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karambahh
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karambahh
3y ago
Small nitpick, if (which is very likely to me but unfortunately hasn't been proven) Robert Boulin has been murdered, it's definitely not by the DGSE or it predecessor, as they operate outside of France. If you agree is that it
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karambahh
3y ago
I strongly suspect it's human made, as the french subtitles are full of (sometimes very subtle) puns as well. Kudos to whoever went the extra mile and extended the joke to "smaller" languages.
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karambahh
3y ago
And how Commodore Amiga 2000 provided PC compatible extension card, funnily enough
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karambahh
4y ago
It's sold to MyMoneyBank, formerly known as GE Moneybank... not exactly local :)
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karambahh
4y ago
Is it that impratical? Small players would be impacted by a 100k$ net loss...and you could even spread it out over several months to be less likely to be caught by anti-abuse systems...
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karambahh
4y ago
That's definitely a very good point. It also sort of matches my point: nationalities of inventions are, at best, flexible (and shouldn't be used, really). The CCP would likely be adamant that fiber optics are a CN invention. Your
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karambahh
4y ago
As others pointed out, web, out of CH. Datagrams as an FR invention. Fiber optics, CN I purposely did not mention the "inventors" of these 3 random tidbits because, guess what? It's not that much important because invention i
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karambahh
4y ago
AFAIK, Avalara is the defacto player on this kind of stuff
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karambahh
4y ago
Fraud prevention or even straight up order blocking between 1:30 & 4AM because the downstream order management system has only so much buffer capacity (it's getting rarer, but it does still happen. Fraud prevention cranked up is de
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karambahh
4y ago
Your idea is really interesting. I rarely (if ever) comment on my mental health online, but I can totally relate to a X-Y quadrant as you describe. Many mental health professional debut their appointment with a dreaded question "how ar
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karambahh
5y ago
AFAIK Plenel sources for Rainbow Warrior were french intelligence. He got completely sidelined on the "Irlandais de Vincennes" story (which in a way is proof he's not a foreign intelligence puppet, otherwise he wouldn't
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karambahh
5y ago
A more reputable source in french: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/cherche-cocottes-minute-p... A witness in this article adds that "every nuclear facility in the world use them"
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5y ago
What book on forensic accounting would you recommend for entertainment value? I have some knowledge of french accounting, been exposed to US style, and thoroughly enjoyed long forms involving forensic accounting, money laundering and the li
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karambahh
5y ago
I have been in a position to hire people repeatedly, and I've done a fair bit of job hopping myself in the last few years. Never let a job description hold you back from applying. You could bring other things to the company, you can ac
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karambahh
5y ago
A lot of the actors you're listing actually have datacenters and/or cages at french DCs and/or racks at french ISP PoP
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karambahh
5y ago
16 years ago, I was an intern at the European HQ of a Japanese tyre brand. We received and chain forwarded a "leaked" video of Michelin testing a similar design. We ICT folks thought we were doomed as it seemed miles ahead of our
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karambahh
5y ago
In some european countries, 911 calls are forwarded to 112 for this exact reason, the cultural presence of 911
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karambahh
5y ago
For some reason I understood the title as an audio rendering of changes on your pg db The actual purpose is actually way cooler, looks like a great tool
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karambahh
6y ago
SBG is a small part of their operations. I doubt it will have a lasting issue on their image
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karambahh
6y ago
I'm a former Scaleway employee so take this as a informed guess: DC4 space is divided in very small, secure rooms (which you can see in the promotional video) with space for like less than a dozen racks at a time. They probably filled
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6y ago
I have the same issues with HSBC in France. Calling their app "decent" is charitable to say the least. The only good part is the call center, where operators are actively trying to be helpful.
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karambahh
6y ago
With your metrics and as you're based in Europe, you should probably send a deck to Kima Ventures. It's the seed fund from Xavier Niel (of Iliad/free fame).
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6y ago
There has been a player in "AWS compatible workloads" for quite some time, the french company Outscale: https://us.outscale.com/products/compute/aws-compatible-clou... They have PoPs in several "exo
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karambahh
6y ago
I heard (from IBM sales people) that they do sell cloud services to banks. They are slowly replacing the mainframe contracts by (private) cloud contracts
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karambahh
6y ago
The French minister for digital affairs is, funnily enough, named Cédric O https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_O
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karambahh
6y ago
I'm a friend (and former colleague) of the repo author. That's exactly some of the cases we had to deal with some legacy invoicing systems (of which Kevin was not responsible, but I was ;))
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karambahh
6y ago
>I think whiteboards are the most important tool for network design (...)I can’t even tell you the number of disasters averted by 2-3 great network engineers arguing over a whiteboard. I strongly agree with this statement and think it ho
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karambahh
6y ago
There are ongoing works on Line 4 this summer to automate it as well
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karambahh
6y ago
Congrats for your tool, seems impressive. Yet another great project supported by imec!
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karambahh
6y ago
I think you're mistaken. Case in point: Scaleway, a founding member of gaia-x, does not use openstack. I know of several others who do not.
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