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jylam

683 karma · joined January 29, 2016

Embedded software engineer. Currently formally proving code.

jylam at lnxscene org

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jylam··on How many medical studies are faked or flawed?
I'm nice so your point doesn't stand. Or does it ? I'm not illegal at least.
jylam··on A DIY near-IR spectrometer
Hey nice Atmos and Microdisc btw :)
jylam··on Doom for 16-bit DOS computers
For everyone here, this quote is not a quote. CamperBob2 just wanted to bully someone it seems, because they doesn't seem to value neither time or skills over quick entertainment for themselves. Next time, just ignore the post and get your tiktok shot.
jylam··on How iceberg won the lettuce wars
As a french, I'm deeply horrified. I mean, Iceberg is basically the cheapest blandest salad you can buy.

That's the thing you want to eat out of the fridge as a filler, cold with some sort of fat sauce (also directly out of the fridge, like a ranch or something) because otherwise it has no taste nor recognizable texture. Yes it's crunchy, but there are so many crunchy salads which are way tastier and better (like the "Sucrine", can't find an English name, that's not even the better, but that's readily available (fresh, not in a bag you need to refrigerate))

“I think when it comes to just sheer deliciousness, people always loved iceberg lettuce,” says Angie Rito, chef and co-owner at Don Angie." Wat. I guess that was a century ago, before the industrialization and selection of bland lettuces that are bland but can survive without darkening for a week in a plastic bag.

I'm always dumbfounded hearing about the American way to think about food, all you can readily buy is so industrialized, you miss so much.

jylam··on Joys and pains of insects
"Back then, my views were in line with the mainstream. Pain is a conscious experience, and many scholars then thought that consciousness is unique to humans. "

I don't understand that. Anyone knows that a cat or a dog or a lizard or a chicken can feel pain, that's so obvious. How can scientists deny something so obviously obvious ?

jylam··on Is Saturn a failed gas giant?
> heavier volatile substances (which are referred to as "ices")

When you know that astronomers call about anything that is not hydrogen or helium "metals" and you learn that even gazes are "ices" for some reason¸ makes you think now would be a good time to level the playground and start again :)

jylam··on Painting the Eiffel Tower
Pourquoi ?
jylam··on Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s
> "I am 53, but I am full of energy. I spent the past couple of days bouldering v8-v9 problems in Lake Tahoe, which is something that not many twentysomethings can do"

He's stronger than most of twentysomethings.

"What makes me tick is not the desire for more money, I really have all I need. "

He's rich.

"The happiest times of my professional life happened when I was in a room with people I liked and respected, thinking about solving problems that mattered to us."

Like no one else, he's kind of an exception that likes to do what he likes to do.

From his website: "Our focus is to develop and deploy powerful and resilient infrastructure for Artificial Intelligence (AI) software companies, ensuring they are equipped to counter common and industry specific threats and cybersecurity breaches. "

That doesn't mean anything, but at the same time "There is a war for machine learning talent, and the quickness with which people accept our rates make me think we should be charging significantly more! ". So he doesn't need money, but thinks he should be charging more.

"In this context, does it matter that I am in my 50s? Not really, but I thought it would make for a good hook in the title. If I can remain healthy and work sane hours (which is not hard when you had good partners and know how to delegate)"

You're fucking 53, not 80, stop making it seem like you are on the brink of dying of old age. And "to know how to delegate" is just to make people work for you and get the reward.

" I can see myself doing this while my brain remains sufficiently sharp."

What, you are 53.

What a fucking clown.

jylam··on At this company, we are family
> "I do agree with the first half of your comment. American labor laws make it easier to fire which allows employers to take more risk in hiring. "

less risk, you used the wrong word. If they can fire easily, they take less risk by hiring. That's more risk for the employee though, you miss the fact that most of the people is not HN, and they don't get paid 6 or 7 figures and don't find a job in days if they really need to.

jylam··on At this company, we are family
For a company to threaten to do this.
jylam··on At this company, we are family
I especially like the very American "I ask that you refrain from discussing your termination with any social contacts made through your membership in the family [...] Failure to comply may result in your severance being terminated early or withheld entirely."

In (most of ?) Europe, this severance is law and not debatable (as discovered by Musk recently), so this sentence would be outright illegal. You can talk about your salary with anyone you want, discuss it with your colleagues, that's even mandatory for mass-layoffs (through unions and/or elected representatives).

You should fight for some more rights, sometime <3

jylam··on Mk: A Successor to Make (1987) [pdf]
Funny how building tools are reinvented again and again, with all the same culprits. I'm a programmer since the mid-90's, there are countless tools to do the job, and they are just as cumbersome and complicated the more they evolve. I'm personally sticking to the good old configure/make for my own C projects, but I understand that's a matter of taste and habits. I've written some CMakeLists.txt from time to time, anything you want to do requires some digging in some sort of stackoverflow answers (thanks to those who answer) for "not so common but yet I need them" weird features.

I'm not criticizing anyone or any tool, just that we can't seem to find some good way to tool the compilation of both trivial and very complex projects, without taking an hour or two off.

I also understand that I do not want to work on such an endeavor, that seems boring AF and kudos for people that like that. You are not enough it seem :)

jylam··on The Development of the C Language (1993)
That's very fun, very demanding, very well paid (when you have experience and know what you are doing) (as much as you can with C)
jylam··on New bioinspired robot flies, rolls, walks, and more
"Drones are the future of warfare so you are a little late to complain about drones being used for warfare. The race is well under way"

So it's not the future of warfare then by your own words, that's the present situation. What are you complaining about ?

jylam··on The legend of “x86 CPUs decode instructions into RISC form internally” (2020)
"(the code is 32-bit just to allow us to discuss very old x86 processors)"

fsck, that hurts.

jylam··on Mercedes-Benz takes in-car voice control to a new level with ChatGPT
"enterprise-grade security" (don't know if it also applies to "privacy" and "reliability") is quite a clownesque sentence. If it applies to the others, the communication department should find another job.
jylam··on Jim Keller on AI, RISC-V, Tenstorrent’s Move to Edge IP
Why ?
jylam··on French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)
> Is the water shortages really that big that people are not allowed to even have blow-up tubs anymore?

Yep

> Pools are good for cooling down in the summer. Is it better if they use electricity and A/C instead?

There is not much A/C in France/Europe. Go to a lake or a public pool instead, no need for A/C.

> The worst thing is that other countries are copying this anti-pool thing because it's populist .

It is necessary. Not populist, necessary. We can't afford to just scream "freedom" or "populism" every time the upper middle-class wants to enjoy an environment-destroying luxury. Think of the freedom to live of the others. Is a pool necessary ? Of fsking course not. Don't try to color this as a basic need. You don't need a pool to cool down in the summer. You also don't need a 2 tons car, you don't need to travel to the other side of the world for your holidays, and those things are very detrimental to everyone, you included.

jylam··on Taking a new look at fundamental tech for quiet undersea propulsion
Is there some sort of shielding inside the submarine ? 20 Tesla seem like it'll rip the iron off the blood of the personnel inside it. Or at least their glasses and computers.
jylam··on Modern C (2019)
C biggest "mistake" (there are historical reasons for this, though, but it doesn't make it acceptable nowadays) is the concept of undefined behavior, period.
jylam··on World Capitals Voronoi (2014)
This has nothing to do with real borders, but with the distance to the nearest capital (that's how Voronoi diagrams work)

For instance, that shows that more than half of Russia territory is closest to the capital of Mongolia (which is Ulaanbaatar) than to Moscow, that's the point.

jylam··on OPPO’s Tuzla factory closed quietly
The previous one was "Republic of Turkey", no one called them that. Like France is "République française", and Germany "Bundesrepublik Deutschland" and no one call them that.

Turkey is ok I think.

jylam··on Intel mulls cutting 16 and 32-bit support, booting straight into 64-bit mode
It was not needed anymore in Haswell, but the support was still there. It isn't supported at all anymore.
jylam··on I Fired Myself
"Politics means partially to make tactical promises and not deliver, but to blame others for your failure while faking niceness to everyone."

Nope ? Politics comes from the greek "Politikos", which relate to the organization of a society (or a company in this case). You seem to put a bad behavior into a word that doesn't mean what you think.

Reading your post (I gather you are the author), you fired a whole team for "bad behavior", without explaining how you are not the problem. Maybe you aren't, but that demands explanations.

For me and for what you explained (nothing), you are the problem, and the person blaming others while faking niceness to everyone.

jylam··on I Fired Myself
I like people here commenting that "yes ! politics are the worst !", although the person never defines "politics", doesn't explain a bit about what happened, what went wrong, what were the reason for them quitting (not "firing themselves"), what the other people did, why they fired them or anything.

He's just rambling in the void, or did I miss something ?

jylam··on Americans have never been so unwilling to relocate for a new job
"But, especially right now, it can be hard for a dev to find a job. "

What ?

jylam··on Hippo Meat Nearly Became an American Food Staple
"large land mammal"
jylam··on Google Bard blocks all European Union countries
"Google Bard blocks all European Union countries" more like "Google Bard illegal in the European Union", like it is a Google choice at all.
jylam··on A collection of lock-free data structures written in standard C++11
Maybe I don't understand the concept, but aren't lock-free structures "just" delegating the locking mechanism to the CPU via atomic operations ? (although even if that's the case I can understand the speedup) (and if so, why aren't all those lockfree structures the default, instead of using mutexes ?)
jylam··on VW to fire top executives at software unit Cariad, source says
No. The pay is mostly ok, the project management is shit. Basically in the automotive industry, you get important in your company when what you produce is a big part of the BOM of the car. Software is $0 in the BOM, so you are treated like shit.

Source: I've worked for the automotive industry for ~20 years, on and off.

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