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The timing and brightness is well adjusted, it feels natural, like a friendly ghost taking care of you.

Where I live, we have a small park, 500m away. You need to walk through it if you want to get to the city center from the small neighborhood we live in. To protect the wildlife, th…

Very good point, I missed the point that the PoW is paying the publisher. I will have to dig into this, this is a pretty nice idea.

I love to model and simulate. As the dead economy theory[0] (discussion [1]) was submitted here, I decided to simulate it. It was really hard to figure out a path "good for the hum…

Proof of work, even "custom", where the user does not need a particular interaction with the page, does not work. The scrapers are running headless Chrome and solving the work. The…

Yes, but this is not the one where I wrote about politics, life and society... still, the writing style is not that different, so, I suppose an AI system would be able to easily as…

Just knowing that people could read my blog is forcing me to take better care of my writing. This is the most important reason. And only my friends and family know the address, it …

You know what? I cannot care less if people are not reading blogs anymore. I reactivated my blog because it is a lot of fun to write, a lot of fun to take the time to put down my i…

Of course, but the same way, you need to learn to use your head before using a pocket calculator.

My mother worked in this field and collaborated with IBM at that time. So yes, this is why I find these pictures even more impressive...

Looking at this picture: https://filecache.mediaroom.com/mr5mr_ibmnewsroom/201436/IBM... I am just astonished at the quality of the structure. Not only that, but the quality of the…

Confirmed. The second industry with such redistribution is oil and gas, 5-15%. My figures are from ~2005.

Here in Europe (I guess you are US based), we still have quite a lot of long tenures. This from my experience in France, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. The bigger the company, t…

Sometimes the harness can only be a human. And this is fine. Developing new software with a really smart intern is the same, you, as an expert, need to bring your experience/expert…

pandoc is my "document converter" go-to tool. Quarto is my documentation tool. For me, they are both massively used, but cover different usages.

I like the name[0][1]. [0]: https://www.britannica.com/place/Le-Creusot [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Creusot

For once, we may be "saved" thanks to Trump. Because of the brutal change in geopolitics he triggered, the EU is now actively looking at all the hard dependencies on US controlled …

Asking: As gpugreg remarked[0], this is AI slop to the point that it is impossible to trust anything from this article/blog post. As such, I flagged the submission. - I wonder, is …

Becaus ln(A*B) = ln(A)+ln(B), you need 2 sliding elements and you work in logarithmic scale. Look at "slide rule"[0], this is really nice stuff. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

You are at one edge of the gaussian curve of the sleep requirements of the human species. The problem is that many think they belong there, but are not. Enjoy what you have and let…

I am spending about 10h per day solving chemical engineering problems (dynamic simulation, model predictive control, etc.). The programming is hard on top of hard science. Even aft…

Interestingly, I used Thunderbird for years, it was really the best client for some times on Linux. But as the development stalled, I moved to Gnome Evolution, the nice integration…

They put no limits on the API usage, as long as you pay. Here, they put limits on the "under-cover" use of the subscription. If they can provide a relatively cheap subscription aga…

This was my first thought, but by default, you have no automatic reload of your prepaid account. Which I think is for once user friendly. They could have applied a dark pattern her…

This is the engineering approach in a factory. You always have multiple layers of security systems. The analogy is that each layer is a slice of Emmental cheese. You end up with a …