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New comment by juliie in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

juliie — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:29:47 +0000

My solution is a big drawer block with lots of spots for different cables. USB c cables with video go in the video cable drawer, high power goes in the power drawer, etc. Can't mistake USB c with HDMI (and mini HDMI can burn in hell). And only buy USB C cables that state their capabilities on the housing, if they don't I'll permanently attach them to a place where they can be most useful.

New comment by juliie in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

juliie — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:21:53 +0000

I had to pull out a VGA cable to connect a screen to my server the other day. The motherboard has IPMI so I hadn't used that cable for years, possibly a decade now. I'll never throw it away.

New comment by juliie in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

juliie — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:05:22 +0000

Spain is worse, to prevent illegal soccer match streaming they ban a ton of IPs during matches. So tons of hosts (like Cloudflare) become inaccessible. And that's managed by a private organization. In France I'm not aware of any ISP that even blocks torrents, though there is hadopi so you can get a fine. All blocks I'm aware of are DNS only, so trivial to bypass.

New comment by juliie in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

juliie — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:06:15 +0000

It was managed by the state, but built and owned by private companies. The installer would get 1 year of exclusivity, then any other ISP gets to use the fiber. Cost is pretty low, I get 7gb for 50€ per month, and there are cheaper plans for just 1gb

The issue is that the whole infrastructure is run at super low cost. I sometimes see a neighborhood's fiber distribution cabinet just open to the elements. Happens maybe 1-2 per year which is way too much. And there are many reports of people getting unplugged when a technician installs someone else's fiber. Low cost is good but it can go too far.

Overall it's still pretty good, and mobile is also very cheap.

Show HN: Spacemap.co – A 3D, real-time, real-scale map of the solar system

juliie — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:17:05 +0000

Space Map is a real time, real scale map of the solar system, with 1.6m objects: all known asteroids, comets, moons, planets, spacecraft, with historical positions from 1950. It's got descriptions & images from Wikipedia, 11k 3d models for spacecraft & asteroids (you can zoom all the way in), realistic lighting, search, and localization in 12 languages.

Some highlights: - Starlink https://spacemap.co/g/const-starlink - Artemis 2 https://spacemap.co/p/121737217/Artemis%20II?at=2026-04-06T2... - New Horizon's Pluto flyby https://spacemap.co/p/104804352/New%20Horizons?at=2015-07-14... - The Saturn system https://spacemap.co/b/618/Pan?at=now,-16.15501,6.80902,0.000...

More info on how I built it in the Github readme: https://github.com/julie-dujardin/space-map

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48864691

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New comment by juliie in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

juliie — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:49:28 +0000

I'm working on a real scale, real time map of the solar system: https://spacemap.co

New comment by juliie in "Dav2d"

juliie — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:39:22 +0000

it got archived by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20260531115337/https://jbkempf.c...

New comment by juliie in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

juliie — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:30:18 +0000

From personal experience, in Paris 80k would be a very good salary for a senior engineer at a startup with solid funding. AI startups/big tech would pay around 50% more, but those roles are very rare.

Most people would make way less, at big French companies you won't make 80k until late in your career as an IC (they don't have a staff+ track).

So 80k sounds like a decent guess for the top 10-15%.

New comment by juliie in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

juliie — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:55:25 +0000

Can I install my banking apps? Is there a Google pay equivalent?

As much as I want open source, I really don't think it's there yet for most people.

New comment by juliie in "I hate GitHub Actions with passion"

juliie — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:29:55 +0000

I can do that with github actions too? For tests, I can either run them locally (with a debugger if I want), or in github actions. Smaller checks go in a pre-commit config that github action also runs.

Setting up my github actions (or gitlab) checks in a way that can easily run locally can be a bit of extra work, but it's not difficult.

New comment by juliie in "Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop"

juliie — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:21:35 +0000

I'm also not a native English speaker, but I've decided to avoid using AI for formatting or changing the tone of what I write. That tends to result in extremely generic outputs that "feel" AI, no matter how much effort I put into writing it.

Asking for it to point out mistakes, without providing alternatives, seems like a better way to actually get better at writing.

Prompting the Ai to use a specific tone might result in something that's less generic, but imo that's not the right place to spend efforts.