baud147258

I don't know how exactly IT at work did it, but all links in emails (except some internal links) get replaced with a link to an url 'checker', I guess to block if the link goes to a known phishing domain (I guess, I don't think any link got blocked that way). Issue is, the original link is part of the url and sometime got mangled and it's annoying when you just want to copy the link to paste it somewhere else.

> If you want passengers to want your plane, design it without sardines in mind; People don't like being sardines.

Isn't that something that's more the responsibility of the airlines, who decide how many seats are put in a plane, following the limits of the aircraft? Like if you want more legroom you take a more expensive ticket from a company that doesn't try to cram as many passengers in each plane

If you're using ublock, you can remove elements on webpages, including the area where shorts are on the YT pages. It's what I did on my mobile to stop watching them.

On mobile I use Youtube with Firefox and Ublock Origin never had any issue with it.

20 hours? You were a quick one, that took me close to 40. Though I never was a very good driver, the car I crashed can attest to that (and thankfully with no corporal damage other than a bruised ego).

> they were doomed before the Russian invasion since they were out of oil

Didn't they were receiving oil (and other raw materials) from the URSS beforehand?

edit: found a figure on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_economic...

I don't know if that'd cover the war needs in oil of Germany, but once they had started a war with the soviet, they had no choice but to try to get to the Caucasus for the oil.

While not on the same scale as Toronto's underpass, the Université Laval in neighboring Quebec has an underground walkway linking many of the building, including some of the dorms. Once when I was studying there I went to class in slippers from my dorm, without stepping outside. Though even during winter I didn't use them much, I found a bit too depressing to stay cooped up inside all day long, plus a few parts were very crowded.

I didn't said empires were good, just that in the rhetoric 'empires are bad', the Roman empire isn't the best example, especially since the roman usually didn't engage in forceful cultural destruction.

It was honestly a bit of trolling.

Personally I don't see New Caledonia getting independent anytime soon, because the current French government isn't interested in granting it and the Kanaks don't have the numbers or foreign support to stage a successful independence war.

> It does not have many problems that most other western countries do not also have.

I'd be interested in knowing what you think those problems are?

Wasn't the Roman empire better than most contemporary polities? Like it created a long era of peace in a significant area and successfully integrated various population, culminating in the 3rd century where all free men were made roman citizens. If you'd ask under which ancient polity I would prefer to live, chance are I'll choose the Roman empire.

Burning cars and rioting after the last three referendums (which had excluded 100k people who had arrived after 1998) didn't go your way is sure a way to get ahead in politics.

Also what would be your proposed solution? Make the island be independent and let the Kanak expulse anyone who isn't like them? Because such blood and soil were usually spouted by people wearing brown shirts in Europe in the 30s.

> they poured all their efforts into the Maginot Line because fortifications and prepared positions were the thing to do... only to be trounced with the mobility and swiftness of blitzkrieg.

My position might be revisionist on that matter, but I think the Maginot line worked as planned: the goal was to force the German to go around (mostly through the Low Countries), reducing the frontage where they'd have to fight. The German did exactly that, but also pushed through the Ardennes, which the Allied planners hadn't though possible.

I can't say for Google, but at work it's more or less how it works at the office (mostly software dev, half a team does some firmware/hardware), but it's more ad-hoc than as a rule. Like all the teams are small, all the TLM equivalents started as devs before being promoted to their management position, so they have time to do some technical work; how much and what technical work depends on the team, some are still directly contributing to the team's products, others are more on (technical) ancillary tasks, which can be interrupted by management questions with less impact on the development.

I find that it works well, the TLM keep a foot in the action, so to speak and has a better idea of what's happening with the product being developed, what issues we're facing (also in terms of tools, environments...) and it keeps their knowledge of the product more up to date. Of course with their background, I wouldn't say they are all the greatest at managing, but I don't think they've ever done big mistake on that side of their role. So in short in our case it works, but it could just be a consequence of the local organisation and people working there.

While the West aren't really the good guy, I think there is an argument that could be made that the West is the better guy. Because while government outreach like those discussed are a scary possibility in the West nowadays, in the 'East' (more like Russia & China), it is a given and there are no recourse.

> Chinese coal usage in absolute terms has recently started to decrease

That's not what the data I had linked above seems to indicate (2023 to 2024 it went from 5.7 to 5.8 TWh)

And it keeps building coal power plants: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants, though the article is also optimistic that China is at/about to reach peak coal.

And it's also funding coal power plants abroad, thought the scale doesn't seem that big compared to their domestic production: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/China-Con...

They're still massively using coal and using more and more of it.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...

> unnecessary blood on his hands

While the debate on the bomb is not and never will be settled, I'm not sure I'd call the bloodshed caused by Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be unnecessary: it ended up a war that had caused so far millions of death.

And what social epistemology, actually?

I'd say it's the same rules as any other (swimmable) river in France, from the big to the small. Maybe it'd make more sense just for smaller rivers, but where do you draw the line? Like it's easier and simpler to just use the same set of rules

as 32 year old, I can confirm I used BIC pen (or similarly shaped pencils) to rewinds tapes.

Maybe the particular school you went to was terrible _for you_, but personally I learned a lot, both which helped me both at the (local equivalent) university I went after school and later in life.

> I was born and _bought_ up in the town ranked #4 in the original list (Hythe)

Blimey, it must have been horribly dreadful there if people were selling and buying children

> what do you use it for?

recreational shooting. Though that's not exactly high utility

> perpetual adaptation to technology musicians have met

Didn't it also went with an important reduction in the number of people who could make a living out of that?

Funnily enough, I think that's the first time I heard that Dutch oven has another meaning, beyond the cooking apparatus.

Maybe the author saw a bunch of hits coming from HN and edited his post to add the link to the discussion? It doesn't seem as if the author themselves posted their article.

> "I'm going to deep-dive this topic" to "... and now I need to go to the library, and possibly a specific library, maybe on another continent"

I remember an history professor saying that for a subject he was working on he had to borrow a book from the library of Congress (through the library of his university), where the only publicly available copy in the US was. Of course it was an academic book, so it's not exactly a common situation.

in France I got a bunch of equivalent take-home tests, between high school and graduate level, mostly in math and science. The teacher would give us exercice equivalent to what we'd get in our exams and we'd have one week to complete it (sometimes in pairs) and it'd be graded as part of that semester

that's why there's still two completly different UI for managing settings? With some settings available in an UI done in the new, flat style and the old control panel that's still there?

> Why is a bike going 20kph suddenly a problem?

because the bike can and will use the sidewalk if there's not bike lane.