Renaud

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by Renaud 11y ago
I've removed Flash entirely from my computers. I was afraid that it would degrade my experience, but I'm barely missing it. Sure there are a few sites that insist on using flash for video or some old games, but I'm ok with th
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by Renaud 11y ago
The user benefits as well: if you have multiple machines in your home, only one set of updates will be downloaded and all your machines will share it. Until now, each machine had to download its own updates.
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by Renaud 11y ago
That's not really the same thing, you are comparing a fancy hot water pot with an automated tea maker that holds actual tea and can blend it in individual cups. Producing hot water at the right temperature is not the complex part here,
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by Renaud 11y ago
Said it elsewhere, but there is an interesting experiment in one city in France where the new mayor removed all billboards from the city's grounds. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france&
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by Renaud 11y ago
I'm sure it has happened in other places as well but recently, the new mayor of Grenoble, France, didn't renew the public advertisement contract with J.C.Decaux and removed all billboards from public space. http://www.t
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by Renaud 11y ago
And many banks too.
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Fortunately not reaching Beijing's pollution levels, at least not as often, yet.
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I presume that speed was the determining factor, not saving bytes. This may also present the advantage of being tweakable to avoid repeated sequences that better generator may naturally produce but are not perceived as 'random enough&#
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by Renaud 11y ago
I stand corrected. I don't remember what persuaded me to the contrary. It's nevertheless a daunting task compared to the experience you get as a user in many other countries.
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You can't hail a taxi in France. Either you wait at a designated spot that bears a Taxi sign, or you need to call for them. There are a few apps that work great in Paris like 'Taxis Bleus' and are more convenient than Uber si
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by Renaud 11y ago
Some proponents of Turkey joining the EU actually hope that being part of a more global economic and cultural whole would offer more opportunities for the Turks and temper Turkey's potential risk of becoming more religiously extreme.
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I can guess the headlines in the next few days: 'Rosemary tea cures depression'.
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by Renaud 12y ago
>What the camera was put there for was to gather evidence of people tampering or trying to steal mail. That may be true but the camera was positioned to systematically capture information about anyone leaving the facility. There is no me
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Sync encrypted copy of folders with cloud services(stefanstools.sourceforge.net)
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Definitely sounds like a country where I'd rather not live. A prison system built for maximizing profit can only fall into corruption. Rehabilitation, while being of the utmost importance to society, goes completely against the objecti
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by Renaud 12y ago
Instead of dowloading from Sourceforge (loaded with ads and its own devious 'installer'), CNET, Download, etc, there are no-crapware alternatives that offer more management tools as well (remembering your list of apps across machi
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by Renaud 12y ago
I am always utterly amazed by the level of incarceration in the US. Here is one of the 'top' country in the world, whatever metric you use for stable western democracies, and yet, a huge proportion of its population is spending o
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by Renaud 12y ago
What an amazingly satisfying result from simple, basic rules. If you were looking at these simple simulation without knowing what rules they follow, I'm pretty sure it would take a fair amount of efforts to discover them. Imagine how m
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by Renaud 12y ago
He's still doing it now, although just in 'maintenance mode' doing it 1 day per week instead of 2. He's maintaining a website and has done a couple of books on fasting, and the 5:2 diet in particular: http://t
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by Renaud 12y ago
I'm glad they accept donations in bitcoins (not converted). I've been donating some of my early-mined bitcoins to charities. I tend to be more generous with them than I could be with a straight credit card payment. There must be a
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Don't forget one thing though: Canadian homes are built to resist the cold and they are usually well-insulated. Hong Kong, by comparison, is probably one of the worse places when it comes to thermal insulation. When it's 12 outsid
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by Renaud 12y ago
I've done minor reverse-engineering in the past but this is really taking it to a level of dedication that I find awe-inspiring. The whole GongKai ecosystem is fascinating. In pure Chinese pragmatism, it's messy, relies on the pow
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by Renaud 12y ago
What particular sorcery do you use that prevents your site from serving Firefox browsers?
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It's likely that these species evolved from others that were closer to the surface. You also see that from species that live deep in caverns. They often have non-functional eyes, remnants from the time when their ancestors were living
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> [...]psychophysics shows that your ability to discriminate colors does not depend on the words you use for them. I thought that some of the work on the Himba tribe's perception of colour was, tentatively, showing just that. Their
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by Renaud 12y ago
I don't have proof to back this up, but I strongly suspect that the fact that all flights are now exclusively non-smoking has had a big influence on that decline. I remember as a child how the smell of cigarette, coupled with the decre
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I didn't know that. Looks like this could take care of the issue of avoiding broken resources.
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Haven't looked at Freenet in many years. Maybe it's time to take it for a spin again. It's an extremely interesting project that tries to implement secure and anonymous communications with completely different objectives than
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The issues raised by the fuzzy region between the well-defined genders is a complex one. We tend, maybe especially us in the software world, to build systems that cater for definitions that neatly fit into specific boxes (M/F), or that
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I'm wondering if there is real strong evidence, other than anecdotal accounts, for the wonderful claims that are made for the quasi-magical properties of that coffee melange. I get it that under extreme physical circumstances (high in

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