Bayart

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by Bayart 5y ago
The problem is that hardly anyone knows what's the actual crime rate in China, how efficient it actually is or how the demographic situation is really unfolding. Information is intentionally opaque to the point nobody, whether in China
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by Bayart 5y ago
I had problems with WSL on my newer laptop, and it all came down to disabling Secure Boot.
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by Bayart 5y ago
I've been tempted to get one of those for my coding hours as I'm back in the office and can't use the whiteboard I have at home (on top of having a hefty amount of technical books and articles I want to get through in PDF), b
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by Bayart 5y ago
>there's no a European common structure. There are European corporate entities nowadays. See SE[0], SCE[1] and SPE[2]. The SPE is what you'd call an LLC, GmbH, SARL etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So
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by Bayart 5y ago
Instant bank transfers over SEPA for one, without third party payment processor involved.
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by Bayart 5y ago
There no massive capital flow like in the US because nobody's putting their entire life savings and pensions on the markets.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Try living in a country without roads, electric grid and water management. Those aren't granted.
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by Bayart 5y ago
That's because we think of unicorns as horses, but in the Middle Ages and Renaissance they thought of them as goats. Cue the stories of unicorns falling asleep in the lap of virgins.
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by Bayart 5y ago
On the positive side of things, the notion that performance is multivarious and means different things to different contexts has really sunk in with the general tech demographic and we don't see much of the "one big number that su
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by Bayart 5y ago
Every time you move code away from one layer, you end up using that to add code on top of it and increase the complexity you can handle. There's no replacement for the drive to make stuff.
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by Bayart 5y ago
To be fair to Americans and to ourselves, we have often different and conflicting notions of what quality of live entails. That results in quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. For example we don't value square footage nearly as much
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by Bayart 5y ago
Cheap capital and the corresponding large market valuations don't come out of thin air. The corollary is very loose monetary policies and the financialisation of every aspect of the economy to drive capital to the market, in particular
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by Bayart 5y ago
The paper, if anyone wants to save some clicks : https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00990
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by Bayart 5y ago
>This isn't about changing the native language to English, France gets to keep its French language Ireland kept its Gaelic language. And nobody speaks it.
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by Bayart 5y ago
That's the trick : English is _not_ neutral. It is perceived, with quite a bit of truth, as a vehicle for English-speaking culture (duh) and in particular American strategies and worldviews. The way specifically American social topics
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by Bayart 5y ago
French writing is quite phonetic and regular, but there's an extra layer of etymological orthography which confuses people who need to learned digraphs and trigraphs. But English has them too, and there's much more irregular.
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by Bayart 5y ago
>a reasonable choice would be to opt for languages related to cultures of more practical rationality That's essentialist nonsense. How are German or Scandinavian cultures more « practically rational » in an empirical sense ? Is ther
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by Bayart 5y ago
Funny to see so much drab posturing about our supposed « language entitlement » while almost calling for languages to be rolled over and wiped out by English. I'm quite certain the position of French-Canadians has little to do with « e
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by Bayart 5y ago
You're absolutely right, the painting, or whatever you call that, of the UI elements of Vivaldi itself are definitely sluggish. I was thinking of the normal in-page stuff. My apologies if I misled anyone.
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by Bayart 5y ago
>may have to re-patch after every browser update I remember having some kind of flag on pacman, back when I was using Arch, to do that automagically.
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by Bayart 5y ago
Vivaldi is exactly as slow or fast as any Chromium-based browser. A this point I've surrendered to the notion of the web never getting faster, but just eating away any efficiency gains in computing. I like Vivaldi for the feature set.
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by Bayart 5y ago
From working with Germans, I have not noticed any real difference in work patterns or efficiency compared to my home country (France). I doubt there's much variance accross Europe as a whole. It seems their reputation in that respect
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by Bayart 5y ago
I've got his Systems Performance book, and it's really fantastic. This guy is incredible. I really need to pick his BPF one. He's got a good blog too [1] ! [1] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/
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by Bayart 5y ago
Latin America isn't North America. There were large populations of agrarian peoples used as a workforce by the Spanish. And these people weren't wiped out in most cases. They mixed with the colonizers to varying degrees and are no
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by Bayart 5y ago
>The thing that has always perplexed me about "Latinx" is that the those pushing that formulation are grafting what is a Germanic language construction onto a Latin-based word. To be fair, English is extremely accustomed to ety
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by Bayart 5y ago
Such stories always strike me as quite incredible and conducive to mental instability. Why would anyone get so invested in a company aside from major shareholders ? These places don't need a culture, they're not nations, you don
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by Bayart 5y ago
Yes, that's a definite possibility. I feel like it's less of a risk with a videogame that's got scope limitations, especially in relations to the system it has to run on, but it happens regularly with all sorts of books, mo
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by Bayart 5y ago
That's similar to the timeframe of the ITER/DEMO/PROTO project, if you bake in the delays.
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by Bayart 5y ago
That's clever. A uint64 doesn't have more that 20 digits, so I'm guessing returning a uint8 over a uint32 might be better in memory-bound cases.
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by Bayart 5y ago
A few days ago I had to write a bit of code in C# with an int to string conversion, and since I never use that language and I'm not used to OOP I completely looked over the ToString() method every primitive type has, I wrote a dumb con

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