nicolas_t

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by nicolas_t 2y ago
My experience has always been that if you take 6 months to contribute to open source centered around the new thing you want to work on, you'll quickly meet people that will allow you to get a job.
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> I'm in a nice medieval quarter now, and see lots of graffity across buildings which neither gray, nor boring Ok, point to you there, that would infuriate me. To be fair, I haven't traveled back to Europe since Covid (moved t
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I actually like the calming feature but what's a bit sad is missing thoughtful replies and only noticing them a day or 2 later when I know the person who left the reply won't see my reply to them. So, I think both could be complim
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I wish there was a notification for replies to comments I made. I feel that some conversations could be continued if such a feature existed.
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I don't offer the majority to leave. Like it or not, currently in most European countries, the law and application of laws is done so as to either encourage or at least not discourage graffitis. A lot of cities even give space to graff
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
The nice thing is that in democracies you can influence what is done against graffitis. Don't like graffitis? try to push your local representatives etc to be stricter on them or move to a country that has no graffiti like Singapore. O
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One suggestion I always have is take holidays in the target country and if possible send the child to a host family there (can use organisations like en famille). You don’t need a long immersion to learn the language at that age. I learned
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
What I despise the most are taggers who tag on top of a beautiful graffiti with lazily styled letters.
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I think I’d be relatively happy if I woke up one day and saw a banksy or an invader mosaic on my wall. I’ve seen graffiti art that definitely improved grey ugly walls and barriers. I’ve also seen ugly tags that are nothing more than letters
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I tried this as a student but then found that the actual useful part of a lecture is a tiny percentage and that it was just better to take advantage of the teachet’s office hour to ask questions well in advance of the class
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Interesting any good research studies on this?
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Ok, as someone who both loved Now and Then, Here and There and Twelve Kingdoms, I want some recommendations from you :) Those two series were really great. But I do agree with you, they were great because they actually had something to say
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Yes, it's one of those movies that marked movie. The music is also very interesting, distinctively different from most anime movies.
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At least for the theatrical Star Wars cut there's an excellent fan restoration 4k77 based on a 35mm IB technicolor film scan. The amount of work fans do to restore work they care about more than the corporate owners is always both amaz
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
In most south east asian household (Malaysia specifically since I lived there), they will leave the cooked leftover on the table below a fly protecting net and eat it up to the next day. This is in hot humid weather.
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Execution is what matters in startups, if they either can't find developers who are halfway decent or if a cofounder wrote this, that's a major red flag that they don't know how to execute.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
> Does this sound insane to you? Early in my career, a client came to us with their internally developed perl web app that was very slow and asked us to help them. They were storing all of the information as csv files and would do exactl
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I’ve had a similar experience except that the person was clearly irritated at my response. He cut the call and I was only able to confirm that the call was legitimate because I asked my relationship manager at the bank.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
> boomers that don't really understand technology running the government. Back when the decision was made, most of the people running the government had studied engineering. A very common pattern in all industries in China are laws
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I had the dubious luck to work for a company that got acquired by private equity. The company was resold for double the price it was valued when the private equity injected capital after 3 years. But during those 3 years, they lowered the q
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
And the practice of cancelling shows from Netflix is why I keep cancelling my subscription and waiting for them to have a show I actually like that has more than 1 season before I resubscribe. I have apple tv (because I like For all mankind
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On the other hand, it leads to different streaming service spending money to invest in exclusive shows. Would Amazon have enough money to pay for the Expanse if not for competition? What about Apple Tv with For All Mankind?
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Interesting, thanks. Any examples of adverts doing this? I'm curious!
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Yeah, most of my son's children books are from Taiwan (we're in Hong Kong so use traditional characters too) and I do see bopomofo sometimes. But it's mostly the normal use of furigana, doesn't seem to be used to give an
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
oh, I actually hadn't realized that this is what they settled on in the end. ffmpeg is the quintessential package where options make sense so good that that's still supported. The other issue I experienced with homebrew around tha
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I switched away back to macports when homebrew decided to get rid of formula options. To be honest, I always find homebrew frustrating, it feels that they've often made technical decisions that are not necessarily the best but they&#x2
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How is that common in Chinese writing? I haven't seen anything similar to gikun in Chinese. Outside of graded readers, I've not seen the pronunciation written above a character and in the case of graded readers, it would always be
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yeah I somehow read that as pocky and was confused for a bit.
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You might love Japanese trains where people have to use silent mode (so called māna mōdo), I've always loved this.
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I've been maintaining my own mail server for almost 20 years. The thing though, I found that sometimes I end up needing to use one of the bigger email providers like gmail, apple mail, etc because otherwise my mail is classified as spa

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