JeromeLon

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by JeromeLon 21d ago
There is no way in C to express that you don't care about the orde. When you express a struct in C, you list what you want in the struct and (sometimes without wanting it) exactly in what order you want it. Interestingly, there is also
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by JeromeLon 2y ago
I am not struggling with it in the sense that I need help on how to write in a better way. It's just that I don't always ask myself whether the email I am about to send may contain unnecessary anger and would deserve an extra 5 mi
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by JeromeLon 2y ago
This email passed unit tests. I would love gmail (or any mail composing tool) to trigger my defined list of unit tests whenever I click on "send". Something similar to OP. For me it would probably be: - the email must be direct an
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by JeromeLon 2y ago
Adding some numbers to this thread. 99th percentile yearly income is: - USA: $819k (2021) - UK: £187k = $247k (2024) - FR: €111k = $123k (2023)
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by JeromeLon 3y ago
Braille displays are pretty common, but awfully expensive. If your side project ends up costing less than $1000, you're on a good track. Most of them are in the $2000-$7000 range, with the exception of Orbit Reader 20 which is only $80
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by JeromeLon 3y ago
ChatGPT already speaks Lojban, or at least enough to fool me.
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by JeromeLon 4y ago
Can you get any taste of the supporter features before paying? I opened an account, got 60 activities imported from Strava, I can see them individually from citystrides, but clicking on one of the "Lifemap" buttons just zooms out,
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by JeromeLon 4y ago
I would keep the business open, add a 20% Ukraine war fee to all sales (call it special operation fee if needed), and give it to a Ukraine war relief fund.
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by JeromeLon 4y ago
I don't think he is trying to be funny. Here are a few examples: - "I believe in free speech, but some opinion are too abhorrent to be protected." -> the person actually does not believe in free speech. - "I am sorry
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by JeromeLon 5y ago
Everybody knows that Minecraft Java edition will run on anything that can run Java, like a Raspberry Pi, for example. Well, you need a launcher to run Minecraft Java edition, and the Java launcher (which will run on anything) only supports
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by JeromeLon 5y ago
You mentioned it. FATCA is not targeting US citizens abroad, it's targeting financial organisations who have US citizens as clients. So, many banks around the world will have "Are you a US citizen" as one of the first questio
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by JeromeLon 5y ago
To give some timeline perspective, here are the stable launch dates: - M90 (90.0.4430.66): April 13 2021 - M91 (91.0.4472.77): May 25 2021 - M92 (estimated): July 20, 2021
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by JeromeLon 5y ago
Can you elaborate? I can see how Google can scale this automatically. But I don't see how Google can terminate, say, one million apps a day, if each termination entitles the spammer a one hour conversation with a technical representati
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by JeromeLon 6y ago
Encouraging the use of products that don't contain any oil is indeed good for the rainforest. But be careful, the way you phrased it could encourage people to use products that use another vegetable oil, which requires even more hectar
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by JeromeLon 6y ago
Palm oil is not unhealthy. Th reason it's bad is because the cheapest way to produce it is to destroy rainforest to grow palm oil trees in a tropical climate. UK consumers managed through campaigning to force the industry to source 50%
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by JeromeLon 6y ago
The yield per hectare of palm oil is 5 times higher than the next most productive edible oil crop (rapeseed). Note that there is nothing wrong with palm oil itself, it's just that the cheapest way to produce edible oil on Earth, is to
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by JeromeLon 6y ago
There is almost no intersection between the kind of things that can be done with the C++ macro system and the kind of things that can be done with the Rust macro system. They are not related. You can see them as another feature that is not
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by JeromeLon 7y ago
> How do you think they’ll react when they don’t get all the sunshine and roses the populist grifters told them they would? Easy one. They will say that it's because of EU being a bad looser and revengeful to them.
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by JeromeLon 7y ago
Let's say that the 20% rate applies to income tax, corporation tax, dividend tax and capital gain tax. When a company allocates $100 to its employee, the employee receives $100 of salary, pays $20 of income tax, and ends up with $80. W
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by JeromeLon 7y ago
No mention of the downto (-->) operator? int x = 10; while (x --> 0) { printf("%d ", x); }
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by JeromeLon 8y ago
Another thing to remember: that amount will not be spent in the Bermuda. It will either be re-invested, or brought to the USA to become profit that will be taxed the same way it would have been taxed in 2017. This is only delaying the decis
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by JeromeLon 8y ago
Google could do it in a much more transparent way than others, for example by stating "Here is what we know about you, and this information may be given away to the government if you proceed with a search that they considered dangerous
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by JeromeLon 8y ago
According to Gartner ( https://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3884500 ), the 2017 revenues were: Amazon: 12.2B Microsoft: 3.1B Assuming Amazon continues on the same 25% YoY trend, it would be 15B in 2018. Microsoft cou
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by JeromeLon 9y ago
This is predicted by contract theory: in a perfect free market (we are still far, but we keep getting closer), and a perfect contract market (we are still very far, but we keep getting closer), there are no companies at all. Just ad hoc con
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by JeromeLon 10y ago
French version: "Une policière engueule une femme dont le garçon de trois ans court dans tous les sens". So, the policewoman bawled the woman out. No beating involved.
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by JeromeLon 10y ago
I agree. I work in the UK, and used to go to SFO twice a year. I am now telling my manager that I am not willing to take the risk to be arbitrarily detained for no reason, even if it's only a 1% chance (which sounds about the current l
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by JeromeLon 10y ago
> creating a paradox in which everyone gets less by choosing more This is so misleading. When the company in not giving $10 of dividend, the whole company has $10 more on its bank account, so it's worth $10 more overall, distributed