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Former French president Sarkozy given five-year sentence after Libya case(bbc.com)
4 points by thibaut_barrere 1y ago|0 comments
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
There were quite a few books and resources on the topic: Michael Abrash Zen of Graphic Programming ( https://archive.org/details/zenofgraphicspro00abra ), Ralph Brown interrupt list ( https://ctyme.com/rbr
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
A lot of top notch engineers that will earn well enough to remain in Europe.
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
Mode X allowed pretty cool stuff, like fake true color with interlaced lines (R,G,B), double buffering etc! Fond memories. Here is a YouTube rendition of a demo I implemented in 96, showing those techniques https://m.youtube.com&
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
Rails 2 to 3 was a bit more involved than others, also Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 ! But ultimately it got better IMO, indeed.
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
Wero is getting traction quite quickly in France (source: https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/a-votre-service/particuliers... + people around me). Also: https://wero-wallet.eu/fr/utilisateurs
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
Companies _are_ launching products with it ; that you aren't hearing about it is more about communication & leverage, than about their existence. A while back there was an effort to give more publicity on precise cases here https:
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
Yes, it is worth it to learn Elixir without learning Erlang, absolutely.
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
A bit of a sidenote but: what is a gmail alternative that really works? For instance, spam handling is worse in pretty much any alternative I've tried. I'm interested in EU-based products first. But they need to handle spam well!
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
Overall, it's not widely used nor pushed (blue green deployments are now very common), but it still has interesting uses. For instance, very high availability without blue-green (using a front-end that can be hot-patched), or... musica
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
We have mutable default arguments in Python ( https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/gotchas/#mutable-defau... ), by default too, though.
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by thibaut_barrere 1y ago
I came across https://tuta.com/ which looks interesting.
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
It is worth a fair bit. If you control the mirroring you can ensure the malware is flagged but not deleted, so forensics can assess how much damage has been done or would have been done, for instance.
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
This is true in general but only until it gets false. For instance, Elixir supports compilation targeting GPUs (within exactly the same language, not a fork). Most languages do not allow that (and for most it would be fairly hard to impleme
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
We don’t hate our Rafales, submarines and nukes at the moment though!
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
One possibility for production use (in case there is a big value) is to split the nodes into one "front" node which requires strong uptime, and a "worker" node which is designed to support rare crashes gracefully, in a w
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Investments in French AI ecosystem reach $85B as Brookfield commits $20B(techcrunch.com)
2 points by thibaut_barrere 2y ago|0 comments
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
A bit less innovation-ish but with large concrete impacts https://commission.europa.eu/news/eu-common-charger-rules-po...
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Treasury Sanctions Entities in Iran and Russia (2024 Election)(home.treasury.gov)
7 points by thibaut_barrere 2y ago|0 comments
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
> That seems to sum up the sentiment that hot swapping in Erlang has uses but they're generally not aligned with what Erlang is typically employed for Actually, I think it is much more common in original Erlang scenarios (including
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
Good point. Someone shared this in case someone wonders: https://elixirforum.com/t/how-to-tweak-mix-release-to-work-w... > I’ve spent some time understanding how to do hot code reloading with releases built using mi
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
A lot of web apps are just well-enough served with a blue-green deployment model. It is less risky. But if you really need it, it's really great to have that option (e.g. very long running systems which are split in front/back etc
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
If anything, this adds meat to the fact it can be understandable that people do not trust Google with products longevity. Bus factor et al. is literally CS 101.
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
Counter-point: as a programmer and data engineering working with large and small companies, GDPR has been of massive help to me, as the clients have now the concepts coined and I can back my stances with legal texts when it comes to protect
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
Typing this from a 27" iMac. I do love my 13" M1, but I would love to upgrade the 27" too...
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
So far the screens I've tested are more tiring to my eyes (I work both on a M1 13" with external screens, and on a legacy 27" iMac). What are the best 27" screens for coding comfort that work well with Macs these days?
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
For me it is for instance my involvement in the demo-scene in the 90’s. A concrete example is Nikki, a demo released in 96 and captured (with some technical difficulties) by a friend here https://youtu.be/t8o-uuq73UU?si=4dlT
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
This is what I am implementing a the moment (together with sampling for errors).
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by thibaut_barrere 2y ago
Particularly noteworthy for me (as someone doing Elixir & ML at the moment) is the 100k$ attributed to Elixir Nx: > Building a cutting-edge distributed ML framework with Elixir from Nx – Creating a scalable, distributed machine learn
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AI projects to watch: Mozilla's first Builders Accelerator cohort kicks off(blog.mozilla.org)
3 points by thibaut_barrere 2y ago|1 comments

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