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Looks similar to https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

BT848 does ring a bell ^^

If my memory does not fail me, this was still being used in the late 90s/early 2000s. I remember buying a TV tuner (PCI?ISA?) card especially for the purpose of unscrambling Canal+ using tools downloaded online (I didn't have the first clue about cryptography back then).

I literally have 2 laptops, 1 tablet and 1 desktop computer at home that friends/family gave to me because they were about to throw it away. Why? Because they were too slow, ie, for some reason windows was something something. After an OS reinstall, I'll give them away to whomever need them.

I wish people didn't throw working hardware in the bin, but in my country (France) and social circles (middle class), people definitely do.

30/60 maybe?

EDIT: probably not after reading the comments. I thought I was smart ;)

I agree that there is a difference between video games.

However, I do not agree with your example. Elements of randomness don't mean a (video) game is trash, and I personally think Mario Kart requires effort to be good at. :)

>before anyone calls me a hypocrite, I paid back every renter every penny of profit I made

I wouldn't have called you a hypocrite even if you didn't pay back anything. Living in the real world™ doesn't mean you can't criticise it. If we can't challenge things we take part in, how do we improve anything?

I agree with you on something: too many discussions mention 'screen time' as if anything done on a screen was perfectly equivalent. I really feel that playing a videogame/coding/doomscrolling/watching ads/reading/... are all very different activities with different consequences.

I would be interested in knowing which country you live in? Can you elaborate what makes you say cars are better?

Oh I remember using fake CC generators in the nineties, as a teenager, and being amazed that it permitted to create accounts on some* websites.

* yes, porn

Are you insane? Then what, abolish poverty, stop human exploitation, and maintain the ecosystem that allows our species to survive? You dangerous revolutionary.

Kate?

Aren't you a lot more likely to get mugged when you're a tourist than when you're in the city you live in?

I usually use CMA-ES as a 'very easy to set and up and better than brute force' approach. Am I dumb to do that? (genuine question, no irony, optimization is not my field at all)

bayart (and most people ITT) are talking about le monde diplomatique, not le monde

It is definitely hard to remain calm in front of alternative facts. However, I believe it is a very serious issue and I would like to somehow do something against it, someday. I don't know how though; but in the meantime, I keep up to date with the latest alternative narratives Big Algorithm is willing to feed me.

>The news is still the news

Since it's impossible to cover everything that happens in the universe, choosing which news is important is a big part of being partial.

Anyway, I am less surprised that a revolutionary comrade like you is interested in knowing how the establishment thinks (to fight it I guess) than by OP's attitude, i.e., a reactionary taking interest (and judging positively) what the revolutionaries are writing. In my experience, people self-labelling as right-leaning tend to dismiss anything coming from the left as "utopian bullshit".

Oh I agree. I read tinfoil hat conspiracies, right wing media, religious stuff, ... but I wouldn't call any of these the 'best written paper'. I should have made it clearer that the rating as 'best' was the surprising part.

>Valeurs Actuelles is the far right equivalent of Le monde diplo isn't fair.

Le monde diplo often has long, dense articles written by scholars, in an almost academic style, with lots of references; plus they absolutely do not try to hide that they are expressing a critical/radical left point of view.

Valeurs actuelles on the other hand will publish anything without the bare minimum cross-checking: https://www.midilibre.fr/2021/03/31/separatisme-valeurs-actu...

Well, to me le monde belongs to moderate right-wing media, or at the very least enlightened centrism. It all depends on how left or right-leaning you feel I guess.

This is genuinely suprising to me. How can you find le diplo the best written paper in France and consider yourself right-winger? I thought anyone right of Mélenchon would not bear reading more than 2 lines of it.

You got me, rosetta, not rosetta stone.

>use my primary computer (desktop or laptop) to connect to my remote Linux servers to do this work

In my case, the primary computer is the linux desktop machine and I use the macbook to remotely connect to it when I am not home. Feels a bit weird to use a $2500 laptop as a dumb terminal, but I guess that's the world we live in (and which I am part of).

>worth the hassle to try to keep proper dev environments

In my experience, debian stable + poetry + the occasional container have been great so far. De gustibus...

A great philosopher once said:

> If you put your trust out there… if you give people the benefit of the doubt, see their best intentions… people will rise to the occasion.

(Okay I lied, it's not from a great philosopher, it's Paul Rudd playing Ned in 'Our Idiot Brother'.)

I would like to add one thing: doing the opposite is just too tiring, don't do it. Yes, some might try to take advantage of you, others might call you naive. As long as you have a functional brain, I bet you can avoid dramatic consequences. And you'll be happier and more relaxed.

Let me jump on this opportunity to give a little unpopular opinion on the M1 MBP, after 1 year of using one (being completely new to apple), since most (all?) of the comments I have seen here are dithyrambic.

Granted, the hardware is great. Silence, good perf, no heating, amazing battery life. I love this.

The software part has not been that smooth for me:

- I use the python scientific stack, and it's not there yet. This will probably improve in the future, but for now, I'm stuck using rosetta stone and well the perf is not as good as it should be.

- I thought the stability of Mac OS X would amaze me. It did not. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely OK and I did not lose any work. But I have had to 'hard poweroff' the thing quite a few times.

- As a long time debian user, and for what I do (ML, image processing, simulations), linux is just less hassle in my opinion. Homebrew helps, yes, but feels so 'second-class' compared to [your favorite distro] package manager.

Numba is better in my opinion for the use case you describe, less hassle.

However, (I think) cython is superior when:

- you want to distribute (eg as a pypi package) your code

- you want to interface with C/C++ code libs

I found out I almost never have to do this and did not touch cython since I started using numba.

I don't youtube that much but ublock+firefox and newpipe have been efficient for me.

Edit: overlooked your comment and did not see you mentioned a smart TV.

So you're not terminator-worried, just jurrasic park-worried then. (that was what my question was about)

>I'm concerned about what solving this is useful for

As for all research, it is pretty hard to predict what and what for something will be useful (despite researchers being pushed to say stuff like "my research is going to cure cancer" to get funding). But about neural networks for image processing, they certainly start to be useful for radiology.

Do you mean their potential (mis)use is creepy, or are you genuinely scared by their "abilities"?

Fancy lasagna? Try qtpy!

https://github.com/spyder-ide/qtpy