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by wott 10y ago
I've had a recruiter writing me to thank me for my application, but unfortunately blah blah résumé blah blah position blah blah. The thing is I had never applied to anything at her company nor sent her a résumé, I had just asked her a
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by wott 10y ago
They hired a Police recruiter.
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by wott 10y ago
> Isn't it better to just let people vote, say, using money like they do now? That lead us to societies that are both decadent and destroying the planet. So I guess the answer is "no".
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by wott 10y ago
Nuclear safety is not about predicting causes. It is about considering how to contain what happens, should it happen, even if you cannot imagine a cause for it to happen.
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by wott 10y ago
That is like 10 or 20 times the death rate as in Western Europe. I know you guys love your bodycounts, but still...
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by wott 10y ago
> As an Uber employee, Yes, we know, since you almost always use this account to do PR for Uber.
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by wott 10y ago
For good or bad reasons, you made the right choice: the article was full of crap (bad understandings, lack of historical knowledge and just technical knowledge even about current tools versions, bad references, bias, repeating blindly wrong
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by wott 10y ago
This article, gee... :-) it was obviously written by Occitan activists. One hint: nobody spoke 'Occitan', that's a modern artificial construction, based on a unification spread after the languages were already dying (such art
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by wott 10y ago
[About the map] What you see there is in fact the influence of Toulouse's growth. Inhabitants are flowing from Paris and the Northern parts of country, and they are ready to settle very far away from Toulouse. People not only settle 10
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by wott 10y ago
Yes. The thing is that France used to have perhaps the best balance in human-shaped landscapes in the world. A mix of villages, small towns and mid-sized cities spread rather evenly across the whole land, that made its charm. And that was b
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by wott 10y ago
Not true at all. France is almost totally de-industrialised. The rare products which do not come from China and similar Asian countries come from Maghreb or Italy/Germany/Belgium, the few Western European countries which kept some
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by wott 10y ago
I imagine he was talking about IMAP?
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by wott 10y ago
His point was about the fad amongst developers (well, "developers"...), not users.
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by wott 10y ago
Is there still going to be a "theirs" standing after a first power deploys massively "our" robots?
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by wott 10y ago
A 1st word: alignment. A 2nd word: regularity. (If we had a monospace font here, the colons of the two lines would be aligned...)
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by wott 10y ago
Perhaps it would be enough to just stop offering the shiny dumbing-down that are just there for marketing advantage. After all, people could manage to get their things done with DOS, people could manage to get their things done with Windows
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by wott 10y ago
One thing that drives me crazy nowadays is the bloody telly and the stuff around: insane warming up (boot) times, insane delay for channel switching. The second used to be immediate and the first almost immediate (I am not talking of very v
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by wott 10y ago
A problem human drivers believe they encounter on a daily basis because themselves do not know 50% of the road laws (in the best case).
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by wott 10y ago
Er... I can't help you for I have never used a computer with more than 4 GB. And I was running dual monitors in the days when 256MB was a very decent setup. You had to upgrade to 32 GB RAM ?
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by wott 10y ago
Nice! You've managed to stick almost all the corporate recruiting empty buzzwords in a single message.
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by wott 10y ago
Nothing guarantees that it is zero-overhead, it all depends on the efforts, quality and mood of the C++ compiler. Whereas in C you can at least rely on the fact that even without any complex optimisation it will at worst produce machine cod
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by wott 10y ago
Oh yes, that is true. I launch every program from terminals and a terrible warning parade fills my terminals whenever it is a Gtk application. I came to think that the developers never actually launch their program this way and never the se
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by wott 10y ago
> In France, rationalist Emmanuel Macron has 165,850 likes, while far-right Marine Le Pen boasts 1.2 million. "Rationalist"?? What's rational about him? The guy did not have any political existence 6 months ago, has no p
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by wott 10y ago
You point doesn't hold: deadly car accidents mostly do not happen inside cities.
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by wott 10y ago
You didn't have a problem imposing your modelling of cities and road networks on others, did you?
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by wott 10y ago
> The thing is, even in the densest cities in the world it's not like people are completely without cars. They just manage to get by with one car per family rather than one car per driving age member of the household. 60% of househo
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by wott 10y ago
They will build high... as long as the price and rent remain high. It the price and rent stop raising and go down, they stop building high. Especially considering that building high is more costly, prices have to stay very high to justify b
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by wott 10y ago
You can live in a 2000-5000 inhabitants town and not need a car.
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by wott 10y ago
> I encourage my clients to apply to less companies, but to make those applications more targeted. Write a cover letter (or just the body of an email) that demonstrates that you've actually read the job spec and maybe even a page of
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by wott 10y ago
> to call anyone a "jerk" is something that only jerks do What about people who call "jerks" people who call someone a jerk? :-D

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