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10y ago
Sorry if I was wrong I absolutely now nothing about c# & .net. Does it mean one could actually review code and fork theses languages too if need be?
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10y ago
Still I find interesting that Apple and Microsoft again choose different strategies to try fill the gap between them and FOSS supporters: -Microsoft is gonna include an FOSS unix subsystem -Apple for the first time in his history is going f
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10y ago
And this is exactly because of this mentality that windows next move is to add a Unix subsystem (Ubuntu) aside all the old crap instead of just being Unix compliant and progressively drop old chunks of code as year goes by like Apple starte
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10y ago
Actually I would eventually consider re-opening a Facebook account should they introduce an alias/identity system so that I could manage easily and separately my différents circles. Of course ads profiling of each identities should als
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10y ago
And this is actually even more reflecting of real life interactions. In all the activity circles you go IRL most of your acquaintances know only your first name. Only people you really bond with usually known your last name. So why on earth
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10y ago
And it not as if searching google from DuckDuckGo was hard. DuckDukGo bangs syntax is simply fantastic even if i mostly always use theses 4 : !w , !m, !g, !gi Privacy by default, google when you need, it's my default since 2 years.
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10y ago
I'm pretty sure if you stick to apple hardware, things just work. So in a sense their technology is simple for those who stay in the ecosystem. But don't dare buy a low-cost adapter from eBay or be damned for 10 generation. So yea
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10y ago
Well this seems more due to the USB-C to rule them all paradigm that will actually deploy in every PC as well very soon. People complained continually that Apple had gone USB/lightning/Thunderbolt instead of standard USB-C. Now th
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10y ago
He actually even wrote about the current debate. In his multiverse robots were actually banned from earth by bigots at some point. I miss him I only started to read his book after his death. RIP Good doctor
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10y ago
Except that Clouds are the actual big unknown in climat change equation. You can found a lot of articles about that I'll quote this one but you should look and document by yourself. http://m.nautil.us/issue/25/
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10y ago
Thanks for the ressource I'll definitely have a look. However the fact that it's price competitive still don't imply that it's enough to counter climate change. In a worst case scenario, if we go full solar, but are unab
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10y ago
Except people also forget that renewables' are also highly subsidized. You can't use a double standard here. And cost should anyway be the least of concern as global warming costs will be higher no matter what if we fail to contro
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10y ago
Last year I met a doctor that work at the experimental ITER fusion plant. He was pretty optimistic about the technology but totally desperate about budget. It's an international initiative and US are actually one of the country that pa
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10y ago
Theoretically you could, but as you were actually limited by hardware (camera resolution, CPU, etc...) anyway nobody really tried.
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10y ago
Nope but you just have to be aware of the repercussions. My boss is really a nice guy, but for wathever reasons, he and some colleagues started a gimmick about one of my female coworker that she was "forbiden" to make a fourth kid
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10y ago
Yep but so the counsel I would give to anyone in such an undesirable situation will be the same I give to everyone that is subject to any form of harassment in workplace : Gather proofs! A good friend of mine just get out of an impossible j
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10y ago
I was thinking the same. I'm a man an being recently made more aware of how some females friend perceive some so called "un-harmful cheesy jokes" I often advocate to my boss or college that they shouldn't make such jokes
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10y ago
The problematic part for me was Tesla bragging about safety of autopilot before they had enough significant data. Basically saying "We still don't have any fatalities so he'll yeah we must be safer than human!". The sad
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10y ago
I'm not a morning person so I usually have 6 alarms on my phone. So every morning I ask my Siri to "turn off all the alarms" before I jump on my shower. There is like 4-5 others simple interactions like that that I do in priv
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10y ago
The only password I need to write on a paper near my computer is of a client that require periodic change over his Vpnssl every 1 month. When connecting to it I must type it 3 different time in a context where password manager don't wo
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10y ago
Yup because I once applied to a big company and to this day I still don't now if a human was actually involved in any part of the process... Given the company and given the job it's quit possible that the HR people just filtered o
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10y ago
I might be wrong but this look like Bernard Madoff in disguise. "Give me your money and trust my big black box that nobody understand!" Then just to be more credible add some meaningless data point "We have 7 500 anonymous da
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10y ago
Yep but quantity is not an ally to reach this goal, they look for people that have a good track record and are recognized by their peers. They don't care if the student that look for answers on SO is not registered. Registering non par
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10y ago
Thank for the tip! I was stuck on that stupid register screen last week and just resigned and look elsewhere. Maybe if I can actually have a grasp of what quora can do for me BEFORE subscribing I might someday consider joining. PS: This is
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10y ago
Nope this is directly linked to ad revenues because StackOverflow don't care about them they can offer freedom. And if they ever get into financial difficulty you can count on me to subscribe to a paying "gold membership" and
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10y ago
Or maybe you could actually just ship a FOSS product so that if people are interested they can hire you or pay you (or your company) to get more good stuff ?
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10y ago
Your second idea is actually aleready used by the French far righ supporters. They manage to say horrible things and get away by saying it's just humor and that people who infuriate just don't get it. And as French people have a v
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10y ago
Thanks a lot for the resource, I'll have a close look at the whole http://www.btselem.org/ site.
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10y ago
In France most of the people have always seen the Israeli concrete barrier as pretty outrageous. The least I can say after reading this article is that I'll need to carefully reconsider the facts with this new lighting in mind.
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10y ago
As I understand he meant by capita. Meaning your personal impact in term of nuclear waste would be a soda can for your whole life. Considering the volume of non-recyclable regular waste we produce as northerners, this actually look pretty s
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