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by vmaurin 2mo ago
> The Wero app can be installed on any mobile device or tablet running iOS 17.4 or later, or Android 9 or later. We recommend updating your device to the latest version of its operating system for maximum performance and security. > I
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by vmaurin 4mo ago
> The entire software development lifecycle was, it turns out, designed around the idea that it takes a day to produce a few hundred lines of code. And now it doesn’t. No, it was never designed around that. All methodologies of software
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by vmaurin 5mo ago
I wonder if these fanboys will publicly walk back their statements if Mythos turns out to BS. Remember, in French, mythos is short for mythomanes that means "pathological liars"
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LLMs benchmark with esoteric programming languages(esolang-bench.vercel.app)
2 points by vmaurin 6mo ago|0 comments
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by vmaurin 6mo ago
A gentle reminder that all the big techs companies would not exist without open source projects
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by vmaurin 7mo ago
Money is not a good success metric https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html Bezos is making a lot of money. But it doesn't mean it makes the world better. Prime or AWS can still work fine without having
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by vmaurin 7mo ago
Agentic coding are bringing new people to coding. But instead of reading some books about coding or looking at the history, they face the same problems as before, they have the same struggle and they re-invent the same solutions. I am waiti
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by vmaurin 8mo ago
I am waiting people to commits their prompt/agents setup instead of the code to call this a changing paradigm. So far it is "just" machine generating code and generating code doesn't solve all the software problem (but y
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by vmaurin 8mo ago
> facts are facts, and AI is going to change programming forever Show me these "facts"
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by vmaurin 10mo ago
* you add an HTTP header saying "I am a kid" * porn web servers read and handle this headers * if they don't (easy to test), they get fined It is easy to implement, easy to monitor, and will probably just work if the governme
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by vmaurin 11mo ago
The security argument is the best one to shove all this monopoly practices, but I doubt there are real proof of that somewhere. These days, I think I have most trust in a small app developed by a folk in a garage than something produces by
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by vmaurin 11mo ago
Same goes for age verification. There was the DNT header, that was a bit to simplistic, but was never implemented https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/... The thing people nee
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by vmaurin 11mo ago
I left the industry 4y ago, but at the time, it was impossible to track impressions on FB ads. So when FB tells you "We did display 1000 time your ads", you just have to believe them. For the IP of the click, I have seen it from m
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by vmaurin 11mo ago
I did work in the ad tech industry for almost 15y and big corp like Google/FB scam their user: - they don't allow double tracking, so you have to trust their numbers - if you look at IP from their "clicks", you see often
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by vmaurin 1y ago
The cyclic pattern of IT. New language, same problems, same mistakes, same solutions found (but losing years again)
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by vmaurin 1y ago
I claim that by the end of the year, all VC jobs will be replaced by AI. But I don't know why, my claim is not taken seriously or not very popular !
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by vmaurin 1y ago
It will probably never work. Companies have spend probably the last decade(s?) closing everything on Internet: * no more RSS feed * paywall * the need to have an "app" to access a service * killing open protocols And all of the su
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by vmaurin 1y ago
I do, a Oneplus 6, PMOS "edge" with OpenRC + Phosh. Everything is fine, except I still need to reboot the phone after each call to be sure to have the audio working
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by vmaurin 2y ago
In the RFC, the browser is named "user-agent". And in OAuth2 flow, the browser is acting as client only on the implicit flow. Also the intent of the authors for the implicit flow is that the "client" is a mobile/des
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by vmaurin 2y ago
Yes they are! I think I know the reason: OAuth2 naming. In the OAuth rfc https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749 they named one of the role "client", but than meant to represent a server in the more standard f
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by vmaurin 2y ago
I worked 12y the ad-tech industry, and 3y in a company using this kind of data to measure performance of "drive to store" campaigns: doing online campaign, then seeing if people visit the actual real store based on geo data. The c
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by vmaurin 2y ago
Or could be a browser preference that then send an HTTP header ? Wait https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DNT
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by vmaurin 2y ago
Plot twist: in the article drawings, replica one and two are split by network, and it could fail. The author seems to not understand what the meaning of the P in CAP
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by vmaurin 2y ago
I have been doing this kind of stuff both in ad tech and trust & safety industry, mainly to handle scalability. Something that looks like "Event-carried state transfer" here https://martinfowler.com/articles&#x
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by vmaurin 2y ago
> why game devs don't unit test Sources ?
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by vmaurin 3y ago
The issue with Spring ecosystem is that people use it without knowing why or which problem it solves but because almost everyone is using it. And most of the time, they don't need Spring (maybe a company like Netflix did, but it didn&#
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by vmaurin 3y ago
For checked exception, as you mention, "throws *" is throws Exception, then people can refine it on implementation. As many language feature, checked exception are often misused and/or misunderstood. Too many time I have seen
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by vmaurin 3y ago
I am pretty sure you can create a mess with Haskell too
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by vmaurin 4y ago
For me it is not concept to oppose. You can write optimized code but still name your variables "first_item" instead of u_fp_64_ptr like I often see in "optimized code"
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PyPI loops on redirect while downloading dependencies(status.python.org)
12 points by vmaurin 4y ago|3 comments

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