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by pif 3y ago
> With her gone now... Oh, I'm so sorry... In the last few years, I've lost my sister and my mom, and very recently my dad. We all miss him so much, it hasn't been a week yet; nevertheless, I can't be too sorry that h
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by pif 3y ago
What I find ironic is that everyone in the industry knows that estimating is very hard, thus estimations are nearly useless, yet everyone insists on the importance of planning and on basing such planning on void estimates. Nobody has yet ha
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by pif 3y ago
> Nobody cares about customers. Not even customers care about themselves! Customers say they want a good support, but nobody buys a good support: customers buy cheap! If ditching the customer support department will let you lower your pr
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by pif 3y ago
To people downvoting: please do add a comment with an actual example. Make HN Great Again!
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by pif 3y ago
> people are taught from childhood on that the state is there to protect you, and protecting yourself is a risk We are still waiting for an example of a sane society where the opposite is true.
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by pif 3y ago
I can confirm. Not working since this morning; it's 15:16 now.
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by pif 3y ago
And FORTRAN
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by pif 3y ago
> It’s the worst of a leaky abstraction This stems from the fact that SQL itself is a very leaky abstraction: each RDBMS implementation is different, and the common part is shallow. There is no way to optimize a query in an RDBMS-agnosti
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by pif 3y ago
Your examples do not involve people living in a democracy with universal right to vote.
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by pif 3y ago
> 1. We had a convention citoyenne pour le climat. Macron then mostly ignored it. The reality is: talking about CO2 emissions is talking about economy. That is the main job of the government. > 2. We have elected representatives who c
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by pif 3y ago
> You only see violence in protesters who break windows, not in governments who enact laws on their people. A government trying to manage a country has a ton of compromises to make every day; I do not expect to be happy with every one o
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by pif 3y ago
> while not supporting the Gilet Jaune mode of action anymore, people still strongly supported and support the main ideas they pushed Imagine how successful they could have been if they had behaved as civilised people from the beginning!
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by pif 3y ago
What every programmer should know about "First they came" :-)
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by pif 3y ago
> the very point of a protest is to be visible. And that's why the public space must be made available for protesters, it's part of the life of a sane democracy. Public space and free press are sufficient if you have a point t
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by pif 3y ago
> trying to end the revolution is still an ongoing thing in I don't agree. France is as wonderful as it is because revolution was successfully completed long ago.
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by pif 3y ago
> Polls showed that The only polls that matter are elections. Apart from elections, people have the right to avoid any poll without risking any policy change.
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by pif 3y ago
When they came for violent people preventing other pacific people to move on with their life, nobody needed to speak because their actions were against the law.
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by pif 3y ago
> our messages here align mostly with authoritarianism and fascism If you want to call "authoritarianism" the basic rule of law (as in: do not block traffic, do not prevent shops from opening, do not prevent public offices from
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by pif 3y ago
> sympathy for authoritarian practices simply because they align with their interests Nothing personal, I'm talking about the interests of all the voters who freely elected the current president and parliament. If you are not happy,
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by pif 3y ago
> making protests of disappointment illegal everywhere the president go France is big enough. Having to avoid a few square kilometres around the president will leave you plenty of space to organize your protest.
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by pif 3y ago
> This is authoritarian pandering 101. No, this is matter-of-fact anti-terrorism.
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by pif 3y ago
> First they came for the Gilets Jaunes... Actually, they came too late for the Gilets Jaunes! > it was sickening to see how much of the supposed French people's liberties and citizens rights were broken back then I agree with yo
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by pif 3y ago
I live in France as well, and personally do not feel the same negativity as you. What I don't appreciate at all is our share of idiots that think that blocking the country is a proper way of protesting (see "gilets jaunes").
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by pif 3y ago
> Which is, admittedly, a very HN assumption to make No, it's your assumption that is wrong! You gave an explanation of several possible reasons, and you assume that people care. Actually, they don't! The first site worked crap
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by pif 3y ago
Concerning climate change, the world is going to be like this. All models are clear that global warming cannot be reversed. No "turning green" will lower average temperatures enough in our lifetime. Thus, acceptance is capital,
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by pif 3y ago
> business stakeholders, who can see the business reality but do not want to understand that technical debt does slow things down, and as such it must be paid back as soon as possible. > engineers, who [...] understand the other truth
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by pif 3y ago
> When was the last time you saw a product manager high-five the ops person and say, ‘fast fucking autoscaler!’? It will happen when the optimization of the autoscaler will improve the revenue, by itself and in a quantifiable way. Ot
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by pif 3y ago
Not in my experience.
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by pif 3y ago
> the majority of the English discussion on the web seems to be very US centric This is one of my two pain points on Quora: not even trying to split among US-related content and international content. Reading all those question where &qu
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by pif 3y ago
I'm not sure 100%, but your second example does not imply UB. UB is caused by the act of accessing an object via a pointer of the wrong type, but just casting a pointer as you do should not be a problem. On the other side, this would i

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