vianneychevalie

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by vianneychevalie 2y ago
As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and s
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by vianneychevalie 3y ago
At least in France we’ve been saying that for 8 years. The second best time to plant a tree is now.
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by vianneychevalie 3y ago
I think you’re mistaken, at least about the French revolution. It was carried out by rich people, looking for more power, making use of a common and regular occurence of popular uprising (Jacqueries, in political science, is the name of tho
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by vianneychevalie 3y ago
Can confirm, there’s only one Mickey, they time their exits and entrances and have a park coordinator (mostly women under the Mickey costume, by the way, because of costume size categories).
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by vianneychevalie 3y ago
I work in data management for large companies and I can promise you the problem is not a technical one. Which organization has the maturity to actually follow-through with quality data for such systems? Which legislators have the power to e
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by vianneychevalie 3y ago
A chain of LLMs can work in that regard, using intermediary prompts that feed answers to the next prompt. Make the LLM build a list of sections, then make it fill them with examples, then make it enrich the text. Maybe a last layer for erro
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
I know you're joking here, however, increasing marginal costs products are well-know and studied in microeconomics. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmargina...
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
That’s the core of the issue: when you’re so overworked that you (a) don’t have the time to reflect upon it and thus (b) don’t realize that the situation is terrible. It’s a not a new trope, Jack London’s Martin Eden addresses the inability
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
We call them a chimera?
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
A friend working at Campari told me their strategy is to cut off supermarkets for a couple of years to focus on bar and restaurants, before an increase in pricing and a comeback in a couple of years.
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
Happened to me in management consulting: immediately after my corporate headshot, there was an increase in the number of messages from headhunters, almost three times as much. Ended up landing x2 salary in a smaller company, in a more speci
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
I use Alt+F+B+Down arrow to browse my containers when opening a new tab. For the most frequent ones, I use Ctrl+Maj+1/2/3/4, etc., I know which ones they are. Those shortcuts are by default, I haven't had to tweak anythi
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
I advise using pen and paper lists of ideas, somewhere visible! Whenever I have my eyes wandering from a screen, I pick it up and start working on a couple of ideas.
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
I call them dolphins
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
Could be an opportunity to build a custom case hiding this bar
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
Can confirm, from experience in Data Management Consulting in large Banking, Insurance, Facilities Management and Food services companies: they build solutions and hope for ROI.
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
The basis of your comparison is a bit weak: you’re delving into legal entity anthropomorphism. A person, sure! A company? I don’t think it holds up. A company has no sense of morality, no career duration, no children or relatives to take ca
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
If you like this topic, what you’re describing is the essentialist worldview, and in my opinion a major part of societal debates today touch on the rejection of this worldview (classically by existentialists). Is there stability to who you
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
Was money good enough to finance a ticket triaging job when you're off? Is there a startup idea right there?
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
VLC was born out of the need of Centrale students to share videos efficiently on-campus. Centrale being one of the top French engineering schools.
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by vianneychevalie 4y ago
I disagree, emotional work is work, and « positive energy » sums it up quite well. Edge cases exist, but when I’m sad, I just stop being sad at work , because it’s been clearly stated, from the first interview, that positivity was a requir
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
I'm young and that's probably the reason why I'm less cynical. Hurdles can't be a reason not to run the race. For me it's like project management: you're 100% sure that nothing is going to go according to the p
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
High ceiling and large plentiful windows also increase the heating need. Should you want to reduce you energy consumption, you have to reach a balance. Within that balance light is pretty low in any energy budget. In France it's 10% of
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
I can't imagine it has a lot of manual work involved, exactly for the same reason you do: I haven't paid a cent for international or domestic wires in years. I'm in the EU, but I've done wires to Swiss or Lebanese accoun
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
European Union ; in French "Union Européenne", "UE"
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
Can you give examples of the Apple spyware you're mentioning? I'm familiar with the on-device scanning for iCloud-backups-using phones, but for me that's it. How wrong am I?
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
In the article, it's mentioned that people there are held in jail for decades for debts below $1000. That's the "debt trap" in the title. I'd argue that I'd rather let someone steal than let them rot in jail fo
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
We call it Data governance and Enterprise architecture, those are fields and we're hiring like crazy
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
I don’t think you’ve followed completely the phases that need to be gone through: the fact that microplastics are still being produced is the most straightforward demonstration that can be had on the fact that companies are still to be forc
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by vianneychevalie 5y ago
Can you elaborate on the lingo, or point in a direction for learning?

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