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Unrelated, but the gallery of "drag icon to Applications" contains a screenshot of Joost : does anyone remember that ? It could have been Netflix or Youtube a decade before, if onl…

Impossible to disagree with the author, and yet something seems missing in the discussion... Let me check: Ctrl-F, 'deadline' 0 result. Oh, yeah, that's what missing from the discu…

Wait, where is the half of the article where he explains what Bob is doing differently ? I'm pretty sure everyone else in the hackathon was working on something "that mattered" (al…

Come on, Trump would never "tarrif" something called "El Nino". He would first deport it a couple times.

> [post 1] "One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible" > [post 2] "Of course they share responsibility." > As I said, responsibility has to be shared. Fair enough. I shou…

Of course they share responsibility. Pay scraps for slop, expect slop. The more useful job of a politician may be similar to how managers in general have a "more useful" part of th…

No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful). The staff used an LLM and did not bothe…

Oh, funny, I learned about her last week, in a biography of Alfred Nobel, but i only saw pictures of her young.

I'm not trying to start a debate about relevance, but I can't recognize the faces on the 50 and 200 noted. An author and a "nature lover", I guess ?

> ""satire" is just a first draft with bad timing." I'm stealing this one. Sorry, I mean, "I'm going to train a frontier model on the finest of content available in the information…

Well, the code for the ad engine was 100% from codex, so "it can make mistakes", but who doesn't ?

Don't know if it's off topic, ad hominem, or whatnot : but this substack is an almost comical example of a "one-post-poney". The author is VERY much a fan of phytoplankton fertiliz…

That actually seems great ! My understanding is that it has to wrap ASDF package, so is there a risk of trying to find a well known lib, but not finding it because the authors refu…

- a single, canonical, sanctified toolchain for "all the things that are require but don't matter" What's the "cargo xxx" of lisp ? It depends. Maybe it's "quicklisp something". Ma…

From my experience, to be happy I would need the perf of sbcl, the syntax, litterals and data structure of clojure, the begginer-friendlyness of drracket, the type system of ocaml,…

To be honest I suspect the tech has been available here too, but the marketing is just confusing. But again, "cooling your house to survive summer" is, for real, a pretty recent co…

> because a heat pump is just an "evil" AC running in reverse I keep hearing that, and then I keep hearing people tell me that you can't just put an heat pump, run it in "reverse" …

Air Conditioning. Aka "La clim'" in France. For some context: the conversation about climate change in general, and the recent heatwaves in particular, has been (quite cynically, b…

Yup, we can dream bigger and give bigger dreams :) A silver lining in the tech progress is this : I remember watching movies from the 60s or the 70s, in the 90s, and feeling "damn,…

Here's to "trying to be someone's childhood heroes"

Hi ! The "artistic direction" is a bit original, but that's your thing, and you're free to present it anyway you want, of course ! I think the biggest problem people / I had when r…

So, ChatControl 1.0 (the volontary, limited one that expired and is being revived) has been active for about 2 years now. Concretely, are there documented examples of abuses ? Are …

Yeah, sales take part in the blame game too, otherwise they would miss on the fun. I don't see many salesperson quit their job to become carpenters, though, so maybe the huge paych…

This article could have been written 20 years ago (source : I was there), probably 50 years ago, and will probably be written for ever. (Although future éditions will have fun abou…

What is the reference, unbiased, honest, reputable and trustworthy site that ranks and compare models on the couple of realistic metrics that matters ? ("Does it work for code", "n…