wazoox

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by wazoox 5d ago
I'm pretty baffled by people I hear here and there saying that AI is great because it saves them the hassle of human interaction. "I love Waymo, I don't have to chit-chat with the driver and bear his horrible music". App
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by wazoox 7d ago
Lots of things to think about in there. One of them : science (and technology) isn't neutral.
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AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans [video](youtube.com)
4 points by wazoox 7d ago|1 comments
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by wazoox 11d ago
England is definitely a European country. I'm tired of people constantly making this political abuse of language of conflating "the EU" with "Europe". (And yes, saying "America" for "US of A" ann
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by wazoox 12d ago
OTOH my OnePlus 5T is more than 9 year old now, and still perfectly usable (I changed the battery once).
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by wazoox 14d ago
Ah ah I'm also a NEdit fan. Still using XNEdit at times (the version that supports UTF-8, https://github.com/unixwork/xnedit ), because I've written so many small tools in its weird built-in language. For sev
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by wazoox 14d ago
Yep, it was a "pre-MSX" like a couple of other machines like the Spectravideo SV-328... My first computer was a Casio PB100 (with the 1.5KB extension, so much memory! :D ), then the Sony HB75 (an MSX).
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by wazoox 18d ago
Funny, I rode many steam trains and I love it. I even plan trip at places specifically to enjoy an obsolete, stinking, smoky ride :)
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by wazoox 22d ago
An excellent reminder Jancovici makes in his climate presentations, is that the difference between 1950 climate and the last Ice Age is only 4 to 5°C. Obviously, 8 billion humans wouldn't be able to live in the last Ice Age. A more ind
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by wazoox 1mo ago
You don't even need to unscrew the motor : simply pull one-handed the seat release lever, and leave with both the seat and the motor attached.
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by wazoox 2mo ago
I won't easily pardon the US and Israel for making me pine for Iran.
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by wazoox 2mo ago
In France, where we have relatively cheap and clean energy, they plan to build GW DCs with GWs setups of diesel backup generators. When these will run, the pollution will be staggering.
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by wazoox 2mo ago
ifconfig is still the standard on *BSD, MacOS and other Unixen. Plus its output is more readable on Linux than ip IMO, because it adds a blank line between interfaces.
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by wazoox 2mo ago
In case it can help, you don't need to install Microsoft authenticator. FreeOTP+, Aegis etc will do just as well.
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by wazoox 2mo ago
Annoyingly many useful tools like the "Page Assist" browser extension or "Murmure" are plug-and-play only with Ollama...
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by wazoox 2mo ago
There is no autocompletion, that's not realist. I never type "apt-get install nginx" I type "apt-g<tab> ins<tab> ngi<tab>"
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by wazoox 2mo ago
Being too poor to buy professional software, with Rodney Zack's book in hand I wrote myself a Z80 assembly in MSX BASIC in 1986/87 :) That was my first tough programming stint ever...
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by wazoox 2mo ago
I think Slackware would have been a good fit, and much easier to install :)
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by wazoox 2mo ago
I have one (ANKER IIRC?) that looks very much like this, but with two-position buttons that actually cut power, and USB3.0 level connection on all ports I tried. Also comes with the proper power supply for the barrel power connector. I supp
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by wazoox 2mo ago
In the 90s, at SGI (at least in France) they had Macs as workstations for tasks that didn't require or weren't compatible with an expensive SGI computer (like running MS Office or sending faxes). They switched to SGI Indy and O2 (
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by wazoox 2mo ago
In Aliens (the second episode), the automatic cannons are controlled by a pair of Grid Compass.
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by wazoox 2mo ago
Actually were a prop in Aliens :)
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by wazoox 2mo ago
In Stefan Wul's SF novel "Nyourk", octopi evolve to become the Earth's dominant species, which was quite prescient back in 1957, when almost nobody knew octopi to be intelligent. :)
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by wazoox 3mo ago
I miss nntp newsgroups :)
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by wazoox 3mo ago
I've already disabled Play Protect ages ago because it kept removing apps I had installed through F-Droid. Actually, I almost only install apps via F-Droid. I wonder if the ADV will install with Play protect disabled ?
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by wazoox 3mo ago
The process is as follows : 1° the wasp digs a hole in soft ground 2° it paralyses a caterpillar (some other species use different worms, or beetles, as their victims; but each species of wasp targets one precise species of caterpillar or b
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by wazoox 3mo ago
There are many such mysterious mysteries in evolution. Some wasps paralyse a caterpillar of a particular species by stinging it very precisely in its nervous centres, then carries the caterpillar into the nest it previously dug out, lay its
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by wazoox 3mo ago
Please explain how we run AC to avoid our forests burning, agricultural fields and orchards from drying, and the Mediterranean ecosystem from collapsing. We must stop using fossil fuels as fast as possible, globally.
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by wazoox 3mo ago
For more serious information, in my work PC I have a cache SSD which is a 2009 Intel 32GB, it got more than 46 TB of writes over 67000 hours of uptime, and is still working fine.
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by wazoox 3mo ago
81500 for me, but I'm French, and I've often remarked that supposedly "hard words" are just quite ordinary french words.

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