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vkaku commented on KDE Plasma 6.8 Set to Drop X11 Support Completely   itsfoss.com/news/kde-plas... · Posted by u/doener
vkaku · 22 days ago
I like 6.6 and I would mind dropping X11 support this quickly, this ideally should be in KDE 7.0/8.0 because, as I understand it, many apps and drivers are not ready for Wayland/XWayland.

Give it one more release then drop it?

vkaku commented on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver   dmitrybrant.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/dmitrybrant
vkaku · 4 months ago
Excellent. This is the kind of W that needs more people to jump into.
vkaku commented on Show HN: I recreated Windows XP as my portfolio   mitchivin.com/... · Posted by u/mitchivin
vkaku · 4 months ago
This is excellent, detailed, and does the job. Many of these comments are myopic and miss the point. This is better than the way most people would present their portfolio and it shows some creativity and thoughtful design. Especially if they've visited the rest of your portfolio.

Good job, OP. Stay away from the haters.

vkaku commented on Python: The Documentary [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4Q... · Posted by u/chmaynard
vkaku · 4 months ago
I realize that given the current adoption, the language might turn out to be completely different in the next few years.

And right now, transformers literally can transform any source to any target, so languages are not as valuable as they once used to be and any idioms in one language will eventually become outmoded thanks to the rapidly evolving way we work today.

Python will still be a favorite language for me, just not as much as it used to be.

If someone makes a new modern, tiny, self contained runtime (Bun like) for Python deployments, hit me up. I'll be happy to try it. That's something I've been wanting for a while.

vkaku commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share   hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx
vkaku · 5 months ago
I keep my DotFiles on my GitHub not without its embarrassments, this will help me backup and restore my tools and workflows on systems anywhere I want it to.

https://github.com/guilt/DotFiles

There's no knowledge shared here, just my own setup which can be barebones git cloned. Planning to add a curlbash installer here to help me set it up with a oneliner.

vkaku commented on When Software Engineers Think They Need More Focus Time   jola.dev/posts/enough-foc... · Posted by u/shintoist
vkaku · 5 months ago
That is not conducive to getting anything complex done and will likely burn the team out and create slop over a period of time.

A better long term approach would be to onboard people and give their time to lean in, understand practice and do their best work.

When deadlines are short, there needs to be a well defined practice and things to quickly execute on, with everything well documented.

vkaku commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet   bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen
vkaku · 5 months ago
The tendency to increase complexity will be at odds with privacy and user control.

The problem is that the internet is a centralized system practically even though it is decentralized and some are fighting to keep it free.

Fight for decentralization instead, it will remove the need for unnecessary security and reduce the compute cost significantly.

vkaku commented on Show HN: Single file transformers implementation for learning   gist.github.com/guilt/753... · Posted by u/vkaku
vkaku · 5 months ago
This was entirely written by Grok 3.0.

The focus was on being able to demonstrate training, inference and attention, all in one file;

This can be run on a GPU thanks to cupy, a kernel needn't be written for this whole thing to run. I definitely think that more people can mess around with different attention mechanisms and models and try training models out on their computers. That is the post.

u/vkaku

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