dolmen

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by dolmen 1mo ago
In fact you just need one of the two ends to be able to auto swap RX/TX.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
The article goes beyond and warn about jailing MCP servers independently of the agent itself (which also deserves to be jailed).
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Check the "Débit à l'adresse" alternative map: it shows every home, and so population density.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Subsidizing works up to when most of the area has high cost for few people.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Bakeries are long gone in small villages which are out of main roads. You better be prepared to have a car to get your bread or to make it at home.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
> Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap Check the France map. This is cheap in densely populated areas, like cities. It isn't in mountainous areas with just small groups of houses like in the middle of the country.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Same in France. The information is available publicly on the same web site as mentioned in this thread, with even information about the expected network throughput: https://maconnexioninternet.arcep.fr/?lat=46&lng=2.3&am
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by dolmen 1mo ago
SVG is image as code. This is basically a DSL with graphics primitives. It seems to me that teaching a model to directly produce SVG is more helpful than teaching to write JavaScript that produce pixels. By the way, someone here is benchmar
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by dolmen 1mo ago
> More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding So, when surveyed, they tell they are in the other half than they really are?
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by dolmen 1mo ago
The repo seems to move from "adevinta" (a well known company in the EU tech) to "runetes". Anyone to tell us the story?
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by dolmen 1mo ago
> French employees love to say “No” to anything and everything. Obviously an overgeneralization. In general employees in lost and found offices are quite low on the social scale, but still in a position of power regarding people coming t
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by dolmen 1mo ago
> t claims that, since some taxes data was compromised, the trust in the national Federated Identity is eroded "as if Facebook Connect was hacked". [... ] Anyway, I think most people won't care. The taxes services is one
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by dolmen 1mo ago
> a common history going back to the Romans. Native Americans are not related to Romans. Slaves brought by force from Africa neither.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
EU: The social net prevents homelessness. We don't get broke because of medical bills. Labor laws prevent being fired without prévenance. Being fired grants you employment benefits.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
> Other than maybe a bag phone, what would you possibly plug into that? Car fridge is a thing.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Also cars are often near other cars. Which offer wireless connectivity. Car software is almost never updated and is years old. Nothing could go wrong.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
My car requires wired connectivity (USB) for Android Auto.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
You'll be surprised, but some places where a car can go have no phone connectivity.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
We haven't met yet. We use an USB key full of audio books: Harry Potter saga and The Quest of Ewilan among others. The whole family is hooked. The car UI is much more reliable (no phone to unlock by the copilot, no Bluetooth disconnect
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by dolmen 1mo ago
This is just another mobile device. It even has a SIM card.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Well, there is no protection against compromised floppy disk sent by snail mail. I have also seen virus source code published in books and magazines. We don't have such threats anymore.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
This article is dated January 2025. Labs have now long understood that ASCII drawing is a core skill needed for coding agents. However, I would not trust them understanding what an existing drawing means, unless it has generated itself.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
Hiding the code from your view is not the solution. The next developer doing a review will see it. The next agent iteration will see it. If the comment is wrong (even slightly) or redundant, that will help noone.
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by dolmen 1mo ago
I wonder how flexible is the SQLite binary format to allow to design a tool that would take a SELF binary/db and rewrite it to make BLOB values more mmap-able (OS page aligned) in order to allow shortcuts in the self-exec loader.
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by dolmen 2mo ago
Another trend is to bring graphical features into terminal emulators thanks to the initial protocol and implementation work in Kitty with the Kitty Graphics Protocol. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol&#x
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by dolmen 2mo ago
What an awful blog renderer that, in Firefox, works when scrolling with the trackpad, but doesn't work when using keyboard arrow keys or pageUp/down: I get blank pages when scrolling with the keyboard beyond the initial viewport.
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by dolmen 2mo ago
Agents have 168 hour work weeks.
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by dolmen 2mo ago
At the end of the 11 days, reviews raised much use of unsafe blocks. I guess this is much reduced by now, and the effort required on that front should not be rejected from being part of the migration.
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by dolmen 2mo ago
See also this recent (Aug 6th) interview of Russ Cox: https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327408
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by dolmen 2mo ago
The rule is to start a goroutine only if you know how it will end. A goroutine that has to be killed (no other way to tell it to stop) is a bug.

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