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New comment by thibaut_barrere in "TruffleRuby"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:43:14 +0000

I maintain a JRuby-based app. I looked into TruffleRuby a number of times but faced issues each time on that code base, so I could not get to the point where I was able to compare anything. YMMV!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix"

thibaut_barrere — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:32:31 +0000

I am considering doing something similar, but embedding “livebook” bits so that I can run code & liveviews right in the middle of my posts in the future.

Curious to know if anyone went that route (or something similar) already!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:35:26 +0000

What worked for me is “logitech lift”, one left handed the other right handed. When they are connected I set up my Mac to disable the trackpad.

That + sport and standing desk, did wonder to me.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:02:47 +0000

Most people salaries transfers & healthcare offers literally run on a mix of CSV and XML!

CSV is probably the most low tech, stack-insensitive way to pass data even these days.

(I run & maintain long term systems which do exactly that).

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Germany's Solar Boom Eases Power Costs as Gas Price Jumps"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:39:59 +0000

This is not entirely correct. The EU actually does both — it sets regulatory frameworks and funds projects directly through several mechanisms.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:14:11 +0000

It is well enough to attract worthy talents & produce interesting outcomes.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:15:21 +0000

From the FAQ:

> With Docs our job is not to replace Microsoft Office

https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/docs/ed2e1dbf-07a2-43bb-ae1e-...

Also: like when switching from AWS to EU provider, the goal is not feature parity. Not only it is costly to implement, but also a reason why so many features are in AWS or Office is to ensure vendor lock-in due to feature comparisons.

Learning to do more with less is a feature, not a bug.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams"

thibaut_barrere — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:17:16 +0000

France is leveraging Matrix in Tchap https://element.io/fr/case-studies/tchap (part of La Suite Numérique https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/#products recently featured on HN).

Presumably there is funding or resources because of that.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:32:35 +0000

Having used both worlds: a lot of the provided features come with strong vendor lock-in, and in most cases that not, with slightly stronger “local” engineering you can reach the same targets and needs locally.

The more I work (started coding 40 years ago, and data engineering 25 years ago), the more I favor designs that are less coupled to cloud features.

If you do so, the offering in the EU just as it is now is well enough to scale.

In short: more computer science, less delegating to cloud operators, stronger designs.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Pandas 3.0"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:15:44 +0000

Polars being so fast, and embeddable into other languages, has made it a no brainer for me to adopt it.

I have integrated Explorer https://github.com/elixir-explorer/explorer, which leverages it, into many Elixir apps, so happy to have this.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

thibaut_barrere — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:53:44 +0000

An insider view: there is a major push in a lot of state related team & department at the moment to go “sovereign tooling”. With alternatives for a lot of stuff.

This is not just a corner of the universe, most of us are switching tools at the moment, the trend is definitively big.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format"

thibaut_barrere — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:29:05 +0000

Neat, as someone integrating PMTiles right now, thank you!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:53:04 +0000

It is this, plus more:

- the web tooling must react properly to this (as GH does mostly)

- comments done at the commit level are complicated to track

- and given the reach of tools like GH, people shooting their own foot with this is (even experienced ones) most likely generate a decent level of support for these tools teams

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:46:27 +0000

PSA: I’m not terrified of rebase, yet it’s good to know this:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/using-git/about-git-r...

> Warning - Because changing your commit history can make things difficult for everyone else using the repository, it's considered bad practice to rebase commits when you've already pushed to a repository.

A similar warning is in Atlassian docs.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 11:44:59 +0000

You are describing applied research. But fundamental research seeks to expand knowledge itself, and unsurprisingly delivers a lot of unplanned value.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Elixir 1.19"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:57:01 +0000

Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 has been fairly hard, despite being a minor version change. Strings became Unicode, this broke tons of stuff. Also hash ordering.

This caused quite a lot of work on the apps I worked on.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June"

thibaut_barrere — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:17:44 +0000

Weather seems to be an increasingly contributing factor, though: https://cpo.noaa.gov/study-shows-that-climate-change-is-the-...

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "[dead]"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:39:39 +0000

To get another side of the story: https://github.com/Plan-Vert/open-letter

Former French president Sarkozy given five-year sentence after Libya case

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp98kepmj9lo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45384551

Points: 4

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New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Ask HN: How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s?"

thibaut_barrere — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:37:31 +0000

There were quite a few books and resources on the topic: Michael Abrash Zen of Graphic Programming (https://archive.org/details/zenofgraphicspro00abra), Ralph Brown interrupt list (https://ctyme.com/rbrown.htm), books like “PC Interdit” in France etc.

And online stuff as well.

Graphic programming, without a GPU, and even without a FPU, was quite interesting (here is a realtime-ish phong rendering I implemented circa 1995, without any float numbers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5hzUkOJsk).

A lot of stuff can be found online these days.

Have fun!