Hacker News: jpambrun

New comment by jpambrun in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

jpambrun — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:09:34 +0000

Diffsitter and/or weave?

New comment by jpambrun in "FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users"

jpambrun — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:47:44 +0000

This is irrelevant since your steam game license applies to all subsequent versions. The argument is it's immoral sell version specific licenses with no way to get to said specific version.

New comment by jpambrun in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

jpambrun — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 12:15:51 +0000

This is very close minded. It's best to avoid statements like that.

I feel like having a working python environment is not a great requirement to managing your python environment.

New comment by jpambrun in "Show HN: PgDog – Shard Postgres without extensions"

jpambrun — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:47:10 +0000

I worked in a large org with 100,000+ employees. You could just use software with pre-approved licences and I am 99% sure AGPL wasn't one of them.

New comment by jpambrun in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

jpambrun — Mon, 05 May 2025 12:11:11 +0000

My uninformed assumption is that most licencing arrangement have per viewer component? Not just a lump sum that can be taxed once?

New comment by jpambrun in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

jpambrun — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:54:59 +0000

If this happened here in Canada, I would go to weekly protests against this administration. When I was younger I went to dozens of daily protest for something insignificant in comparison [1] and it did lead to a change of gouvernement.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests

New comment by jpambrun in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

jpambrun — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:44:56 +0000

Not sure how you even tarif movies. I guess Netflix will receive bills based on viewership?

Anyway, as usual other countries will retaliate. American movies will become both more expensive to make and taxed abroad. Meanwhile, we can expect more people will turn to piracy to cope with rising inflation. I can't imagine any scenario where this isn't backfiring.

New comment by jpambrun in "PhD Timeline"

jpambrun — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:08:11 +0000

Are civil affairs litigated at the border by custom agents now?

New comment by jpambrun in "Instant SQL for results as you type in DuckDB UI"

jpambrun — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:33:57 +0000

I really like duckdb's notebooks for exploration and this feature makes them even more awesome, but the fact that I can't share, export or commit them into a git repo feels extremely limiting. It's neat-ish that it dodfoods and store them in a duckdb database. It even seems to stores historical versions, but I can't really do anything with it..

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

jpambrun — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:21:46 +0000

I am Canadian. I just went to Australia and hearing Americans talking politics on the next table over at the restaurant was maddening. At this point, the idea of being surrounded by Americans feels extremely uncomfortable.

New comment by jpambrun in "Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska"

jpambrun — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:41:33 +0000

After "avoid tolls", google will have to implement a avoid "hostile countries"..

New comment by jpambrun in "Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska"

jpambrun — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:38:05 +0000

I guess it could be fair, but those are unilateral. The official justifications such as considering sales tax, are bogus. The unofficial justification (or official depending on time of day..) is annexation. Surely, you see how this isn't perceived as fair from up North?

New comment by jpambrun in "QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet"

jpambrun — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:26:43 +0000

This paper seems to be neglecting to the effect of latency and packet loss. From my understanding, the biggest issue with TCP is the window sizing that gets cut every time a packet gets lost or arrives out of order, thus killing throughput. The latency makes that more likely to happen and makes the effect last longer.

This paper needs multiple latency simulations, some packet loss and latency jitter to have any value.

New comment by jpambrun in "Cox slows Internet speeds in entire neighborhoods to punish any heavy users (2020)"

jpambrun — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:03:37 +0000

Because it's none of our business as customers. This oversubscription rate is a risk they calibrate on their side. Given the marketing material, if all customers decide to use more bandwidth, it up to the utility to upgrade their infra to match in a timely manner. This is the risk they took and competed on.

New comment by jpambrun in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

jpambrun — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 16:40:08 +0000

"AWS is the best provider for tech people".

This is an option, not a fact. Many of us don't agree. After working on all 3 I feel AWS is, by far, the worst experience for tech people. My perspective is that it's only doing great for execs and PowerPoint engineers.

New comment by jpambrun in "Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years"

jpambrun — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:10:16 +0000

It says or abbreviation which I imagine would cover engineer. It's well established here that you call yourself doctor or use the Dr abbreviation either if are not an active member of the college of medicine.

I am somewhat familiar with all these rules since a trained engineer with a PhD, but I am not a active member of the professional engineer association. I also used be a have the work title of "principal architect". In reality I can't legally call myself (or really let others) doctor, engineer or architect. I must admit it's a bit challenging when dealing with multinational.

New comment by jpambrun in "Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years"

jpambrun — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:07:15 +0000

To be a professional engineer, or just engineer really, you need to maintain your license, be in good standing with the regulatory bodyz have professional insurance, etc. The regulatory body can impose fine, mandatory training or disbar you for any ethical or technical deficiency. It's not a one time certification as you seem to believe.

New comment by jpambrun in "Fake CV lands top 'engineer' in jail for 15 years"

jpambrun — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 11:58:29 +0000

I feel those two quotes are pretty aligned? What is the issue?

New comment by jpambrun in "CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent"

jpambrun — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:13:24 +0000

I know I am in Quebec and speak French. I would prefer the Belgian way of octante/nonante. L.

It happens with dates and makes them unsortable.

New comment by jpambrun in "CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent"

jpambrun — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:09:50 +0000

I read that a lot, but nobody ever provide supporting evidence. To me, this sounds a bit like 3rd party security marketing being really effective.