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New comment by sargunv in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

sargunv — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:35:31 +0000

If they really need to guard the thinking output, they could encrypt it and store it client side. Later it'd be sent back and decrypted on their server.

But they used to return thinking output directly in the API, and that was _the_ reason I liked Claude over OpenAI's reasoning models.

New comment by sargunv in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

sargunv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:14:49 +0000

I'm not aware of a name, but I'm also curious if there is one because I had a hard time searching for it.

I came across it on ThePrimeagen's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/u1WmiqlrqL0

New comment by sargunv in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

sargunv — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:55:50 +0000

Even with strict flags on, there are failures. A trivial example:

  function mutateArray(
    arr: (string | number)[]
  ) {
    arr.push(1);
  }
  const a: string[] = ["one", "two"];
  mutateArray(a);

a is now a string[] with a number inside

New comment by sargunv in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

sargunv — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:54:36 +0000

I agree with this take. Desktop Linux is better than ever and I can do just about 100% of what I need on my Linux PC. I still use macOS regularly and even Windows sometimes, but I’m not too worried about Apple or Microsoft locking things down. The more they do, the more I’ll just use Fedora where the same apps I need are available.

The most critical apps for me on mobile are banking, payments, transportation, and messaging. Banking I can’t do much about. Payments I can still handle with physical cards. Messaging is getting better thanks to people adapting proprietary services to Matrix, so with some effort you can use one open source client to reach them all.

Transportation is the area I’ve been working on. I’ve been getting MapLibre (an open source map rendering library) running on Compose Multiplatform, including Compose Desktop (so map apps built in Jetpack Compose could extend to Linux based phones like Librem) and also on Huawei’s HarmonyOS. If I can cover my everyday needs with open tools, then walking away from the Google/Apple duopoly stops being a thought experiment and starts being a real option for me.

New comment by sargunv in "Doctors Might Have Been Focusing on the Wrong Asthma Triggers"

sargunv — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 03:48:34 +0000

Electric cars are heavier due to the battery.