switch and text manipulation. It's not the: replace X with a bunch of LLMs every CEO is dreaming of. So yes, you have higher productivity, but is the eval of those companies legit? x doubt.

zwarag··on I am worried about Bun
My guess: JavaScript runs in the Browser as well as on the OS. That way you can train a model to be able to interact with both fairly simple. You can also see that their harness, claude-code is also written in js. So I guess they are quite invested in that language anyway.
zwarag··on Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise
How do we know this is not the next tool in line to compromise a machine?
zwarag··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
Not only that. A11y is also quite hard. Tools that are simple to implement thanks to good a11y apis - for example on macos, the tool rcmd or homerow - are super hard to do in Wayland.
zwarag··on Bubble Sorted Amen Break
Y is essentially the order. If you take the recording and start slicing. The first slices are the smaller ones and the later slices are the taller ones.
zwarag··on I resigned from OpenAI
If you compare how many countries China has attacked or invaded with how many the United States has attacked or invaded, it paints a clear picture of whom to fear.
zwarag··on /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
I also recently switched from an iPhone to a Fairphone with e/OS and can say that I absolutely share that experience.
zwarag··on F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Theres e/OS where you can have a locked bootloader with some phones
zwarag··on LLM=True
Isn't that what subagents do to a certain degree?
zwarag··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
well, they probably have quite a lot of text from high schoolers trying to meet the minimum word length on a take home essay in the training data
zwarag··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
I guess on /e/OS you can just run Google Maps in a browser if you really want Google Maps features (like searching for a restaurant). Organicmaps works fine if you just need to get from A to B. It does lack live traffic, but you'll have to live with fewer features if you really want to not use Google for most stuff.
zwarag··on Designing a 36-key custom keyboard layout (2021)
Have you had a look at EurKey layout? I, too, have to switch between English, German and Italian and I found it to be great.

https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/?lang=de

zwarag··on Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Can't wait M1 to not be supported by Apple anymore to snack up some of that awesome hardware for cheap and run linux on it.
zwarag··on A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces
Could this be the link that allows designers to design a UI in Figma and let an agent build it via A2UI?
zwarag··on CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution
What you’re thinking of is called Bedrock Linux: https://bedrocklinux.org/
zwarag··on Typst 0.14
When I did my bachelor’s, I wrote every assignment and my thesis in LaTeX—and I absolutely loved it. I loved it so much that I swore I’d never touch MS Word again. Now I’m doing my master’s, and once again, I’m writing everything, assignments and thesis, in Typst. And boy, do I love Typst. I only had to spend a fraction of the time tweaking it to get exactly what I needed. Most things just work right out of the box. The only “bad” thing, in my opinion, is that Typst isn’t quite as feature-rich as LaTeX.
zwarag··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
That’s 108 dollars per hour. That seem reasonable?
zwarag··on Zoxide: A Better CD Command
In my personal experience, oh-my-zsh slows down things too much. You're better off just taking whatever you really like about oh-my-zsh and configure it yourself.
zwarag··on Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf
People like Windsurf and Cursor because they offer them a flatrate.
zwarag··on School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study
Why is this getting downvoted?
zwarag··on 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
While I understand the power of Excel for specific calculations like your loan payment analysis, I struggle with modeling "continuous" data like monthly budgets and yearly reviews. Coming from a database background, I know how to model recurring financial data with tables and relationships, but I'm less clear on Excel best practices for this.

How do you structure your spreadsheet to handle: 1. Monthly recurring budgets/allowances 2. Year-over-year analysis 3. Category management 4. Historical tracking

Do you maintain separate sheets/tabs for each time period? Use pivot tables?

zwarag··on Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming
I'm writing a game in Flutter. The game has ads, shaders, custom gesture detectors, ... . I can tell you, it is absolutely butter smooth on iOS.

I tried something similar a few years ago and I would have said you're absolutely right. But with the one I'm writing now, it is quite the different experience.

zwarag··on Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming
I did a little programming in dart. There are many things to like. And I believe, at the time of writing, that Dart really is great for both java and js devs. Every object that is used has to be an instance of a class, and the event-driven style for reactive programming is pretty much 1:1 to how js does it. So it truly could become the sweet spot for UI development that is appealing to both types of devs.

I just wished it would have native tuples.

zwarag··on Stable Code 3B: Coding on the Edge
Do you use it inside vscode or how do you integrate an LLM into your IDE?
zwarag··on Tracking Austrian grocery prices by scraping store sites
He added foreign stores that sell the partially sell the same things. Sometimes these stores also sell Austrian products which are cheaper in those countries than they are in Austria.
zwarag··on GPT Best Practices
I assume you have access to the beta API?
zwarag··on Companies to publish salary ranges in job adverts under new EU rules
Also, many people refuse to grant someone else the same salary, as it is seen as a matter of social status.
zwarag··on I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly
Related Question: What have you done to improve your memory?
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