Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru

jbqueru@floss.social

I'm JBQ / Djaybee, Husband, Immigrant, Veteran, Highly Sensitive Person <a href="https://floss.social/tags/HSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HSP</a>. He/Him. I write about tech and other things. I'm fluent in French and English, I live in Greece, previously France, UK, USA.I like:<a href="https://floss.social/tags/skiing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#skiing</a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#hiking</a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/biking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#biking</a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#games</a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/photography" class="mention ha

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Post #4394474
EV charging is not confusing at all. There are types, levels, and modes. I used to have cables for type 1 level 1 mode 2, type 1 level 2 mode 2, type 1 level 2 mode 3. I will need cables for type 2 level 1 mode 2, type 2 level 2 mode 2, and type 2 level 2 mode 3. Level can be 1, 2, 3. Mode can be 2, 3, 4. Type can be 1, 2, J1772-2001, CHAdeMO, CCS1, CCS2, NACS. Not confusing at all.
Post #2372543
Paul Dukas used agentic AI to write code in the late 19th century, had to get a senior engineer to clean up after a massive incident, and his most popular composition &quot;The Sorcerer&#39;s Apprentice&quot; is a cautionary tale against unleashing technology that you don&#39;t master. (Not quite microfiction, but very loosely inspired by the genre)
Post #1947076
RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116486103901506854 A 4-panel comic, with a manager in a suit and an engineer sitting at a desk with a laptop on the desk. 1) M: &quot;I asked another engineer for his estimate of the effort&quot; 2) M: &quot;His estimate was one week less than yours&quot; 3) E: &quot;Then why don&#39;t you get him to do the project?&quot; 4) M: &quot;He never completes anything on time&quot; I&#39;ve been in a job like that, ye...
Post #1661806
Yeah, it&#39;s easy to shit on Amazon when you have plenty of alternatives. But, when you don&#39;t, Amazon is a godsend. I know, because I now have neither Amazon nor alternatives and it fucking sucks.
Post #1661803
Achievement unlocked: ordered something online in Greece and had it delivered without having to speak on the phone.
Post #1021022
Ski (the mostly white cat in the back) has a hard time with other cats. She likes her alone quiet time. When Mandalena died, Ski was devastated, since Mandalena knew to respect Ski&#39;s space. Now, after two months with only the two of them in the house (down from a peak of 8), Ski and Buffy are getting along well, playing together, grooming each other, sleeping together. We&#39;re happy for them. #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
Post #1021021
2022: we buy a house that has potential for a large art studio. 2024: we move into that house. 2026: we start construction on the actual art studio (literally 2 days ago). There&#39;s a good chance we&#39;ll have it completed by the end of the year, I&#39;m crossing fingers that we reach a specific milestone by mid-summer.
Post #1021020
-Fork a major Open Source project for a narrow purpose -Upstream doesn&#39;t accept your contributions because they want to support the broad case, not just your narrow one. -Don&#39;t keep your fork updated with upstream. -The project you forked depends on python -Python breaks compatibility with the version you forked. -Now your fork doesn&#39;t build.
Post #1021018
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/116340989618803085 The cat distribution system put Noonie in our path (or us in hers). She was in such a bad shape that the vet couldn&#39;t believe that she was alive at all, and gave her at most hours to live. We took care of her, and she got to live another 4 1/2 months. That was as big a miracle as we could hope for. Late last week, she stopped eating and drinking, and it was clear to everyone that she was on a path with no way back and that sh...
Post #1021017
Trump&#39;s announcements are as reliable as a computer&#39;s progress bar.
Post #909213
MARIA, the graphics chip in the Atari 7800, had 24k transistors. Atari sold about 3.8M units of that console, which adds up to 91.2B transistors. Coincidentally, GB202-300, the graphics chip in the NVIDIA 5090, has 92.2B transistors. Just sayin&#39; #RetroComputing #Bloat #MooresLaw
Post #728140
I&#39;m giving myself one last week to clear up the space where we will be building our arts and crafts studio. In a week, if there are still a few things left in there that get covered in construction dust, it&#39;ll be on me to clean things up. (spoiler alert: most of what&#39;s left in there is either reasonably dust-proof or still covered in construction dust from the previous phase). We need to get everything ready by mid-August at the very latest. It&#39;s a tight schedul...
Post #496500
Initial development isn&#39;t the most expensive part of software engineering. Maintenance is. Cutting corners in initial development results in a larger increase in maintenance cost. Writing code isn&#39;t the most expensive part of initial development. Refining the requirements, designing, documenting, writing tests, and reviewing are more expensive that writing code. Cutting corners in those results in a larger increase in initial development and maintenance costs. This is a post ab...
Post #350112
So, you want me to code in a language that has no formal specification, no test suite, that changes continuously, where builds are not reproducible, where results depend on a hidden state in a build cache that can't be backed up, where I have to pay for each compilation, where I have to continuously send a copy of my code to a third party, and that might disappear with no notice? Geee, vibe coding looks FUN!