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by arkh 8y ago
You may want to read Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space.
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by arkh 8y ago
> Finding the right technical path Often it is more about the right political path. Getting something approved like you want it to can mean months of back-channel work to make it become other people's idea.
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by arkh 8y ago
No stats: it's 1 year old. For the noise complaints, enjoy the view from the A9 and A709: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Montpellier/@43.5591054,3....
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by arkh 8y ago
The Montpellier area : 2x3 ways limited to 110km/h + 2x3 ways limited to 90 km/h. Road in perfect state. So let's put an average speed radar system.
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by arkh 8y ago
If you want range but don't care about speed, just use a bike.
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by arkh 8y ago
> planning a bit The joy of petrol cars in Europe: you don't have to plan where to recharge. And recharging will rarely take more than 15mn.
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by arkh 8y ago
> we always carefully data log media drives So you can easily data log any driver. So any government agency or any "partner" paying enough could have access to this data.
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by arkh 8y ago
There is already a way to manage that: remove the petrol from petrol stations and add huge batteries / capacitors. Charge those at normal grid load when no one is using the station then unload like crazy.
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by arkh 8y ago
The full FHIR standard can be a lot at first sight https://www.hl7.org/fhir/ but I'd recommend anyone having to store names, addresses or contact information to check how they do it. The last example for names is
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by arkh 8y ago
> Finally, a lot of medical folks have been burned by technology in the past, and, in my experience, often view a lot of the tech they have to use as an insurance and government mandated evil, rather than a way to make their lives bette
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by arkh 8y ago
Trackball under one thumb would be awesome. Then split the keyboard to have two independent parts so you can type with your arms parallel (even better, add a half-keyboard holder at the end of each of your chair armrests).
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by arkh 8y ago
Got biten by this bug. One time after more than a decade of Thunderbird use. The mails were still on the server but having to create a new profile and redownload everything and retrain the spam filter was not fun. It is not what I'd ca
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by arkh 8y ago
Buy a pig or ducks and make preserves from their meat and fat. Enjoy the food years later.
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by arkh 8y ago
> Blockchain is a decentralised ideal, but so is BitTorrent, so is Tor, and so on, to some significant extent. So is internet. Most people use centralized services but no one prevents you from setting up your DNS servers, with your own d
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by arkh 8y ago
Their sells team must be good to manage to get a french bank with this name: tamr would be read as "ta mère" (your mom) which is usually used alone only for cursing.
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by arkh 8y ago
Example with how the French grid handled a little added demand lately: https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https%3A... Dams used as batteries charged by pumping water.
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by arkh 8y ago
Let's say you want to use bootstrap 4 and sprinkle some gradients. You'll have to rebuild it. Which imposes the use of npm.
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by arkh 8y ago
> modern-ish JS tooling This need a lot more scary quotes around modern and tooling. The JS "ecosystem" is a cancer: nowadays when you want to do some front-end work with some CSS you usually end with an install of node and npm
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by arkh 8y ago
I like the JSONB support. Not for storing data but to query it with shitty drivers. Some array magic and jsonb_agg and suddenly you can get easy to json decode results instead of having to play with rows in your app. Yes you can also do it
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by arkh 8y ago
> You know when kids play make-believe? Where one kid is a knight, and the other is a dragon? That's improv. So, role playing games?
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by arkh 8y ago
There is a trick to rewrites: start by writing a full suite of end to end tests. Once done you'll discover that you can easily stabilize your old code and make changes with this security harness. You may discover that you don't re
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by arkh 8y ago
http://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/a-survival-q-... Conclusion: trust only your family.
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by arkh 8y ago
You may want to redo your analysis with a #giletsjaunes or whatever the french tags are. Don't expect a French movement born on Facebook from mainly boomers to use an English tag on twatter.
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by arkh 8y ago
I don't know if it's because of the translation or because it is the Chinese style but reading the three bodies problem was a chore. The concept is good but most of it could be condensed in a 100 pages novella. It felt like readin
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by arkh 8y ago
Not even inside the cells. Excel column / rows filters. Hard to do better than those. I wish a lot more apps with data implemented something half as good.
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by arkh 8y ago
> The MGTOW community—a more extreme offshoot of the incel movement whose adherents consider women subhuman— That's some fine journalism there. It's always fun to read parallels made between platform removing people for politic
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by arkh 8y ago
I'd bet on a lot more charge-back demands. > No honey, I never used this service. Our card must have been stolen.
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by arkh 8y ago
I think it's more like a new generation of people started using Mac OS on which I heard Firefox suck. So being already in a walled garden environment they did not care about entering Google's. Firefox was always good on other OS.
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by arkh 8y ago
If you can't put the thing you're testing (method, class, application) in the state you want to test using only public methods you are not testing something useful. If you're doing to get 100% coverage be happy: that's d
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by arkh 8y ago
> The point of private methods is to prevent what other code can call them. However, in PHP, you also cannot override private methods in a subclass. This is especially important when, for example, trying to build mocks in unit tests. You

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