Renaud

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by Renaud 8y ago
20 years ago, the MTRC in Hong Kong started to install platform screen doors to seal off the platforms and reduce their air conditioning bill as most of the cool air was of course just going into the tunnels. That investment paid for itself
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by Renaud 8y ago
ublock in browsers, a PiHole at home, ad blockers on your phone, and duckduckgo as your search engine. I'm basically free from seeing online ads and from sharing too much of my life away.
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by Renaud 8y ago
Kindness appears to me as the decisive element for a successful relationship. It’s not the only one of course since there are many other factors that must be handled successfully (managing sexual satisfaction, financial stability, common l
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by Renaud 9y ago
You can already go a long way without as much technical commitment with a PiHole setup that simply poison DNS queries. It can't compete with the total control you get with crafting specific firewall rules but it has most of the same ef
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by Renaud 9y ago
That's strange, I get a sponsored content like every 5 to 6 pictures. It's annoying to the point that it's about to be the last straw for me. While there are talented photographers on Instagram, the app is really poor as a wa
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by Renaud 9y ago
Incompetence should probably be number one. There is a big difference between someone making a mistake due to unclear or incomplete process and someone doing that mistake because they are not competent to perform that task. This then raises
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by Renaud 9y ago
No, you filter on people’s ability to communicate about what they already know.
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by Renaud 9y ago
Probably the same way if the photographer refused service to someone of colour. It could be racism or the photographer could just being busy.
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by Renaud 9y ago
Being an hermit doesn't automatically make you insightful. There are various reasons for someone to live away from everyone else. Some of these have to do with mental health. I have the sentiment that without some philosophical reason
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by Renaud 9y ago
Yes, Bose QC BT headphones are good. So now you need $300 headphones to solve a problem that didn't exist in the first place. And 2 inputs are good but it's clearly a pain once you want to connect more devices, say a laptop, phone
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by Renaud 9y ago
Caguer is from the south-west. It's derived from he latin cacare, to shit.
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by Renaud 9y ago
I believe solatic means that once a method to crack Face ID is found, all devices are suddenly at risk.
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by Renaud 9y ago
Nice for Tree Style Tabs, which I find essential. However, I'm worried about some other big extensions that have really been useful not being able to be ported to WebExtensions, like DownThem'All, the developer is pretty pissed at
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by Renaud 9y ago
Hmmm Doctors Without Borders ? Humanist and secular organisation that does pretty good?
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by Renaud 9y ago
I don't know where you got that so many people in the EU rejoice at the defection of the UK. It is a sad state of affair that gets the rest if the EU sad and angry. I don't see what there is to rejoice about, although I'm su
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by Renaud 9y ago
Was wondering the same recently and found this presentation fairly balanced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7B3z-l8bJ8
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by Renaud 9y ago
You seem to forget that the US is about 5x the population of the UK. Voluntary donations are nice but assuming generosity in the US and UK being the same, the UK would end up with 5x less funds than what PBS and NPR have (about US$550 and
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by Renaud 9y ago
The various services had different peicing tiers. 3615 was the most used and would cost a few francs per minutes. Some sites would force you to spend some time on their 3615 number so you could accumulate 'minutes' of use through
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by Renaud 9y ago
People had a minitel per family, not per person, so nearly 10 million minitels make for a pretty good penetration rate.
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by Renaud 9y ago
You hinted at the reasons: the work they provide is useful and they need it to provide income to their families. The system is skewed against them but it doesn't mean you have to take advantage of the lack of protective rights to abuse
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by Renaud 9y ago
Here in HK I sponsor the visa of a Domestic Helper from the Philippines. Her situation is obviously better that Lola but the cards are really stacked against them. They are literally second-class citizens: their visa doesn't entitle th
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by Renaud 10y ago
Rust is certainly interesting but it's very new and it still has a way to go to achieve the breadth of hardware support it needs to replace C/C++. C is a thin layer over hardware. There is a reason it hasn't yet been replaced
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by Renaud 10y ago
4K UHD is 3840 × 2160. 8K UHD is 7680 × 4320.
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by Renaud 10y ago
There was an art project done a few years ago using 7-segment displays and animations, looked quite cool too: http://hackaday.com/2013/11/21/7-segment-display-matrix-visu...
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by Renaud 10y ago
2m is what they demoed if I'm right. The power attenuation actually varies a lot and is dependent on ultrasound frequency, temperature, humidity, air pressure... You get better transmission at low frequencies, but below 100kHz you risk
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by Renaud 10y ago
Precious little technical details don't inspire much confidence on the performance of the product. After years of research and controversy we get a demo that shows basically very little. To trigger a charge detection on a phone, you on
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by Renaud 10y ago
The call is for more engineers and scientists to be part of the decision process in the hope that they would be able to balance the anti-science streak that seesm representative of the current political make-up. No-one is saying that politi
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by Renaud 10y ago
A few years ago, I splurgled for an 8-bay Synology NAS and never regretted it. It has been rock solid for the past 5 years, all drives in RAID6 I had some drive failures at some point (a bad WD batch) and even though I messed up and removed
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by Renaud 10y ago
Outside of the US, is this really a thing? I live in Hong Kong and wouldn't even know where to get that dish here. If it's as good as it's made to be, it's a shame it's not more widely available.
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by Renaud 10y ago
Thank you for this clarification. I was interested when the parent mentioned KNX as a standard for these types of setup, but quite disappointed to realise it was another of these "open standards with high barrier of entry". Took m

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