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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, French is commonly spoken every day by a lot more 76M people, it's more in the area of 200 to 300M people. If you go in Marocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Cameroon and other former colonies in Africa, you can reasonably expe
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Same thing with electric guitars. In the 60 and early 70ies, Made in Japan guitars, specially copies of Gibson and Fender guitars where not well regarded. But they started to greatly improve, and by the late 70ies and 80ies they were equal
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
And ~1400 China used to represent 30% of the world economy. They are now only at 18%. More seriously, every indicators points to a general improvement. In term of economy, China went from representing 4% of the world economy to the 18% ment
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
I'm probably completely wrong, but the wiring of the rotors makes me vaguely think of S-Boxes in modern algorithms. Not sure if the comparison holds to scrutiny however.
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, the Seine is already a bit of desperate case. Jacque Chirac (mayor of Paris at the time) famously said in 1988 "I would swim in the Seine within 3 years, with witnesses, to prove the Seine has become a clean river" to illust
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
If a CA is compromised critically (private key stolen), then it's removed from the set of trusted CAs you can find in browsers or at OS level (ex: ca-certificates package on Ubuntu/Debian), which in turn makes all the certificates
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Limiting a bit the impacts if Let's Encrypt is compromised in any way. If Let's encrypt is compromised, either by being able to issue certificate for arbitrary domains or if the CA itself is compromised, the impact would be huge g
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Software is also a really immature field. Software development is not an industrial process, it's more like craftsmanship. Part of it comes from the fact the field is relatively young, but also because in software, it is extremely easy
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well... the pay gap between men and women is a well documented structural problem. You see it both relatively (equal competence, seniority and position) and absolutely across the whole work force (women tend to have an harder time getting t
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
I doubt the vast majority of employees would get offended that easily. I work for a tech company providing marketing tools (basically, I help send marketing emails (aka spam)), I like the pay, the overall environment and the technical chall
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
1) the cost aspect is only part of the equation, my point is also on the attitude of people 2) the mechanical keyboards is only one item, a gaming rig or a good laptop could cost you 1 or 2 thousands dollars if not more. It's just that
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
The whole deal with mechanical keyboards feels to me a lot like putting too much emphasis on the rig without real justification. Sure extremely skilled people do need the extra performance in some circumstances, but chances are the rig is n
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
"Not a very long time" is pretty vague. Also, even if the impact is limited in term of long lasting debris, losing several satellites, and as a consequence losing the services they provide plus having to replace them is definitely
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
It's quite interesting to see the evolution of Google reputation in the past years. Maybe I was in a different context being a student, but 5 to 10 years ago Google had a really good reputation, they just released Android, Chromium, Go
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
That's always a balancing act. With a lot of small teams, you have each team producing components which are relatively good individually thanks to easy, flat, one to one communication and continuity of means and responsibility. The alt
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
And IIRC, FAT being in the UEFI specification kind of solved the patent issue over FAT being in the Linux kernel tree.
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Being able to make copies easily and store them in different location are probably the best protection for any document. And now days copies are virtually free and moving them is extremely easy. I'm wondering if someone as done studies
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, at least for OSX, you can technically run VMs, I've been doing it for a few years now (I needed one to troubleshoot CMake issues specific to OSX). For iOS, I would grant that. One last point is that OS X is partially Open Source
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, economic factors play a role. At least on paper, ~100k$/year in SF/Silicon Valley fresh out of college seems like a sweet deal from other countries (personally I started at 36ke/year aka 40k$/year in France) and th
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Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth(advances.sciencemag.org)
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Or even simpler, put a cheap analog thermometer which records the min and max temperature in your fridge. Maybe not exactly this one, but something like that: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61jmAU
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
I've less repositories, ~30 repositories. 5 or 6 of them I would consider significant projects at least from my point of view (aka a lone developer who is actually more of a sysadmin/devops in his day job, so not it's not rea
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, engin failures are not exactly the rarest of occurrences. It's just that given the context, every stories about Boeing will gain quite a bit of traction. It's probably deserved given how bad the company have messed-up, but l
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
> the almost infinite patience Well, not that much, the protests in question could probably be far more peaceful if the CRS had a a lighter hand on the tear gas grenades, the flash ball guns, the sticks and everything. Just to illustrate
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Yes and no. Data diode can be put either ways, with different results: * case 1, you allow traffic to only go out: This way, nothing can come inside the system, but the system can export data. Here basically, confidentiality is of secondary
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, it depends. Paris is a bit special, it's not a city which kept a lot of its medieval layout heritage thanks to Napoleon III and Hausmann. You have a lot of Boulevard which are quite large and decently arranged. As for commuting,
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
As the article itself mentions, ads are not inherently bad. When justified, it's a way for a company X to say "hey, I've this product Y that does Z", informing the market. However, things go south very rapidly in our wor
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Also it's the classical buy vs build. Ok, given the size and budget of CERN, it's probably cheaper for them to develop things in house. But maintaining a team of people not at the heart of your activities is always a bit challengi
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
The nice thing about these old tube amps is that the schematics are freely available (Fender ships a copy of the schematic with their amps). There are also quite simple in term of number of components. However, there are dangerous, with 400
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by kakwa_ 7y ago
Well, it depends, if you're at 10 times the safe level, you will need far more than the half life. Most likely between 900 and 1200 years.

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