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by renaudg 19d ago
They should do a deal: “We fix this for QWERTY users, and in return American web devs vow to stop filtering out Shift in numeric fields, which is fine on QWERTY but prevents AZERTY users from typing top-row digits because those digits requi
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by renaudg 2mo ago
Thank you for demonstrating how great and underrated the Amstrad CPC is (and the comparatively undeserved strength of the British nostalgia distortion field towards the ZX Spectrum ;) ) My favourite demo in the list : https://flo
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by renaudg 3mo ago
WhatsApp messages are end to end encrypted. It doesn't have the same business model as the rest of Meta (which by the way, is to get advertisers products in front of users eyeballs, optimized by their personal data. Not to hand said pe
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by renaudg 3mo ago
I am no environmental activist, but Hetzner's carbon footprint is so much worse than the rest that it's hard to ignore. I've always avoided them as a matter of principle. Two of their 3 datacenters are located in Germany, whi
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by renaudg 5mo ago
1. Overprovision as much as you want, solar still won't work at night. 2. Do you realize the consequences of casually overprovisioning solar capacity when it uses orders of magnitude more land than nuclear per kWh produced ? Source :
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by renaudg 5mo ago
First one I remembered with a proper song was 303 by Acme : https://demozoo.org/productions/62/
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by renaudg 9mo ago
Liquid Glass appears to be the culmination of the Alan Dye era at Apple, where UI terms like "radio buttons" were derided as "programmer talk". https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job Th
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by renaudg 1y ago
15 in the top 20 most productive countries per hour worked are European. The US is in 12th place. China is 99th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_labour_pr... Diminishing returns is a thing.
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by renaudg 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://www.demoscene.info/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRkZcTg1JWU
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by renaudg 2y ago
> I know a couple of iOS developers who recently switched to a M4 MacBook pro The M4 Macbook Pro will be released next week, what did you mean instead ? > they swear that in some frequent workloads it feels sluggish and slower than th
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by renaudg 2y ago
No that's an accurate TCO calculation. It's interesting that on this topic, the inventor of the PC also seems to be caught in that supposed "Apple reality distortion field" and can't confirm the "price gouging&
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by renaudg 2y ago
> We can decide to build wind/solar instead of nuclear reactors. That's what Germany did, but such intermittent renewables can't power an industry-heavy country by themselves for obvious reasons (e.g. the sun tends to set
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by renaudg 2y ago
I'm French and live in the UK, so feel qualified to compare. A few examples off the top of my head : The UK census and most NHS health records include ethnicity and religion data. In France it's forbidden by law for any entity to
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by renaudg 2y ago
The problem may have more to do with Uganda and having a surveillance state than it has to do with National ID cards. Most European countries have them and they are as uncontroversial as passports. Countries without national ID cards are no
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by renaudg 2y ago
> I believe that the need to manage motivation is usually a sign that what one is doing is at least somewhat off-course from the ideal of the individual. You're lucky not to have ADHD like the author then. People with ADHD absolutel
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by renaudg 2y ago
The return of the 90s is not next up, it's right now. For the past 2 years, mainstream chart-toppers like David Guetta or Calvin Harris have been (respectively) covering 90s eurodance songs or making new ones in the same style.
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by renaudg 2y ago
He explains in the video that the goal is basically to force AWS / GCP / Azure into revenue sharing agreements in their Llama-based products. For 99% of users, it's as good as open source.
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by renaudg 2y ago
What if Zuckerberg didn't change overnight but his terrible reputation was somewhat undeserved all along ? I worked at Facebook in 2010-2011 and I must say that the gap between what was really going on inside, and the hysterical, least
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by renaudg 2y ago
A typical use case for it is to dump Amiga disks, which are physically 3.5" disks but whose 880KB format is unreadable by a standard PC floppy controller.
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by renaudg 2y ago
Yes they did. Participants were even compensated for it IIRC
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by renaudg 2y ago
TV ratings used to be collected from panelists using a wearable device that literally had an always-on microphone recording you 24/7 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_People_Meter How is Onavo worse ?
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by renaudg 2y ago
> If I give consent to participate in collection of my internet data, it doesn't give you authorization to like, have someone live in my house and follow me around 24/7 so they can see what i do on the internet. TV ratings used
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by renaudg 2y ago
Onavo users signed up, consented to their traffic data to be used for market research and were actually compensated for it. What's the complaint here ?
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by renaudg 3y ago
> The number of criteria required for a diagnosis of ADHD has been set arbitrarily in DSM-5. No scientific justification has been presented nor method used for deciding how many criteria should be required. Erm.. welcome to psychiatry ?
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by renaudg 3y ago
At the end of the day both FPGAs and software emulators are Turing machines that produce a set of outputs given a set of inputs : any logic an FPGA can implement can also be implemented in software, it's computer science 101 FPGAs aren
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by renaudg 3y ago
> I didn't know Detroit had French Origin. It means "strait".
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by renaudg 3y ago
French person here, I have no idea what "voir dire" means. It's literally "see say".
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by renaudg 3y ago
> There would be nothing that you could do avoid it in this scenario. Masking.
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by renaudg 3y ago
Yeah and planes crash and it's spectacular, but they're still the safest means of transportation by far.
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by renaudg 3y ago
"every dev can use kubectl to deploy" may be less horrific than the previous situation but it's still pretty bad practice tbh. So is "a script to automate all the kubectl invocations". There's existing tooling

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