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by xwolfi 4y ago
And poetry is so much more than the rhymes: it could be that this person didn't really know English poetry as well as Russian poetry, or that he was more easily impressed by exotism. I read French natively and have been living in Engli
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by xwolfi 4y ago
In France we're more 100% or 0%. You have people who really really want to use English and end up mistranslating most of the business logic in confusing spaghetti of almost-English and false friends, and you have people who tell you th
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by xwolfi 4y ago
But why does it work fine everywhere else ? It's not like we all follow the US model, yet our airports are fine and our airplanes dont crash over silly cost cuts. There must be something the americans do wrong, somewhere, and optimisat
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Well I mean there are many optimistic stuff in american culture that seem nonsensical to us Europeans: for instance giving everyone guns to protect against the government's army is an optimistic view of human nature and I d rather give
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Yup it's why the language shouldn't be too integrist with its theories or too particular with its syntax, because when time comes to find an intern to survive a few month and they're all swimming in Java and Javascript, you&#
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Yeah but it's not the same economy of scale, you'll reckon. Alipay is also completely systemic in China and cant exactly be considered a private entreprise anymore: they're "more famous than Jesus" in their own way.
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Dude I have a Huawei (amazing otherwise) and I cant even install most american apps, while they'd work perfectly... But I have to admit the sheer force of the Google detox made me stop a lot of their products, use throwaway gmail accou
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by xwolfi 4y ago
But are layoffs bad ? Did we expect them to be very slow following the trend up and very slow down so that they smooth the workforce, or did we want them to fullfill the demande NOW when we needed pcs during covid and... expect them not to
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by xwolfi 4y ago
And anyone not closing their car doors too.
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by xwolfi 4y ago
You dont have to go that far, just start from two words: reality and truth. Reality is what is, and truth is how we describe it. You can see how truth starts to shake right ? It is an intermediary we use to interface with reality but it is
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by xwolfi 4y ago
It's a pyramid scheme not an unprofitable startup. You could always pivot, find a relative with more money, make your guys work as cheap consultants for bigger corps. But who will hire or lend or invest in a crypto thing NOW, afrer FTX
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by xwolfi 4y ago
It's a bit melodramatic.I work on a trading floor in Hong Kong from 9 to 7 which is less than most colleagues and allows me to take my kid to school in the morning and see her plenty in the evening (my dad had a small store and he&#x27
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by xwolfi 4y ago
How do you define fair, mathematically if possible ?
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But to play the devil's advocate, where would we be if architectures followed higher level abstractions to a point they would be hard to differenciate ? They d be slower to run maybe, but so much nicer to program for!
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by xwolfi 4y ago
And perfectly translates to: Better dangerous liberty than quiet servitude. Not sure why you needed to make such an awkward rough translation when the concepts are clear, the idiom known and the sentence so short in the target language, whi
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by xwolfi 4y ago
These decline stories are universal, and probably no more true than 400 years ago: I am French and live in Hong Kong, do you think decline is not what everyone is talking about in BOTH places ? What is a place not in decline in the eyes of
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by xwolfi 4y ago
But it's not more a problem than the LSD-heavy semi hoboes partying in woodstock in the 70s: both interrogate us on how far we should go in our ways, propose ridiculously extreme alternatives we have to compromise with. Letting the tra
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Why the xe? Why not use neutral they, polite she or dominant he ? Is xe representing more than "they"?
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Depends where you are, for me in the center of Hong Kong, with a Huawei phone, it's a net improvement, it's way way faster. I even use it instead of wifi on my phone because my router slows down with distance while 5G stays fast i
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by xwolfi 4y ago
But owning the code doesnt mean removing the runtime after he "blessed" the company with his proprietary "help" and some poor underpaid sob now has to "only maintain" the work of the great master. He'll co
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Or contaminate it with rot. Meta programming is an enormous risk in software, at least if the software has to last more than 20 years and maintained by more than 10 people. Every exemple I've seen, be it annotation aspects, script side
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Do you call yourself a car driver pilot too ? You're a web browser using a software to browse. The software has no agency: YOU are the browser of last order, IT is only an intermediary. Like, who's driving the screw driver: you. Y
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Sounds as horrid as the cathedral they built in Rouen (to refocus the discussion on France, you went a bit off course) on the location of Joan of Arc's british stake. It's as if the English had come back again and build something
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by xwolfi 4y ago
You can with a smart router like the Synology RT2600: it can do mac-adress level site firewalls so say ban youtube between such and such for all your kids' devices (it can assign a persona to a bunch of mac addresses).
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by xwolfi 4y ago
So funny, at work in my company we do have computers, since we re an investment bank doing electronic trading, but no youtube, nor even mobile phone allowed. If they catch us with a mobile phone on the trading floor, it's reported to c
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by xwolfi 4y ago
They might instead demand more. You under estimate the divide between how you want to be tracked by your taxes and how you want to track your children using your own money (school tuition)
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Honestly, since everyone dies, it's such a banal shared experience, like sex, that trying to prevent it from naturally occurring is bound to face some limits. Just like sex. Im ok wearing masks and staying home at peaks, but let me die
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Im a French citizen and I'm inclined to agree we shouldn't be too protectionist, at all level of society: we should not protect jobs when a company is failing, we should not protect companies when a foreign one is gaining market s
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Totally freeing me from the constant aggressivity of reddit, both towards and from myself.
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by xwolfi 4y ago
Well it s not an experiment if it's pollution: it's a compromise. We know we degrade it, we dont know an alternative, or dont want to try. An experiment is limited in time, serves no purpose but knowledge acquisition, and can fail

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