Loic

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by Loic 9y ago
I had a discussion about crypto currencies with a pretty high level EU diplomat from the trade commission. His point was simple, as soon as they will consider the crypto currencies as a medium to escape taxes and general "rules" (
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by Loic 9y ago
curl -s -D - https://www.ceondo.com -o /dev/null | grep Terry I think we are many fans having this running since 2015.
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by Loic 9y ago
Quoting the quote: > "My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I'd had enough," Prince wrote. "Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision." I und
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by Loic 9y ago
In the company blog post[0] one can read: "The tipping point for us making this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim that we were secretly supporters of their ideology." If this is true, then I agree wi
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by Loic 9y ago
As a French living in Germany I love it too. Restricting the wonderful differences between languages just because of the artificial "keyboard entry issue" is a lowest common denominator approach which has no sense at all. Can you
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by Loic 9y ago
The big problem with all these comparisons of countries is that you compare a 320 million people country (USA) with a less than 6 million people country (Denmark). It simply does not make sense, we should compare the USA with the complete E
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by Loic 9y ago
It could be Invergordon. I was there last summer and have seen quite some wind turbines ready to be dispatched for installation.
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by Loic 9y ago
By framing this as "luddite/anti-tech" you do not address the fundamental question: Do you really want your life to have such high dependency on a single corporation? I am in no ways anti-tech, but the history has shown that
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by Loic 9y ago
It is coming from the canary birds in the coal mines or in submarines[0]. They have a higher sensibility to CO than humans. This is now part of the common language to say that you sacrifice an animal or "something" to get early wa
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by Loic 9y ago
Thanks a lot! This is exactly what I need, this will ease my arguments when I need to port/bring some "Matlab" code/models into a GUI tremendously. Now, /me is dreaming of a cross-platform WPF with Python as languag
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by Loic 9y ago
For our system database[0] I am using BoltDB. It is a search engine with the database updated nearly in batch, so write performance is a non issue. The Go/BoltDB custom index has been running without any issues under moderate load fo
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by Loic 9y ago
This is great, this will help getting support of a Python "stack" for enterprise projects. At the moment I am mostly doing them in C#/VB.net and always need to discuss a lot to get Python acceptance when scientific workload i
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by Loic 9y ago
Scriptable and available for anybody. That my contacts in WhatsApp can correlate my activities with my status, this is part of the purpose of WhatsApp, that any stranger having my mobile phone from my business contact can do it, this is ano
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by Loic 9y ago
Our family live in a socialist country as seen through the US American lens: Germany. Germany is interesting, depending of your annual income and your work contract, you can either go with a private health insurance and a public health insu
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by Loic 9y ago
On mobile (my phone) the ads are within the flow of the article, which at first confused me because each ad is nearly a full screen. On desktop it is way better.
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by Loic 9y ago
I cannot upvote you enough. From my personal experience producing "enterprise" code for the past 20 years with languages starting at Fortran and ending up with VB.net with all the Python/C/C++/Visual C++/Delphi
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by Loic 10y ago
After about 10 years of consulting in the field of thermodynamics, my week of work has now settled to 25h. I simply cannot be efficient after 4 to 5h of intensive work in this field. What is interesting is that not a single customer complai
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by Loic 10y ago
I do the same between Paris and Essen in Germany. There is a direct Thalys train connection. Door to door, it takes me the exact same time to reach Paris La Défense with the train as with flying from Düsseldorf. In the Thalys I have a good
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by Loic 10y ago
Side remark: All the methods exposed here requires you to have a good password. In my case, I am using a Yubikey set with a single long fixed password on it + the normal password I can remember. So, to login/unlock, I type in my passwo
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by Loic 10y ago
The editors of the journal are the ones selecting the reviewers. It is a small community, if you are a good reviewer, the chance that your own papers get accepted is getting up because of course, the editor will find the right reviewers for
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by Loic 10y ago
I have been working for the past 7 years with a blind programmer. With a "tactile" watch, he can quickly know what time is it without minimal interaction with the hardware (open the lid, touch the watch, close the lid) and without
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by Loic 10y ago
Because I am doing a lot of numerical code in Fortran using the Intel compiler on Windows for production and GCC/GNU Fortran for prototyping on Linux I was a bit scared by the title. This is a problem with the equality comparison with
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by Loic 10y ago
Yes, full of contradictions, like the journalists are good at making deep work in pieces of 10 minutes where just before this is the definition of multitasking reducing the quality of deep work. Every single page is contradicting another in
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by Loic 10y ago
For the past few years, I have been using a mix of rsync against an in-house and an external server + encrypted USB drives[0]. The key to encrypt the external drives is using a simple algorithm based on the serial number of the drive and a
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by Loic 10y ago
I will need to dig into the implementation of the hash function, it must be a nice read as the speed shows that it is definitely well optimized! Thank you.
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by Loic 10y ago
The question is more, what do you want as result? Suppose you search in your 8TB database of molecules the 1000 molecules most similar to a given one, you have 16 cores, you cut the 8TB in 500GB skunks, preload continuously 1GB of molecules
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by Loic 10y ago
What is the algorithm used to join the tables? Is it a hash join on `id` and `k` or using the fact that the ids are sorted and using a kind of galloping approach?
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by Loic 10y ago
In my case the turnover is around 100k€. The cost are based on turnover for most of them. For the general question about rules etc. At my level, it is a non problem because everything is taken into account by my accountant. It means, it is
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by Loic 10y ago
Because it is all "vetted" by a registered accountant which is taking liability if the reporting is not don the right way. You can cut on the monthly fee for VAT/salary etc. by doing it yourself but if you consider that it co
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by Loic 10y ago
For the context: 7 years running a UK limited from outside the UK (until 2014) and 3 years running a GmbH from Germany (now). In both cases, I am a chemical engineer and I am doing mostly programming/consulting work[0]. At the end of t

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