hyakosm

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by hyakosm 4y ago
no it's never fair to ruin lives and torture people ("the hole" during months is torture [0][1]) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement_in_the_Un... [1] https://www.ohchr.org&#
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by hyakosm 4y ago
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LASY OOO TED4PLTO7O TIMESY
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by hyakosm 4y ago
He's not sharing the email adresses, only anonymous password attempts.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
I've seen two 2CV in Montréal, with Québec immatriculation on the back and French immatriculation on the front (modern post 2009).
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by hyakosm 4y ago
"CV" is for "Chevaux" (horses) but we're talking "tax horses", a calculation used for a taxation system where more powerful vehicles cost more. The current french formula is 0.00018 * [power in kW]^2 + 0.0
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by hyakosm 4y ago
The Xantia can have the classic hydraulic suspension (hydropneumatique) identical to the Citroën BX or the Hydractive II system with an electronic calculator on board and more "spheres". The XM had the first Hydractive system.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
It’s the case with .docx modern files. Older .doc files were binary (memory dump).
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by hyakosm 4y ago
We're missing a high-speed connection here. The Bordeaux-Sète line is relatively slow (130-160 km/h) and handle a lot of different traffic (freight, regional, TGV, intercity). If the Bordeaux-Toulouse high-speed line is done (plan
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by hyakosm 4y ago
On some routes between France and Switzerland police and customs inspection seems to take place on board. It's even better, no time wasted. https://www.tgv-lyria.com/ch/en/travelling/on-board-support&#x2F
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by hyakosm 4y ago
The Adirondack train is suspended since 2020 and had a commercial speed of 56 km/h (35 mph).
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by hyakosm 4y ago
This FOSDEM conference from Frédéric Bisson might interest you: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/retro_revivin...
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by hyakosm 4y ago
In the 90s, one of the most expensive Minitel, the Magis, had a card reader on the side, probably working like a point of sale terminal. [0] The overlay of X.25 Transpac network on IP for payment terminals was cut off 2 weeks ago. [1] [0]
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by hyakosm 4y ago
I still have the 4 floppy disks (french version). I remember the sentence generator with random words that was really funny. The word processing interface had a ribbon-style toolbar with tabs and multiple "pages" that we can alter
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by hyakosm 4y ago
Maybe you could try to build Notepadqq for MacOS [1] but it's not well integrated at this time. [1] https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq/wiki/Compiling-Notepa...
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by hyakosm 4y ago
On analog satellite, Canal+ had analog stereo (not NICAM) not scrambled audio, much better than the AM distorded signal on terrestrial tv.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
Canal+ was the first private and pay-per-view channel, using the VHF bands empty after the shutdown (in 1983) of the 819 lines black and white signal of TF1.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
Where is the Apache (httpd) server?
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by hyakosm 4y ago
It's really a nice idea to save and collect these little history artifacts. In the same way, I wonder if we can extract the serif monospace font used on these workstations.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
In Québec, Apple Maps is pretty good for directions in french language. I asked relatives in France and they say Apple Maps has improved a lot, and is better than Google Maps on public transit because of the better lisibility of lines, easy
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by hyakosm 4y ago
Only two CSS rules can enhance the readability a lot on my screen: body { font-family: helvetica; line-height: 1.5; }
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by hyakosm 4y ago
KolourPaint is a better alternative to MS Paint with pretty much the same UI.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
It reminds me the warning on the back of my child schoolbooks: "Danger, le photocopillage tue le livre" ("Warning! copying kill the book" but with a pun between "photocopy" and "pillage"). It had a lo
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by hyakosm 4y ago
The only 24 inches monitor on the market is the Ultrafine 4K for Macintosh. It's not even true 4K but UHD (3840x2160) for 184 dpi.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
I remember when bigger monitors had higher resolution. 15 inch monitors were 1024x768, 17 inch were typically 1280x1024 and some 20 inch monitors 1600x1200. Now nearly every panel from 13 inch to 32 inch are "4K" UHD with the exce
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by hyakosm 4y ago
The only 32 inch monitor at >200 dpi in the market is the Pro Display XDR. All other are 4K (138 dpi).
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by hyakosm 4y ago
Hi-DPI panels gives you more choice for UI density.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
Traditionally, TV with two SCART had one with RGB + CVBS and the other with S-Video + CVBS.
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by hyakosm 4y ago
In France we had a different color system (SÉCAM), while the other european countries were in PAL, but French TV were required to have a Péritel/SCART entry by law, offering RGB input. So the french NES was basically the european PAL v
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by hyakosm 4y ago
"Ed is the standard text editor." and maybe we didn't "need" anything else, but comfort and ease of use are good incentives to create better tools, and tools more adequate with our work environment.
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by hyakosm 5y ago
A mall across the Lenin mausolee in Soviet Union, pretty intriguing > Several times during the 1960s and 1970s, the Second Secretary of the Communist Party Mikhail Suslov, who hated the idea of having a Department store across the Mausol

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