laurent92

On the computer, the website of my national TV channel suspends the ads if you switch windows. You can’t let them play in the background.

Lockdowns have also broken everyone’s regular exercise and healthy habits. On charts we all assign this to Covid, but lockdowns were an artificial, additional decision.

This kind of thing is why I use Whereby. No plugin is suggested to the user, it always runs in the browser, you can still share your screen and all.

I’m afraid Zoom will upload my whole document folder to the internet “just in case you need to share them during the call, so we don’t consume bandwidth”…

I’ve burnt 12 cars after lockdowns to ensure that you don’t get the idea that climate lockdowns would be a nice solution after Covid lockdowns. My CO2 emissions now far outweigh (perhaps 10x) the base level, not to talk about the poor grandmas who can’t afford a new car.

Lockdowns are absolutely horrible. I don’t get why you don’t kill us directly, and pretend to do it for our health. Suicide, harm, family violence, just having a life with no leisure, no secret why solitary confinement is used as a means of torture in US prisons.

You just don’t have the stats yet, but the harm you have caused by choosing lockdowns is incommensurable. PLEASE build stats on well-being and how many hours-in-good-health were actually saved by lockdowns, and wait a few years for those studies to surface before concluding that lockdowns are a fine way to deal with a problem. Taking harm upon others may satisfy your feeling of dealing a problem, but the base problem, Covid, has not even been squashed, it spread in waves and became widespread and endemic anyway like doctors always said it would. Not - solved, but saddistic measures were taken against the weaker of us.

With global warming, I have no doubt you’ll crush our lives again without solving anything about global warming itself.

Talking about StackOverflow, shouldn’t all messages have a permalink to their StackOverflow unique identifier where people will discuss them ;)

We shouldn’t identify the user. We should identify the content. “I want to be shown next to car pictures, because maybe the guy is missing carpets for his car” instead of “We want to be shown to guys 24-30 with interest in cars.” First is tracking the content, second is tracking the user.

I’m addicted to 9Gag, which is closer to TikTok, but the difference is Facebook’s intensive work on breaching privacy, telling all my friends what posts I like. On 9Gag, liking/commenting is basically anonymous, so we’re not afraid of being seen liking something - thus my 15hrs a week in the app.

Yes. Free OSS is like “I build bridges for free as an architect” or “I dig wells for free in Africa.” It may be free but we still need to ensure its security.

And this is how, I believe, AWS will become kind of required, as it will be the only way to get a certified-up-to-date version of a Linux, of a database, of a library, etc. And programmers will only be responsible for the glue code between those services.

The whole strategy with Google providing “services for everyone out of pure gratitude” is:

- With Google Fonts, to track the identity of users AND the real popularity of websites,

- With Google DNS 8.8.8.8, to track everyone’s DNS resolutions,

- With Google Analytics, to track who sees what, even if they only display masked IPs to the owner of the GA profile,

- Etc with Google Maps, emails, they don’t provide those services for free, they can track everyone’s profile, down to their obedience to Covid rules.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Germany bans more aspects of using Google’s free services.

Did they name it “meditation” because “sleeping at school” is inappropriate in your culture?

I’ve always found “lemming” ridiculous, especially in all software that copied Google despite not being generalist. “We’ve seen you are searching for ‘Phillips screw 24x17’, I won’t tell you that we don’t have any but here are results for ‘Screwdrivers’, just in case you want to use a screwdriver instead of a screw. Also here are a few Phillips TVs, in case this might help you fix your car.”

> They blocked execution of certain programs by some policy in Windows explorer in Windows XP. Funny thing was, if you knew the path to them, you could just point Firefox or Chrome at a file:// URI and run it out of your downloads directory. Oops.

Microsoft security baffles me. You could run Windows Update in the browser (and also antiviruses using ActiveX). Who would think of making it possible to alter the OS… from the browser?

When containers get breached, they diffuse through rock and soil and reach the surface. French govt estimated that it would reach the surface 400 years after burial (so, 100 years for a breach and 300 years to swim down and up), diffused enough not to cause harm.

So nuclear waste in a subduction zone would require a zone which dives faster than diffusion goes.

And many people, given the choice between money or freedom, choose freedom, even if it can make them poor. Heck, Snowden chose to relinquish wealth to defend everyone’s liberty.

We don’t owe you the right to live with a deadly disease. You cannot mandate others to perform actions just so you can live, if you wouldn’t live naturally.

And better credibility when you say “Our vulnerability was on AWS and configuration is hard, but at least we had the default VPC config” rather than “We maintained our own stack and being sysadmin is hard, and the port was exposed on the web.”

Yes. The IBM Rationale suite failed even though it wasn’t AI. It’s the IBM way they commercialize things by going to golf with execs which is the problem.

They also didn’t produce as good work as before the pandemic. The boredom of being home kills the creativity (Yes, I know, “not me”), the reduced communication killed collaboration effects (everyone became more siloed), and a lot of people got depressed. There is a reason why people pay more for butts-in-seats.

And DigitalOcean now supports deploying Docker containers, so there is no reason not to migrate to it.

Funny that Windows gets forced simplicity, Apple goes the opposite, more gestures and hot corners which means that there is no place to move the mouse that will not produce an effect.

On iOS, the fact that the Home Button brought you back home every time was a selling point, so when you are in the sun, you click once and you know where you are. Then they introduced the 2-click on Home for the Control Center, 3-click, 4-click and now, it’s a cycle, so you never are home. Same for the swipe up to bring the control center, which you always have to do twice because the first scroll up generally brings the local app’s own swipe gesture. Apple became a model of stuffing the maximum of gestures, while Windows went the way of the simplicity. I can’t wait the day when Satya Nadella says “The problem with Apple guys is, they have no taste”…

Isn’t a lot of securization necessary for two more seats? Adding floor reinforcements, seatbelts, and more importantly, passing the crash tests with two more seats?

The only thing that is annoying with -> as two characters is the misalignment of the horizontal center. If the ligature had always centered the - to the middle of the >, I’m not sure so many people would be pushing towards having a single arrow.

Funny for a metal that seems to flow like Terminator and can melt an aluminum padlock, see LPL: https://youtu.be/jeghGhVdt9s

(It’s doesn’t melt it exactly, it destroys the structure because Gallium atoms are very small and insert themselves through).

They have shifted greatly in France too (towards the right, very unusual for France). So is this really linked with Biden or linked with the social isolation?

My decisive test to distinguish an idea from an ideology: “Does it matter if a person dies as a result of this idea”

“Does it matter if a poor person dies as a result of not finding a place to be employed in society” => Capitalist ideology

“Does it matter if a person dies as a result of not believing in Jesus” => Christian ideology (as opposed to simply being Christian)

“Does it matter if someone dies as a result of being vaccinated” => No? => Pro-vax ideology.

The opposite is true: “Does it matter if someone dies as a result of Covid” => No? => Antivax ideology.

When I was a young engineer in 2006, the marketing about Web 2.0 was in every tender for IT projects, so much that my boss created the “Web 4.3 dev community” in my city to point out the ridiculousness of it.

Every versioning of that idea is marketing speech.

Or to have great onboarding, people learn a lot, are effective quickly, and leave after learning enough. The know-how is then embedded in the process not in people, which guarantees stability, while people are guaranteed to change.

In France we’re storing highly radioactive items underground. Here is how dissipation works:

- After a few dozen years, the concrete is expected to breach,

- Radioactive atoms mix up with soil and dissipate both upwards and downwards, mostly thanks to water,

- After 400 years and for thousands of years, they reach the surface, where they should be diluted enough to not be dangerous,

So I guess having badly contained radioactive containers would be much worse.

One thing to remember is that pressure underground is extremely high (stone weighs a lot more than water, and light rock tends to “float” onto denser rock). If a melted reactor were squeezed, it would spread materials into the soil much quicker.

How do they avoid bacteria/mould from growing in tanks and flocking the pipes and releasing in the room? Do such systems ever get cleaned up?

No. But it’s still worth buying a 10-pack and see whether it solves some of your problems, because in the worst case, you still have 9 masks which will actually protect you from the virus.