Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I can't ignore that and accept it unconditionally for the sake of progress or productivity. I see very important problems emerging from it, and a general "yeah, whatever" vibe about it, especially from our governments. Perhaps I'm just an old man yelling at the clouds. So be it. 060
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Personally, AI affected my life by decreasing my appetite for coding. I'm currently questioning my career path. And I have a lot of artist friends being drastically affected by it. And I'm getting very concerning reports from teachers about its impact on kid's learning. 170
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I'm quite critical of AI. What I observe though, is a much more absolutist stand from the "pro-AI", and a more "let's think this through" mindset from the "anti-AI" crowd. Maybe it's just a bias, but that's what I felt from numerous discussions I had, with the most open mind I could have. 210
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Super documentaire sur le légendaire groupe UZEB présentement à l'affiche. Je réécoute toute leur discographie. Une de mes chansons préférées, enregistrée en 1991 à la salle Wilfrid-Pelletier (Montréal): youtu.be/23AIokNIrcQyoutu.beUzeb – Uzeb Club (The Last Concert 1991) [Remastered]YouTube video by MalcoMix Fusion 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Je suis récemment allé à ma première conférence technique depuis la bulle IA. J'ai remarqué un certain schisme au sein des développeurs. Ça fait du bien de voir d'autres personnes IRL être critique du discours prophétique et de la concentration des pouvoirs. 010
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Oh, even more interesting! Maybe the hype and the doctrination around it ruined it for me. Perhaps I'll get to it more seriously someday. I mainly tried to read the "Nouvelle Français Courant" version, the Louis Segond version and the KJV. 100
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Sure, thanks for sharing! I can't read Hebrew and I'm not that much into it to spend the time to learn it, but I get your point. I was raised in a somewhat catholic family, so the Bible was presented to me in a very different way than you. 110
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I'm genuinely curious about why? I'm not religious, but I tried reading it a couple of times using different translations, and I just can't. It's so inconsistent, the pace is wild, some parts are just incoherent. I can't build empathy for anyone, even God seems ruthless. I'm not getting it... 100
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 27/04/2026You can go really far with a simple SM58, especially for voice. Good choice. 010
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I'm actually fluent in French. I'm also fluent in toki pona, just not in like the whole language, just the parts of the language that I use (which is none of it). mi sona lili e toki pona. 110
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 10/04/2026J'ai commencé à écouter le livre audio des Plouffe de Roger Lemelin, lu par Pierre Curzi. L'auteur est tellement un amoureux de Saint-Sauveur, je ferme les yeux et je m'imagine dans l'escalier Victoria avec Ovide et Rita. C'est tellement un beau roman de Québec 🥰 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Appliquer des signatures PGP sur mes commits avec mon nom est toujours un défi. 120
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 06/04/2026What a crazy story. Probably my favourite Pesci performance. I'm don't know how much he improvised in the text, he's so natural. I'm also in love with the colourful suits worn by De Niro. 141
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 06/04/2026I definitely prefer Casino to Goodfellas. The contrast between the colourful, sparkly Vegas to the downspiraling Ginger and the uncontrollable Nicky is simply perfect. 190
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Nice work! I might steal some of your ideas. I tracked my weight with Excel last summer and it was really effective, although my objective was much smaller (160lb to 150lb). Trends are definitely what to look for to keep motivated and adjusting. Cooking lessons were also a big factor for me. 010
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 13/03/2026I had to search for it 😅. I roughly knew what it sounded like, but couldn't come up with the spelling, and I don't know cyrillic. 011
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 12/03/2026« Il est foutu le temps des cathédrales. » - L. Plamondon 010
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 12/03/2026I hear colleagues praising AI agents as they used to praise promising junior engineers. Isn't it terribly saddening? Andy got his brand new Buzz Lightyear, forget about Woody. Except this time, Woody is an actual human being, eager to learn and grow. 110
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 12/03/2026My enjoyment of writing software has declined a lot recently. I feel like a dinosaur when I write everything by "hand", and I feel soulless when writing with AI. I don't recognize myself in my work, even with a lot of manual editing. I don't have an attachment to what I produce with AI. 111
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Your text resonated with me. When I was a student, teachers were lecturing us on the software craft, saying we were artisans, comparing us to sculptors of cathedrals. Our cathedrals feel like khrouchtchevka nowadays. 210
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I just watched "Shall We Dance", the original 1996 version by Masayuki Suo. What a beautiful movie ❤️ 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Je la trouve très jolie et humaine cette nouvelle définition du romantisme. 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 26/01/2026They rarely played together after Genesis, but there's also a performance of "Sledgehammer" with Phil on the drums at the Prince's Trust Rock Gala in 1988. Peter was tired vocally though, it was just after the "This Way Up" tour (the video you shared was from this tour). 020
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The studio version has Phil Collins on the drums in the chaotic middle section. The whole Athens show is masterpiece to watch. Welcome to my special interest. 120
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 07/01/2026C'est intéressant le karaoké à travers la francophonie. Goldman est très populaire au Québec pour "J'irai où tu iras" avec Céline. Balavoine, c'est le nom que les québécois ne reconnaissent pas quand ils choisissent "Tous les cris les S.O.S." (popularisée par Marie-Denise Pelletier ici). 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Balavoine chantait beaucoup trop aiguë pour le commun des mortels imho. 100
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 04/01/2026First movie I saw in 2026, "Marty Supreme" was magnificent. Great storyline, the best performance of Chalamet, awesome soundtrack, great characters. I loved it, 10/10. 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 01/11/2025"Je l'aime a mourir" on the album "Les chemins de traverse". 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I fear a generation raised with LLM. Their mental model unchallenged, their opinions outsourced to a comforting algorithm, their lives detached from human interactions. Maybe I'm overreacting, but currently, my feelings towards it is fear. 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Universities and schools are writing guidelines on LLM usage in class without even considering if we actually want LLM in our education system. It's marketed as inevitable, with a strong FOMO culture and we're buying it. Current studies (sparsed) are suggesting that LLM are detrimental in education. 100
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Merci du partage, ça fait du bien à lire. Remplacer la dopanime artificielle par le confort de la sensualité, reconnecter l'humain à l'humain. Ça peut sonner bobo, mais c'est tellement nécessaire. 110
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 19/07/2025- The subject is a true Quebecer, his heart is in Québec. - Pis y'a l'Ontario dans l'cul aussi J'espère que tu as apprécié la leçon de sacre. 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I'm not a fan of Carney, he's very disconnected from the reality of Québec. He represents the classic Toronto banker who considers Québec to be a nuisance. I'm also disappointed by the right shift of the Liberals. Campaigning on tax cuts and eliminating carbon tax won't get my vote. 120
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 28/04/2025My understanding of the situation is that he captured the strategic vote against the Conservatives. NDP and Bloc are getting washed away to make sure Poilièvre and his trumpian discourse is not elected. We'll see the results tonight. 120
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Absolutely! For American companies, Canada is cheap labour with a high degree of education. We (Canadians) subsidize those companies by paying for accessible healthcare and education, while giving them tax cuts (R&D tax credits, low corporate tax that is easily avoidable, etc.) 010
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 31/03/2025So take some time today to take a picture of your home, your office, a loved one cooking, your child doing their homework, your parents watching TV, or whatever. You'll be happy to have those pictures in a couple of years. 010
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I often take pictures of special events, of travels, of peculiar happenstance, but the pictures I cherish the most are often the normal days of yesteryear. It looks uninteresting when you live it, but it gets emotional to look back at it in the future. 100
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025The equipment you're referring to is a synchroscope, a very simple but interesting device. It usually comes with a dial that rotates left if the generator goes too fast, or right if it's too slow, to help you adjust the governor. 080
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Yes, that feeling is caused by the alternating current passing through your body. It's also the humming sound you hear near transformers (60 Hz is around a musical B, but flat, 50 Hz is a G, a little sharp). 120
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025It does not. Usually, when you are islanded, there's no power from the utility, so no frequency to sync with. Your inverter will try to limit the disturbance when switching between modes. When reconnecting, it will sync with the grid before closing the point of common coupling. 070
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025It's quite more complicated than that. To become grid-forming (to work in islanded mode), an inverter needs advanced control algorithms, it has to do protection with limited fault-current, it lacks inertia, etc. The transition between grid-forming and grid-following also requires precise timing. 060
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025The number of poles of a synchronous generators dictates that. f = N * P / 120 e.g. a 2-pole generator rotating at 3600 rpm generates a 60 Hz frequency. You can also add a gearbox to add an additional ratio, or to adjust variable speed (e.g. wind turbines). 070
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 30/03/2025You might enjoy this series: youtube.com/playlist?lis...youtube.comsynchronization generators with the grid - YouTube 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 16/03/2025As a comparison, here are data for my city (Québec City) for 2017. The bars are "car driver, car passenger, public transport, active transport (bike + walking), car and public transport". We are so bad here... 000
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 16/03/2025As a tourist, Wien was really comfortable to travel in. The extensive tram system is so much more comfortable than the buses. But there's still a lot of car-oriented streets and intersections. Bikes didn't seem as popular compared to other European city I've been to. 210
Émile Grégoire @emgre.bsky.social · 25/01/2025« Ils ne sont grands que parce que nous sommes à genoux. » - Étienne de La Boétie 000