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by Loic 5y ago
In the French countryside where my father is coming from, every house had an external bell for the diner/lunch whatever important call. You quickly learnt to recognize the different tones and ways to ring the bell. My parents had also
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by Loic 5y ago
For art, you experience it if it resonates with you. So, for me art is first an experience. But going back to the original article, it says: "A well-appointed kitchen allows you to cook healthy meals for yourself rather than ordering
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by Loic 5y ago
Comté . Note that it is very interesting that to make good Swiss Gruyère, you need Montbéliarde cow milk. At the turn of the last century, farmers from France effectively passed calves across the border by carrying them on the back and doi
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by Loic 5y ago
Maybe because I am older, I am also creating check lists. I have check lists for a lot of repeated activities in my life. For example: - I go skiing every week, I have one day, one evening, one week ski check lists for my equ
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by Loic 5y ago
Denmark is pretty bad with respect to renewables. They have increased their oil consumption in the past years, they have increased the so called "other renewables" which is in fact, burning wastes because they recycle nothing. The
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by Loic 5y ago
This one: https://www.lenovo.com/de/de/accessories-and-monitors/monito...
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by Loic 5y ago
My comment refers to the specific abuse with forced slave work conditions for the jailed population in California. Nothing more.
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by Loic 5y ago
Definitely! Human rights are the same for all humans.
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by Loic 5y ago
Lenovo ThinkVision. I have two 24", each in 1920x1200 as setup, I am satisfied with the quality but I must confess that I am just coding and doing little graphical work.
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by Loic 5y ago
RIIR : Rewrite It In Rust. Just because I had to lookup this, for me, new acronym.
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by Loic 5y ago
I am not sure, doing my business taxes in Germany (of course not the same as here), a lot of rules are applied in a way or another depending on the majority stake holder in the company. So, if the subsidiary is fully owned by a US company,
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by Loic 5y ago
3 boys at home, all with a COVID-19 infection last December. The one already after the puberty got long COVID, the one "in the start of puberty" had only mild long COVID and the youngest one (7) was asymptomatic. Some friends noti
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by Loic 5y ago
I have a T480 as my daily driver, my kids are using my old X220 and I still have an X60s around to experiment. I really like all of them. Interestingly, my son, 14, told me, even after using desktops at school, the Mac we have at home and p
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by Loic 5y ago
Really nice work, but why an @gmail.com email when you spend so much money and time on creating a unique identity like that? Just get a domain and " own " your identity end-to-end. Yes, "own", because a domain is just re
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by Loic 5y ago
Maybe recognized that women are not objects to be used and abused by people with money and authority. This is sadly something you find everywhere in this world, but at least, in some countries, women can hope to get the justice to investiga
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by Loic 5y ago
Nearly off-topic remark. The pandemic pushed our family to get a Netflix account. Yesterday, I did a small review of my router logs. Before Netflix we had an average 60GB download traffic per month, since Netflix we are at around 400GB per
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by Loic 5y ago
The OCR on the Supernote is offline. This is something very convenient for me.
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by Loic 5y ago
Some people say that it has a higher latency but that the coming update (in beta now[0]) is very very close to the reMarkable to the point of being hard to see a difference. For me personally, on the stable kernel and as a first time user o
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by Loic 5y ago
You do not have the same level of access as a reMarkable. This is for sure. But they are also very proactive with the end-users, listening a lot to the feedback (they have a dedicated subreddit). So you do not have an open device but a dev
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by Loic 5y ago
If you are not sure which gadget could be the one for you, take also a look at the Supernote[0]. I have been using one (A5X) for the past month with a Lamy EMR and I really really enjoy it. It improves my note taking. I still have 7 Moleski
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by Loic 5y ago
A very nice video about the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q
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by Loic 5y ago
> Such domain specific language s can serve to increase the speed of communication but more often than not they are simply used for obfuscation purposes. (I think I missed the self referencing joke).
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by Loic 5y ago
I am using and paying for NextDNS together with Firefox and uBlock Origin. Pretty painless setup. It works pretty well and as I have setup NextDNS to be the DNS resolver used by my access point, the family get the benefits of it without kno
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by Loic 5y ago
People with passion. JPL people were/are (and I hope will continue to be) believer in the purpose of what they are doing.
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by Loic 5y ago
A simple A4 piece of paper: +-------------+-------------+-------------+ | Mon.| Thu.| Todo| | | | | | | | | +--------
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by Loic 5y ago
My first Thinkpad was a T41P, in between a series from the Xs, then back to T now that the Ts are so easy to carry. I never used Windows on them, first a mix of different distros, then when Ubuntu was released, Ubuntu. I never had any issue
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"has zero positive effect on the environment" and a lot of negative effects: pesticides, fertilizers in water, monoculture bad for the animals, etc. Growing seasonal plants with sole purpose being biomass energy (burnt or whatever
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by Loic 5y ago
For semiconductors, Munich is not the best place to be in even if they have some talent. The best place at the moment in Germany[0] would be Dresden. [0]: In France, Grenoble could be a good place. Anyway, everywhere in the EU would be good
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by Loic 5y ago
GIGO, the first thing I learnt, as I entered the industry 20 years ago. This was from a 60 year old engineer who told me that experience is only a nice name for "all the @#$% I made I will try not to make again". A very nice thing
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by Loic 5y ago
This "delivering medicine in inaccessible spots" is simply not true. We can already deliver Coca-Cola everywhere on Earth reliably.

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