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by ernesth 7y ago
> Why is it a capital C in the Wikipedia article? That is the way book titles are capitilized in french: the first word excluding articles gets a capital letter. It is also according to this word that the book will be sorted. Same for &q
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by ernesth 7y ago
You may not know it, but most browsers support local bookmarks!
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by ernesth 7y ago
It is perfectly clear that the US is at economical war against Europe. However, Europe is not obviously at war against the US.
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by ernesth 7y ago
> people who want to use the Chromium engine without all the Google stuff Why would those people not use the chromium browser?
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by ernesth 7y ago
In fact, the french law is that vehicles are tolerated on sidewalks as long as they are not faster than reasonable (which is understood to mean up to 6km/h). Electric wheelchairs for example have the right to use sidewalks. However, pe
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by ernesth 7y ago
I use pandoc to output revealjs presentations when I want to present web things (with links, videos or gifs). And it is good as I have some teaching content that I use in webpages, in presentation and for print. Presentation notes kind of w
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by ernesth 8y ago
How do you login to any service if you do not upload your password to their server?
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by ernesth 8y ago
Unfortunately, we don't have a good equivalent to digital in french: numérique means "relative to numbers (nombres)", digital means "relative to digits (chiffres)". I am in favor of using digital in french (we learn
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by ernesth 8y ago
In the hope to get standard unit, I pretended to be german. https://www.tesla.com/de_DE/modely?redirect=no Tells me 65 cuft cargo, 540 km range. I asked wolfram alpha what 65 cuft meant. I now know that it is 1/10
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by ernesth 8y ago
> French Guinea French Guinea no longer exist (it is now the (non european) Republic of Guinea). Confused with French Guiana (where Kourou is located)?
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by ernesth 8y ago
> In the Iran case, there are similar sanctions from the EU Nope, since the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, Europe has no sanction against firms that commerce with Iran. However, since USA pulled out of the agreement, USA threatens eur
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by ernesth 8y ago
UMS (USB Mass Storage) is a protocol. MTP is a different protocol. Android devices don't support UMS anymore.
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by ernesth 8y ago
Urgh. I had not thought about some ill effects: 1. It used no ad-blocking. Hence the bot is happy to download all trackers and advertisements! Also trackers know my pocket bookmarks now... 2. Websites are ugly. In a 1440x2000 screenshot of
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by ernesth 8y ago
That is great. I am currently archiving my pocket archive. I some times ago considered using my own wallabag instance, but too much work and maintenance. ArchiveBox worked directly locally. Unfortunately, it seems, for some sites, it is arc
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by ernesth 8y ago
In my understanding, the final price (including tax and transport fee) should be the only mandatory indication. Tax, terms of service are on the receipt (that you should still get when using dash buttons). However the buttons also chose the
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by ernesth 8y ago
awk is in the POSIX norm. It is a Unix tool. GNU awk is one of the popular awk implementation (usually referred as gawk). I personnally prefer mawk. awk is not GNU.
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by ernesth 8y ago
Seeing as patreon, paypal, visa refuse clients because of their beliefs (alt-right) or their sexuality (which would be illegal in Europe), the US do not have free speech either
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by ernesth 8y ago
Official announce in english: https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-fi...
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by ernesth 8y ago
> [Yvonne's] kid, by the way, was calling Jeanne “mamzanne”, that is, Mom Jeanne. Most french children call their grandmother mamie + something differentiating from their other grandmother. Mamie Jeanne? No child use mom + first nam
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by ernesth 8y ago
Doesn't '1,000,000 square meters' mean the same thing as '1 km²'?
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by ernesth 8y ago
Though here it is an error, it could have been correct: 12 metre yachts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Metre ) can be more than 60 feet long. For example, Stars and Stripes was 66ft ( https://en.wikipedia.o
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by ernesth 8y ago
This list is not accurate. In yogurt, most brands attributed to nestlé in fact belong to a joint venture between nestlé and lactalis. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactalis_Nestl%C3%A9_Produits_... Among water, Carola
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by ernesth 8y ago
Yep super common, usually the supermarket deals directly with a producer and puts their own brand name on the product. However, there are two different ways of doing it: * the open one (U, Carrefour, Amazon Basics...) the brand is the name
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by ernesth 8y ago
In git, everyone has its own repository and its own commit history that can be totally different from each others. In cryptocurrencies, there is one authoritative version that is distributed. Both are distributed, but git is more decentrali
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by ernesth 8y ago
Because they want to respect the agreement they signed (that agreement the US decided to not honor and to bully every other signee into not honoring).
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by ernesth 8y ago
Exactly, Dacia Sandero is a cheap car. Dacia Sandero with automatic transmission is not a cheap car (it automatically gets other expensive options).
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by ernesth 8y ago
If you add options to a cheap car, it becomes an expensive car. Dacia sandero costs 7990€. Dacia Sandero with automatic transmission costs 13750€.
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by ernesth 8y ago
> You added [...] I did not, I just reported the numbers given at the bottom of benaadams' linked page.
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by ernesth 8y ago
By Vendor: Microsoft : 9673 Apple : 6157 Adobe : 3939 Mozilla : 3888 Linux : 2124
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by ernesth 8y ago
I find this understanding unlikely. One of the rules of EU is that you should as much as possible not treat foreign europeans any differently than national ones. So german, belgian, french, whatever content should pass the bar for local con

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