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by oliviergg 2y ago
But being at the head of a social network is political. Every choice is political. Allowing extreme speech to circulate is political, not authorizing it is political too. It is not corporate censorship, it's regulation. without regulat
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by oliviergg 2y ago
Yes I somewhat agree on FOSS and I agree for the people. But I think that for the capital, it is massively US controlled (though is international too). Think of the seven first companies of the S&P500. (GAFAM, Nvidia, ...) If you look a
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by oliviergg 2y ago
I'm not sure that we are awake. As a dev for a long time, I realized only 6 months ago, that all the tools I use daily are directly from US. My job and my life would be very very different without this technology. We are loosing grou
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by oliviergg 2y ago
Zuck claims "Europe has an ever increasing number of laws,institutionalizing censorship and making difficult to build something innovative" Ouch. As a European, I feel very wary of such a sentence and the implications. Time for Eu
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by oliviergg 2y ago
From 2016
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Ask HN: Claude AI Unusable ?
3 points by oliviergg 2y ago|1 comments
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by oliviergg 2y ago
If you have a hacker’s soul, an old Kindle, a jailbreak, and a Python installation, anything becomes possible. I’m working on something like that (though I hadn’t thought about markdown!). The Kindle is a particularly fun device once it’s h
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by oliviergg 2y ago
A great solution, but a huge headache: a window in a screen that captures the mouse when you go to the edge of the screen. I wasn't ready for that.
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by oliviergg 2y ago
I remember the same kind of annoyances already in 2009 with Windows (Vista!). It's one of the reasons that made me switch to Mac without any regret. Nothing seems to have changed in 15 years.
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by oliviergg 2y ago
For me, the problem with shell scripting is that I do it only occasionally. I’ve always been tempted by higher-level languages. The arrival of tools like ChatGPT has made me much more comfortable writing scripts of intermediate complexity.
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by oliviergg 3y ago
I still remember working briefly in 2008 with a thing called Magic (now uniPaas I think) XML all way down. Even the code : each line was a XML . You were supposed to code with a weird GUI. Still have nightmares
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Paste a block of code here and we will generate a series of unit tests(airtest.dev)
3 points by oliviergg 4y ago|2 comments
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by oliviergg 6y ago
The clarity of this documentation is really impressive. It’s like I was rediscovering the shell again.
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by oliviergg 8y ago
Me. Who else ?
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by oliviergg 8y ago
Pretty ironicly, Terms of use warn to be very careful when downloading files with an exe.,. Vbs,. Lnk,. Bat,. Sys, or a suffix com., Because these files may contain a virus or spyware !
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by oliviergg 8y ago
It's proper french. I think I can be fooled by this website.
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by oliviergg 8y ago
Interesting. Do you have some references about this 'hand coded things' ?
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by oliviergg 8y ago
Very sad for long time IBMers. But Is it the beginning of the much controversial AI Winter revival ?
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by oliviergg 9y ago
Didn't know. But you're right ! cf https://www.nealstephenson.com/magic-leap.html
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by oliviergg 9y ago
Did you notice that the only visible book is 'Snow Crash' From Stephenson ? Some hidden message ?