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by adev_ 3y ago
> I was talking in past tense. The chance is gone I think you underestimate the evolution of salaries in China. Average salaries in Area like Shenzhen or Guangzhou are now superior to what you would get in countries like Romania, Moldavi
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Foxconn is Taiwanese. I would take Taiwanese hardware made on European ground over stuff made in the PRC anytime.
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> Making a "European Edition" in a country that's constantly fighting to undermine the EU Almost all phones are currently produced in a country that genocide some of its minorities, support child labor and claim publicly t
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by adev_ 3y ago
> The EU is destroying open source in Europe thanks to CRA in the name of security. Can you develop a bit on that ? The EU is one of the rare large public institution on Mastodon currently. Also one of the rare institution to sue properl
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by adev_ 3y ago
I respect you for a lot of thing you say Walter but this is garbage. Taxes are not 1000% higher in USA than they are in France or Germany. The main reason are patents, lack of generics, lacks of leverage of insurers in the American health c
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by adev_ 3y ago
> That's a problem stemming from government regulation that prevents competition in diabetes insulin. It's amazing how neo-liberal see government the source of half of their problem. When generally speaking, the true source of
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by adev_ 3y ago
> Credit cards are credit cards, even in Europe. It's just that banks issue debit cards, rather than credit cards and I think that the point Partially but not exactly. France "CB" are labelled "Visa" (not Visa De
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by adev_ 3y ago
> TIL: Credit cards are banned in Europe. /s They are not banned. They are heavily regulated in many European countries. In several of them: - Cashback systems are simply banned. - Credit card are by default Debit Card. The credit o
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> I suspect most people don’t even need them but use them for cash back and consumer protection. Then make a debit card system with cash back and customer protection. And kill a system that screw people with useless debts when there is n
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> Credit card companies spend a lot of money protecting their customers from card number theft (which is rampant in all parts of the world) I only bite half to this argument. If they really wanted to fight against credit card number thef
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by adev_ 3y ago
Money does not grow on trees. From my understanding this cashback systems come from two sources: (1) Money taken on processing fees on Merchants themselves. (2) Money taken from the interests of debt from the people screwed by this entire s
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by adev_ 3y ago
It might be a very European view to the problem but: Why does the American government does even tolerate this credit card garbage business in the first place ? We are in the 21th century. Most payment can be validated electronically and pro
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> You are going to hit the same issues whether you do this with Nix or you do this with plain old chroots. The main advantage of Nix here is not its binary cache and reproducibility. It is Nix's ability to bootstrap any compiler to
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by adev_ 3y ago
> Even compilers are not that good at building old software. Even old compilers can be boostrapped the same way. Sandboxed prefx-install package manager like spack and Nix also allow you to do that without too much pain currently. They a
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by adev_ 3y ago
> While the kernel per se is solid, the userland has zero backwards compatibility That is entirely wrong. It is not because your latest distribution does not provide old/antique glibc by default that it means you can not run it. It
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by adev_ 3y ago
> My neighborhood has that, and we have about 1 transformer every 4 houses or so. You might find that interesting: https://data.enedis.fr/pages/cartographie-des-reseaux-conten... This map references all transformers
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> I highly doubt entire neighborhoods or districts are serviced with a single extremely large 400V 3-phase transformer in Europe. They do currently. I can at talk for the French and Swiss system. - Entire neighbourhood are served by a si
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> Water heaters, ovens, EV chargers, and many other things specifically do not benefit from this. The only thing you get is power density by effective 400V output from 3-phase 240V. They do too. You have lower current intensity, lower ca
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by adev_ 3y ago
> How many residential appliances benefit from three phase You can add: Heat pump, electrical water heater, well pump, ovens. I lived in both Europe (400V) and Japan (100V). In Europe I do have an EV charging station 3-phase power with 2
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> Most european houses have a single 400v outlet: right in your kitchen, for the oven (which means the oven is going to be right in front of it.) The likelihood of a child playing with it is close to nil. As for adults, the vast majority
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by adev_ 3y ago
> There is likely hundreds or thousands of dollars of additional infrastructure needed to handle 3-phase input to a house. You have breakers, busbars, the transformer into the house is different, and on and on. Split-phase system and 11
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by adev_ 3y ago
> Linux has always been lackluster on the Desktop - fragmented, lacking features, lacking important applications, etc - and MacOS is attached to overpriced mediocrity. Honestly, I would agree with that 10 years ago but not anymore. The w
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> People in the South of France buy one espresso or one beer and nurse it for 2 hours while staring at the ocean. This is currently quite hilarious to read. Give them one million dollar and I can guarantee you they will still drink one e
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> extend my apologies for wasting everyone's bandwidth. No excuses needed, it is still informative. Curious question: What are the technical/political reasons to keep ORB/Corba in your project right now ?
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Have a look to Neuron / Core neuron ( https://www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/ / https://github.com/BlueBrain/CoreNeuron ), Nest ( https://www.nest-simulator.org/ ) and for the u
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by adev_ 3y ago
> It's complicated in the political sense. They are spelunking former colonies to meet green energy targets, while those same countries struggle to progress. It is wrong and a lie. Most uranium bought by (EDF) France lately come fr
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by adev_ 3y ago
If I could get a pound every time the Telegraph predicted the end of France, I could safely take my retirement in a paradise island right now. Too bad they were much more "conservative" to predict this bloody mess that became Brex
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> Lets add Flamanville 3 to the "experience" graph in the article. The only reason it gets pushed through is for France to have an industrial base enabling nuclear submarines, carriers and weapons. That's garbage. - The r
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> As a French, I don't think I ever calculated pi, we were just handed the formulas and told to use it and I don't think I saw an exercise on how to calculate pi for a few years (or maybe I didn't saw it at school...) The
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> middleboxes are free to drop the body of any GET request, and generally do so Most middlebox will equally drop any HTTP verb which is not whitelisted. Even the extension of WebDAV, which are 15 years old are still commonly blocked.

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