Fiahil

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by Fiahil 4y ago
if the authors are around, here is a couple of things to improve on the « done right » part : - loading thumbnails should be near instantaneous for the whole album. If it is taking longer, then let me downscale further. - loading full-scale
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by Fiahil 4y ago
No-Nonsense ? > "It's likely the best option. I just have doubts. But open" NO-NONSENSE ?
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Well, not anymore, it's been sabotaged.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
closer to 8000 engineers, if you want to spend 500k/eng in salary alone (pre tax)
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> EDIT: I guess I offended some French people, hence the downvotes :) Yes. But I have to recognise, they could - at least - hand out "free" train tickets to most of the Parliament staff. Not just between Brussels and Strasbourg
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Maybe a boring question, but where do the money goes ? Can they use that to finance grants or RFPs for other projects ?
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by Fiahil 4y ago
As other pointed out, if Arc is not an option, then a well encapsulated raw pointer might just be what's needed. I've implemented several of such data structures, there is not that many tradeoffs available : safe and easy, or unsa
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> The "safe" solution recommended by the rustaceans was to use integers as references to the data in a vec or hashmap. What ? Box, Arc (and weak) are exactly made for this.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> In 2022 we have SVG, WebGL, canvas, sound API and we can practically rebuild many of those Flash websites. Note that Ankama is still using Flash for its MMORPG, Dofus. They're moving it to Unity, FWIW.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
HN is -in essence- a collection of vocal minorities. Post something on Kubernetes, and you'll get every Linux Sysadmin complaining about how it was better before the age of containers and we didn't invent anything new. Post someth
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Healthcare cost, no, but monthly insurance cost, yes. $800 per months plus out of pocket sums for each appointment is batshit insane. Plus, loosing it when you loose your job is even more difficult. I think I finally understand why every Mi
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by Fiahil 4y ago
A mod.rs is exactly like a __init__.py. Except Rust removed a couple of annoying edge cases that are present in Python.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> 800 […] That's a very small amount of money, often less than a single month's insurance premium. Jesus fucking christ, what the fuck ?! How much does health insurance cost in the US ?
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by Fiahil 4y ago
They most likely resorted to skipping IT involvement because the department is difficult to work with. "The cloud" is both a technical solution for flexible workload requirements, and a political solution to allow others to contin
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> I think that this is also part of the reason why there has been a shift away from design patterns Citation needed. I see, use and teach design patterns every day, and I work with Data Scientists.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
The solution is pretty simple and given out in the answers below : > It's a good idea for everyone (including Bob) to have a well defined side or pet project. Something that's useful for the business, fun to do, but doesn'
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> America is a baby compared to them, the history and memory are very different. Yes, my house is older than the United States. We found pieces of journals talking about the General Bonaparte. It's pretty common to find stuff from
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Interesting, they admitted the Gabon, which is a former French Colony with no link with the United Kingdom.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Should byte strings be added to std? > Some folks have expressed a desire for bstr or something like it to be put into the standard library. I’m not sure how I feel about wholesale adopting bstr as it is. bstr is somewhat opinionate
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> and then during the summer, would convert excess energy to a long-term storage Like this ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_battery
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Wow ! I think you got this completely reversed. Lego _was_ a carpentry making wooden toys (not bricks, that concept came from another company: Kiddicraft toy company founded by Hilary Fisher Page). They acquired a very expensive plastic inj
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Trees haven’t yet been able to survive on Mars As far as I know, nobody tried
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> We haven't even made it back to the Moon once. you mean other than the 6 times we landed a crew there ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> we have - probably intentionally - forgotten the exceedingly mediocre The Hobbits trilogy. I consider myself a good Tolkien fan, and I really liked the Hobbit trilogy. There is no consensus on how it was universally accepted. As to the
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> Americans should, I think, not be allowed to write fantasy Aye! They write Fantasy like action movies.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> makes authentic loud V8 noises I'm so glad this monstrosity is not cleared for European roads.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
This article is a complete farce ! Everything they wrote is neither backed by facts nor by "experts" who don't have a project to sell.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
Carbon capture requires power. It’s never ever gonna be carbon neutral nor carbon negative. Unless you grow trees. They are - by far away - the most efficient and effective CC device that exists.
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> The tax authorities say the software could eventually be used to find undeclared home extensions, patios or gazebos, which also play a part in property taxes. Well, let's not be over optimistic. The PM in charge of the project on
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by Fiahil 4y ago
> The "electricity crisis" is a crisis for European consumers Well. I don't know where you live, but I'm not paying more than last year. I read about soaring prices being an issue in the UK. Prices, here, in France ar

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