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1887 is in the beginning of France electrification it could indeed be electricity poles (mostly haphazard efforts in France from 1880 to 1890-ish but it’s the entrance of Paris so not an unlikely candidate).

Alternatively that could also be part of the telegraphs system which was fairly widespread at the time (the painting is of one of Paris gates).

They are perfectly aware that their excuse is flimsy and doesn’t hold scrutiny but they don’t care. Like they didn’t care that Parisians didn’t want the game and it’s just an ego trip from the worst mayor the city has ever had. They didn’t care that they won’t be ready in time despite having made the city a living hell for the past three years. And they didn’t care that the tickets were completely unaffordable for the average French.

These games will probably be the worst ever. No one wants them in France. I can already foresee mass strikes and protests and to be honest it makes me very happy. The Olympic Games are now a purely commercial endeavour which would make their founders ashamed of what they created.

Coffee is mostly ingredient however. Good luck doing a good coffee with poorly roasted or stale beans while fresh beans will give you a proper cup using a press even if you do it extremely poorly (in so much as you can even mess up a press).

My daily reminder that France and therefore the EU has a land border with Brazil.

You learn something everyday. For whatever reason I was convinced there was no bijection between R and its cross-products which is extremely wrong.

Nothing surprising here.

The cross products of countable set are countable and a bijection between N and NxN which you can then extend as been known for ages.

The whole thing falls apart as soon as you use continuous set.

It was developed by the IETF in a working group led by engineers from Cisco and Nokia. It’s approximately as far from an academic solution as you can get.

The issue is not NAT as a firewall. Every routers shipped to customers also come with a firewall and replicating what NAT does by default is dead simple. That’s a red herring.

The issue is that migrating to ipv6 meant changing equipments on the backbone and dealing with the change and no operator wanted to bear the cost. It’s getting better now that there is a dearth of ipv4 and people see an immediate benefit.

People expect respect not hand holding. That kind of comment equating people with children is what gets you rightfully labelled as a jerk.

Knowing it would barely help you. Both titles are amongst the most overused in the industry. They can mean widely different things in different companies.

The article is pretending that having a meeting not only waste half a day but actually waste a full day. Your point B is not reflective of the actual content we are discussing.

Attending meetings is part of doing your jobs. Meetings exist for a purpose. The whole attitude that all meetings are somehow a waste of your precious time show that you both are unable to grasp what’s happening and are strongly entitled. I’m not surprised to see it fully on display here considering the readership but you have to understand that it’s why people who interact with developers find them hard to work with and is largely responsible for the stereotype of the software dev as some kind of eternal adolescents you see on display in most business.

I have been both an engineer doing engineering work (I hate the word “maker”) and a manager. I found this article infuriating and still do.

This article is a pure product of this period when software developers thought themselves as extremely special and above such petty issues as having to attend meetings. It’s entitlement masquerading as wisdom. The truth is everyone has to balance their time between obligations and slots they can allocate to do longer work. Writers have to meet their editor. Artists have to plan for the logistic of their exhibitions. That’s part of life.

You can work for a bit do something else and get back to what you were doing. If you can’t that’s an issue with you, not the nature of your work.

No one is complaining A is not B. Everyone is complaining that macOS lacks some fairly basic UX options and is being neglected by Apple which corrects these flaws at a glacial pace.

You don’t try to. You just say are not doing take home in a firm and polite way expecting things to end there and sometimes they think it’s still worth interviewing you.

> “safe”

No idea of why you quote the word. Alcohol consumption is demonstrably unsafe. The estimate is that alcohol kills around 140 000 people per year in the USA. It's just legal because criminalisation was tried and proven to be not only useless but actually more harmful to society through its side effects, a situation similar to the one we are still having with all the other drugs which are still illegal basically.

The Navy is listening at all time but sounds travel weirdly in sea water due to temperature and salinity gradients and submarines tend to travel through zones where their own sound isn't carried very well. They might have been ordered to move to a point where they would have been more likely to hear the Titan.

I agree with you but I also realise it’s very hard to imagine what a proper tempest on the sea feels like if you are never experienced it on a ship. It’s an experience which is so far removed from a modern person traditional experience - a sunny summer day at the beach - that they just can’t grasp it.

You are confused. The issue is not about working harder. The issue is with producing value.

I have yet to met a protester who can explain to me how burning cars and picketing is going to magically move down the median age of the population which is slowly but surely drifting towards 50. Considering most French also don’t want to rely on immigration (not that the country is attractive anyway), I guess they are either planning to force people to make kids at gunpoint or are strongly in denial.

Don’t hesitate to explain who is this mysterious "they" who are apparently responsible of everything wrong in the country.

Classic French answer confusing the fairly good situation in the country for a disaster.

France has been for the past sixty years and remains an extremely technocratic country. Counter-powers are still everywhere in the administration. The judiciary system is fully independent and works well. The balance between the parliament and the executive is extremely in favour of the president (which is still elected every five years during free elections) but counter-powers exist. They can’t be used by the opposition because despite spending all their time crying wolf and explaining this is the end of the world, they remain a minority and have nothing to propose anyway.

The issue in France remains the same it has always been. The population is old, largely apathetic and would much rather be on the dole than produce anything of value. Meanwhile the unions are extremely unrepresentative of the population as a whole and remain stuck in the Trotskyist heydays of the past.

I think what you do on a daily basis has a huge impact to how you deal with this. When I was mostly focused on a single issue at a time for long strench of time, I used to be reluctant to call people and didn't really plan things for my personnal life. As my job shifted towards more organisational responsibilities and I had to start both carefully planning how I use my own time and spending a lot more time contacting people to get things done, these things started slowly expanding to the rest of my time by cheer force of habit. What is one more call to the guy who should have trimmed the tree when you have spent the day asking people why they are behind schedule?

I think it goes well with the anxiety explanation. You are obviously less anxious about things which are just business as usual. I guess my take away would be that if you want to start doing something you find hard, it will get easier and easier as you stick with it, which is pretty nice when you think about it.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to understand from this article.

Using off-the-shelf parts is par for the course even on military boats and submarines. They are far cheaper than custom made parts with fault rates which are acceptable. With proper maintenance and redudancy, this is not at all an issue.

The issue here is the carelessness of the team, the lack of proper safety engineering and an utter disregard for industry best practices. The equipment is not the issue. These specific practices would have led to an unsafe submarine even with custom made parts.

The issue is not the veracity of the statistics. The statistic is correct (I have never implied otherwise by the way - no idea why I'm downvoted so much as what I wrote is perfectly true, the proportion of people who don't want kids is higher once you remove people who already had kids).

The issue is in the interpretation. Your sampling is biased so the immediate conclusion is false. If you want kids and are over 30, your chances are better than 50%.

That's survivorship bias. You have eliminated from the sample all the people who wanted to have kid and already have one. It's unsurprising that people who don't want kids and will never have some are overly represented in the new sample.

Your manager is not an idiot.

They generally can tell who is failing to deliver because they are constantly stuck on trivial things and who genuinely can’t do more and need help. If you go see your manager because the team next door is blocking you explaining clearly what you have tried and why you need the issue to be escalated you just sound professional. Same thing if you can tell you are going to be late in your delivery and need something specific done to help especially if you do it with a lot of time left.

Also I have a pro-tip. Managers intentionally ask people they view as competent and trustworthy to do the thorny things that need to get done. So surprisingly the people who are expected to need the most help are often the most valued.

> It only allows you to connect to a server instance via unencrypted http://

Hmm, no, it doesn’t. No idea why you believe that. It works perfectly fine with https url.

I don’t really understand the rest of your comment as indexing and metadata look ups are done by the server and not the client. Plus Swiftfin uses VLC under the hood so it shouldn’t have issue with playback.

Are you using the fairly recent stable version or are you experience on an older development version? Swiftfin has been officially available for only a month.

That’s in line with the response I’m used to get from cybersecurity teams at the large company I work for. It is neither reasonable nor appropriate in tone but I have got used to it being apparently the best they can do/can be bothered to write.

For the transcoding setting, they are indeed in the user profile and work since day-1 as inherited from the Emby fork. It does 100% disable all transcoding for this user.

> I have specific content jellyfin doesn't work with where Kodi is fine

Very surprising as Jellyfin is just a passthrough to Kodi. Did you open a bug report?

> I am just sharing my experience with this software package.

Every post here about an open source project be it Firefox or Jellyfin always see plenty of people sharing their experience with it from a decade ago and panning things that actually work. I usually just read them and move on but sometimes I like to give a counterpoint when it’s about a piece of software I consider quite good.

> I didn't like that you can't outright disable transcoding for content served via their app or in the browser.

You can outright disable transcoding. That’s a checkbox in the server option.

> both this and the native Android app do not handle Dolby vision or passthrough atmos content properly

They do out of the box. Never had an issue with either transcoding disabled. If you have properly configured the source content, Jellyfin is just a passthrough for Kodi and content is directly accessed using the network share.

How is it silly?

PS:T is a cRPGs not a visual novel. There is an actual game you have to play around the dialogues and this game is not particularly complex, engaging or even that fun as demonstrated by the rest of my comment lamenting the part of the game after Raven’s maze which is notorious for having lots of boring combats and less dialogue than the rest of the game.

People excuse the mechanics both because the plot was original and because they have forgotten as this part of the game is unremarkable. It still make for a less than stellar experience when you play it today.