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by wazoox 1y ago
Also people forget that up to the 1830s, going from Paris to Marseille was a 2 week journey (unless you were a royal courier switching horses every 40 km, who could do it in a few days), and that sending a message across the Atlantic and ge
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by wazoox 1y ago
Actually no, every MEP doesn't support it, the government's position is attributed to all MEP from the country, which is silly.
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by wazoox 1y ago
In my (fortunately uncommon) experience, all ads served by Google are clickbait, or even blatant scam (like fake interviews of celebrities that explain how they earn lots of money without working, magical health enhancers, etc).
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by wazoox 1y ago
Neither in France.
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by wazoox 1y ago
As said in Italian "si non è vero, è ben trovato".
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by wazoox 1y ago
My 300k km Volvo S60 still runs on its original clutch, and I changed the brake pads only once. Engine braking is the way.
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by wazoox 1y ago
It only applies to mechanical injection and carburettor engines. With electronic injection, which is the norm since the 80s, this is not a problem.
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by wazoox 1y ago
Ah ah I have several white "Billy", the oldest dating back to the late 80s. The shelves are painted solid wood planks . The latest one has shelves made of beehive cardboard.
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by wazoox 1y ago
This week there is the BRICS summit in Rio, and a lot could happen there. Also Japan debt seems about to dangerously spin out of control. I'm afraid we're to live in very interesting times real soon.
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by wazoox 1y ago
I use Signal. I also use Telegram for non-important stuff.
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by wazoox 1y ago
But I don't have Facebook. The worst is the incessant "call me back on WhatsApp". I don't use any of this crap.
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by wazoox 1y ago
I do and always did, but it's quite frequent that people call me on my weird emails (no colours ? no formatting ? weird !). It's a completely lost cause unfortunately in this eternal September.
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by wazoox 1y ago
Ah yes, the worst is Discord who always says "tu", who are you? do I know you? Did we herd geese together at some point :D ?
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by wazoox 1y ago
The different tools should be ordered alphabetically... it looks like things are just listed as they come, only vaguely classified in broad categories.
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by wazoox 1y ago
The data is certainly available, both in Linux kernel source and LKML history. The answers looked perfect at first glance; anyone without prior knowledge of kernel compilation and patching would have probably be impressed by the technica
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by wazoox 1y ago
Not OP, but yesterday I was working on NFS server tuning on Linux, a typically quite difficult thing to find relevant info about through search engines. I asked Claude 3.5 to suggest some kernel settings or compile-time tweaks, and it provi
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by wazoox 1y ago
Perplexity often quotes references that simply don't exist. Recent examples provided by perplexity : Google Cloud. (2024). "Broadcast Transformation with Google Cloud." https://cloud.google.com/solutions/
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by wazoox 1y ago
Male infertility after 60 is probably not very impactful from a selective point of view. For 300 000 years, almost nobody reached 60 anyway.
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by wazoox 2y ago
"Engaging experience" being actually a weasel word for "sucking your brains out to make you watch ads and valueless nonsense".
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by wazoox 2y ago
Well my wife is allergic to cocoa, so that's an interesting alternative.
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by wazoox 2y ago
> And sometimes, yelling at clouds stirs the winds of change. > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unre
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by wazoox 2y ago
I love "the Unix Haters Handbook", just as I love "Worse is Better", but this ship has sailed 30 years ago as you mentioned. Your "old man yelling at clouds" rant reminds me of Bjarne Stroustrup's quip, &q
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by wazoox 2y ago
The book ("Material World") is fantastic, I hope he'll make another tome on some other resources :)
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by wazoox 2y ago
It's a MacBook 5,1, not a MacBook pro. Its firmware only sees 3.5GB out of the 4GB installed, apparently it requires a BootROM upgrade to support more.
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by wazoox 2y ago
I have a ~2009 MacBook. It has a swappable battery (replaced once, dead again), and it was overall easily upgradable : it received a 4GB RAM stick to replace its original 2GB (unfortunately it can't manage more than 3.5GB), an SSD to r
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by wazoox 2y ago
For the sake of exactitude, this was England - Argentine in Saint-Étienne (not Lyon, but Carlos managed both sites as they're not very far away), on June 30th 1998. As these were highly respected teams and a very disputed game (actuall
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by wazoox 2y ago
Obviously your fish recipes are the best, well done sir :) Apparently most people aren't aware of the date...
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by wazoox 2y ago
As I had sweated night and day on these systems for 3 months, unsurprisingly I knew exactly everything about them in and out :)
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by wazoox 2y ago
OK, story time. I probably mentioned already that I did the computer graphics for World Cup 98 worldwide TV broadcast. The setup was using two SGI Octane MXI, controlled from a PC running a custom application driving the two Octanes, on eac
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by wazoox 2y ago
Yeah, except that someday the site that provide that useful app may be gone once and for all, while the app would remain just fine until you uninstall it. So it's a double-edged sword.

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