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811.
by wazoox 6y ago
Yup, actually the Belgian government plans to close all nuclear plants real soon now, and replace them all with imported gas. This is beyond stupid on so many levels.
812.
by wazoox 6y ago
This is the evil of monopoly. Monopolies destroy freedom and will bring back feudalism. The GAFAM must be broken up. Yannis Varoufakis discusses this in this (oh the irony) youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlku
813.
by wazoox 6y ago
Gives an error 302, then an "Adobe signup" form. What were we supposed to see?
814.
by wazoox 6y ago
Please don't. Don't destroy a repairable old computer to make a novelty item. Generally, don't destroy a piece of original old tech for the sake of it. Would you gut an old Patek Philippe to put a quartz movement inside?
815.
by wazoox 6y ago
A friend of mine who's working on installing multimedia systems on luxury yacht told me a recent story today: a woman came from Florida to work on a yacht that was called by his owner to some place. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to her sh
816.
by wazoox 6y ago
Even better, just do n!! (!! repeats the previous command).
817.
by wazoox 6y ago
The second generation iMac was also available in many colours. So that's back to the origin, actually. See https://everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac_266.html
818.
by wazoox 6y ago
I'm pretty sure it's because of the nuclear reactor which is in the rear half. The Perle's reactor has still some years to go, and it's much simpler and safer to simply weld the half containing the reactor, instead of tr
819.
by wazoox 6y ago
They explicitly want to say small, and they plan to phase out many projects, in the hope that others will carry on.
820.
by wazoox 6y ago
What's wrong with Timidity exactly?
821.
by wazoox 6y ago
That's an interesting point to ponder. In France, there are constant calls to spelling reform and such. Of course, spelling and grammar as they are are incredibly annoying and backwards, but anyone with good command of them can read an
822.
by wazoox 6y ago
This is really awesome!
823.
by wazoox 6y ago
My old desktop: Name: AMD Phenom(tm) II X2 550 Processor Microarchitecture: K10
824.
by wazoox 6y ago
Why did you change the title?
825.
by wazoox 6y ago
Startup finished in 2.680s (firmware) + 826ms (loader) + 2.977s (kernel) + 12.269s (userspace) = 18.753s I had to enter my password 3 times to login, that's most of time spent here :) (8 to 10 seconds to the login banner). I think you
826.
by wazoox 6y ago
The new Dacia Spring has a 27kWh battery and costs only 12k€. In the electric car market, the situation is evolving extremely rapidly.
827.
by wazoox 6y ago
My Pop_OS laptop cold boots from button press to login in 8s.
828.
by wazoox 6y ago
I've made a presentation on this very subject to a hackers conference in 2013. It's very clear to me, it's because of Perl6. In 2013, Perl was 26 years and Perl6 was 13 years already, half as old as Perl itself but nothing cl
829.
by wazoox 6y ago
It is really fat: about 14mm, nearly twice as thick as most current phones.
830.
by wazoox 6y ago
Well, from the article: "This result, which the researchers themselves describe as "unexpected", could be linked to the fact that the named CV allows the recruiter to be more sympathetic to shortcomings in the application let
831.
by wazoox 6y ago
Yes, in France there was a large scale "anonymous CV" experiment, and going against what was expected, made people from minorities or poor neighbourhoods more disadvantaged. https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti
832.
by wazoox 6y ago
See previous comments: * he never, ever defended paedophilia in any form. * he defended the memory of Minsky who never had any sex with any member of the Epstein harem. * the sign on his door was a prank and wasn't his doing anyway. Th
833.
by wazoox 6y ago
I don't know, but it's very similar to reblochon, which is probably available.
834.
by wazoox 6y ago
You can also keep bunches of grapes fresh for months in an attic by plunging the stems in a bottle of water. That's a method that has been used for centuries in Europe. See https://jardinage.lemonde.fr/dossier-2305-cons
835.
by wazoox 6y ago
Yes, for instance they could use magnetohydrodynamic drives[1] to create a bubble of quasi-void around the aircraft. In the 70s Jean-Pierre Petit did some demonstrations of flying-saucer like models. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
836.
by wazoox 6y ago
Happy Nowruz everyone!
837.
by wazoox 6y ago
Ah yeah. There was a bug in the WiFi applet that prevented it to use 64 characters WPA2 passwords; only 63 could be entered in the field. Source: my company's WiFi was 64 characters, and the one employee with an N900 couldn't conn
838.
by wazoox 6y ago
I have a Lenovo IdeaPad 520 with a Ryzen 5 3500 running Pop_OS. It works great, but battery life hovers around 4 hours (I have no idea how long it is supposed to last under Windows, though).
839.
by wazoox 6y ago
Classic problem in Paris: you constantly find (well, out of Covid...) baffled travellers (mostly Asian) lost with their suitcases at the Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile subway station. They're looking for the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport,
840.
by wazoox 6y ago
Oh I'm all for radical ideas, it's mostly this sort of hollow media coverage that annoys me.

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