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_notreallyme_ commented on Laptops with Stickers   stickertop.art/main/... · Posted by u/z303
xg15 · 3 months ago
I saw laptops like those on hackathons and always sort of assumed they were their personal machines. Kind of surprising to read here that some of those were apparently (company-owned) work laptops.

Startup culture?

_notreallyme_ · 3 months ago
Not necessarily startup. You can see some laptops with defcon stickers, it used to be very common for infosec auditors to have work laptops full of stickers not that long ago. Although, it is bad practice for read team audits, and some large companies don't like this kind of shenanigans for internal audits, so that may explain why it is less frequent nowadays
_notreallyme_ commented on Rouille – Rust Programming, in French   github.com/bnjbvr/rouille... · Posted by u/mihau
fouronnes3 · 4 months ago
As a native french speaker, I feel so uneasy reading source code in french. It feels very very uncanny. I've often wondered if English native speakers feel the same when reading normal source code which is always in English. They probably don't. But how? I've always associated the "other language-ness" to correctness and technicality. It must be so weird to code in your own language. Feels like reading bad pseudo code. It's very nice to be able to map "english" to "technical, correct" and "native language" to "descriptive, approximate, comments, pseudo-code". Having only a single language to work with is like removing a color from the rainbow.
_notreallyme_ · 3 months ago
As a native french speaker, I have the same feeling when reading code written with french keywords, except that since I learned boolean and arithmetic in french, it makes more sense to me to read them in french. As others have pointed out, it seems to only be a matter of how you learn to read and write code.

For comparison, in mathematics I learned to read all the symbols in french, and only learned their english equivalent much later, so it feels uneasy for me when i read their english version. So it is clearly a matter of habit that took its root when you learned reading.

_notreallyme_ commented on Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line   murex.rocks/... · Posted by u/modinfo
mikl · 5 months ago
Maybe I’m just not the target audience, but looking at the front page, I don’t see what actual problems this solves. The claims sound nice, but without examples of what they mean in real world use, it’s not really compelling.
_notreallyme_ · 5 months ago
I may be wrong, but it gives me some powershell vibe. Since it seems to be targeted for macOS, I would assume it "solves" the lack of powershell equivalent on Mac ?
_notreallyme_ commented on I Ported SAP to a 1976 CPU. It Wasn't That Slow   github.com/oisee/zvdb-z80... · Posted by u/weinzierl
_notreallyme_ · 7 months ago
Optimizing code on MMU-less processor versus MMU and even NUMA capable processor is vastly different.

The fact that the author achieves only a 3 to 6 times speedup on a processor running at a frequency 857 faster should have led to the conclusion that old optimizations tricks are awfully slow on modern architecture.

To be fair, execution pipeline optimization still works the same, but not taking into account the different layers of cache, the way the memory management works and even how and when actual RAM is queried will only lead to suboptimal code.

_notreallyme_ commented on A Serious Man: On Bruno Latour   jhiblog.org/2024/10/28/a-... · Posted by u/Thevet
idoubtit · a year ago
I can agree with the "lyrical philosopher" quote, but for anyone with a background in science that think that Bruno Latour was a "serious man", I suggest reading the book that made him famous: "Science in Action". It's so bad that it's funny. Out of his 7 rules for studying experimental science, the third one is outstanding:

> Since the settlement of a controversy is the cause of Nature's representation, not its consequence, we can never use this consequence, Nature, to explain how and why a controversy has been settled. (Science in Action)

Bruno Latour was among the selected few that were criticized in Sokal and Bricmont's "Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science".

_notreallyme_ · a year ago
I've had him as a sociology teacher in the early 2000s, specifically on this subject (controversies).

It was apparently his first time in this school, and he was not prepared for the controversy that happened due to his (controversial) stance on the scientific method. He ended up calling us names, and privileged kids (that part was 97% true, but not entirely true...).

It's only after his death that many articles praising him appeared. I guess people capitalize on its notoriety rather than on whatever bullshit he wrote...

_notreallyme_ commented on France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved   goldenowlhunt.com/... · Posted by u/femtozer
supergarfield · a year ago
The French Wikipedia page doesn't talk about it, but the quoted text from the English Wikipedia page involving an iron bird (and not a bronze owl) is accurate. Here's the official report of finding it: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0511/4586/7430/files/pv.co... (liked from https://editions-chouettedor.com/pages/documents-officiels).
_notreallyme_ · a year ago
Oh, thanks for the links.

What it says it that the statue should have been in bronze, but is instead in "ferrous metal" and must have been replaced around september 2005.

Anyway, the idea was that the golden one was not buried, only a "pass-out" one.

_notreallyme_ commented on France's oldest treasure hunt has been solved   goldenowlhunt.com/... · Posted by u/femtozer
vlovich123 · a year ago
> In 2021 Michel Becker became the official organiser of the treasure hunt, obtaining the sealed envelope containing the hunt solution from the family of Régis Hauser. Becker journeyed with a legal bailiff to check that the owl prize was still buried at the location revealed in the solution. He reported that when he dug at the spot he found the owl missing and instead found a rusty iron bird. He replaced this rusty bird with a new bronze owl so that the treasure hunt could continue

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Trail_of_the_Golden_O...

Sounds like somebody actually had already solved it?

_notreallyme_ · a year ago
The english version is weird. It was planned from the beggining that they would bury a bronze owl.

The bronze owl was to be exchanged with the precious metal one. In the french news, they specifically mentioned that the bronze one was found.

If you think about it, it makes more sense. The co-founder was given the rights to the original treasure hunt because he is the owner of the valuable owl. He is the one who financed the whole thing.

_notreallyme_ commented on Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot   github.com/misprit7/foosb... · Posted by u/misprit7
tectec · 2 years ago
The tables I've seen with one goalie have raised corners so that the ball doesn't get stuck there. You see it more on budget tables in my experience.
_notreallyme_ · 2 years ago
Or on official tables according to the International Table Soccer Federation.

From what I've seen during my travels, there are lot of variations for foosball tables. Each countries seem to have their own variations.

_notreallyme_ commented on Paris's Catacomb Mushrooms (2017)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/jihadjihad
surfingdino · 2 years ago
> Paris is very complicated underground. Besides the quarries there are the sewers, catacombs, some underground lakes, reservoirs, etc. It is definitely a complicating factor when planning new metro tunnels.

I wonder if the French are considering digging underneath all those obstacles? Seems to be the way London has gone with the Elizabeth Line. Although that may still be shallower than Paris' quarries and lakes.

_notreallyme_ · 2 years ago
> I wonder if the French are considering digging underneath all those obstacles?

The problem is the Seine phreatic zone, which starts usually between 15 to 25m below the surface. Some GRS galleries are actually completely inundated and others have a level of water that varies between the seasons.

In order to have some metro going underneath the Seine river, they had to freeze it first. It is not an easy task, so there must be a real advantage to going under the Seine.

_notreallyme_ commented on Citation Needed – Wikimedia Foundation's Experimental LLM/RAG Chrome Extension   chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/brokensegue
jimbobthrowawy · 2 years ago
It really shouldn't, considering they have a rule about not using primary sources.
_notreallyme_ · 2 years ago
Yes, they explicitly classify wikipedia as a tertiary source [1].

Wikipedia is good for finding secondary source, and then primary sources by following the links.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Primary_Secondary_an...

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