folbec

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by folbec 2mo ago
"A lot of the reason why concrete structures have failed so quickly is that the material was still fairly new when most of the structures failing now were created." Or the designer can get too creative : https://edition
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by folbec 3mo ago
And what about archer companies doing "volley fire" ? As in what looks like 99% of Hollywood movies. https://acoup.blog/2025/05/02/collections-why-archers-didnt-...
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by folbec 4mo ago
MBAs are mercenaries, that's part of their formation. They fully expect to be working somewhere else when things start looking bad. They are just doing what mercenaries have been doing for millennia : cost a lot in peace time, loot the
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by folbec 5mo ago
I would not be surprised if it was some sort of AI driven mistake. Some guy somewhere deciding to delegate threat assessment to Copilot or some other automated tool.
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by folbec 5mo ago
It is heavily dependent on the history of your area. I am near Lyon (12km away), I had 20mb then 100Mb coaxial cable very early because the "département" built a public network and eventually leased it to private companies. I fina
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by folbec 6mo ago
I can confirm this from France.
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by folbec 7mo ago
I think it is also fairly similar to the kind of discourse a manager in pretty much any domain will produce. He lacks (or lost thru disuse) technical expertise on the subject, so he uses more and more fuzzy words, leaky analogies, buzzwords
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by folbec 7mo ago
there is a bug in the CSS : explicit border:2px solid var(--border); on the input which takes priority over the class : .demo-uv-input:user-invalid { border-color: var(--red-muted); background: rgba(239,68,68,.04); } YMMV but when corre
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by folbec 8mo ago
I personally think that the more appropriate quote from 1984 is this one, because the cruelty is the whole point : “The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.” He paused, and for a
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by folbec 1y ago
Exactly, there is no need for nefarious intentions, when time constraint et mild incompetence suffice. The OOXML format is likely a not very deeply thought out XML serialization of the in memory structure or of the old binary format, done u
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by folbec 1y ago
Literally in the title of the article "... in areas of decreasing demographics ...". So yes if you are willing to live in areas : - without jobs, - without healthcare - in ghost towns
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by folbec 1y ago
The author has a VERY dim view of Sparta, and of the people who worship Sparta and of the quality of information the legend of Sparta is based upon (second hand roman information, from Romans, at a time where Sparta had become a sort of the
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by folbec 1y ago
I have pretty much the same experience, but it is highly dependent on what you were using. - WCF ? (very enterprisy i know) : you are still mostly screwed - aspx ? compulsory rewrite - MVC ? mostly smooth (but most of the pain is in initial
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by folbec 1y ago
the technical term in "contingent" : https://acoup.blog/2021/10/15/fireside-friday-october-15-202... "(The fancy way of putting the influence of all of those factors, both the big structural on
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by folbec 2y ago
Maybe it's the right time to once again quote this poem : https://jochenenglish.de/misc/dearest_creature.pdf The joy of English pronunciation George Nolst Trenit´e (1870–1946) 1 The text Dearest creature in creati
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by folbec 2y ago
That's the magic of genius marketing
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by folbec 3y ago
do you know thet firefox for android has extensions, including uBlock Origin, cookie autodelete, tampermonkey (these are only those that I use) ?
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by folbec 3y ago
Maybe because when Elon Musks walks into a room everybody is a billionaire on average ? Besides what is the use of inheriting at 60 or 70 ?
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by folbec 3y ago
The first risk with virtualized setups is DRMs, if your uni use any kind of "professional" software with student or university wide license that makes use of pain in the ass DRM, you will be hung dry. That's the most probable
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by folbec 3y ago
Naaaah. Musk is a G.E.N.I.U.S (tm) He clearly identified that Tesla owners want a "Rat's Style" custom car. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Rat%E2%80%99s+Style+cars&at...
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by folbec 3y ago
here it's more like the Bing team. It's all about targeted ads.
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by folbec 3y ago
"- merchant checks if debit or credit card is accepted by their payment processor —> if not accepted, tell buyer present diff card or “get bent”" This is america, in France (and more generally in Europe) all credit / payme
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by folbec 3y ago
"One-Half the Money I Spend for Advertising Is Wasted, But I Have Never Been Able To Decide Which Half" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/04/11/advertising/
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by folbec 3y ago
Reading the various comments on this article, I get the feeling that drugs are russian roulette with a random number of bullets in the barrel. Some people enjoy that. Not me.
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by folbec 4y ago
So this makes you a candidate for the ultimate retro-computing challenge : "¹ If you’re one of those retro-computing archivists, I guess this poses an extraordinary challenge even greater than possessing a Tandy Video Information Syste
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by folbec 4y ago
Artificial Inanity ? https://englishwotd.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/artificial-inan...
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by folbec 4y ago
Don't count your chickens yet : https://www.thespl.it/p/apples-sleeping-advertising-business " For the past five years, Apple has been setting up for what will soon be its most profitable product line. It&#x2
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by folbec 4y ago
Games were among the worst offender in terms of writing on the disk outside of user space (including Program Files and the registry). Old games were also quite often doing direct access to graphic cards outside of official APIs And games ar
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by folbec 4y ago
for those who can read french : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_sulpicien
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by folbec 4y ago
Appropriately soppy and generic.

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