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lgeorget··on CINC Is Not Chef
Are we talking about the orchestration software, like Ansible and Puppet, or is it something else?
lgeorget··on Study finds solo music listening boosts social well-being
I know many people who say they can't live without music, cannot work or just be around home without listening to something. I understand their experience but I can't relate at all. It's not that I don't like music or that I'm particularly sensitive to noise but I practically never listen to music I put myself. I feel like I could just live without it completely.
lgeorget··on Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir
Fewer cameras, lower resolution, poor color rendering even with one camera anyway?
lgeorget··on Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
The World Meteorological Organization has data that national weather services exchange to make forecast. Apart from that, its on a country-by-country basis.

In France for instance Météo-France has released all of its historical data in January 2024: https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/organizations/meteo-france/#/dat...

lgeorget··on Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud
In other fields than computer science, that would be more the case I think because conferences are not given as much importance. Journals are what matter and since these publications take more time and are usually more selective (for the well-known journals at least), you tend to have better science in them. Computer science have few journals and the standard of publication is the conference.
lgeorget··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
In the case of VAT, it applies equally to national and foreign companies.
lgeorget··on Ear muscle we thought humans didn't use activates when people listen hard
When I read "humans didn't use", I understand that other animals with which we share close common ancestors still use it. Evolutionary pressure can make organs go into disuse so it makes sense that we end up with unused organs.
lgeorget··on Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
The definition I remember from my chemistry class is that organic compounds are those having at least one C-H bond.
lgeorget··on Three hundred words you can spell on a calculator [pdf]
And also héhé if you're being mischievous or have just closed a good deal and hoho if you're Santa Claus.
lgeorget··on Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The other day, I saw a sign on a building for a painting supply manufacturer "since 1748": https://www.tollens.com/la-marque/histoire. I found that quite amazing.
lgeorget··on Thomas E. Kurtz has died
My first ever programming language was VBA for Excel because I found a magazine with a tutorial on that laying around in my father's office, no idea why. I think the second one was the Basic on my Texas Instruments calculator.
lgeorget··on Unseen Thunderbirds film reels found in garden shed
I always assumed everything on the island was made to LOOK real, but everything was cleverly replicated and engineered.
lgeorget··on Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (2011)
I teach C++ and I made my students code a Sudoku solver last year. It's a very convenient project to give them: self-contained, already familiar, no OS-specific weirdness, you get to use STL data structures, algorithms, very gentle I/Os...
lgeorget··on How the iPhone 16's electrically-released adhesive works
Not exactly sure what you're looking at, but aren't they just stitching vias placed there for shielding purpose: https://resources.altium.com/p/everything-you-need-know-abou...?
lgeorget··on Satellite Imagery of Every Outdoor Basketball Court in the USA
No, it's from OpenStreetMap manual labelling by contributors.
lgeorget··on What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)
As a French, and as to uphold our reputation as an arrogant bunch, I though it was adopted from the French language. "moi non plus" means "me neither" so "I'm nonplussed" = "I have no idea either".
lgeorget··on Somehow This $10k Flame-Thrower Robot Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States
Presumably 10 feet is already room for plenty of fun.
lgeorget··on Somehow This $10k Flame-Thrower Robot Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States
Testing the resistance to fire of stuff.
lgeorget··on 'Eat the future, pay with your face': my dystopian trip to an AI burger joint
The bit about computer vision and being able to adapt to a new kitchen without reprogramming or to a human employee moving things around is interesting.
lgeorget··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Maybe I'm just an awful person but one of my little pleasures in life is deliberately leaving things slightly misaligned or mismatched in colors whenever I can. I don't care about it myself so it's fun watching people caring too much around me.

It also helps spotting the bikeshedders.

lgeorget··on Dubai's Floods Weren't Caused by Cloud Seeding
Impurities trigger nucleation, i.e. the formation of droplets (or more or bigger droplets, depending on the situation), in situation where the atmospheric conditions wouldn't cause them to form otherwise, thus more rain falls.
lgeorget··on Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
Among other things, perhaps the recent bombing of the Iranian section of a consulate in Damas, Syria by Israel, to which Iran responded by war threats.
lgeorget··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
That sounds awfully like market manipulation. We need something a tad more subtle.
lgeorget··on Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web?
PHP and Symfony for the backend, Bootstrap for the frontend. Very classic. DB is MariaDB and Cassandra.

We also have many internal tools in R/Shiny.

lgeorget··on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
"3 squares away" is not entirely obvious though. The definition as it stands is mathematically unambiguous. Obviously, it's not how you teach the rule to a beginner, but that's irrelevant.
lgeorget··on I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions
The official definition, as per the FIDE laws of chess [1], article 3.6 is

"The knight may move to one of the squares nearest to that on which it stands but not on the same rank, file or diagonal."

[1] https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/LawsOfChess.pdf

lgeorget··on The Bureau of Meteorology website does not support connections via HTTPS
It depends on your provider though. I can tell from experience that with OVH and their API, it's been easy to set up the automatic renewal via DNS verification. Apparently, the official client has support for the DNS API of 159 providers: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh/wiki/dnsapi
lgeorget··on Wikifunctions
It holds true mathematically speaking. You can make (mathematical) sets of everything but there's only one empty set.

It's a bit like that with pointers in C: a char* is not a int* but null pointers are convertible to any pointer type.

lgeorget··on Rationalfx is not currently accepting new customers or accepting new funds
RationalFX's entire website is redirected to https://rationalfx.com/site/not_available.html, customers' funds are unavailable, no more explanations given.
lgeorget··on After Boeing declines to pay up, ransomware group leaks 45 GB of data
We don't know how and over how much time the data was exfiltrated.
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