nraynaud

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by nraynaud 4y ago
Maybe it’s time to investigate growing lettuce and strawberries in the Mississippi valley instead of a place literally called the Sonoran Desert. Sending the Colorado water to Los Angeles was already completely stupid. This river runs compl
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by nraynaud 4y ago
ouch, I understood that it was a soft GPU.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
And saying that China would have an interest in spreading the virus seems fishy to me too, they almost decapitated the Communist Party by having a giant dinner at the onset of the pandemic.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
there is this deeply unsettling thing about innovation: it's historically been driven by people who did not need to work and had free time to explore. That means that innovators probably come with slackers, because they are secure in t
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by nraynaud 4y ago
Do you have a good blog post on choosing tolerances and ranges? I just started at a company where it’s probably about now that we should get smart with that. We do geometry so the problem gets even worse.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
Now that I see your list of manufacturers, I can only think: “of course, manufacturers don’t do squat in a car, Bosh, or some other equipment company did it and sold it to all the manufacturers”
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by nraynaud 4y ago
I’m pretty sure some things get normal algorithms, that not everything is a giant neural net.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
yes, in the later years, when TV decoders could be inserted into PCs, they would just do that, align things with the vertical lines in the pictures. But working that fast remained complicated for most of the 80 and 90's. edit: hum I&#x
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by nraynaud 4y ago
"The eight digits entered by the user actually results in not one but six keys. That is because the system had a (never used) audience feature made of levels. That was to allow subdividing memberships into Cinema, Sports, Documentaries
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by nraynaud 4y ago
I can't imagine the phone call to Germany: "Hi, it's the clown neighbor again, we are sending you smoke, probably laced with lead. Sweet Dreams."
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by nraynaud 4y ago
Geometry/topology is very often presented as soup of pointers, (think of doubly connected edge list, Quad-edge, etc.) I have personnally always implemented these with pointers, because it's at the tip of my skills and that's
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by nraynaud 4y ago
Amazon notified me that they thought I might like to buy a new stove.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
I really don't think anybody believes the network is reliable, it's mostly that you have no freaking clue how the software layers lower than you will react to various conditions and the way an error will be visible to your app wil
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by nraynaud 4y ago
I have used this website a few times, I’m not a plant expert, but I found the results credible.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
there is some strong business lessons here. printer manufacturer trashed their user experience all the way, from your first google search to the last hit with a baseball bat in the woods.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
I had a client simultaneously telling me he wanted a function, but that it couldn’t take that much time to develop it because it’s only useful 5% of the time. Sorry dude it’s all or nothing, it’s not like mechanics were there is a range of
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by nraynaud 4y ago
In France it’s integrated in the system, charities can be the address of the homeless people they follow, and that address can be used for almost any red tape.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
As far as I know, the poster is in the Netherlands, which makes SIM swapping a bit harder.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
I was thinking of subtle stuff when I read it. Like not providing a list function for the front people to pre-fill a combo box, forcing them to display a crappy open ended text field.
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by nraynaud 4y ago
no, but you have bail out volontarily and in a dangerous situation, the question has already been put to the manufacturer: no tie for the unluky retired.
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by nraynaud 5y ago
he used the term "absolutist", moreover those firings would probably be illegal in most civilized countries.
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by nraynaud 5y ago
he has fired a lot of his own employees for what they said or posted online, no need to test him more. Some people think it's fair game to retaliate gainst your own employees because there is no free speech at a company, I would counte
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I have felt terribly alone at some "disruptive" startups. What's weird is that at least in a few occasions I proposed things that became a trend later (like using AWS EC2 for computation immediately when it was created, today
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I couldn't find a map of the mercury sites on google. Anyone has better luck?
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by nraynaud 5y ago
Actually polling stations in France are split, maximum 1000 voters per station. Technically it’s a bit weird because you can have more than one polling station in the same area, so it might be a bit confusing. But the procedure is such that
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I think a lot of them are not on Airbnb, that's the trick. American people might be a bit chocked, but a lot of those places are not really made to make money, or their owners are not trying to grow that business.
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by nraynaud 5y ago
What’s funny is that in France we had various alternatives to Airbnb for so long before Airbnb that Americans are completely baffled by the choice when they learn of them. Actual upscale bnb? Gîtes de France. I’m coming with 20-30 friends -
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I can imagine the gold rush on those high order bits!
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I have not, and I'll end up with a black eye for procrastinating on that.
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by nraynaud 5y ago
I recently worked on some disk file formats (.vmdk, .vhd), and I always put the units in the name, because I'm always switching byte, sectors, blocks. Same for addresses, is it a LBA on the virtual disk, or an offset in the disk image

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