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New comment by Narew in "Office EU: European-owned cloud based office suite"

Narew — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:25:53 +0000

The french gouvernement publish LaSuite recently https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/#products They only host it for themself. And this time it's quite good because they don't try to reimplements stuff, they reuse some existing open source project. The repository for this : https://github.com/suitenumerique/

New comment by Narew in "TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit deployed on FPGA"

Narew — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:50:27 +0000

There was in the past. Google had Coral TPU and Intel the Neural Compute Stick (NCS). NCS is from 2018 so it's really outdated now. It was mainly oriented for edge computing so the flops was not comparable to desktop computer.

New comment by Narew in "Mattermost v11 Changes in Free Offerings"

Narew — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:43:30 +0000

It's more a Slack alternative than a Trello alternative ? Their website is so bad that I had to go to wikipedia to remember what mattermost is.

New comment by Narew in "Comparing Rust to Carbon"

Narew — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:37:07 +0000

cxx only support a part of c++ STL container. It doesn't support template and custom container implementation. So no generic, no variadic number of argument, no automatic type déduction etc...

New comment by Narew in "Comparing Rust to Carbon"

Narew — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:41:38 +0000

Appart from cxx.rs. I think most binding between C++ and Rust are in fact C and Rust binding. So you need a C API to your C++ library (no template, no std etc...). So for me you can't use C++ library from Rust.

New comment by Narew in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

Narew — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 06:39:57 +0000

I'm not a front end dev and only use JS stuff time to time for small personal project. There is so much JS framework out there that appear and disappear so fast. I don't know if we can call it innovation. I have the impression they just reinvent the wheel with so little value added. I prefer to keep on React at least it will not disappear the next time I will do some change on my project.

New comment by Narew in "Fast, editor-native Markdown linting with Rust and LSP"

Narew — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:09:15 +0000

Really nice project!

That said, I do want to point something out: the “Fast (because Rust)” or “Lightning fast” tagline that’s increasingly common in Rust projects isn’t great. Just using Rust doesn’t automatically make something fast — real performance comes from design, algorithms, and benchmarks. These days, whenever I see “Lightning fast” in a Rust project, it makes me think the author hasn’t really focused on optimization, and that the project might not actually be as performance-tuned as the claim suggests.

New comment by Narew in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

Narew — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:57:43 +0000

Some of the distortion shown in the article is call "Volume Anamorphosis". It's a distortion that strongly deform face and person. This deformation is really visible for short focal lens.

Disclaimer: I work for a photo processing software.

New comment by Narew in "iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras"

Narew — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:54:21 +0000

There is. If you use lightroom app for example you can have access to raw pixel. But I'm not sure there is a way to get all the images the camera app from the iphone take. Phone don't take one shot to create the final image. they take hundred of shot and combine them.

New comment by Narew in "A Rust shaped hole"

Narew — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 05:13:47 +0000

It's funny because I have completely the opposite stance. When I code in rust (mainly algorithm), I always struggle to change what I want to do to what rust allow me to do. And all this complexity has nothing to do with the problem.

New comment by Narew in "An almost catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it"

Narew — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:30:55 +0000

It remind me a devlog from andrew kelley on the same topics : https://ziglang.org/devlog/2024/#2024-11-04

New comment by Narew in "Redesigned Swift.org is now live"

Narew — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:14:45 +0000

I'll interpret a bit. But I think the remark is more did we have a cross platform and complete gui library for swift.

New comment by Narew in "10 Years of Betting on Rust"

Narew — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:34:34 +0000

I personally think that the discovery of rust API is awfully as soon as macro is involve. It's impossible to know what argument is taken by macro. For example the "simple" `println!`, without example in the docstring it's impossible to guess what are the argument even when we have an IDE that show you the implementation.

New comment by Narew in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

Narew — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:15:58 +0000

yes and it's only work because we prevent the output to be in the input.

New comment by Narew in "LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego"

Narew — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:13:34 +0000

I haven't read how they apply the constraint. But there is similar stuff when you force llm to generate structured output like Json format. llama.cpp allow to match a custom grammar for example.

New comment by Narew in "Deep dive into how DOS games do copy protection by making themselves unwinnable"

Narew — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:38:35 +0000

here a example of it : (I only remember the first version) https://www.reddit.com/r/dosgaming/comments/86yxp4/question_...

New comment by Narew in "Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge"

Narew — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:35:34 +0000

for example "flashback" ask you a writen code in the manual at the beginning of each level if my memory is good. So it's was not a one time activation

New comment by Narew in "Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers"

Narew — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:08:18 +0000

For the moment it's a bit free wheel. And I agree the code is better but they could probably not reproduce it themself. I honestly don't know how to "force" them to understand the code the llm write if the code is clean. But this happen when the code produce by llm is over complicated or bad and we catch that by doing code review. I have the impression it will create even more disparity between student, students that just use llm code and the ones that try to understand it.

New comment by Narew in "Paper2Code: Automating Code Generation from Scientific Papers"

Narew — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:49:11 +0000

Honestly, the code from my interns have greatly improve since they use AI. And there is lots of really ugly and hard to read code from papers. So I don't think it will be an obvious loss of readability to have code completely generated by AI :)

New comment by Narew in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"

Narew — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:43:32 +0000

It's not only fog. Depending on pupil size it can also be rain. But during my thesis 10y ago one of the big limitation on horizontal line of sight laser telecommunication was scintillation due to turbulence. And this phenomenon appear in clear weather condition with heat. So it was limited in clear and sunny weather. I don't know what up time did there expect ? But the bandwidth should fluctuate a lot.