pascalmahe

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by pascalmahe 6y ago
The Galahad scene about the Castle of Anthrax? The animated butts in the transitions?
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
Well, TIL. Though it might not be so clear cut: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen... (article from 2018).
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
I've heard that this will be a disaster for amateur astronomy. Yet Starlink is claiming that their mitigation techniques will avoid the problem [0]. I can't tell if their claim is sound. Can someone with expertise weigh in? 0: htt
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
I recognized the name from the game Stay?[0] A very good game I heartily recommend if you're into fantasy. 0: https://ejadelomax.itch.io/stay
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
Parent said nothing about only men being interested in controlling women. On the contrary, liberation of women can be liberation from mothers, mother in-laws, grandmothers...
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
That's because men are not victims of a system tailored to others' needs. Women are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_India
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
> Liberating women from what exactly? Take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women_in_Indi...
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
Could you please develop how to do paging with window functions? It's been some time since I've done serious work with SQL yet I remember that all paging solutions I've found (eg. top results on SO) are always platform-specif
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
Lots of game codepoints. I'm especially impressed with the mahjong set. Less so with the dominoes, they seem near-unreadable in any size below 14pt.
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious, could you explain how the touchscreen is a disaster? I haven't seen a Tesla interior so when you say "all controls" it's a bit concerning. I'm assuming you're talking only of non-dri
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
Not on the same scale but, in France, fire alarms are tested every first Wednesday of the month at midday sharp. Though you don't hear them from everywhere so it can still be quite a shock after a few years of not hearing it.
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by pascalmahe 6y ago
Always impressed by Mel's story.
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
Good on you for knowing already. But not everyone knows or knows how deep the rabbit hole goes. And articles like this are good reminders or good ways to learn.
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
My French bias is going to show but I wonder how Renault's Zoe is doing. It's been out for 6 years. Granted, Renault is completely absent from the US market and the car is uh... really not marketable for the US (it's tiny).
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
22 recorded attempts in 12 years. But is that a lot or not? Do we have comparable lists for Stalin, Mao or FDR? Otherwise it's just a single data point. Though I'll concede that having the list for him and not others does point t
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
For the racism part: France, as an ex-empire, is very attractive to its former colonies' students. And we have agreements to make it easier for them to come. So we get many students from Africa or the Middle East, often on merits and&#
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
Thank you for this! Especially this part: >SE rolled out a new Code of Conduct and insisted everyone will respect people's pronouns[1]. Long standing, well respected, polite, moderator Monica Cellio stopped being a moderator in unce
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
In France we have them. There's "école primaire" from 6 to 10 (5 years), "collège" from 11 to 14 (4 years) and "lycée" from 15 to 17 (3 years). Anecdotally, most people I spoke to felt that middle school y
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
I don't know much about infosec but I know enough to see that this tool is not ready. It's really scary. Also the fact that it's not discussed much, here in France. It's the first time I've heard of it. From a count
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by pascalmahe 7y ago
As someone not from the US, the passages about how easy it was are clear reminders that just because only the NSA got caught, does not mean only the NSA was doing it. Even if they have by far the biggest budget...
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
I'll remember two very good points from this: - Blackberry sales' went up until Nov. 2010 and then it was too late, Apple and Android had the market. Wile E Coyote indeend. - it took ten years from the mobile operators getting the
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
I have the same general experience with my wife: we've learned to communicate and it's a skill that needs to be practiced on both sides. Otherwise, especially if we're tired or emotionally worn out, we each speak "clearl
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
Loved the article. Great writing style! Especially loved all the links to Facebook :D
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
I agree with the basic premise (too much noise, the product needs to evolve) but I'm very frustrated because the author goes from that analysis directly to: > The two major things Twitter needs to solve for are the algorithm of the
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
No: the accent is only dropped when it doesn't affect pronunciation. When it's used to differentiate between two words, otherwise spelled the same, it stays. And the reform was deigned 25 years ago, so there is no link between it
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
That's the thing, this specific reform only removes the accent when it doesn't have any impact. It's really about cleaning up inconstencies and weird edge cases.
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
> his primary pitch is a reduction of costs I understood it the other way around: the bureaucracy was willing to pay the bill for the closed source options, thinking a large maintenance fee meant fast support. The author, on the other h
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
TL;DR: 36 prizes from 1963 to now, 22 of them still running. None have been claimed. Well, that settles that...
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
I was a bit surprised to see that's it's "Free – with Full Source" until I saw that you "only pay for the AWS services you choose to use". So it's a really complex way to bring more business to AWS. Still
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by pascalmahe 11y ago
There are screenshots on the second page of the menu [1] and directly on the page. I do agree that putting them on the front page would have made a better experience. [1]: http://exlcom.jimdo.com/about-exlcom/

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