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by wott 5y ago
> There have actually been quite a few new reactors brought online in the past two decades in France, Uh? Not a single one.
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by wott 5y ago
Needs a (2167) note in the title.
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by wott 5y ago
> Obj-C feels more lightweight. That is something I wouldn't have thought I'd hear one day ;-)
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by wott 5y ago
> Yes the only "weird" thing in pascal I guess you forgot about the semicolons which must or must not be there depending on location. And the final dot. And, if we move a bit away from pure syntax, strings, even modern ones, wh
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by wott 5y ago
> In Europe being an engineer has civil accountability on issues. You can be fined really high if you hire a self-called engineer without a proper degree. One more case of mistakenly presenting 'Europe' as an homogenous entity,
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by wott 5y ago
> I just don't understand how this plan promotes equity. Well, it can turn every one into a bad pupil :-) I wish people would take a look at what happened in other countries which followed a somehow similar path of dumbing down cour
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by wott 5y ago
Somehow I find it refreshing to see flamewars about ISAs, for I hadn't seen any in the last 15 years (at least). It makes me feel young again. :-)
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by wott 5y ago
You tried Delta flights but you didn't try Omicron flights :-)
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by wott 5y ago
> so why are there still soaring case rates in the countries with the most vaccines? Vaccinated people are not submitted to the same constraints (such as mandatory tests for accessing this and that) so carry the virus in more places favo
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by wott 5y ago
Before I saw your post, I was indeed about to ask "When did the word 'culture' replace 'entertainment'?" In my country, where the same phenomenon happened ('divertissement' is now labelled 'cultu
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by wott 5y ago
Yes, 'normal' people see the world through a pink veil, built by the 'drugs' that their body produces. Most depression treatments seek to artificially provide those drugs.
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by wott 5y ago
> It begins with by questioning "why did Rousseau wrote about inequality if 100 years before no one in western culture cared about it"? Then he goes to show how the themes of liberty and social equality came from Canadian Firs
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by wott 5y ago
> However I'll toss in a couple things I haven't seen mentioned yet. > * Offline mail readers. QWK or BlueWave, there might have been others. I did succinctly, just a couple of minutes before you did :-) You are right nobody
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by wott 5y ago
> what was the cost involved Modems were expensive, and well, computers were not cheap either. You had to pay the communications time, but well, as a final user, with local calls + night rate, it wasn't a big deal. Probably more s
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by wott 5y ago
I recently noticed that a number of SO questions have even been turned into Youtube videos containing a slide-show of the answers, now :-(
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by wott 5y ago
Each time something requires Meson, you can also bet it requires a different version than the one you have installed... :-/
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by wott 5y ago
> Almost any program the size of Xorg will likely already depend on Python anyway. Last time I built X by hand, there was one... one single X element the building of which depended on Python amongst the many, many components of X: XCB. S
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by wott 5y ago
The statements that they took the keys and then abandoned it.
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by wott 5y ago
> It would be a job in itself, to check where the submissions lead you. Most likely, straight to the comments section.
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by wott 5y ago
What you describe for humans may be applied to the Internet itself: it turned 30.
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by wott 5y ago
> perhaps you should do the math, 5 cents per user would be 2.81 billion * 0.05 = ~$7 million. This is some creative math!
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by wott 5y ago
It is forbidden in my country: we must stick to the right side of our lane. And I suspect it is the same in most countries. We were granted a notable exception, which allows us to keep a distance with parked cards in areas where speed limit
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by wott 5y ago
It is much easier to ride a bike than to walk in the heat. Because you create your own wind. If I stay at home and walk around I have troubles breathing when it's over 35°C, I have been several times on the verge of fainting when it la
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by wott 5y ago
I had much better results with one-man projects, than with projects which have a small army of volunteers and/or of paid employees. In the later case, it feels exactly the same as when I try to get in touch with the various administrat
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by wott 5y ago
When it is in the normal execution path, the test avoids a function call, so there's a little bit of performance gain. It can also be a bit self-documenting, or be a place-holder if there is for example stuff to delete in a loop (eleme
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by wott 5y ago
Unfortunately Nokia is just a brand now, in the hands of a Chinese company which sells rather quickly and cheaply developed products. The phones which are sold under this brand are often buggy and never updated. Some run Series 30+, some ru
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by wott 5y ago
> If that happens, everyone is screwed anyways, what difference does it make if your passport has a machine readable chip?! The difference it makes is that with such tech, I wouldn't have been born because my grand-parents would hav
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by wott 5y ago
> Why should I use Windows, when Linux is catching up and not using these horrific anti-patterns? Don't worry about choosing, little by little the Linux ecosystem (distros, applications) is/will be catching up with these horr
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by wott 5y ago
The only bad deal is a crazily reactive interconnected market, which, when combined with solar/wind production, destroys long-term investments. Solar/wind, when it products, crashes market prices. Nuclear is supposed to produce at
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by wott 5y ago
> Skyscrapper City forums I wish they hadn't updated their forum software indeed. I share your opinion about it: very slow, lots of wasted, white space, and stuff which may or may not be displayed correctly depending on your browser

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