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by pm3003 4y ago
I only listen to two long podcasts regularly (and the occasional Lex Friedman or JRE, though they’re usually shorter): - Alles Gesagt from German newspaper Die Zeit (almost half of them are in English). These are interviews that go on until
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by pm3003 4y ago
Yeah, he meant VS. He even mentioned using an older version (6) as it is much faster on modern computers. Maybe he was referring to a friend of his, I don’t remember. Most Windows programmers I know (not a lot) use VS for the ease of integr
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by pm3003 4y ago
Notepad++?
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by pm3003 4y ago
Talk about critical thinking...
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by pm3003 4y ago
Long and personal dedicace from General De Gaulle to a Free French fighter.
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by pm3003 4y ago
Make old games playable again. Use professional software you can’t afford to buy or don’t have affordable access to in order to develop your skills (seems ethical to me, though it’s disputable). Use software for which you have legitimate ac
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by pm3003 4y ago
The author is 18 years old, I believe. To put this into context. He writes rather well btw.
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by pm3003 4y ago
Own the domain name if you need it. Save your data with the Golden Rule.
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by pm3003 4y ago
A manager at my company finishes all his mails to those who aren’t his superiors with “A très vite” which means “See you/hear from you very soon”. I always want to do that with people I don’t work directly with. But I’m not cocky enoug
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by pm3003 4y ago
With the dozens of variations depending on context, position of the writer and recipients, if you know them personally, etc. Canadian comedian François Pérusse has a good sketch about those, called Veuillez agréer. I still use them on forma
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by pm3003 4y ago
Mini roundabouts are very likely to be confusing horrors, outside of low-speed residential zones, parking lots and the like. See the city of Nantes in France (roundabout’s paradise), navigating the intersections is horrible. In a few parts
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by pm3003 5y ago
Jellyfin on a plain OS is a good choice. I do it on a TV for friends and family (with a browser set for fullscreen). The Jellyfin app enables much control via other connected devices. People like it, and maintenance is ok (1 day per year, m
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by pm3003 6y ago
I really love Qutebrowser. I'm mostly missing autofill/password manager integration, but that's because I'm too lazy to learn to write scripts for this. I sometimes feel lost at work without it, and even Vimium doesn&#x2
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by pm3003 6y ago
Interesting are also ACP-131 3-Letter codes (Q and Z). The CPO's favourite : ZBM: Place a competent operator on this link.
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by pm3003 6y ago
We often forbid operators the use of "repeat", and we find ourselves using only "say again" on the phone, especially when the link is bad or the other speaker difficult to understand. Imagine speaking to a Pakistani or a
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by pm3003 6y ago
Exactly. In the French Navy they even call it an artillery mass (like a church service). There are similar procedures for surface engagement by a fleet (but not used as much today because of tactical data links). Minimizing the risk of a mi
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by pm3003 6y ago
- French was the language of the ITU and its predecessors. - On HF radio you need words that can be distinguished very clearly and not mistaken for somethkng else.
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by pm3003 6y ago
I've had a German collection come after me for 2 years with payment notices. I had unsubscribed by mail (which they got) and some email. They stopped last year after I wrote to them I considered I didn't own anything (a human prob
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by pm3003 6y ago
A lot of Burschenschaften have changed their rules. Catholic ones now prohibit self harm through Mensur. Some now protect the face completely while fencing, and others dont make it obligatory for the scar to be apparent anymore. And contrar
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by pm3003 6y ago
Even OneNote? Outlook/Exchange?
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by pm3003 6y ago
Same experience here. On PowerPoint, when there is repetitive work (weey presentation etc) i try to get a correct template, but most of the time I spend too much time on it, it's just a pain, and the corporate templates are horrible. E
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by pm3003 6y ago
Wolfs are rare in Germany. They went extinct in almost the whole country and are very slowly coming back.
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by pm3003 6y ago
Agree. But to nuance, a wolf pack is generally small, but there are a lot of stories, some of them recent, most of them from Europe (I've read at least one from Northern America), about very large gatherings of wolves in the countrysid
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by pm3003 6y ago
Good organization could be managed at tge time if one was powerful enough. I just checked Château Gaillard on Wikipedia, it's a typical medieval stronghold, quite advanced for its time. It was built in the exceptionnally short time 2 y
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by pm3003 6y ago
I remember one of the architects explaining it to me in 2003 or 2004. If memory serves : Basically the construction could be faster if well organized and continuous (I believe he said less than 10 years). However they voluntarily kept the p
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by pm3003 6y ago
I grew up in the East of France and Guedelon was a popular field trip destination for school students. I remember going there once in middle school and once in high school. The workers, architects etc were all very enthusiastic, and boring
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by pm3003 10y ago
One of my all time favourite websites.
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by pm3003 11y ago
Yes, but they have introduced new practical rules for simplified user registration. And anyway they're not as restrictive as the Germans. For some fun, check GEMA vs Youtube: https://apps.opendatacity.de/gema-vs-youtub
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by pm3003 11y ago
Never heard it in France (in France you usually use the word LAN or WLAN for local networks, as it should be).
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by pm3003 11y ago
O2. 28€ / 5 GB + 10€ "Datensnack" (exceed). The 500 MB thing is a commercial I saw a few days ago "LTE Einsteigertariif" with a flat rate telephone. Actually not that bad, but 500MB LTE... I have a feeling I'll

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