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Rexxar

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Here is a vector drawing software on which I'm working:

- https://www.ludigraphix.org/

- https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/ludigraphix/id1376937727

Here are some (old) image builds with it:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/_rexxar_/

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Rexxar··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
Here is the official source: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/economicdata/empsit_03062026.pd...

Some of the main categories (page 8 of the pdf):

  - Construction:                          -11.0k
  - Manufacturing:                         -12.0k
  - Transportation and warehousing:        -11.3k
  - Private education and health services: -34.0k
  - Information                            -11.0k
  - Leisure and hospitality                -27.0k
It seems to go down in lots of different sectors.
Rexxar··on Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension
I would say "facility" instead of "simplicity" here.
Rexxar··on OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading
I don't think that two 13 and 14 years old accounts with not that many comment per week are bots.
Rexxar··on Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
Which countries do you think of when discussing industrialised countries that use slave labour?
Rexxar··on Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
The account is strange, two years old account with barely any comment for two years then a lot of comments in the last 3 days. The 3 first comments of the account capitalise the first letter, everything is lowercase in the last 3 days. He never replies to comments under his own comment. Sadly, a comment of someone who was telling it was a bot account has been flagged ...
Rexxar··on Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
Here is the "artificial intelligence" part of a French engineering diploma in 2001:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030526120130/http://www.ensta....

There are four courses:

  - Expert Systems
  - Machine Learning
  - Artificial Evolution
  - Cognition and Reasoning
Rexxar··on Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Maybe because your tone is needlessly aggressive and lot's of people don't want HN turns into Reddit/Twitter. There is enough people raging on everything on all social networks maybe we are here hopping to have more civilised discussions.
Rexxar··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
Git is distributed, the repository can be hosted concurrently at many places.
Rexxar··on Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI
For example, native English speakers often make phonetic spelling errors (such as its/it’s, your/you’re) that non-native English speakers usually avoid. It’s probably a sign that someone speaks more fluently when he starts making these types of mistakes from time to time.
Rexxar··on Are we all plagiarists now?
There is some LLM trained only with old content, maybe someone can describe a style invented after the more recent content and told the AI to do a novel with that style and see what the result is and compare it to the "real" style.
Rexxar··on Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Lix is also the name of a computer science and mathematics laboratory: https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/
Rexxar··on Meta announces nuclear energy projects
Nuclear + Batteries could be nice too because the reactors will be always working at optimal rate without having to start/stop them to adapt to demand and let the storage manage peaks and lows. So investment in one domain can help the other too.
Rexxar··on Was it a billion dollar mistake?
It always involve an undefined behaviour at creation of the 'null reference', there is no legal way to create it.
Rexxar··on Corroded: Illegal Rust
AI needs heavy fortifications, moats and watchtowers around it.
Rexxar··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
Maybe the average question will be more "high level" now that all simple questions are answered by LLMs ?
Rexxar··on Why do Americans hate A.I.?
Technically there isn't a recession but, if you split by sectors, you see that all sectors not related to the AI investment boom are in the red. The question is: is it a natural consequence of investment shift to better technologies or a real problem that is temporarily hidden by an AI bubble ?

(https://fortune.com/img-assets/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sc...)

Rexxar··on TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
Is there a particular meaning to 'active/inactive' that I don't know that justifies your out-of-proportion outrage? What is the problem with observing that 35% of Americans just don't care enough about this subject to go vote ?
Rexxar··on TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
A citizen that don't vote for the most important election is clearly not very active.
Rexxar··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
The people you are replying to are trying to have a meaningful discussion by providing references and some basic argumentation. Can you add some link or arguments that explain more strongly your point of view instead of using strong affirmations ('misinformation', 'debunked', 'nonsensical') without any trace of argumentation and no reference at all ?
Rexxar··on SQL Anti-Patterns
Maybe it was initially supposed to be a sort of "3-value boolean" (true/false/undefined) and not a standard bool. You can (rarely) meet this pattern in c++ if you use boost::tribool or in c# if you have a nullable bool. There is probably similar thing in other languages.
Rexxar··on Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
Even if the computational power evolve exponentially, we need to evaluate the utility of additional computations. And if the utility happens to increase logarithmically with computation spend, it's possible that in the end, we will observe just a linear increase in utility.
Rexxar··on OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
Regulated price in France:

- 0,1952 per kWh for uniform price.

- 0,1635 / 0,2081 for day/nigh pricing

- 0,1232 /... / 0,6468 for variable pricing

https://particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Of...

You have a very bad deal if you pay 0.97€ per kWh.

Rexxar··on When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
The other funny thing is the land border with Netherlands ... in the Caribbean.
Rexxar··on Self-driving cars begin testing on NYC streets
The company who operates the car is responsible for this. Broken systems is not a way to avoid lawsuit but a sure way to be convicted.
Rexxar··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
8 is probably Waymo's choice. It's not said anywhere that it's the permit limit.
Rexxar··on AI is different
> Have you ever stopped to consider why class mobility is much much less common in Europe than in the USA?

It's a common idea but each time you try to measure social mobility, you find a lot of European countries ahead of USA.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index

- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/15/social-mobil...

Rexxar··on Imagen 4 is now generally available
This one is intended.
Rexxar··on Why LLMs can't really build software
> I would say for the last 6 months, 95% of the code for my chat app was AI generated

Why did you squash 6 months of work in two commits ?

Rexxar··on Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display
And absolutely no energy consumption when you don't change the image.
Rexxar··on Claude Code is a slot machine
AI help us to do faster what we shouldn't have to do at all if our tools where better.
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