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by maeln 6y ago
Some website (Facebook is an example) automatically analyse image to create an alt attribute. But that is far from perfect.
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by maeln 6y ago
Context for the name: Gustave Flaubert is a classic French author, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert
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by maeln 6y ago
They are not toothless, they put them in those positions of power and do so gladly. Remember that Snowden always said he was ready to come back to the U.S and be trialled, as long as the trial wouldn't be a secret trial. Those who crea
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by maeln 6y ago
It is still going strong and being actively developed : https://github.com/bulletphysics/bullet3 & https://pybullet.org/wordpress/
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by maeln 6y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with millionaires. Satellite internet has demand. It will happen no matter what. What we need is a global regulation for satellite brightness. It was never truly a problem until now, and sadly, these
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by maeln 6y ago
While I have no knowledge to critic your analysis, I just one to answer to one point: > 3. People hear about 1 and 2, hear about/experience packages being delivered more slowly, and think that this surely means that "the Trump
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by maeln 6y ago
> The ethics of killing will never be left to AI, but the technicalities of acquiring and prosecuting the target? Other have already answered this, but I want to chip in with my own experience working for a submarine and military boat ma
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by maeln 6y ago
I Spain it is fairly common to see appartement building with a hollow center and interior balconies (but they usually have exterior balcony too). I honestly hated this design because the hollow center was almost never getting any light, but
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by maeln 6y ago
I am always astonished at how bad the UI of Amazon products are. I know that there is some dark pattern used on purpose, but even the "normal UI" is a disaster. It lacks clarity, it doesn't convey the information needed, it i
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by maeln 6y ago
Raoult is very much a special case here. Almost every other researcher and public health organisation in France recommand wearing a mask. Raoult just want to be on TV to satisfy is ego and sell books.
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by maeln 6y ago
I have no idea why this is getting upvoted. This is basically just a fellow French practising the age old sport of complaining about everything and everyone else in the country. Nobody hate French people and France more than another French,
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by maeln 6y ago
My bank provide me with a "e-card" functionality (I can create virtual VISA card with a definite amount of money on it). It is so useful to deal with this new trend of automatically opt-in subscription. If you try to charge me wi
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by maeln 6y ago
I really hope at some point they will have some pane available by the unit with normal retailer. I foresee some really cool HUD interface possible with a RPI :)
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by maeln 6y ago
Thats the purpose of an IMU[0]. But even the best IMU have a limited amount of precision, and, has time goes by, these imprecision can accumulate to a very big margin of error in your location. With the cheap IMU in phones, you very quickly
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by maeln 6y ago
Yes and no. The idea is to emulate a keyboard and mouse. You then use OS shortcuts to, for example, start a terminal and type command in it. So it can work with Linux but, because of the diversity of Distribution, DE, etc, it is more diffic
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by maeln 6y ago
A lot of server are SSD-only these days which make them less fragile. Still, I really wouldn't see myself pushing a running server in a cart.
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by maeln 6y ago
In most games, things change every frame: Physics, particles, NPC moving around, environment animation (water, "fake" wind, ...). In this case, testing for change would be a huge overhead with minimal benefit.
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by maeln 6y ago
Well, for NATO and AIDS it kind of make sense as they are direct translation of the acronym.
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by maeln 6y ago
On a side note, I always found the French word "octet" much better than "byte". First off, it avoid confusion with the unit naming (b = bits, o = octet, whereas B/b can be confused for byte / bit) and it is als
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Bitoduc: A French dictionnary for CS related words(bitoduc.fr)
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Solving the chaotic three-body problem using deep neural networks (2019)(arxiv.org)
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by maeln 6y ago
I think you just hook up a relay/transistor to the the small piezo buzzer that make noise for the alarm. Its dirt cheap and very easy to come by, so I guess that is why it as been used in bomb timer making.
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by maeln 6y ago
> How many variables do you see here? Unless we are talking metro, where I live it is not that uncommon to have some animal wonder on the tracks, people trying to commit suicide on the track, people throwing things at the train from brid
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by maeln 6y ago
ADLPlug can be used has a LV2 plugin which is supported by most DAW on *nix (Ardour, LMMS, Zrythm).
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by maeln 6y ago
Yes absolutely ! That is why I was also talking about the Tesla has a "status symbol" :) . Tesla are doubly expensive also because they usually fall into the sports cars category and insurance will make you pay way more. Also, you
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by maeln 6y ago
It's honestly not a surprise. The European market favor smaller car way more than the American one. You just have to see the sheer number of 206, Twingo & Clio on the road. I still see some Tesla, but usually it is a status symbol,
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by maeln 6y ago
Culture and ideologies are very much political.
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by maeln 6y ago
Maybe I am confused and I didn't understand what you mean, but if you mean "hard-left" in the political sense, I feel I have to disagree. In a lot of western country, the "hard-right" has won: Trump in the US, Johns
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by maeln 6y ago
I am guessing Paris 8 : https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/1283723397478973440?s=20
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by maeln 6y ago
I like to compare the fediverse with the forums, TeamSpeak server, and nowaday discord server. It is not suppose to be a huge service with everybody on it a la Facebook, but rather a lot of small community that can interconnect to each othe

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