wazoox

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by wazoox 4mo ago
81500 for me, but I'm French, and I've often remarked that supposedly "hard words" are just quite ordinary french words.
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by wazoox 4mo ago
Hypo is Greek too, not Latin "small" for a latin radical would be "mini" (from "minus") like in miniature, minuscule, etc.
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by wazoox 4mo ago
Yep. I removed the last Windows98SE partition from my PC in 2003. Never looked back.
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by wazoox 4mo ago
In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet. In case of a fall the in-ear device could cause grave injuries. Wearing a recent helmet and protective gloves with hardened knuckles is of course mandatory. But man
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by wazoox 4mo ago
My handle and real name give more or less correct results with a 220-243 score (whatever that means). Gemini insists on me working in sound engineering, something I did in the 90s, but at least it's not completely absurd. The most corr
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by wazoox 4mo ago
Typical EU corrupt bureaucracy at work.
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by wazoox 4mo ago
IIRC, one of the similar old story from Raymond Chen is about SimCity 2000, that did a similar trick (free memory, then start immediately using it) that worked just fine under DOS, but was a big no-no starting with Windows 95. The game was
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by wazoox 4mo ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34661620/
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by wazoox 4mo ago
There is a long-lasting study (more than 10 years) on a huge French cohort (more than 100k) that proves exactly the opposite : people who eat mostly organic food have less cancer and several other diseases. This is straight disinformation.
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by wazoox 4mo ago
That's beautiful. I hope it will run on a 486DX2 :D
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by wazoox 5mo ago
Sometimes data privacy is paramount.
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by wazoox 5mo ago
The sort of task you don't expect to end immediately. If extracting data from a bunch of PDFs takes 1 hour or the whole night, that doesn't make much difference to me. It's not fast enough for auto completion and slightly too
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by wazoox 5mo ago
I've been running various models on a Mac Pro 2013 (8 cores, 32 GB RAM) at about 8 to 10 t/s for months. It's not fast, but it's more than enough for many actual tasks, in particular background tasks. An iMac pro will do
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by wazoox 5mo ago
I've used FreeOTP+ to connect to my customers' Microsoft Teams for years without any trouble.
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by wazoox 5mo ago
AFAICT any TOTP app (FreeOTP+, Aegis...) works just fine with Microsoft services (or Google, etc). You don't actually need to install several TOTP apps.
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by wazoox 5mo ago
Nope, also redirect to the "fr" version if you're using a French browser, even when using a VPN connection localised in UK...
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by wazoox 5mo ago
Apparently people aren't aware that not everybody lives in the US, but some may want to see the US page of the website anyway. Auto-redirecting people to the local version is incredibly stupid, particularly when it ends in a 404.
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by wazoox 5mo ago
The page is redirected to https://usborne.com/fr/books/computer-and-coding-books which is 404, and there is no way around it. That's quite maddening when a website does this kind of things.
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by wazoox 5mo ago
That's a good heartwarming story to start the weekend :)
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by wazoox 5mo ago
Actually it was both "Congo" and "Twister": https://www.starringthecomputer.com/feature.php?f=30
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by wazoox 5mo ago
My favourite game back then was "Certain Impact", but AFAIK it only runs on IRIX 5.3 (probably uses COFF binaries?), on Indigo2 High Impact with TRAM or Extreme Impact with TRAM.
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by wazoox 5mo ago
I've got a beefy Octane (4GB of RAM! dual R12000! MXE graphics!) but I honestly don't do much... At a time I used it as an X11 terminal but it's a bit too hot and loud even for that :)
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by wazoox 5mo ago
Like the Indy laptop in the "Congo" movie ? :)
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by wazoox 5mo ago
> It is an amazing case study of how data centres aren’t just directly spurring new pollution: they are also eating up the physical resources of the energy transition, and redirecting them towards worsening that pollution even further.
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Why Anthropic's ultra-dirty deal shouldn't surprise you at all(ketanjoshi.co)
3 points by wazoox 5mo ago|2 comments
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by wazoox 5mo ago
Interesting. I've found that nightmares are strongly influenced by what I've eaten. Cabbage gives me nightmares almost certainly, for instance. Generally for me dream content seems heavily related to sensations in general : sounds
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by wazoox 5mo ago
This didn't happen to me... yet. Here's what I found 2 days ago deep in a production PHP codebase: private static function createUUID(){ $md5 = md5(uniqid('', true)); return substr($md5, 0, 8 ) . '-'
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by wazoox 6mo ago
AFAIK the only existing small jet engines for RC planes are much too small for this one.
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by wazoox 6mo ago
The minuscule sample of tools we have are more primitive, but we don't have any examples of their wooden tools, nor any trace of most of their activities, languages, rites, etc. They could have invented animal husbandry and wool spinni
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by wazoox 6mo ago
You can browse the pictures with the cursor keys, though.

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