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karambahhon 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower before death

Small nitpick, if (which is very likely to me but unfortunately hasn't been proven) Robert Boulin has been murdered, it's definitely not by the DGSE or it predecessor, as they operate outside of France.

If you agree is that it's not a suicide, opinions differ on whether it's government team that did it or the "SAC", a paramilitary group linked to the then ruling party, not an official secret service

karambahhon Gboard Hat Version

I strongly suspect it's human made, as the french subtitles are full of (sometimes very subtle) puns as well.

Kudos to whoever went the extra mile and extended the joke to "smaller" languages.

karambahhon Linux on a Commodore 64

And how Commodore Amiga 2000 provided PC compatible extension card, funnily enough

karambahhon HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank

It's sold to MyMoneyBank, formerly known as GE Moneybank... not exactly local :)

karambahhon Launch HN: Lago (YC S21) – Open-source usage-based billing

Is it that impratical?

Small players would be impacted by a 100k$ net loss...and you could even spread it out over several months to be less likely to be caught by anti-abuse systems...

karambahhon Paul Otlet's Mundaneum anticipated the internet [video]

That's definitely a very good point.

It also sort of matches my point: nationalities of inventions are, at best, flexible (and shouldn't be used, really).

The CCP would likely be adamant that fiber optics are a CN invention. Your remark would likely point to fiber optics as a UK one...

karambahhon Paul Otlet's Mundaneum anticipated the internet [video]

As others pointed out, web, out of CH. Datagrams as an FR invention. Fiber optics, CN

I purposely did not mention the "inventors" of these 3 random tidbits because, guess what? It's not that much important because invention is an iterative process and nationalism should not have any part in it. Don't be glad <country> invented <thing> because they usually didn't, and it was a collective progress made on top of something else.

However, the life of Tim Berners Lee is very interesting, the maths of Pouzin are cool and Kao got a Nobel Prize in physics...

karambahhon Engineers' billing nightmares

AFAIK, Avalara is the defacto player on this kind of stuff

karambahhon Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet

Fraud prevention or even straight up order blocking between 1:30 & 4AM because the downstream order management system has only so much buffer capacity

(it's getting rarer, but it does still happen. Fraud prevention cranked up is definitely a thing on any large enough ecommerce website)

karambahhon Happiness Is Two Scales

Your idea is really interesting.

I rarely (if ever) comment on my mental health online, but I can totally relate to a X-Y quadrant as you describe. Many mental health professional debut their appointment with a dreaded question "how are you feeling today?".

If I had this diagram with me, it would save time and be way more descriptive of my state of mind.

As for the high unhappiness/high unhappiness quadrant: I'm not manic myself but know close ones who are. I think it fits.

Thanks for opening my mind about this.

karambahhon Welcome to 'Le Monde' in English

AFAIK Plenel sources for Rainbow Warrior were french intelligence.

He got completely sidelined on the "Irlandais de Vincennes" story (which in a way is proof he's not a foreign intelligence puppet, otherwise he wouldn't have fell for it, would he?).

Anyways, Plenel aside, I'd happy if you could point out any Mediapart story that you think has been sourced or set up by foreign intelligence agencies?

I've frequently heard Mediapart is biased in a way or another (recently accused of bias by Melenchon supporters, before by LREM, Les Republicains, Front National, etc...) but absolutely never read anywhere that they are a puppet from a foreign intelligence agency.

In a nutshell, please substantiate your baseless claim.

karambahhon How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Uranium Safe

A more reputable source in french: https://www.francetvinfo.fr/france/cherche-cocottes-minute-p...

A witness in this article adds that "every nuclear facility in the world use them"

karambahhon Ask HN: Which book can attract anyone towards your field of study?

What book on forensic accounting would you recommend for entertainment value?

I have some knowledge of french accounting, been exposed to US style, and thoroughly enjoyed long forms involving forensic accounting, money laundering and the like...

karambahhon A career ending mistake

I have been in a position to hire people repeatedly, and I've done a fair bit of job hopping myself in the last few years.

Never let a job description hold you back from applying. You could bring other things to the company, you can acquire knowledge that you currently lack.

Apply, discuss and see how it goes.

karambahhon Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

A lot of the actors you're listing actually have datacenters and/or cages at french DCs and/or racks at french ISP PoP

karambahhon Michelin Airless

16 years ago, I was an intern at the European HQ of a Japanese tyre brand.

We received and chain forwarded a "leaked" video of Michelin testing a similar design.

We ICT folks thought we were doomed as it seemed miles ahead of our own R&D.

16 years later and we are yet to see these tyres on the streets.

This time, I'll believe it when I see it ;)

karambahhon An app that swiftly sends CPR volunteers to heart attack sufferers in Denmark

In some european countries, 911 calls are forwarded to 112 for this exact reason, the cultural presence of 911

karambahhon Listen to your to PostgreSQL database in realtime via WebSockets

For some reason I understood the title as an audio rendering of changes on your pg db

The actual purpose is actually way cooler, looks like a great tool

karambahhon Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

SBG is a small part of their operations. I doubt it will have a lasting issue on their image

karambahhon Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service

I'm a former Scaleway employee so take this as a informed guess: DC4 space is divided in very small, secure rooms (which you can see in the promotional video) with space for like less than a dozen racks at a time.

They probably filled a room with mac minis and will need to fill another room/racks to provide more hw to customers.

karambahhon Robinhood, in Need of Cash, Raises $1B from Its Investors

I have the same issues with HSBC in France.

Calling their app "decent" is charitable to say the least.

The only good part is the call center, where operators are actively trying to be helpful.

karambahhon We've been running a bootstrapped startup for a year

With your metrics and as you're based in Europe, you should probably send a deck to Kima Ventures.

It's the seed fund from Xavier Niel (of Iliad/free fame).

karambahhon AWS just went multi-cloud

There has been a player in "AWS compatible workloads" for quite some time, the french company Outscale:

https://us.outscale.com/products/compute/aws-compatible-clou...

They have PoPs in several "exotic" locations, but I'm not entirely sure the list is public. They also run AWS-compatibles clouds for state actors.

karambahhon IBM is splitting itself into two public companies

I heard (from IBM sales people) that they do sell cloud services to banks.

They are slowly replacing the mainframe contracts by (private) cloud contracts

karambahhon A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe

The French minister for digital affairs is, funnily enough, named Cédric O

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_O

karambahhon A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe

I'm a friend (and former colleague) of the repo author.

That's exactly some of the cases we had to deal with some legacy invoicing systems (of which Kevin was not responsible, but I was ;))

karambahhon What I've learned about scaling OSPF in Datacenters

>I think whiteboards are the most important tool for network design (...)I can’t even tell you the number of disasters averted by 2-3 great network engineers arguing over a whiteboard.

I strongly agree with this statement and think it holds true for a lot of IT/dev/ops fields.

That's something I miss when working remotely. Has anyone found a tool that is seamless enough to allow for true interactivity, as much as be in the same room and sharing a whiteboard?

karambahhon Airbus' self-flying plane just completed taxi, take-off, and landing tests

There are ongoing works on Line 4 this summer to automate it as well

karambahhon Show HN: Marple – Visualising millions of datapoints for engineers

Congrats for your tool, seems impressive.

Yet another great project supported by imec!

karambahhon Gaia-X: Technical Architecture [pdf]

I think you're mistaken. Case in point: Scaleway, a founding member of gaia-x, does not use openstack. I know of several others who do not.