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bleuarff··on Forgotten Woodlands
Or the Pont-neuf ("new bridge") in Paris being the oldest one in the city.
bleuarff··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
These things are of course possible without the help of AI, but I don't think they're trivial. That requires some specific knowledge, and making it easily obtainable is one less barrier to entry for people interested in it. Such attacks would require both knowledge and access, and I think preventing both is a better strategy than focusing on the physical aspect only.
bleuarff··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
If these systems allow anyone with an internet access or a few grands to run an open model to obtain the necessary information to e.g. build a bomb, spread an infectious agent, hack water or electrical infrastructures, I think that creates significant threats to the population.
bleuarff··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
The necessary IQ for destroying the world is dropping. Op does not say it's low enough today, but that will probably come sometime. Denying the possible harm these tools are capable of doesn't help.
bleuarff··on 1960s theory that Stonehenge was a prehistoric computer
Without disregarding other lines of work, but from the neolithic revolution to the early modern times, the vast majority of the population were farmers. Quoting Brett Deveraux:

"Prior to the industrial revolution, peasant farmers of varying types made up the overwhelming majority of people in settled societies (the sort with cities and writing). And when I say overwhelming, I mean overwhelming: we generally estimate these societies to have consisted of upwards of 80% peasant farmers, often as high as 90 or even 95%." (https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an...)

bleuarff··on Mario Meets Pareto
There's no ultimate best player/build. When you factor in that each cart has different stats depending on the terrain, there's a "best" build for each track.
bleuarff··on The true power of regular expressions (2012)
You don't control these external resources, and now the explanation of what your code does is tied to a site that could be taken down tomorrow, leaving you with a dead link and an unexplainable regex.
bleuarff··on The true power of regular expressions (2012)
I'm wary of external urls in code. Some plaintext comment would come in handy for the day the link inevitably goes dead.
bleuarff··on Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them
What's your time estimation for the last 2 points? Last I heard TSMC is not willing to commit dozens of billions to build new fabs for what might be a fad. Granted, they're not theonly foundry, but that's a signal nonetheless. Given the current craziness around hardware, I doubt the stabilization will come soon. Probably not before token costs soar.
bleuarff··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
I don't know for devs, but that's the message we get from upper management.
bleuarff··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
I've been using Feedly ever since the death of Google Reader. If you ignore all the ai bullshit it's simple to use and I've had no issues with cross-device sync.
bleuarff··on A recent chess controversy
It's to be expected per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
bleuarff··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Because it's never been considered an interesting target, compared to npm's reach?
bleuarff··on Vanishing home field advantage in English football
Interesting. Any source on why/when the switch happened?
bleuarff··on AnimeJs v4 Is Here
Handling resize is a different beast than being responsive. Working for every viewport dimension under the sun is not the same thing as gracefully handling an animation while the viewport size changes - the latter is much more challenging.
bleuarff··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
Yes it is, but it's my understanding that this is the actual testimony from Tulsi Gabbard, part of the conversation.
bleuarff··on Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday
Here in France, we have strict laws, and on-calls MUST be paid in some form or another. When we were bought by a US company, mgmt tried to set up on-call shifts for us - we had never needed them for the 10 years prior -, until they learnt of labor laws and went "fuck it, you're on call mon-fri, 10am - 6pm". I'm forty, have a family, and no amount of money could justify that I can't shutoff my phone at night, or prevent from going on a walk on weekends because "uptime". I've never been so glad of french worker protections.
bleuarff··on The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere
I, for one, thought of a similar concept from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
bleuarff··on Can you convert a video to pure CSS?
I thought so, but when I came back to the tab later it was working, and was able to go through all examples. Unlike Chrome who crashed halfway through the page.
bleuarff··on Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)
Yes, but the model has asked that the community stops using this image. It should be pretty easy to find an image that can serve as a standard, and that no one objects to.
bleuarff··on Oldest cave art found
Not sure that was the case 50ky ago. That was during a glacial period, sea level was probably 100+m below current level.
bleuarff··on Wrong Map of Europe
More errors for France:

- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.

- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"

- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.

- "Marsupial" is Marseille

bleuarff··on Constellations are younger than continents
The article goes on to say these stars are very young at ~10My, which is about the smallest time scale at which you might notice some change on continents'aspect. So you're probably technically right, but by a very thin margin.
bleuarff··on Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
"Why should I care if a company I give money to treats its employees as slaves or as actual human beings?" A minimal dose of empathy towards fellow humans is a good reason, at least in my opinion.
bleuarff··on Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture
On the other hand, the head of the french hunting federation has openly said he couldn't care less about animals and regulations. While receiving public funds to fulfill a mission of regulation.
bleuarff··on Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites
And not even all ISPs, only the few most popular ones. Even if that's probably 96% of internet users, that looks like the law does not treat all citizens equally.
bleuarff··on The last Panhard to race in Le Mans is an aerodynamic piece of art
Yes that was a bit of an exaggeration. It's not setting up a manufacturing line from scratch, but finding the spec sheets and contracting a workshop willing to do a small run on the desired parts, which is not that easy.
bleuarff··on The last Panhard to race in Le Mans is an aerodynamic piece of art
The brand was pretty popular at some point, and there are a lot of enthusiasts, even a federation of Panhard fanclubs. When asking a workshop for some part, whether machining or molding or whatever, they generally group their needs to make runs of tens or hundreds of parts to make it viable.

Also I'm not talking about the CD, which is a race car and a different kind of beast, but most of their other models, from the start of the 20th century until the 60s.

bleuarff··on The last Panhard to race in Le Mans is an aerodynamic piece of art
My wife is related to the Panhard family and many of them are collectors of the brand. There are 2 CDs in the family, perfectly restored. That car is indeed magnificent. The main problem is there's only a handful of mechanics who know and can work on such cars (leaving out the absurd money it requires). Replacing pieces can be an industrial endeavor to set up a factory line to craft new copies of the needed pieces.
bleuarff··on Noticing when an app is only hosted in us-east-1
About bundling assets I'm not convinced. I've run a year-long test where 50% of our users would download a single JS bundle, and the others would use about a dozen distinct files. All using HTTP/2. I've checked every metric I could think of to see what's best. In the end the not-bundled pages would be a tiny bit quicker to load, but I the few milliseconds of difference was not significant. So I stopped bothering and do not bundle my JS anymore.
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