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That's not what the term "free and fair" elections means though. To be considered fair, there can be no government interference of the voting process (ex: ballot stuffing, voter suppression) and its results must be accepted.

Media manipulation exists of course, all democracies have this to a certain extent. But France is actually not too bad compared to other countries.

The French 5th republic (~= constitution v5) places stability above debate and compromise. Or at least that's what they were going for when the 4th republic was scrapped.

> France has lots of pain coming.

Username checks out.

> Assuming they have a fair election but it certainly looks like that's 100% not going to happen.

Trolling or simple ignorance?

You really need to add a heavy usage of the conditional in your descriptions.

There is no world in which any of those symbols can ever be known, except time travel - and even then there will be a communication problem.

It's not possible to visit the caves for most people. They do have reconstructions of the more famous ones though (Lascaux, Crosquer, ...)

Probably a good idea to at least add some vibe-coding terms to your website for SEO.

> Startups save weeks getting to MVP with Vibe Coding, then spend comparable time and budget on cleanup. But that’s still faster than traditional development.

That's the core of situation as described in the article. I wonder how true that is, that it's faster overall than having developers build the MVP.

From what I've seen, I think developers can build just as fast, especially with AI assistance. They may not want to though, knowing full well the MVP/prototype will go directly into production.

Better to take some time to have a decent architecture early on. Product and management probably see that as a waste of time.

On the other hand, vibe coding allows the product team to make exactly what they want without having to explain it to developers. That's the real draw to this, basically a much better figma.

Perhaps there is a market for a product oriented vibe coding tool, that doesn't pretend to make code, but gives developers much better specifications while allowing the product and business side better input in the process.

It's not about the harm you do, it's about the billions you have. But you seem to have a moral compass, you wouldn't understand ;-)

China is allied to North Korea, which South Korea is at war with.

A lot of so-called environnemental awareness campaigns are the work of trade organizations or multinationals. Often they shift the blame onto the consumer, so for example it's "you need to recycle" instead of "we need to produce less".

That's actually pretty hardcore.

Also keep in mind South Korea is dependent on the US for military protection.

At least for me when woodworking, the cutting, nailing, and gluing are the fun bits. The sanding and finishing is the grunt work/boilerplate.

Interesting that you say the 'o' to explicitly indicate the 24h format.

In France we just say "let's meet tomorrow at 8 hours" for example, to which the person has to ask something like "Wait, do you mean at 8 hours or 20 hours?"

It's usually obvious from the context, but not always.

That's because everyone should be using decimal time, clearly the superior representation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time

"Oh there you go, bringing class into it again."

This is true as well, and in fact not uncommon for a dictatorship to have decent support as long as the economy is good. See: China (although unlike Brazil I have no direct experience there).

It's also a well worn play book at this point to have people vote against their interests when given some enemy: religious or ethnic minorities, atheists, immigrants, a foreign power, etc...

In any case I completely agree with all your points. Just that the situation is even more dangerous when the society has no experience dealing with dictators.

A big difference between Brazil and the USA is that until 1985, Brazil was a dictatorship. The kind that "disappears" and tortures journalists and political opponents.

So lots of people still alive today remember those days and understand the danger of politicians like Bolsonaro. People like the current president Lula, who was imprisoned during the dictatorship.

The USA on the other hand, has never had a dictatorship in living memory. It's even debatable whether pre-independence it was a dictatorship, and in any case it is so far removed from the present that it has no impact on everyday life.

Maybe for this reason there is a feeling of "it can't happen here". An exceptional ism that is not unwarranted given the incredible social and economic progress made.

But this attitude is perhaps the most dangerous one can have towards fascism.

Works for me in France using the 1.1.1.1 DNS server, which I use on all my devices.

Exactly. Well not exactly. The desalinization plant produces brine (very salty water) as a waste product. Rather than disposing of it directly, they use the brine to generate electricity. This electricity is then used partly to run the desalinization plant.

As an imperfect car analogy, the way a turbocharger uses energy from the exhaust to inject energy into the intake, in the form of compressed air.

Neither is a perpetual motion engine, but both make the useful work more energy efficient.

That's exactly the reason why so many people prefer giving up their data, their privacy, their freedom.

Personally I'm happy to pay proton a few bucks a month to not have to give up those things.

I'm not criticizing those that do, just that given my financial situation the trade off is simply not worth it.

Ruff pretty much follows the same rules as black, and can be made identical with some options tweaking.

So when I moved several projects from black to ruff, there were no changes made to the code.

Did you change to another engine? If so, which one? If not, what prevented you from doing so?

Genuinely curious.

Funny, I don't like Ruby because it has easy access to metaprogramming. It's powerful, yes, but in my experience it's a powerful footgun that makes the code very difficult to understand and debug 6 months down the line. And if you have a bunch of "clever" programmers working on the codebase, the horror...

I feel like the main takeaway here is that if you want your personal project to last, you should run it on your own server.

The speed of Ruby with the memory management of Java, what's not to love?

Also, now you have two problems.

And when we did our average lifespan was much shorter.

Time to burn that Gym membership :-p

Great news, good on them. Not only does this make their lives better and safer, but it can help many other cities. Sometimes just knowing that something is possible is enough for people to achieve it.

Yes that's probably the point. Cars kill many more people than scooters.

Exactly. There is pressure to sell to as many people as possible, as cheaply as possible. This leads to "simplifying" the UI.

Generally this means power users now have to click 3 times instead of 1.

Of course there are alternatives, like having an advanced mode or keyboard shortcuts. But that takes time and effort for a typically smaller set of users.

These are business decisions, not design choices.

> dumbing down the software

"The growth marketing team has identified an untapped demographic".

> change for the sake of change so designers can justify their jobs.

"We've decided to rebrand to focus on XYZ market."

> mobile devices because every one of them is slow

"If we can run the website on the user's device we'll save on developer time."

> Ugly software is a good sign because tells me no designer was there to ruin it.

It just means they don't have the money to hire a good designer. Meaning no marketing department. For whatever reason designers don't do open source. Looking at you GIMP. Blender finally bit the bullet.