Stéphane Charette 🇨🇦

Single dad, C++17 (or newer) developer, French speaker, English writer, Canadian, ex-Québecer, génération Passe-Partout, Ubuntu user, computer vision, neural networks, maintainer of the Darknet/YOLO codebase. 328 ppm CO₂.

Looking for people to chat with. Or people to bike with. CISHET.

https://ccoderun.ca/stephane/

West coast of Canada (BC), PST/PDT. 🇨🇦

Neurodivergent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity#Neurodivergent

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2026-05-12 05:02:24 UTC

Norton Utilities had really neat command-line tools. Their text-mode window library was much nicer than the typical block ones used by many tools. And they did something funky with the mouse.
At the time I suspected they were dynamically modifying some little-used ASCII characters to display a mouse cursor that looked like a graphical mouse. Maybe 4 ASCII characters, and then drawing the mouse over text. This is the only way I can think they could show a "graphical" mouse while running in text mode. #DOS

2026-05-06 21:22:28 UTC

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@nprofile…mv7s What are you running (and where) that you're talking about electric bills in the $700 range?
Is this for an office? Not a home, right?

2026-04-23 07:36:53 UTC

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@nprofile…gr74 @nprofile…zrcw Payphones still exist in Australia?

2026-03-29 13:23:26 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj I'm not sure I follow. Let's switch genders here for a second:
Are you saying that "women's only" sport clubs should allow men in if those men want to be there, and if they meet the entry conditions?

2026-03-25 02:30:52 UTC

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@nprofile…dyu0 Well now I'm even more confused. Why were you skeptical about underwire bras?

2026-03-25 01:33:46 UTC

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@nprofile…dyu0 I'll venture -- for those of us who don't know much about bras, what is the difference between a "normal" underwire bra, and a "sport" underwire bra?

2026-02-24 20:01:10 UTC

For the Y2K, we weren't allowed to change any of the original code running on the AS/400. That code was always off-limit, and had existed since the 1970s as far as I know.
We created an intermediate tool that would look at transactions going into and out of the database.
When data was coming out, we'd convert the dates to 4-digit years. Then when data was going in, we'd convert 4-digit years back to 2-digit years.
I have no idea if 26 years later that is still in place. I suspect so. But the thought that banks will authorize AI and "vibe coding" to magically replace all this off-limit code running on the back end is hard to believe.

2026-02-21 00:29:21 UTC

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@nprofile…pfuj Can you settle the question?
(My vote is the many 3x repeated sequences in listA is not random, but I'm not dedicated enough to pull out a die and record 100 rolls to see if that is likely to happen a bunch of times.)

2025-04-02 23:50:05 UTC

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@nprofile…ug6l Sort alphabetically? Old.
Sort by continent? Nope.
Sort numerically using percentage? Meh.
Sort by length of name? Maybe?
Sort by length of name when printed using a proportional font? Challenge accepted!

2023-10-25 14:20:51 UTC

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@npub1jc0…sldg I thought you were kidding, so I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103 I had no idea ISO covered such things.