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A guy told me once that he used his interrail ticket to sleep in the trains and save the cost of a hotel. He'd spend half the night going to a random destination and the other half…

This article is very ironic: it is written by the CERN's Ombud, who has a lifetime employment contract like all of CERN's management, and probably obtained it at a time when CERN w…

Yes. As Sartre said: The cloud is just other people's hell.

Yes, it's serious for _most devs_ who have code that could run on k8s: back-end devs. And _most_ devs who touch anything in FE, mobile apps, IoT, DBAs also have to touch the corres…

IMO, it's not silly at all. Most devs have to know the commands and configuration to do rolling deployments on the target infrastructure, fetch logs, how the readiness protocoll in…

My university did ban p2p, no matter the content. Officially for upload bandwidth savings.

I find the gigatron very interesting for this. It bypasses all the vhdl/tooling complexity. https://gigatron.io/

I wish more language constructs used postfix notation. It looks so natural to me when reading from left to right. Consider: [a+2 for a in as if a > 3] Vs as.filter(a -> a > 3).map(…

I really wish I could whitelist which contacts each app could see, so WhatsApp only sees the ones I want on that app.

I wonder if a fix to many "too big to fail" and "winner takes all" market and public/private power imbalance issues, isn't simply this: mandatory split up beyond a certain size.

Everybody's Right by Paolo Sorrentino. He's better known for directing movies.

And I was sure they would give it to Archimboldi this time!

> This brings to mind articles and discussions I read in the early 90s about differences in performance between running in real (or "unreal") mode and protected mode I remember a 1…

The 6 universes are not equiprobable. 1+2, 3+4 and 5+6 are equiprobable (1/3 each). 1 and 2 are equiprobable (1/6 each), 3 and 6 are impossible (0 each), 4 and 5 are equiprobable (…

The Motos are well supported by aftermarket ROMs if you want updates. They might be among the cheapest with this.

We use the prostitute analogy a lot with my techie friends. Just don't tell my parents that I write software. I pretend to work at Starbucks.

I use Firefox sync for my web needs and a plain text file (on my encrypted laptop) for everything else that doesn't fit into that. The more sensitive stuff (credit card, computer u…

I am not into mechanical watches at all, but I see a big point that is common with software: the incredible scale of the complexity that can be reached by a craftsman. You often ha…

Your first point is IMO too often understated. The fact that our executive branch comes from most parties in the parliament, instead of a barely-reaching 50% coalition like in most…

Oh dear, it's WGA all over again

There is no amount in the vote. What people will vote on is to add the following article to the constitution: Art. 110a Unconditional basic income 1. The Confederation shall ensure…

With gnome-terminal, I get a notification when a command finishes in a terminal that isn't on the foreground. It's very useful.

Yay! The language module is a 1.5MB JavaScript beast and people routinely complain about 150KB frameworks on HN. Are there plans to have a whole program optimisation pass to prune …

I don't think knowing that is usefull. "Single processors" are all superscalar or pipelined these days, so the colossal single-thread FLOP numbers are counted as an aggregation ove…

A killer feature of the Ceylon programming language is its typesafe metamodel. Metamodel references are refactored like everything else in eclipse.