Category Archives: Computers

ASCII art generation on Mac using FIGlet

Posted on May 10, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

FIGlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinaryscreen characters These days you can use online websites like this to generate the art for you but if you want to install the program on your computer and run … Continue reading →

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Spring Boot controller not working

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

Some tips to help you debug Spring controller not working. There can be many reasons why this can happen. Here is a checklist: In separate terminal window type: Now you want to set a breakpoint at org.springframework.context.annotation.ClassPathBeanDefinitionScanner.doScan: Then run the … Continue reading →

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Comparing two methods for uploading a file to a server

Posted on April 20, 2024 by Siddharth Jain
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Understanding internals of java-llama.cpp

Posted on April 9, 2024 by Siddharth Jain
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Understanding internals of MapDB

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Siddharth Jain
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My Thoughts on StackOverflow

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

I am as addicted to SO as someone is to their favorite social media website. I am not much of a writer but I will try to document my recent quibs with SO in this post. The SO community is … Continue reading →

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Google Drive vs. OneDrive vs. Dropbox vs. Box

Posted on March 1, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

Google Drive OneDrive Dropbox Box LAN Sync ✖ ✖ ✓ ✓ Incremental (delta) sync ✖ ✓ ✓ ✓ One advantage of OneDrive compared to Dropbox is that its dirt cheap. Resources

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Running llama.cpp on Windows with GPU acceleration

Posted on February 21, 2024 by Siddharth Jain
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Generics vs Interfaces in Java

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Siddharth Jain

There is an important lesson I realized w.r.t. using Generics vs. Interfaces in Java today. It has to do with this: Another benefit of using generics is that you don’t need to typecast all the time when using fields or … Continue reading →

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Why is so much software open-sourced these days?

Posted on January 28, 2024 by Siddharth Jain
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