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by wott 3y ago
The problem is that you spent so much time concentrating on the cryptic symbols, that you didn't pay attention to the handful of readable Latin letters in your code line. Subtle hint: the handful would need to grow a sixth finger :-) .
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by wott 3y ago
...and gets more and more dependant on neighbouring countries to produce the electricity Portugal consumes each time the intermittent renewable are down. ...and presents a carbon intensity over 4 time higher than France, despite the latter
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by wott 3y ago
> You think it's too much or too little? When it's night in Portugal, it's night in Spain :-)
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by wott 3y ago
The 4-colour palette with cyan and magenta.
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by wott 3y ago
It's like when we, Gen-X ers, were repeating bad stuff about COBOL without having seen a single line of it. Then I saw a real COBOL program and... well... it was even worse than what I had imagined :-)
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by wott 3y ago
> Then they hand it to you and expect a miracle in 5 mins. Sorry this is the first time I have every seen something like this it may take me a few mins to figure out what is wrong before I can even begin to fix it. Oh yeah, like when I h
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by wott 3y ago
> Fighting for a foreign nation and/or mercenaries is illegal in itself Nope. It depends on countries (and mood of the year). Some countries allow to become mercenaries and forbid voluntary fighting for a foreign nation. Some countr
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by wott 3y ago
No, the President in France has little power. 1. He can call for new elections of the Assembly (not of the Senate) ; 2. He names the Prime Minister and chooses to accept or not the government the Prime Minister then proposes ; 3. He's
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by wott 3y ago
A French judge managed to sentence some guy for not giving to the police the access codes to his phone. He had no phone...
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by wott 3y ago
You always get only a really tiny window of information, selected by your medias, about foreign countries. (It doesn't matter which receiving country you are in, it is a general principle, not just about the USA). In France, we almost
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by wott 3y ago
> Easy discovery of new communities I never understood this point. Reddit provides zero discoverability.
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by wott 3y ago
> Honestly, I can't believe it that here it is 2023(!!), and there still exist sites that can't figure out reliable cross-browser video playback. Ah! I was telling myself the same thing last month (how is it possible in 2023 th
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by wott 4y ago
It's funny that this pops up now, as I discovered the existence of the game(s) only 2 weeks ago, and made a rough computer version for myself. A good site that presents many possible rule variants and their balance: http://a
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by wott 4y ago
Even back then, I guarantee that small villages like where I grew up didn't have any shop. Some never did, actually. The 'centre village' of the neighbouring municipality valiantly sported: one church, its presbytery, the tow
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by wott 4y ago
> Carrefour is one of the largest retailers on earth utilizing a big box model. In the 70s already, the one near Toulouse was for some time perhaps the largest superstore in the world (at least the largest in Europe).
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by wott 4y ago
> Every city, no matter the size, feels alive. People live there. They don’t sleep in one area then go live in another. Average commute time is the same in France as it is in the USA. (Of course, in both cases, it varies a lot depending
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by wott 4y ago
> Can't really remember one for this year. One not massive in numbers, but massive as impact was concerned: oil refineries, only 2 months ago. It impacted the whole country for weeks. As the Gilets Jaunes happening didn't even
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by wott 4y ago
> You have been trained to require external validation for your work. Maybe it's a modern thing with upvotes and twitter and likes and whatnot. And simply the fact that, nowadays, you have access to the production of thousands of ot
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by wott 4y ago
I haven't given a look at this language in a few years; is it still so that there are no enums, and that operators must be surrounded by spaces?
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by wott 4y ago
> about 2 acres of farmland That's huge; I haven't seen anything like that, even in the deep country where I grew up, where people (farmers) almost didn't buy anything but grew and processed most of their stuff. Their gard
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by wott 4y ago
You don't need a community effort or astonishingly vast land to grow potatoes :-) What I mean by that is that the choice of stuff you grow matters. Lettuce, peppers (and one might add tomatoes) won't feed you much indeed. They ar
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by wott 4y ago
The European 'we' who like using public transit and bike is unfortunately a small minority. In France, if you add those two modes, you barely get over 10-12% of the number of moves people make. The number of cars has again increas
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by wott 5y ago
Religion is the only reason and purpose which motivate their minimal use of technology. There are many different sorts of Amish, each with different rules (in the tradition of protestant sects which split on a regular basis), depending on w
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by wott 5y ago
I have always considered it a social network, 'the social network for young programmers' as I called it, which turned free software into social networking (portfolio for first employment(s), etc.), and that's why I always ref
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by wott 5y ago
> Don't understand that line - Chickenpox is not vaccinated in the UK I am always a bit surprised when I read on this site Americans taking offence that some crazy reckless people do not vaccinate their child against this and this
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by wott 5y ago
> If the code in question is part of the pkg/module/crate/whatever's API, aka. someone else may have to use it some day, it should be commented regardless of how complex it is. No, the API should be documented , wh
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by wott 5y ago
> That's got to be pretty recent Yes: only 20 years or so ;-)
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by wott 5y ago
Output (text output) isn't bad in C, but indeed input is another story (either lacking like keypresses, or when a convenience like scanf() is provided, it is full of traps for beginners). Its origin is really showing: UNIXes and their
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by wott 5y ago
> I meant that “abc” + “def” is most likely illegal That would be adding 2 pointers, and that's indeed illegal. However, you can subtract them: “abc” - “def” . Now, the result is not a pointer any more, it's a ptrdiff_t (an int
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by wott 5y ago
I believe that, whenever possible, tests should be written in a different language that the one used for the code under test (even better, in a dedicated, mostly declarative, testing language). It avoids replicating the same category of err

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