Hacker News: dopidopHN

New comment by dopidopHN in "Jacob's Phone Simulator"

dopidopHN — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:24:09 +0000

I stil daily drive a 2016 iPhone 5. I can relate. I can relate

I got a pixel 8 recently as replacement. Put grapheneos on it.

But can’t get myself to use it.

New comment by dopidopHN in "Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E"

dopidopHN — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:10:28 +0000

Bummer, I was really looking forward to that.

“Oh you are correct, it is a school, I see it now »

New comment by dopidopHN in "Saab achieves AI milestone with Gripen E"

dopidopHN — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:09:18 +0000

Unlike the Rafale ! That’s a true European jet

New comment by dopidopHN in "If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued"

dopidopHN — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:57:58 +0000

Sorry, I was being facetious and it does not show in writing.

I respect teacher work deeply and think they should be vastly more compensated than they are.

The fact that it you are a teacher it might be complex to buy a house and have kids is mind boggling.

I agree with your comment.

New comment by dopidopHN in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

dopidopHN — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:12:44 +0000

Cinder blocks. That what you are missing here.

Lots of house in France are made of that. Not “rocks” and that is a co2 intensive process to produce concrete.

See : Lafarge

New comment by dopidopHN in "InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger than steel"

dopidopHN — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:09:08 +0000

I live in NeW Orleans. Where 90% of the housing stock is made of wood.

So the 5% French figures in 2025 confirm my impression. Most stuff are not made of wood in France.

Maybe it’s a language thing : when I say « made of wood » I mean that no stone are involved. There is no percentage. The whole frame is 2 by 4 from Home Depot.

New comment by dopidopHN in "If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued"

dopidopHN — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:04:18 +0000

Can you work well in a team ?

Being a work horse is nice. But if you can’t work with others, that might be one you are on the layoff list

New comment by dopidopHN in "If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued"

dopidopHN — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:57:00 +0000

I used to think that.

And then I started working for a different kind of companies.

I screen out any structure with VC money.

It means I work for company that you never heard of, but that are profitable year after year.

How? They are very careful who gets in. And they make sure everyone is actually useful. Ration manager to worker is really really low.

Oh, and they build a product with the intends of selling it. Crazy, I know.

New comment by dopidopHN in "Show HN: I made a running app that turns your runs to a virtual garden"

dopidopHN — Tue, 27 May 2025 10:45:19 +0000

I do that in real life. Currently with luffa seeds.

Much more fun than any app could be.

I don’t water them regularly but I run with twines and a bottle of fertilizer.

New comment by dopidopHN in "Human"

dopidopHN — Thu, 15 May 2025 12:04:41 +0000

For a decent description of machine society you can check the Culture cycle form Ian Banks. AI are backing an organic society but they are also have their own.

Or Hyperion, fron Simmons. ( the « techno-center is a decentralized computing and plotting government)

New comment by dopidopHN in "Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping"

dopidopHN — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:48:05 +0000

Not with that attitude for sure. If the US or / and European union do that, it’s already a big chunk

New comment by dopidopHN in "Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals"

dopidopHN — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:05:04 +0000

I wish you interesting time!

New comment by dopidopHN in "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade"

dopidopHN — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:11:01 +0000

I’m very familiar with Postgres and spinning one with postgis seems easy enough. Do I get more with duckdb?

Most of the time I store locations and compute distance to them. Would that being faster to implement with duckdb

New comment by dopidopHN in "Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of culture"

dopidopHN — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 12:27:53 +0000

I see your point and I agree. Grabber “the dawn of everything” comes to mind on that “noble savage” phenomenon

That being said : there is something to be said about the Spanish cargo culting those canals in that specific plain… and failing to maintain it.

While we know it was fertile for generation before.

The article hint at private ownership being a factor? I could see that.

But 100% agree : I spend the article asking “ok, what is the culture then”

But it looks like it happen: irrigation work Spanish take over irrigation it stop working

I suspect sabotage was a bit factor, too.

New comment by dopidopHN in "Experimental release of GrapheneOS for Pixel 9a"

dopidopHN — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:57:37 +0000

It’s great. Thanks for doing that. The French concurrence authority would probably love that type of reasoning. Specially now that the US is officially an adversarial entity.

New comment by dopidopHN in "A guide to reduce screen time"

dopidopHN — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:17:19 +0000

HN and signal groups are my only social media.

I’m very social. I don’t think I miss much notification of “stuff to do”

( signal groups : large groups hitting the 1000 member limit. With drastic moderations. Example : only music flyer. Anything else is deleted under minutes )

New comment by dopidopHN in "Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Rear-Ending Motorcyclists More Than Any Other"

dopidopHN — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:13:38 +0000

It’s imply a next administration. And ediction of new regulation.

New comment by dopidopHN in "Doge staffer's YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity"

dopidopHN — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:27:24 +0000

I had the same initial reaction but time will tell.

New comment by dopidopHN in "France rejects backdoor mandate"

dopidopHN — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:43:16 +0000

Is libel free speech ?

New comment by dopidopHN in "Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+"

dopidopHN — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:20:07 +0000

Out of curiosity, what is a good course of action ?