SFJulie

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by SFJulie 10y ago
By sheer randomness I was having the thought about it today: I made some code to highlight where the stdlib json module sees the mistakes in JSON decoding in the python stdlib. I used the exception with string "blabal at line x, col y,
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Well, I have been looking at a map of USA ... It is a big country with a looot of space with inhabited zones. I have a picture for you to compare how small France is compared to USA http://www.wanderingfrance.com/blog/i
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It was withdrawn because USA had no such to this plane and they were pissed, so FAA forbid concorde to fly over their country, and always made clear they would revoke the tolerance for landing near the transatlantic anytime soon. USA is oka
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Postfix/qmail are cases where you have more than one process doing only one task and good. Like for instance you may want to deliver some mails locally, plug your own delivery system, or pass your mail through an anti spam/virus p
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by SFJulie 10y ago
The problem of sotware is the fact it is roughly an «artisitc work» (hence the IP crap laws) and that there is no obligation of results, hence no warranty to protect the customers. It is pretty much the wild west of the economy that is fuel
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by SFJulie 10y ago
It is because JS does not change much that there are all this libraries around that changes a lot to try to give an underfed horse more power. In comparison, java, PHP have undergone some more than welcome mutations in terms of syntax clari
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by SFJulie 10y ago
wonder of CLI you can call firefox, but from firefox, you can't have a shell, lol.
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Foreword : For someone whom I have met much more time lobbying/selling the virtue of Free Software to the administration to have his private owned companies make benefits from the public money, it is the kind of shaming on Free Softwar
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It looks like a forced dichotomy. What is it compared to the cost of not owning cars and having decent mass transportation, and dense/safe/cities in which people can live without the threat of cars? And also what about in both cas
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by SFJulie 10y ago
With or without AI we already have issues with too much automation/assistance, and it get bad when automation they are failing/lack of maintaining. Basically if you can drive a manual car, it is easy to drive an automatic one, but
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by SFJulie 10y ago
kernel security and later mongodb appearing randomly in a comment is like priesthood and pedophilia randomly associated. It stings of irony.
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by SFJulie 10y ago
USB type C specification is looking like the F35 specifications: able to do everything. Jack of all trades often are masters of none, and audio is a little sensitive topic in electronic ; it does not need a big bandwidth but it hates lag, a
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Great idea! Even more leverage for a DDoS attack! It is a quicksand this idea, it seems fine until you rely on it and are shaken by attacks that just make your service unavailable with very few computers and traffic. And then you are screwe
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Well, maybe we don't need that much talent on earth. Real life 101: all people deserve respect even if not given by life the opportunity to express their talent when not that many talents are needed to make the world goes round.
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SVG? Wasn'it the new tech (10 Years after ARM) in 2000 that was supposed to be so wonderful it would be very easily adopted? We are in 2016 ... ARM are still promising and SVG is still the new promising thing. Well, SVG has not taken a
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by SFJulie 10y ago
well, what a nice way to make a greper lose order of magnitudes in speed ; grep is fast because he does not line split. And if \n is prohibited in string it is NOT JSON per ecma xyz anymore. it is something else. Additional complexities tha
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by SFJulie 10y ago
except if one line of JSON gets corrupted ... all your log storage does go to the trash. Heard about people login JSON ? (that may be truncated because log lines can be truncated when write is called with size > PIP_BUF in a concurrent e
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by SFJulie 10y ago
according to Feynman autobiography the talk he gave was inspired by the feelings that he had reading the textbook while in the californian commission for it. At the time of the introduction of «Mahtématiques fondamentales» a french revoluti
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Libreroot claims lead dev was fired from FSF for being trans. RMS disputes it(libreboot.org)
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by SFJulie 10y ago
The same old con from the XVIIIth century (UK) called arnaque à la bouilloire. It used to be forbidden on the stock exchange (like a lot of other practices such as cavallerie). But through some obscure technical points of laws left intenti
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by SFJulie 10y ago
TL DR; France is the country where Cargo Cult science is born, and that what was Feynman has been warning against, because it it was beginning to contaminate US at his time (has finished by now) It is called academism: when you respect the
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Which is a mild way that our education is poor since rewarding status over competence. Would parents sending their kids to Ivy leagues accept a kid from downtown going to public school being given a better recognition as theirs? We let pare
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well, I beg to differ, and quite a lot. I am a mover educated with a master in physics. My father is a physician. a Physician - physicist talk looks like this : Dad, medical studies are not science ; for instance fat are goods, then bad the
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Basically with DMCA still going on, if you manage to install linux you WILL be a criminal. Freedom is a crime \o/ Computing is fun again
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Rule #1 of NoSQL, if you use NoSQL, then your data have no business value, else they would be used for billing hence you would need transactions. Rule #2: if you have no business value you can be fired/outsourced. The 5 rules of grief
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by SFJulie 10y ago
I wonder how human beings from centuries ago (and actual animals) have been able to survive without our clean like a lab environment? Would it be possible that we overstate quite a bit the danger of everything? I prefer my beer, cheeses non
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by SFJulie 10y ago
Misery is a very well used form of slow painful execution, why do people wish to use more flashy forms that are counterproductive in keeping our systems so perfect? The poor needs to fear the wealthy in order to not disrupt a perfect societ
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PS recipe easily for accessible websites: - avoid JS to modify change the behaviour of element (see last point); - no JS for generating URL (see last point) - no IMG - ALT on IMG / use of captions - avoid significant information in IM
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Old people (that have by sheer math of accumulation) a lot of patrimonial tends to be visually more impaired than average. That is the data you need to make a correct understatement marketing assessment of the lost ROI. Look at the age of M
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Ask HN: Would you liked if your NIS https login was served with Google js?
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