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by maeln 6y ago
Isn't it more like "more company in country X use our product therefore, more developer in country X train for our specific test" ?
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by maeln 6y ago
A lot of monitor these days have local/micro dimming in order to provide decent contrast and brightness. It's especially true with HDR displays. So there is a high chance that the dithering pattern trigger one or more dimming zone
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by maeln 6y ago
I feel like most of those VPN services are using very borderline marketing and like to keep a lot of information blurry. As far as I know, in a lot of country (like France) it is a legal obligation to keep logs and be able to identify one o
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by maeln 6y ago
This should be in the mind of anybody using an Apple device for its privacy / security feature and not living in a democratic country and even in democratic country, but there is usually more safe-guard against police overreach in demo
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by maeln 6y ago
I used mutt, thunderbird, apple mail, outlook, gmail, sogo, roundcube and they pretty much all have the same issues. Yes, some make use of Thread-id a bit better than other (I like the way apple mail show thread and thunderbird is "oka
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by maeln 6y ago
> it's about email management and not having your email client do stupid things. not about using the protocols The format / protocol do impact and limit what the client can do. In a funny way, thanks to MIME, you can technicall
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by maeln 6y ago
Yes my bad, it is from a bad copy-paste, you should ignore the last digit.
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by maeln 6y ago
> If your main complaint is that email is horrible to work with, the issue is most likely not email, it's probably your mail client. This is definitely talking from someone who never had to write software that deal with emails. The
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by maeln 6y ago
> I have to ask how often have you guys found yourself unable find a package (in your distributions package manager) for the software you want. Very often. Or I just want a updated version. There is a lot of small/obscure open-sourc
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by maeln 6y ago
ppas doesn't work if you don't use ubuntu/debian. And not everybody was willing to go through the trouble of making a ppa, an AUR package, a custom .rpm, etc, etc.
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by maeln 6y ago
> either ship a decent product or don't. Why the need to be so aggressive toward open-source contributor ? And most product become good through iterative refinement. Ship it and listen to feedback to make it better is a perfectly va
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by maeln 6y ago
It's an excerpt from their movie Electroma https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0800022/ . I really don't know if we should look too much in the meaning of the scene.
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by maeln 6y ago
This is genuinely very interesting :) . I hope for more innovation like this and less copy-cat, get rich-scheme cryptos ....
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by maeln 6y ago
Actually it was nice to have an answer :) . So at least this one make sense.
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by maeln 6y ago
I really, really don't understand where cryptocurrencies are going. Billions have been poured in this technology for almost no actual return technologically wise. And I understand, because interest are not aligned. It really seems like
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by maeln 6y ago
The average IQ in the U.S.A and the E.U is roughly the same[1][2]. The tax rate is also very similar [3]. Salaries can also vary a lot. If a tech worker in SF can have a salary that dwarf most of its EU colleague, a minimum-wage worker is o
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by maeln 6y ago
I think he was talking in the context of curl.
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by maeln 6y ago
(2017) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13966241
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by maeln 6y ago
As you said, Decathlon is a primarily brick and mortar shop. They have huge revenue worldwide ($13B in 2019) from their shop and it really doesn't look like they pushed hard for e-commerce. The thing is, a lot of what they sell is big
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by maeln 6y ago
The thing is, noise cancelling is a very simple physical process. If it "miss" you will ear it. So there is no invisible danger, it cannot be not perceptible, either it cancel, or it add to the noise. The worst that ANC can do
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by maeln 6y ago
And let's not forget that bitcoin can process on average less than 7 transactions per seconds. That's incredibly slow. It can be used for anything irl as long as this fundamental problem is not fixed. Nobody will spend 10+ minutes
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by maeln 6y ago
A lot of modern supercomputer use/have GPUs. But most GPUs had very bad fp64 compute capabilities, so they were not really used for anything requiring precision for a long time.
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by maeln 6y ago
This is a problem that poison every platform these days. Apple Store and Play Store are full of borderline or outright scam apps. Google and Facebook keep pushing literal scam or porn-baiting advertisement[0]. Every search engine is poisone
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by maeln 6y ago
In France, a lot of banks are cooperative banks. While not everything is perfect, their attitude is way different than banks under different status. My bank was never involved in some money laundering scandal, investment scandal or other, a
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by maeln 6y ago
If I remember correctly, it is very popular in video games because it is faster to load compressed assets from disk and decompress them in memory than loading the uncompressed assets from disk, even on an SSD.
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by maeln 6y ago
Note: This is being pushed by the major telecom company in the EU > The Continent's "big four" telcos Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange on Wednesday published a joint "memorandum of understanding"
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by maeln 6y ago
Yes, I would like to see more pathfinding demo talking about 0 weight link, or even negative weight (although I don't know of any pathfinding problem that would use negative weight). Floyd–Warshall is always ignored although I think it
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by maeln 6y ago
From their keynote: https://youtu.be/Lzgij1q_W1Y?t=39 It looks like it is basically a LCD without backlight. So nothing to do with eInk technology.
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by maeln 6y ago
I don't know if it is ironic but: - Netflix has constant product placement in their show and show ad for their other show on their main page - Amazon Prime Video show you an ad for other show when you start playing one - A lot of &quot
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by maeln 6y ago
Let's be honest, the difference here is that one happened in America and the other in a country far from America with nobody powerful enough to defend the population being killed. If some big government would have threaten FB if they d

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