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by fermigier 11d ago
There was a conference yesterday in his honour in Paris: https://serre100.sciencesconf.org/ Serre wasn't there, but did a talk over Zoom from Switzerland where he now lives. I wasn't there either, but followed (an
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by fermigier 4mo ago
Commentary (in French) from CNLL, the French Open Source Business Association: https://cnll.fr/news/strategie-open-source-europeenne-deux-r... Here's a TL;DR in English: CNLL communiqué on the adopted EU Tech Sove
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by fermigier 4mo ago
I was really surprise by the recommendation to use "uv tree --outdated --depth 1" to list outdated deps. I personally use "uv pip list --outdated" since it has been introduced. I agree that this is such an important comm
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by fermigier 6mo ago
https://euro-stack.com/ (which I'm personally managing myself), among others.
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by fermigier 6mo ago
I have made some experiments with P2W, my experimental Python (subset) to WASM compiler. Initial figures are encouraging (5x speedup, on specific programs). https://github.com/abilian/p2w NB: some preliminary results:
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by fermigier 7mo ago
It is a disgrace how Google has managed this situation. To recap the storyline, as far as I understand it: last August, Google announced plans to heavily restrict sideloading. Following community pushback, they promised an "advanced fl
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by fermigier 9mo ago
There was a Linux distribution (briefly) called "$DISTRO". Known today as "Ubuntu".
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by fermigier 9mo ago
70 propositions from the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, written in part by yours truly (in early 2025, i.e. before the "Trump effect" was in full force) and published by the Commission in July 2025: https:
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by fermigier 10mo ago
Cf. "The rise and fall of Limux" (2017) https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/ Initiated by the city of Munich, LiMux aimed to migrate public administration systems from Windows to a Linux-based OS to increase
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by fermigier 11mo ago
Little known fact: OCaml was at one point called "Zinc" ("Zinc is not Caml").
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by fermigier 11mo ago
Published in 2000. (I studied schemes 10 years before, but I quit maths in 2000 so this book wouldn't have helped me. It seems like a good introduction, looking at the TOC. Grounded on actual geometry, not just category theory like oth
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by fermigier 1y ago
"this revolves a lot around the backend returning HTML" → This is the way the Web used to work in the era of 56kbps modems (also, with ten levels of "<TABLE>" for layout).
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by fermigier 1y ago
"I was late to the hypermedia party" → very late indeed :) The term was coined in 1965 by Ted Nelson in: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800197.806036 Here's the exact sentence: "The hyperfilm--
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by fermigier 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Dylan
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by fermigier 1y ago
"... and the chicks for free "?
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by fermigier 1y ago
70 KLOC
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by fermigier 1y ago
I thought for a second that it was about the Enso programming language ( https://modeling-languages.com/enso-dont-design-your-program... ) :)
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by fermigier 1y ago
The "Acme Klein Bottle Wine Bottle" is incredible. It strongly reminds me of Jacques Carelman's "Catalogue d'objets introuvables" (1969) [translated as "Catalog of fantastic things", 1971 by Ballantin
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by fermigier 1y ago
The "EU" is not a political institution. It is a "a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.". The (main) political institutions of the EU are: - the European P
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by fermigier 1y ago
1) You are confusing copyright and trade marks. 2) Is "American" (or "Chinese", etc.) trademarked?
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by fermigier 1y ago
The project is led by EU citizens. Do you want a stamp from the European Commission to call it "trully European"? (If so, I would object).
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by fermigier 1y ago
"Yet most of the public money goes to proprietary software, and Open Source is the exception." → I've asked, twice, for the CNLL, the French Court of Auditors (Cour des Comptes) to work towards giving precise figures. This wa
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by fermigier 1y ago
Start with https://opensource.org/about In more concrete terms: they're the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD), which is a rather explicit, but still subject to interpretation, list of criteria to decide if a
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V8: From CFG to Sea of Nodes and back again(v8.dev)
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by fermigier 2y ago
If you're French, it's Clément Ader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A9ment_Ader
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by fermigier 2y ago
Also FISA702 and EO 12.333
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by fermigier 2y ago
Indeed, as the LWN reported stated: "His attempt to cast that story for the pleasure of his audience resulted in a sympathetic and nuanced look at a turbulent chapter in the history of the Linux system." I believe "nuance&quo
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by fermigier 2y ago
There is a wonderful talk by Benno Rice a few years ago. Insightful and entertaining. Not focussed only on the negatives, BTW. https://papers.freebsd.org/2018/bsdcan/rice-the_tragedy_of_s... https://www
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by fermigier 2y ago
Cool (probably), but it's not clear what it does or how useful it is when one doesn't know anything about Angular signals. Could you explain? Also, care to compare to RxPY? ( https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY )
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by fermigier 2y ago
100% accurate, AFAICT and as a French man. I wonder why you are downvoted.

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