malauxyeux

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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Thanks for the warning. I'm in small town France. I know the picture isn't rosy. E.g., one of the nursing homes near me is Catholic-run and so understaffed that on Sundays, only those attending mass are helped out of bed. That pla
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> Curious what other software engineers are doing to prepare for these types of obvious changes. Contemplating a professional change. Maybe I'm being overly pessimistic; people aren't being replaced yet . But maybe it's t
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Thanks for the reply anyway. I don't want to think about it either and was hoping you had an easy answer.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> understood that the nature of his job changed to something more comprehensive. He just advised me to prepare for the same as a software developer What's that mean to you concretely?
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Thanks for the reply! Don't worry, I wasn't spooked.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> For me the passing of relatives and stoic philosophy had already set me on the path of looking outside consumption (and status) for meaning. Would you mind talking more concretely about this?
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> Wonder if all these things will bring about a kind of cambrian explosion of creativity. Maybe, if memes are the peak of creativity. (And who am I to judge?) If we look at static images, the bar for distribution is zero and bar for crea
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Or training an AI using a James Earl Jones impersonator? Tom Waits and Bette Midler have won lawsuits against companies who used voice impersonators in their ads. Interesting times.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> Order a random item from China and take a look at their product manual - it's very likely that it's machine translated and not by a person. Yes and with luck, at least one language you know how to read will make sense and not
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
In a similar vein, in November 2021, a law was passed in France to disallow some domestic flights where the same destination can be reached by train in 2.5 hours or less. No idea what it did concretely. There's a big carve out for flig
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Pellets for furnaces are getting hard to come by here in France apparently.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> advice I was under the impression that doctors were getting sheepish about giving such advice in the US. Patients don't like to hear it. And overweight patients require more and more expensive treatments over the course of their l
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> numb to visual novelty I wonder if this isn't already the case. If I look at what people are sharing on various platforms, people share images all the time, but it's rare that an image will pop up merely for its aesthetic qua
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Not to take the easy way out, but everything on "Hits" is good.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
I wonder if the harrowing bit isn't a strength. When you're driving in North America, even in a city center, it often feels like there's nothing to do except watch the car in front of you and the next light. I wonder if that
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
We've got strict credentialing here in France for obtaining your first license and we're well below the US in traffic deaths. It may be part of the picture, though I still witness plenty of dangerous/aggressive/stupid dr
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> What did you use your smarts to create a modal editor while choosing the worst key ever to switch modes!? I believe when vi was originally created, the Esc key was often placed to the left of Q, where the Tab key is now located on QWER
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> What of the legal issues in unwinding a marriage of X years? In the case of a binational couple, does the non-citizen (now-former?) spouse get to keep living in the US? Or is the situation going to go back to how it was previously, wit
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
I wonder if another reason you don't see them is because many are delusional about how their "work day" compares to others in the economy.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
I didn't ask as I was pretty new at that point. I assume he thought I'd put it there to show political allegiance or something like that.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
The flags led to a tense discussion with my boss once. At my first office job in Canada, I was given a Mac. I activated US QWERTY for programming and CSA to be able to write messages with French accents. One day not long after, I'm pro
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
France is rolling this out currently. We'll see if it does any good. I couldn't find any links in English, but here are some pictures of the tech: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=france+m%C3%A9duses+radars+anti-br...
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> The Hacker News crowd should be developing a 'red light camera' system for excessively noisy vehicles. Inspiration already lies in the 360 degree conference room camera systems. It already exists. Last year it was pilot teste
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> they just piss people off. That's always been the primary use case, if we're being honest.
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
I love emacs and vim. I used GIMP nearly daily for over a year; it still feels weird. The copy/paste flow in particular still trips me up. Pasting creates a "floating layer". A "floating layer" usually needs to eith
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Does feeling envy make someone an asshole in your eyes? Do you believe that people who feel envy can choose to not feel it? If they can't choose not to feel it, are they doomed to be an asshole (by your definition) for the rest of thei
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Since this is about the effect of social media on mood, I'll chime in to say that it's the opposite for me. Seeing people conspicuously consume extravagant leisure travel – and the associated resources – brings to mind global warm
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
Is it enforced in National Parks? N=1. There are signs everywhere at the Grand Canyon, but the guy flying his drone over literally hundreds of people at sunset a mere 50 meters from a visitors' center and rangers told me, "Oh, sor
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by malauxyeux 4y ago
> Would there be an audible hum in the video it records from the 4x propellers? And for those who are at the beach just trying to enjoy a little time away from the city. The folks at the beach near me are already fed up with ubiquitous B
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by malauxyeux 5y ago
> (both coexist sometimes) Indeed. My in-laws' 300-year-old granite farmhouse has a mix of modern roller shutters, pvc panel shutters, and wooden panel shutters.

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