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wdavidw commented on Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban lemonde.fr/en/france/arti... · Posted by u/divbzero

bambax · 2 months ago

People living in houseboats along the river have been swimming in the Seine forever. And every summer, young people, possibly a little drunk, jump into the water as a dare from bridges near Notre-Dame.

But yes, this is more mainstream and open to all so it's kind of big news.

wdavidw · 2 months ago

I live on a houseboat just after paris in Meudon, facing Boulogne, we go paddle and swiming with the kids since they are 5 years old. The thing is to avoid going to the river the days after big rains. It is a very pleasant area along the Saint Germain Island (bras mort de l’Île Saint Germain)

wdavidw commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler

rcarmo · 5 months ago

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased.

It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and moved on (taoofmac.com, my blog, was started when I wrote a few very popular switcher guides, and even though I kept using the same domain name I see myself as a UNIX guy, not "just" a Mac user).

For me, Spotlight is no longer (anywhere) near as useful to find files (and sometimes forgets app and shortcut names it found perfectly fine 5 minutes ago), and there is no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage).

Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_).

wdavidw · 5 months ago

> consider it to be my "forever desktop"

Feelings shared, if only Gnome would provide this column-based file navigation that I miss so much

wdavidw commented on Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go github.com/dim0x69/mdx... · Posted by u/dim0x69

wdavidw · 10 months ago

It is similar to how CoffeeScript literate works.

wdavidw commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

wdavidw · 2 years ago

In collaboration with its customers and the community, we are building 2 complementary 100% open source data platform. TDP (https://www.trunkdataplatform.io), based on the Hadoop ecosystem, is starting to deploy in production. The second, based on the Kubernetes ecosystem, is in the making. It is a great time to join us as we are gaining momentum. If you are passionate about open source software and data-driven technologies, want to make a difference in the world of data, and become an open source contributor, we would love to hear from you.

I'm the CEO of Adaltas, if you are interested please apply here:

https://www.adaltas.com/en/careers/

wdavidw commented on Working on Multiple Web Projects with Docker Compose and Traefik georgek.github.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/globular-toast

wdavidw · 2 years ago

My work environment is now similar, using Traefik, Docker Compose and dnsmasq with easy to remember and customized fqdn such as api.myapp, www.myapp, db.myapp, … I had way too many servers to start for each project with ports to remember and creating conflict. The setup is described here: https://www.adaltas.com/en/2022/11/17/traefik-docker-dnsmasq...