I think the opposite is true. Sure, it's technically impressive, but users have been trained for decades at this point to understand how a basic marketing page should look and this isn't it. These kinds of sites are best left as portfolio pages for designers to show off their skills, not for B2B SaaS landing pages.
I have a deep love of A* because it was the first complex algorithm I fully understood. In my first data structures and algorithms in college (early 2000's), we had to pick an algorithm to study, code, and write a paper on and I picked A*.
I spent hours painstakingly drawing similar grids that the author of this article made and manually doing the calculations [0]. I still have these notes somewhere, even though they're over 20 years old at this point, because I was so proud of the work I put into it.
At any rate, thanks for this article and the trip down memory lane.
I'll also vouch for Arq, I've been using it for several versions now and they're all pretty solid. The website is a bit difficult to navigate but the tool itself is solid. I use it across windows and macos machines at home and have never had an issue with it, for both backup and restore.
I've used Arq for many years. The only thing that occasionally annoys me is that it will get an error like
> Error: /Users/tzs/Library/Biome/streams/restricted/ProactiveHarvesting.Mail/local/91257846325132: Failed to open file: Operation not permitted
but when I check that file I have no trouble opening it. I can't see anything in the permissions of it or any of the directories on the path that would permit opening it.
Then I'd have to search the net to find out what the heck that is and whether or not it is safe to add an exclusion for it or for one of the directories on the path.
I eventually figured out that before searching the net what I should do is create a new backup plan and take a look at the exclusions in that new backup plan. Often I'd then find that there is a default exclusion that covers it. (In this particular example ~/Library/Biome is excluded by default).
When they update the default exclusion list that is used for new backup plans it does not update the defaults in existing backup plans. Evidently either Biome did not exist several years ago when I made my backup plan, or it was not a source of errors and so was not in my default exclusions.
So now I occasionally create a new backup plan, copy its default exclusions, delete the new backup plan, and then compare the default exclusions with those of my backup plans to see if there is any I should add.
How are you running the Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B model [0]? Running locally using llama.cpp, I asked it to briefly describe what happened in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and it responded with "I'm unable to engage in discussions regarding political matters due to the sensitive nature of the topic. Please feel free to ask any non-political questions you may have, and I'll be happy to assist."
When I asked the same model about what happened during the 1970 Kent State shootings, it gave me exactly what I asked for.
I didn’t run the 2.5 Coder 7B model, I ran 2.5 Coder 32B hosted by together.ai (and accessed through poe.com). This is just another example that the censoring seems to be variable across models, but perhaps there isn’t as much relation between censoring and model size or specialty as I thought if the Coder 7B model is self-censoring.
They say it "can" but it is not first class in their docs or minds, so it's mostly up to you to figure out how to do most of things then. It would be better to have an independent micro framework with a clear scope of what it can and cannot do compared to the full Symfony stack.
