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by lefra 7d ago
I never used it in practice, so maybe the support isn't that good, but I was under the impression that it was possible to pass custom allocators basically everywhere in the STL. See for example the definition of a vector here: https:&
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by lefra 10d ago
Good idea, but it says that hiking in Spain in august is fine...
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by lefra 10d ago
If a company wants to sell in the EU, they should comply with EU rules. The market and the regulations are closely linked, you won't get one without the other.
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by lefra 10d ago
"Annexing neighbour" is clearly a non-goal of the EU. One of the reason of its existence is to put an end to european countries invading each others all the time.
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by lefra 11d ago
Converting Sun to electricity to power a water heater is suboptimal. The water can be heated directly by the Sun. If you can put a water tank above the solar panel, you don't even need a pump.
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by lefra 12d ago
Coming from an optics/electronics background, it's fascinating to see how much debate there is here around whether a design document is useful or not. I don't think any engineer outside software would start a project without
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by lefra 12d ago
Most dimensions here look like a designer draw curves that looked good, and the person creating the drawing told their CAD software "put a reference point every 0.5mm of this curve". The mold manufacturer will ignore this part of
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by lefra 17d ago
Rates for human drivers are currently at the correct level for insurance companies to pay for damage and make some profit. If autonomous cars result in less damage than humans, their insurance price will be cheaper than human drivers, but t
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by lefra 20d ago
I should not have to install a browser plug-in to opt out of Google analytics (that's what's proposed as an opt-out option in the privacy policy). Where's the "reject non-essential cookies" button?
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by lefra 21d ago
> A lot of datasheets are inaccessible without signing an NDA Only for very high-end stuff, where just designing the board around the chip needs a team of engineers.
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by lefra 21d ago
Any company doing consultancy in electronics. You're going to have to pay for the time an electronics engineer spend on understanding what you want to do and reviewing your design, plus the consultancy's margin.
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by lefra 23d ago
I discussed with people working on aircraft components, and my understanding is that weight is a constant obsession for them. Propose a new system to Airbus/Boeing, and the first question they'll ask is "how much does it weig
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by lefra 28d ago
I tried three times on my 5-year-old phone. First time got stuck at 90% loading. Second time the tab crashed at 90% loading. Third time Chrome itself crashed once loading finished.
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by lefra 29d ago
"Translating the datasheet into protocol <X>", is the essence of writing a hardware driver. Also my experience with hardware is that the datasheet is often incomplete or misleading. Most of the time is spend fiddling with th
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by lefra 1mo ago
I've known several people on visas in my european country. They don't need to go out of the country to apply for renewal.
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by lefra 1mo ago
French would use "piratage [informatique]" (roughly "digital piracy"). However, "hacker" is used to name the person committing the crime.
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by lefra 1mo ago
Lots of comments here blaming the bad state of toilets on homeless people doing drugs. They're not the only issue. In France, toilets on highways are often disgusting. French highways have stupid-high tolls, so these toilets are used b
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by lefra 1mo ago
To avoid that, the code should have ways to override default ports or paths for testing. Then, when testing, ask the OS for a free port or temporary file, and tell the tested code to use that instead of its default. This also allows running
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by lefra 1mo ago
Now define exponentiation by a non-integer.
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by lefra 1mo ago
I agree, and it's kind of sad that getting simple, clear communication is exceptional.
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by lefra 1mo ago
Obnoxious cookie banner with no "reject all" button. Too bad, it sounded interesting.
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by lefra 1mo ago
Sure if they use strait closures the same way Trump uses tariffs, everyone will try to not use it. But if they just collect fees that are cheaper than alternatives, ships will keep on going through.
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by lefra 1mo ago
For me, the main reason that I'm against all high-tech voting solutions is that a less-than-gifted citizen must be able to check that, at least for their polling station: - Their vote, and everyone else's, was counted exactly once
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by lefra 1mo ago
The term you're looking for is "color space". Depending on what you want to do there's CIE XYZ (maps spectrum of color to a 3 component vector by integrating the spectrum multiplied by three functions), CIE L a b* (descr
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by lefra 2mo ago
My anecdotal experience is yes, most spam calls come from french numbers.
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by lefra 2mo ago
I had been having the same feeling, and the same doubts. Then I went on a trip abroad and there the Mars bar tasted _exactly_ how I remember it from my childhood (I think it was in Romania, but I'm not sure). So I think the recipes are
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by lefra 2mo ago
Sounds like something that could be solved by an ambient light sensor.
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by lefra 2mo ago
Isn't all bot traffic ultimately initiated by a human? Someone plugged the computer in and gave it instructions. It may result in one http request or billions of them, but the human is still the initiator.
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by lefra 2mo ago
Kind of like airplane boarding. The ideal algorithm would be to make people board from back to front, and from window to aisle. However, people are not disciplined enough to strictly sort themselves, they won't all take the same time t
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by lefra 2mo ago
This is a mistake that shouldn't happen. It means that someone commiting crimes could trivially hide and get the wrong person accused by using homoglyphs [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph

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