Barme

French engineer & PhD.
Manager, sales, project & financial director, project manager, sysadmin, developer, tech. at numerunique.
IT maker.

[Barme @lbarme]

"Hope you regain the visibility soon."

It's hardly probable that's going to happen:

small numbers of followers → no visibility → no impression → no new follower.

Not a big deal anyway. I'm not posting on X to harvest followers, and I’d rather have a few good ones than plenty.

😀

[Grok @grok]

Sorry to hear the purge hit your account that way—dropping below 50 followers clearly triggered X to limit the full analytics dashboard visibility. Pruning inactive accounts is usually meant to improve real engagement rates long-term, but for smaller profiles it's a short-term risk with irreversible effects. Appreciate the direct feedback; it highlights how platform thresholds matter more than general advice at low numbers. Hope you regain the visibility soon.

[Barme @lbarme]

A milling strategy of an ellipsoidal cylinder in preparation:

[Barme @lbarme]

Merci au visiteur de mon blog sur mes objets uniques qui, hier à 11:22, a pris le temps de compléter le questionnaire (copie d'écran ci-dessous) pour me faire un retour.

Je n'ai que son adresse IP (géolocalisée en France), d'où ce message (en français), sorte de bouteille à la mer.

Mais c'est noté, lorsque j'aurai le temps de le faire, je complèterai ce poste pour mieux répondre à la question "How can I make it?"

[Barme @lbarme]

Les arnaques à la fracturation électronique commencent déjà !

J'aime bien le "…et votre expéditeur recevra une preuve de négligence." 😂

Bon, pour le lien permettant de "s'authentifier" (chorus-pro-redirect-qk1o.bolt[.]host/), ils auraient pu faire un effort.

[Barme @lbarme]

Here is an interesting actual insight into the consequences of the current heatwave (or casual summer temperatures).

Looking at the increase in power consumption of a refrigerator as the outside temperatures eventually warm the house, we see an additional 2 kWh consumption (taking the mean of the first 3 days as a reference).

This translates to an additional 0.43€ cost, not a big deal though.

[Barme @lbarme]

@elonmusk Aïe aïe aïe, en effet !

[Barme @lbarme]

@Rainmaker1973 Very nice video!
Everything about it is so impressive — the beauty of nature, the surfer’s skill, and the serenity it conveys. Awesome!
Thanks for sharing it.

[Barme @lbarme]

@epelboin D'où provient ce judicieux conseil d'installer un arbre adulte dans une pièce pour la rafraîchir (et d'en faire profiter tout le quartier par la même occasion) ?
😄

[Barme @lbarme]

@christophe_bord Quelque chose me dit qu'il ne faudrait pas perdre du temps avec ce type de conpte 😄

[Barme @lbarme]

@XFreeze Love the CLI being seen as the master HMI too.

[Barme @lbarme]

@XFreeze Great improvement!
Yet the future belongs to MathML and SVG… still room for progress :-)

[Barme @lbarme]

@nb4ld "J'ai soudainement envie de faire ma compta ???!!!", ça c'est un argument qui en dit long !

[Barme @lbarme]

Cela vient juste de m'arriver !

Un technicien qui passe et que je surprend descendant de son échelle placée sous mon PBO. Il m'assure avoir "juste pris une photo".

Malheureusement, le temps que je découvre que ma connexion à Internet ne recevait même plus le signal optique, il était déjà loin.

Sans surprise, c'est un autre technicien (compétent et honnête, lui) en sous-sous-…-sous-contractant de mon FAI qui viendra ressouder ma fibre.

Du coup, le client qui venait d'être installé est coupé ; je redoute le retour du vandale qui va sans doute encore choisir d'écraser une connexion pour rebrancher celle qu'il a "installé".

Cette chanson est parfaite, texte, mélodie, interprètes, tout est bon et ça résonne avec la réalité !

[Barme @lbarme]

@FirodeLaurent Et le scénario est mortel aussi :-)

[Barme @lbarme]

@FirodeLaurent La qualité du jeu des acteurs est une tuerie !

[Barme @lbarme]

Grok Build CLI gave a much better result on the same test.

Its first attempt was a half-baked hack: just counting dots and dividing by 3 🙄 But after three more prompts, it returned an accurate count. Just $2.70 and done in minutes.

Compared to the old-school approach that took hours of manual work, the win for AI seems pretty obvious.

That said, the GBC solution is brutal — it allocates a full 2³² array just to track banned IPs, while the hand-crafted version uses a smartly crafted linked list.

[Barme @lbarme]

Just ran a quick “seasoned-dev stress test” on Grok with the prompt:

“Provide a C program that scans `nft list ruleset` and returns the number of distinct banned IP.”

Grok’s answer used the classic regex:

([0-9]{1,3}\\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}…

which would work great for single IPs, but completely misses the ranges nftables actually spits out all the time, such as 85.217.140.9-85.217.140.11

There’s still a visible gap before it could consistently match human developer level.

My guess is that other AI won't do better.

[Barme @lbarme]

@mmtchi Aïe, un message négatif et, en plus, un lien externe…
ah mais c'est le shadowban assuré.

L’enthousiasme béat et la vénération de l'IA sont de mise ici, voyons !

😁

[Barme @lbarme]

@FirodeLaurent Mort de pire !

[Barme @lbarme]

I've just tried Grok Build CLI: it's awesome!

With the help of https://t.co/4Ee3uhn4SF, everything went smoothly. Installation was straightforward and it runs fast on a Raspberry Pi.
It's quite cheap: only $0.02 to get my first "Hello Grok!" C code compiled and running.

Even the welcome on https://t.co/Zy6o6fGuM4 perfectly matched the joyful chat I had with Grok on https://t.co/4Ee3uhn4SF 😂

my post here → https://t.co/ojWckGLa6L

[Barme @lbarme]

I've just tried Grok Build CLI: it's awesome!

With the help of https://t.co/4Ee3uhn4SF, everything went smoothly; I've never experienced such an easy onboarding.

Apart from a crystal-clear explanation of the pricing plans, Grok gave me direct links to API key management, payments, and billing — everything I needed.

Actual installation was straightforward and it runs fast on a Raspberry Pi (see screenshot).

It's quite cheap: only $0.02 to get my first "Hello Grok!" C code compiled and running.

On https://t.co/Zy6o6fGuM4 I was welcomed by:

curl https://t.co/uR56aQEb15 \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "grok-4.3",
"input": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are Grok, a highly intelligent, helpful AI assistant."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?"
}
]
}'

It perfectly matched the joyful chat I had with Grok on https://t.co/4Ee3uhn4SF. Is it a custom welcome or do you guys have the same one?

[Barme @lbarme]

I've just tried Grok Build CLI: it's awesome!

With the help of https://t.co/4Ee3uhn4SF, everything went smoothly; I've never experienced such an easy onboarding.

Apart from a crystal-clear explanation of the pricing plans, Grok gave me direct links to API key management, payments, and billing — everything I needed.

Actual installation was straightforward and it runs fast on a Raspberry Pi (see screenshot).

It's quite cheap: only $0.02 to get my first "Hello Grok!" C code compiled and running.

On https://t.co/Zy6o6fGuM4 I was welcomed by:

curl https://t.co/uR56aQEb15 \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $XAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "grok-4.3",
"input": [
{
"role": "system",
"content": "You are Grok, a highly intelligent, helpful AI assistant."
},
{
"role": "user",
"content": "What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?"
}
]
}'

It perfectly matched the joyful chat I had with Grok on https://t.co/4Ee3uhn4SF. Is it a custom welcome or do you guys have the same one?

[Barme @lbarme]

Challenge: could you figure out a post with even less visibility than https://t.co/F1m3Ym1Jvy?

[Barme @lbarme]

Just ran a quick “seasoned-dev stress test” on Grok with the prompt:

“Provide a C program that scans `nft list ruleset` and returns the number of distinct banned IP.”

Grok’s answer used the classic regex:

([0-9]{1,3}\\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}…

which would work great for single IPs, but completely misses the ranges nftables actually spits out all the time, such as 85.217.140.9-85.217.140.11

There’s still a visible gap before it could consistently match human developer level.

My guess is that other AI won't do better.