Loic

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by Loic 4d ago
I did my first contributions last week with it. Really easy and the UI is simple and nice.
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by Loic 20d ago
I agree with you from a mathematical point of view. You have this "dead economy theory"[0]. I spent a lot of time trying to model this theory, enhance the theory (lot of good HN comments) and find a "middle ground" path.
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by Loic 29d ago
About 25 years ago, one rule was that everything related to the toilets was in Danish. He said it was the Swedish Danish rivalry.
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by Loic 1mo ago
I spent more than one week, as a side project, to add an MCP server to my Cheméo website. Only 4 tools. It took me way more time than expected, I was thinking: "Just wrap the REST API, 2h, done". The MCP payload has nothing to do
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by Loic 2mo ago
The timing and brightness is well adjusted, it feels natural, like a friendly ghost taking care of you.
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by Loic 2mo ago
Where I live, we have a small park, 500m away. You need to walk through it if you want to get to the city center from the small neighborhood we live in. To protect the wildlife, the lighting system has presence sensors, so as you walk or bi
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by Loic 2mo ago
Very good point, I missed the point that the PoW is paying the publisher. I will have to dig into this, this is a pretty nice idea.
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by Loic 2mo ago
I love to model and simulate. As the dead economy theory[0] (discussion [1]) was submitted here, I decided to simulate it. It was really hard to figure out a path "good for the humanity", in the sense of a balanced system, not a w
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by Loic 2mo ago
Proof of work, even "custom", where the user does not need a particular interaction with the page, does not work. The scrapers are running headless Chrome and solving the work. They do not care, they do not pay the bill, the compr
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by Loic 2mo ago
Yes, but this is not the one where I wrote about politics, life and society... still, the writing style is not that different, so, I suppose an AI system would be able to easily associate my crappy personal blog to me (not sure if they are
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by Loic 2mo ago
Just knowing that people could read my blog is forcing me to take better care of my writing. This is the most important reason. And only my friends and family know the address, it is not indexed :-D
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by Loic 2mo ago
You know what? I cannot care less if people are not reading blogs anymore. I reactivated my blog because it is a lot of fun to write, a lot of fun to take the time to put down my ideas, try to correctly formulate them, fighting with my crap
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by Loic 3mo ago
Of course, but the same way, you need to learn to use your head before using a pocket calculator.
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by Loic 3mo ago
My mother worked in this field and collaborated with IBM at that time. So yes, this is why I find these pictures even more impressive...
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by Loic 3mo ago
Looking at this picture: https://filecache.mediaroom.com/mr5mr_ibmnewsroom/201436/IBM... I am just astonished at the quality of the structure. Not only that, but the quality of the "cut" to then be able
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by Loic 3mo ago
Confirmed. The second industry with such redistribution is oil and gas, 5-15%. My figures are from ~2005.
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by Loic 3mo ago
Here in Europe (I guess you are US based), we still have quite a lot of long tenures. This from my experience in France, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. The bigger the company, the longer the average tenure. But it is also true that I do
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by Loic 3mo ago
Sometimes the harness can only be a human. And this is fine. Developing new software with a really smart intern is the same, you, as an expert, need to bring your experience/expertise on the table to have everything right. Because expe
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by Loic 4mo ago
pandoc is my "document converter" go-to tool. Quarto is my documentation tool. For me, they are both massively used, but cover different usages.
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by Loic 4mo ago
I like the name[0][1]. [0]: https://www.britannica.com/place/Le-Creusot [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Creusot
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by Loic 4mo ago
For once, we may be "saved" thanks to Trump. Because of the brutal change in geopolitics he triggered, the EU is now actively looking at all the hard dependencies on US controlled systems. Android and iOS are two of them. I cannot
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by Loic 5mo ago
Asking: As gpugreg remarked[0], this is AI slop to the point that it is impossible to trust anything from this article/blog post. As such, I flagged the submission. - I wonder, is it possible to give a reason to the flag? - Is flagging
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by Loic 5mo ago
Becaus ln(A*B) = ln(A)+ln(B), you need 2 sliding elements and you work in logarithmic scale. Look at "slide rule"[0], this is really nice stuff. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule
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by Loic 5mo ago
You are at one edge of the gaussian curve of the sleep requirements of the human species. The problem is that many think they belong there, but are not. Enjoy what you have and let the haters hate.
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by Loic 5mo ago
I am spending about 10h per day solving chemical engineering problems (dynamic simulation, model predictive control, etc.). The programming is hard on top of hard science. Even after 25 years of experience, it is still hard to find the righ
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by Loic 5mo ago
Interestingly, I used Thunderbird for years, it was really the best client for some times on Linux. But as the development stalled, I moved to Gnome Evolution, the nice integration with the general Gnome desktop made the switch less painful
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by Loic 7mo ago
They put no limits on the API usage, as long as you pay. Here, they put limits on the "under-cover" use of the subscription. If they can provide a relatively cheap subscription against the direct API use, this is because they can
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by Loic 7mo ago
This was my first thought, but by default, you have no automatic reload of your prepaid account. Which I think is for once user friendly. They could have applied a dark pattern here.
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by Loic 8mo ago
This is the engineering approach in a factory. You always have multiple layers of security systems. The analogy is that each layer is a slice of Emmental cheese. You end up with a bad event, only if all the holes in the slices align.
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by Loic 9mo ago
I hope they will learn from the success of the Brazilian PIX system.

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