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I really enjoy single-executable Rust things - that's what I use for building web apps (SSR). But it's not that widespread (for now ?).

I did. Modern projector have the same spying shit nowadays. Streaming apps, games, ads and all.

My fav is this :

> Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.

This is so true, and not only under Windows. Install any modern program under any modern OS and have a look at the filesystem, it's a flaming mess. Nowadays the only solution "smart people" have found is to install a complete system, complete with libraries and frameworks, for each program.

I miss the days of simple executables.

I'm also vegan except for fish. And meat.

Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.

Same same. People raise an eyebrow, ensure they got it correctly then they move on.

Sure. In a good way.

I dunno about that. I'm living in the mountains (French Alps) and it's unusually dry here. Trees are dying.

If it doesn't survive a power loss it may not survive a kernel crash.

They also say that the Pixel 11 is a very very tiny improvement wrt the Pixel 10, with less RAM and more expensive.

So basically they say don't buy it, wait for the Motorola phones.

I said elsewhere this doesn't survive a power loss.

Indeed this is hard to believe : a common theme here on HN is how EU and particularly France taxes too much people earning money.

> Usually, this is money taken from people that aren't well off either... So it's not a clear cut positive.

Well in France I tend to think the taxes are pretty progressive, so the money isn't taken from poor people. But yes, somehow the ultra-wealthy people always manage to escape what they owe.

Or Deepseek, Qwen, any other open model hosted by whoever you trust most.

Their social credit score is the same thing as the US credit rating individuals are scored with.

You will never see those in the EU.

Not on YouTube.

Indeed (French here). 12h time is still there in spoken language sometimes, but never in writing.

I learnt English as a kid with the 12h time, but UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. I was supposing USA was the same. Obviously not.

> Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme".

Ooh that explains a lot.

I knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.

Ok right. I didn't know people were used to that.

OK, but who would use 12h time ? I never understood, this seems so backwards.

Hey we did that at engineering school in the early 90s. Pranks were a little less ... subtle shall we say.

Still, to this day I still can't walk off my desk with locking my screen. So the lesson was well taught, and I'm happy about that (and have find memories of the various pranks).

Very hot in summer, very cold in winter.

Indeed these people have an immense ego that I would qualify as abject. But not their AI. It's not sentient yet.

AI has no self-interest, because it has no self. You are mistaken.

Then I am kidding myself, because I'm convinced it does a lot more.

OK sure your 6 figures thing or even that 20k thing are way better testers than the Treedix. But for my use case, i.e. verify what's actually in the cable (not blindly trusting the marker) the latter is sufficient and very ergonomic, and the "real" testers are overkill.

Exactly my use case.

And I have nothing to gain from that sale.