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nbenitezl··on Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview
But when using it on the cloud a LLM can consult 50 websites, which is super fast for their datacenters as they are backbone of internet, instead you'll have to wait much more on your device to consult those websites before giving you the LLM response. Am i wrong?
nbenitezl··on Fast trigram based code search
I use https://codesearch.debian.net/ a lot, and it's based on that according to https://codesearch.debian.net/about
nbenitezl··on Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
My favourite shell written in Rust is wezterm, totally recommend it.

https://wezterm.org/

nbenitezl··on Show HN: "Git who" – A new CLI tool for industrial-scale Git blaming
Gitlab/Github should add a feature that any submitted merge requests automatically emails the last author of the code lines being modified, to let them know about the MR and provide any feedback if needed.

Or maybe someone has wrote a bot/Git hook for that?

nbenitezl··on HTTrack Website Copier
Long time ago, HTTrack came very handy for me at work. We created a PHP/Mysql application to store data for a census of industrial sites and related info. Some day my boss tell me the customer wants this census being delivered to them in a auto-startup CD-ROM which was very fashionable at that time, I used HTTrack to download every page of our PHP database and all be browseable offline from the CD-ROM, the auto-startup just launch the browser at the index page.

Very handy.

nbenitezl··on Lynx is the oldest web browser still being maintained
Oh, this brings back memories of my first steps with Gentoo linux, when I failed at setting up the display (XFree86 back then) or configure it properly, I remember browsing Gentoo wiki pages with Lynx to bring it back.
nbenitezl··on I still like Sublime Text
[Thanks to be opened for suggestions]

- One major improvement would be to provide a button to "View blame prior to this change" like Gitlab blame does (screenshot below):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BjXpQNlFgHKIJz-5SmJIxYB6fGD...

Because c++ codebases nowadays are full of commits that just reformat or refactors code (clang-format, update to smart pointers, update to new api, etc) and so if I just want to find out the original commit which introduced that codeline (because I want to know the _original_ motivation for it), it means in Gitlab I just need to click 3 or 4 times on said button to skip all such formats/refactor commits until I get to the one I'm interested in. That is easy in Gitlab, while SublimeMerge just let me click on the SHA of the last change for the codeline, and from there I'm lost I don't know how to keep "blaming back" like Gitlab easily let me.

- In the same vein of easy skipping blame changes until the one you want, it would help a lot supporting the git config setting blame.ignoreRevsFile:

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...

Thanks and long life to Sublime!

nbenitezl··on I still like Sublime Text
I'm on Linux and I just use one keystroke to switch (F2). I have F1 F2 F3 F4 keys binded to change to virtual desktops 1 2 3 4. 1 -> Console(s) 2 -> Editor (sublime) 3 -> Browser (Firefox) 4 -> Misc (File browser, other apps)
nbenitezl··on I still like Sublime Text
Another happy customer of Sublime Text here, but still not dare to take the step to buy SublimeMerge, I'm pretty well served in console for my git use, except for 'git blame' that I prefer to do in a UI tool, but SublimeMerge blame support is awful.
nbenitezl··on Show HN: Tetris in a PDF
In my case I install it from flathub.org (works from any distro):

https://flathub.org/apps/com.adobe.Reader

nbenitezl··on Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep
On the other side, heart delivers a lifetime service without any maintaince, that's a truly wonder of nature.
nbenitezl··on Why pay for a search engine
Another happy Kagi user here, I also love the fact they also give FastGPT as a bonus.
nbenitezl··on Kagi Assistant
Using it from Spain, and speed is good.
nbenitezl··on Kagi Assistant
Another happy Kagi user here.
nbenitezl··on Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
For exploring the inners of a PDF you also have RUPS[1] which is open source and easily installed in Linux through flathub[2].

[1] https://itextpdf.com/products/rups

[2] https://flathub.org/apps/com.itextpdf.RUPS

nbenitezl··on Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
In 2013 I also worked as first time contributor on a bug that affected the linux version of Firefox.

Firefox took 2 hours to compile in my pentium dual-core Intel laptop, it was in August so warm inside the house, the 2 hours compiling at closer 100% cpu made the laptop halt due to excessive temperature before finishing. I also recall the build failed because of out-of-memory error (ram exhausted) I had 2GB and had to expand to 4 GB or something like that.

After overcoming the struggles I was finally happy as the fix was committed.

nbenitezl··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Not what you're asking for, but something that helps with displaying in mobile devices is removing margins, you can use this open source app for that https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.arminstraub.krop .
nbenitezl··on Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers
Not true, PDF standard has concept of text flow, that's why when you highlight horizontally from a column all the way to next column then all text in the first column is highlighted.
nbenitezl··on The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party
I like Re-Volt. I've tried to play Re-Volt on the SteamDeck but I've been unable to get the controls right, the default configuration does not work.
nbenitezl··on Code search is hard
Also https://github.com/Debian/dcs
nbenitezl··on Japan to revise official romanization rules for first time in 70 years
¿Romanization? But English is not a Romance language.
nbenitezl··on French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
Being sarcastic, I bet the commercial license from EntrOuvert was way cheaper than 860k, this horrendous decision should mean firing of the managers involved in Orange, but being a semipublic company the incentives are wrong and these managers probably have promoted since then.
nbenitezl··on Largest natural gas leak from Nord Stream pipeline
Ukraine did not have the capabilities but could be provided with them by USA for example.
nbenitezl··on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021)
I also have similar single monitor (a BENQ EW3270U) set to 200% scale. I use Linux, and my productivity is good by binding F1 to F5 keys to switch to different virtual desktops.

F1 -> Terminals. (Wezterm showing 4 terminals in a 2x2 grid)

F2 -> Code editor or IDE. Sublime Text in my case.

F3 -> Internet Browser. Firefox with Container extension.

F4 -> File Manager or any other misc apps.

F5 -> unused

I'm so used to these keybindings, that when I'm on foreign computers I involuntarily find myself pressing F1 or F3 when I want to enter some command or browse some web page.

nbenitezl··on Ripgrep 14 Released
You have one explanation here: https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/hyperlinks.html#explicit-hype...
nbenitezl··on Ask HN: Who is developing a programming language that compiles to C?
Vala - https://vala.dev/ compiles to C and is tailored to GNOME ecosystem.
nbenitezl··on Hoarding
It seems like rich version of Diogenes syndrome, instead of taking from rubbish you buy them new (so you accumulate more slowly).
nbenitezl··on FOSDEM 2023 Transcribed by Whisper
This is gold for us not native english speakers.
nbenitezl··on Gentoo Linux 2022 Retrospective
I used Gentoo around 2004/2005 and I keep very positive memories, I learnt a lot. Very attractive dist for developers because being source based, you can quickly test a patch in a system component (like eg. Wayland, Mutter, GDM) by just telling Portage (the package manager) to pick your patch and re-installing the package (re-emerging in Gentoo parlance). I even was able to contribute a patch for upstream Firefox that way (because compiling Firefox yourself from source is so much difficult).

I also built my own kernel as Gentoo favors that. I remember tailoring the kernel to my hardware (picking only the kernel modules needed to my peripherals), my resulting kernel was about 2 MB in size, while the corresponding kernels at that time for Ubuntu or Fedora were around 20 MB (because they need to blindly include all peripherals which any user may have) that meant 18 MB less memory in RAM permanently (good for embedded and systems with constrained memory).

After some years I end up switching to Fedora because I could not spend so much free time just maintaining my Gentoo distro (it's fun and you have so much control over your distro, but at the expense of more time spent on that).

nbenitezl··on The Portuguese can no longer afford to live in Portugal
Reason how this happens worldwide may be that 70% of world population is projected to be living in big cities by next decades.

I mean, tendency is that most people want to live in the big city, sometimes as necessity (can only find a job there) sometimes as a preference (better services, etc.) the result is traffic jams and expensive real state.

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