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by achenet 1y ago
Location: Lyon, France Remote: Yes. I prefer this way of working. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Go, Postgres and MySQL, Linux and FreeBSD system administration, Rust, various other things (see CV). I've dabbled a bit in Elixir
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by achenet 1y ago
Location: Lyon, France Remote: Yes. I prefer this way of working. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Go, Postgres, Linux/UNIX system administration, a dash of Rust, various other things (see CV). Latex if you need a researcher. I&#
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by achenet 1y ago
from the article you linked, it seems that Zuck told everyone else to gang up on the next hardest player so he could win. That they went along with it is... kind of in line with what Wynn-Williams said. Would they still have all teamed up o
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"if hard work was all you needed to get rich, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire". The clothes I'm wearing right now were probably made by a sweatshop laborer working 12 hours a day under awful conditions, getting p
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> Our bodies are machines. We should do everything we can to repair them and make them better. It appalls me that we aren't making progress here. unlike man-made machines, we do not fully understand our bodies yet, and as such shou
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my viewpoint is that the human ability to cooperate effectively is why there's currently 8+ billion of us on earth and chimpanzees are an endangered species. Our capacity for stories and language helps us create large cooperation netwo
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yes, but I think by your logic Hollywood movies are "propaganda"... by making the main characters of a movie American, and giving them positive traits, you're 'obtaining a potential advantage' for every American tha
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sorry if this is a stupid question, but can your brother setup a class chat that he moderates? I'm working on a simple chat app in Go as a learning project [0], you're welcome to use that, but honestly there are almost certainly b
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by achenet 1y ago
what about Roman families? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_in_ancient_Rome You had the familia, which was similar to the current nuclear family, but that was wrapped into the larger gens https://en.wiki
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counter-example: Most systems that work with standardized tests, while they can systematically fail to capture certain types of talent, are fairly objective - "if you're in the top 10% on this test, then we take you". The for
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> About a year later, Hilbert attended a banquet and was seated next to the new Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust. Rust asked whether "the Mathematical Institute really suffered so much because of the departure of the Jews."
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A Reply to the Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton(arielche.net)
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nitpick: I'd argue the worse types of criminals are war criminals, like for example Hitler, who is, in my mind, worse than someone like Bernie Madoff.
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by achenet 2y ago
When I some says "sell X to Y", I hear "explain how X will solve Y's problem or otherwise make their lives easier". Because that's fundamentally what selling is. I can talk for days about how marvellous the new
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by achenet 2y ago
I second this. Small chunks is easier than one massive thing all at once. I also have the habit of keeping a `~/notes.md` file, which I can access at the drop of a hat with a shell shortcut (I use fish, so I have the function `nn` whic
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by achenet 2y ago
Being unable to find underwear that properly suited me, I tried making my own clothes a while back. The experience was hugely humbling, and completely robbed me of any belief I had in the idea that "hard work pays off" - the perso
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by achenet 2y ago
I've actually heard a French fashion student opine that generally speaking, French made garments are better quality than those made in East/South-east/South Asia. Although she didn't say anything about why this was the
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yep. From reading Bret Devereaux's Acoup.blog, I've learned that especially with arrows, height is an advantage - if you're firing down on someone from a position above them, you can aim easier, and your arrow is accelerated
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by achenet 2y ago
The thing is, the criminals do tend, and when I say "tend to" I mean "as far as I can tell, always are, although obviously just because I've not seen a counter example doesn't mean one doesn't exist" alway
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I'll put on my devil's advocate hat and try to argue for the positive social impact of tech companies. Thanks to tech companies, people can communicate more easily with each other. People call Google out for being an ad company. T
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> Nothing I've had a hand in building / maintaining has "survived" for more than ~7 years. The companies? The websites? Google, for example, has been in existence since 1998. If you're working on a farm, the cro
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It's interesting that the article notes an idealization of the yeoman farmer in the American urbanite's psyche. I spend a fair amount of time reading Bret Devereaux's acoup.blog, and one thing I learned from there was the ide
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Huge agree with the "autonomy" part. That scene in Office Space where he complains about having 8 different bosses really resonates with me. I love programming, if I could get paid to work on what I wanted, how I wanted, when I wa
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by achenet 2y ago
For a while I had a Sweep [0] keyboard that I'd carry with me and use everywhere, even in trains when travelling. It was small enough to be placed on my laptop, one half to each side of the trackpad. I use a ThinkPad with Linux for per
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by achenet 2y ago
As a Frenchman, this really grinds my gears. Our state is already one of the biggest arms dealers on the planet, and, like all modern nation states, fundamentally a coercive protection racket (note that I don't actually have a problem
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The pharmaceutical industry has a pretty big lobby, so does big tobacco, and don't even get me started on the alcohol industry. If one of them finds a way to patent drugs that are currently illegal or otherwise profit from it, legaliza
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It's not just our media, it's our culture. We have a looong and storied tradition of not liking the government, starting with our first revolution in 1789, continuing in 1830 and 1848, and further reinforced by the Nazi occupati
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Moi aussi je suis francais. > French want less criminals and immigrants in the street. Whatever it takes. Maybe it's because I spent most of my time in big cities hanging out with relatively well-educated, often left-leaning, relati
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A Brief, Incomplete and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages(james-iry.blogspot.com)
5 points by achenet 2y ago|0 comments
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by achenet 2y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. A quick read up on the history of the labor movement will show that it started because people didn't want to work 6 days a week, 12 hours a day in factories anymore. https://en.m.wikipedia.org

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