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by idoubtit 5y ago
The USA's obsession with race is still surprising, from my perspective. The article believes that (English-speaking) users of Goodreads read few "Black writers" like Alexandre Dumas because they're mostly White people. I
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by idoubtit 5y ago
From https://web.dev/floc/ in section "Do websites have to participate and share information?" > For pages that haven't been excluded, a page visit will be included in the browser's FLoC calculat
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by idoubtit 5y ago
This kind of post that provides no context will lead to cargo-cult, with people blindly copying and pasting these directives, and believing they have increased the privacy of their site... If your web site does not include ads, FLoC is alr
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by idoubtit 5y ago
> [...] perhaps the most prolific writer in human history: Isaac Asimov. Beware of unrelated claims that taint your message! Asimov, while a prolific writer, was certainly not the most productive. According to Wikipedia, he wrote or edi
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> It's not like it would stop working out of the blue. Unless the benevolent dictator pushes out a new Elm version that is not backward compatible. And, if the process is the same it was a few years ago, it could happen next month a
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by idoubtit 6y ago
> I would say that Laravel is an extremely high quality framework I strongly disagree. My experience with Laravel made me see it as a medium quality framework with many flaws. I'll point out to a few of them. The source code quality
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by idoubtit 6y ago
In order to mitigate the latency of using nginx as a reverse-proxy, I recently added a feature to a Haskell application: instead of listening on a TCP port, it can listen on a unix socket. It's not only faster, it also avoids the conge
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by idoubtit 6y ago
If someone touched infected surface every day during the past year, their risk of being contaminated would be about 3.6% according to this study (10^-4 at each contact). Touching twice per day would not double the risk, since the process is
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by idoubtit 6y ago
The current HN title deviates from the original title in a way that is misleading. "Vaccines Are Effective Against Covid Variants" is a wrong affirmation. The original article only states that in vitro experiments show that some v
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by idoubtit 6y ago
> For every person that dies (an agonizing death akin to medieval torture) I think this is wrong, at least in rich countries, at least those that are sane enough to cure their ill citizens. A friend of mine died of covid last year. Then
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by idoubtit 6y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the rate in the paper is bigger, 0.25% against 22k/11M = 0.20% in Belgium. But if the newspaper I read are right, there is a catch: when tests were not available, Belgium counted as a covid death every case wh
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by idoubtit 6y ago
> The author(s?) almost certainly have no idea what they're talking about. > They're using select * in a group by query with no aggregates. The author wrote something akin to SELECT A.*, B.x FROM A JOIN B GROUP BY A.id, b.x
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by idoubtit 6y ago
I think of philosophy of the art of words and ideas, just like literature is generally the art of words and stories. But, for historical reasons, many people and most philosophers claim philosophy is much more than this. Spinoza was convinc
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by idoubtit 6y ago
Among the Russian films with a strong political innuendo I've seen, "Welcome, no trespassing" was the sharpest and one of the most enjoyable. It's about a scout camp where the the director oppresses the children with stu
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by idoubtit 6y ago
The original title is "La guerre du feu" (The war of fire). The film is enjoyable and generally faithful to the book of Rosny l'aîné. "La guerre du feu" was written more than a century ago, and the author was more i
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by idoubtit 6y ago
As far as I know, we don't know anything about the "courtship behavior" of Neanderthal or Homo Sapiens circa -50k. And I doubt anyone can compare their "general lifestyle" with certitude. It doesn't mean these
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by idoubtit 6y ago
Obviously, performance generally isn't the main criteria when choosing a framework. I would argue that your "software that scales" isn't important either in most cases. I don't care much about performance either, es
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> We should work on fixing the system so talking to the police is a good thing. I don't think I will live long enough to see it, at least in my country. The French police is less dangerous than the US one, but they're still dan
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by idoubtit 6y ago
Tree Style Tabs has more features and is arguably better. In the year following the core changes in Firefox (Chrome extensions, threaded tabs) I had many bugs (high cpu load, broken tree, no restoring at startup...) but I haven't seen
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by idoubtit 6y ago
I don't think this is related to the country of the editor. The lack of ethics is more preponderant in low-quality reviews (many junk reviews are Asian) and in some domains (more in medical reviews than mathematics). Here is an example
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by idoubtit 6y ago
I fail to see any interest in this article. It looks to me that someone projected her beliefs on Beethoven, with an oversimplification and little regards to the various influences on Beethoven's composition. He composed music at a time
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His most famous sonata were published in 1798, 1801 (Moonlight), and 1803. By then, he suffered from tinnitus and knew he was to loose his audition, but he could still hear. He gradually lost his audition during the 1810s and was deaf by th
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by idoubtit 6y ago
> This seems a little dismissive of the Servo project. I disagree. The servo project has not (yet) "built a new engine from scratch". In fact it is very far from being a complete engine, if you look at their "Remainig Work
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- My Vivaldi interface is responsive, YMMV. I just opened my History Panel, checked that several thousands of entries were present, then searched for various characters, then navigated in several tabs. Everything was instant. - Vivaldi Andr
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> french relies heavy on vernacular, sayings and expressions. It's more than that. There's a growing divergence between the spoken French and the written French. Où irions-nous ? Nous hésitâmes... (written French) On allait où
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by idoubtit 6y ago
At some point, the interviewer and the interviewee discuss how easy it is to tell apart the accents attached to various neighbourhoods in Paris. For those interested with the same process with the English language, I strongly recommend the
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> For security reasons, keep uMatrix & uBlock Origin turned ON while visiting reference link! All it takes to protect oneself against the FSB is turning on uBlock? Really? Some may remember what a Google team (Project Zero) discovere
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In France, there are distinct certifications: "Bio" for organic food, and "Label rouge" for high quality meat. For instance, animals with the later certification may eat non-organic food, but they spend most of their day
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> SolarWinds is, with high probability, above average and above average is, in absolute terms, abysmal. If what was reported by Reuters is true, SolarWinds had huge holes in its security. None of the companies I've worked for on rec
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by idoubtit 6y ago
Orwell is not subtle enough for this. In "1984" (spoiler) , the tyranny wins because they manage to torture the main characters so much that their spirits were permanently broken. If memory serves right, that was the end of the s

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