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76 karma · joined April 2, 2012

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/paduc; my proof: https://keybase.io/paduc/sigs/cnuBgEUCGInrU0PcjzbZjGrJ2LL3629qmVuLC8VlxNM ]

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Interests: Entrepreneurship, Freelancing, Open Source, Remote Work, Web Development

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paduc··on AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
Maybe the failure is in trying only one model / one prompt.
paduc··on Dolosse – a South African invention used over the world
The blog article mentions 80 tons while the wiki article mentions 8 tons. Are they using the same definition of a ton ?
paduc··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
As a French speaker, I think I’m advantaged for the difficult words (which are very often of French/latin origin).

I scored 74 400 and I’m nowhere near English-native.

paduc··on Midjourney Medical
Because people discovering "Incidentalomas" will be too freaked out to wait "just to see how things develop".
paduc··on Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out
If you want to go deeper, you also have to takes into account the grammatical roles the word has in the sentence.

I personally think it’s not worth it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_declension

paduc··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
I believe Wero is based on SEPA instant transfers. It just facilitates transfers by using emails, phone numbers or QR codes instead of IBANs.
paduc··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
> IBAN is public facing and it is not a problem to share.

I would be careful. In practice, you can setup a SEPA collection with an IBAN without the owner even knowing or signing a mandate because the banks don't check.

Of course, you can revert the transactions made this way, ... if you notice them (you have 30 days).

Edit: add time period

paduc··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
No, that would be Wèro.
paduc··on Claude Design
Canva will be next to go.
paduc··on Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D
I tried to watch a plane land but the elevation/speed were wrong so it seemed like the plane went over the runway and disappeared.
paduc··on France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins
That's not always true. Tchap is a fork of Matrix.
paduc··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
I think that you are correct. I was looking for this in the comments.

At that period in history, the French kingdom (catholic) was at war with the Spanish kingdom (also catholic) and Italian kingdoms/duchies. A pope had immense political power because of the fervor of the people. If the pope excommunicated a king, he would lose a lot of power in his kingdom and all catholic countries would have a good reason to declare war. Hence, the strategical relocation of "a" pope in the city of Avignon, under French "protection".

I believe the threat is to "protect" a new pope in the US. Whether catholic (maybe other christian denominations) Americans would support it...

paduc··on Memories of .us
If you want to create a subdomain, you need DNS delegation (authorization) from the owner/manager of the domain.

So if you want to register xyz.ci.pemberton.nj.us, you need to ask for DNS delegation from the owner/manager of ci.pemberton.nj.us or a higher level.

It's a lot easier to buy the xyz-ci-pemberton-nj.us domain.

paduc··on Result is all I need
For the typescript world, there is neverthrow[0] which offers a similar Result type.

[0]: https://github.com/supermacro/neverthrow

paduc··on Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
Maybe I wasn't clear, but in the precise NS and WE configurations, there should be no shading.
paduc··on Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
If you put the panels in a diagonal (NW - SE), and you rotate each panel on its vertical axis, the need for space would be limited to a series of circles the diameter of the panel width.
paduc··on Launch HN: Trigger.dev (YC W23) – Open-source platform to build reliable AI apps
We're very satisfied customers since January of this year.

We use it as an extension of our node app, for all things asynchronous (long or short). The fact that it's the same codebase on our server and trigger cloud is a huge plus.

For me, it's the most accessible incarnation of serverless. You can add it to your stack for one task and gradually use it for more and more tasks (long or short). Testing and local development is easy as can be. The tooling is just right. No complex configurations. You can incrementally use the queuing, wait points, batch triggers for more power.

We've had some issues with migrating from v3 to v4. The transition felt rushed (some of the docs / examples are still showing v3 code, that is deprecated in v4). I understand that it might take some time to update the docs and examples, because there is a lot of content.

paduc··on Models of European metro stations
Probably because he didn’t manage to visit.
paduc··on Sync Engines Are the Future
Before I write anything to the DB, I validate with business logic.

Should I write this logic in the DB itself ? Seems impractical.

paduc··on Silicon Valley, the new lobbying monster
Meth addicts are often very thin as well. /s
paduc··on French court issues damages award for violation of GPL
Conseil d’état ?
paduc··on The internet feels fake now. It's all just staged videos and marketing
The great channels of today will decay if they become popular.

It’s all fueled by greed, and it’s not a judgement. All humans a greedy. It comes from survival instincts.

paduc··on Tell HN: Google-Wide Layoffs
They’re probably different kids we’re talking about. My personal perception is that the gap of basic reading/math skills between the top 10% and the bottom 90% is widening.

Why ? I’d say parental (real, no phone) presence in the kids life / education.

paduc··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international (2023)
He used the scientific method to make his discoveries then wrapped it in religious beliefs to avoid being burned at the stake.
paduc··on Update tinsel bunting
Fun fact: the French equivalent is called Betagouv.
paduc··on Why Lichess will always be free
If donations are enough to pay for all costs (including a salary for the developer), I can't see how you could say it is not sustainable.
paduc··on Why Lichess will always be free
I believe he's talking about social contributions (health, retirement, unemployment), that the employer pays, and not the taxes on revenue (paid by the employee).
paduc··on What every software engineer should know about search
Hey Joao, I've been using your WikiCorpusExtractor to work on the wiki dumps for years now for my NLP research. It has provided tremendous value to me. Thank you very much for your work and dedication !
paduc··on Delivery By Drones
Exactly. And if it's big enough, it becomes really hard to steal and it can transport some sort of locker that the client can open.
paduc··on HackRF, an open source SDR platform
Can't you use this to capture car-key signals and replicate them later? Sounds like the perfect tool for that.
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