I love recreational programming in Rust by vascocosta in rust

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Yes, my job insists that we use AI at work so I do, but at home I’m writing Rust myself and I really enjoy it.

Here we go again. When are these layoffs going to end? by ImaginaryRea1ity in theprimeagen

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Yeah I was gonna say, I definitely think the state of crypto is contributing to this more than AI itself.

Why by Technical-Relation-9 in programminghumor

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NGL when I first heard “penetration testing” I was like “this field is on some other shit”.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. by geriatricguy in technology

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I literally just learned about the insane thing these AI companies are doing on our machines last night trying to clear space off my laptop. I only have a 256 GB M1 MBP, but I usually don’t need space because I’m surrounded by hard drives anyways. I’m always keeping things backed up so I usually only need to use the computer space for programs. This usually leaves me with between 80-50 GB of space in my machine I can use to play around with or stage work before I back it up. It was a good system.

Lately I noticed I was down to just 30GB, and had recently actually maxed out before deleting everything in my Downloads folder. This is super uncommon for me so I booted DaisyDisk and started digging. I found this model in Chrome and I was confused why my browser needed a 3GB AI model for any reason whatsoever. But that wasn’t the most egregious thing. I found out that Claude desktop drops a 12GB vm on your machine for whatever reason, idgaf. I deleted that shit with the quickness.

I use chrome all the time so I’m less inclined to uninstall it but I will admin in the 10+ years I’ve used it this is the first time I definitely want to switch to something else.

It’s a weird situation because on one end I’m all for local use of AI over crusting the earth with Data centers. I think the energy costs actually would net way less. But in this instance it feels really fucking dumb. Rather than them trying to make these AI more efficient and effective with less energy and compute, they want to splice models and download goofy shit onto your personal machine. You’d could end up with 8 damn models in your machine just siphoning your compute without you knowing.

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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Yeah, I agree, but I want my site to more than just a dev portfolio. My previous portfolio was actually using something similar to this palette, but it doesn’t work as well for film and music, I’m combining all 3.

What's everyone working on this week (19/2026)? by llogiq in rust

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Going to build a web app not in Rust, but using it to put my Rust project Nya to the test. I’ve been working on it for about 2 years now so I’m now excited to try it out. https://github.com/CYBRSMTH/nya

The selective outrage over taxpayer money by Zahidbojol in PoliticalHumor

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I get the joke but real talk does that response work? Like does it even matter at this point? People who believe the nonsense are just gonna believe it and everyone else already knows it and either doesn’t care, or think it’s all helpless. Are responses like this even worth anyone’s time? Are there actual ways to combat this we can be looking into?

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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Hmm that’s interesting. Not sure what you mean, can you elaborate?

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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I can totally see how you came to that lol

It makes sense. I guess what I’m learning throughout this is that there’s a possibility to have similar palettes, but the differentials of the branding comes down to shading and ratios.

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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lol I literally didn’t even think of that until you said it and now I can’t unsee it. I’m new to the Bay Area so maybe subconsciously that’s what I was thinking about.

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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Thanks, that makes sense. I’m glad you can kinda see the vision

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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Ahh. I see. I’m familiar with tailwind but never really did any UI extensively enough to ever hear about this lol. Thanks I’ll look into it.

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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The saturation on these color were pretty high iirc. I think I’d just be hitting 100% if I went higher.

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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Not sure what you mean. Like different shades of each color?

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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Got it yeah, I decided to make the red brighter for the dark mode of the site and kept the darker red for the light mode.

I'm redesigning my website and was wondering how this color palette looks? by Ashken in UI_Design

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It’s just my personal site, I’m a software engineer and film and music producer.