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Re:Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:41AM (#48595539)
Bourdieu ?
To really enjoy the book, stop reading at the last chapter, and go back at the beginning. Then imagine yourself happy doing so.
Given that some far right public figures are using him more and more, I'd say they do. Same goes for Gramsci.
Re:The Boring Part of Bell Labs on Thursday May 14, 2026 @02:28AM (#48131825)
What a needlessly mean comment. Maybe you should watch a few of the Tati movies ? Start with playtime, you'll see what gp meant, which is richer than just interior design fashion.
Gnu guix will solve all your guile scheme packaging needs and then some.
Re:A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:36PM (#46892144)
> We all learned the lesson that mass-market IT tools almost always outperform in-house,

Funny, I learned the exact opposite lesson. Almost all software suck, and a good way for it not to suck is to know where the developer is and go tell them their shit is broken, in person.

If you want a large scale example, one of the two main law enforcement agency in france spun off libreoffice into their own legal writing software. Developped by LEOs that can take up to two weeks a year to work on that. Awesome software. Would cost litterally millions if bought on the market.

Re:Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User on Saturday January 31, 2026 @03:43PM (#46840623)
The scheme syntax gets a while to get used to if you are not familiar with it, and in the end having a real programming language is quite awesome, you can do lots of fun stuff like programmatically create a file or dir for every user of a certain group, etc.

Take a look at this

https://guix-hosting.com/docs/tuto/getting-started.html

To see how one can use macros to redefine the syntax to get an imperative-like syntax for defining services.

Disclaimer: i run guix-hosting.com

I am all for paying people a fair wage no matter where they come from, and I do not believe the coercive nature of most hospital work is a necessity. I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of attributing crime to immigration while in reality immigration props up vast sectors of our economy (construction, delivery, and healthcare being the main ones).

Add to that that our most tough-on-crime, tough-on-immigration president is in prison because, on contrast with the vast majority of immigrants, he is an actual criminal, and you will see how the GP's hypocrisy can be very grating.

Keep your thinly veiled racist bullshit out of here. You clearly know nothing about the french healthcare system. Without underpaid immigrants from africa to do the backbreaking dirty tasks, and underpaid doctors from former colonies ("faisant fonction d'interne" despite being actual doctors, paid around 10€/h) public hospitals would litterally collapse.

Most French doctors get out of the public sector en masse as soon as they can, despite the government coercing them to stay longer and longer.

You won't find a single hospital near Paris without a cohort of immigrant doctors to make it work day to day.

Re:Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:33AM (#45731141)
No, because f is assumed to be computable from the start, which BB is not (otherwise it could be used as a subroutine in a program that solves the halting problem).
Don't forget teachers, and unemployed people.

This is true for every national muséum in France and it is awesome !

So, freemasonery with a different goon, and a bit of racism. Kkk-lite, in a way.

People who like to dress up can also join the order of Malta, which can actually boast continuous existence since 1099.

Re:If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor? on Sunday August 03, 2025 @02:22AM (#44774500)
Could you please expand on that ? I haven't found any sources, the only thing that pops up is a bullshit claim by Jordan peterson, that has been debunked as, at best, an oversimplification.
Re:R9: Plan 9 in Rust on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @11:52AM (#44248925)
I'm writing a wasm runtime for inferno

https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/acheron

Still a wip though. You may find it interesting

One the one hand, this is pretty cool, the API is pythonic and makes quite a lot of sense.

On the other hand, I can't stop myself from thinking about "Greenspun's tenth rule":

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

This doesn't apply directly here, as the features are intentional and it seems they are not bug ridden at all. But I get a nagging feeling of wanting to shout 'just use lisp!' when reading this.

https://wiki.c2.com/?MultiMethods

Not the OP, but Zcash's privacy feztures are optional and seldom used in practice, whereas monero is secure by default. It helps with blending in the crowd.
Re:Air Traffic Control on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @12:46AM (#43969691)
This was indeed normalized very early on in post WWII european construction:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurocontrol

Re:Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and? on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:25AM (#43951836)
That's called a simplex :)

The same as in the simplex algorithm to solve linear programming problems.

Re:One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:48PM (#43786767)
The plaque also provided a drawing of the probe itself next to the two human figured, at scale.
That's neat ! I've built a transient UI to do this manually[0] within emacs, but with the context windows getting bigger ang bigger, being more systematic may be the way to go.

The priorization mentioned in the readme is especially interesting.

[0] https://rdklein.fr/bites/MyTransientUIForLocalLLMs.html

Re:Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @06:16PM (#41853675)
Also, indeee, the lack of access control for ports in bsd socket when the file API was RIGHT THERE is driving me crazy.
Re:Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @06:15PM (#41853668)
True, and noted, but realistically, the only implemented protocol now is tcp, and the next one will be udp.

Historically, Plan 9 had IL as well.

Which transport protocol has a number in its name ?

If I implement one someday I'll add a separator.

Re:Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @06:12PM (#41853642)
I would be honestly surprised if any listen server ever experience heavy loads ;) this is more targeted at smolweb-scale hosts.

On current hardware it can serve up to a few hundreds requests/s without too much trouble.

There's also the trick of pre starting a pool of processes beforehand and handing the data to them when it comes. It is not implemented in listen yet, but would not be too hard to do.

Re:Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @06:06PM (#41853596)
Author here :)

I'm not aware of how selinux can solve this but I will look into it if only just to mention it as an alternative.

The "leap" description makes me think of emacs' avy https://github.com/abo-abo/avy

The interface should not be too hard to reimplement as an emacs mode.

One more project on the "someday" list...

Re:How to Build 300k Airplanes in Five Years on Friday May 24, 2024 @06:36PM (#40471112)
France does carry their tactical nukes on the Rafale.
I dont know about OP, but here in France I pay 40€/month, and my children are covered too.

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