RandomThoughts3

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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
SWIFT is not a payment system. It’s only a messaging system. It’s generally used to send initiating orders between financial institutions but they then have to be cleared or directly settled through something else.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
For context, this comes in reply to the cohost complaining that a lot of talented young players quit chess to pursue a college education. Caruana is basically replying that it’s a bit strange to regret people choosing to stop playing a boar
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
It’s sad to see your comment this far in the thread after having had go be coxed to make it and after all the usual defensive arguments from the Rust crowd. It’s a real issue that it’s so hard to make the Rust community admits that obvious
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Value investing seems to need reliable information from somewhere to make informed decisions, but where is that going to come from? Value investment is entirely based on financial fundamentals. You don’t need magic information. That’s
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Technically, value investing still work. The key tenant of value investing is that there exist companies which based on their financial metrics are fundamentally under valued by the market (in opposition to what market price efficiency pred
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The slowness regarding rolling out things like ETCS, ATS and standardised European infrastructure as everything to do with Europe not being an actual united political entity. As you rightfully pointed, some EU members rail strategy is very
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> As an American reading this The working conditions at SNCF are not even imaginable for an American. We are taking unlimited sick days, between 28 and 38 days off a year excluding sick days, 10 bank holidays, retirement between 50 and 6
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> I understand that you're claiming to have witnessed it, but do you have some sources? I have witnessed that and more like optimisation software being disabled to avoid cutting into overtime. Just go take a look at how drivers are
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
That’s non sense. TGV speed record is 320km/h by the way and 160km/h is a pedestrian daily occurrence on the French rail system. Meanwhile the US has somehow decided trains are for freight and as no decent rail system in place for
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
It’s brand new and they have put in place modern technologies everywhere. So it works very well. Amusingly, China uses pieces of technology which were developed in Europe for its train system. Signalling is a good exemple (CTCS is basically
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I pay more than that to go back to my hometown by TGV which is less than 200km away from Paris and that’s with a subscription giving access to preferential prices. There is no way Paris-Berlin is going to be this cheap. From experience I ex
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Parent is suggesting it would be weird for Europeans to call the UK as in Europe which as a European I can tell you is preposterous. That’s the kind of non sense you used to hear from Brexiter. They will have no sympathy from me.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
This is very much modern French. Anything written after 1650 is easy to understand by the average French person and anything written after 1800 is indistinguishable from how French is written nowadays.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> It's a huge achievement for a single person to have written most of that. Qemu was mostly Fabrice Bellard by himself at the beginning and plenty of emulators are single person project. It’s a field which lends itself well to singl
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Israel targets Hamas, not civilians While HN is not necessarily the correct place for this discussion, note that the ICC strongly disagrees with this after a lengthy investigation and multiple quotes from Israelian politicians and gene
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
It’s not a censorship issue. It’s about market access. This is a commercial dispute not a freedom of expression one. There is plenty of other platforms where you will still be able to say whatever you want.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> Time Machine is really quite good, all things considered. This comment page is full of examples of very real issue with Time Machine which will bite you at some point if you use it. It’s not quite good. It’s bug riddled and Apple refus
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Yes, I find it fun to use office as a Mac differentiator when the Mac version is so inferior to the Windows one. At least, office365 works fine on Linux using Crossover. It’s the same weirdness with people recommending Gimp for Acorn when L
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The swing back to less minimalism and more colour has already started to happen. Teenage Engineering is trendy. Clothes are starting to take more volume and have more interesting shapes. I have seen multiple people around me get interested
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
Well, they experienced extended physical suffering and having the mental acuity of a toddler. Feel free to try to convince me that not being able to recognise your own kids and the person you have been married with for seventy years while g
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
To be honest, my grand parents both died in their nineties and their last two years were really sad. It was not so much the physical decline but the mental one. At the end, while technically alive, so little of who they were as persons rema
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I also dislike the way Faramir was adapted but it makes sense. It puts a greater emphasis on the exceptionality of Aragorn by removing the complexity of the Faramir character and basically making him a second Boromir. Considering that the m
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
You are rebuilding Alpine packages on top of LFS while using glibc. So I guess you want a minimal system with OpenRC. Gentoo will give you that with proper package management including on the system part without having to do the weird dance
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
I’m sad for reader but it was a somewhat niche product. Inbox I can’t forgive. It was insanely good and was killed because it was a threat to Gmail. My main issue with Google is that internal politic affects users all the time. See the deba
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
The article is basically building a poor man Gentoo with worse tooling. My main take away from it is that Gentoo has apparently lost so much mindshare, people don't remember it even exists or know what it does.
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by RandomThoughts3 2y ago
> After reading papers, watching TikToks and just observing the real world, I believe males and females have little in common beyond reproduction and sexual attraction. Maybe less TikToks and more interactions with other people would do

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