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courgette··on Ask HN: What's on your home server?
Yunohost ? Then put a sticker on a random box and your done.

Seriously, it does most of what you describe : good UI. Excellent user management between apps. Great catalogue ( 500+ all tested with different level of integration)

courgette··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
Why the governments could not be fixed?

I struggle with this one. If they don’t know how to do X, find people that do and hire them as civil servant, with a slightly less than average salary.

I know it’s not that trivial, but I don’t see why conceptually it cannot be fixed?

( asking as a new us citizen btw; I voted for the first time a few month back. Yes, this place is fucked. I will probably not retire here. Or even stay that long.

But there is a few things going for us. For instance direct democracy is more alive than most. Electing judges, specifically in that debatable precedent system… is really powerful and readily accessible.)

courgette··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
That explain things. That’s … silly.
courgette··on Remote work’s toll on cities
I’m in France now, looking for some real estate with my USD.

The spasms I see are good ones in my book. Yes, that will be bumpy soonish. But I see life there as many fold more agreeable than in rural US ( that I only now superficially; one short decade )

But that’s only me; and I’m culturally very French so no surprise in my preferences either

courgette··on Remote work’s toll on cities
Yes it has changed, but I would still live in rural France over rural US for the reasons aforementioned. ( typed from a small French placed :) )
courgette··on Tell HN: I just received my Equifax breach settlement check
We have loan in France, and not credit score.

My understanding is that your income and work contracts are inspected, and that banks can see your other loans / lines of credit.

The rule of thumb is that your loans payment must not be above 1/3 of your income.

To check your income the bank will ask you for a tax document and pay stubs.

People buy house and cars, and the country did not start the sub primes crises in 2008.

Seems to work well enough.

courgette··on Remote work’s toll on cities
I don't find suburbs boring. I find them soul-less.

I grew up in rural France. Small village have shops, bars, services like post-office, hair-dresser and whatnot. It's not a dichotomy between things and absence of things.

Suburbs would be fine in my own personal book if they were offering basic services and a sense of comunauty.( not in warehouse operated by large chain, but by people living there and earning a livehood out of it )

Totally get your point about being left alone, but I still want the place I live and raise my kids to be a network of humans sharing a sense of belonging. Not private lots next to each other.

courgette··on Remote work’s toll on cities
Thanks for remembering about most of humanity.
courgette··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Never heard about space and that sound outright silly. We do parking and we have space for that crap.

The other was deeply ingrained in my understanding. That’s good news. I need to do my own research, like the crackpots are saying.

courgette··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Thank you, not my industry and not my language so “dispatchable” is a valuable keyword for me. ( it would be “pilotable” in French; if you ever have to discuss that abroad with my snotty kind )

Anyway. What I read is : having something else on the side can make solar dispatchable. Realistically, what would be that other things ?

Nuclear don’t like to be turned on/off. Wind has the same issue… are we saying the good ol’ coal burning kettle ?

courgette··on A software change allowed FTX to use client money
I did saw similar setup in real life. Not as blatant but the market maker argument was the reasoning of going red for a while.

Reconciliation was still happening every 24h tho.

courgette··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Honest question, because I want that to be true at scale.

Do we know how to store it properly yet? How does solar pan out in case of surge ( eg : very cold winter night )

courgette··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Also, is solar truly renewable ? Don’t we need some rare earth component to manufacture them.

What happen when we run out of that ?

courgette··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
I do software for a living so that gives you my level of ignorance of the real world.

I do have two question about solar

- is it “drivable” / “pilotable” ?

meaning reacting to surge in the grid? My understanding is that this feature is highly desirable for a grid.

- can we actually build enough solar panel, physically ?

Don’t we need some rare earth thingy that is not in sufficient quantity on our planet as far as we know ? ( follow up : if there is enough, will there be enough in 200 years ? )

courgette··on Why don’t software development methodologies work? (2014)
I did my best work as in a mafia scrum team.

The settings :

Giant industrial corporation, giant projects with other giant corps as clients.

Process process process. SAFe Scrum.

Somehow I ended up in a team that started to care. Like, we, small individual team, had a agenda and a goal. We saw path to success for this mess of a giant project.

And we started to shadow work our way thought it.

At first myself and another senior guy. As a hobbit.

But it became prevalent for the team as a whole to do “prep work” on top of our tickets.

We self organize, self train.

Why? So we can move faster and actually deliver.

Our normal ticket we’re adjacent work. It’s not like we started 30 repo on the side.

Finally our scrum master caught on that. She went onboard.

We repurposed tickets like nobody’s business. Acceptance criteria was a mere indication, because the QA folks were on board as well.

Not to less us merge crap, QA is QA and you don’t go to prod with a buggy industrial system. That shit is dangerous:

but they knew where we were going and were fine with changing the AC if they see progress, and if the black market scrum master say we’re gonna have a black market ticket to fix it.

We delivered. It fucking worked. My favorite part ? We were the “bad” team. The team without a cool project or a decent backlog. The cleanup crew.

courgette··on Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
I’m confused, I was able to see 10 pages each exposing a tricky SQL request with modern SQL features.

Maybe it’s been added in the face or HN grumpyness? ( tbh : I would not have give anything without those extracts, so your comments in on point )

courgette··on Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks
I agree, I had a good idea of what you proposed just sliding on my phone.

Let me give you an email in exchange of that bag of tricks.

Out of curiosity: what’s happening with the email? ( out of honesty: you will get my spam ridden gmail ;) )

courgette··on Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife
In a decent box.
courgette··on Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'
Exactly, they would need a immutable, distributed ledger to accounts for their client immutable centralized and vaporized ledgers.
courgette··on Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile
Have you seen the open recess space ? ( kids playing in a non enclosed area, just delimited with poles )
courgette··on French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime
So the lower court will reassess by likely comply. Correct ?
courgette··on Economist Nouriel Roubini Calls Binance CEO a “Walking Time Bomb”
Is’t what happened in 1929 in the us ?

https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/emergency-banki...

Title 2 above seems to describe a government appointed regulator in case of failure.

courgette··on Tesla has used space characters in internal emails to identify leaks
Same here, maybe Tesla as a homogeneous word deployment?

I’m sure between various version there is difference in what is produced.

Unless you can ask word for the equivalent of a postscript ?

courgette··on French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime
They do mention that explicitly. But that further confuse me then.

The circumstances seems to be “we Know you conducted illegal trade on that phone” ?

courgette··on French court: refusing to disclose mobile passcode to law enforcement is a crime
It’s not over, the higher court just send it back to the lower one. But still, I find it concerning.

If you happen to read French the appeal court publish a good technical summary.

https://www.courdecassation.fr/toutes-les-actualites/2022/11...

Par conséquent, en l’espèce, la décision de la cour d’appel est cassée et une autre cour d’appel est désignée pour rejuger l’affaire.

courgette··on Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
Not a snarky question : what about having data and config in yml, and some high level tool like ansible or terraform and the occasional bash?

You loop and branch in ansible/terraform

I hate that setup but also I have a hard time thinking of something else

courgette··on Ask HN: Is React impacted by Meta layoff?
Idk I’m not a front end guy but I mostly stopped to reach for jquery as much. Standard stuff are sufficient ( for simple site and POC )
courgette··on Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)
What author do you draw from ok that subjects ? I’m asking because there is a lot of various work in that field
courgette··on Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year
It's a valid point that I don't expect Alphabet to address. Honest question : what about those security code? I'm not homeless but I expect my phone to die anytime. It's from 2015. I want to bring it to 2025 but it might not make it.

As a result I planned for that phone stopping to work and my understanding is that I will be able to emergency 2FA with those code once it broke. Am I wrong?

courgette··on The Reason Java Is Still Popular
I would not bad an eye.

But at this point with records... I don't care. I declare a Integer 'bla' and a 'getBla()' is made available by the IDE right way. Sometimes the records fields end-up being accessible without the getter. ( declaring the record in another class for instance...). But that is also a moot point : all the data they are holding is final and I know what can be null or not.

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