recov's comments

On: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

[recov]

Nearly all of your comments have been self promo, I would chill out a bit

On: Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model

[recov]

Not everyone can, or wants to set up running a local model. And it'll probably be slower on most users GPUs then what zed runs it on.

On: Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model for under $50

[recov]

I mean, you still need the original (expensive model) to build off of, which openAI builds.

On: Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text

[recov]

Not that library in particular, but https://zed.dev/blog/zed-decoded-rope-sumtree

On: Show HN: Lightsaber Battle – May the Fourth Be with You

[recov]

Was wondering why firefox said it blocked 100+ pop ups

On: Ask HN: Who else is working on nothing?

[recov]

Not OP, but it’s very unique compared to the other books. It reads more like a philosophy-type book.

On: Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads

[recov]

Good thing alternative engines exist

[zeven7 → recov]

True, but they also have a lot of sway over what other engines do

[dirtyhippiefree → zeven7]

Yandex…For the Win…

On: Unified versus Split Diff

[recov]

It's still around, and still very useful for all kinds of comparisons when you need a UI https://www.scootersoftware.com/

[Too → recov]

It’s still around and has hardly changed one pixel since 2012!

Yet it still feels fresh and there is no competing product that can challenge them. Most other diff tools lack good merge capabilities and are subpar in multitude of other ways.

[roryokane → Too]

P4Merge (https://www.perforce.com/products/helix-core-apps/merge-diff...) is a similarly powerful (and similarly ugly) tool for plain text diffs and three-way merges. It’s free, and though the 500 MB download includes Perforce, you can install P4Merge by itself. Unlike Beyond Compare, though, P4Merge cannot highlight syntax in the compared files.

On: Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results

[recov]

Related, sentdex did a video and implementation on it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdWzvMOPuo

On: Tarsnap outage postmortem

[recov]

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-l...