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by brmgb 7y ago
The great paradox of France is that people keep believing it's hard to fire there while it's not. Every government for the past thirty years have made firing easier. You have an up to eight months window of at-will before the prot
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I think our relationship with food is profoundly linked to the culture we come from. For me, food is first and foremost a social experience and something you share : everyday lunch with coworkers, dinners with my family, having two hours lu
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They could distribute the script and ask their users to drop the copyrighted assets to a set location by themselves.
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The problems are good but the article is not that great. Some of these "proofs" are quite sloppy and the complete ones often entirely fail to highlight where their key ideas come from. For example, let's look at their proof f
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> It's also not very likely to happen, especially due to poisonous behaviour of kernel maintainers towards nVidia, unwilligness to compromise Please, there is nothing to compromise about. Nvidia doesn't want to work with the ke
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> Word and Outlook are toxic waste as far as I am concerned: they frustrate me more than they serve me. This opinion is largely shared even in the non technical world. Outlook is a lot better than Lotus but it suffers from the comparai
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Europe is doing fine. This one is strictly on the UK.
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> The moon is named for the mythological consort of Jupiter The continent too yet their spellings differ. That is the weird part.
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by brmgb 7y ago
And French. Also, it's εὐρώπη in Greek so Europe is the logical transliteration. I find it weird that the moon is called Europa in English however. French uses Europe for both.
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> unions, which make money when employees and employers are in conflict That's non sense. Unions are not for profit organisations making money during conflict. Most unions are not for profit association representing their members fo
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SpaceX has built part of their business around the idea that it's worth trading a moderate amount of payload for re-usability as long as they can still reach the orbit their customers care about and it was considered an extremely ris
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>> Yes, it is really evil for a corporation to disagree with the concept of unionisation > Corporations are made of people. [...] Deciding that anyone who disliked unionization is just evil I only said corporations opposing unionis
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Fuel is not cheap. Fuel is heavy and payload reduction is money lost.
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> Success will not make you happy, this my experience agrees with, but I'm equally sure that happiness will not make one successful. Well, if you allow me, what does being successful actually mean ? What is the point of your definit
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by brmgb 7y ago
Yes, it is really evil for a corporation to disagree with the concept of unionisation (I don't actually understand what it means to disagree with unions). The relationship between employer and employee is a fundamentally uneven one. Th
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> It’s ugly, but it makes it perfectly clear that the operation is creating a new dictionary. I don't see how " * * " makes it clear that a new dictionary is created. Generally speacking, I tend to find operators for compl
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> Especially when you want to do something like ipsec/vpn/vxlan. I have a wireguard tunnel setup by networkd with custom rules to only send traffic from a slice through it. It works fine. Take a look at the netdev documentation
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> And you can't have it both ways - is it great because it's a consistent, cohesive system that provides everything you need for a Linux system, or is it great because it's a modular toolkit that allows you to pick & c
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> Can anyone with comprehension of the project explain what this is about? The OSM project has a default editor called iD. iD is developed by developers from Mapbox. As it is the default editor, iD via what it puts forward has a lot of l
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by brmgb 7y ago
No one knows the actual cost of French Nuclear. France has yet to dismantle one of its end of life reactor. Everyone know that the provisioned costs don't make sense. It was pointed by the national court of auditors in 2012 and 2014 [1
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by brmgb 7y ago
> you don't get the same compile-time safety guarantees in OCaml when you use mutation. OCaml is a garbage collected and mono-thread language. You obviously have the same guarantees in that you can't do what would be problemati
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Solaris used to be far ahead compared to Linux. It's not really the case anymore. > coughbtrfscoughsystemtapcoughsystemdcoughepoll Btrfs is not as mature but design wise it is competitive with ZFS. Pool resizing is actually a lot ni
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> Context switching between git and anything else at this point for me is a considerable waste of my time. My last job used a mix of SVN, Clearquest (with and without UCM) and Git for different projects. It wasn't that big of a deal
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Pretty much everyone on this planet could at some point create a brain (with assistance). I don't think anyone will pretend to understand it.
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> * ...but the idea that space is expanding implies an outer "edge" Space expension just means that the metric used to measure distance increases with time. It doesn't imply a border. Consider the function equivalent to th
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Cybersecurity Ventures is not a clickbaity newspaper. They are specialists. Obviously when they publish articles in their domain, it has an advertising purpose but producing shoddy figures would only hurt their brand. You can't trust e
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Paris too ! They are currently doing work on them and the operator has put some cool videos online : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKVTfpzx7XQ
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> In France, a bag in a public place is deemed to be a bomb and the military has to come, secure the area and destroy it. That's obviously not true. If it was the case, the Paris subway would forever be stopped. What is true is that
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> in the case of the people who were laid off, cost to people's careers. I fail to see how. Considering Uber is reinventing the wheel a lot, the people who were laid off where probably working on some interesting problems. Uber is
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That has been my experience with this as well. It must be nice having an ad like this in the New Yorker but what is presented is pretty far for the truth. The postal service used to be a corner of local life in the countryside. Postmen had

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