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by liotier 3y ago
We are there already - we have synthetic voice narration, whose bland perfection I find insufferable and that go perfectly with a smiling animated cartoon talking head to present a self-study webinar. We advise our readers to eschew violenc
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by liotier 3y ago
I remember being pissed off when I found that NextBase had sold my beloved AutoRoute Express to Microsoft !
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by liotier 3y ago
> meat is too tough for us to enjoy eating Won't a long cooking time fix that ?
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by liotier 3y ago
> The killer feature of piracy is thar it just works, not that it is free Especially as piracy has its own costs: VPN (French authorities do detect bittorrent), storage, some Jellyfin or Kodi host, some time to manage the whole *arr setu
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by liotier 3y ago
> extend the offer to Tesla Coming soon to John Deer: electric automotive technology licensed from Tesla.
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by liotier 3y ago
That trust in a distribution channel commands a price is fine. What is not is that no other distribution channel with equal access can exist on Apple devices.
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by liotier 3y ago
It is a two-sided market and Apple naturally wants a bite on both ends.
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by liotier 3y ago
Full torque at zero RPM makes motor racing much more exciting - especially compared to the low end karts with puny 2-stroke engines that took forever to accelerate my heavy ass !
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by liotier 3y ago
Renault Trafic in 9 seat configuration weights 1.8 tons - so yes, it is only one ton less than the average fuel-powered SUV... But the electric ones are much heavier. It costs 25k€ which gets a modest subcompact SUV or about half of a popul
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by liotier 3y ago
My 2014 Renault Traffic long box on wheels gets nine people and their luggage over 1100 kilometers on a single fuel tank... I don't understand SUV that weight double, cost double and only seat five people at half the range. I'll h
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by liotier 3y ago
> GUIs and proprietary protocols have killed Emacs For me, corporate environments killed tool choice... Locked down corporate Windows with the full O365 bubble (locked down too - so no integration with anything outside) is a hard current
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by liotier 3y ago
> stubbornly slogging through counterpoint for four months and hating every moment of it, only for you to forget it all because you want to write rock songs. Counterpoint is a great ingredient to progressive rock à la Gentle Giant. That
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by liotier 3y ago
As a close friend of Gabonese people, I confirm: don't take iboga lightly. It's traditional use is a serious ritual and none who undertook it, under shamanic supervision, are less than shaken by the experience.
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by liotier 3y ago
You are exactly right: 3D CAD has taken the draughtsman's job.
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by liotier 3y ago
That a CAD program can only handle 2D doesn't mean that it doesn't describe 3D. Even when plans where physical large format blueprints, 2D, the product they described was of course always 3D. In French, the draughtsman was called
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by liotier 3y ago
What is happening online ? Easy answer: everything. The online world is now just as complex, both globalized and fragmented at the same time in different dimensions, as humanity itself... The tools of our social interactions, public and pri
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by liotier 3y ago
How does it compare to Baloosearch ? Baloo and KDE Plasma go nicely together !
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by liotier 3y ago
Is this question a JSON joke ?
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by liotier 3y ago
Claims to be smelling like the material from spontaneously occurring biological structures of ancient times that, some say, gave this material its name !
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by liotier 3y ago
NetworkX let me whip up a useful shortest path routing proof of concept from telco data in a few hours. I was impressed with myself, but all glory goes to NetworkX !
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by liotier 3y ago
Some early versions will.
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by liotier 3y ago
Why a whole language rather than a library that could just as well abstract the cloudy infrastructure and expose its data structures as "first class citizens" ?
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by liotier 3y ago
I watched it smoothly and the peer count was 3.
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by liotier 3y ago
Messing around with Linux and BSD hosts one my home LAN in the 90's and 00's is how I learned enough to make colleagues believe I actually new something about networks and systems administration. Well, it did teach me - though I s
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by liotier 3y ago
Please add CD ripping artefacts !
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by liotier 3y ago
Maybe robot dog will reconsider his career path, drop out of weapons school and become an artist !
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by liotier 3y ago
I was of course joking. I'm sorry any doubt remained - I'll try to write more outrageously stupid next time !
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by liotier 3y ago
I suspect that the reason for WhatsApp, Signal, Google & co's insistence on requiring a legacy phone number for account creation is that linking it to the user's profile is the easiest and cheapest way to associate it to an in
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by liotier 3y ago
> Liberal use of hormones Damn liberals, ruining everything... I bet those are sex change hormones !
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by liotier 3y ago
The plural of status is lifecycle.

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