webreac

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by webreac 6y ago
I love it. I will add to my list of favorite quotes. I am also interested by a full reference. thanx
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by webreac 6y ago
I do not think this is fair. Cost of fossil fuels is largely undervalued: most of the cost (wars and pollution) is not taken into account.
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by webreac 6y ago
I am a go player. The whole purpose of training is to improve the thinking rate. We train using slow games to build higher level insights and we train using fast games to transform these insights into automatisms (passive thinking).
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by webreac 6y ago
There are many videos of Jean-Marc Jancovici on this subject. Some of them are in English. It gives documented pragmatic analysis. One conclusion is clear: Current nuclear plants shall be preserved to smooth the energetic transition (fossi
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by webreac 6y ago
I have loved https://www.coursera.org/learn/crypto ? Some of the material has been very useful when I have done stripe CTF n°2.
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by webreac 6y ago
Inline roller at 41 in club during 2 years. I still use them regularly (I am 51). Indoor climbing at 45. I was slightly too old and too heavy. Not a real success, but an interesting experience. Maybe I will try again. Main motivation was to
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by webreac 6y ago
I disagree with you. Introducing a database too early is overengineering. My first principle is KISS. I have encountered code that was similar to the example: it was the handling of messages received from automatas in a nuclear plant. I hav
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by webreac 6y ago
since my update to ubuntu 20.4, I have to kill pulseaudio regularly :-(
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by webreac 6y ago
They had also RTF which was one of the best formats created by Microsoft.
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by webreac 6y ago
I have learned scheme before camllight (the ancestor of ocaml). The syntax was a pleasure compared to scheme.
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by webreac 6y ago
Sing (alone and in a band), dance, cook. A bit of litterature, mathematics, physics, geography, history, psychology.
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by webreac 6y ago
I have more difficulties to read long flags. The people who want to improve by reading my scripts will have to search for the short flags because nobody use long flags from command line. IMHO the benefits of long flags vs short ones are not
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by webreac 6y ago
I fully agree with your second point. But, having worked in Ada during 6 years, the productivity is around the same as C++, perhaps slightly better than C++. The productivity is only reduced when writing very short programs.
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by webreac 6y ago
There is also some ecology: the hardware (CPU, GPU) has evolved in conjunction with software. Maybe a different hardware is needed to support the new software paradigm.
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by webreac 6y ago
.The minitel was free (we had to choose between having a minitel or having a paper annuary). The communication on 3615 was expensive (9.15€ per hour). On 3614 or 3621, it was around 3.05€ per hour (sometimes half).
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by webreac 6y ago
IMHO, it will be a nightmare for debuggers.
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by webreac 6y ago
We have passed the peak of oil production. Nuclear is the only solution to mitigate the crisis we are going to face. I think we will need to get rid of nuclear at long term (like 50 years). But for the next 20 years (probably 40), we need n
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by webreac 6y ago
In 1992, with a minitel 1B (80 columns), I have used the 3621 to connect to a service (129040134) that connected me to a vax station at school. From there I was connected to sun station where I edited my thesis using latex and vi. My teache
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by webreac 6y ago
hydrogen as storage is not efficient. This problem is reduced if hydrogen is used for transport.
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by webreac 6y ago
I have learned unix with sunOs in 1990. Man pages were excellent. The first command I learned was "man man". There was a paper version of the man pages available in the computer room (among many other sun documentations). I became
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by webreac 6y ago
I had a Nissan Leaf during 5 years (untill june this year). I have driven around 71000 km. I have not seen any battery degradation.
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by webreac 6y ago
Do you mean the number of death because of Tchernobyl is negative (less death than if Tchernobyl did not occur) ?
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by webreac 6y ago
Ok, I'm ready to believe that you're acting in good faith. I'm going through a difficult divorce, which makes me touchy about the smearing. If someone wanted to start a FSF smear campaign, it would be a good strategy to write
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by webreac 6y ago
It seems you are good at building web CRUDs, but complains it is boring. It is boring because it is repetitive. Create a web CRUD builder. Computers are there to cope with repetitive tasks. You can put your expertise in the builder. You wil
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by webreac 6y ago
A long text very well written in which he nuances the notion of freedom and in which he attacks the free software foundation claiming that the FSF does not understand these nuances: "Indeed, the entire Free Software movement seems like
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by webreac 6y ago
For me, the purpose of the "demo" is to get agreement on specifications and to remove ambiguities. This can also be used to reassure that the requirements of the client have been well understood.
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by webreac 6y ago
I don't remember complaining about keyboard. The only issue was loosing memory because the memory expansion (16ko) had bad contacts.
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by webreac 6y ago
IMHO a beginner has very few choicie. He should choose ubuntu. Fedora is about as good as ubuntu for beginners, but it is more difficult to find other users to get help. A beginner may choose fedora if he is using redhat at work and could g
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by webreac 6y ago
Thé weight of your family on your career dépends a lot of thé behaviour with the second parent. If thère are fights (even silent), kids will also be more difficult. Try to have a good split of the tasks and to be thankful and respectful.
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by webreac 6y ago
I think this is a good opportunity to assess the commutment of github (microsoft) to support free software. I am not a lawyer, but it seems clear that this an abuse. I bet that the repository will become available again. IMHO the duration o

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