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by mzi 8mo ago
To work in French civil service (as a fonctionnaire ) you need to be a EU/EEA citizen but not necessarily French.
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by mzi 8mo ago
That implies that you got on the bandwagon because it was a graphical web? At my department in Sweden it was an overnight adoption when we found Mosaic. And I can see you struggle to get PPP to work over slip!
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by mzi 8mo ago
Mosaic, the first graphical browser was developed by National Center for Supercomputing Applications. They were of course not bound by dial-up or similar and probably didn't care for commercial offerings of connectivity in their priori
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by mzi 8mo ago
> Once IP addressees became available to the public WWW browser became graphical. What does that even mean?
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by mzi 10mo ago
> any database worth its salt should be able write and read back the same record This excludes a lot of cases, like just a simple postgres where reads are done from a replica.
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by mzi 10mo ago
"utan" means "without" in Swedish, so I use the more flowery "-tulpan" as my mnemonic. It means tulip.
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by mzi 10mo ago
This sounds more like metrics than a log statement. For me logs should complement metrics, and can in many instances be replaced by tracing if the spans are annotated sufficiently. But making metrics out of logs is both costly and a bit bri
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by mzi 10mo ago
The WSJ article, for future reference: https://archive.is/3WGaM
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by mzi 10mo ago
> Even if nothing changes, you can run into trouble. Norwegian PNs have your birth date (in DDMMYY format) as the first six digits. Surely that doesn't change, right? I guess that Norway has solved it in the same or similar way as S
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by mzi 11mo ago
It seems like they have reliability issues; if I read their status page correctly, they have incidents every few minutes. Or how should one read their all green page?
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by mzi 1y ago
Stockholm - Helsinki, for example.
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by mzi 1y ago
I was a little taken by the state of American trains if this was true. Two days would mean at least 36h for me and that in turn would mean that the trains would have an average speed of 20mph. But it turns out that it takes 20h, so twice th
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by mzi 1y ago
Nitpick: it's flak, not flack. It's a german abbreviation of Flugzeugabwehrkanone or anti-aircraft gun
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by mzi 1y ago
> Overall: maybe this wasn’t the right way to engage Lex Livingroom. If you are among friends you can surly criticize a sweater, but if you come barging in uninvited and criticize the same sweater, you're in for a bad time.
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by mzi 1y ago
> Polling domains when attached to the network Apple devices do communicate over BT even when you explicitly turn it off and put your device in flight mode.
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by mzi 1y ago
Codeberg unfortunately have an abysmal uptime track record.
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by mzi 1y ago
> My first PC (80286) also had iconic sounds when it started up. BEEP BOP. bidiedi-bop. bip.
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by mzi 1y ago
They were contributing a lot. So Redis-the-company lost a lot of engineering expertise when they all left for valkey.
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by mzi 1y ago
It was formulated a little different. But this was the 2002 mandate: 1. All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. 2. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. 3. There w
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by mzi 2y ago
> To be blunt, I was using Fedora when systemd was coming out, I know how it works intimately because it was constantly broken This was Fedora 15, in 2011. I would say using this as a baseline qualifies as living in the past?
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by mzi 2y ago
> By the mid-19th century, literacy rates among whites were not much different than they are today But the states does have among the lowest literacy rate in the west. Less than 80% was considered literate in 2024, compared to almost 99%
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by mzi 2y ago
The could call Sweden and see if the can have some! In 1831 the Swedish crown started an oak plantation to supply the navy. My translation from Wikipedia[0]: In 1975 the agency in charge of the forest notified the head of the Navy that th
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by mzi 2y ago
With Canva having 5500 employees, I guess those numbers are substantial.
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by mzi 2y ago
> I'm having trouble understanding how else this is supposed to be? I understand that live migration is a thing, but even in those cases, a VM is "hardwired" to some physical server, no? You can run your workload (in this
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by mzi 2y ago
> Criterion[0] is one such product with outstanding content, real human curation, and a lower price than mainstream movie providers. "Sorry. This is currently unavailable in your region." This has been the case since before lau
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by mzi 2y ago
@bcantrill is the CTO of Oxide.
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by mzi 2y ago
> Vikings had offered service to the Byzantine courts presumably sailing down the rivers from the north, or round the coast. Maybe one of them brought something back north "Väringar"[0], traded, traveled, and fought from the Ba
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by mzi 2y ago
Isn't that link showing the opposite? That sudo is really large and systemd isn't? They even compare systemd with wpa_supplicant and it turns out they are the same size.
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by mzi 2y ago
I thought the word looked familiar, and wiktionary says it comes from old Norse. In Swedish today it would probably be "låna"
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by mzi 2y ago
https://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c If I remember correctly, this program also calculates pi more precisely the larger the circle.

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