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by fer 3y ago
I've seen floats for money in production, not a financial system per se, but it moved amounts around external systems that often would include some financial ones. It worked surprisingly well given the amounts involved (anywhere from t
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by fer 3y ago
I share your frustration so much that I wrote an article about it: https://www.fer.xyz/2021/04/i18n
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by fer 3y ago
I think that's been the case for a while other countries' marketplaces.
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by fer 3y ago
I assume you're talking about Société Générale? I've experienced that, and what's worse it's that's it's broken on purpose. A joint bank account doesn't require the people to be married, let alone to share
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by fer 3y ago
I'm not sure if this is just trolling, but it feels like you're comparing percentages of unrelated metrics.
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by fer 3y ago
If you obtain French citizenship you can "francify"[0] your name; you'll end up with two full canonical names. Nothing really forces you to change your original name in your original nationality. [0] https://www.se
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by fer 3y ago
In France married women, if they let their guard down, will be given their husband's last name as "nom d'usage" upon almost any sign-up paperwork, without being asked, at least in my experience. Nom d'usage technica
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by fer 3y ago
Are you aware that this study doesn't really support any of what you said?
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by fer 3y ago
> The difference is that flu vaccines actually prevent infection in many cases OK > whereas COVID vaccines do not prevent them, but merely lessen the symptoms and risk of hospitalization. Is this something I can read on a peer reviewe
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by fer 3y ago
> The only difference to the population that I see is that vaccines for COVID have less efficacy than those for influenza. So far COVID vaccines seem to confer protection for longer than flu ones, and the initial protection is generally
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by fer 3y ago
> DNS keeps randomly dropping/leaking tbh, I always assumed it wasn't implemented yet; it never worked for me
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by fer 3y ago
Maybe I'm wrong (not a doctor), but I believe it is very unlikely that one off events of apnea lower your saturation to a level of clinical relevance to need 2s frequency; saturation drops only after a continued chain of such events or
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by fer 3y ago
If by true phonemic you mean 1:1 relationship between sound and letter, sure; not all the letters sound the same all the time, and not all sounds are always represented by a single letter. It's a natural language so it's bound to
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by fer 3y ago
In case someone's curious, it's not only Spanish, and it's certainly not unusual[0]. A way to see how a (more) phonemic orthography would look like in English is to have a look at BBC Pidgin[1], though the increased "pho
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by fer 3y ago
I mean, with large enough resources it can bounce off the moon: https://www.satelliteevolution.com/post/world-record-europea...
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by fer 3y ago
Normally an SDR board (which supports transmission, obviously). LimeSDR, HackRF, BladeRF, PlutoSDR are some of the most popular.
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by fer 3y ago
I'd add to that list Netbird, which is the one I ended up using after trying all of the above. https://netbird.io/
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by fer 3y ago
The main thing that changed is that now the service approach also generally enforces a particular framework (Smithy/Coral)
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by fer 3y ago
My mom's (then) boyfriend sold his car back in '96. He was a science man but not on a particularly number-hard field (veterinarian). He still ran the numbers. I was too young to fully understand but basically accounting for every
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by fer 3y ago
Not whom you reply to, and maybe a bit of an exaggeration, but yeah. My account is from Sep 2003, I have around 300 games there (mostly from Humble Bundles), by 2012-2013 I almost stopped playing. Then I had a phase where I put maybe 100h i
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by fer 3y ago
Fun fact: a ping from the center to the extreme of the milky way would overflow for 64 bit millisecond timestamps.
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by fer 3y ago
I have a use case that uses a similar solution, but for a different reason: it doesn't scare me to use timestamp as sort key I since I know my hash keys are unique and I only write every few seconds. But I still add random amount of ms
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by fer 3y ago
As a parent, I like put it in a different way: "The good thing about making mistakes, is that you get to know which mistakes are worth making."
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by fer 3y ago
On all still available. I don't expect (recently) privated subs to have a ton of activity anyway.
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by fer 3y ago
spez to the investors: > No, you see, it was not a protest, it was simply a small outage, nothing to worry about. Joking aside, I have a few bots monitoring content and I saw ~10% drops in comment activity before the outage (vs. the base
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by fer 3y ago
That pro-tip has been used on me, I haven't touched them in ages, leaving my C/C++ skills rusty (pun intended).
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by fer 3y ago
It's just a language model. I've asked it to prove the Riemann hypothesis, GPT-4 replied it can't, since none of the training data say anything about such proof. Then I asked it to prove statements of the implications of said
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by fer 3y ago
> I live in Dublin, which is at least in Europe so better than many US cities, but certainly not very good on bike infra. I live in Dublin and maybe you're comparing it with Amsterdam, but having as reference 3 EU capitals I've
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by fer 3y ago
> What are the statistics on lithium-ion battery failures? Are they dangerous full stop, dangerous in certain scenarios If you wanna get more paranoid: https://www.reddit.com/r/spicypillows/ Jokes aside, hard t
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by fer 3y ago
It reminds me more of the (now abandoned) Xeon Phi line of processors.

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