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by bestouff 7d ago
"Move fast and break things" looks obviously bad for an autonomous vehicle ...
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by bestouff 7d ago
I love Debian so much. The amount of work done by volunteers is staggering, and the result is impeccable.
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by bestouff 7d ago
I really enjoy single-executable Rust things - that's what I use for building web apps (SSR). But it's not that widespread (for now ?).
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by bestouff 9d ago
I did. Modern projector have the same spying shit nowadays. Streaming apps, games, ads and all.
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by bestouff 9d ago
My fav is this : > Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up. This is so true,
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by bestouff 10d ago
I'm also vegan except for fish. And meat.
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by bestouff 10d ago
Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.
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by bestouff 10d ago
Same same. People raise an eyebrow, ensure they got it correctly then they move on.
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by bestouff 13d ago
Sure. In a good way.
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by bestouff 17d ago
I dunno about that. I'm living in the mountains (French Alps) and it's unusually dry here. Trees are dying.
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by bestouff 18d ago
If it doesn't survive a power loss it may not survive a kernel crash.
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by bestouff 18d ago
They also say that the Pixel 11 is a very very tiny improvement wrt the Pixel 10, with less RAM and more expensive. So basically they say don't buy it, wait for the Motorola phones.
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by bestouff 19d ago
I said elsewhere this doesn't survive a power loss.
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by bestouff 21d ago
Indeed this is hard to believe : a common theme here on HN is how EU and particularly France taxes too much people earning money.
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by bestouff 21d ago
> Usually, this is money taken from people that aren't well off either... So it's not a clear cut positive. Well in France I tend to think the taxes are pretty progressive, so the money isn't taken from poor people. But ye
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by bestouff 21d ago
Or Deepseek, Qwen, any other open model hosted by whoever you trust most.
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by bestouff 23d ago
Their social credit score is the same thing as the US credit rating individuals are scored with.
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by bestouff 24d ago
You will never see those in the EU.
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by bestouff 27d ago
Not on YouTube.
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by bestouff 27d ago
Indeed (French here). 12h time is still there in spoken language sometimes, but never in writing.
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by bestouff 27d ago
I learnt English as a kid with the 12h time, but UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. I was supposing USA was the same. Obviously not
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by bestouff 28d ago
> Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, whic
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by bestouff 28d ago
I knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.
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by bestouff 28d ago
Ok right. I didn't know people were used to that.
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by bestouff 28d ago
OK, but who would use 12h time ? I never understood, this seems so backwards.
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by bestouff 1mo ago
Hey we did that at engineering school in the early 90s. Pranks were a little less ... subtle shall we say. Still, to this day I still can't walk off my desk with locking my screen. So the lesson was well taught, and I'm happy abou
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by bestouff 1mo ago
Very hot in summer, very cold in winter.
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by bestouff 1mo ago
Indeed these people have an immense ego that I would qualify as abject. But not their AI. It's not sentient yet.
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by bestouff 1mo ago
AI has no self-interest, because it has no self. You are mistaken.
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by bestouff 1mo ago
Then I am kidding myself, because I'm convinced it does a lot more.

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