sylvainr65

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by sylvainr65 10mo ago
French Canadian here - I remember my mom loving these glasses, back in the 70s-80s. We still use some of them 50 years later. They last for decades.
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by sylvainr65 11mo ago
Apparently, you can turn off ads quite simply. * How to turn off ads on your Family Hub The widget will appear by default on the fridges as part of the software update. However, Samsung is giving users the option to turn off ads. To do this
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by sylvainr65 1y ago
Still hiring every other months in my company. Hard to find real talented developers. My guest : most of them are already employed. This article does not reflect my reality at all.
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by sylvainr65 1y ago
Still playing GTA IV. Hope they'll take more time for GTA VI.
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by sylvainr65 2y ago
This is a cultural thing, I think. I'm proud to work more hours than my boss expects. My relative never brag about the number of days off they have, but will quickly tell you that they only took one week off last year. The expected rea
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by sylvainr65 2y ago
Looking at your login, you probably gone through a lot more before cgi-bin. Nice.
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by sylvainr65 4y ago
I really like the Amazon Prime model: author are payed depending on the number of pages read. They get something like $4 to $5 per 1000 pages read.
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by sylvainr65 4y ago
I often take a lot of time to write a comment. I think, I research, I change a word, remove a paragraph, move phrases around. And then, often, I just don't post it. The reason I do this: It makes me think.
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by sylvainr65 4y ago
I think I'm the average Amazon customer. If I buy something cheap and it breaks or doesn't work as expected, I just throw it away. If it's expensive, then I ask for a return, but I really take care to return it as new. If I c
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by sylvainr65 4y ago
Not on topic but a little rant about dark themes. After years of reading code displayed in dark mode on a white page (high contrast), I still wonder why. It's really hard to see, at least for me. Most of the time, I end up selecting th
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by sylvainr65 5y ago
Would love this !
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by sylvainr65 5y ago
CNN, command.
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by sylvainr65 5y ago
I don't follow. We wrote fax softwares that eliminated the need to buy a fax. We wrote accounting softwares that eliminated the need to have hundred of accountants to get to the office every day, using cars! We wrote softwares that eli
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by sylvainr65 5y ago
> are skeptics even making predictions? I think that this is their point: predictions cannot be made with our current understanding of climate.
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by sylvainr65 5y ago
> and give it away But who would pay for this? At the end, the States can only take the money in the pocket of its citizens, present or future.
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by sylvainr65 5y ago
> A&W tried introducing a 1/3 lb burger, and it failed horribly because the average consumer couldn't understand that 1/3 is greater than 1/4. Why then they didn't come up with a 1/5 lb burger?
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
Excellent post. I should add that text formating is almost as important as what you want to say. 11 short sentences addressing 4 points packed in a single paragraph is really painfull to read. Use paragraphs, new lines and bullet points as
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
Mozilla tries to find a niche to survive. But I really think that personalized adverts are a better thing that random adverts.
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
Your premise is false: Open source software has nothing to do with communism, Marxism or socialism. How many successful open source software created in communist countries do you know? Isn't it surprising that most successful open so
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
No. I was using Netscape in the 90s. Somewhere, Netscape published a new version that was very buggy. I switched to IE because it was way more stable. And never come back. Same thing for MS Word vs Wordperfect and Excel vs Lotus 123.
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
Greet post, thanks!
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
Cannot be anything but a joke. The problem is simple, the solution requires 10 lines. There is no reason, absolutly none, to create an interface for a such simple problem.
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by sylvainr65 6y ago
It is parody.