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> Which languages does Trace support? English only, for now. Both transcription models, Fast and Accurate, are built for English audio. A recording in another language will still produce a transcript, but it won’t be accurate: the model maps whatever it hears onto English words, so the result comes out garbled rather than failing outright.

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ahamezon A Canonical Generalization of OBDD

Out of curiosity: when you talk about SDD, are you referring to Hierarchical Set Decision Diagrams or Sentential decision diagrams? I did my Ph.D. on the former, hence the curiosity :-)

ahamezon Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents

I’m curious: how do you build such a knowledge base? It’s still not clear to me what form it should take? A simple repo with plain text files?

ahamezon Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents

Couldn't YAMS (Yet Another Memory System, https://yamsmemory.ai/) be leveraged to achieve the same purpose?

ahamezon Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

Note that using Hammerspoon, you can build your own window manager.

Personally, I really like how Divvy (https://mizage.com/divvy/) uses a modal (press cmd-alt-ctrl-x, then press a single key to chose a layout for the frontmost window), but it's no longer maintained.

Thus, using OpenAI's Codex, I generated a modal window manager (https://github.com/ahamez/dot_hammerspoon/blob/master/wm.lua).

Thought it would be interesting to share this approach!

ahamezon How HR took over British business and got in the way of actual work

Web archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20250923134226/https://www.theti...

ahamezon Scaleway announced Jean-Baptiste Kempf as its new CTO

> And last but by no means least, Scaleway announced Jean-Baptiste Kempf – an open source legend who was one of the masterminds of open source media player VLC – as its new CTO. In this role, Kempf will lead the creation of a new generation of sovereign and European AI products and services.

ahamezon Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

You can read more information here: https://github.com/PJUllrich/twomillioncheckboxes

ahamezon Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27

Try this book: https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-third-edition!

ahamezon Bibi-binary

For the non-French people here: Bobby Lapointe is also a quite famous singer who loved plays on words, quite difficult to translate!

ahamezon The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines (2020)

> Taken together, my updated analysis suggests that streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed around 0.077 kWh of electricity per hour, some 80-times less than the original estimate by the Shift Project (6.1 kWh) and 10-times less than the corrected estimated (0.78 kWh), as shown in the chart, below left. The results are highly sensitive to the choice of viewing device, type of network connection and resolution [...].

ahamezon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)

  Location: France (Toulouse)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Elixir, Rust
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahamez, https://github.com/ahamez
  Email: alexandre.hamez@gmail.com

As a hands-on tech lead with 7 years of experience in the autonomous vehicle and telecoms industries, following 9 years in academia, I consider myself a builder of strong foundations for rapidly growing companies. I have expertise in areas such as testing, cybersecurity, software engineering, and recruitment, and am also quite proficient in using AWS and Terraform. I have experience leading small teams (up to 8) and am eager to continue growing as a technical leader. I'm a huge fan of Elixir and Rust, which I believe are the cornerstones of fast and robust systems!

ahamezon Celebrating the 10 Years of Elixir – José Valim – ElixirConf EU 2022

It's mostly a long discussion about adding a static type system to Elixir, something that a lot of developers seams to be waiting for!

ahamezon Explorer – A library to bring dataframes to Elixir

Added '(Elixir and Polars)' to the title as 'Introducing Explorer' alone is not clear enough in my opinion.

ahamezon Show HN: Pakhi – Bangla Programming Language

IIRC, AppleScript was once usable in languages other than English.

ahamezon Ask HN: Advice for a new and inexperienced tech lead?

It stands for Architectural Decision Records. More info here: https://adr.github.io. We use this at my work to keep a record of our decisions, as the name implies ;-).

ahamezon Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on multi-terabyte heaps

Could you elaborate? Why would refcount be a bad idea ? (genuine question)

ahamezon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)

EasyMile | Elixir/Erlang Engineer | Toulouse, France | https://easymile.com

EasyMile designs and integrates software solutions for autonomous vehicles. We have built our own vehicle: the EZ10 shuttle. To develop our fleet management system in Elixir, we are looking for developers with a very good experience of OTP (Elixir or Erlang). Developers coming from functional languages such as Scala with Akka are also welcome to apply!

If interested, feel free to send me an email with your resume at alexandre.hamez at easymile.com.