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maeln
5y ago
I never had an instagram account and nerver used it until recently. I had to create and use one for a project I am working on. I was sadden by how generic most of the photo on the service are. Most of them are either black and white with sl
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maeln
5y ago
Tests needs to be standardized to ensure that they are replicable. If running the test several time wouldn't give the same result (within a small tolerance margin) manufacturer would cry unfairness and they would be right. What if in o
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maeln
5y ago
> They justify paying you less for the same work because of your location. So you are as qualified as someone else but make way less. And you can know this thanks to the transparency and it help to make an informed choice. And if this po
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maeln
5y ago
I think the whole sentence should be "don't talk to the police without a lawyer / let the lawyer speak for you". And in the case of an executives talking to the SEC you should absolutely have a lawyer, or multiple, with
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maeln
5y ago
StraszFilms made a video touching on this subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v_Dl7i4Bcw ( he also made a very nice documentary about VRChat nightclubs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wUg9HCODU )
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maeln
5y ago
I have run torrents on several VPS/Server provider (mostly OVH) and never had any issue.
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maeln
5y ago
Yeah, to do any business in France, your really need to speak French. The French bureaucracy is not that bad (when you compare it to some of its neighbour) but in the same vein, it will be impossible to deal with it if you don't have
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maeln
5y ago
I think he is confusing "interdit bancaire" and bankruptcy. If you end up being put in the interdit bancaire file, yeah life pretty much sucks and most bank will refuse to do business with you. But having a company that go bankrup
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maeln
5y ago
I worked on multiple webapps that used react and, in a way yes, you could do server-side rendering. But the real advantage of react (and most other framework for that matter) is to be able to easily program pages that don't need to ful
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5y ago
Just last week, someone found a unexploded grenade from WWI there : https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/p09il7/grenade_d%C3... It just goes to show the scale of the war when even after 100 years it
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maeln
5y ago
Yes it is possible to manage ... when you have almost no government run retirement system. In country where the workforce pay for the retired, like France and a lot of European country, having your workforce shrink is a huge issue.
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5y ago
For me it is just about power consumption. My "server" only has ssh, a tiny tiny http server that has just to handle 1-2 user max and a cron that send an http request every 5 minutes or so. Having a full blown laptop would be over
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maeln
5y ago
It won't replace polygons. But it has been a very useful tool in the gfx programmer toolbox. It can be used for font/vector rendering, modelling / rendering complex shapes that are difficult to do using traditional modelling
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maeln
5y ago
I teached a C class during coronavirus lockdown in France and I also did something of the sort (having different question per student, mixing their order, etc). But I think, most importantly, I put a lot of emphasis on group work & home
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maeln
5y ago
You can also run Fishnet (which use stockfish) to provide analysis for Lichess.org :) https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
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maeln
5y ago
Yeah, I live in a one bedroom, one kitchen-office-living room. I don't have a choice but to have most of my flat "on display". This made me realize, that I have some book by some prominent anarchist author on my book shelves
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5y ago
Although the Moscow demo[0] look better (in my eyes) in jxl than wepb. Note also that JXL is still being worked on. We have no information also about which encoder was used (I am assuming the reference encoder, since it is the only one that
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maeln
5y ago
There is a lot of 24h/24h fuel station here in France with no staff and it is working out.
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maeln
5y ago
Nowaday I think it would be SYCL. It use the same kind of "same source" API that CUDA propose and is portable. Technically it can even use a CUDA backend.
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5y ago
Technically it is entirely viable. Vulkan/OpenGL compute shaders offer more or less a 1:1 equivalent to every CUDA features. It is more of an usability issue. CUDA has been design to be a GPGPU API from the get go and, therefor, tend t
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5y ago
This webpage use a significant amount of CPU constantly for no apparent reason (as far as I can see it is mostly a static webpage). What the hell ? Is it mining crypto in the background ?
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5y ago
It is to the point that in some country, like France, bank have to ask anybody (even if you are not foreigner) if you are a U.S citizen or have close family who are, before opening a bank account. As far as I know it is to report the crea
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5y ago
Well no. This is a "no permit" car. It is a type of car that you can drive without a driving license in France (you just need to pass the written exam). These are always very small (due to their nature), and are actually quite pop
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5y ago
The Citroën Ami is a no permit car, so it is a bit specific and probably won't be used by people who need a car to travel between cities. The Renault Zoe is a "normal" car and fit the bill for a more "simple" electr
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5y ago
When there is no holder for the prewash cycle, you can just dump some detergent directly in the dishwasher.
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5y ago
It can be useful if you need to work with legacy system that only support old cipher and protocol. But then I guess there is always openssl and co who still do the job.
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5y ago
It just work, it is easy to deploy and easy to write plugin for. A combo like prometheus+grafana and other is very good too and definitely more modern. But, having used both, I often didn't need the extra feature that the more modern s
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6y ago
While this is true, as other have said, there is a high chance that inflation is higher than what is shown (although i doubt that this is as much as 50%). But another issue is that the government as been trying to fix its own deficit, due t
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6y ago
For context: Turkey has been facing an several year long financial crisis with the Turkish Lira plummeting in value. Erdoğan has done nothing good to solve the crisis and is just firing the central bank administrator one after the other. Th
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6y ago
The link without the google translate thing: https://www.meretmarine.com/fr/content/perle-0 Btw, mer et marine is probably one of the best media if you are looking for french news relative to the maritime defense
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