phtrivier

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1. 1021.▲
   by phtrivier 8y ago

   Oh I absolutely agree that it can be done, I just wish the article had went into more details about how that's done...
2. 1022.▲
   by phtrivier 8y ago

   > We hope this material is helpful for you as you work on your own software. Sadly, as interesting as the material in the article is (great to learn about the measured latencies of the hardware part), I fail to see much that is "act
3. 1023.▲
   by phtrivier 8y ago

   I'm not sure what you mean by "deep pockets" of the "Sécurité Sociale" (is it "deep" in the sense that it's seen as bottomless, has a rather big deficit for parts of it, and it kinda assumed to be bai
4. 1024.▲
   by phtrivier 10y ago

   Popular culture sidenote : in France, the Bogdanov's brothers are now the standard butt of jokes related to: - aesthetic surgery (in a close race with actresses Emanuelle Beart and Angelina Jolie) - aliens (or people looking like, cl
5. 1025.▲
   by phtrivier 12y ago

   There's a PR for that ;) https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/pull/1/files
6. 1026.▲
   by phtrivier 12y ago

   Regarding your comment about log scales, is there a "sense" (or kind of perception, etc...) beside earing that "obviously" logarithmic ? Also, as another "I don't get stats get me out of here" question, is
7. 1027.▲
   by phtrivier 12y ago

   Note that, for the adage, I realise I was thinking about the "Renaud Sechan" version, which roughly translates as "Money doesn't buy happiness, but it helps buying the groceries." ;)
8. 1028.▲
   by phtrivier 12y ago

   > Why should dollars buy happiness the same way they buy gumballs? It doesn't make any sense. Which is precisely the point of the old "money does not buy happiness" adage, isn't it ? Science that says "This 100
9. 1029.▲
   by phtrivier 12y ago

   That's where I'm lost. 10% more money is much more money when you're rich than when you're poor (Captain obvious to the rescue.) So if you want to make me 10% more happy, that's going to cost you a lot more actual d
10. 1030.▲
    by phtrivier 12y ago

    I always sucked at stats, so can someone clarify the income / hapiness case. From what I understand, we have : * a straight line on a log scale - which is misleading, since the man on the street is used to straight lines on linear sc
11. 1031.▲
    by phtrivier 12y ago

    I suppose the definition of "mastering" can accomodate any opinion on the topic. Would this conatain any (most likerly rare) couter-example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_bloomer ?
12. 1032.▲
    by phtrivier 12y ago

    Quoting the study : "Our study design is composed of both prospective and > cross- sectional features (Fig. S1). The prospective aspect of the study involved enrolling 26 healthy subjects who had no prior RR- eliciting experience (N
13. 1033.▲
    by phtrivier 12y ago

    Spoler alert : most people's downvotes will come from this single sentence : > "We know that homosexuality is a destructive force in > society." Followed by an appeal to proof, then, followed by a long and aimless deba
14. 1034.▲
    by phtrivier 12y ago

    I beg to differ : as far as I know, the European Commission has been granted a mandate to negociate, but the European Parlement (which represents the EU citizens, however badly/poorly elected it is) will have to ratify it ; then depend
15. 1035.▲
    by phtrivier 13y ago

    Depending on your definition of "no bullshit", this might be relevant : http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Yourself-Unexpected-Achi... This is a mindfullness meditation guide in disguise. It is clearly geared tow
16. 1036.▲
    by phtrivier 15y ago

    Thanks. Did not knew about this (I should have pointed that I haven't been using Makefiles for a while). However : "Conditionals control what make actually "sees" in the makefile, so they cannot be used to control shell commands at the ti
17. 1037.▲
    by phtrivier 15y ago

    Cause sometimes you need your tasks to have, you know, logic and stuff ? Or am I the only one who want to do the equivalent of a "if" in a build script from times to times, and feel completely helpless with Make ?
18. 1038.▲
    by phtrivier 15y ago

    Actually, in France, in most elections if you vote 'blank' (leaving the envelopp empty in the ballot), it will be considered the same as abstention (not showing up at all for the vote). There is a recurring debate about whether the two th