olivierduval

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by olivierduval 5mo ago
Can we talk about features like JavaFX being free (community) before and then starting to become paid ("ultimate" version) after update ? Of course without telling: "while upgrading, you will loose functionalities except by b
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by olivierduval 6mo ago
Obvisouly, with the current US Administration, EU will fully trust US to process the datas of its citizen in a way that respect the ... US interests ! And Europe will trust the US to be a partner more than a competitor ... like being fair,
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by olivierduval 1y ago
In that regard, US is obviously Europe's enemy, isn't it ? ;-) :-D
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by olivierduval 1y ago
Actually, I dont need a "smart newsfeed" to hear about Trump. Smart is not about who is doing the show every day, it's about what's important and may be missed
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by olivierduval 1y ago
Hi First, it's a great idea! The "introductory" speech is interesting then... the result is really disappointing :-( You see: I'm French (and European). So, I don't necessarily consider that "Trump" is t
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by olivierduval 1y ago
Actually, you can't neither read that or the opposite from the graphs: it doesn't if the new code is for new functionalities or if it's to replace (without deleting) some old code. But you're right: that would be a parti
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by olivierduval 1y ago
All about time is about the use of time. So what is your use-case? Time is either some "point in time" (like a date) or "duration". Your use-case is not the first one because a "point in time" is bound to a loc
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Seriously ???? Did you buy JD Vance on "free speech" in EU ? Actually, you should get better information (and a link to the EU Commission website is nothing if you dont read or understand it... it's only the old FUD) Right no
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Sadly, that money will be wasted: * that money will go to "big corp" who know and have to time to build application forms... even if they don't have the knowledge ("take the money and run") * that money wont to the
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by olivierduval 2y ago
So you bought an iPhone because of its "(product) design" (how it fullfill your needs) and not about "marketing" (how to define the markets for a product and why people in these marketing will buy it...). As I understand
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by olivierduval 2y ago
At the same time, "Europeans think US is 'necessary partner' not 'ally'" ( https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/12/europeans-thin... ) I wonder why... maybe because it l
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by olivierduval 2y ago
The OP mentioned: "This provision requires large online platforms to provide researchers with immediate access to publicly available data on their platforms in order to assess systemic risks" > So if I run a large online shop I
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by olivierduval 2y ago
"Companies that are found to be using any of the above AI applications in the EU will be subject to fines, regardless of where they are headquartered. They could be on the hook for up to €35 million (~$36 million), or 7% of their annua
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Actually that could be an interesting case... except if Twitter can show that its algorithm is "deterministic"
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Actually, a lot of territorial claims start with "renaming", to provide support for some kind of base for the claim. That specific case would have been quite minor (in the Trumpian show) except that it comes at the same time as US
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by olivierduval 2y ago
That's called "barrier to entry" to a market (or "un-leveling the field of play"). Actually, that's what any significant corp use first to forbid any new competitor to compete (and that's the reason of the
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Actually, it's more complex than this in France. There is 5 systems: - depending of the Ministry of Eduction : - for toddlers : maternelle (3-6 yo) - Primary : CP (6 yo, primary), CE1 (elementary 1), CE2, CM1 (middle 1), CM2
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Curious :why Bluesky and not Mastodon? I would have thought that decentralization would be a better safeguard against Bluesky becoming Twitter after being successful... Honest question: I left Twitter so long ago (I guess that I never got i
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by olivierduval 2y ago
I think that you missed the point and should have read until "That’s exactly how we feed codebases to AI"... ;-) Actually, the article shows that feed an AI with "structured" source code files instead of just "flat
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by olivierduval 2y ago
And that's why X/Twitter should be banned too... ;-) And Facebook too !! :-D (obviously kidding but... well... not so much after seing https://www.france.tv/documentaires/documentaires-societe/67... )
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by olivierduval 2y ago
The problem is not "ads" per se... it's engagement focus Ads or clickbait posts or filtering/ordering algorithms are just some consequences of engagement focus (also called "attention economy" because what matt
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Actually, focusing on "engagement" is already showing that the game is lost and that the we're seing another Twitter clone... :-( Because "engagement" is about "money" and "ad" and "sponsor&
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Actually, it shows the real problem about education... and what education is for! Education is not a way to memorize a lot of knowledge, but a way to train your brain to recognize patterns and to learn. Obviously you need some knowledges to
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by olivierduval 2y ago
> Most crates I use - like human-size or serde don't need any special capabilities to work. So we don't need to worry so much about their authors "turning evil" and adding malicious code to our software well... :-( A
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by olivierduval 2y ago
IMHO, the "social web" was "forums" (think "phpBB" for example) and the "webrings", that enable to find other website/forums like the one you were on. It was quite usual to see some people referi
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by olivierduval 2y ago
For those "downvoting" this comment, please: I wrote it right after my initial post, before any answer, to make my initial post clearer. I certainly should have added this to the main post. Now that I have all these answers, I und
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by olivierduval 2y ago
(to be honest, I find this "pencil-like" look a bit like MS Comics for fonts, ugly and unprofessional... so I really don't understand why designer tool use it so much)
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Something always bothered me: why using "sketch-like hand-drawn pencil" like style for that kind of tools ? I understand that "wireframing" is some kind of "brainstorming" tool, so it is used with a pencil and
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by olivierduval 2y ago
It's really impressive !!!! BTW, the video show him playing with and against BOTS (that are notoriously weak in CS2), not with/against other human players (where he would stand no chance - and no fun - even against beginning playe
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by olivierduval 2y ago
Actually, that's why there's judge to interpret the Law In Europe, in general (and that's something that look a bit strange to US it seem), we judge on THE SPIRIT of the Law more than on THE TEXT. So a European court would su

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