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There's a species of bird (Chinstrap penguin) which kinda does that: it sleeps by intervals of 4 (four) seconds only. Many times through day & night. Can these 4 seconds naps be considered sleep? I don't know, but it goes along your question. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.fr/animaux/insolite-decouvert...

> A train is just: get in/get out.

This is changing, at least in France. Enshittification of train travel has begun by SNCF/ouigo. I traveled last month, now (at least for some trains) you must have a ticket at your name to travel, you must register big suitcases. It is becoming less and less get in / get out, unfortunately :-(

Same in France. The company where I work is closed, at least offices. It is mandatory holiday, except if you have a specific job (customer support, some accounting-stuff maybe - not sure), etc.

From 2004 to 2007, I created and maintained a Linux distribution called Kaella. It was kind of a fork of the Knoppix live CD. It was not really a fork, because each version of the Kaella was based on the latest Knoppix (adding French language packs, a software selection more adapted to France, and drivers for ADSL modems common in France). Anyway, this project allowed me to be contacted by an IT architect at Amadeus, a company for plane ticket management (and more than planes). I could work with great people there, very smart. It was very stimulating. Unfortunately, with my family we decided to move for a better quality of life to a nicer region of France, but my time there was great.

Which client do you use to subscribe and listen to podcasts? I am a fan of BeyondPod which has a great automatic sorting feature, but dev seems stalled. Thanks!

Maybe there are 2 faces to this: current users and acquiring new users.

First one has been discussed in other comments: current users do not want to relearn the UI of the software. And I second that.

Second one: new users may turn away quick when seeing an old UI when trying an app or web site for a first time. So moving the UI from old to new, from time to time, may be a way for an app / website to just survive, otherwise the user base may be eroding.

Thoughts?

If you want such plants, buy them in garden centers or in dedicated plant fairs, not online to suspicious vendors. Plants produced in cultivation (usually by seeds also produced on cultivated plants) are more suited to cultivation in our greenhouses than those taken in the habitat. For these, the survival rate is low, because they often fail to adapt.

If you want to know more about these fascinating small plants, here's a website dedicated to them: https://www.cactuspro.com/conophytum-lithops/ (disclaimer: I am the webmaster of cactuspro.com, but not this specific section of the site).

It is in French, made by enthusiasts for enthusiasts. We strongly condemn poaching, and of course reproduce as much as possible these plants in cultivation to lower pressure on habitat plants and share with other aficionados.

Started with an Atari 520 at 15. Then when I was a student, in 1995, I installed Linux for the free X server (free as in beer as I had not a lot of money), to be able to display softwares running on Unix machines on my PC.

In 2004, I created the Kaella Linux, a live-CD distribution based in Knoppix (a Debian-based distro). I maintained it during 3 years. The goal was 2 folds: learn how a Linux distro worked, especially a live one, and make Linux more popular among people not familiar with English, as the Kaella was basically a French version of the Knoppix (with added bonuses such as automatic scripts for ADSL modems which were a pain in the a*s to use at the time).

I am now working in industrial cybersecurity, I still have Linux at home though ;-)

If that's true, should we have the same kind of results when searching with "plain shirts", then?

Which is not the case: searching for "plain shirts" do not give similar results than searching for "shirts without stripes".

Awesome! Thanks!

However it does not seem possible to set this as default for all searches :-(

You could, and it would be correct. But few would understand at first. It sounds like "caisse", like in "caisse de vin" (crate of wine).

French here.

Yes. There are many "cheap" ones, such as Dacia Duster. I see plenty of them everyday.

The author removed the coloring, because the default setup is for ls to list files with colors. He uses an environment variable to do that.

Wouldn't it be simpler to use \ls instead of ls? This way you get the "basic version of the executable", not some alias. I always use \command instead of command in my shell scripts, because you never know which aliases a user set up.

Thanks a lot to all your answers.

My question was badly formulated. I meant to ask: why are we tolerating this situation?

Regardless of tax evasion / tax optimization or whatever is the wording, most people agree that these companies are not paying the amount of taxes they should. I get the why and how these companies are doing this. I just don't understand why we, as a society, accept that. Our society has never been so rich, yet we see decline in education, health, etc. I do think we should only have progress: more culture, better life, less work, etc.

Couldn't we just ban tax evasion? What makes it so hard? (honest question)

A recent European study has shown that the more company win money, the less they pay in taxes (in percentage).

Is it because of bad laws? Corrupt politicians? Something else?

> It's impossible to ban adult content in a cost effective way without also banning a large amount of legitimate art.

Are you saying that adult content is not legitimate art?

If so, I think you may be part of the problem, not the solution. English is not my first language, so please correct me if I am wrong.

By adult content, most of us think "porn". But as has been said, there's also violence and other things that some culture do not want their children exposed to.

There's no way to ban nudity or other things one may dislike without having to put some kind of filters in place. And once those filters are in place, they are abused to filter legitimate content. Every. Single. Time.

We have to rely on education, the best filter is in our brains. That's the cost to real freedom of speech.

Is there a way to completely blacklist web sites such as this one? Such as a Firefox extension than would, in my browser, remove results from search engines, entries from hackernews, and so on? There are tons of them where articles are meaningless, and a waste of time.

And I've not even finished to read the first sentence than an overlay slides from the top to make me subscribe to their newsletter or tell me something. I immediately left the site: the back button worked fine for me, but maybe the site had not completely loaded at the time.

I am still surprised by this behavior of websites. I guess they did the math and that these practices make them win more than then lose. The web in 2018 is in a poor shape :-(

Anyway, back at the topic: which book should, for you, be in the most influencial list? Mine would be "A self-sufficient organic kitchen garden" (automatic tranlation from French "Biopotager autosuffisant"): how to grow yourself enough vegetables to not have to buy any.

Who are your customers?

Locate where they gather, and go meet them. Maybe small enterprises, which you could meet during a trade fair?

Which pain are you trying to fix? If it is "just having an online presence", then FB already solve it.

FB is good enough for a lot of people seeking online presence. It's even mandatory for some to be there, regardless than the existence of a real website. So a lot of people make to choice of "just FB" instead of "FB + website" (when "website only" is not seen as an option).

Tu es déjà dans l'illégalité pour maintien dans un système informatique. Supprime tout ce que tu as pu récupérer, efface ton historique de navigation, etc puis oublie cette histoire. Certains ont déjà été condamnés en France pour ça. La loi n'est pas faite pour protéger les personnes comme nous qui trouvent une faille par hasard et voudraient aider en la communiquant au propriétaire du système informatique. Tu n'as malheureusement que des soucis à tirer d'une telle histoire.

Du point de vue de la loi française, entrer ainsi dans un système informatique, c'est comme entrer dans une maison ou une voiture dont la porte est grande ouverte. Illégal. L'analogie a ses limites (on peut voir une porte de maison grande ouverte sans entrer et avertir le propriétaire, alors que pour un système informatique c'est une foie entré qu'on voit que la porte était grande ouverte).

Yes, Paris mobile network in subway is now pretty good. My second job was to install BTS for FTM (now Orange) in Paris including the subway in... 2000 ;-)

And we had to do it cooperatively with competitive carriers because of the lack of space in the tubes.

Sadly, in France too.

The CEO of Orange, the main ISP in France, Stéphane Richard, is against net neutrality:

Article in French: http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/stephane-richard-orange-veut-...

Same experience here. It tooks me DAYS to have a working coinbase account. Their process was a pains in the *, verification a nightmare.

I hit back as soon as I saw the top of this add. There was more below? :-/

The English word "engineer" is quite difficult for French people, because in French we have the term "ingénieur" (usually meaning "ingénieur diplômé"), which is something like the big universities diplomas in other countries.

A better translation of engineer would be "technicien".

French "ingénieurs" come from "Grandes écoles", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandes_%C3%A9coles

War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength;

Is it the question we should ask?

I'd prefer to ask another question: is it time to change our society, to go away from paid jobs? A job is one of the things that currently defines us, one of the first questions you ask someone you just met is often to know what job they are in.

If all jobs were automated, we could have more interesting occupations: taking care of our childrens, elders, neighbors, growing our garden, reading, art, etc. Many sci-fi authors saw the job being automated and society changing toward this. The question is how to we make the transition.

> The minimum warranty period is 5 years

Why 5 years? Why not 4 or 6? Actually, I think the warranty period should increase, always. For example by one month every year. So a product sold in 2017 has a warranty of 2 years (24 months). A product sold in 2018 would have a warranty of 25 months. A product sold in 2019 would have a warranty of 26 months. And so on... This would encourage (force!) companies R&D to always improve products, but at a sustainable speed.

Of course the figures given above should be tweaked better, maybe start at 3 or 4 years warranty very soon, increase by 1, 2 or 3 months per year, I don't know.

One rule is to never click on "list" articles. Most of them are not worth your time.

And after reading the comments here, it is the case for this one too :-/

Is there a software to "manage" a library of LEGO parts, which would then tell me what I can build?

And is there a software to easily feed/initiate this library? Maybe with something as simple as taking a photo of spread parts on the ground.

Am I dreaming?