nick__m

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by nick__m 9mo ago
How old are you ? I used to espouse similar view but now that I am past 40, I regret not starting investing in my 20 and see myself living well into my 80's. That punk-ish no future mentality usually dampen past 30-35!
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by nick__m 9mo ago
I love the anti-licence and thank you for the blessings!
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by nick__m 9mo ago
My experience is almost the inverse of what you describe, I never had to work at all until university, I was a top performer until "physique 1: mécanique newtonienne" it was the first time (and the last) I failed at something acad
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by nick__m 9mo ago
Frequently you have to couple the transactional state of the queue db and the app db, colocating them is the simplest way to achieve that without resorting to distributed transactions or patterns that involve orchestrated compensation actio
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by nick__m 9mo ago
renoise use that convention https://files.renoise.com/manual/Renoise%20User%20Manual.pdf (page 38). I used psycle modular music in 1999 and I know that it was not the first tracker-like software to use that convention
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by nick__m 10mo ago
For me the biggest riddle is: why something instead of nothing ? That's the question that prevent me from being atheist and shift me to agnosticism.
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by nick__m 10mo ago
At my institution there was a student revolt, chartwell was kicked out and it is a work co-op. The quality has increased, the employees are better treated and the cost stayed the same, and stupid rules like that are no more !
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by nick__m 10mo ago
Your view on parrots is wrong ! Parakeet don't understand but some parrots are exceptionally intelligent. Africans grey parrots, do understand the words they use, they don't merely reproduce them. Once mature they have the intelli
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by nick__m 10mo ago
if you apply quicksort to 2^20 random integers, at some point you're sorting 2^17 8-integer subpartitions why not use an 8 wide optimal sort network for those 8 integers?
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by nick__m 10mo ago
Work got me an hp elite book a few year ago and the only thing negative I have to say about it is that the screen is pathetic! Otherwise it's a decent yet overpriced (unless you buy hundreds of them each year like my work place does) l
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by nick__m 10mo ago
the acronym is NAC for N-Acetyl-L-Cystenine (the L is implied). With ACC you could theoretically have S-acetyl-L-Cystenine and that not the antidote !
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by nick__m 11mo ago
I did try that weird linux on fat32 distribution but like you I completely forgot its name. I remember that I installed it because I wanted to run bitchx and be able to send ping of death!
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by nick__m 11mo ago
2 * 1000 is 2000 ;) I think you meant 2**1000 the syntax for formatting ate your star https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by nick__m 11mo ago
If they achieve their goals; I don't know of any tech company I would trust with a direct write access to my brain.
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by nick__m 11mo ago
you have the causality reversed....
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by nick__m 1y ago
you probably meant metaclass and according to the doc classes inheritance don't have surprising behaviors. And about the metaclass not being inherited here are the implication: ...In more prosaic terms, this means that static metho
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by nick__m 1y ago
I consider that the core of Windows (the NT kernel and win32 api) is actually a very polished gem but it is encased in layers of upon layers of barely polished turds ( winui, the win11 shell, the over agressive telemetry, forced ms635 integ
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by nick__m 1y ago
I should probably have used the word efficiency instead of effectiveness because I had in mind the ratio benefits/(costs+risk). from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S227458072... Ou
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by nick__m 1y ago
The fact that it clears the plaques quickly is not what so promising about this drugs candidate. Unkike monoclonal antibodies of dubious effectiveness like elecanemab, donanemab and cie; this work upstream of the plaques. If a compromised B
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by nick__m 1y ago
For a featureless program it appears to be quite featurefull ! Opaque and transparencies, at the same time. Use opaque color for impasto, or glazing over with transparencies, any process, any time. Different reflectance behaviou
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by nick__m 1y ago
No, I was pissed that the only punishment, for a know offender, was a small fine. The police knew the guy (young adults with bright orange hoodie are quite uncommon here) and they told me that he already did this a few time before moving in
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by nick__m 1y ago
Someone tried to enter by the window next to my front porch door, it prompted me to install a video doorbell because the dude that frightened my wife only received a ticket because there was no proof he tried (and fail) to force open a wind
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by nick__m 1y ago
Where does all this leave us? For one, you better hope and pray that AI delivers a magical transformation, because if it doesn't, the whole economy will collapse into brutal serfdom. When I say magic here, I mean it; because of t
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by nick__m 1y ago
To reuse your analogy, I fear that the forest wasn't managed properly and that the coming fire will do a lot more damage than a controlled burn. And I have no idea when it's going to start nor how to fireproof my investments !
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by nick__m 1y ago
https://archive.is/SBM15
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by nick__m 1y ago
The process in Québec doesn't have those flaws, it is much superior than the one used in the rest of Canada : To obtain medical aid in dying in Quebec, people must meet all the following requirements: have a Quebec health insu
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by nick__m 1y ago
If your budget allows it you can get 120TB .5 dwdp ssd like that drive http://www.atic.ca/index.php?page=details&psku=319207
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by nick__m 1y ago
The Globe and Mail is a reputable and respectable publication but The National Post is an American-owned right wing propaganda paper. I won't apologize for calling them as I see them.
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by nick__m 1y ago
I cited this because they are accountable only to the telecommunications cartel. (in Canada telecommunications services are a the facto cartel) The effects of the banishment on the target are not taken into account and there is no compensat
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by nick__m 1y ago
I would agree with you if this clause was amended to remove the part after the coma: (6) Any order made under subsection (1) must be published in the Canada Gazette within 90 days after the day on which it is made, unless the Governor i

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