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by wazoox 4y ago
People can't use computers: http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...
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by wazoox 4y ago
> I think the odds of a planet developing life by random chance in the first place is astronomical, and then the odds of that developing into intelligent life - that happens to have the necessary appendages to build things and lives in a
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by wazoox 4y ago
It's not replacing fossil fuels, merely freeing them for other uses. In fact it's even common now to build wind turbines around coal mines to produce power to extract coal... We must reduce our fossil fuel consumption in absolute
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by wazoox 4y ago
Also an extension will prevent execution from cron.d on Debian-based systems.
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by wazoox 4y ago
Odeillo solar furnace can reach 3300°C and melt about any metal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeillo_solar_furnace However it's hardly "low tech" :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
Overall about an half of all smokers die of tobacco-related disease. It may be lung cancer, throat cancer, various digestive cancers, heart attack, aneurysm and all sort of painful diseases. Lung cancer is just the most obvious one. My neig
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by wazoox 4y ago
This article is pretty characteristic of the chemical industry influence trying to muddle the waters. I've watched recently a conference[1] by several renowned scientists. They affirm that neonicotinoids / neonics are responsible
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by wazoox 4y ago
Also nowadays hardware as well as software are incredibly reliable. You can basically set up a Debian web + postgres server with automatic updates enabled and not need to even log into it for months and months.
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by wazoox 4y ago
Ah yeah, I remember when a friend's company struggled for weeks with some terrible slowdowns on their Azure-based cloud infrastructure. After hours on hours of support calls and emails and weeks of hair-pulling, everything suddenly wen
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by wazoox 4y ago
I have now interns that are supposed to be coding, some are close to have nice diplomas like "CS engineer" and the like but the sad truth is that they don't understand what's a computer, what's a network, what'
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by wazoox 4y ago
The easiest way to learn a quite large number of pi digits is with mnemonic poems like this one I've known since I was 10 or so (French): 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 Que j'aime à faire apprendre un n
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by wazoox 4y ago
As I had the Rodney book (and no disk drive: it was twice as expensive as my computer!) at least I implemented my assembler as the one from the book :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
I knew what an assembler was (because my friend who had a C64 had one), but it was too darn expensive, so I wrote one myself in MSX BASIC :) Though it was very primitive, and didn't implement much more than an opcode table and a load a
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by wazoox 4y ago
I've made some testing, and installed it on a secondary system that in the beginning mostly hosted unimportant files. Then we added more things, and as after a few years it posed absolutely no problem we went further (and added a backu
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by wazoox 4y ago
An excellent discussion on the matter on the excellent Volts podcast: https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-extraordinary-potential-value#de...
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by wazoox 4y ago
I've been running NILFS2 on my main work NAS for 8 years. It never failed us :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
Yep, and you can use it seamlessly with several computer at once, I love it :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
As Klaus Schaub said "you will own nothing and you will be happy"...
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by wazoox 4y ago
Is this the same Sri Chinmoy who was John McLaughlin Mahavishnu's guru?
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by wazoox 4y ago
On the https://goose.red/pricing page, it tells me that " Your app is expected to be ready by 04:05PM today." But it's 17:55 where I am, what does it means exactly? Is this server time? Will I get my app in 1
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by wazoox 4y ago
"Only the paranoid survive" is my motto :)
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by wazoox 4y ago
Probably but the main objective is to keep data safe in the cloud while keeping everything encrypted (traffic and data), all the time.
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by wazoox 4y ago
I've just watched a presentation about Cosmian ( https://cosmian.com/ ) and their solution boasts using FHE, at a significant price though: computations and queries are about 1000 slower than on unencrypted data accordin
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by wazoox 4y ago
In the 90s, I remember the noise of the SGI Indigo2 Impact graphics, too :) It hissed and clicked when displaying complex scenes.
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by wazoox 4y ago
I've got the recent reprint of the "Panthéon Egyptien", Champollion's 1823 book (see the black and white edition here: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k106204z/f1.item ). It's v
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by wazoox 4y ago
In fact all of these points have valid reasons which simply reflect some form of cruft. For instance, until Caesar February was the last month of the year, so there was an intercalation of a month of varying length every two years(which mad
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by wazoox 4y ago
> - only one speaker works so volume is low I had this problem too on my old XPS, it's hardware, not software. Linux cannot magically fix broken cables. > - finger print scanner doesn’t work There is no driver for the common Chin
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by wazoox 4y ago
Weird, I'm running Pop_OS which is a Ubuntu fork and the trackpad button just works (not that I use it at all anyway).
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by wazoox 4y ago
HP laptops are well known for their crappy linux support. I've bought a brand new Lenovo Ryzen laptop in 2020, slapped POP_OS on it and everything works fine ever since (excepting the fingerprint reader, that has no linux driver). It b
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by wazoox 4y ago
Depends on the way you're pronouncing it maybe. To be intelligible IMO it must be read differently from a modern text, with well sounding liaisons, and all vowels very distinct: "un" sounds differently from "in", &q

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