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by forty 1y ago
In French it's not the case, you can have relative or absolute majority, which might explain my confusion. According to this definition https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/majority : "c : the greater q
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by forty 1y ago
How much is "the vast majority"? I would say that one third of something global with potentially infinite number of providers, when the second player is probably a fraction of that, is already a pretty big majority.
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by forty 1y ago
Also blockdh100b ?
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by forty 1y ago
On Firefox for Android on my phone, with the native keyboard the button to hide the keyboard is usually replacing the back button. With your own keyboard, the button to hide the keyboard is on the top right, but my muscles memory goes to hi
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by forty 1y ago
I thought that Deno was the hype-driven competition of nodejs ;)
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by forty 1y ago
The news is that it's now allowed / legal
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by forty 1y ago
It's not only the tech startups, I've mentioned it because that's what a know best, but my brother works for a large industrial company, and they use the same tricks and also have their reports done by professional bullshit c
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by forty 1y ago
It's quite common knowledge :) if you want journalist material, I think there was a Cash Investigation on the topic a few years ago. I have discussed this topic with many other engineers (known from engineering school, from working 13+
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by forty 1y ago
"There are abuses" is really an understatement. "It's mostly abuse and there might be some legitimate beneficiaries" would be more correct.
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by forty 1y ago
Since there was a lot of confusion in some people/president heads about VAT: this is more or less the equivalent of Sales Tax that you can have in the US. The rate is different depending on which country you are in (in France the main
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by forty 1y ago
Since 2019, I replaced once the battery of my FP3. I often see people with broken screens. USB ports can get damaged by too many plug cycles etc. None of these reason should justify buying a new phone, but in practice if replacing the part
162.
by forty 1y ago
Yes, people often get that wrong, it's not modular or upgradable, it's repairable, which is already great. IMO we are far past the point when we should have decided smartphone hardware is good enough, and stop having people upgrad
163.
by forty 1y ago
It's probably going to be the end of the FP3 updates sometimes in 2026, so it will be time to change. For me, it will certainly be a by a FP6.
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by forty 1y ago
Same from clean residential IP. They must assume a DDOS attack with the HN crowd suddenly clicking on that link ^^
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by forty 1y ago
Not sure about your story, it might make it sound like any of this is magic, but it's actually stupidily mechanical (which personally is the main message I would want my kids to understand)
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by forty 1y ago
Probably iMalloc ;)
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by forty 1y ago
Yes, sorry, I was answering only regarding the French gendarmerie, which I thought was made clear by the fact it's a French word but it turns out to be used more broadly.
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by forty 1y ago
Gendarmerie are simply policemen with a military status which give them some duty (like I think they cannot strike) and some benefits (earlier retirement) but they are still really a police force in reality. I don't think it would look
169.
by forty 1y ago
Why would anyone rather read and fix someone else code rather than writing the code themselves? I do a lot of code review for other human code and it use so much more energy than writing my own code (and surely, as I have competent colleagu
170.
by forty 1y ago
We need an oblivious crypto currency mining algorithm ^^
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by forty 1y ago
Can we have proof of work algorithm that compute something actually useful? Like finding large prime numbers or something like this that have distributed computation programs. This way all this power wasted is at least not completely lost.
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by forty 1y ago
people's brains all work differently and for some of them manually writing help them think better, and apparently your are not in this case. I don't think there is much else to understand.
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by forty 1y ago
If you really have to use an IA, at least use it to generate code once and use that. This way it's deterministic and you get a chance to understand what happens and to debug issues. Not sure why IA could create something you couldn&#x2
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by forty 1y ago
IMO a nice demo of wdired (writable dired) should be enough to convince anyone to switch to emacs :)
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by forty 1y ago
Don't you think base 10 was used simply because it conveniently matches the number of fingers of Humans?
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by forty 1y ago
France has its own nuclear power and I don't think it could really avoid being involved like we did for Ukraine if war was to cross EU border (my perspective as a French citizen)
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by forty 1y ago
There are still trains going from France to Spain, the train change gauge before crossing the border (in either Cerbère or Portbou station)
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by forty 1y ago
In what world "tech" has brought peace? So far it brought of stuff like dependency to petrol and now rare minerals, climate change, and water rarerification - which are I think most of the reasons why wars are/have been/
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by forty 1y ago
I do that too, I run everything in rootless podman managed by systemd units it's quite nice. With systemd network activation I could even save the cost of user space networking, though for my single user use case, it's not really
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by forty 1y ago
> I seriously dislike jq's convoluted, impossible-to-remember ad hoc DSL that instantly joined heaps of misery like CMake and gnuplot in my heart. I like jq and gnuplot quite well. Makes me want to try CMake out ;)

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