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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Let’s reflect on Amazon’s 99.999999999% (literally their number) durability on S3.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
If we are constrained to work remotely, the network may experience issues too. The 4G and internet also need actual interventions. If we must work remotely, internet companies may also have to.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
At least when I use my government-controlled DNS which pretends a website doesn’t exist, I can go somewhere else.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> DoH providers have committed to far stronger privacy protections. What about DNS tampering? In many countries there are different rules for taking down a website. My ISP applies different rules than 8.8.8.8, which is handy when require
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Then... why don’t we act against it? Isn’t it, then, more urgent than other topics? It doesn’t seem like we care, given we always treat male complaints as crybabies.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Here you notice that engineering involves a lot of general culture, and making a good engineer starts at birth. When I was a baby I asked my dad to draw power outlets, we had Legos, we’ve visited dozens of factories, I did a dozen programmi
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> The reason being is they were nearly a year older than other kids they were paired with. I’m amused that the kids who did worse are absolutely necessary for the kids who do better. They end up getting wasted by the process, demotivated
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Then the web came, and we have the MVCS+JS+REST mess. Explanation: Model: The Javabean View: The HTML Controller: Whatever Java code that calls the service layers, Service: The services in the lower layer, JS: Since you have js with your HT
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I view it the opposite way: We underestimated as a society how many people were feeling bad. Addictions to alcohol is horrible, but their harm doesn’t scale. With social networks, we suddenly see what we chose to ignore before: The swathes
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
That is a solution only valid for US and for the current legislation since it was introduced in 2006. It can be changed at any time. For example other countries may use of laws (EU Arricle 13, for instance) to bend social media [1], and Fac
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
And comments.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> I studied French from 7th-12th grade As a French, I’ve lived a few years in Australia. A lot of people there can only say “Bonjour” and keep a bitter memory of their lessons. It feels like learning German for the French people, also a
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Free private repos is a real upside. Central login where you can never understand what login you are using and what information they are collecting, nor on which website you are not whether you’ve suddenly integrated Confluence into a Bitbu
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I use several tabs and histories override each other, meaning I could never count on a command being present in the history. I’ve always been told an experienced dev has a folder with txt notes, so that is what I did.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> even the negative feeling of heartbreak of crushes unrequited, games lost Look, if you had heartbreaks that means you were in the girls game and you were 10 miles above the people we’re talking about here. You don’t seem to feel what i
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
« Suck it up » means « Don’t have feelings » which make me get highly cynical, and cutting all affection ties with the outside world, which makes me want to commit... bad things. To others. So no, getting cynical isn’t the solution. We need
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Schooled in 6 different schools before 18. I’m functioning (easy to talk to people) but I lack trust. I always suppose they’ll let me down, and I accelerate the events because I’m tired of even arguing and I know it’s coming (I know I just
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
To be honest, air travel used to be very noisy and expensive, sometimes with fumes events, let alone smokers. Despite the legroom, I’m pretty sure it is more comfortable now.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
That is an awesome idea. Would be extremely useful for guitar and transcription too, while writing the text in Word. It typically would be a usecase for the Macbook touch bar, does anyone has one and can tell us whether it has an integratio
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> Given that it would be available on any video content, the feature needed to be discoverable and straight-forward for as many people as possible. This is the designer’s nightmare: Every feature needs to be available to everyone, theref
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I once forgot to install NTP on a Debian server (It is not installed by default). The skew reached 31s after 2 years and it invalidated all my JWT tokens.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I love that, in pure French tradition, we went as far as designing a circumvoluted spelling for this word, with a « s » at the end. Proof that we have an intuitive reflex about where to put the S, even when there is no grammar rule for new
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
A Mac wouldn’t be confused with a McDo because both are short enough that they can’t be shortened.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
It is pretty old, it was already popular in the 90ies when Les Inconnus used it. Everyone who wants to appear « in » (in touch with the young) uses it, I’m not even sure it looks that cool to actual teenagers ;)
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I’ve always imagined the inverted words written with the original spelling: « Comme aç » for « Comme ça », which adds more poetry to the word to my opinion. They don’t talk about words inherited from SMS mistakes, but I would add « aps » (f
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
At the beginning of each file: #!/bin/bash set -euf -o pipefail cd $(dirname $0) Then add "" everywhere ;) And they say, write Python instead, except I’m dubious because python programs can have a lot of
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Price: 10k$ per user. Fair enough if we’re billing the army for an app with a huge bug bounty.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
Some CEOs have “cube” as their password and got their company hacked. Please don’t say who, but it happens.
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
> Importantly, unless you do something dumb that makes you vulnerable to being drawn into the mook-manorial economy against your will, such as saying something that can be used against you while in a position of authority in an important
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by alexis_fr 7y ago
I’m not near a computer but I was persuaded I have used youtube-dl -f mp3 https://.. . before.

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