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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • What’s your target audience ? An what’s the goal ?

    There is a difference between Giving a programming training to scientist/engineer who may need more than just Excel for data-processing/visualisation, and giving a discovery what programming looks-like for a general public, or people who want to do their own website.

    For general public, the good-old “Logo” that kids learned programming with in the 70-90’s is still great

    for scientists engineer, I would go for python which is the de-facto standard for data visualisation/processing when performance doesn’t matter

    For a more foundation course, I think the everything is object approach in java can be pretty great




  • Most of things that are “smart” dont need to be. Why does a fridge, toaster, TV, matress or oven need to be connected to the internet??! For what?!

    I’ve recently seen an add stating that, big brand washing machine have WiFi, we have quality and low pricesbut indeed, it’s getting crazy, and what happens when you change ISP?


  • Translation is expensive, it needs to not only to translate the story but the author’s style and pun. A niche book won’t be translated, especially in smaller languages (you have a bigger market when you translate in Spanish/French/German than when you translate in Luxemburgish or Nepalese). With that regard, english-language writer have the advantage of using a language that many can read, giving publishing company a glimpse of the translation potential.

    With the power of “LLM” and translation app like deepl, it may work better in the future. However, at the moment, deepl is far from giving a professional grade results, especially when you have ambiguous word or a “specific but uncommon context”. It work to share a blog-post/news article, but won’t be sufficient to get fun to read book or an usable technical manual (However, corporate legal department may have a different opinion, it will be an interesting trial the day an accident occur due to an ambiguity in an automated translation)











  • Saving this for next time the ignorant people in my life insist that buying clothes on Shein is not bad.

    Unfortunately, in the way western society work, I am not going to blame minimal wage worker buying “cool clothe” for their kids on Shein. It’s expected that kids wear cool clothes at school, and it’s expected that parents don’t wear a old sweater in public.

    May be, the day scientists with an old sweater become a role model for kids fashion will change, but unfortunately, there is a need to “dress to impress”.

    To get rid of fast fashion we need a whole societal change, I hope we’ll have it one day, but I won’t blame the people who suffer from it.




  • Horror RPG taught me about how important it is to take the time to play normality, let the player connect with their character, have fun and light roleplay moment, until that moment when horror steps in.

    Player dealing with monsters and having blood up to their knee ends up being epic high fantasy but not horror.

    On a more norme activity the movie the descent is a great exemple the first half slowly drift from stressful to frightening, then the second half is girl fighting Gollum in the mud, and turn from frightening to comical