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New comment by jeromenerf in "Kezurou-Kai #39"

jeromenerf — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:14:12 +0000

Planning wood, expect during kezuroukai, is annoying because knots are hard and deform the thin edge; most often still wet enough to oxydize the thin edge; finally full of abrasive silicium to abrade the thin edge.

Meanwhile, lake erie toolworks is creating powder metallurgy CPM magnacut blades for western style planes, which seemingly never gets dull because of corrosion resistance, wear resistance and hardness.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Students invent quieter leaf blower"

jeromenerf — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:01:25 +0000

France. I know my city workers use them to clean the streets in autumn. Wet leaves are slipery. Then people mostly use rakes AFAIK, or the lawn mower.

Though I know some tools, such as branch shredders are regulated in some residential areas, but I don't frequent those.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"

jeromenerf — Fri, 03 May 2024 09:56:15 +0000

You can find all the problems of Software in Woodworking, except that sometimes, using an axe is a legal and well-suited move.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy"

jeromenerf — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:14:03 +0000

I don't know, my experience with mega SLOC projects were Java, so verbosity was also a thing.

Go's verbosity is usually found in multiples (if err), not in long forms (int[] arrayOfIntegersWithValuesOneToFive = new ArrayFactory().createArrayWithSize(5).populateWithValues(1, 2, 3, 4, 5); ).

New comment by jeromenerf in "Firefox on the brink?"

jeromenerf — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:05:28 +0000

Some google meet features are chrome only (background blur, picture in picture).

I can't say I have noticed much else, so I use chrome for gsuite and firefox for everything else ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by jeromenerf in "Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy"

jeromenerf — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:41:09 +0000

To be fair, most million plus LOC projects match “misfortune” and “nightmare”.

New comment by jeromenerf in "The new Paris métro"

jeromenerf — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:17:10 +0000

Early 2024 :/

New comment by jeromenerf in "Pepper X"

jeromenerf — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:53:36 +0000

> selective plan breeding Even picking seeds out seems dangerous with this one.

New comment by jeromenerf in "That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010"

jeromenerf — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:50:02 +0000

> Yet the guys that have services running 24/7 for years without a hiccup will be the first ones on the chopping block when finances get tight.

Not really my experience, as long as the stable services costs of operation are good. I have witnessed more chopping on the R&D side, where things are never "stable and reliable", but innovative and expensive.

No need to change or outsource something that works technically and financially. Until it becomes irrelevant.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)"

jeromenerf — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 08:47:00 +0000

Very common in France if you ever drive by. Usually sold as a small 30cm^3 plant which will probably grown up to 1.5m in diameter the first year. I used to have 7 in 12m2. It’s also possible to grow from seeds, which you can buy online. It will require some dedication.

IME a very easy perennial, if you can prevent drought. Plant and forget. Like artichokes.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Scientists have identified the potato pathogen that devastated Ireland (2013)"

jeromenerf — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:21:03 +0000

The brought-in-for-some-purpose, escape-to-bush, become-feral, become-pest worked also for cats, dogs, horses ... up-to camels. I am not aware of Australian Feral Elephants but it may exist.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot"

jeromenerf — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:10:42 +0000

> Without shooting yourself in the foot, learning lacks motivation. Complexity without reason is really confusing.

Interestingly not my experience.

I usually start something uselessly complex, with more passion than reason, to learn or brag, then halfway I indeed shoot shoot myself in the foot trying to be clever or lazy.

I would not recommend to look for footguns, they are already looking at you :)

New comment by jeromenerf in "Dt: Duck tape for your Unix pipes"

jeromenerf — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:03:17 +0000

Nice one.

There have been so many nice CLI tools these last 10 years. Quality of life kind of nice. ag/rg, fzf, entr, up, lf...

Go and rust have been appreciated enablers, even though ruby/python/js demonstrated the concepts, with somewhat poor performances and UX.

New comment by jeromenerf in "I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again"

jeromenerf — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:01:33 +0000

... then however, how do you feel about tech debt with Rust? My feeling was that go, rust and such left a lighter burden on the future than say ruby.

Do you think you will need a major rewrite soon?

New comment by jeromenerf in "The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon"

jeromenerf — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:18:16 +0000

> I find it a disgrace that french and us companies are allowed to make and sell some tasteless cheese called gruyere and emmental when they are not originating from Gruyères (a Swiss village and area) or the valley of Emmen (again in Switzerland).

Same goes for brie, camembert, feta, mozzarella, ... The "real" thing is as great as the fakes are terrible.

New comment by jeromenerf in "The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3"

jeromenerf — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 07:45:28 +0000

Maybe 15 years ago or so, I wrote the original “useless gaps” patch for dwm, because it felt packed, especially between different window styles (terminal, web browser, file manager for instance). The concept was new to tiling managers but quite common anywhere in photography, typography or web design.

At the time, I spent a minute or two on the patch (the code is simple, and the patch is a hack), ten minutes on documentation Ascii art and zero minute on choosing a name for it. “Useless” made it sound like a casus forki, and “gap” could probably been just “margin” as in css.

“Mal nommer un objet, c’est ajouter aux malheurs du monde” — Albert Camus ~”misnaming an object is adding to the world misery”

Happy merging anyway!

New comment by jeromenerf in "Mazda has tested a synthetic fuel in an unmodified MX5 on a 1000-mile road trip"

jeromenerf — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 14:21:46 +0000

Yes and yes. A simple naturally aspirated engine takes bio-ethanol/e85 just fine, though the benefits seem limited to fewer fine particles, with comparable carbon emissions but a much larger agro impact.

New comment by jeromenerf in "Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]"

jeromenerf — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:28:18 +0000

Hmm. Between Finagle and Hanson, I chose Hanlon. It would have been a shame for this coffee to go stale. Oh, “roasted in July”, so Finagle then.

New comment by jeromenerf in "A Linux Evening"

jeromenerf — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:33:28 +0000

Kernel parameters are usually documented in the kernel-parameters.txt file in the source. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...:

  hpbussize=nn The minimum amount of additional bus numbers
    reserved for buses below a hotplug bridge.
    Default is 1.

The way to get from the error "No bus number available for hot-added bridge" at https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/pci/pr... to this specific kernel param is still a bit involved.

New comment by jeromenerf in "The mid in fake midcentury modern"

jeromenerf — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:57:57 +0000

I live in Paris, went to Wales this summer, found the relative lack of roadsigns very nice, came back to Paris, found the overabundance of roadsigns uglier than before, went to Prague, found the overabundance of signs, large roads and cars within the city ugly, came back to Paris, found it a bit prettier.

Ugliness, envy and jealousy, inextricably mixed.