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New comment by manzout in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

manzout — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:10:37 +0000

Did this with shona.On the road trip we (3 human occupants) spoke to Gemini in ndebele, karanga, portuguese and ndau and have switch seamlessly to another lanuage like german without loosing the thread of the conversation. what impressed me was its ability to recognize the subtle dialects of shona being spoken, articulate its unncertainty, ask for clarification and carry on. when asked to speak those dialects it politely lamented it could not. when pushed it insisted and basically apologized in a technically correct but awefully pronounced sentence of the dialect before going back to english.

New comment by manzout in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

manzout — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:14:46 +0000

Oh, I thought i hallucinated this last night

New comment by manzout in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

manzout — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:19:06 +0000

Switching to Svelte could be a massive W for a small organization, they'll get inundated with a flood of highly motivated, skilled ex-React developers. Also if react is as probablamitc as people say (I'm veteran of the Angular/Angular.js transition wars so i don't know whats going on as much). If svelt et co. it helps a business not only achieve greater speed but maintenability long-run it's a competative advantage and should be exploited. much like how legacy c code is being handled due to its memory unsafeness. Would that happen?

Last tidbit Web Components are often suggested as a solution, they could lead to another layer of complexity. For instance, how do we manage complex, shared state across different web components that might be built with different tools like Lit or Stencil? How do components built by different systems pass information to each other without essentially creating an ad-hoc framework on top of the web components standard?