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New comment by nraynaud in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

nraynaud — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:02:46 +0000

To be ironic, maybe the list of the files is original :) It's a very open minded curation.

New comment by nraynaud in "Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B"

nraynaud — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:02:31 +0000

I would venture that's it's the whole reason they use it. because it doesn't work.

New comment by nraynaud in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

nraynaud — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:16:50 +0000

I have not clicked, but recently I was suggested a video whose title was more or less: “everybody thinks 1984 agrees with them”.

New comment by nraynaud in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

nraynaud — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:48:32 +0000

Funny, along the same lines I asked an AI to write some wasm text. It was ridiculously bad and I had to intervene heavily to get something working as intended.

New comment by nraynaud in "Full-Text Search with DuckDB"

nraynaud — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:32:46 +0000

For people interested, you can do FTS in DuckDB without using the official module. I copy-pasted the relevant parts and slightly changed it for my need.

https://github.com/nraynaud/sojourner/blob/main/PDS/db_creat...

Example: https://nraynaud.github.io/sojourner/PDS/explore.html

New comment by nraynaud in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

nraynaud — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:50:48 +0000

In France we had a case where the government tried to bring terrorist charges against someone, the problem is that the police couldn’t materially have seen what they wrote in their report, because their car was too far and the timing didn’t line up correctly. Eventually the policemen invoked confidentiality rules against their mobile phones so that no accurate probing could be made. The judge threw away the terrorist charges anyways, because the facts didn’t warrant it. Since the police knew exact facts without being there, there is a high suspicion they used illegal spying on the people and tried to launder the data.

New comment by nraynaud in "An update on GitHub availability"

nraynaud — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:54:48 +0000

So I gather that nobody is working on a search that stays on the current branch?

New comment by nraynaud in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

nraynaud — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:06:34 +0000

I took it as the extracted spec was weird and they looked into it.

New comment by nraynaud in "Good CTE, Bad CTE"

nraynaud — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:28:04 +0000

I concur, “the Germans” have created an algorithm that completely “see through” subqueries/CTEs when planning a query. The way the query is written has no bearing on the execution.

New comment by nraynaud in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

nraynaud — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:21:11 +0000

Wouldn't she have the excuse of truth as defense?

New comment by nraynaud in "The missing digit of Stela C"

nraynaud — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:21:22 +0000

a continuous chain of memories is enough to consider it the same culture. They did not imply that the date was the carving date, but that the culture extended as far back as that date.

New comment by nraynaud in "The missing digit of Stela C"

nraynaud — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:52:18 +0000

I guess in modern time we can compute eclipses from the past?

New comment by nraynaud in "The missing digit of Stela C"

nraynaud — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:51:18 +0000

Sorry that was in French

https://peuplesautochtones.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/sites-ar...

“Il a été proposé qu’elle puisse commémorer une éclipse lunaire qui a précédé une éclipse solaire de deux semaines.” >”It was proposed that it could commemorate a lunar eclipse preceding a solar eclipse by two weeks”

I was very lazy in my search, so I didn’t check anything about this page.

New comment by nraynaud in "The missing digit of Stela C"

nraynaud — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:06:40 +0000

Seems to be an eclipse at that date, if they weren’t able to predict them, they had to have seen it.

New comment by nraynaud in "What came first: the CNAME or the A record?"

nraynaud — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:34:48 +0000

They may not have realized their interpretation is ambiguous until after the incident, that’s the kind of stuff you realize after you find a bug and do a deep dive in the literature for a post mortem. They probably worked with the certitude that record order is irrelevant until that point.

New comment by nraynaud in "A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London"

nraynaud — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:23:21 +0000

I would also add that there some slack for repairs.

New comment by nraynaud in "Accepting US car standards would risk European lives"

nraynaud — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:59:26 +0000

In France those asshole put those cars on a company books to avoid paying the CO2 overcharge and the VAT.

New comment by nraynaud in "Accepting US car standards would risk European lives"

nraynaud — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 08:57:39 +0000

Yeah, it’s a big topic in France too. I just saw the current pinacle of this stupidity: a camera in the grille at the front of a Peugeot car.

New comment by nraynaud in "A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it"

nraynaud — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:38:22 +0000

Naive question: ML tensor libraries don’t use a Z-order memory layout like textures do? It’s not beneficial like it is for textures?

New comment by nraynaud in "DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms (2024)"

nraynaud — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:31:14 +0000

I'm very happy that they are trying to re-classify the DSM, it's probably the sign of a maturing medical field. Let's also hope that re-clustering will help with the reproduction crisis.