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Hi! My name is Florent. I'm at http://florentdelannoy.com
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pluies··on This blog is written in en-GB
You'll want to brush up on punctuation rules, the space before an exclamation mark is a dead giveaway of a French writer :) (Source: fellow en-GB-using-frenchperson)
pluies··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
It's honestly not hard either. Certainly doesn't require any face-to-face interaction or anything.
pluies··on Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment
I've racked my brain trying to write it in a good enough approximation, but honestly the "eu" sound doesn't have a match in most English accents, and neither does the "r", so it wouldn't make much sense trying to write it down in English. Youtube will give you hundreds of videos pronouncing it correctly if you want to check!
pluies··on Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC
Well if it's negative 48V the electricty flows out of your circuit and back to the grid, so you need to make it positive to have the electricity come in.
pluies··on HeyWhatsThat
PeakFinder is indeed an excellent app, worth every cent.

It's also available as a website! https://www.peakfinder.com/

pluies··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
If it helps, I use the NERDTree plugin which gives a very decent file tree to vim.
pluies··on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached
Wait until my pals Saul and Ronald team up!
pluies··on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling
As a native French speaker, I have to interject and push for the use of "utilise" as it's closer to our own "utiliser"!
pluies··on Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did
AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISER
pluies··on A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name (2021)
And French completed this merge by having both "lawyer" and "avocado" translate to "avocat".
pluies··on Good Writing
It's from Boileau! Beautiful alexandrine verses:

> Ce que l’on conçoit bien s’énonce clairement, > Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

pluies··on Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems:

  Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen?

  Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many times, in fact. And I discovered that it was actually the systems at KLM and Northwest that would throw my ticket out, my last name being “Fake.” And I have missed flights and have spent way too many hours with customer service trying to fix this problem. Here’s another thing too, is that I was unable for the first two years of Facebook to make an account there also. And probably  all of my relatives.
https://tim.blog/2019/02/21/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...
pluies··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
The whole point of inheritance tax is to redistribute some of the accumulated family wealth across society. You think that's unfair? Grow up.
pluies··on I failed moving my Google calendar to Proton
> Storage in UTC and converting to a local timezone for display / notification purposes has been the standard practice for a looong time.

All good until summer time kicks in and your recurring 9am meeting now starts at 8am, oops.

pluies··on I kind of like rebasing
Is it that awful? Each option is nicely explained, and the documentation is exactly where you need it, when you need it. I personally found it extremely helpful during my first interactive rebase, and still give it a glance from time to time when I forget the difference between squash and fixup.
pluies··on Making EC2 boot time faster
It's definitely news to me!

Intuitively, I would have expected AWS to send back the EBS volume backing a powered-off machine into the Whatever Long-Term Storage Is Behind EBS, and therefore start-up time to be ~identical to a fresh start as the steps would be the same: retrieve data from long-term storage into a readable EBS volume, start VM etc.

It's very interesting that it is not the case, and that keeping the EBS volume around after a first boot makes a second boot so much faster.

pluies··on Eco-brutalism: when angular concrete meets the wonder of nature
That's very interesting, as a Frenchman I assumed it came from "brutal", like "brutalité", as the raw concrete and abundance of right angles tends to make these buildings feel, well, aggressive (to me at least).
pluies··on Ice to treat soft-tissue injuries contraindicated by creator of protocol
I'm not sure there is a consensus on ice baths at this stage? Some athletes swear by it, some say it's useless, and last I looked at it the science was ambivalent (somewhere between small to no effect, either positive or negative).
pluies··on Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL
Fwiw this is how I use Loki most of the time. Pick an app label, pick a time period, look at raw logs. The LogQL for this ends up something like `{app="workload-foo"}`. Loki is excellent at that.

Then if I know which pod I'll filter down to a specific pod with `{pod="workload-foo-1234"}`, sometimes I'll search for a specific term (error message etc) with `{pod="workload-foo-1234"} |= "error message"` then look at the logs around that. There's really no point writing complicated queries unless you need to.

pluies··on Preview of Explore Logs, a new way to browse your logs without writing LogQL
Yeah but Prometheus has a web ui where you can run PromQL queries and it'll give you basic graphs back, which is handy for throwing a quick query at it before putting it into something more long-term like a Grafana dashboard or an alerting rule.
pluies··on Scrum Sucks
You're in a lot of trouble if your _hooker_ is feeding the scrum!
pluies··on UK Address Oddities (2018)
It is indeed used quite a lot in France, and it's great but... For extra confusion my parent's street starts with straight numbers (1, 2, 3...), _then_ switches to distance-based count! So that on one side of the road, we get houses 43, 45, 47, then suddenly 947, and on the other side 64, 66, 68... then 920.
pluies··on There were no humans at all in New Zealand until about 1250AD
If you're interested in diving deeper, the History of Aotearoa New Zealand podcast ( https://historyaotearoa.com/ ) is a great resource, very well researched and engaging.
pluies··on BHP says battery electric cheaper than hydrogen as it dumps diesel
Also a looooot of coal. https://www.energy.gov.au/data/australian-electricity-genera...
pluies··on Kubernetes SidecarContainers feature is merged
Service mesh. Istio for example injects an envoy sidecar to each pod, and manages everything "meshy" (routing, retries, mTLS, etc) via this sidecar.

This is also how linkerd works, though they're using their own purpose-built sidecar rather than envoy.

pluies··on 1/4 of companies that IPO'd in 2020-2021 trades below $2, risking delisting
It seems to be exchange-specific, I assume the main reason for this article is:

> For example, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), if a security's price closed below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, that exchange would initiate the delisting process.

It can be avoided via a "reverse stock-split", which seems to be easy enough to get approved (no owners of the stock want to be delisted!), so nothing hugely dangerous... But it's not a good sign for you company's general health I guess.

pluies··on Ask HN: What prevents a company from hiring remote employees internationally?
Nitpick, but I don't think this is necessarily correct - if the end client has _no_ UK presence, then the "old rules" apply for IR35, i.e. the contractor is responsible for determining their own status.

If the end client has some UK presence (a branch, etc), then yes the "new rules" apply and the end client is responsible for determination.

pluies··on The positive effect of walking on creative thinking (2014) [pdf]
From my adjacent experience (ultrarunning / multi-day races), after trying a bunch of different brands, I've settled on Drymax. By far the best blister resistance! They're really good at keeping feet, well, dry, which helps a lot against chafing.

If you have particular hot spots, I'd also recommend applying some foot cream like Trail Toes. I always use it for runs over ~30km.

pluies··on A shortage of Dijon mustard in France
> There is a shortage of Dijon mustard *in France*
pluies··on Coinbase Announces 18% Layoffs
This has strong IT Crowd vibes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFGD5pj03M
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