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by maeln 2y ago
> > That’s as much of a contradiction as a thief wanting to be a large part of lock regulation. > Based on what I see in the videos from The Lockpocking Lawyer, that would be a massive improvement. A thief is not a lock picker and
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by maeln 2y ago
Eh, it's not just Tech, most company has a consent issue, and you could easily argue that capitalism as a consent issue (not saying that alternative also don't have one). Rarely do businesses have any incentive to care about cons
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by maeln 2y ago
It's because they changed the versioning format: https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases?page=5 / https://protobuf.dev/news/2022-05-06/ But I suppose old version s
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by maeln 3y ago
From what I remember from the ATI days (aah, sweet memories), it was often the case of either you card was working great and the driver was much more up to date with the latest kernel tech, or the card was a mess to make work under linux. W
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by maeln 3y ago
No they are not and explicitly banned in some country. The strobing light is way more blinding for any other user of the road. It also makes it hard for you eyes to adjust. This means that you struggle to understand how fast the bicycle is
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by maeln 3y ago
The data is easily accessible, no need to guess. The fees have been pretty stable for ~3 year now. https://ycharts.com/indicators/ethereum_average_transaction_... https://ycharts.com/indicators/eth
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by maeln 3y ago
Not the same guy, but if a class of people have to move out of the city because they are being priced-out, they will not vote in this city anymore (but in their new city in the suburb), shifting the current political balance. The current Pa
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by maeln 3y ago
Heeeh. I drove mostly manual car (since it tends to be the "default" here in France), most of which did not have a indicator (they predated the law). I got to say, having one is still nice. In cities, where you change gear a lot,
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by maeln 3y ago
It is very ironic that they sell it has "eco-compact dishwasher" when it require disposable chunk of plastic to use it. The amount of water saved will really not make up for the amount of plastic thrash created. From their website
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by maeln 3y ago
> I would love for there to be a vibrant European tech scene. But there is ? Go to Paris, Berlin, Lisboa, Barcelona, ... There is a lot of start-ups, incubator, investor, meet-ups, conference, etc. The EU has a very vibrant tech scene.
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by maeln 3y ago
> People who think this more likely don't realize that Android uses the Linux kernel Do you really think people at the FOSDEM don't know this? And saying that android use the linux kernel is honestly close to saying that mac o
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by maeln 3y ago
Yes and no. While for most application, the GC is hardly an issue and is fast enough, the problem is for application where you need to be able to control exactly when and how memory/objects will be freed. These will never do well with
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by maeln 3y ago
I am a bit skeptical about this. I feel like game UI toolkit and desktop GUI framework live in two separate world with different expectation. At least, in my humble experience, having to have used both in my career. GTK/Qt are usually
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by maeln 3y ago
No, I am just putting into question this seemingly undeniable claim that someone who happen to have been an engineer in their career would somehow end up being a more engineer focused CEO. This naively would make sense, but does it actuall
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by maeln 3y ago
> An engineer CEO is going to value different things than a non-engineer CEO. And why exactly ?
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by maeln 3y ago
For me this argument always made 0 sense. Dennis Muilenburg was a engineer through and through, and he did pretty much all his career at Boeing. But this is during his time as CEO that all the previous issues with the 737 Max arose, which
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by maeln 3y ago
> I once read that France has some sort of law about photographing people who don’t want to be included in a picture in a public place. For more details, it is not about photographing people (it is perfectly legal in public places) but
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by maeln 3y ago
> Seriously, if you’re at the point that you’re doing sophisticated analysis of cloud costs, consider dropping the cloud. Which would mean that you loose part of the reason to use the cloud in the first place... A lot of org move to clou
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by maeln 3y ago
I kind of fail to see how would this be useful for anyone but him. The fact that he has a team working with him to make him the most healthy human possible is cool and all, but there is absolutely 0 guarantee that what works for him would w
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by maeln 3y ago
Ye. Story telling is important for the non-technical part of interviews (although some technical interview do benefit from some story telling). It won't save you from having to cram leetcode for days.
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by maeln 3y ago
> but maybe Unity was looking for coding for realistic rendering, know-how, for rise a competence with the Unreal market space? Unity already has a 3d engine that can match Unreal (more or less, and we won't talk about the fact that
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by maeln 3y ago
You can use your phone with nfc now.
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by maeln 3y ago
In general, I feel like too many developer get caught up in dogma, "best-practices" that are effectively often unrealistic, and tend to adopt extremist way of thinking about the big and / or the small picture. A lot of the &
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by maeln 3y ago
This ignore the law of offer and demand. If the supply doesn't change, but there is a lot more demand because now the semiconductor industry also want some, the price will shot up.
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by maeln 3y ago
I completely agree
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by maeln 3y ago
> Unity is a clown engine. I remember some guy benchmarked DOTS, against plain old C++ code with OpenGL, just like your dad used to write, and it was no contest, DOTS couldn't keep up. I don't think it is necessarily a fair or
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by maeln 3y ago
Well now, you just described a lot of SF startup.
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by maeln 3y ago
The big update of the 4th edition over the third is the addition of a chapter about GPU rendering: https://pbr-book.org/4ed/Wavefront_Rendering_on_GPUs#chap:gp... The difference are stated in the preface: https:/
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by maeln 3y ago
> It’s good to critique the US or the west - you cannot improve without dissent. Fortunately, Chomsky is in the US and enjoys unimpeded speech and academic freedom. That I can fully agree with. My issue is that he often criticizing the U
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by maeln 3y ago
Yes, fair enough, it is more that he systematically downplayed the violence of the "red" side whenever there was a conflict with the U.S. Like how he basically tried to deny the Cambodian and Bosnian genocide.

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