Hacker News: bleuarff

New comment by bleuarff in "The true power of regular expressions (2012)"

bleuarff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:05:06 +0000

You don't control these external resources, and now the explanation of what your code does is tied to a site that could be taken down tomorrow, leaving you with a dead link and an unexplainable regex.

New comment by bleuarff in "The true power of regular expressions (2012)"

bleuarff — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:49:28 +0000

I'm wary of external urls in code. Some plaintext comment would come in handy for the day the link inevitably goes dead.

New comment by bleuarff in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

bleuarff — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:40:40 +0000

What's your time estimation for the last 2 points? Last I heard TSMC is not willing to commit dozens of billions to build new fabs for what might be a fad. Granted, they're not theonly foundry, but that's a signal nonetheless. Given the current craziness around hardware, I doubt the stabilization will come soon. Probably not before token costs soar.

New comment by bleuarff in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

bleuarff — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:07:43 +0000

I don't know for devs, but that's the message we get from upper management.

New comment by bleuarff in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

bleuarff — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:18:04 +0000

I've been using Feedly ever since the death of Google Reader. If you ignore all the ai bullshit it's simple to use and I've had no issues with cross-device sync.

New comment by bleuarff in "A recent chess controversy"

bleuarff — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:34:30 +0000

It's to be expected per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

New comment by bleuarff in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

bleuarff — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:27:03 +0000

Because it's never been considered an interesting target, compared to npm's reach?

New comment by bleuarff in "Vanishing home field advantage in English football"

bleuarff — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:22:12 +0000

Interesting. Any source on why/when the switch happened?

New comment by bleuarff in "AnimeJs v4 Is Here"

bleuarff — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:25:46 +0000

Handling resize is a different beast than being responsive. Working for every viewport dimension under the sun is not the same thing as gracefully handling an animation while the viewport size changes - the latter is much more challenging.

New comment by bleuarff in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

bleuarff — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:08:51 +0000

Yes it is, but it's my understanding that this is the actual testimony from Tulsi Gabbard, part of the conversation.

New comment by bleuarff in "Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday"

bleuarff — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 19:59:26 +0000

Here in France, we have strict laws, and on-calls MUST be paid in some form or another. When we were bought by a US company, mgmt tried to set up on-call shifts for us - we had never needed them for the 10 years prior -, until they learnt of labor laws and went "fuck it, you're on call mon-fri, 10am - 6pm". I'm forty, have a family, and no amount of money could justify that I can't shutoff my phone at night, or prevent from going on a walk on weekends because "uptime". I've never been so glad of french worker protections.

New comment by bleuarff in "The Palletrone is a robotic hovercart for moving stuff anywhere"

bleuarff — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:31:54 +0000

I, for one, thought of a similar concept from Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

New comment by bleuarff in "Can you convert a video to pure CSS?"

bleuarff — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 09:23:26 +0000

I thought so, but when I came back to the tab later it was working, and was able to go through all examples. Unlike Chrome who crashed halfway through the page.

New comment by bleuarff in "Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery (2021)"

bleuarff — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 16:13:44 +0000

Yes, but the model has asked that the community stops using this image. It should be pretty easy to find an image that can serve as a standard, and that no one objects to.

New comment by bleuarff in "Oldest cave art found"

bleuarff — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:15:14 +0000

Not sure that was the case 50ky ago. That was during a glacial period, sea level was probably 100+m below current level.

New comment by bleuarff in "Wrong Map of Europe"

bleuarff — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:02:42 +0000

More errors for France:

- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.

- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"

- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.

- "Marsupial" is Marseille

New comment by bleuarff in "Constellations are younger than continents"

bleuarff — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 10:48:53 +0000

The article goes on to say these stars are very young at ~10My, which is about the smallest time scale at which you might notice some change on continents'aspect. So you're probably technically right, but by a very thin margin.

New comment by bleuarff in "Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off"

bleuarff — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 12:11:24 +0000

"Why should I care if a company I give money to treats its employees as slaves or as actual human beings?" A minimal dose of empathy towards fellow humans is a good reason, at least in my opinion.

New comment by bleuarff in "Natural beekeepers are the radical dissenters of apiculture"

bleuarff — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 12:10:19 +0000

On the other hand, the head of the french hunting federation has openly said he couldn't care less about animals and regulations. While receiving public funds to fulfill a mission of regulation.

New comment by bleuarff in "Petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Firefox to censor websites"

bleuarff — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:24:06 +0000

And not even all ISPs, only the few most popular ones. Even if that's probably 96% of internet users, that looks like the law does not treat all citizens equally.