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jpambrun··on Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js
Am I expected to be able to run this in production on the backend, or do I still need to transpile and bundle? Do we expect the performance and memory overhead to be negligible. What would be the expectations on terms of added attack surface?
jpambrun··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
This title is wrong. It makes it sounds like Anthropic dropped support for and deprecated Bun.
jpambrun··on Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST
Diffsitter and/or weave?
jpambrun··on FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users
This is irrelevant since your steam game license applies to all subsequent versions. The argument is it's immoral sell version specific licenses with no way to get to said specific version.
jpambrun··on PYX: The next step in Python packaging
This is very close minded. It's best to avoid statements like that.

I feel like having a working python environment is not a great requirement to managing your python environment.

jpambrun··on Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions
I worked in a large org with 100,000+ employees. You could just use software with pre-approved licences and I am 99% sure AGPL wasn't one of them.
jpambrun··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
My uninformed assumption is that most licencing arrangement have per viewer component? Not just a lump sum that can be taxed once?
jpambrun··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
If this happened here in Canada, I would go to weekly protests against this administration. When I was younger I went to dozens of daily protest for something insignificant in comparison [1] and it did lead to a change of gouvernement.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests

jpambrun··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
Not sure how you even tarif movies. I guess Netflix will receive bills based on viewership?

Anyway, as usual other countries will retaliate. American movies will become both more expensive to make and taxed abroad. Meanwhile, we can expect more people will turn to piracy to cope with rising inflation. I can't imagine any scenario where this isn't backfiring.

jpambrun··on PhD Timeline
Are civil affairs litigated at the border by custom agents now?
jpambrun··on Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI
I really like duckdb's notebooks for exploration and this feature makes them even more awesome, but the fact that I can't share, export or commit them into a git repo feels extremely limiting. It's neat-ish that it dodfoods and store them in a duckdb database. It even seems to stores historical versions, but I can't really do anything with it..
jpambrun··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
I am Canadian. I just went to Australia and hearing Americans talking politics on the next table over at the restaurant was maddening. At this point, the idea of being surrounded by Americans feels extremely uncomfortable.
jpambrun··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
After "avoid tolls", google will have to implement a avoid "hostile countries"..
jpambrun··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
I guess it could be fair, but those are unilateral. The official justifications such as considering sales tax, are bogus. The unofficial justification (or official depending on time of day..) is annexation. Surely, you see how this isn't perceived as fair from up North?
jpambrun··on QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet
This paper seems to be neglecting to the effect of latency and packet loss. From my understanding, the biggest issue with TCP is the window sizing that gets cut every time a packet gets lost or arrives out of order, thus killing throughput. The latency makes that more likely to happen and makes the effect last longer.

This paper needs multiple latency simulations, some packet loss and latency jitter to have any value.

jpambrun··on Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)
Because it's none of our business as customers. This oversubscription rate is a risk they calibrate on their side. Given the marketing material, if all customers decide to use more bandwidth, it up to the utility to upgrade their infra to match in a timely manner. This is the risk they took and competed on.
jpambrun··on It is hard to recommend Google Cloud
"AWS is the best provider for tech people".

This is an option, not a fact. Many of us don't agree. After working on all 3 I feel AWS is, by far, the worst experience for tech people. My perspective is that it's only doing great for execs and PowerPoint engineers.

jpambrun··on Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years
It says or abbreviation which I imagine would cover engineer. It's well established here that you call yourself doctor or use the Dr abbreviation either if are not an active member of the college of medicine.

I am somewhat familiar with all these rules since a trained engineer with a PhD, but I am not a active member of the professional engineer association. I also used be a have the work title of "principal architect". In reality I can't legally call myself (or really let others) doctor, engineer or architect. I must admit it's a bit challenging when dealing with multinational.

jpambrun··on Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years
To be a professional engineer, or just engineer really, you need to maintain your license, be in good standing with the regulatory bodyz have professional insurance, etc. The regulatory body can impose fine, mandatory training or disbar you for any ethical or technical deficiency. It's not a one time certification as you seem to believe.
jpambrun··on Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years
I feel those two quotes are pretty aligned? What is the issue?
jpambrun··on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
I know I am in Quebec and speak French. I would prefer the Belgian way of octante/nonante. L.

It happens with dates and makes them unsortable.

jpambrun··on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
I read that a lot, but nobody ever provide supporting evidence. To me, this sounds a bit like 3rd party security marketing being really effective.
jpambrun··on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
I am not sure it's fair to include Canada in the same basket. We don't use freedom degrees, we know that numbers should start with the most significant digits and I believe liability waivers have no value here as well.
jpambrun··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
I will punish you if you cut in line in front of me with a very stern scolding. I would call out your immoral behavior just like I am doing now.
jpambrun··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
I am not in the US, so this is a bit moot, but I don't want liers as coworkers or on my team. To me this is unprofessional and absolutely disqualifying. I wouldn't care for the law. I would die on that hill.
jpambrun··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
What is this about then. Obviously you can omit stuff on your resume. I take offense at adding fake experiences.
jpambrun··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
On that slope nothing should considered immoral.. if one kills we can all be murderers..
jpambrun··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
Everything you mentioned is immoral. Two wrong doesn't make it right.

If you cheat, to compete you your lies I now have to lie. And it completely breaks the system.

Also, you don't deserve more leverage over other prospective candidate. This is cheating and fraud. It requires punishment.

jpambrun··on NLRB judge declares non-compete clause is an unfair labor practice
Care to elaborate? I can't think of any argument for this position.
jpambrun··on Making EC2 boot time faster
I think this is unexpected. I expected that once created, my boot volume would have the same performance on the first boot than on the second. It's really not obvious that the volume is really empty and lazily loaded from S3. The proposed work around is also a bit silly: read all blocks one by one even tho maybe 1% of the block have something in them on a new VM. This is actually a revelation.
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