Renaud

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by Renaud 5y ago
People are stuck in their ecosystem. The monetary coat of changing platform is quite high if you’re already invested in that ecosystem. Everyone is paying a lot of money for a system they basically own nothing about. You keep paying, for ap
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by Renaud 5y ago
Hmm, that's not what happened. It's not the newspapers that forced google to publish their content, it's Google that found value in publishing news publisher content for free. Google made money from this with ads on the pages
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by Renaud 5y ago
If Google wanted to quit that market, then Godspeed. It would be a tremendous opportunity for someone new to step in (no, I'm, not looking at you Bing). But alas, I'll bet good money that recalcitrant France is still a market too
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by Renaud 5y ago
From the PDF of the decision (see Pelote's post) I understand that Google was supposed to strike a fair deal with the news publishers to continue to post excerpts and images from articles. The publishers never really wanted Google to s
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by Renaud 5y ago
They solved it as long as they can live without contact with anyone else. As much as it shows what could be done with drastic measures, NZ is an island with small population, in the middle of nowhere so it can easily lock its borders compar
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Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps(bbc.com)
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by Renaud 5y ago
I'm suffering from this as well to an extent. It's not a conscious rationalisation, it feels more like being unable to start something because there are too many things you'd like to start, and, in the end, you spend the week
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by Renaud 5y ago
It has. People have rediscovered its importance and some have decided there was an opportunity to cash on it. Like anything else that has some success, it attracts some opportunists. It shouldn't detract anyone from looking at stoicism
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by Renaud 5y ago
The great firewall is not an impenetrable fortress. People in China routinely access the external world and most websites are not blocked at all until they are found to contain 'anti-nationalist' material. Even then, people use a
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by Renaud 5y ago
Depending on where you lived there were some electronic magazines available. I remember dreaming about articles in Elektor and other national magazines like that. Libraries and book stores had a few books, especially if you lived in a unive
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by Renaud 5y ago
We should have a site where these experiences are retained. My teen years were in the 80s and I was mad about the Z80 in my cheap Laser 200 but was too isolated to have access to much information and equipment. Yet, I reversed engineered th
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by Renaud 5y ago
It's not just better worker protection. It's the whole system that has more social safeties for everyone. You might be better off with better conditions working for a top American company but you are not most people, you are part
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by Renaud 5y ago
While not exactly for guitar, Phil’s Lab on youtube recently posted a low noise headphone amplifier design that's both over-kill in some ways and interesting and cheap to make. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2GUoi63pJ
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by Renaud 5y ago
Thanks for reminding me to try that again. Last time was a couple of years ago and I had some trouble between instances but maybe I didn't do it right.
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by Renaud 5y ago
I thought there was something wrong on that page:L I wanted to try the IDE but just got this video filling the page and that single red button: "sign in with your google account". Why does an IDE for microcontrollers requires a Go
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by Renaud 5y ago
I switched to Vivaldi from Chrome earlier this year as I was uncomfortable with the level of Google integration in that browser. Vivaldi is based on Chromium and has lots of improvements over Chrome, like gestures out of the box, side panel
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by Renaud 5y ago
I'd like to know when was China actually Socialist? It moved from Communism to a form of Capitalism where the single party is basically in control of who is allowed to make money; something that can be taken away by the party at any ti
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by Renaud 5y ago
Some languages, like French, make the distinction not on the prefix but on the noun used to refer to the period: * bimensuel/elle : twice a month * bimestriel/elle: every 2 months And trimestriel and semestriel for every 3 and 6 m
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by Renaud 5y ago
I love the work of the Raspberry Pi foundation. They have changed the market with their innovation and the fact that their hardware has staying power and a huge amount of support. Some will object that none of this is the best hardware or t
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by Renaud 5y ago
I didn't know about this and was sceptical but it appears to be right and the CDC[1] mentions it, along with lead-210 being a source of radioactive accumulation in the lungs. Apparently an information that cigarette manufacturers tried
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by Renaud 5y ago
It would not be economical to do this unless the board is small. The PCB for the transformer is especially tuned for its performance: what dielectric is used, what copper weight, what distance between layers, how many layers, all these are
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by Renaud 5y ago
Manufacturers are not penalised for their technical choices. Making a thinner system seems like a great innovation but society at large pays for that product being non-repairable. If you want corporations to have free reign on being able to
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by Renaud 5y ago
Oh wow, that's where I come from, at least the Island not that particular remote place. I'm glad to see this in an international paper. There have been loval and French documentaries since the seventies on those postmen hiking for
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by Renaud 5y ago
Something that I don't see mentioned in the article is that slave-owners in the French Caribbean threatened to switch to the British side following the abolition of slavery -as slavery had not been abolished by the British at that time
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by Renaud 5y ago
The legacy of Napoleon is much more complex than that. Want it or not, he's both a terrible conqueror animated by a thirst for power at all cost and also a builder of modern institutions still in use today. The same things could be sai
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by Renaud 5y ago
So I'm trying to check out FileCoin as I like the idea it tries to solve but: the website has some nifty visuals but after reading a few pages, I have no idea: 1- how to really get started and participate if I don't have a dedicat
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by Renaud 5y ago
I'm quite excited by the CM4 RPis. There are quite a few variants but all retain the same form factor and connector pinout. These little boards are fostering a lot of new break-out ideas for all sorts of purposes, from Routers to NAS w
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by Renaud 5y ago
Cost is probably what killed that project, but it's not entirely stupid, although it would certainly be better with a foldable panel at the back of the screen that can be positioned optimally. A 30x20cm laptop could get at best 12-10W
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by Renaud 5y ago
Calculators need mere microwatts of power to function. A very basic laptop is in the tens of watts. A difference of many orders of magnitude that you can't compensate by the size of solar panel on a small device.
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by Renaud 6y ago
>How does Amazon harm consumers? I mean precisely, how? but burying alternatives, they basically drive smaller product competitors away, reducing their sales and their ability to grow and innovate. Amazon has been blatantly copying produ

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