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by lgeorget 8y ago
Or just not patient enough? Note that the kids from the article were guided by their parent in the game. My experience is not very different from yours. I remember going back and forth on the first island and playing with the different puzz
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by lgeorget 8y ago
For a more recent case than Joan of Arc (which was hardly a trial by nowadays' standards), have a look at the infamous "Affaire d'Outreau" which was really a huge scandal at the time. I personally think we just talk more
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Once I went to recredit my public transportation badge in a shop mandated by the city to do the transaction and they mistakenly charged me something like 15€ instead of 150€ (I don't remember the exact figure but it was a 0 missing). T
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by lgeorget 8y ago
> the competitive and regulatory environment doesn't seem allow for it. Laws on hiring and firing workers[...] Well that's the philosophical standpoint. To put it bluntly (and oversimplifying just for the sake of getting my poi
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by lgeorget 8y ago
> It's because of the belief that specific acts shouldn't be illegal, just the negative effects caused by those acts. Ah ok it actually makes a lot of sense presented that way. So it really is about "culture" then.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Well, of course I realize that I'm oversimplifying and exaggerating but my point was that I have the impression that messing with money is a much more serious problem than messing with people in the USA.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I guess I'm a bit off-topic but sometimes I really fail to understand the USA culture. You can make the most outrageous and racist comments because of "freedom of expression" but making speculators lose their shit with a coup
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Tz is great indeed but what if you have to interface with code/devices not using it and relying on a static timezone database ?
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by lgeorget 8y ago
Not to mention not really cleverly designed connected devices. I work with connected meteorological stations which use the local timezone where the station is installed instead of UTC to label their records...
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by lgeorget 8y ago
If my memory serves, one requirement of high-tier datacenters is that they have redundant electric lines leaving the building from opposite sides and in opposite directions. I guess it must be the same for optic fibers. I fully agree with y
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by lgeorget 8y ago
DRM usually enforces many more restrictions than necessary to protect the copyright holder's rights, though. For instance when it prevents you from playing a music track on your OS because the only music player able to play the track d
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I've not used it a lot yet. There's an "archive" button in the options but apparently it's purpose is to move the conversations away from the top list.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I've heard quite a lot about musical.ly lately, I wonder if that's the next cool thing among soon-to-be teens.
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An Android web application to send and receive SMS from your web browser(messages.android.com)
3 points by lgeorget 8y ago|2 comments
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by lgeorget 8y ago
A very useful and "secret" feature: you can give youtube-dl the URL of a playlist instead of a single video and it will download all of them.
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by lgeorget 8y ago
`Shift+v` to select a block of text and do a single operation to the same portion of text on several lines (regexp, aligning, etc.) There's also `vt` + some character to select text from the cursor to the next occurrence of that charac
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by lgeorget 8y ago
I was expecting the article by Chris Wright, Stephen Smalley et al. about Linux Security Modules https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/sec02/wright.html . We running out of acronyms space in computer science. :-
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by lgeorget 8y ago
As a non-native English speaker, I need it all the time to follow conversations on Internet. I've also made a a personal acronyms database to read GCC's internals documentation and another to translate errno codes to their constan
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by lgeorget 9y ago
We might finally see HTTP error code 402 in action, then. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.4.3