There are two grand goals of #AI research, and we're fixated on the wrong one.

Happy 158th birthday Canada 🇨🇦!

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Voir des néonazis défiler dans Paris à peine 48h après les commémorations des 80 ans de la victoire sur le régime nazi dans l’indifférence générale c’est une défaite morale incommensurable tout à fait banale visiblement

This is the law: Once you watch it, you must share

Really interesting post by Daniel Beskin about Options blog.daniel-beskin.com/2025-05-01-r...

Score du terrorisme d'extrême droite en - de 15 jours : -- 1 morte, plusieurs blessés, (Lycée, Nantes) -- Des blessés, dégâts (bar à Nantes) -- Des blessés, dégâts (bar à Albi) -- 1 mort (Grand Combe) -- 1 exposition vandalisée (Nîmes) Mais le danger c'est la Jeune Garde et l'Islam... Non rien.

Il n'y a pas 8 jours qu'un musulman était assassiné en pleine prière. Que Retailleau et le préfet s'en sont ostensiblement désintéressés. Et maintenant, ça. La haine des musulmans est au pouvoir Retailleau est un homme d'extrême droite. Il ne lui manque que l'étiquette, qu'il finira par prendre.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Un film que vous avez vu plus de dix fois en gif (mode difficile, ni star wars ni star Trek ni seigneur des anneaux, ni la tour Montparnasse infernale, ni la cité de la peur, ni wayne’s world )

Je vais présenter le projet à Kamel Ouali, s'il me dit banco je fais la vraie affiche.

Right wing politics in a nutshell.

Vraiment mon empire romain cette citation

the muppets in famous works of art: thread

Another @scalar-conf.com 2025 talk, this time mostly addressed to people who have doubts about Scala 3 or the implications of LLMs for programming. #scala youtu.be/Be4RHF69Tvo

Finished the chapter on tagless final in "Functional Programming Strategies" and it's available to read online: scalawithcats.com This includes the new encoding I talked about at @scalar-conf.com Sign up to the mailing list on the same site if you want to hear about updates.

Is it possible for a dad who makes terrible puns to learn how to throw ninja stars? -Sure he can.

Auditeurs d’NRJ (Chérie FM, Nostalgie, Rire et chanson…), vous serez ravis d’apprendre ça ⏬️

We're honoured to kick off the 11th edition of the best #Scala conference, @scalar-conf.com, with a talk by @odersky.bsky.social! Great to see the community gathering once again, welcome!

Welcome to the 11th edition of #scalarconf

If you run Kubernetes and haven’t yet stopped everything else you’re doing and paid attention, now is the time.

23andMe declared bankruptcy and the company is gonna be sold off for parts. That includes your DNA information and the only amount of control you have is to delete your info immediately. It’s very simple to do. Gift link: wapo.st/4kUsBEF

Il me semble que nous pouvons déjà tirer quelques leçons en 🇨🇵🇪🇺 de ce qu'il se passe aux 🇺🇲 actuellement: 1. Il n'y a aucune raison de croire que des partis qui se sont construits sur la haine de la démocratie, de l'état de droit et de la diversité gouvernent en conservateurs modérés une fois élus.

Today I learned that the mysterious mathematician Cleo was unmasked recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_(mathematician)

One of the most powerful refactorings is wrapping a primitive in a more meaningful type and then pushing that change through the entire codebase. It finds bugs, dodgy assumptions and adds meaning, which makes work permanently easier for the next dev (which could be you).

Great read on debugging a Postgres performance mystery. You will learn a lot about Postgres internals just by following the author's thought process. (btw, what a grafana theme! 😀) #postgres https://blog.danslimmon.com/2025/03/14/did-u-ever-read-so-hard-u-accidentally-wrote/

Et bardaf, il n'y a officiellement plus aucune des sociétés de transport public belge sur X 🙃

Empathy is only a weakness if you plan to become a giant asshole sociopath.

Quelle jolie trouvaille

I don’t think you should be able to revoke a degree for anything other than fraud in obtaining the degree itself. It’s a qualification, not an honor.

Ouch! This one hurts a bit #ImOld

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

I just found @tangled.sh thanks to @bearstech.com. It really looks promising. The only problem I see is that everyone is used to use GitHub, so it will need some tooling to ease the transition or how to use both on the same project, which would be possible as both are git-based

La photo de l'avion ayant largué la bombe atomique sur Hiroshima aurait été taguée parmi 26000 photos à supprimer d'une base de données d'archives du pentagone qui veut purger les contenus DEI, car le nom de l'avion Enola gay (choisi par hommage) contenait "gay". Source AP apnews.com/article/dei-...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Every tech company* has platform teams trying to build: 1. Heroku, except hand-rolled 2. One giant shared database, so engineers can ignore analytics without consequence 3. If they have a monolith, microservices. If microservices, a monolith 4. A solution to the halting problem * Hyperbole. I hope

I'm not sure which of you need to hear this, but: If you push yourself to your limits and burn out for a company, you are trading years of your future productivity for minor gains in the present. Burning out will _fuck you up_, it's like brain fog or depression, and it takes years to recover

On a interdit dans l'UE Sputnik et Russia today. Pourquoi n'interdirerions-nous pas Twitter ?

Quatre ans d’enquête des «Jours», des révélations et pas de citation. Quand @afpfr.bsky.social passe sous silence le travail des autres. Thread.