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gquiniou··on Show HN: uPhotos, an open source GPU-accelerated photo viewer and organizer
It looks great. Do you plan to support RAW formats ?
gquiniou··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
Postman is basically unusable in a lot of large companies now as it's often forbidden to save credentials on external cloud.
gquiniou··on Grimoire: Open-Source bookmark manager with extra features
It's french for spellbook
gquiniou··on The Remarkable Basilisks
I think the're called Jesus Christ in Costa Rica.

It's really funny to see them run on water or on land, they almost look like they are on a bicycle.

gquiniou··on LVMH becomes the first European company to surpass $500B in market value
Balenciaga is owned by another French company
gquiniou··on LVMH becomes the first European company to surpass $500B in market value
it's not LVMH in this case but Kering (another French luxury giant)
gquiniou··on We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
The are building a memorysafe language too : https://awesomekling.github.io/Memory-safety-for-SerenityOS/

and their goal is to use it to incrementally rewrite SerenityOS

gquiniou··on Stellantis CEO: There may not be enough raw materials to electrify globe
In this case maybe they should think about something more sustainable than private cars.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: What's Your Story with Lisp?
I recommend the lectures of "MIT 6.001 Structure and Interpretation" : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE18841CABEA24090

it's not strictly about lisp but it's an eye opener to the power of the language

gquiniou··on UK: Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years
there is a health crisis in France too with underfunded and understaffed public hospitals (lots of healthcare workers resigned after covid)
gquiniou··on Show HN: Restfox – Open source lightweight alternative to Postman
A nice feature would be import and export from/to Curl commands. When collaborating with clients or even colleagues it's easier to send curl commands.
gquiniou··on Oscar Niemeyer’s French communist party headquarters
You can visit the place next Saturday or Sunday because it's the European Heritage Days where a lot of public places are open to the public in France : https://journeesdupatrimoine.culture.gouv.fr/en/
gquiniou··on Korean nuclear fusion reactor achieves 100M°C for 30 seconds
maintenance was late because of covid and then they discovered corrosion issues in 6 plants.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: What is your reason leaving the previous company?
Got invited to work directly for my client with a better salary, more vacation and more opportunities in general.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: Modern C++ Workflow?
If your project does not rely on on specific C++ libraries, I would recommend going with Rust.

The C++ build systems and package managers are a pain to use compared with cargo.

Also learning Rust is easier than learning C++.

gquiniou··on Cats learn the names of their friend cats in their daily lives
feral cats tend to form colonies but wild cats are solitary, like the european wildcat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat
gquiniou··on Ask HN: What are you favourite games?
I play mostly RPG and turn based strategy, often classics.

Civilization series.

XCOM series.

Fallout New Vegas (RPG)

Knights of the Old Republic (RPG)

Dishonored (Infiltration shooter)

Divinity Original Sin (RPG)

gquiniou··on Ask HN: File-based photo management applications?
Darktable creates a .xmp file with the metadata next to each photo.

I believe this format is also supported by Lightroom and other tools. I prefer this approach because you can keep your originals untouched.

gquiniou··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
Fastmail is doing only email and has been doing it for a long time. I simply trust them more to care for their users and for me it is worth the price.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: What to do with crypto assets if you feel guilty?
Hold forever or sell when it crashes.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: Share your fav quirky, weird, interesting websites (like postcrossing)?
http://uglyships.com/ is one of my faves, unfortunately the recent posts are less spectacular because they already posted the weirder ones.
gquiniou··on Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Cryptocurrencies are used by people living in countries with high inflation (e.g. Venezuela) to protect their savings.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: What speed are you watching you YouTube videos?
1x because I am usually doing something else in parallel.
gquiniou··on Show HN: Long Range E-Bike
I am surprised velomobiles are never mentioned: they are much faster than traditional bicycles, have some protection from the weather and can be electric assisted too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velomobile
gquiniou··on Ask HN: Linux users, which Steam game would you recommend and why?
Dishonored 2 : first person shooter with unique level design, can be won without killing any enemies.

XCOM2 : turn based combat

Darkest Dungeon : turn based roguelike

gquiniou··on Go to any GitHub repo and press "."
It opens VSCode but fails to load the project:

Unable to open 'runningviz': Unable to resolve resource vscode-vfs://github/gquiniou/runningviz.

gquiniou··on Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away
Very often is not someone's house but a property that has been bought, renovated and furnished specifically to be rented on Airbnb.
gquiniou··on Ask HN: What are the best websites that the Anglosphere doesn't know about?
I would add Linuxfr.org and specifically the user journals : https://linuxfr.org/journaux : it is the website of the french libre software community.

Lots of interesting content you don't find anywhere else.

gquiniou··on Ask HN: Which camera do you own? Do you like it?
I use a Sony Alpha 65 from 2011. I am not upgrading it because I am very happy with my lenses (I tried a lot of lenses and now use only 2 most of the time) and it has a GPS to tag photos which newer version do not have.

I dont understand why high end cameras don't have a GPS when a 100€ smartphone does.

gquiniou··on GNU Units
Does the GNU projet make its repositories available online ?

I'd like to have a look at the code but all I found is an outdated mirror : https://github.com/ryantenney/gnu-units

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