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by alex_duf 5y ago
There's an amazing French TV show called "The Returned" loosely inspired from an alpine lake with a submerged town underneath. (Don't watch the American remake, watch the french one with subtitles) The pitch being: peopl
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by alex_duf 5y ago
I know he's explained it, but I still don't understand how this works...
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by alex_duf 5y ago
I think this can be summarised by "model your domain by using types, then let the compiler ensure you're not doing anything silly"
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Oh it will happen once organic growth slows down and the various teams have KPIs and OKRs to follow. Every company bgoes through these phases. They're still benefiting from their "underdog" status, that won't last
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Unfortunately biodegradable isn't the same as compostable. Plastic can be biodegradable, and will/can biodegradable into microplastics, with all the issues microplastics are known for. So I always take it with a pinch of salt when
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by alex_duf 5y ago
As far as I know the long march booster doesn't have a way to turn back on, it's one of the few rockets that does only one burn to reach orbit. At this point it's just a tumbling chunk of solid material See this video about i
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by alex_duf 5y ago
I've had to switch to macos for work when I was using Arch with gnome. I'm very unhappy with macos, and hardware detection is a big issue. None of my logitech Mx Master worked properly (1, 2 and 3) as Apple enforces a weird accele
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Or, the angry crowd who doesn't use it stops criticising an opinionated desktop, and leave the users who happen to agree with said opinions use that desktop. I love gnome the way it is. I don't minimise Windows, I love the launche
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Pretty cool fact, thanks!
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Since New Horizon is the fastest probe ever sent from earth, I wondered how long it would take to go further from the sun than Voyager 1. Never, it turns out: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3520/when-wil
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by alex_duf 6y ago
I think youtube had killed every RSS endpoint, I remember channels disappearing from my RSS app. So either youtube has done the right thing or that specific reader is scrapping the HTML of the channel pages.
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Thanks, that was really interesting! I never thought about it like that but it makes sense.
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by alex_duf 6y ago
I'm guessing the classification might have been done by an AI?
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by alex_duf 6y ago
The N9 was the first phone I know to be able to switch apps or close apps using the swipe movement. It was really hard moving to android as I missed the swiping to navigate the OS. Now Apple is using swiping and all the cool kids think it&#
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by alex_duf 6y ago
one click deployment to prod as opposed to a deployment ceremony
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by alex_duf 6y ago
It's stopping him from being a candidate for the next elections at least. Not great but I'll take that.
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by alex_duf 6y ago
it seems like nrp is answering questions around here, so here's another one: will you be shipping to the UK and / or continental Europe? Edit: found the answer: "We're shipping in the US and Canada this summer and openin
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by alex_duf 6y ago
It's kinda baffling me, I can't do two things at the same time. At best I listen to music, but any words (podcast) or visual distraction totally pulls me off of what I was doing. Same goes with using a chat feature while in a diff
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Funny I've also came up with exactly the same way of doing it around 2008. It was in France for the Yellow Pages (PagesJaunes) and initially we used soundex but it was too English centric. We ended up using the Double Metaphone [1] whi
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Plugging this here if anyone is annoyed at the miscrosoft sculpt not being recognised on macos: https://github.com/alexduf/microsoft-scuplt-ergonomic-macos
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Add Etienne de Crecy, Phoenix, Cassius (though Zdar died not long ago), Justice, Mr oiso and Sebastian to that list
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by alex_duf 6y ago
I'm extremely jealous of that show, both Phoenix and Daft Punks are my favourite bands, it must have been something.
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by alex_duf 6y ago
But they are contributing back, that's the point of the article right? So much so the article is more about who controls the organisation. I personally see this mostly as a good thing. More data, better data, and everyone gets value ou
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by alex_duf 6y ago
If i understand correctly the antenna tracks a specific satellite as it transit above it. So how does it handle the switch from that satellite to the next one without losing signal?
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by alex_duf 6y ago
No they didn't. It would have been unethical to be the boss of the company that offer new shares, got them bought on a market, but also unblocking all the short sellers in the process. The consequence would be shorters would be happy,
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by alex_duf 6y ago
I wonder what are the benefits of keeping the grid synchronous? Would it be possible to have multiple smaller grids, still interconnected, but without being kept in sync? I'm not sure if what I'm saying is possible or efficient, b
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by alex_duf 6y ago
I think there's a helicopter around so it's really hard to judge
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by alex_duf 6y ago
(I'm going to assume it's not sarcastic) Pretty much the entire world is trying to get rid of Coal on their grid. It's expensive and has (rightfully) a bad image. So let's assume a brand new car lasts 10 years, by the ti
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by alex_duf 6y ago
A good chunk (arguably the most important one) of the research is actually done on the live subjects that go up there. So you'd lose a lot of research capability.
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by alex_duf 6y ago
Hey! care to share the platform? I'm interested

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