Xavier Olive

Research scientist. Maps 🌍, code 🐍🦀 and data visualisation 😎. I keep an eye in the sky 🛩️, an ear for @fipradio 🎺 and a foot ready for next trail 🏃‍♂️🏔️

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@OliSsay @BB27000 Sinon ca finit en "eux ils font pas d'effort, moi je galère, je vois pas pourquoi j'en ferais"

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@OliSsay @BB27000 En fait oui et non, il faut montrer que tous les domaines font des efforts pour que ce chacun accepte d'en faire à son échelle. C'est bien pour ça que l'aviation fait des efforts aussi, même si ça ne représente pas grand chose au total ces 30% de 2%

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@OliSsay @BB27000 Après il faut aussi rapporter les 2% à la proportion de population qui utilise l'aérien... pareil pour les jets privés, même effet d'échelle

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@OliSsay @BB27000 Je suis peut-être biaisé mais j'ai l'impression que l'aérien donne aussi le bâton pour se faire battre en voulant être exemplaire partout. On va chercher des probas à 10^-9 en safety donc on ne s'arrête pas à 2% d'émission et on ... les mouches avec les contrails derrière.

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@OliSsay @BB27000 Mais du coup de l'extérieur quand le public entend des valeurs absolues tout seul dans les bouchons dans son SUV il pense forcément "oh l'avion ça pollue alors"

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@badlogicgames So actually you prompted your agent and vibecoded flask 😜

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@github @code So cool, now I can prompt while I drive, while I queue at the supermarket, while I poop, during the shower, before sleeping, when I wake up, during social and family time, and even during my meditation session 💪👍

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@github @code So cool, now I can prompt while I drive, while I queue at the supermarket, while I poop, during the shower, before sleeping, when I wake up, during social and family time, and even during my meditation session 💪👍

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@mitsuhiko @badlogicgames wow thank you both for the quick answer. I think I am at the same step, the super buggy patch :D thanks for everything already

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

Hi @badlogicgames @mitsuhiko is there a plan to support the "click moves the cursor" in pi-agent (like they have in opencode for instance), even low priority? i am now trying the plugin approach but afraid it might break more things than it really resolves...

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@LucasDestrem @amazingmap C'est écrit dans le texte :)

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

Honestly @suunto, I am super happy with the hardware, the swift service and the attention, but please work on your website, it's a disaster... Even the satisfaction survey is bad!

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

Great overall experience with @suunto technical support. Navigate their 💩 website with catastrophic UI was 👎. But once the issue was filed on Tuesday, DHL came home on Wednesday, and came again the next Wednesday with repaired watch + clear explanations of what was fixed 😃

[Mario Zechner @badlogicgames]

recommended reading.

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@badlogicgames Why not just ignore?

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

AI slop is good, actually. Slop is what enables fast parallel experimentation. The etiquette and skill is understanding the boundaries of where slop exists and the extent to which it should be cleaned up and how.

A few examples:

I’m working on the internals of some system right now. The API and GUI of this thing is fully zero shame slop. It’s horrible. But it lets me focus on the core quality while shipping a usable piece of alpha quality software to testers (transparent about the slop frontend).

Similarly, this system has plugins. We sent agents in Ralph loops overnight to generate dozens of plugins. The plugins are slop. The quality is bad. The plugin API/SDK is absolutely not done.

But we can test a full GUI with a full plugin ecosystem. When we change the API, we can regenerate them all. The cost of change is just tokens, the velocity is incomparable to before.

I built Terraform. We tested and shipped TF 0.1 with about 3 very weak providers. Because we ran out of time. Building was slow. And when we changed our SDK the cost was immense. Totally different today, 10 years later. Today, I would’ve slop generated 100 providers (again, with transparency and cleanup later, but just to prove it out).

As an anti example, I would not PR this (without prior warning) to another project. I would not throw this onto customers without full review or transparency (as I’m already doing). I would not accept first pass slop. It’s almost never right.

Slop is a tool. And like anything else it’s not blanket bad or good. The context is everything.

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@will_owen9 From a 🐓 point of view, I would say Bath today was better than Leinster yesterday. But May 22 is another day and that will be a new match... so let's see 🏉 😃

[Naudin Christophe @NaudinChristoph]

Je crois que les gens ne réalisent vraiment pas ce que ça veut dire, et les conséquences en cascade que cela entraînera.
Réfléchissez y quand vous affirmerez que, de toute façon, le service public est déjà fasciste, donc que ce n’est pas bien grave.

[Xavier Olive @x00live]

@purcoozio @jblrugby @will_owen9 These days Serin > Dupont > White