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edvardas commented on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps   github.com/FossifyOrg... · Posted by u/jalict
edvardas · 2 months ago
I was tired of constant popups in stock apps for features I don't want.

Fossify apps get the job down surprisingly well, no more no less.

I use their apps for messaging, gallery, file manager, paint, contacts

edvardas commented on Trying to teach in the age of the AI homework machine   solarshades.club/p/dispat... · Posted by u/notarobot123
enceladus06 · 3 months ago
LLMs is is here to stay and will change learning for the better (we will be full-scale disrupted 3-5yr from now in EDU), it is a self-guided tutor like never before and 100% Amazing, except for when it hallucinates.

I use it [Copilot / GPT / Khanmingo] all the time to figure out new tools and prototype workflows, check code for errors, and learn new stuff including those classes at universities which cost way too much.

If universities feel threatened by AI cry me a river.

No professor or TA was *EVER* able to explain calculus and differential equations to me, but Khanmingo and ChatGPT can. So the educational establishment can deal with this.

edvardas · 3 months ago
In your situation where LLMs can cover most material better than the university, what benefits does the university still provide you, if any?
edvardas commented on Dependency injection frameworks add confusion   rednafi.com/go/di_framewo... · Posted by u/ingve
danielovichdk · 3 months ago
Mark Seemann has written extensively about the subject.

He a tremendous source of knowledge in that regard.

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/01/27/from-dependency-injection-t...

edvardas · 3 months ago
His AutoFixture C# NuGet takes away so much pain from unit test maintenance. It does have a learning curve.

https://github.com/AutoFixture/AutoFixture

edvardas commented on eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read   jackscogito.blogspot.com/... · Posted by u/amadeuspagel
jonathanlb · 4 months ago
While looking for a typeface for my terminal, I happened upon the Braille Institute's website (https://www.brailleinstitute.org/) which exemplifies more or less what you're describing. It is an aesthetically-pleasing site, with low visual and cognitive loads.

Granted, that is an example of a site and not a browser, but I would love it if a browser could magically transform websites to look like the Braille Institute's, where visual and cognitive accessibility are first-class citizens in the UX.

edvardas · 4 months ago
Do you happen to know how the Braille website's style is called? The high contrast, button shadows with big offsets. I've seen it in several places now and would like to use it myself
edvardas commented on Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines   markwhen.com... · Posted by u/koch
otikik · 9 months ago
The charts you linked don't look like the same kind of chart to me. There's information about what happened after what, but the information about how much each task took seems missing.
edvardas · 9 months ago
Mermaid Gannt[0] diagram type might be similar to what you have in mind.

[0] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/gantt.html

edvardas commented on Futexes in TLA+   surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/ingve
edvardas · a year ago
Succinct and rigorous. This article has a clear problem statement, explicitly calls out assumptions and expected properties, shows how to express them in TLA+/PlusCal, and even adds a sanity check by refining the mutex model. I wish I had seen this article when writing my BA thesis.
edvardas commented on Software Friction   hillelwayne.com/post/soft... · Posted by u/saikatsg
ordinaryradical · a year ago
This may be a naïve reading of this, but I’m pretty sure this is a glowing recommendation for choosing the BEAM VM and the languages which run on it.
edvardas · a year ago
Can you elaborate on how you made the connection between the article and BEAM languages? I suppose you experienced a lot less friction when working with Erlang or similar, care to share your experience?
edvardas commented on Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck   pathsensitive.com/2024/04... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
edvardas · a year ago
> He gives some examples of ways that programmers, even after being taught in intro classes not to use magic numbers, still litter their code with constants like 404. But I wish he’d tell Python programmers to stop designing APIs where you write string constants like “r--” and “bs” to denote that your scatterplot should use red dashes and blue squares.

Intriguing. I assume the author would prefer a stronger-typed alternative like explicit parameters and enums. Yet I wonder if having a small DSL-like syntax is actually the better for a scripting language. Most of these plots will be hacked together in a local notebook anyway.

What would be a better alternative to this terse DSL in such case?

edvardas commented on KeyDB: A Multithreaded Fork of Redis   github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB... · Posted by u/ccakes
nightwolfz · a year ago
It's kinda dead
edvardas · a year ago
Can you explain what lead you to believe it's dead?

Looking at the Issues in their Github, a couple of days ago they mentioned to be working on some features in a branch.

https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB/issues/798#issuecomment-20...

u/edvardas

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