yann63

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by yann63 2y ago
There's a species of bird (Chinstrap penguin) which kinda does that: it sleeps by intervals of 4 (four) seconds only. Many times through day & night. Can these 4 seconds naps be considered sleep? I don't know, but it goes alon
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by yann63 3y ago
> A train is just: get in/get out. This is changing, at least in France. Enshittification of train travel has begun by SNCF/ouigo. I traveled last month, now (at least for some trains) you must have a ticket at your name to tra
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by yann63 3y ago
Same in France. The company where I work is closed, at least offices. It is mandatory holiday, except if you have a specific job (customer support, some accounting-stuff maybe - not sure), etc.
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by yann63 3y ago
From 2004 to 2007, I created and maintained a Linux distribution called Kaella. It was kind of a fork of the Knoppix live CD. It was not really a fork, because each version of the Kaella was based on the latest Knoppix (adding French langua
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by yann63 4y ago
Which client do you use to subscribe and listen to podcasts? I am a fan of BeyondPod which has a great automatic sorting feature, but dev seems stalled. Thanks!
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by yann63 4y ago
Maybe there are 2 faces to this: current users and acquiring new users. First one has been discussed in other comments: current users do not want to relearn the UI of the software. And I second that. Second one: new users may turn away quic
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by yann63 5y ago
If you want such plants, buy them in garden centers or in dedicated plant fairs, not online to suspicious vendors. Plants produced in cultivation (usually by seeds also produced on cultivated plants) are more suited to cultivation in our gr
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by yann63 6y ago
Started with an Atari 520 at 15. Then when I was a student, in 1995, I installed Linux for the free X server (free as in beer as I had not a lot of money), to be able to display softwares running on Unix machines on my PC. In 2004, I create
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by yann63 6y ago
If that's true, should we have the same kind of results when searching with "plain shirts", then? Which is not the case: searching for "plain shirts" do not give similar results than searching for "shirts witho
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by yann63 7y ago
Awesome! Thanks! However it does not seem possible to set this as default for all searches :-(
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by yann63 7y ago
You could, and it would be correct. But few would understand at first. It sounds like "caisse", like in "caisse de vin" (crate of wine).
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by yann63 7y ago
French here. Yes. There are many "cheap" ones, such as Dacia Duster. I see plenty of them everyday.
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by yann63 7y ago
The author removed the coloring, because the default setup is for ls to list files with colors. He uses an environment variable to do that. Wouldn't it be simpler to use \ls instead of ls? This way you get the "basic version of th
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by yann63 8y ago
Thanks a lot to all your answers. My question was badly formulated. I meant to ask: why are we tolerating this situation? Regardless of tax evasion / tax optimization or whatever is the wording, most people agree that these compani
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by yann63 8y ago
Couldn't we just ban tax evasion? What makes it so hard? (honest question) A recent European study has shown that the more company win money, the less they pay in taxes (in percentage). Is it because of bad laws? Corrupt politicians?
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by yann63 8y ago
> It's impossible to ban adult content in a cost effective way without also banning a large amount of legitimate art. Are you saying that adult content is not legitimate art? If so, I think you may be part of the problem, not the so
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by yann63 8y ago
Is there a way to completely blacklist web sites such as this one? Such as a Firefox extension than would, in my browser, remove results from search engines, entries from hackernews, and so on? There are tons of them where articles are mean
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by yann63 8y ago
And I've not even finished to read the first sentence than an overlay slides from the top to make me subscribe to their newsletter or tell me something. I immediately left the site: the back button worked fine for me, but maybe the sit
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by yann63 8y ago
Who are your customers? Locate where they gather, and go meet them. Maybe small enterprises, which you could meet during a trade fair? Which pain are you trying to fix? If it is "just having an online presence", then FB already so
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by yann63 8y ago
Tu es déjà dans l'illégalité pour maintien dans un système informatique. Supprime tout ce que tu as pu récupérer, efface ton historique de navigation, etc puis oublie cette histoire. Certains ont déjà été condamnés en France pour ça. L
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by yann63 9y ago
Yes, Paris mobile network in subway is now pretty good. My second job was to install BTS for FTM (now Orange) in Paris including the subway in... 2000 ;-) And we had to do it cooperatively with competitive carriers because of the lack of sp
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by yann63 9y ago
Sadly, in France too. The CEO of Orange, the main ISP in France, Stéphane Richard, is against net neutrality: Article in French: http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/stephane-richard-orange-veut-...
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by yann63 9y ago
Same experience here. It tooks me DAYS to have a working coinbase account. Their process was a pains in the *, verification a nightmare.
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by yann63 9y ago
I hit back as soon as I saw the top of this add. There was more below? :-/
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by yann63 9y ago
The English word "engineer" is quite difficult for French people, because in French we have the term "ingénieur" (usually meaning "ingénieur diplômé"), which is something like the big universities diplomas in o
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by yann63 9y ago
War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength;
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by yann63 9y ago
Is it the question we should ask? I'd prefer to ask another question: is it time to change our society, to go away from paid jobs? A job is one of the things that currently defines us, one of the first questions you ask someone you jus
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by yann63 9y ago
> The minimum warranty period is 5 years Why 5 years? Why not 4 or 6? Actually, I think the warranty period should increase, always. For example by one month every year. So a product sold in 2017 has a warranty of 2 years (24 months)
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by yann63 9y ago
One rule is to never click on "list" articles. Most of them are not worth your time. And after reading the comments here, it is the case for this one too :-/
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by yann63 9y ago
Is there a software to "manage" a library of LEGO parts, which would then tell me what I can build? And is there a software to easily feed/initiate this library? Maybe with something as simple as taking a photo of spread part

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