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I think it bothers OP less that they take a 15% tax than the fact that google provides terrible support for their own play store. If they would take that tax and provide good feedback and speedy version reviews, nobody would ever complain - it is expected to pay something since the play store doesn't run on good thoughts and prayers. But because they're a monopoly (or a duopoly if you count apple, which is a different platform altogether) they can afford to act this way.

you got here before me, had a good laugh tho.

Great job with this project, I bet there are VFP apps still running or even DOS FP apps.

This takes me back to the first commercial software i ever worked on around 19 years ago, it was an accounting software written in Visual FoxPro. It's a super easy language to get started with programming and the fact that you can drag your widgets on the screen helps a lot. I remember using hungarian notations too. In hindsight that's both good and bad, because the moment you move to another language that doesn't offer an IDE where you can drag widgets with your mouse on the screen to position them and you have to work with containers, programmatically, you quickly realize how little you really know about creating UIs with forms. I don't think i had an opinion back then if VFP was good or bad but I remember the IDE would crash when you tried to build your project sometimes with a pop-up that would say "Catastrophic failure!". I always thought that was super funny and to this day i still have the screenshot. I think about a year or so before they killed it, they releases SP2 which was a bit more stable.

there's already a better alternative, it's called starlark.

i'm not good with paper work, in fact, i'm horrible with anything that's paperwork related. for the past few days, i ran this model on my rtx 4090 + rtx 3070 and told it to check all the bills, invoices, contracts for me and my small company. i used pi with llama and the pi-llama plugin. oh, boy - i hooked it to my email, told it to download all of the invoices and bills i had for both me and my company and organize them by company/date/ and then merge them with the ones i have locally. it did ocr, wrote scripts, organized everything neatly. i am now the most organized i've ever been in my life. Next: RAG on all the documents and bills i have. if you connect staan-search (there is a pi plugin for that) and ctx7 to this it almost does miracles. the downside is i have to sit next to my noisy threadripper as the magic happens and pay for the electricity, but that's about it, i'll gladly do that. and as i finished this paragraph, it also finished organizing all my personal documents on my san. i don't use the expression "game changer" easily, but it's hard to resist in this case. out of all the models i've used locally qwen3.8:27b blows everything out of the water.

my setup

# Logical CUDA0 = RTX 4090, logical CUDA1 = RTX 3070 export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1

cd ~/projects/misc/llama.cpp/

exec ./build/bin/llama-server -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --mmproj /xx/xx/xx/xx/xx/mmproj-Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0.gguf --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --jinja --parallel 1 --split-mode layer --tensor-split 6,1 --fit on -fa on -c 98304 -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 --image-min-tokens 1024

i load more on the 4090 because it's faster.

usually the temp stays around 65 for both. utilization for 4090: 70-90% 3070: 30-50%. I get around 30-40 tk/s. if i offload more to the 4090 the tk/s goes up, but i stress the card too much and that thing now is worth its weight in gold.

note: the pi-llama plugin needs a patch for pi to send the model vision capabilities, seems it doesn't work out of the box.

you'd be amazed how many do just that and are incredibly bad at anything else that does not involve opening up an IDE that spoon feeds them everything they need.

For offline use I use pocket earth https://pocketearth.com/ I'm pleased with it, it's one of the best out there.

Carplay is a convenient - FREE solution to car infotainment that car makers cannot control. They cannot sell you subscription based services for in-car stuff if you can get that from another app, and that's not in their interest. The CEO here knows well what he's saying is BS. We are lucky if something like Carplay will survive in the car subscription based era. They might charge you for the use of Carplay in the future, or free access to their infotainment that is complemented by subscritions. Car makers sell cars with thin margins so they need to find ways to increase them.

a random complain on my part would be the log in with google. hate that. looks great, otherwise. i don't even have a problem creating an account, honestly. but i try to not use the google for anything unless i have to.

i've been using hackfeed, it does the job.

make this available on testflight, this looks great, would love to daily drive it.

+1 for the accessibility features, great job!

ah, sorry about that - will try to see what is going on. thanks for letting me know!

i did something like this, but somewhat in reverse. you are the one that reviews the code and you instruct AI what to do through code review comments: https://parley.cloudflavor.io.

thinking about it, it would be funny to first run alibaba's tool and then run parley after.

posted it here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369782 i guess with AI there are too many Show HN now, and i never got any type of feedback.

love this. i had the same issue with ai generated code and wrote parley. https://parley.cloudflavor.io it's a TUI that can help you review code by enabling you to comment on the diff itself. but i like this approach of organizing code into chapters. i think what my tool is missing this exact thing.

I'm working on https://opal.cloudflavor.io It can run gitlab pipelines locally and assist you using AI to troubleshoot your pipelines. I daily drive it now and it has seen hundreds or runs, but it's still in active development. Building in a void, isn't much fun, so if anyone can use it and give me some feedback, i'd really appreciate it. l.e.: It's not released yet, but it works really well on MacOS as an MCP using the Apple container cli.

As others have noticed in the thread, the timing is suspicious - could be April's fools.

hilarious af. noice!

i would say, that because it is a hard language to learn, it holds itself back. otherwise it would thrive, people would be interested in it, libraries would flourish.

I feel Rust is somehow in the place as well, it has a rather steep learning curve and there are not enough mature libraries out there because of this.

"This approach is not only a threat to free software it is a recurring threat to human kind!" wut?

From 'Decentralized systems are hard to build' to 'Democracies suck because...'.

The mental gymnastics in this post.

Sounds more like someone has beef with Moxie.

i wish i didn't read this

not sure if i'm the only one, but for me, on the latest macbook pro 16' top spec, the browser stops responding once i scroll enough. it's un-fucking-usable. if i click on a video after browsing for a while it's as slow as if i'm browsing from my toaster. the rest of the tabs work fine.

i hate the UI/UX for reddit, it's atrocious.

the audacity of this pos. i'll take it, if we also have a Hippocratic oath for greedy CEOs and board members.

but still, there are services (e.g. dom9) that implement alert and monitoring for cloud infrastructure security.

there's no guarantee a government regulating body wouldn't be politically biased (in this case the FCC) when examining a case. it looks to me that Trump made the DoJ its leash dog, what would be so hard to make the FCC the same (if it's not already)

*looks confused at this while living in Switzerland as a foreigner.

because: a) Turkey is the (almost literal) culture gate between Europe and the Middle East, this is in itself very valuable. b) Largest army in Europe. c) Erdogan still has to restrain himself because he has treaties with NATO allies. Otherwise we might get a second unhinged Putin. That would cause a real headache for the EU that tries to stop immigrants from reaching its borders by millions.

i've learned rust in a month of coding sparsely. in fact, i'm as comfortable today at writing rust as i am at writing go. i've been struggling to learn haskell for over half a year. i think it's an amazing language, don't get me wrong. but the fact that haskell is not harder to learn than any other programming languages is false. after taking a few online course, tutorials and so on, i still believe it's one of the most interesting (if not the most interesting) programming language in existence and also the hardest.

been in an ops role for 2.5 years, 2 years as software dev and currently i'm in a devops role for 2.5 years now. this article hits the nail on the head. this was nothing more than a rebranding of the word ops. it has very little to do with actual software development. not to say that i don't enjoy it, for the better part of the time i was a software dev, i really missed setting up machines and day to day network/system administrator work. i know my way around 4-5 programming languages so i'd say if the need arises i can use the right tool for the right job. however, kubernetes, aws, terraform, packer, ansible, bash, etc are everyday things. i'd say in the last years i've developed a love hate relationship with pretty much every tool out there (looking at you terraform and k8s). the pitfall with this position is that there's a lot of buzzwords flying around and 9/10 and if you have some idiotic management you end up implementing some overkill solution to fix your problems. the other pitfall, from an infrastructure perspective, is that the ecosystem around kubernetes is so big that there are now an insane number of moving parts that you need to maintain and monitor.

i'd say the same about lingoda.com, although not extremely known, they offer language courses. their auto-renewal policy is abysmal, basically the only way to stop auto-renewal is to delete your account entirely.

^ this. so very much this.

for getting started guides, it's great, although even there i'd exercise a lot of caution. there's a lot of info from people who are not experience that people just replicate in their code/setup which isn't really a good idea.

for complex issues you never drown in information. and usually when you find something it probably doesn't apply to your setup. that doesn't mean you can't, at least, get some idea or a pointer to the right solution.

however, just googling or stackoverflowing, i'd be wary of implementing any solution without any thought just because someone else solved it before me.

openSUSE is a really good and modern linux distro, people complaining about here probably haven't used it in a long while. Whilst i worked in A&T we handled a few thousand+ servers running SLES 11 SP2 and it was solid.

I think they're biggest handicap is they're not from the US and while i worked there people acknowledge they have horrible marketing. Also being bought and sold a few times doesn't help, and with the HPE acquisition a few years back, a lot of employees (on HPE side) simply left.

The kubic project has developed the only viable alternative to CoreOS that's being phased out. Unfortunately where MicroOS falls short is SUSE's stubbornness for using BtrFS, which causes a lot of headaches and has been dropped from all major distros at this point. People in the kubic project have also been contributors to kubernetes, kubeadm, OCI, (they even contributed a lot of code to podman, from Red Hat) and they've been a significant driving force for rootless containers https://rootlesscontaine.rs/. It's weird they're not more often in the limelight with all the hard work they do, but maybe they'll take this opportunity to fix their marketing and steer into a better direction :).