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New comment by donpdonp in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

donpdonp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:05:26 +0000

for example, How much disk is needed? I started the uvx command and it started to download hundreds of megabytes. How much cpu ram is necessary and how much gpu ram is necessary? will an integrated intel gpu work? some ARM boards have a dedicated AI processor, are any of those supported?

New comment by donpdonp in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

donpdonp — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:35:18 +0000

it'd be nice to get some idea of what kind of hardware a laptop needs to be able to run this voice model.

New comment by donpdonp in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

donpdonp — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:11:14 +0000

I'm hoping they go with phoenix11 #seewhatididthere

New comment by donpdonp in "Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet"

donpdonp — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:57:27 +0000

it seems like all this infrastructure could be replaced by a DNS TXT record with a public key that browsers could use to check the cert sent from the web server. A web server would load a self-signed cert (or whatever cert they wanted), and put the cert's public key into a DNS record for that hostname. Every visit to a website would need two lookups, one for address and one for key. It puts control back into the hands of the domain owners and eliminates the need for letsencrypt.

New comment by donpdonp in "From VS Code to Helix"

donpdonp — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:52:46 +0000

The best part of this article for me is the link to these well made 3rd party docs for helix.

https://helix-nikita-revencos-projects.vercel.app/start-here...

New comment by donpdonp in "Introduction to AT Protocol"

donpdonp — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:51:12 +0000

ATDT1170,

New comment by donpdonp in "A Friendly Introduction to Assembly for High-Level Programmers"

donpdonp — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 08:28:26 +0000

Really well written - it was a pleasure to read. Concepts were introduced in small, consumable chunks, without being too slow or overwhelming. I hope more articles are coming.

New comment by donpdonp in "Quarkdown: Markdown with Superpowers"

donpdonp — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 10:36:28 +0000

this looks very nice though it also is close to typst. a comparison would be interesting.

New comment by donpdonp in "The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide"

donpdonp — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 09:39:28 +0000

A detailed, hands-on, build a kernel module right away kind of tutorial. Bravo.

New comment by donpdonp in "Sapling: Experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text"

donpdonp — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 02:29:20 +0000

Sapling is the first AST editor that works how Ive imagined it could. I'd love to leave all the whitespace wrangling behind and move only between AST nodes in an efficient way. This was a fun editor to try and I think there is something to learn here still to make treesitter editors more powerful/efficient.

New comment by donpdonp in "Ollama releases Python and JavaScript Libraries"

donpdonp — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:31:06 +0000

I'd like to see a comparison to nitro https://github.com/janhq/nitro which has been fantastic for running a local LLM.

New comment by donpdonp in "Nature: Programming language to experience the joy of programming"

donpdonp — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:15:35 +0000

its got 'for k in list {}' (https://nature-lang.org/docs/the-basics/control-flow#iterati...) though array.for_each(lambda) is a better way to go, imho.

New comment by donpdonp in "Nature: Programming language to experience the joy of programming"

donpdonp — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:42:47 +0000

The syntax choices are really nice here. It has a lot of what I would pick for a language. The one-liner test cases are awesome, <> for generics is comfortable since I use rust, sum types like elm are awesome. If I were to add something (well take it away really) its to use whitespace for array element separators. Eliminates the whole trailing comma issue and looks cleaner, though I admit it might create parsing ambiguities. 'try expr', returning (val,err) is curious and I think I like it better already than try {} catch {}.

New comment by donpdonp in "PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web"

donpdonp — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 15:47:03 +0000

for those looking for an open source way to sync photos, syncthing has an android app that works well. While it is 'always running' on my android phone, I love how as soon as I arrive home it connects to wifi and moves any new photos to my home linux box (which is also running syncthing).

New comment by donpdonp in "Hyper – A fast and correct HTTP implementation for Rust"

donpdonp — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:46:22 +0000

I cant speak to 'correctness' but ureq has been great to work with. Simple and small. https://crates.io/crates/ureq

New comment by donpdonp in "Atari 800XL Remake"

donpdonp — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:43:35 +0000

New comment by donpdonp in "Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?"

donpdonp — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 23:21:13 +0000

General Thomas Percell: How do we fix it?

Dr. Josh Keyes: We can't.

General Thomas Percell: Not in my vocabulary.

(possibly the greatest burn in movie history)

Dr. Josh Keyes: Then you might want to get one of those word-a-day calendars, General, because it's impossible. The core is the size of Mars. You're talking about jump-starting a planet. This is a superheated hyper-fluid of molten iron and nickel at 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit. And the deepest we've ever been is... 7 miles, with a two-inch drill bit.

General Thomas Percell: If we can go into space, we certainly...

Dr. Josh Keyes: Space is easy. It's empty. We're talking about millions of pounds of pressure per square inch. Even if we somehow came up with a brilliant plan to fix the core, we just can't get there.

New comment by donpdonp in "Ask HN: How long until Google charges for private Gmail accounts?"

donpdonp — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 19:06:43 +0000

'size:5mb has:attachment' is indispensable at helping reduce one's gmail storage size.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-size-search/26669/

New comment by donpdonp in "A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15"

donpdonp — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:42:14 +0000

For those of you who are intrigued by this cyberdeck, there is an active community around such DIY small computing platforms. Check out https://cyberdeck.cafe/ and especially their discord server. There are tons of amazing projects there.

New comment by donpdonp in "Zig monthly, October 2021: Games, gamedev, Elixir, tools and more"

donpdonp — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:27:12 +0000

Also consider https://vlang.io/ - its similar to Go with some new ideas.