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by xte 8y ago
While I'm NOT using anymore Google services I have few sparse world about Google communication services: - GMail (webui and apps), Hangout (webui&app), Drive, ... skyrocketing their weight in Mb and cpu cycles without addin really
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by xte 8y ago
So what kind of media Vikings have in the past, when nearly nobody even know how to write/read? And even before in Celtic population? Did you know Halloween origin? Did you know that a traditional Celtic fest in which people of a villa
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by xte 8y ago
True but we are humans, not machines, we work to live not live to work.
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by xte 8y ago
So unrealistic that it's become a common practice in most developed countries... Try asking a Swedish or a French (with exception of few Parisian) what they think about cities. BTW try to determine cost per capita of countryside living
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by xte 8y ago
Few sparse consideration: "push to extreme effect" or when you see something that marginally interest you but keep seeing it because of "customized" results substantially invite you to dig deeper and in case of some kind
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by xte 8y ago
Well... In my case it keep saying Huh... that's weird Something unexpected occurred. We'll investigate what happened Refresh the page Anyway, Python actually support limited functional programming so I only get it for that topic :
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by xte 8y ago
Well... If I'm looking for functional programming in python... I'll choose hy (hylang) witch is actually Cython with a lisp-y syntax. Otherwise if I'm accustomed to Python but feel the need of something functional and scheme&
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by xte 8y ago
There is a vim org-mode plugin but it's super-limited, mostly only proper syntax highlight + folding... Anyway, my dream is a browser, a real one for modern web, built-in in Emacs. eww is nice but substantially useless and anytime I us
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by xte 8y ago
Population is not constant and specially is not constant in any land, people tend to move following work opportunity, quality of life, to escape crisis etc. So no, while these change are slow in general they are and it's always a mess
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by xte 8y ago
Yes, but it's UI, not as "excel" but as "spreadsheet" certainly help a lot... Try to "debug" a not so small spreadsheet vs a script+tabular data and compare the chances of get erroneous results that does n
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by xte 8y ago
Thanks for your work, I have tried few months ago Next and really like it despite for now it's not my default browsers, I haven't really enough competence to help but I certainly follow the development process! IMO after Ubuntu &q
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by xte 8y ago
Firejail/capsicum are your friends :-)
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by xte 8y ago
Personally I'm using firejail (and drop Chrome since few months) so... In any case the problem of modern browsers is that they are monster with a so big and so "closely developed" codebase that even if open no one, perhaps ma
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by xte 8y ago
Hum, a prize for such a good work, a minus for posting a https://next.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org that's actually html, not org... I'd open in Emacs and say "sgrunt"... :D BTW for m
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by xte 8y ago
My English is poor but I think I explain my point in a clear enough manner, in synthesis: - big buildings demand more resources to being built, in terms of concrete, steel etc and require deeper foundation that destroy ground humus far more
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by xte 8y ago
Sorry for my poor English, I meant if a bus is constantly full people start avoiding it simply because of discomfort, in few times request to bring more buses/more frequent lines start to rain to the transport company and as a result w
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, so you find more comfortable work in a spreadsheet than an org-mode files with tables and optional org-babel block in your preferred language to manipulate data as native data structure if org table formulas are not enough nor comfortab
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by xte 8y ago
Well my personal case is a mid-size apartment (130m², ~1399ft²) in a building built in the end of the sixties to a newly build home around 210m²/2260ft². Old apartment was heated by a central methane based burner, new house by a VMC wi
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by xte 8y ago
Maybe, but we know well that prohibitionist does not work, instead generate worst things. We also know that "sexual abstinence" as "pushed" in some USA are result in a certainly RISE of STM and unwanted juvenile pregnanc
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by xte 8y ago
Something like that, Emacs is my windows manager and start at boot with autologin (I use LUKS crypto root so I do not need to type a password on personal systems). So yes, while I'm using GNU/Linux (NixOS) I can say to a certain e
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by xte 8y ago
I see a different and worst thing: actually big of IT think to be they are powerful enough to take over banking system and governments itself. We all depend more and more on hw and sw build by more and more fewer subjects bigger and bigger
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by xte 8y ago
Ok, so I imaging that the fact I heat my home with far less bill that my ancient and smaller apartment was a figment of my imagination... Also I imaging that the total (semi-public) skyrocketing high cost of public transportation in my old
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by xte 8y ago
I pay taxes as well... And not less than people in cities, like I was until few years ago... I do not consider it a luxury but a different development model that may led to a "luxury" life without the need of other's sacrific
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by xte 8y ago
Nope. Because the real world is complex, it doesn't only matter how much surface you occupy but also how much prime matters and energy you need to build a thing, tall buildings need far more powerful concrete foundation and steel than
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by xte 8y ago
The fact that "starfleet" is actually a military force, while anywhere we hear that it's task is exploration not war IMO demonstrate that. Essentially entire "United federation" society seems to turn around starflee
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by xte 8y ago
Try looking around your country: how many modern, well isolated, airtight, tall buildings there are in percentage than modern, isolated etc single houses? In Sweden for instance most of the buildings are "ancient" enough to be far
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by xte 8y ago
You forget a thing: cities are not made today from ground up, most of buildings are old construction with far less isolation and air tightness than individual houses. Of course individual houses are not built all today but they are far freq
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by xte 8y ago
Well, yes but far less... I see Ariane 5 disaster due to an overflow error, but never seen the International monetary found that publish a false study due to an excel calculus bug nor scientific studies with false result due to excel bugs..
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by xte 8y ago
> why are you pressing the pause key to do something other than pause something? because I do not use pause key for any purpose and single-key action are super-comfortable. For instance in my setup I open my mail dashboard (notmuch-emacs
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by xte 8y ago
I can't link any right now, I've reading few on paper and deducted others from news: try only looking at actual mass of studies for "sustainable city", essentially NO ONE of them sustain that actual cities works/are

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