nicolas_t

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by nicolas_t 9mo ago
My concern is very much those two concerns plus the fact that I value being able to be anonymous. We're increasingly losing that in the real world with CCTV and AI that would eventually allow people to be tracked (like in China), I do
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by nicolas_t 11mo ago
In middle school, I had good grades but was considered a bit of a teacher's pet and was not well liked (especially since I sucked at sports). So I stopped doing homework, I showed that I didn't make effort to try and be better acc
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
I mostly like it when writing quick shell scripts, it saves me the 30-45 minutes I'd take. Most recent use case was cleaning up things in transmission using the transmission rpc api.
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
I like perplexity when I need a quick overview of a topic with references to relevant published studies. I often use it when researching what the current research says on parenting questions or education. It's not perfect but because
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
Yes, I'd be fine as long as there's a clear documentation and that I can control it within my local network even if the company's servers are down
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
They're just white labeling Toshibas
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
While it's not officially supported you can use nvmes to run containers. I do this on my own nas and it works great. See https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1gobb14/guide_how... That said, th
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
Do you have a link to your script? Mostly I'd love to have a good dashboard for that data.
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by nicolas_t 1y ago
Cult indoctrination could be explained by this but could also be explained by the fact that a certain number of formerly gifted kids, who have been ostracised during their childhood and have low social skills tend, to gravitate around the r
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
For some reason, I find the ANC of the quiet comfort to be very uncomfortable. When I turn on the ANC, it feels like there's a sort of pressure and I really dislike it. On the other hand, I don't mind the ANC from my sennheiser mo
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
It's such a pity that bitwarden's client doesn't work offline for modifying vaults (need to be online to be able to access the server implementation). I would switch from my old local vault 1password in an instant.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
20 years ago when I was living in Shanghai, my girlfriend was a member of the communist party (meritocratic she was enrolled because she had great grades). She had regular meetings with a small group of members of the party and they had reg
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
That saying in France is usually understood to be for cities outside of Paris and only referring to "Gares" (that word is used for train stations, not for subway stations). Anecdotally, I'd say it holds true in general in mos
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I regret deeply investing in some of Musk companies (xAI, spaceX) in the past. Especially for the last investment xAI, I should have had a wake up call before that.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I used to just buy whatever tool I needed to do hardware jobs and collected a hodge podge of poor quality tools like this. One day I decided to research, buy a bunch of high quality tools, sell all the old ones I had. I wish I had done that
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
You mean kindle unlimited? That's the only monthly subscription they have?
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I mean Project Hail Mary is also far from being exceptional. I didn't dislike the book and it was enjoyable but I would never think it deserves an award. In particular, the scenes with the alien fell really flat. Now I haven't re
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
In my experience, the positive attributes you list tend to be more associated with middle class than upper classes. At a certain amount of wealth, you can see very problematic behaviour.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
As someone who was bullied in middle school (highlight includes being held down by 2 guys while someone else peed on me), trauma does stay. I mean, I'm a relatively well balanced individual, I have a job, a family etc... But that doesn
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I absolutely hate cloudflare for the same reason you have. Besides traveling and using a VPN, I like in Hong Kong, a country that many sites have decided to block completely. It's very frustrating that cloudflare easily enables those k
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
What's interesting is that some of the Asterix were even translated in local dialects. It's the only comic I've ever read in Plattdeutsch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German ). We also read it in a
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Same. I did really like webos when it was finally released, I got one of those HP touchpad and happily used it. But it was too little, too late.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
It gets worse, the banks I use have phased out sms for 2FA. Only using their app on a non-rooted phone is allowed. So getting a dumb phone doesn't work either.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I don't know, most people in Hong Kong, don't expect China to hold any promises nowadays... Outside of people who live in mainland China, I don't think nowadays many people trust China with promises.
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
That particular bit of insanity is mostly restricted to the US. Other western countries still allow children to roam free for now
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
I have quite a few German friends who looking back speak highly of their experience doing the civilian alternative service (they objected to military service). This was before the conscription was abolished in 2011. Even though it was not
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Also at least in my case, while medicine worked fine before I became a father. It doesn’t work at all when I’m sleep deprived (which has been my default state in the last 3 years). When I take concerta if I’m sleep deprived I will just cons
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Ah my 2013 mbp died in 2019. It was the gpu. No way to repair it for cheap enough so I had to replace it with a 2019 mbp which was the computer I kept the shortest (I hated the keyboard).
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
Let me throw my hat in the ring. I'd recommend Grass by Sheri S Tepper. It felt fresh and original in a way few science fiction books are, the characters are really well done and it just stays with you. Despite being the first book of
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by nicolas_t 2y ago
My bank in Hong Kong (where I live) lends in USD against bonds or stock at around SOFR. If they lend in JPY it's around 0.8%

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