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by liotier 4y ago
Seen from my window, Whatsapp gained traction as free international messages and voice - which are only attractive for usage across international boundaries, which is uncommon in the USA... Maybe that partly explains why SMS lasted longer i
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by liotier 4y ago
Let's fight first - we'll figure out the rules later !
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> If I were to start over my personal email setup (postfix with postscreen, dovecot with fts, opendkim, amavis/spamassassin), I sure would try it with this. I am tempted to give that sort of thing a try, as successor to the franken-
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by liotier 4y ago
At this point in market concentration, any sufficiently brave or delusional soul that ventures into even the most rudimentary web browser development is a hero to me !
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by liotier 4y ago
Telco man here... Lengthening the site identifier from six to ten digits was an 18 months project impacting 120 applicative systems - not even counting the vast grey territories of regexes and office macros. We are powerful, but setting our
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by liotier 4y ago
Or the Fifth Element's robot bartender, who will do great with a ChatGPT upgrade - https://youtu.be/sFAPW3W2yMk?t=114
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by liotier 4y ago
You'll cry but, to listen to your sorrow and offer friendly support, ChatGPT will be there for you !
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by liotier 4y ago
> Countries like France force their colonies (former) in Africa to supply raw materials (like chocolate or vanilla) for cheap, and make billions every year by processing it and selling finished goods Cute theory, unsupported by facts. Ch
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by liotier 4y ago
Restricted functionality is a security benefit - could be interesting in some scenarios... Not mentioned by the project's presentation, but there has to be an audience there.
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by liotier 4y ago
> because of shadows that confused it > ... After all, a Tesla is a pretty good substitute for a horse !
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by liotier 4y ago
For my telco job, I whipped up a shortest path routing proof of concept using NetworkX in a couple hours, right after stumbling on it, with my rudimentary Python scripting skills. The sort of extremely productive library that makes one feel
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by liotier 4y ago
Uh ? Aren't your .toki bundles autogenerated from picks in the CherryOrchard directory ? Don't touch them - let the NoodleBlossom pipeline trellis abstract that for you !
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by liotier 4y ago
For all its limitations, Close Combat hit a sweet spot of cartoonish realism that made it immersive and fun. Combat mission is a much better simulation, but less joyful. As for hexagons, my cup of tea was The Operational Art of War - hexago
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by liotier 4y ago
And Atomic Games' Close Combat before that, originally announced as Beyond Squad Leader, meant to be a digital sequel of Avalon Hill’s Advanced Squad Leader (ASL) board war game franchise. However the relationship failed Atomic and Ava
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by liotier 4y ago
And if the person seems to show interest in you, don't withdraw because it feels awkward and you want to think about it - or you 40 years-old future self will want to get back in time to kick your sorry 19 years old ass. Dive in, go wi
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by liotier 4y ago
> Yikes! Fork failure is the stuff of nightmares Still have nightmares about a fork that, during a mountain bike descent 30 years ago, started oscillating increasingly until it bent and locked the wheel perpendicular to my vector - and m
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by liotier 4y ago
Same - I read about Mermaid, D2 etc. but, at the end of the day, I'll use whatever is available on the corporate Gitlab !
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by liotier 4y ago
> The ability create a relational database in Excel with vlookups and hlookups, Do yourself a favour and ditch vlookup and hlookup in favour of the recently introduced xlookup, which even obsoletes index/match ! I try to keep my exp
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by liotier 4y ago
Could rules such as order matching within coarse-grained time increments level the playing field ? What would the drawbacks be ?
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by liotier 4y ago
Daylight distribution and building footprint were toes dipped in the pool… Now everyone jumped in. ODbL-aware, both upstream & downstream of Openstreetmap. Fun times ahead at the interface between their industrial scale automation and
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It has to do with ass width.
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by liotier 4y ago
> France has Le Monde Diplomatique While Le Diplo's writers are usually top rate and the international outlook extraordinary for a French publication, the caricatural "anticapitalist" and anti-USA stance tint it too much t
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by liotier 4y ago
The classroom theoretical courses we had parallel with practical exercises were more advanced than what 12 year-old me was learning in school. I'm glad: immersion in applied science made me a more interested student. Education should h
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by liotier 4y ago
Send DM - I have a carton of broken RJ-45 cables to sell you !
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by liotier 4y ago
> custom solutions Especially interesting as voice recognition is much easier, cheaper and more efficient within the limited space of a specific usage.
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by liotier 4y ago
> keeping the bedroom dedicated to sex and sleep Yes. No computer of any sort, the alarm clock's only advanced technology is radio-synchronization and I don't even let a book enter the bedroom - that is for the living-room couc
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by liotier 4y ago
A mix of 5500°k high-CRI LED and CFL in every room. Night is when I switch them off. Bang-bang control for the circadian rhythm !
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by liotier 4y ago
Motorbikes in general, especially the cheap 125 cm^3 that are ubiquitous in the developing world, pollute horribly - especially relative to the power they generate. I wonder when electric power trains will get cheap enough to replace them.
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by liotier 4y ago
The source doesn't mention anything about that - it merely reflects popular submissions by a self-selected pool.
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by liotier 4y ago
The much vaunted Plextor aren't as good as I thought they were...

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