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by laurent_du 1y ago
Kaczynski was really not on the same level. By several orders of magnitude.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
People keep repeating this argument that you don't need to know how to do X (where X is something extremely easy) because that's not part of your job, doing your job entails Y (much harder). That's BS. I have never met someon
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by laurent_du 1y ago
There's a right-wing (or rather far-right) anti-NATO but it's much more confidential. Anti-NATO in Europe is typically found in communist and revolutionary movements.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
There are stickers everywhere in my city against NATO. They say "food not weapons". As though the Ukrainians could defeat the Russians with pickles and ham. Left-wing idealism is grounded in denial of reality.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
The vast majority of people who claim to be software engineer (or apply to similar position) have very limited skill. This has been proven countless times. I think it's completely fair to ask the candidate to show some level of ability
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by laurent_du 1y ago
A friend of mine was doing modelling (as in, being a model) in a large European city. He then worked as a product manager for a well-known luxury company. He ended up writing a system in visual basic that was responsible for a large amount
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by laurent_du 1y ago
This is unironically the kind of project I love. My first job was a little bit like that, and I loved being the guy who was saving the day for everyone.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Yes, they are a life-saver. I use them all the time for various AWS accounts. The guy who told me about it years ago has saved me countless hours.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Nothing in the message you are answering suggests this is what they are talking about.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
It's just your social circle. Everyone around me is vehemently anti-Palestine and pro-Israel. Friends, family, everyone.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I read this as well, and tried holding my breath (I can hold it for several minutes) while walking in the forest, and the mosquitoes still bit me.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I have never been in the US, and have been living in Finland for more than 15 years. Hilarious how wrong you are.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Let's be real, everyone feels nudity is inherently sexual, except on HN and probably on reddit where men love to claim that it's not. I don't know if it's virtue-signalling, sexual frustration, or something else. It does
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by laurent_du 1y ago
> The image attached to this blog post is a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. Absolutely nothing sexual. How is this not sexual? The fact that it's a stock photo, or that the woman is pregnant, is irrelevant. It's very clea
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by laurent_du 1y ago
It's no less arbitrary than deciding that gypsies, who engage in petty crime and mistreat their children, forcing them to become beggars and thieves themselves, should not reproduce. If anything, Down kids probably bring more good to s
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by laurent_du 1y ago
At some point in my life I was eating 400g of nutella every day. I was also running 26km per day. I didn't get fat.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I am not implying, I am literally saying that. Obese people can easily live for six months to one year without suffering health issues. Gaza has a clean water problem, not a food problem. And what's the blatant lie? Gaza inhabitants a
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by laurent_du 1y ago
The obesity rate in Gaza is among the largest in the world. Let's stop pretending everyone is starving.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I fully believe that Gazans are starving, I just don't think it's Israel's fault. Hamas is stealing and withholding food, and other resources.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
It makes me sick to my heart to think that money is stolen from my pocket to be given to lunatics of this kind.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
I do this all the time as well with `uv run --with ipython --with boto3 ipython`. Great time-saver.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Why is any of that a bad thing?
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by laurent_du 1y ago
They are not the same question, why are you spreading so much misinformed takes in this thread? I know a guy who had one of the best scores in history at IMO and he's incredibly intelligent. Stop repeating that getting a gold medal at
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by laurent_du 1y ago
My son was literally asking me about him yesterday. Wonder how many kids think about him every day.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
You probably need an ad hoc MCP for this kind of things.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Well he is certainly remembered by many.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
This is straight out of a Ryan Long standup. "Public health institutions prove that public health policies are better accepted by people whom public health institutions deem smarter." Sometimes reality does parody better than paro
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Very cool and I wish it lasted longer.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
What if they are going to kill your child? I have zero respect for this kind of conviction.
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by laurent_du 1y ago
Does anyone know of a good reference on the topic of fingerprinting?

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