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by eloisant 7mo ago
It hasn't always been true, it started with rapid development tools in the late 90's I believe. And some people thought they were building "disposable" code, only to see their hacks being used for decades. I'm think
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by eloisant 7mo ago
All the good practices about strong typing, typically in Scala or Rust, also work great for AI. If you make sure the compiler catches most issues, AI will run it, see it doesn't build and fix what needs to be fixed. So I agree that a l
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Still, talk about "good" code exist for a reason. When the code is really bad, you end up paying the price by having to spend too more and more time and develop new features, with greater risk to introduce bugs. I've seen tha
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by eloisant 7mo ago
I tried it on my mac, for coding, and I wasn't really impressed compared to Qwen. I guess there are things it's better at?
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by eloisant 7mo ago
The thing is that if you want it to do useful things, you kinda have to give it access to some of your accounts.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Which is why it's not listed in the US services you can find an alternative for
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Websites used to be static html files. You either write them by hand, or use a tool that generates it locally, upload everything and you're done. Perfect security. Great performances. It's in this sense that static generators go b
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by eloisant 7mo ago
There is no reliable way to detect AI writing. It probably trains on texts known to be AI, on texts known to be written by humans, then classify the text according to this training. The problem is that it has a pretty high false positive ra
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Have you used a state of the art tool (e.g. Claude Code) in the past 6 months? If you only tried free tools, or only tried 1 year ago last, you really need to check again. AI tools can absolutely contribute usefully, I can't keep count
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by eloisant 7mo ago
How long until the AI provider takes a 15%-20% cut? "Affiliate fees"...
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by eloisant 7mo ago
That might vary by countries but in France with have an official "engineering degree" (diplome d'ingénieur) which is also a master's degree, and most software developers have this. So most software developers in France a
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Sure, "it's handy" and once every few years you encounter a bug where ASM or C knowledge is valuable. Yet most programmers nowadays can't write ASM or C and still manage to produce useful software.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
When C arrived, programmers wonder how software devs would look like when they won't have assembly experience. Then the same happened with languages that managed memory. And with IDE that could refactor your code in a click and autocom
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Yes you should check KaiOS phones for that. Now the problem is that they're not "dumb" enough as they have a web browser, youtube etc, but that can be considered fine because the experience for those is so bad that it's
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by eloisant 7mo ago
It's not "equally" bad for adults. Just like alcohol and tobacco, it's bad for adults but way worse for kids.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
There are: https://www.hmd.com/en_int/nokia-3210 (and it's not the only one, also check KaiOS phones)
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Modern dumbphones exist: https://www.hmd.com/en_int/nokia-3210
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Yes, and dumbphones exist (again). You can buy a newer version of the Nokia 3210 that charges with USB-C and works on modern cell networks.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
As another commenter said, the problem with parental controls on a smartphone is your kid constantly nagging you to approve installation of one more app, or extend their daily limit "just for today" (again). With a device that&#x2
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by eloisant 7mo ago
That's why I'm thinking of getting my kid (who doesn't have a phone yet) a Unihertz Jelly Star. https://www.unihertz.com/fr-fr/products/jelly-star - Because it's small, it doesn't look lik
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by eloisant 7mo ago
There are only 2 that really matter, those marked with "serious" because they remind of funeral rites (passing food from chopsticks to chopsticks or sticking them in rice). Japanese people will tell you about those because they re
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Your high school didn't call your parents to tell you you missed a class? Where I live we get a phone call the same day if our kids miss a class without prior notice.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
You can buy a dumbphone. For example a Nokia 3210 4G.
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Interestingly dumb phones are making a comeback. They disappeared for a few years, but now you can buy a dumb phone, for example running KaiOS, that charges with USB-C and supports modern cell networks. You can even get a Nokia! There is ab
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by eloisant 7mo ago
> it allows students to contact loved ones during emergencies, and many parents use phone trackers to keep tabs on their kids That's such bullshit. - There is no emergency that require students to contact anyone. Communication can g
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by eloisant 7mo ago
People can also have very different experiences because kids can be very different. My kids have been really easy, no big problems, but sometimes I see other parents dealing with really serious issues with their kids. It starts with babies,
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by eloisant 7mo ago
Of course people are free not to have kids... But I've always find it weird to "celebrates childfree lives". And I'm frankly annoyed by the growing activism to ban kids from public places in the name of "adults quie
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by eloisant 7mo ago
The highest income you have, the more pressured you are to give them an expensive education, activities, etc. Everyone want their kids to do at least as well as themselves. So it's expensive no matter what income bracket you're in
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by eloisant 7mo ago
On the flip side, you'll still have a 20yo university student to take care of at age 60, while all your friends will have an independent adult child earlier...
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by eloisant 7mo ago
The curse of parenting is that when they're small you can't wait for them to grow up so you can get more time for you, and when they grow up you're nostalgic of their childhood when they were willing to spend more time with y

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