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by pmezard 4y ago
Fully automated does not mean nobody from the company onboard, does it? Even assuming pilots have the final say about re-routing in case of medical emergency, I do not how they are better suited than a random flight attendant to evaluate me
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by pmezard 4y ago
> what with France rationing power this winter Said like that it sounds like rolling blackout and the state enforcing energy consumption at gun point. There was a lot of noise because the government planned some of these things. But in p
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by pmezard 4y ago
On the other hand, we have a recent but strong law ensure coastal paths along the sea or ocean. Such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_34 We take it for granted and the restrictions when traveling abroad are always
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by pmezard 4y ago
IANAL, but closest French equivalent to Supreme Court is Conseil Constitutionnel. Cours de cassation is about breaking judgments because they were not made to the letter of the law. They do not pronounce general opinions about the law itsel
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by pmezard 4y ago
Does it achieve the same outcome, at least on the quality side of things? Instead of a brand sending specs aligned to what their brand should represent, the seller creates spec to match what it expects target brands to look for.
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by pmezard 5y ago
Interestingly, "Shattered Sword" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Sword ) a modern book about the battle of Midway, from the Japanese point of view, starts with something similar. Japanese navy did war
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by pmezard 5y ago
TIL /dev/full https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/full
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by pmezard 5y ago
Well, "Excession" from the same series gets its fair share of psychopath AIs using anti-matter and particle beams during a few nanoseconds fight. From the same Iain Banks, "Against a Dark Background" features space battl
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by pmezard 5y ago
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by pmezard 5y ago
TL;DR: wealth helps a lot, but not in the "parents paid the diploma" direct way. More because good social status helps putting people in the right track. Hard work is still required IMHO (at least for the engineering track, I do n
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by pmezard 5y ago
Claap | Frontend Tech Lead, Software Engineers | Remote (CET -2/+2h) | Full Time | https://www.claap.io/ Claap is the first asynchronous meeting platform that helps you reduce the number of meetings needed to share upd
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by pmezard 6y ago
Nitpick which does not change your general point: I would not call French average 60% tax on fuel a "subsidy". One can argue that by tweaking the tax level per type of fuel, it shapes the market in one direction or another, but th
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by pmezard 6y ago
> My daughter learned to say "chouette, c'est joli !" in her french class, which is preposterous and almost akin to saying 'Jolly gay, old chap!' in English today. Don't be so harsh. I would not be surprised
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by pmezard 6y ago
One of the highlighted characteristic of this recording, is it is a live conversation, not something rehearsed. So, while what you said may be true for radio broadcasts, I am not sure it is at play here even if the interviewee knows he is b
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by pmezard 6y ago
I am in no position to judge, I have not participated to protests either in France or in the US. So everything I will say is only about perception from media reports or what I saw in my medium/smallish-sized city (Brest) I feel the lev
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by pmezard 6y ago
> Forces civiles, contrairement aux gendarmes mobiles avec lesquels ils sont souvent confondus (wikipedia.fr) You are correct and I was wrong. I learnt something today, thanks.
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by pmezard 6y ago
French here. I have no intention to downplay the reported behaviour, just to give some perspective. First, the military vs police comments sound a bit off to me. Technically, the most incriminated force, CRS, are part of the "gendarmer
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by pmezard 6y ago
What is the good model?
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by pmezard 6y ago
You initial confusion and nice summary made me thought of camlistore which I looked at 4 or 5 years ago. And here it is, renamed! This is sad because the project looks interesting, it is not the usual quick kludge or vaporware, but the bad
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by pmezard 6y ago
Can you give a concrete example of deep-learning techniques which have transformed a field? Something not theoretical or confined in a lab? Something which may have changed my life?
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by pmezard 6y ago
> To be perfectly honest, it surprises me the extent to which ML naysaying seems to be popular on HN. Maybe because there is a larger fraction of people who know or see how the sausages are made. There are cool things, but is not magica
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by pmezard 6y ago
If the first 20mn turned you off, I am afraid it will get worse with the rest of the movie. That said there are nice CGI of the black hole, where the consulting part really shines. BTW, there is a "Mindscape podcast" episode [1] w
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by pmezard 6y ago
> Thanks the NSA for the beautiful piece of software called Ghidra (had to look it up: https://ghidra-sre.org/ ).
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by pmezard 7y ago
Is there a Firefox extension to fold threads containing that kind of recurring generalities? Sinclair's quote (not even quoted here), "If you are not paying for it, you are the product", "Government are bad", etc. ?
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by pmezard 7y ago
> At the moment, Go has no generics, which translates to "slow programmers", but not "slow compilers". Also note that one of these assertions is measurable, and the other an unsubstantiated opinion.
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by pmezard 7y ago
There was an episode[0] on French radio show "La méthode scientifique" in October 2019 about these questions (following a near-collision between SpaceX and ESA satellites where apparently SpaceX just played dead and ESA people had
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by pmezard 7y ago
> It's easier, cheaper and faster to setup a DAO than an international foundation, especially regarding registration, opening bank accounts and international members. Important questions such as "which jurisdiction to register
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by pmezard 7y ago
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by pmezard 7y ago
If I remember correctly, in Banks "Against a Dark Background", space battles must follow strict rules including no-AI assistance. But there are cheaters.
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by pmezard 7y ago
> but I feel we should be able to state if e-cigarettes are harmful or not from a purely theoritical standpoint, an explanation on how it interacts with the chemistry of the human body and say it is harmful or not. I agree with the senti

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