laurentoget

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by laurentoget 2y ago
that was my favorite part too - anybody can get a visa to move to the US - just wire yourself a couple years of US level salaries. easy.
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by laurentoget 4y ago
saint augustine?
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by laurentoget 4y ago
i had totally forgotten about smit - good times
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by laurentoget 4y ago
i had a solaris workstation on my desk from 2000 to 2005 and we had an industrial fridge size IBM pseries running AIX to run big linear programming problems on. You could not run linux or BSD on those machines and you could not get close to
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by laurentoget 4y ago
I am happy to see i am not the only one who remembers Oz and i wonder if there are any connection between those projects.
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by laurentoget 4y ago
Functional logic programming was all the rage when i started my career 30 years or so ago, but besides some obscure use cases it did not have a lot of success - i wonder if this will be the killer app.
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by laurentoget 4y ago
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ not to undermine the NYRB, but this is in the public domain, for anybody interested
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by laurentoget 4y ago
considering lafargue was born in 1842 in cuba on a coffee plantation and was of mixed race he probably had a pretty good idea of what slavery was.
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by laurentoget 4y ago
"Problem is, a lot of CEOs in industry and the financial sector can’t tell a bra from a ket" i do not know enough about quantum computing to judge whether this article is accurate or not, but it certainly is well written and enter
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by laurentoget 4y ago
Latour pretty explicitely thinks of himself as a post Marxist - one of his latest work was "la nouvelle classe ecologique" where he was making the point that environmental questions were the new Class Struggle and his work a conti
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by laurentoget 4y ago
we are cousins!
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by laurentoget 4y ago
If that is true, wouldn't that be a de facto monopoly which Apple could be sued for?
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by laurentoget 4y ago
I am surprised he is getting away with publishing this in english only - there was a time were you had to have french versions of everything at french government institutions, and this definitely is coming from one of those.
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by laurentoget 4y ago
Will there ever be more than a fringe of the population willing to be exposed to the mortality risks motorcyclists are exposed to? Last time i looked your chance of being killed is an order of magnitude higher on a motorcycle.
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by laurentoget 4y ago
I went to FKK camps in croatia in the 80s when it was still yugoslavia - in my memory they were mostly for German/Dutch/Swiss tourists, were way more expensive than the state campsites, had much nicer amenities (toilets and shower
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by laurentoget 4y ago
the mix of whatever is left of victorian prudishness with decades of agressively commercialized porn sure makes for a complex and unhealthy relationship to the human body
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by laurentoget 4y ago
FKK was and still is very much a german movement which seems to indicate you can have nude beaches and competent engineers in the same culture.
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by laurentoget 6y ago
Headline is "no one in the trial developed severe symptom" - i am not sure how your computation proves this wrong.
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by laurentoget 6y ago
whereas AG is just as obscure and hard to utilize, even with a computer...
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by laurentoget 6y ago
I find it fascinating that geometric algebra and algebraic geometry are two distincts and totally different things and i wonder which term came first.
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by laurentoget 6y ago
I have always felt putting case-insensitivity at the filesystem level was a bad idea which would have died in the 80s if it was not for some Apple product manager being stubborn. But making it so that it requires a kernel compile time optio
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by laurentoget 6y ago
Only for MacOS though
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by laurentoget 6y ago
how is the executive order in the news today not preventing economic competition exactly?
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by laurentoget 6y ago
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a27813648/concentratio... on concentration camps, experts happen to differ with your opinion
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by laurentoget 7y ago
The fact that there is an API to publish verse by verse the text of one book, i.e. a handful of megabytes uncompressed, is interesting. The fact that this book happens to be a book of which there is a copy in every hotel room makes it a bit
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by laurentoget 7y ago
I moved to the US in 2000 with a Ph.D. in computer science to join a startup that was supposed to become the new Cisco. I had no kid at the time and had an H1B visa so i stayed on for the first paycut, the second paycut, the office downsizi
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by laurentoget 7y ago
625 kwH is microwave oven running continuously for about 3 weeks. This is a lot of energy.
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by laurentoget 7y ago
Training is different from Knowledge. My understanding is that what is regulated is an institution making promises that they will give you marketable skills against a substantial amount of money. This is regulated because a lot of people ge
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by laurentoget 7y ago
i cannot remember the last time i used str() instead of a string format.
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by laurentoget 7y ago
I wish there was a way to do this without being locked in with Google as the backend.

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