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by franky47 4y ago
When I was a kid, I thought IKEA product codes (eg: 002.638.50) were coordinates in 3D space of where the item was stored in a giant IKEA warehouse (like in the film Cube, but less deadly). I'd like to know the reasoning behind it thou
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As stated by others, external sound "cards" (boxes would be a better term) are still prevalent in pro-audio applications, and may have evolved from internal cards not only for the convenience of plug-and-play, but to allow accessi
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I keep wondering if this can be directly related to car advertising. Most car ads always show the car as alone on the road or street, as a symbol of ultimate freedom ("own the road" often comes back as a catchphrase). Yet this can
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by franky47 4y ago
I've had situations where some email clients (including Outlook) would visit URLs in emails, for "link protection" purposes. Coupled with the magic-link approach (including a token in the URL that authenticates the user), thi
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One point is left out from this calculation: what's the reference point we're at a "full stop" from? Aren't you always orbiting something when in space (however large or distant)? If you were to kill your orbital (l
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by franky47 4y ago
They were recently both portrayed (along with their third cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II) by Tom Hollander in The King's Man (2021).
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by franky47 4y ago
For EU-based PaaS, check out Clever Cloud. They are based in Nantes, France and have servers in France (Paris, Roubaix) and Poland (Warsaw), and other locations outside the EU. I host my Node.js apps & databases (PostgreSQL, Redis) ther
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by franky47 5y ago
For all of you who want to play more, the Wayback Machine has you covered: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
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A list of date/time/calendar quirks and oddities: https://yourcalendricalfallacyis.com/
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I've used react-grid-layout for a client last month and it seems to work like that: the (x,y) coordinates are only guidelines and the layout engine will try and do its best to solve for size and position constraints. https:/&#x2F
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The seven rules mentioned are not incompatible with conventional commits though. Conventional rules are an extension (adding a leading keyword for commit type detection and some optional blocks in the body/footer). However, the usefuln
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I've made an end-to-end encrypted web analytics SaaS. No need to host it yourself, your data is visible only by you. Partially open-source at https://github.com/chiffre-io , with the aim of publishing it all in Q1 2022.
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Nice post, though the title evoked another idea: visually representing the tech stack used in repositories. But maybe we don't need a glorification of complex stacks.
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Another benefit: it allows fixing and patching dependencies without having to wait for an upstream release. I know of repository-pinned dependencies [1], but those may be hard to keep track of, especially for patches on unmaintained softwar
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I also publish a list of (subjectively) interesting articles, most of which come from the HN newsletter: https://francoisbest.com/reading-list
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In your browser's localStorage. Should you choose to share a drawing, it would be end-to-end encrypted and sent to the Excalidraw server. The sharing URL contains the ID of your drawing for retrieval, and the encryption/decryption
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by franky47 5y ago
I find most (quality) content I read through HN, via the HN Blogs newsletter [1], which lists blog posts that haven't hit the front page. [1] https://hnblogs.substack.com/
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> He achieved the size of Sam Gor not by murder and torture, but by industrializing his business, reducing the cost per unit, providing an excellent product at a fair price, and establishing well-maintained networks of key partnerships.
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Does the AI training dataset involve dropping a whale from great heights ? "Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I?" https://www.thecharac
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> Lets get some whale engineers working on the hard problems please. Somehow I pictured whales as the engineers in this sentence. It makes it even better.
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That is assuming it takes less than a year to convert all that amount. At the given rate of .1 liter/minute, you'd need a lot of those installations or quite the scale-up.
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Society as we knew it definitely took a hit in 2020 though. Collapse is not a singular event at a fixed point in time like the start of a war would be, it's a process.
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Never underestimate the power of basic human needs over layers of abstractions. Software's intangibility will be its downfall when our modern society eventually collapses.
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It's more that the jammer could easily be detected by a change of pet behaviour.
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I wonder how sensitive dogs would be to such a jamming system.
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Deep Blue vs Kasparov could have taken a very different turn.
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This whole article gave me a fronache.
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As a side note: Japanning, as mentionned in the first image's caption, is another of history's fascinating and forgotten finishes. It was used to finish the Ford model T, Singer sawing machines, and cast iron hand planes, among ot
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by franky47 5y ago
For Android users, I can't recommend enough (I know, the irony) NewPipe [1], an open-source alternative viewer to the YouTube app with much less clutter and incentive to maximize engagement. [1] https://newpipe.net
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by franky47 5y ago
While I agree that we (fellow Frenchman here) tend to overtranslate, some of our portmanteaus are kind of clever. My personal favourite is illectronisme , a combination of illettrisme (illiteracy) and électronique (electronic), to refe

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