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miellaby commented on Show HN: I implemented generics in my programming language   axe-docs.pages.dev/featur... · Posted by u/death_eternal
miellaby · 2 months ago
You should consider change the name, it looks like a lot like https://haxe.org/
miellaby commented on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today   adguard-dns.io/en/blog/ar... · Posted by u/immibis
miellaby · 3 months ago
À simple way to debunk this fake French pretending non-profit complainer is to check it's present in the Répertoire national des associations (RNA)
miellaby commented on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper   windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/DearAll
dangus · 3 months ago
People use WhatsApp on the computer? From the Windows Store of all places?

Must be a tiny percentage, which is why this version is now a basic web wrapper now.

Anyway, I’d remind everyone that “using” RAM doesn’t mean “would not function with less RAM.”

Many applications just use a lot if it’s available.

RAM is not really something you explicitly ration.

miellaby · 3 months ago
The keyword you missed is 'idle'. An app should use as much Ram as needed to cache computation and network as it runs. But it shouldn't do when in the background. The Ram used here is not for accelerating the user experience. It's for the internal functioning of the managed language (Javascript) and virtual machine (Dom and browser API) because it has been packaged as a full Chrome clone running a single web app.
miellaby commented on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper   windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/DearAll
vrighter · 3 months ago
"RAM is not really something you explicitly ration."

It most certainly is. My old pc ran on 8MB of ram. Modern ones need 16GB for a comfortable experience. They do not do much more than I needed back then. I think it's reasonable to expect a simple chat app to not take up 128 times as much memory as my entire PC had when I was young.

miellaby · 3 months ago
2048 times
miellaby commented on We're in the wrong moment   ezrichards.github.io/post... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott
miellaby · 4 months ago
I share with the author this youth where a child learns coding before everything else. I really loved coding and made it my carrier. Yet I don't think I would have been on the side of recognized genius if born earlier. I don't think any of them spent most of their time smashing keys. They were rather conceptualizing and planning stuff, and had human skills I could only dream of.

That being said, we untalented programmers are experiencing what most jobs suffered in the last 2 centuries: massive automation of their everyday activities. I especially identify with these traditional farmers who took their life as their way of life was wiped out by artificial fertilizers, mechanic, chemicals and hyperscaling.

miellaby commented on OpenAI’s latest research paper demonstrates that falsehoods are inevitable   theconversation.com/why-o... · Posted by u/ricksunny
miellaby · 5 months ago
What about generating an answer, scoring its confidence in parallel. Then running a second llm to re phrase the answer accordingly: 'I vaguely remember Bobs birday is 1st March but I may be wrong, I should search the web"
miellaby commented on My original Palm IIIx   goto10retro.com/p/taking-... · Posted by u/rbanffy
3036e4 · 6 months ago
I used a tool called Plucker for my Palm Vx. It could recursively download web pages and store as a single Palm database (PDB?) that was installed on the device and then the Plucker app could be used to read the pages.

I used it with Scrapbook in Firefox, to save a bunch of articles I wanted to read and export an index file that could then be used by Plucker to import those articles.

miellaby · 6 months ago
Plucker was amazing. I used it to transform online docs into palm ebookd
miellaby commented on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model   github.com/KittenML/Kitte... · Posted by u/divamgupta
antisol · 6 months ago

  System Requirements
  Works literally everywhere
Haha, on one of my machines my python version is too old, and the package/dependencies don't want to install.

On another machie the python version is too new, and the package/dependencies don't want to install.

miellaby · 6 months ago
You're supposed to use venv for everything but the python scripts distributed with your os
miellaby commented on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others   drawafish.com... · Posted by u/hallak
miellaby · 6 months ago
This is brilliant. Checkout my [Anatomically Correct Fish Tank](https://drawafish.com/fishtank-view.html?id=gYCWJ24lhxSvR4lG...)
miellaby commented on More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves   news.uoguelph.ca/2025/07/... · Posted by u/pseudolus
phtrivier · 7 months ago
> it's widely recognized for the last ten years that the primary culprit is neonicotinoids

What would be your best source to back that ?

(I'm not trolling - we've been having a vivid debates about that exact topic for the past few weeks in France, and one common counter-point is that the decrease in bee population is multifactorial, as opposed to having any "primary" culprit. So any source welcome :) )

miellaby · 7 months ago
Neonicotinoids kill all insects. They are extremely good at this. Noone contests this. CCD ("Colony Collapse Disorder") started as neonicotinoids usage raised, and so did the "windshield phenomemom" that all rural residents above 50 can tell you about.

If there were no parasite, no pathogen, and no predator, then bees would not be as much affected by pesticides for sure. But parasites and pathogens existed before, while habitat loss and monoculture farming don't explain what happens in relatively preserved areas.

All pesticides have an impact on insect populations obviously. I agree one should not focus on only one class of them, and work on an actual reduction of their usage and compensate farmers for profitability loss due to changes in pest management strategies.

You don't need to comment this. I know It won't be done and we're all screwed.

u/miellaby

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