francois14's comments

On: Researcher proposes model replacing dark energy/matter to explain universe

[francois14]

I wonder what the motto was before Einstein suggested a new model.

On: I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"

[francois14]

And what about "stochastic parrot" ?

On: Oxford 'explosion' after lightning strike seen from A34

[francois14]

Try Blockada on Android

On: A systematic approach to debugging

[francois14]

We work with the same contractors then.

On: Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

[francois14]

Class diagrams are a good way to detect circular dependencies.

[marcosdumay → francois14]

If your class diagram is comprehensive enough to get circular dependencies, then I'm completely sure¹ nobody will use them for anything.

Computers are much better at this kind of checks anyway, and they don't need diagrams.

1 - Instead of "well, maybe it's possible despite I never seeing it"

On: Show HN: Countle

[francois14]

Nice game, thanks for summle.net!

Here is my try for a solver:

https://summle-solver.herokuapp.com

On: Turning my smartphone into a boring productivity tool

[francois14]

Additional recommendation: install an ad-blocker such as Blokada and blacklist your most distracting web-sites like GoogleNews

[threatofrain → francois14]

Any recommendations for blocking YouTube ads on Safari?

[bufo → threatofrain]

1Blocker works well!