JackSlateur

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by JackSlateur 10d ago
Port numbers are convention A "security engineer minded approach" would be: own what is executed on the box;
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by JackSlateur 12d ago
"You just don't like that women have won a few battles recently." Everyone can burn the house. Not sure how this count as "winning a battle". ("women" are not the only people doing that, seems to be the ne
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by JackSlateur 19d ago
niquest is something like a one-man-show, which is an issue-per-se Of course, it is clearly superior to everything else (being authored by a french guy !). But sadly, some people do not accept this simple fact :(
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by JackSlateur 23d ago
We take food very seriously :)
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by JackSlateur 25d ago
In rust, is jit equivalent to an "unsafe" block ?
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
Switched to Qwant because of that .. (corporate laptop does not allow changing the search engine urls, only changing the engine itself) Honestly ? Not a stressy move, the major things that changes is that the IA bullshit is gone
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
GC, zero instructions: that's funny; JVM used to "stop to world" to process that zero instructions;
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
LLMs can re-write and cross-translate software really well. Is that was true, claude would be written in Rust;
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
t-string main use case is SQL (for instance, in psycopg¹) You can write things like that without SQL injection: t"INSERT INTO mytable (first_name, last_name) VALUES ({first_name}, {last_name})" This is a very pleasant featu
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
Tech is not the issue, people are "If figuring out what to build is the hard part, why do so many product managers seem clueless" - because people "LLMs may be good at coding" - they are not;
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
"Python still does not address the issue of dynamic typing and the inability to test correctly" This is wrong, you can enforce typing on Python (pypi: typeguard) The only issue with Python is performance, which is only an
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
You are not alone
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
Have you considered the theory that, perhaps, you are the one with skill issue ?
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by JackSlateur 1mo ago
You don't need that meeting if you're not writing the code. I am responsible for a software that carries a multi billions company. My mates are not, their code editor are not either : I am. Yes, I could be a clown and be
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Well, for those of you who want to decrypt exchanges, plain-HTTP is best suited for you. Assume your stance :)
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
"when you are raped, just say that you consent ! Consensual sex is better than rape!" Congrats, you solved the situation (irony)
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Pretty sure rust can run on browsers;
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
To give more details Uber is not a saas, it sell the ability to match drivers with people. You can code an uber-like software easily and you will find that it leads to nowhere: no network => no driver + no consumer = you have nothing Ano
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Bad example: uber is not a saas at all It's a network.
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Never trust somebody who has so much to gain to be entrusted by you. Best lies are not 100% wrong, they have just the right amount of "right" to fool you.
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
How many compagnies can manage a mostly stateless workload at "whatever-the-scale-because-it-does-not-matter-because-stateless" ? Lots of people can do that. Massive amount of people can do that.
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
(without having the answer from GP): your two questions are fully unrelated: first is about long term, second is about only "now". To try a metaphor: "Why would you grow crops ? Do you lack food on your table ?"
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
I guess even anthropic fails to not get slop from ai ..
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Last month, there has been a billing-related incident at work: it has been detected that the GCP bill had increased vastly since early 2026 The related team investigated, found nothing; They escalated to other teams, found nothing; Gemini,
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
[..] that the wealthy business owners and investors and all the AI users are building for us.
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
A colleague of mine is fan of AI and we have, from time to time, serious discussion about that topic Last week, I asked him in all seriousness: considering that everything you say is correct .. why the hell does you product still sucks ?! H
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
You are correct, AI is sold as a self-fullfilling prophecy People are thinking that AI will become better than human. It is easier to make humans worse than AI.
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Creating fake problems is not a caracteristic I would give to "a successful civilization" :)
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
"They create value for many people" They create value for many people because these people are not paying the cost of the tool;
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by JackSlateur 2mo ago
Yes If we think a bit more, that may help the customers: companies like Sony would have to choice between either implement their own OS (increased cost, increase end product prices) or use opensource software The topic would become a compet

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