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I teach a free software development course to my undergrad students. It's really exciting to stumble upon one of the work they did for my class in the wild (it's the first listed b…

This is too oddly written to read in its entirety and I don't get the point. I mostly still do things like it says it worked in 2008. The difference with the "modern" workflow with…

I really don't understand that some people are still trying to sell blockchain-based electronic voting. But anyway, I just wanted to tell a fun anecdote about the impossibility of …

I think the analogy presented here is broken. RSS doesn't depend on Google Reader at all. Even at its prime, RSS depended less on Google Reader than email depends on Gmail now. In …

I liked Symbian a lot, but I agree that Maemo was superior! Two after what I told above, in 2010, a few friends of mine had N900 and they seemed great. I was still in my study at t…

Oooh! I fondly remember my N95! Pictures and movies it took were great , at least for the time, and it had apps and a lot of stuffs like a browser that were presented as new on the…

This is a good introduction to Dune, but frankly, Dune kinda sucks. I mean, it is very powerful, and works very well, but it's too much of a hassle, especially for beginners. I don…

So it's as confusing as I thought to do it that way. I wasn't sure if I thought so because I'm already familiar with all these concepts or because this introduction is indeed convo…

Thanks for putting it this way. I have to admit I was really astonished by the question as I feel like HN is very much pro-AI at least in the sense that there is more AI promotion …

I feel like introducing lambda calculus (using JS syntax) would be less cumbersome and convoluted than referring to "the challenge" without really justifying it and deferring to re…

I agree with that. I'm just stating that it's contradictory with the project's own principles. > Program directly against syscalls It's the very first one of the listed principles.…

First, thanks for sharing this link, it was an interesting read! A few remarks below. I had a hard time reading the wc code in the article. First I had to go to the GitHub to under…

The author of this paper holds that quantum computers will never be able to go above the limit of a thousand qubits. > Hence, insofar as a classical computer will never factor a 2,…

The same thing happened with my blog a few weeks ago. It was well referenced for years and suddenly almost all of my entries are not indexed anymore. The Search Console indicates t…

I moved my domains and mailboxes from Gandi to Infomaniak when Gandi went from "no bullshit" to full shit hole after TWS bought them. The service is top quality and their customers…

> The goal of Search has always been simple: to help you ask anything on your mind. I fondly remember the good old times when the goal was to help you find stuff…

Not just for LLMs, but in general if code is produced automatically by a tool and isn't going to be a hundred percent proofread and tested by humans who could have written it manua…

Oh, since you're here, I want to say thank you for all your guides! I learned from them yeaaars ago, and still recommend them to my own students to this day, especially your networ…

I teach such a course, and we don't have that. First, students must work on an existing issue of the project they choose and are only allowed (for my course) to submit an issue or …

In the CS bachelor degree I'm responsible of, we have exactly that in the third and last year (it's in France, so as in ~all Europe the licence lasts three years and then students …