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French blogger about Python and porn, which strangely go well together (http://sametmax.com [NSFW] [FR])

Phone + not being an english native speaker can result in serious comment injury.

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sametmax··on Dict Unpacking in Python
Anthony is also the maintainer of the deadsnake ppa, if you were searching for reasons to love him more.
sametmax··on Copilot Disable
It does.

But again ancient greeks complained writing would make people deskill their memory abilities.

And it did.

Yet we don't regret it.

sametmax··on Meta is using your Instagram and Facebook photos to train its AI models
We called it for 20 years, all geeks in the world singing in unisson that if you don't pay you are the product.

And people still accepted the ToS and fed the machine all their data.

sametmax··on [dead]
So make the web garbage for short time gains.

That's why we can't have nice things.

sametmax··on GPT-4o
I get the feeling but what altenrative would you prefer?

I do want my phone to just go again without complaining without a crash, after all.

sametmax··on Google Fiber's $250 a month for 20 Gbps internet, with Wi-Fi 7
5 times the price of it in my country. Ouch
sametmax··on Leave work slightly unfinished for easier flow the next day
It's not about not finishing as much as it is about letting something in unfinished state.

You can finish what you are doing right now, and start something else to get a clear view of the next step. Or take something you want to fix, and put a breakpoint it it and plenty of print, to make it sure nothing works and the day after you know where to start.

It's all about breaking the inertia.

But if you want your win, you can have your win.

sametmax··on GitHub Actions Are a Problem
Same. My local astk runner does the heavy lifting.
sametmax··on I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it
If you learn how to build a castel with a very specific era look and feel as an architect, would you not then be likely hired to build a similar castel elsewhere?
sametmax··on Why Nvidia’s AI Supremacy Is Only Temporary
Lots of handwaving in this article, and doubtful forecasting.

The truth is we have no idea what will happen. This would be obvious to anybody whole lived through the .com bubble.

sametmax··on The world’s biggest problem? Powerful psychopaths [video]
The problem is more complicated than that, because psychopaths traits (and even just sociopath ones) makes you more efficient at certain things. When you have to sacrifice your leisure, your family, your free time or your health to do something else, few people can do it. When you have to fire 5000 people knowing the consequence on their life, you have to be able to live with it. Some contracts can only be signed if you are ok to bribe and corrupt. Some clients will only work with you if you accept to bend the rules or lower your morality standards.

Gandhi will not produce an iphone, for obvious reasons.

sametmax··on Just Use Dictionaries (Python)
I used to be a strong proponent of this, but I tend to use dataclasses more and more with time. Still use a lot of dicts, lists, and sets, but mostly as collections, rarely to hold one single element data.

It came naturally, not out of some design, but I guess having better and better typing support everywhere makes it more and more convenient.

sametmax··on BSL is not good, it's great
What's BSL?
sametmax··on What's up in the Python community? – June 2023
That GIL debates is never ending. If we had some demo about multi-interpreter for concurrency, maybe we could at least decide which way to go.
sametmax··on A Python powered task management and automation tool
I like doit and use it in most of my projects.

It's declarative, and can scale up to quite complex requirements. But the best things is that it scales down.

sametmax··on YouTube's copyright system isn't broken, the world's is (2020) [video]
Putting the burden of proof on the accused is broken, and it's not a feature of the world.

It's a design choice by Youtube.

sametmax··on Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
En ce moment on s'amuse à générer du hentai avec stable diffusion en Python. Ca aurait fait un bon article pour le blog si il existait encore :)
sametmax··on Thoughts on Svelte(Kit), one year and 3B requests later
I like the fact minimalist approaches, like svelte, htmx and alpine.js are getting more and more traction.

I felt like fighting this fight alone for years in the golden years of node, webpack and react where everybody was creating crazy stacks and adding GraphQL and so on, to basically get what Django + jquery did 10 years ago in a tenth of the time and code.

So far I also survived:

- xml is the future

- let's use nosql for all the things

- you must use the same language at the back and front

- yes, you site must have an AMP version (ah, you forgot this one, didn't you? It was sooo imporant, and then pouf, it was gone like tear in the rain)

- yes, your home page must be an SPA

- you can't code anything without async

- you can't live without a message queue

- everything must become a micro service

- of course you need a container for that

- of course you need a orchestrator to organize those containers

- of course you need the cloud, it would be crazy to deal with those containers and orchestrators yourself

- dude, why do you have a server? Use a serveless backend!

- dude, why do you have a backend? Just call saas from the edge!

Every year, some generation of engineers have to learn the concepts of "there is no silver bullet", "use the right tech for the right problem", "your are not google", "rewriting a codebase every 2 years is not a good business decision", "things cost money".

sametmax··on The best Python feature you cannot use
Another one you can't use: entry points.

In theory, they would be the perfect plugin system, but in practice, they are so slow if all your stack add a couple of them, Python start up takes seconds.

And this is why we are all using the .pth hack.

sametmax··on The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit
No it's not. Half of reddit is back like nothing happened.

And the rest will follow.

Like every outrage on the internet, it's a tantrum, not a protest.

Because a real protest costs a lot to the people protesting, and you quickly see through virtual signaling once the bill comes due.

sametmax··on Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf]
I often wish they make this game a TV show or even a series of movies, because the scenario, beyond the fact it's amazingly good, has potential for a lot of new arcs, thanks to the very concept of the game.

Characters scream for a bigger screen, with colorful personalities and back stories, plus they got a design made to scale to awesomeness.

And with the world building, you got a solid base plus endless possibilities.

I enjoyed the game very much, but let's face it, it's too old for most new gamers to appreciate.

sametmax··on Ask HN: Why Did Ruby Fall Out of Favour with Startups
Personnally, I didn't commit because the gem ecosystem was hit or miss, and the culture was about getting things pretty instead of robust (e.g: nice docs but monkey patching everywhere).

Plus on the long run, parskng ruby is difficult for my brain because of optional parenthesis.

Enventuly I sticked to python. I know people critize python packaging a lot, but it was the least of evils in 2010, much better than the competition.

sametmax··on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
I think lagging behind is better than a wrong correction.
sametmax··on The core problem with hamburger menus
I assume they mean a sticly footer.
sametmax··on Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
You can train GPT 2 on whatever you want, it will give you the wrong answer for everything.

The real magic arrived with GPT3, which is proprietary, so it's fair to assume your audience understands this and imply it.

sametmax··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
For a moment I though you were talking about Michelin stars, and I got confused.
sametmax··on Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
Unlike mine, obviously. I'm very serious.
sametmax··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
Also, the common people has awful taste, and is terrible at understanding a situation from another point of view.

This is why trip advisor is so useless, at least in France.

Between the vocal unhappy outliers and the happy idiots that think those french fries coming out of the freezer were delicious, the noise/signal ratio is abysmal.

sametmax··on Rate The Landlord: Anonymously share information with tenants like you
Yes but in that case, they at least answer to you and you can have a human to human discussion.
sametmax··on Just Simply – Stop saying how simple things are in our docs
Indeed. I tend to force myself to write the following:

- It will be easy => I will guide you through it

- This will make your life easy => It will make your life easier / It will help you

- To do X, simply do Y => The most common way to get to X is first to do Y

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