Jean-Papoulos

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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
Their existing users is an edge, but that's not much for the scale they're operating at. Users are lazy and even if you tell them "Gemini is 50 % better !" if ChatGPT isn't bad they won't switch.
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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
They do have a bunch of add-ons now with Realms notably, but I wonder if this revenue goes to Mojang or to another Microsoft branch for tax reasons. To say nothing of derived media, plushies, Legos etc.
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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
>Because a phone running an unknown OS is significantly more dangerous than a phone that hasn't received security updates for years. That's just straight-up false ; the phone without security updates has known exploits its user
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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
It took a billion years to get to the tool-making state, and then less than a 1000th of that time to making CPUs. Then a 1000th of that time to make LLMs. We are in a parabolic extreme
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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
Matrix is awful. I don't know if that's still the case but when I tried it a year ago it took me more than 30 minutes to get it working. In discord, you sign up with email (very low friction), click the + button and boom. You&#x27
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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
He could win bullet. No increment means his years of streaming bullet will let an edge when moving in the endgame, so he just needs to draw out the game long enough to get Carlsen either to 0 or in trouble. Somehow we got a chess format whe
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by Jean-Papoulos 7mo ago
It proves that this is not intelligence. This is autocomplete on steroids.
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
You've reached the stage where if something is possible in CC, someone out there is using it. Taking anything away will have them ask for it back ; you need to let people toggle things. https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
Japan's foreign policy about Taiwan includes the notion that an attack on Taiwan is an "existential threat" to Japan, enabling a constitutional reasonning for a war in such a case.
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
>EU citizens have elected ineffective leaders for decades -- leaders that ignored the potential to set up homegrown cloud providers, software suites or tech companies. France has been doing this since De Gaulle. That's why they&#x27
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
I wonder if this could fall under the 1st amendement. In any case it is stupid, won't work and has nothing to do in a budget bill. Someone's getting paid
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
>driving 17mph (27kph for metric types) in this context is reckless and not something human would typically do Unfortunately, a vast overestimation of human danger recognition. Or empathy, unsure
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
>With a bit of work, my dad set up a line-of-sight Wi-Fi bridge — a couple of high-gain directional Wi-Fi antennas pointed at each other — between the office and our apartment. How was that not the first thing to be checked ? OP must hav
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
>Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to w
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
Because apps are the lowest-friction path to users. If you publish a tool that targets an audience of more than a very specific niche of people, you'll get people asking for an app literally every day. My inbox used to be full of them.
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
>Yes, the only e-mail I got was a credit note giving my money back. That's great news ! They don't have nearly enough staff to deal with support issues, so they default to reimbursement. Which means if you do this every month,
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
From a comment : >The first move in the coming WWIII, where the emperors try to expand their empires militaril,y will be to wipe out any orbit with Starlink satellites. I find this highly unlikely, given Starlink is soon to reached 10k s
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
I can chuck a brick at your head. Clearly the brick is broken
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by Jean-Papoulos 8mo ago
>As Head of Product for the Ontario Digital Service Ah, this explains a lot about the state of Canada actually.
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
Why would you not bend the key ? There's a reasonnable chance Trump is gone in less than 3 years and MAGA tears itself apart. Better bet on that than try to make a stand now and lose everything.
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
Why would a the curve of solar prices be in any way correlated with the curve of AI improvements ? The deceleration of pace is visible to anyone capable of using Google.
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
>The flip scenario: AI unlocks massive demand for developers across every industry, not just tech. Healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, and finance all start embedding software and automation. I find this one hard to believe. Software
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
Gaddafi was trying to establish a gold-backed "arab" currency system and wanted to sell his oil using it. This was a threat to the US dollar so Obama was very happy to see Sarkozy knock at his door asking to go get the oil themsel
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
Microsoft developers are secretly the people doing the most work to develop alternatives to Windows, by making it hell on earth to use it
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
>Your job isn’t to complete tickets that fulfill a list of asks from your product manager. Your job is to build software that solves users problems. While I agree in spirit, when you reach a certain amount of people working on a project
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
Absolutely not, the company laptop will be locked down and you won't be able to install your own OS.
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
I switched from a 1h30 of commute by bus to 15 minutes by car a while back ; then I switched jobs and now have 1h total commute. It's kind of annoying that I can't do anything of substance during this time because I'm driving
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
>The company uses pure, purpose-made CO2 instead of sourcing it from emissions or the air, because those sources come with impurities and moisture that degrade the steel in the machinery. So no environmental advantages. It's suppose
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
welcome to tumblr!!
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by Jean-Papoulos 9mo ago
>Bergmann agreed with declaring the experiment over, worrying only that Rust still "doesn't work on architectures that nobody uses". I love you Arnd. More seriously, this will become an issue when someone starts the proces

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