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_ache_··on Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2
Why they is so many 404. Linked to mp3 ?! What was this feature ?
_ache_··on How virtual textures work
No. That is not the question. The question is "do you hang out with an erotic magazine at work ?" and "Is it normal ?"
_ache_··on How virtual textures work
It's redish. Ok it has a blur and details on the foreground but could have been any image with blurred background and a face.

"very low frequency detail", we are talking about a 512x512 picture here, it has low and high frequency details (FFT speaking) like most photos.

"Good for edges detection" doesn't mean anything. Like, is the image good for edge detection or the algorithm is good at detecting edges ? What does "subjective edges" even mean ? Does it mean hard to spot ?

That looks like technical reasons but it just noise. They literally grab a playboy magazine and decided it was well enough (and indeed, it wasn't that bad, yes). Still not professional. The message is "We have playboy magazines at work and we are proud of it".

_ache_··on How virtual textures work
A copyrighted image of a nude model elected for no obvious reason has a test image in the University of South California by some pervs and then used in a lot of papers as a test image.

Or, a standard cropped image of a playgirl used in the field of image processing.

_ache_··on Voxtral Transcribe 2
Just a side note to remember that this is a mini model. It's very small and yet 12 languages.

I guess a European version can be created but now it's aimed at a world wide distribution.

_ache_··on List animals until failure
Ahah. After trying myself, I immediately tried "Obama" and it works ! But oddly enough, most personality with a name in the "List of organisms named after famous people" doesn't work. Nether does bacterium or fish !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...

_ache_··on Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++
Impressive. Kudos.

You realise that it's only a toy implementation aimed at learning and not a full implementation. The parsing of HTML alone is way more complex than your actual implementation not mentioning at lot of things like the rendering or network (outsourced to Qt).

Still a nice achievement that get you to understand why making a browser is a very complex task.

_ache_··on A list of fun destinations for telnet
Related to the last Telnet CVE? Why talking about telnet now otherwise?
_ache_··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
I'm trying to not use it myself but yes, la suite numérique should get out of GitHub.

They already did it for the Ministry of Education with [La Forge](https://docs.forge.apps.education.fr/). Used to be forgejo, now a GitLab instance.

_ache_··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
They do. « we are committed to contributing back to the LiveKit community whenever feasible ».
_ache_··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
Can access X because it's X and locally blocked, "ironic" to use Twitter to post about sovereignty.

It's ongoing for a will with La suite numérique (https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/).

- Tchap is a message app for officials, - Visio, based on LiveKit - FranceTransfert, I don't know what is it. - Fichiers => Drive - Messagerie => Email - Docs => A better Google Docs - Grist => Excel version of Google docs.

It aimed at "public worker", people working for the government.

Github: https://github.com/suitenumerique

_ache_··on Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
It's in the AUR (aur/tree-sitter-yaml), a community-driven repository of Arch Linux packages. Not yet official.

Since it comes from `tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-yaml`, it may be quick to integrate the official repo.

_ache_··on Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
Yeap, the two seems like game changer. For now, I'm using "Qwen2.5-Coder-7B". Sweep 1.5B is "just" 12 % point better than Qwen2.5-Coder, but Sweep 7B is 25% point better.
_ache_··on Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
It's good. The blog post about it is very interesting. I hope, a plugin for neovim will be made soon.

https://blog.sweep.dev/posts/oss-next-edit

_ache_··on Nested code fences in Markdown
Yeap, along with `+++`, `**` and mixing if I remember correctly. I don't understand the logic of using an non-standard syntax because some non-standard implementations may not render correctly.

Actually, yes, now you know for a fact that none of the Markdown implementation will render it correctly.

So, I guess, they used `~~~` instead and it was an error in OP post.

_ache_··on Nested code fences in Markdown
So if syntax highlighting isn't a problem. The standard way of presenting block of code in Markdown is to indent it.

Which is quick and easy to understand.

_ache_··on Nested code fences in Markdown
Do you realize that your solution is basically to use a tag, which is why Markdown have been developed, to not use them.

The classic way in markdown to insert block of code is to indent the code.

_ache_··on Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
It's very impressive! I'm mean, it's better than other <200M TTS models I encounter.

In English, it's perfect and it's so funny in others languages. It sounds exactly like someone who actually doesn't speak the language, but got it anyway.

I don't know why Fantine is just better than the others in others languages. Javer seems to be the worst.

Try Jean in Spanish « ¡Es lo suficientemente pequeño como para caber en tu bolsillo! » sound a lot like they don't understand the language.

Or Azelma in French « C'est suffisament petit pour tenir dans ta poche. » is very good.I mean half of the words are from a Québécois accent, half French one but hey, it's correct French.

Però non capisce l'italiano.

_ache_··on GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source
You just read the title don't you?

> GitHub should charge every org $1 more per user per month

It's about org, not about every single person using Github.

The idea is basic and should have been written in the article. When a contributor release FOSS, it's fair to compensate if you business rely on it.

A contributor wouldn't like a free for personal use either. The ideal license is the Unreal one free for « Individuals and small businesses (with less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue) »

> you're kind of dumb for giving it away and that's your fault.

It happens so many times and no just about software (but then it's not a million dollar company). It's not that you are dump, you done the right thing and some companies with money/power/opportunity to capitalize on it, did it and didn't compensate you fairly.

_ache_··on Chromium Has Merged JpegXL
I can confirm. I found multiple problems in the "official" cjxl encoder back in 2023 contrary to the webp2 (cwp2) implementation where I could not find any bug or error.

If the encoder have obvious problems it is not a big deal, but it doesn't bode well for the decoder.

_ache_··on Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Yep, the Library of Babel is a related topic. Wikipedia links it as "See also" on the page of "Normal numbers".

> a compression algorithm that requires the user to first build an infinite library...

Kind of already exists, pifs. More like a joke, but the concept is already a joke so...

https://github.com/philipl/pifs

_ache_··on Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Hmm, you are referring to rich numbers but pointing to normal numbers, so I will be the nerd who points out that every normal number is rich, but some rich numbers aren't normal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunctive_sequence

_ache_··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Yeap, each time I need a complex shell script, actually Python is a better chose. I just don't need a POSIX compliant shell

     /usr/bin/time -f "%e seconds" fish -i -c exit
     0.21 seconds
_ache_··on My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
Snapdragon is already canceled so I guess, they just don't care about this device. It's Microsoft on ARM. Sad to say, but don't expect full support or quality update on this.

Ref:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrA2Xe9f7e8 - https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-snapdragon-d...

_ache_··on Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
Not possible.

The Unicode Consortium will no longer accept proposals for flags.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Region_Flags_Withou...

Actually, they can do it by adding a new ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. By splitting a country or merging several.

_ache_··on Beating myself at chess
The algorithm behind it is very basic.

Chose the most aggressive move (in term of pieces value and check-mate), if none is aggressive, it takes on of the move equally non aggressive.

Didn't remember the depth of the algorithm but it was very simple C code, could check quickly. It should be able to find a mate in 2 or 3 if it was in position of having one.

I didn't check the correctness of the algorithm, just the intention.

_ache_··on Beating myself at chess
It is terrible in the opening and a little better in the middle game (if you didn't win already, I mean if you played 4-5 random moves).

I think you can improve it a lot by taking into account its own position. I mean, moving forward isn't very important want you are under the menace of a checkmate somewhere else.

_ache_··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
I'm talking about adoption around me. I didn't check the data. Glad it works for them outside of people around me, didn't know that.

Is it relative adoption or absolute ? I mean, the people using Gemini are they new or coming from another provider, like OpenAI ? (said differently: Is Google eating OpenAI lunch or just reaching new customers ?)

_ache_··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
Bart was a flop. Google search is losing market share to other LLM providers. Gemini adoption is low, people around me prefer OpenAI because it is good enough and known.

But on the contrary, Nano Banana is very good, so I don't know. And in the end, I'm pretty confident Google will be the AI race winner, because they got the engineers, they tech background and the money. Unless Google Adsense die, they can continue the race forever.

_ache_··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
Yes, but it's only a brand. The main things is "Le réseau CB".
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