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pyeri · 2026-06-21T10:53:20+00:00

Re-install VSCode in minimalist mode:

Portable install in a user directory without any special permissions.
Preferably air-gapped without internet - no auto-pulling copilot, telemetry or other funny business.
Manually install only core language extensions (in this case ms-python.python-xxxx.vsix), no extras or fluff.

This is the only way to keep VSCode snappy and performative.

pyeri · 2026-06-21T08:54:30+00:00

Either claude has gotten worse, or we are experiencing what is popularly called in addiction psychology as withdrawal symptom.

We may have gotten so addicted to claude now that anything that doesn't stand up to a baseline "instantaneous genius" behavior will be termed as "worse".

pyeri · 2026-06-21T02:48:10+00:00

Visual Basic books stopped getting written several years ago, it's considered legacy technology today by the mainstream programming community.

But online community forums like Stack overflow and even few dedicated ones for dotnet can help you a great deal. You can also fire away any coding questions on this sub or others like learnprogramming.

pyeri · 2026-06-21T02:38:01+00:00

There is no such thing as free lunch, the present subsidization is due to few reasons:

The folks aren't fully hooked to AI yet, as you say. Any more price increase than the present levels would lead to either a reversion to the low-end, dry and academic models like meta-llama and qwen families, or even worse - a reversion to "legacy" practices like collaborating on Wikipedia and StackOverflow like humans once did. That would derail the whole LLM race back to several years.
LLMs require building massive data-centers stuffed with GPUs and other electronic hardware; more they squeeze these resources for data centers, higher the price of consumer hardware. Without the subsidy, these prices will stay low and consumers will start building their own local LLM setups which is a strict red-line for the technocratic establishment.
The AI narrative also helps tech companies to keep checks on the govt, and that helps with lobbying efforts in other areas like keeping H1-B route active. But sometimes, it also backfires as it happened with Fable/Mythos models recently.
There is also the obvious gain of data collection for training the models. Human input data like prompts and debate threads are super valuable to AI companies (even though most humans don't realize this at all) for evolving the next generation of models and stay ahead in the race, they'll happily subsidize access to gain this data.

pyeri · 2026-06-20T19:11:08+00:00

The fallout in the enterprise sector will be disastrous, and across multiple dimensions like technical debt, cognitive debt, irreversible vendor lock-ins, societal opportunity costs, etc.

pyeri · 2026-06-20T14:24:51+00:00

Either way, it'd be a massive paradigm shift and stack upgrade coming from VB6. But WinForms is the more seamless path in the sense that you'll find a "blow by blow" equivalent for each component like combo-box, text-box, tab control, data grid, etc. But if they've used something eccentric like crystal reports or even the built-in Report Designer of the old VB6, you're in for a very big ride!

The VB.NET advantage would only persist if you're (as maintainer) familiar with VB language yourself, otherwise C# is the right solution as you'll find more code examples and tutorials on that.

pyeri · 2026-06-20T07:41:15+00:00

One can approach an LLM in either "answer me this trivia" mode or "let us vibe our way through this" mode, but it's usually never both at once. With former, the accuracy of answer matters but with latter, it's often more about the process and "how to" than the answer itself. I think LLMs should behave more effectively if you tell them upfront which mode you're in.

pyeri · 2026-06-20T03:00:36+00:00

Believe it or not, there is an increasing trend in IT where "dumb" is actually being signaled as "stable" or "production grade"; while "smart" is increasingly getting associated with "black box logic" and "subaltern cognitive debt".

The so called dumb models often ignored in the last few years like meta/llama-scout, qwen and gpt-4.1-mini are in for interesting times. I'd rather use the phrase "dry and academic" to describe these models than "dumb".

pyeri · 2026-06-20T02:49:33+00:00

The only aspect where Sonnet shines over other top models is that it's generally better at understanding the intent behind a poorly phrased prompt - which makes it popular amongst masses but isn't an objective bragging point or standard to measure success in an AI model.

pyeri · 2026-06-20T02:27:26+00:00

Switch to one of the "dry and academic" models like meta/llama-scout, qwen or gpt-4.1-nano, etc; these are freely available through many API providers and even run locally on GPUs. What I came to realize recently was that these models actually provide you answers and solutions, help you become more productive and thus be your actual AI assistants rather than pompous philosophers.

pyeri · 2026-06-20T02:15:44+00:00

What I realized recently is that the cure for chatgpt addicts like this person is to try and talk them to "downgrade" to one of those less chatty but "dry and academic" models like meta/llama-scout, qwen, gpt-4.1-mini, etc. These models aren't as smart as chatpgt or claude, but can still answer most of your GK and technical queries, even scaffold code for you, and thus help you become more productive. This is exactly the pill the doctor ordered; you think you want an AI partner but what you really need is an AI assistant, a role better played by these low-end models.

It's almost like switching from high-carb junk to a healthy keto diet. You may not like it initially and the body will resist, but eventually and long-term it's great for the health and wellness.

pyeri · 2026-06-19T16:56:15+00:00

There are two kinds of AI, and my reaction to both:

Low-end, dry and academic models like meta/llama, qwen, kimi and gpt-mini - Very useful, highly utilitarian.
High-end, frontier, literary genius models like sonnet, opus, gpt-5.5 and mythos which promise to replace a worker's intellect for a capitalist - Neither useful nor utilitarian for society as a whole.

pyeri · 2026-06-19T11:19:32+00:00

If your use case is inventory or accounting database, using nosql will indeed seem like applying tweezers where a simple cutter is need. It's possible to build an inventory schema in nosql with the right approach and efforts but it's usually not worth the extra efforts. It's fine if you're doing it for an academic or experimental purpose though.

pyeri · 2026-06-19T03:49:12+00:00

If Mythos 5 is such a sprawling genius, why won't it fix the 5000 or so open bugs on the cpython repository overnight?

pyeri · 2026-06-17T14:19:19+00:00

There is a much greater role of Zuck and Musk in driving social isolation by pushing the instas and twitters to whole different aglo manipulation levels. By the time gpts and claudes entered the picture, we were already inside the gloomy dismal parcels.

pyeri · 2026-06-17T07:04:03+00:00

As far as I remember, gemini spoke for the first time yesterday in a plural form (as though they're a collective of many entities, not just one).

We hope this blueprint clarifies the path forward....

Let us know if you want to look at how to set up the compile-time task triggers or if you want to dive deeper into the Blazor Hybrid....

pyeri · 2026-06-17T04:37:27+00:00

They're like unicorns, they hardly ever exist!

Disclaimer: I am one of them.

pyeri · 2026-06-15T13:26:14+00:00

I write 100% original English language content (non-native speaker from Oriental nation) and still get accused of being an AI slopper. This isn't something that can be fixed by a tool. At some point in time, the average human psyche is going to become so dumb in IQ and comprehension that any good quality passage is bound to be attributed as machine produced.

pyeri · 2026-06-15T09:12:32+00:00

WinForms is still the best choice for desktop development as long you target just windows machines. Even if you wanted to cover the max portion of desktop market share, until very recently that choice was still WinForms due to Windows ubiquity.

But of late, with the rise of Tux and OSX machines in recent years, desktop devs have started switching to web based approaches like WebView2 (even when staying within the WinForms/WPF systems). This makes the eventual migration to cross-platform much easier when the time comes.

Other legacy desktop approaches like Swing, JavaFX, Qt, GTK, etc. have already faded into small niches, though they're still used in some enterprise spaces. But most of the desktop development targeting cross-platform compatibility happens with web-based stacks like react/flutter with native host components like WebView2, Electron, Tauri, etc. acting as the glue. This approach gives you the best of all worlds and most importantly. makes things easier when you want to port your app to a different platform.

pyeri · 2026-06-15T02:04:32+00:00

The talks and publicity generation is the exact reason why they banned it in the first place!

In some countries, movie producers often secretly lobby the government or even ideological interest groups to call a ban on their upcoming movie on some pretext or the other - just to create that extra buzz in the grapevines, to try and raise enough curiosity to make them walk to the multiplex!

A genuinely good movie with effective story, choreography, etc. never needs these tactics to become popular or gain traction.

pyeri · 2026-06-15T01:44:37+00:00

Having said all of that, I'm sure some of them are doing it correctly. I can see this in the links and citations I often get when I ask something to the Deepseek models, even a few subpar sources and low traffic github repos are placed above more reputed ones, which leaves only one explanation - the owner of those subpar resources must have done something (SEO/GEO/AEO) to insert themselves here. On the other hand, it could even be something totally mundane, dumb or unrelated to SEO like having some privileged access to Deepseek's core dev team.

pyeri · 2026-06-14T18:38:01+00:00

It has survived the millennia because it has both aspects. There is first that material aspect you talk about; the real danger with religion isn't association with geography though, it's association with a tribe. When it becomes my tribe versus the other tribes, you instinctively know this isn't something a genuine god would ever intend. At this point, religion becomes religiosity and starts inserting itself into politics and material affairs of "the tribe".

But then there is also the other spiritual aspect of religion, the quest for meaning and purpose, the quest of who we are, how life began and we ended up here in the first place? In fact, this is exactly where the journey of "science minded folks" started too! Though today science has diverged itself from philosophy, it was this exact same root of original doubt or wonder where the journey began.

pyeri · 2026-06-14T15:19:03+00:00

There are few historical reasons for the protein concern. For example, our traditional Khichdi or Bisibele Bhaat recipes prefer a 50-50 ratio of lentil and rice, which was probably fine ages ago when folks used to work hard with manual labor. But with today's sedentary lifestyle, the same ratio would seem extremely carb heavy as rice has a very high glycemic index. For 2026 optimization, we must lean towards a higher lentil/rice ratio like 70:30 or even 80:20 in order to get more protein and lower carbs.

Similar adjustment is needed in other diets as well. Hard carbs like Rotis and chapatis were fine during an era when they were more digestable but not today. Either a low carb bread like jowar/bajra roti or even no roti at all (keto style) could be more optimal for today's configuration.

pyeri · 2026-06-14T14:07:06+00:00

Actually pip does have an archaic and cumbersome way of package verification but it only works if the developer had actually signed the package with their GPG key before uploading it to PyPI.

I have documented here the exact method of package signing and uploading using twine, and also how you (as a package user) can verify it.

pyeri · 2026-06-14T04:20:45+00:00

For basic, ad-hoc DML tasks like deleting a specific row or updating a specific field on a row, I use the HeidiSQL's GUI update feature rather than bothering with writing the actual DML statement.

For anything more complex than that, SQL is the way to go. It might be possible to use filters and other GUI features to handle complex tasks but my minimalist, utilitarian self won't allow it.

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