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kevsamuelon It's the memory latency, stupid

To be fair, I would have assumed that too. Occam's razor: in a sea of lying candidates, the next one is probably lying too.

kevsamuelon Signs of autism could be encoded in the way you walk

Austism often comes with terrible proprioceptive abilities so it makes sense.

kevsamuelon Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance

Where and when? For how long? Does it include dealing with wastes? Does it include powerlines, maintenance and land?

It's not a universal answer.

kevsamuelon That's now valid syntax in Python 3.13

It passes ruff linting already.

I must say the walrus looks too much like a type hint where it's located for my taste.

kevsamuelon Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says

Legality is not science, most of the time, the definition of what's wrong is blurry and humans have to debate about it.

kevsamuelon Debian Needs a WinGet

Thats what flatpak is for. And unfortunatly why ubuntu pushes for snap.

kevsamuelon I'm building an online course about Manage Team Cognitive Load with 25% discount

No totally related, but I noticed that a lot of people using VIM or keyboard only tool are oblivious to the cognitive load it takes on them.

You can see them struggling when doing simple things because they have to stop and remember what context they are in, what dynamic value they need to attach to their keyboard shortcuts (turns out muscle memory can help with fixed values, but not with buffer names and task numbers) and so on.

They will tell you it's vastly superior.

But the colleague that I see actually managing to pull it off are rare. Most are just slower for the same given micro-tasks.

Add on top to that they may rock a dvorak layout and an exotic distro, and they burn out quickly. And then wonder why.

kevsamuelon ChatGPT-4o – OpenAI's ickiest product yet

I automatically filter anything with the word "ick" or any derivative in it.

Because I systematically find that the analysis is immature and shallow.

I ignored my filter on this article.

And yet, the filter was right again.

kevsamuelon Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is closer to cracking the egg market

Eggs are so versatile any replacement is bound to be very context specific.

But nutritionally speaking, I don't think we can find anything that compare. It's quite an amazing food.

kevsamuelon Ask HN: What should a Alternative to LetsEncrypt offer

Using a different set of libraries as dependencies.

kevsamuelon Laser air defense for $13 a shot?

Starlink works in those conditions, so maybe it's ok.

kevsamuelon Vue 2 is Approaching End Of Life

Which is too bad because it was really the sweet spot for me.

Vue 3 bring my more complexity and not much more benefits.

IMO, alpine.js is the new Vue.

I will still use it over react if I'm building an SPA, but for small JS needs, it's not worth it.

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Anyone must also accept their tos which is not great.

kevsamuelon In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change

Like the twitter url right now.

kevsamuelon Get a personal teacher

I've always wondered why I had a hard time finding a good mentor.

Now that I'm competent and experienced, I get it: I have no time to mentor people.

kevsamuelon MiniJinja: a powerful template engine for Rust with minimal dependencies

It has a python wrapper, albeit less full featured that jinja2 which is pure python.

Mini jinja also runs in wasm. Nice.

kevsamuelon The early days of Linux

LWN is consistently good, I really should subscribe.

kevsamuelon Exoskeletons qualify for direct disability compensation in Germany

If they are private, yes. But in countries like France, they don't try to make money on health, and the goal is to get less people sick, not to milk them.

kevsamuelon Surprisingly good prompt inspiration for Stable Diffusion

Ok, there are 1000 of prompt makers out there so I wasn't expecting much.

I tried it and got:

"Orion is standing inside a magnificent temple, decorated with magical plants and trees, Atmosphere, Dramatic lighting, Epic composition, Wide angle, by Miyazaki, Nausicaa Ghibli, Breath of The Wild".

Wow, that's a great prompt, wasn't expecting that.

I tried it on midjourney and got this:

- https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1009024516845998102...

Given how little work it was, that's indeed super nice.

I wanted to say "too bad you can't use any params", but I guess sometimes less is more.

kevsamuelon The Python yield keyword explained

You got it.

kevsamuelon The Python yield keyword explained

Hi guys, I'm the autor of the answers.

Thanks for the feedback. Because of comments like these, I decided to spend more time at training people for a living, and I'm loving it.

So don't underestimate the power of web comments, it can literally change the way people live.

kevsamuelon Mona Lisa in pure CSS

A friend of the guy did even crazier, a animated nyan cat (including the annoying music) with only one html tag, and thousand lines of CSS ^^

http://codepen.io/JBay1337/pen/Ejtfl

Webkit only though

It started kinda supidly over a beer yesterday with the joconde guy, then one friend posted a 50 mo animated nyan cat, I posted a 22mo version, and we kept iterating until he won.

His last version is kinda smart: it uses css keyframes like divx use video keyframes, with diff in between. Almost the first css video codec :-p