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New comment by ernesth in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

ernesth — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:40:01 +0000

> Ë with diaeresis is the easiest case to deal with

Wait, no! This is the most complicated one, fortunately it's scarcely appears.

In canoë, the ë is pronounced as an é. In Noël, it's pronounced as an è. In ambiguë, it's not pronounced at all!

New comment by ernesth in "Hyperlinks in terminal emulators"

ernesth — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:08:38 +0000

You never opened a README.md that contained links in something else than a browser?

New comment by ernesth in "Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely"

ernesth — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 14:02:28 +0000

There exists winden.app which is a magic wormhole webapp. They use their own mailbox and relay so you need to use the right options in the wormhole CLI.

New comment by ernesth in "The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils (2022)"

ernesth — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:56:18 +0000

Quo Vadis is french and in fact now belongs to the Clairefontaine group, just like Rhodia.

New comment by ernesth in "Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 quantum processor"

ernesth — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:05:54 +0000

> last time I checked the record was 80 qubits

It has progressed since: IBM Condor (demonstrated in december 2023) has 1121 qubits.

New comment by ernesth in "Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress"

ernesth — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:02:57 +0000

Is this move the reason for the random 403 errors I get from the tumblr rss feeds I follow? Since a few weeks ago, some feeds are disappearing then reappearing, sometimes they are unavailable for a few days, sometimes it's back the moment I refresh. If the move is in the future, I guess that means they have neglected the current platform.

New comment by ernesth in "Show HN: Matrix Multiplication with Half the Multiplications"

ernesth — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 15:35:48 +0000

You do not need a different algorithm for each real. Just take the algorithm that proves the statement for rational p. It proves the statement for all reals bigger than p. (hence having as many algorithms as there are rational (countably many) is enough)

New comment by ernesth in "The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk"

ernesth — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:40:40 +0000

Well you cannot really do without leap years, but what you propose looks a lot like the pataphysical calendar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics#Pataphysical_ca...

13 months of 29 days. The 29th of each month being imaginary with two exceptions, 1 annual and 1 leap.

Or more seriously, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar

New comment by ernesth in "DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)"

ernesth — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:52:01 +0000

Not parent, but it is forbidden in France: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGIARTI000028154450...

New comment by ernesth in "B612 Font Family"

ernesth — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 10:20:15 +0000

There are in fact 3 universities in Toulouse: Toulouse I-Capitole, Toulouse Jean Jaurès (used to be Toulouse II-Le Mirail), and Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier. And since it would be absurd to have just those three universities they are part of a group called "Université de Toulouse" (formerly Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées) which also counts a number of schools https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_University_of_Toulouse....

New comment by ernesth in "Are any words the same in all languages?"

ernesth — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:42:54 +0000

In french, it is "vecteur propre" (which has the same meaning).

New comment by ernesth in "Why your blog still needs RSS"

ernesth — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:34:04 +0000

Also happy with miniflux. On android, I use Fluent Reader to sync: https://hyliu.me/fluent-reader-lite/

New comment by ernesth in "Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books"

ernesth — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 17:26:14 +0000

It fetches data from the public APIs of openlibrary.org and inventaire.io. From my point of view, inventaire is really great as it synchronizes with wikidata and is far better at not duplicating works or authors.

New comment by ernesth in "Mercedes EVs can go faster for $60 a month"

ernesth — Thu, 04 May 2023 18:11:29 +0000

IBM has been doing it for years: they sell you a multi-core machine but you only can use 1 core. You can pay to use more than one as you need: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power9?topic=environment-capacit...

New comment by ernesth in "The Mystery of the Dune Font"

ernesth — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 10:50:40 +0000

> EDIT: The covers of some modern french translations are also incredible. Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. It's an incredibly simple and effective design.

Indeed, the Robert Laffont 2020 edition looks great: https://www.noosfere.org/livres/EditionsLivre.asp?numitem=13...

New comment by ernesth in "Show HN: A VNC viewer for eInk devices capable of 30 FPS when writing text"

ernesth — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 19:51:20 +0000

I thought 11 years ago that e-ink with good refresh was achieved, seeing bookeen's prototype display videos and full screen scrolling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24srQXX81Oc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxwceUvxlCo

But all e-ink devices I have seen since were slow and would form time to time show remanence.

New comment by ernesth in "After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try"

ernesth — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:06:05 +0000

I tried trillium and found it interesting but a little difficult to use (I prefer markdown to their editor). Then I tried editing on mobile and it really was awful. It was mostly impossible to use the contextual menu. Some words got doubled when I typed them. Pasting did not work.

So I came back to a folder of markdown files synchronized with syncthing that I edit with markor on Android and vim or vscode on desktop.

New comment by ernesth in "Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails"

ernesth — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:55:27 +0000

> Dark pattern one: You must login to manage your marketing preferences. There's no security related emails here, so this is completely unnecessary.

Did you just give your credentials to a website linked from a spam email?

New comment by ernesth in "Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet"

ernesth — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 19:01:32 +0000

So it is far more expensive than the similar bookeen notéa and kobo elipsa which cost 400€.

New comment by ernesth in "Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile"

ernesth — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:47:28 +0000

Let me add yet another reference: Robert Merle's "the day of the dolphin" (un animal doué de raison) published in 1967 (so the navy began training dolphins and sea lions while reading this book). In it, the (talking) dolphins are used in a false flag attack.