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I stil daily drive a 2016 iPhone 5. I can relate. I can relate

I got a pixel 8 recently as replacement. Put grapheneos on it.

But can’t get myself to use it.

Bummer, I was really looking forward to that.

“Oh you are correct, it is a school, I see it now »

Unlike the Rafale ! That’s a true European jet

Sorry, I was being facetious and it does not show in writing.

I respect teacher work deeply and think they should be vastly more compensated than they are.

The fact that it you are a teacher it might be complex to buy a house and have kids is mind boggling.

I agree with your comment.

Cinder blocks. That what you are missing here.

Lots of house in France are made of that. Not “rocks” and that is a co2 intensive process to produce concrete.

See : Lafarge

I live in NeW Orleans. Where 90% of the housing stock is made of wood.

So the 5% French figures in 2025 confirm my impression. Most stuff are not made of wood in France.

Maybe it’s a language thing : when I say « made of wood » I mean that no stone are involved. There is no percentage. The whole frame is 2 by 4 from Home Depot.

Can you work well in a team ?

Being a work horse is nice. But if you can’t work with others, that might be one you are on the layoff list

I used to think that.

And then I started working for a different kind of companies.

I screen out any structure with VC money.

It means I work for company that you never heard of, but that are profitable year after year.

How? They are very careful who gets in. And they make sure everyone is actually useful. Ration manager to worker is really really low.

Oh, and they build a product with the intends of selling it. Crazy, I know.

I do that in real life. Currently with luffa seeds.

Much more fun than any app could be.

I don’t water them regularly but I run with twines and a bottle of fertilizer.

For a decent description of machine society you can check the Culture cycle form Ian Banks. AI are backing an organic society but they are also have their own.

Or Hyperion, fron Simmons. ( the « techno-center is a decentralized computing and plotting government)

Not with that attitude for sure. If the US or / and European union do that, it’s already a big chunk

I wish you interesting time!

I’m very familiar with Postgres and spinning one with postgis seems easy enough. Do I get more with duckdb?

Most of the time I store locations and compute distance to them. Would that being faster to implement with duckdb

I see your point and I agree. Grabber “the dawn of everything” comes to mind on that “noble savage” phenomenon

That being said : there is something to be said about the Spanish cargo culting those canals in that specific plain… and failing to maintain it.

While we know it was fertile for generation before.

The article hint at private ownership being a factor? I could see that.

But 100% agree : I spend the article asking “ok, what is the culture then”

But it looks like it happen: irrigation work Spanish take over irrigation it stop working

I suspect sabotage was a bit factor, too.

It’s great. Thanks for doing that. The French concurrence authority would probably love that type of reasoning. Specially now that the US is officially an adversarial entity.

HN and signal groups are my only social media.

I’m very social. I don’t think I miss much notification of “stuff to do”

( signal groups : large groups hitting the 1000 member limit. With drastic moderations. Example : only music flyer. Anything else is deleted under minutes )

It’s imply a next administration. And ediction of new regulation.

I had the same initial reaction but time will tell.

Is libel free speech ?

Out of curiosity, what is a good course of action ?

Oh. You tried nothing and it’s over ?

Out of curiosity what works to obtain results beside voting every now and then ?

It’s a bummer but we elected this fair and square. We need to face the music . I’ve been specifically looking for outrage on Canada on right leaning media. It’s not easy to find.

I think it will take a minute to sink in. The US was already leaking soft power since one or two decade. But now it’s hemorrhaging it.

How ?

Oh for sure. It’s just a question of who own the kill switch. In the context of Russia grabbing land in Eastern Europe and the US aligning with Putin… a French or German kill switch sounds better.

It’s been happening pretty consistently in France.

The cops are rolling their own distro :)

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

I think it’s wise. Not idea if it’s good

That was a talking point in French newspaper when Germany bought those. While they could have bough perfectly fine Rafales. Tss

I have friends working on the French Rafale. Really expensive plane, mildly successful so far.

They are really busy right now.

That my take on the whole AI coding industry. It’s on part with stackoverflow responses.

You mean… less financial market performance ? That’s the downside/response to an alliance with Russia?

Whaou.