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New comment by dxxvi in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

dxxvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:41:13 +0000

There are projects like this: urlx, curlio.

New comment by dxxvi in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

dxxvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:38:42 +0000

Today is Jun 15. So, I wonder if somebody + AI can rewrite curl in Rust in 1.5 months. I think it's possible if that person knows all curl features. However, does that person even exist?

New comment by dxxvi in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

dxxvi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:26:42 +0000

What are they used for? Its CPU's PassMark scores an average of 4,246. A quick check on AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/KAMRUI-Mini-PC-i3-10110U-Bluetooth/dp... uses AMD Ryzen 4300U (scores 7364), 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, supports 3 4k (maybe 30HZ) monitors at the same time. That mini pc cost $289.

New comment by dxxvi in "Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve"

dxxvi — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:53:29 +0000

That $350 price tag is good for that configuration. Not sure how fast the USB-c ports are. It should have an HDMI 2.0/2.1 port. Mini PC's with the N150 CPU support 2 4k@60Hz monitors.

New comment by dxxvi in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

dxxvi — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:25:42 +0000

> I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot.

If this happens to me, it's a sign that they don't want to talk to me and I'm going to be let go.

New comment by dxxvi in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

dxxvi — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:25:04 +0000

> Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore Not true for me. I still read the "Learning Rust in a month of lunches" although I ask AI to write Rust code all the times.

New comment by dxxvi in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

dxxvi — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:28:11 +0000

> It's not surprising that an LLM would produce different specs for the same work on different runs This is what I don't understand: AI is a computer program with its own data. If we give the same input to that computer program every time, why does it produce different outputs every time? Or does the input include LLM data + our prompt + some random data that computer program picks from its Internet search?

New comment by dxxvi in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

dxxvi — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:55:33 +0000

The thing that impresses me most is that the author knows everything (from the high level architecture to the small details) of "multi-Paxos consensus engine" (I have no idea what it is, but it must be very complicated) and can write everything out for AI to read (or did he/she use an app to convert speech to text)?

New comment by dxxvi in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

dxxvi — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:23:02 +0000

So, the complaint is that Linux (Fedora + KDE Plasma) is unstable after a week of usage and daily update? I'm not sure about Fedora as I'm using Arch (also with KDE Plasma on wayland). Everything is very stable for me. I `paru -Syu` whenever I remember or when VS Code shows at the lower corner that there's a new version.

New comment by dxxvi in "Linux Terminal Memory Usage"

dxxvi — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:47:03 +0000

I'm using wezterm in KDE Plamas in Wayland.

New comment by dxxvi in "I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph"

dxxvi — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:04:35 +0000

Has anybody done like this with Rust (e.g. https://github.com/LiveGray/100-Days-Of-Rust)?

New comment by dxxvi in "Do you even need a database?"

dxxvi — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:42:41 +0000

Before reading that post, I would use sqlite/duckdb for everything related to data. After reading that post, I will use sqlite/duckdb + Rust for everything related to data :-)

New comment by dxxvi in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

dxxvi — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:44:36 +0000

But the energy prices (electricity and gas) don't go down :-( Then "renewables generate more power than natural gas" is not very meaningful.

New comment by dxxvi in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

dxxvi — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:58:04 +0000

But ... when you use the WAL mode, you have 3 files :-)

New comment by dxxvi in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

dxxvi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:56:06 +0000

> the free tier will initially provide 50GB of monthly data Is it per machine or profile or ip address or something else? I switch from Firefox to Brave a few months ago because the markdown in aistudio.google.com is not displayed correctly in Firefox. I wonder if anybody has the same issue or that issue can be fixed.

New comment by dxxvi in "Java 26 is here"

dxxvi — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:49:48 +0000

No need of colored functions because that Java green thread returns a Future not Value like colored functions

New comment by dxxvi in "Can I run AI locally?"

dxxvi — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:55:32 +0000

Not sure if there's anybody like me. I use AI for only 2 purposes: to replace Google Search to learn something and to generate images. I wonder where there are not many models that do only 1 thing and do it well. For example, there's this one https://huggingface.co/Fortytwo-Network/Strand-Rust-Coder-14... for Rust coding. I haven't used it yet, so don't know how it's compared to the free models that Kilo Code provides.

New comment by dxxvi in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

dxxvi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:29:30 +0000

I agree. IMO, Scala can be written in Li Haoyi's way and it's a pleasure to work with. However, the FP and Effect Scala people are too loud and too smart that if I write Scala in Li Haoyi's way, I feel like I'm too stupid. I like Rust because of no GC, no VM and memory safe. If Rust has features that a Joe java programmer like me can't understand, I guess it'll be like Scala.

New comment by dxxvi in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

dxxvi — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:09:45 +0000

I wonder how big 1300, 1400, ..., 2200 Elo chess engines are.

New comment by dxxvi in "Unifi Travel Router"

dxxvi — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:55:12 +0000

You can search for "travel router" on youtube, buy a router like in the videos and done. However, a lot of cruise ships forbid travel routers, so you might need to buy a router which you can take the antenna out (keep the router in one luggage, the antenna in another luggage :-) ). I never did that though.