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j_leboulanger··on Leaving Proton Mail
That's exactly what I was telling myself, this guy doesn ot understand a word about encryption
j_leboulanger··on Show HN: Edsger – A handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2
Did foo(42) just output 44 ?
j_leboulanger··on Ex-Apple engineer says Apple deliberately slows older phones via updates
Using an iPhone SE (2016) daily I have a hard time believing this info
j_leboulanger··on Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?
Wasn’t that an april fool joke ?
j_leboulanger··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use code snippets?
I mostly use them to create new React components (index.tsx, x.component.tsx, x.module.scss, x.types.ts).

I also use the nest cli to create new modules, services, ... which are king of snippets also.

j_leboulanger··on Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)
Sound incredible !

I like the word "simply" in this sentence

> i will simply be able to recreate the baseboard with the new 4G module, a microcontroller, and some audio processing and power management circuitry and it will be able to seamlessly fit inside the phone.

Seems like a bigger project than the author would let us think ! But I hope to see the PCB soon !

j_leboulanger··on Turn your phone or tablet into a chess clock
I use lichess as a chess clock, works like a charm
j_leboulanger··on [dead]
Free t-shirt for early supporters !!
j_leboulanger··on Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years
I’m thinking also of Canson (founded 1557), the paper manufacturer and Richard de Bas (1326). Even Monnaie de Paris dates back from 864. Actually there are many companies still alive today that are more than 400/500 years old.
j_leboulanger··on I like the RP2040
Because the RP2040 is not the main controller of the RPi.

It's a micro controller, on which the Raspberry Pi Pico is based, at $4

j_leboulanger··on Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
It's not working for me :(

I'm trying a trip from the north of France (Paris) to the south (Lyon) in the morning while the sun rises. So the sun is mainly on the East (so left of the bus) and the app tells me to sit on the left side of the bus.

j_leboulanger··on Show HN: I built a transit travel time map
Works with Paris at least
j_leboulanger··on Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
On the video you sent Photoshop takes 6 seconds to start and it seems like it is stored on an external disk which could explain why it's slower.

I'll try to make a video on real hardware once I have time to show that I'm not exaggerating. And remember that the SE/30 is a computer from 89, so not even early 90s.

j_leboulanger··on Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
On a not so fresh install it boots in 13 seconds here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgltFQss3yU Pretty sure mine would boot even faster
j_leboulanger··on Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
I would tend to disagree. In the 1990s System 7 would start in a few seconds from hard disk on a Mac SE/30.

Word would start in less than a second (not sure which version it was), and most features we use today were available. Adobe Photoshop 3.0 would start in less than 3 seconds, and same with Premiere 1.0.

Of course you lacked some memory protection features which could make the whole computer crash because of a single program failure, but daily experience was much better on old systems. They felt way faster because they have less input lag and because UI was less bloated.

I'm not saying 1990s computer and software were better, but they were way faster than what we use today.

j_leboulanger··on Hacker News stylized as a retro 90s macOS desktop
I do too
j_leboulanger··on Show HN: Mini Metroidvania in 13KB of JavaScript
Not working on Safari
j_leboulanger··on How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)
No I'm using an intel MBP.
j_leboulanger··on How fat does a fat binary need to be? (2021)
I tried on MacOS and it does not work (exec format error)
j_leboulanger··on France is paying car drivers nearly $4k to switch to an electric bike
But not paying car drivers that want to switch to a regular bike... (ie. non electric)
j_leboulanger··on Show HN: Plain Text Cryptocurrency Prices
Here is an extract of what happens in terminal :

curl https://plaintextco.in/coins/bitcoin

<!DOCTYPE html> <title></title> <meta name="description" content="Plain text cryptocurrency prices"> <style> @font-face { font-family: 'dejavu-sans-mono'; src: url('/static/DejaVuSansMono.ttf') format('truetype'); } * { font-family: 'dejavu-sans-mono'; font-size: small; line-height: 120%; } </style>

<h1>plaintextco.in</h1>

<h1></h1>

<pre> Bitcoin (BTC)

     <span style="color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #fe971a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #fe971a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #fc961a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #fc961a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #fd971a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #ff971a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f7931a;"></span>      Price                    $22,183
  <span style="color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f7931a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #fd971a;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f7931a;background-color: #ff9a1b;"></span><span style="color: #f79319;background-color: #fa941a;"></span><span style="color: #f79217;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f79116;background-color: #f7931a;"></span><span style="color: #f9a239;background-color: #f79116;"></span><span style="color: #f9a53f;ba

It's impossible to read :(
j_leboulanger··on Show HN: Visualizing the math that powers 3D character animation
Works for me on safari MacOS even if it feels slow
j_leboulanger··on Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
Looking for a Mac version too :)
j_leboulanger··on Public Money, Public Code
https://code.gouv.fr/
j_leboulanger··on Show HN: I Made a Magic Trick
Not sure what it is supposed to do
j_leboulanger··on Ask HN: Does anyone else think this 2FA everywhere is getting out of hand?
If you are in the apple eco system you have auto complete of 2FA everywhere
j_leboulanger··on Jacdac Plug-and-Play for Microcontrollers
Can you buy the cable ?

That seems interesting on the cost side if the cable is not too expensive.

j_leboulanger··on Scrcpy v1.20
Keyboard works on MacOS also
j_leboulanger··on In a first, New York passes law banning new fossil fuel vehicle sales after 2034
In a first ? It's already 2035 for Europe : https://www.lefigaro.fr/societes/la-fin-des-moteurs-thermiqu...
j_leboulanger··on Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake (2018)
I feel like the pictures shown on the article demonstrate the opposite of the author theory.

When the author writes things like "undeniable", the resemblance is more questionable than undeniable when he tries to match the pictures of Yvonne with the ones of the 122 years old women.

I was not convinced at all by the article.

Moreover in such a rich family in France, changing identity like this would have been spotted really quickly.

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