Jean-Papoulos

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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
This is nice, but please don't clickbait headlines with straight-up lies. This is not JSON-compatible.
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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
Any benchmarking ? Because this fundamentally sounds like replacing node (V8) with another javascript engine. Which I'm not sure is going to be much of a gain, at which point why use an entire different toolchain than the rest of the w
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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
I have the opposite experience. Claude can't get it all in the context window and make changes that will completely break something on the other side of the program. Granted that's because the program is incredibly poorly written,
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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
>What this means is that you can explain all the intent of your code through the header file and the developer who uses your lib/code never has to look at the actual implementations of the code. I hate this. If my intellisense isn&#
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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
>Palantir would need to grow its revenues roughly 15-fold (yes, 1,500%) over the next quarter century, implying sustained annual revenue growth in the 35% range over this time frame. That's actually a pretty reasonnable ask for a te
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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
>In contrast, there would be one-time investments of nine million euros in 2026 [...] and the further development of solutions with free software. They are contributing actively it seems, so even better.
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by Jean-Papoulos 10mo ago
But how many companies did IBM pass on that did crash and burn ? And how many did it not pass on and did decently ? They're still around after more than 3 generations worth of tech industry. They're doing something right. TLDR C
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
Yes, it does. Given the choice of having a coworker that's a very nice 0.1x engineer and having a bloody annoying one that's a 10x I'll work with the 10x any day. The internet has evolved such a Newspeak, censor-driven cultur
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
I much prefer the authors of anything on the internet be honest about what they think instead of self-censoring their language. I really thought we all agreed on disliking Newspeak ?
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
>Shoddy stuff that has no chance of making its way into production is permissible That's cute.
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
>Global IT spending has more than tripled in constant 2025 dollars since 2005, from US $1.7 trillion to $5.6 trillion, and continues to rise. Despite additional spending, software success rates have not markedly improved in the past two
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
The reason they are abandonning desktop is that it's much easier to serve ads on a mobile platform than a desktop one.
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
Humans have poured resources into the pursuit of largely impractical pure knowledge for millenia. This has been said of an incredible number of human scientific endeavors, before they found use in other domains. Also, the web was invented
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
>at the end of the day, it leaves us all worse off I don't know, I like having meds that are radioactive be clearly labeled, for example. It's hard to draw the line as to what is over regulation and what is really needed, but
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
https://darkreader.org/
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
> We are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified I believe they will push responsability onto OEM.
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
The solution isn't to block aggressively or to allow everything, but to prioritize. Put accounts older than the AI boom at the top, and allow them to give "referrals", ie stake a part of their own credibility to boost another
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
> Ground observers reported the aircraft had been delayed for about two hours for work on the left hand engine (engine #1), the engine #1 separated during the takeoff run Some people are gonna have to live with that for the rest of their
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
Imagine having human volunteers do the work for you, than paying an AI to overwrite their work without communicating this with them (no validation of any sort it seems). And once they quit you corporate-speak to them "let's hop on
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
This style is inherently worse because there's no spaces. My brain has been wired since 4 years old to read words , not letters. Words are separated by spaces. Havingnospacesbetweenwordsmakesthemexponentiallyhardertoreadandcomprehend.
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by Jean-Papoulos 11mo ago
The article suggests this paper is based on quantum gravity. Which we don't have an accepted theory of. Based on this, I'm not going to read the rest of this clickbait.
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
>Nobody has ever walked past a photograph because they can't inspect its digital authenticity hash. Some will once AI is ubiquitous. Especially of the art & entertainment sectors
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
I believe there's a vicious circle of a few companies starting to use AI with an actual idea, then shareholders of other companies say "we need to use AI as well, it works for them !" and then more companies start using AI to
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
You don't even need to send a response. Just block the traffic and move on
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
>the G-Drive’s structure did not allow for external backups That should be classified as willful sabotage. Someone looked at the cost line for having backups in another location and slashed that budget to make numbers look good.
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
I can't believe they re-colored the entire first comic to make the Smurfs purple and not black. That's hilarious
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
So I need to run a tool to even be able to read the code. No thank you, if anything goes wrong your file is now garbage.
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
Putting bibles everywhere, removing books from libraries, now getting the names of wikipedians... They're going slowly, but they're going surely.
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by Jean-Papoulos 1y ago
Looking at the "overall" graph they provide, it's clear that jobs as a whole have flatlined since 22, and even non-exposed jobs have had a growth rate hugely reduced. If we disregard the existence of AI, it would be easy to a

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