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by jrimbault 4y ago
> quantum drag forces Also known as the scenarium trace mineral commonly found in space.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Yes, I'm constantly referring to my "phone" as my "brain's third hemisphere". It makes people chuckle but no one stops at that joke. It's completely "in the culture".
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I don't like Proust, but I'll play devil's advocate. Overly long meandearing sentences are very much the point of those books. The form and content reflect each others. War and Peace is also just a style exercise fashionabl
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Furthurmore, in 2022 large scale professionals (and in this allegory, kernel devs are that kind) are more likely to use industrial hammers which have nothing in common with the hammers of the 18th century apart from the name and their bas
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I'm really happy about the inclusion of Rust in the linux kernel. Not because it is Rust but because it shows that we can evolve. And I hope in a thousand years we aren't still stuck on C or Rust but "moved on" to even b
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I've only seen twitter through tweetdeck for the last decade, and I believe it hasn't seen a new feature or design (both in functionality and form) change in at least 4 years ? It has become bug riddled (but I still use it), but a
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Not 2006, but in 2007 (in France, I was 15) you could get unlimited calls, sms and mms (and a generous data cap I can't remember the details of, but it was in the gigabytes), for a fixed monthly price. That wasn't the subscription
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Are you talking about news.ycombinator.com ? If you are, it's because this is not « the center of "modern development tools" ». It's a textboard and it serves that purpose well. And this is completely off topic.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I was also looking for one (well, two) yesterday... even sent bloomberg a mail to ask if backorder was still possible (they said no and to check amazon/ebay/etc).
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by jrimbault 4y ago
That mode was especially enjoyable in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, walking around a simulation of antique Athene is (for lack of a better word) something .
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by jrimbault 4y ago
> dispute handling is handled by the city then That would be the defintion of "socializing costs" while "privatising revenues".
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by jrimbault 4y ago
He was selected (reported by him) for the eulogy he wrote for Robert Jordan on his blog. At the time he hadn't published "thousand pages" books. Though he later did, concurrently with writing the final Wheel of Time books (th
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I got a GTX1080 in december 2016. It's still going strong.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
TypeScript free from the historical baggage of JavaScript. With some runtime type checking, autogenerated typeguards from types, allowing things like checked de/serialization. A TypeScript where (for example) string methods make sens
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I think the underlying question was "Why not eat food ?" or "Why do you use so much complements if you can eat normally ?"
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Aren't there some studies about how stress level doesn't seem to change much in relation to income and education ?
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Yeah. I have one physicist friend, and as I far I know from casual conversion with them, the whole team at his lab don't even know if they are writing C or C++. And explaining python to him, because he's required to teach a bit of
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I also do that but when I know I won't come back later for it. I use my history as shortcuts, so I avoid cluttering it with random word lookups.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Train stations in NYC are much less dense than (for example my own city) Paris subway network. New-York subway network is impressive for its sprawl, but not really for its efficiency.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
The difference is in the intent. A security camera films a place and doesn't focus on individuals. If the camera were to run software that would autofocus on a person, that would make them a subject, there would need to be consent. You
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by jrimbault 4y ago
> These are there to purposefully record your face and let you know that they're doing that full colour and HD whether you like it or not. I believe (?) this, as it is stated above, would be illegal in France under the current laws
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by jrimbault 4y ago
At some point, this becomes the dividing line between a "nu-ops" team and the dev team.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Just this afternoon I was with my father looking for a way to backup all of his emails on his yahoo account. I was looking "naïvely" for the button to request all of his personal data. I didn't find one and there's proba
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Are deno packages usable from the node side of the ecosystem ? and vice versa ?
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Just that short text I think "proves" how good a writer Neil Gaiman is.
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by jrimbault 4y ago
> But very few of them are segfaults. With smart pointers and some common sense, they're just not that big of a concern. I think it's really a POV thing. Rust surfaces those concerns very directly, even if it would have been co
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I believe the video game industry (and other industries where code co-exists with large binary assets) mostly uses Perforce and Mercurial
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by jrimbault 4y ago
> I hope I was able to show, too, that I don't consider Rust the perfect, be-all-end-all programming language. There's still a bunch of situations where, without the requisite years of messing around, you'll be stuck. Be
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by jrimbault 4y ago
I'm using this comment as jumping point. What's cost/opportunity to optimizing for a specific platform/instruction set ? At what point is it worth doing, when isn't it worth doing ? AVX-512 strikes as something... &
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by jrimbault 4y ago
Isn't it the case that only 1 in X soldiers actually fires their weapon ? I think vaguely remember something to that effect.

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