thibaut_barrere (u/thibaut_barrere)

thibaut_barrere commented on The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-... · Posted by u/mschnell

zkmon · a month ago

Science Research doesn't happen for its own sake. Every effort needs to be a part of the pipeline of demand and supply. Otherwise it's just a tune that you sing in the shower.

thibaut_barrere · a month ago

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

thibaut_barrere commented on Elixir 1.19 elixir-lang.org/blog/2025... · Posted by u/theanirudh

bryanlarsen · 2 months ago

> So many examples of programming languages have huge breaking changes between versions

I can only think of 2: python 3 and perl 6.

Those two were very traumatic so it's not surprising it feels like more.

thibaut_barrere · 2 months ago

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.

thibaut_barrere commented on Extreme weather caused more than $100B in damage by June livescience.com/planet-ea... · Posted by u/geox

terminalshort · 2 months ago

1. They are calling a wildfire an "extreme weather event" which is dubious as weather is only a contributing factor here

2. Of that $100 billion, $60 billion is from the LA wildfire, so this number is extremely outlier driven

3. There are no inflation adjustments or tests of statistical significance in their claims that damage from extreme weather is rapidly increasing over time

thibaut_barrere · 2 months ago

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

thibaut_barrere commented on · Posted by u/arrowsmith

thibaut_barrere · 3 months ago

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

Posted by u/thibaut_barrere 3 months ago

Former French president Sarkozy given five-year sentence after Libya case bbc.com/news/articles/cp9...

thibaut_barrere commented on Ask HN: How were graphics card drivers programmed back in the 90s? · Posted by u/ferguess_k

thibaut_barrere · 3 months ago

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!

thibaut_barrere commented on Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML mistral.ai/news/mistral-a... · Posted by u/TechTechTech

maxglute · 3 months ago

What does 1.7B euro buy in Europe? I ask sincerely since big players are throwing 10s-100s of billions at strategic problems these days.

thibaut_barrere · 3 months ago

A lot of top notch engineers that will earn well enough to remain in Europe.

thibaut_barrere commented on Interview with Japanese Demoscener 0b5vr 6octaves.com/2025/09/inte... · Posted by u/nokonoko

carra · 3 months ago

Mode 13H was pretty nice. But mode 13X, hacked to have square pixels, was the coolest!

thibaut_barrere · 3 months ago

Mode X allowed pretty cool stuff, like fake true color with interlaced lines (R,G,B), double buffering etc!

Fond memories.

Here is a YouTube rendition of a demo I implemented in 96, showing those techniques https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t8o-uuq73UU&pp=ygUQTmlra2kgaml...

thibaut_barrere commented on Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability maintainable.fm/episodes/... · Posted by u/robbyrussell

dham · 4 months ago

We started on Rails 3.2 and on Rails 8 now. Some upgrades were harder than others, but they never warranted anything close a rewrite.

thibaut_barrere · 4 months ago

Rails 2 to 3 was a bit more involved than others, also Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 !

But ultimately it got better IMO, indeed.

thibaut_barrere commented on A failure of security systems at PayPal is causing concern for German banks nordbayern.de/news-in-eng... · Posted by u/tietjens

mtmail · 4 months ago

German, well West European, banks are slow in creating a competitor to Paypal, called Wero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment) I'm not implying they block Paypal because of that. It's good to have more competition and I wished my bank would take part.

thibaut_barrere · 4 months ago

Wero is getting traction quite quickly in France (source: https://www.banque-france.fr/fr/a-votre-service/particuliers... + people around me).

Also: https://wero-wallet.eu/fr/utilisateurs

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About

France-based rural remote entrepreneur, consultant, data engineer, developer. I ship stuff :-)

* Kiba http://www.kiba-etl.org a Ruby ETL

* Transport.Data.Gouv.Fr https://transport.data.gouv.fr/?locale=en (Elixir)

* My blog http://thibautbarrere.com/ (mostly ETL / B2B SaaS stuff)

* also freelancing/consulting on various technical topics (ETL and data processing, Rails, technical debt reduction, audits, architecture, B2B products, #fintech, and more)

Get in touch at thibaut.barrere@gmail.com or http://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere

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