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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Compared to the article, many on-call situations could suck even more. In a past assignment, I was on-call for a service managing thousands of customer instances each with a different version of an highly customizable application (basically
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
To extend further, very few items will run flawlessly for decades or more without some kind of maintenance. Durable doesn't necessarily mean the product will last eternally as built. Books usually need to be re-bound and re-covered, pi
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Is the Tesla stock drop having a significant impact? The whole tech field, including Tesla and Twitter has seen stock prices drop. Yes Musk can leverage less money, but he also has to spend less to buy Twitter.
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
Is the comparison with a 747 the most relevant? The niche use case I see for large airships (aside from pleasure rides) is deliveries in remote area with no infrastructure. For example delivering a big generator in Alaska. In such use case,
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
I'm also not convince this is a good fit, but for another reason: if you're a pure Deliverability Company, it's far easier to maintain healthy relations with email hosting providers and get useful information or data from the
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by kakwa_ 4y ago
It reminds me of a similar story I heard a while ago. As in your story, some military contractors were testing a new radar system at the factory. And conveniently, the factory was near an international airport, so they were using the civili
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
Amazon sell a lot of stuff and consequently compete with a lot of legacy companies: Brick and mortar retail in nearly all fields (fashion, food, tools, appliance, books, etc), other online marketplaces (often with a mail order past) and eve
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
Well, personally, I'm in a situation where I struggle to spend more than half of what I earn, including my mortgage repayment. I'm not a cheap person, if I need to spend money on something, I will. It's just that my life styl
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
Indeed "Bricolage", in a private context (typically DIY light home renovation) doesn't bear any negative connotations. In fact, several hardware store chains use the term (Mr. Bricolage, Brico Depot, Bricorama). But using the
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
The irony simply comes from the "little green men" i.e. the Russian "volunteers" sent in Crimea/East Ukraine who were suspiciously well equipped and organized, almost like they were Russian Army military units in al
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
During WWII, the two rasputitsa/mud seasons generally were the only times the eastern front was slightly quieter and these seasons significantly impacted both sides. Summer and even Winter generally saw numerous offensives by contrast.
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
4 to 6 years is possible, but more of a best-case scenario. If you look for example, the nuclear reactor built in France in the 70ies and 80ies took generally between 5 and 9 years to build, with the newer and greater capacity reactors taki
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
It really makes me think of "The Irony of Fate" intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHdFd2RKRSI This is the intro of a Soviet Christmas romantic comedy, with the premise that the main protagonist, quite drunk,
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
Do you also plan to give optimization recommendations for the DB schema itself? I'm thinking more specifically about indexes. In my organization, we provide a solution where clients can run complex analytic queries periodically. We fre
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
World of Warships is at most 50ies tech. I think the most recent ship in game is Colbert, a French AA cruiser commissioned in 1959. And in game, she doesn't feature her missile conversion in the 70ies. Plus most of the "high tier&
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
I'm not sure how much of it overlaps with Blender and how much of it is complementary to Blender. But Adobe recently acquired Allegorithmic and their 3D texture tool Substance. https://www.substance3d.com/ https:&#x2F
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
The "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mind set is only one part of the equation. Most organizations acknowledge that it's generally preferable to run up to date and modern software. But at the same time, updating or
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
The timeline seems way too short for a lot of usecases to be honest. For young projects, where it's kind of expected (trade-off of being an early adopter), or for small projects (which can be easily maintained by a third party), it&#x2
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
Also we had electronic simulators for various instruments for ages now. Things like Clavinova keyboards Piano or Line 6 Pods simulating Guitar/Bass amps & effects have been out their for decades now. And while they have been quite
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by kakwa_ 5y ago
IIRC, the US navy had 2 rigid airships in the 30ies, Akron and Macon (both filled with Helium). Both crashed after a few years in service, in weather related accidents (with significant loss of lives in Akron case). These two examples are n
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Just as a side note, the name "kimsufi" comes from the French "qui me suffit", which roughly translate to "enough for me".
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
You can do pretty much any bank operation online these days, at least the most common operation like opening an account (life insurance, PEL, CEL, livret A, etc), getting your RIB (bank ID pdf), making transfers (one offs and recurring ones
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I kind of have the exact opposite in term of feelings. Seeing Windows 95 or 98 going into a BSoD was far more common than today with Windows 10. I also remember seeing Netscape crashing extremely frequently toward the end of the first brows
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Also, RHEL is packaging pieces of software that are not under GPL/LGPL. With permissive licenses, they could probably heavily restrict source redistribution and availability. If half the userland is not available as source (patch and p
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
It's far less extensive than what you presented, but on the current project we are working on at work, we are using https://github.com/swaggo/swag It's somewhat specific to golang but so far it has been relat
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
They are probably ways to improve existing roads for semi-automated vehicles without creating dedicated infrastructure (which is by itself, not possible anyway, it's kind of hard to create dedicated streets in a dense city for example)
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
I'm also wondering if the caching strategy they are using is a naive one (ie: cache is valid for a fix duration, like 5 minutes) or if it's a more active one (like stakeoverflow), with cache in validations each time a page is modi
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
Dailymotion is a bit of an exception, and somewhat of a waste (Specially when Orange, the national/historic telco operator in France, was forced to bought them by the government, and didn't help Dailymotion development). But one t
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
At home, with just a few devices, it's doable, but adding a ca on all the devices of a corporate network is a huge pain. On one hand, you have varying levels of control (from none to total) on the devices. On the other hand adding a ca
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by kakwa_ 6y ago
> The cost is low for the student but it's pretty high for the taxpayers. Well, not really. In France for example, the cost per student per year looks like the following: * Classe preparatoire (math & physic 2 years course to pr

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