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by maeln 3y ago
You could just go to his wikipedia article. Anyway, he tried to downplay the genocide and the violence committed by the Khmer Rouge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom... He, in the same fashi
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by maeln 3y ago
> But whenever I hear him speak outside his niche his points are stupid (like this one) or harmful (like his Ukrainian takes). Chomsky was always like this. He is an unapologetic hypocrite, constantly criticizing the U.S and "the we
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by maeln 3y ago
You can find the Timemore C2 for 50 to 60 euros and it is a pretty decent manual burr grinder. And for around ~100 euros you can find decent burr grinder from more known brand. If you are going to spend more than 200USD, you might as well b
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by maeln 3y ago
Big companies don't produce pollution in a vacuum. Almost all of their pollution is a indirect consequence of our own consumption. Buying a ford F-150 and having a oversized server rack full of expensive hardware that generate a lot of
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by maeln 3y ago
Power cannot be generated without an environmental impact. Even solar panel and wind turbine generate a non negligible amount of pollution when produced, and a non negligible amount of waste when they have to be decommissioned. Also, it is
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What Happened to Dolphin on Steam?(dolphin-emu.org)
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by maeln 3y ago
> Wait, async is multithreaded by default in Rust? For me the whole point of using async in JavaScript or Python (originally with Twisted's @inlineCallbacks) was to get concurrency without threads. Async in rust is nothing by defau
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by maeln 3y ago
I think the meaning behind OPs words is that you find some type of startup who tend to pivot & circle around "hype tech", rarely managing to produce any product or service of value before pivoting to next hype bubble.
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by maeln 3y ago
The only data you provide is "your experience" which is of little value here considering we don't know the extent of it nor its relevance. If anything, the way you express your opinion so strongly, one would hesitate to think
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by maeln 3y ago
In truth, it is more a ad personam argument. You are not contributing anything substantial to the debate, you are just attacking dumpster_fire with no other argument than "in my experience".
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by maeln 3y ago
Ad hominem. Having senior dev / "architect" focusing on higher level / abstract design and working with junior dev to code it and get it up and running is a very common pattern in big company (especially not tech-first c
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by maeln 3y ago
https://github.com/makepad/makepad It's the iron fish project.
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by maeln 3y ago
> There was no neonazi group parading in Paris; the GUD did their annual march to honour the memory of one of theirs killed by the police 20 years ago. So there was no neonazi group parading, but there was a neonazi group parading. >
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by maeln 3y ago
I feel like we are comparing apple and oranges here. Mastodon and Lemmy are free project, run by a community and, in the case of Mastodon, backed by a non-profit. Depending on who you ask, they don't really give a damn about capturing
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by maeln 3y ago
Most GPU's only have so much compute cores. Even if you have a million threads, you might only have a few hundreds cores to execute them. If you have heavy branching you might slow down the whole lane (which size can vary from 8 to 64
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by maeln 3y ago
> Submarines and carrier nuclear reactors are completely different beast that have nothing to do with either Flammanville 3 or the existing nuclear park. To be completely fair, the french nuclear industry is a small world. DCNS (now call
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by maeln 3y ago
I think it is a usual case of "This is why we can't have nice things". The "loophole" was created for a reason and then it got abused to a point of becoming its own issue.
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by maeln 3y ago
It's worker fighting for more right. I don't see the problem there. I does not mean that it is "right", or good for the company, for the team or "morally good". In an ideal world we should all work for "th
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by maeln 3y ago
The specification was frozen "only" in December 2020. It is enough time for a lot of software to add support to it (Gimp, ImageMagick, Krita, FFMpeg, Adobe Camera Raw). But it will take a long time before camera start using it. An
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by maeln 3y ago
Reddit is closing on its IPO and is seemingly desperate to generate "growth" by bumping every possible metrics possible virtually. Aside from this move that is an obvious way to steer user toward the official app and have tighter
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by maeln 3y ago
For what should be pretty obvious reason, most society and laws will treat humans and corporation and their output differently.
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by maeln 3y ago
Bitcoin is going to be 15 years old soon and aside from this original usage, no real usage has really taken off for "blockchain" technologies (and no, I am not counting the occasional pump and dump / virtual scarcity scheme a
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by maeln 3y ago
There is many search engine that use the DHT to retrieve the metadata and share torrent via the magnet. The main issue here is not the tech, it's the trust and discoverability/curating and also not spreading the seeding capabiliti
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by maeln 3y ago
The distance from my city to new york is roughly 5600km which, given the slightly slower speed of light in a optical fiber, would give a minimum ping of ~27ms (one way). Given the same distance but in a vacuum, it would be around 18ms. But
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by maeln 3y ago
I like zalgo. It teach me a lot about Unicode. I love how diactric are coded, it is very sane, and easy golfable: https://github.com/maeln/zalgo/blob/master/golfed.c
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by maeln 3y ago
You can, but usually, if you really want a binary with no runtime dependencies, most people will just compile their code against musl libc instead. The only issue is that some lib sometime do not compile (or at least without some workaround
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by maeln 3y ago
I am not arguing about anything. I am stating facts. Have you worked for any EU start-ups ? Plus, if you worked long enough, you should know by now that most company take a "try it, and change it if we are asked to" about a lot of
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by maeln 3y ago
> As if GDPR wasn't enough. GDPR was so completely inconsequential for EU start up. We have to stop with this constant EU bashing. You know what EU-based start-up do to comply with GDPR ? They don't. Most of them copy paste a
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by maeln 3y ago
Eh, I doubt that they wouldn't release it at some point, but I do expect some poor sales, except from Telsa fan. There is already good EV truck in the market and aside from a weird design, it doesn't seem that the cybertruck bring
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by maeln 3y ago
When it comes to startup, welcome to the jungle is probably the reference: https://www.welcometothejungle.com/fr/media Although it is a professional outlet, so it's not like you can expect to just publish there fo

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