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The Galahad scene about the Castle of Anthrax? The animated butts in the transitions?

Well, TIL. Though it might not be so clear cut: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lithium-batteries-environmen... (article from 2018).

I've heard that this will be a disaster for amateur astronomy. Yet Starlink is claiming that their mitigation techniques will avoid the problem [0]. I can't tell if their claim is sound. Can someone with expertise weigh in?

0:https://www.spacex.com/updates/starlink-update-04-28-2020/in...

I recognized the name from the game Stay?[0] A very good game I heartily recommend if you're into fantasy.

0: https://ejadelomax.itch.io/stay

Parent said nothing about only men being interested in controlling women. On the contrary, liberation of women can be liberation from mothers, mother in-laws, grandmothers...

That's because men are not victims of a system tailored to others' needs. Women are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_India

> Liberating women from what exactly?

Take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_women_in_Indi...

Could you please develop how to do paging with window functions?

It's been some time since I've done serious work with SQL yet I remember that all paging solutions I've found (eg. top results on SO) are always platform-specific so having a platform-independent way of doing it would mean I could finally try to remember it.

Lots of game codepoints. I'm especially impressed with the mahjong set. Less so with the dominoes, they seem near-unreadable in any size below 14pt.

I'm genuinely curious, could you explain how the touchscreen is a disaster?

I haven't seen a Tesla interior so when you say "all controls" it's a bit concerning. I'm assuming you're talking only of non-driving related control...

Not on the same scale but, in France, fire alarms are tested every first Wednesday of the month at midday sharp. Though you don't hear them from everywhere so it can still be quite a shock after a few years of not hearing it.

Always impressed by Mel's story.

Good on you for knowing already. But not everyone knows or knows how deep the rabbit hole goes. And articles like this are good reminders or good ways to learn.

My French bias is going to show but I wonder how Renault's Zoe is doing. It's been out for 6 years. Granted, Renault is completely absent from the US market and the car is uh... really not marketable for the US (it's tiny).

22 recorded attempts in 12 years. But is that a lot or not? Do we have comparable lists for Stalin, Mao or FDR? Otherwise it's just a single data point.

Though I'll concede that having the list for him and not others does point to more attempts...

For the racism part: France, as an ex-empire, is very attractive to its former colonies' students. And we have agreements to make it easier for them to come. So we get many students from Africa or the Middle East, often on merits and/or scholarships. In my engineering school, there were students from Turkey, Sudan (might be South Sudan now)...

Raising the price of tuition will mostly impact people from these countries rather than people from other European or American countries.

Thank you for this!

Especially this part:

>SE rolled out a new Code of Conduct and insisted everyone will respect people's pronouns[1]. Long standing, well respected, polite, moderator Monica Cellio stopped being a moderator in uncertain conditions, but AFAIK she tried to use gender-neutral language when someone's gender was known, and SE steamrollered her for it.

I'd seen Monica Cellio's resignation and the general reaction when SE announced the new CoC and was really weirded out when all the answers to said CoC were of the "but do I _really_ have to use people's pronouns? And what if they post it after/elsewhere? Can I be punished for that?" variety. It looked (to me) like everyone was trying to avoid a weirdly specific case.

Knowing that's what happened to Monica Cellio makes it a lot clearer.

In France we have them. There's "école primaire" from 6 to 10 (5 years), "collège" from 11 to 14 (4 years) and "lycée" from 15 to 17 (3 years). Anecdotally, most people I spoke to felt that middle school years were the hardest: figuring themselves out, low popularity but high-stakes social games. High school was somewhat easier, people have found their cliques and the pressure from the harder work and longer hours left less time to play social games.

Off-topic but I have to get it off my chest: the years from middle school onwards have the dumbest names in France. They're named by counting backwards to the end of high school. So you start at "sixième" (sixth), go up to "cinquième" (fifth)... all the way to "première" (first), which is the before-last year! The last year is, of course, "terminale" (last, as in 'last in a series'). I'd love to convert to a sane naming scheme.

I don't know much about infosec but I know enough to see that this tool is not ready. It's really scary. Also the fact that it's not discussed much, here in France. It's the first time I've heard of it. From a country that has had a government agency for protecting digital liberties since 1978 (which made laws about what data you can and cannot keep as a software provider) it's a big change of direction.

As someone not from the US, the passages about how easy it was are clear reminders that just because only the NSA got caught, does not mean only the NSA was doing it. Even if they have by far the biggest budget...

I'll remember two very good points from this:

- Blackberry sales' went up until Nov. 2010 and then it was too late, Apple and Android had the market. Wile E Coyote indeend. - it took ten years from the mobile operators getting the 3G licences before smartphones got really good (and then everybody wanted one).

The parallel with AR and VR seems on point but aren't things faster now?

I have the same general experience with my wife: we've learned to communicate and it's a skill that needs to be practiced on both sides. Otherwise, especially if we're tired or emotionally worn out, we each speak "clearly" but the other doesn't understand. Now we know that I must ask for clarification (even when there doesn't seem to need one) and she mustn't think I'm making fun of her or deliberately wasting her time. If we don't, we end up fighting because "all the clothes can go in the dryer" actually means I should still check.

Loved the article. Great writing style!

Especially loved all the links to Facebook :D

I agree with the basic premise (too much noise, the product needs to evolve) but I'm very frustrated because the author goes from that analysis directly to:

> The two major things Twitter needs to solve for are the algorithm of the dashboard (what content shows up in your feed and why) and length of tweets.

Why? I can see a correlation between the noise and the algorithm but the length? Why should it change? It feels like the beef of the analysis is missing.

No: the accent is only dropped when it doesn't affect pronunciation. When it's used to differentiate between two words, otherwise spelled the same, it stays.

And the reform was deigned 25 years ago, so there is no link between it and the desire to create a simpler keybord.

That's the thing, this specific reform only removes the accent when it doesn't have any impact. It's really about cleaning up inconstencies and weird edge cases.

> his primary pitch is a reduction of costs

I understood it the other way around: the bureaucracy was willing to pay the bill for the closed source options, thinking a large maintenance fee meant fast support. The author, on the other hand, wanted a system that would be more agile, with faster updates, easier maintenance and standards:

"it was horribly inefficient, a maintenance nightmare, not user friendly, and agility was measured in decades.

Our job was to take that mess and fix it. The idea was to build a standard hardware and software platform [...]."

So, as I understand it, easier work for him and his team and indirectly lowering the barrier of entry for future vendors, allowing more competition or a way to fix things themselves. Pretty much the true benefits of open source if you ask me.

TL;DR: 36 prizes from 1963 to now, 22 of them still running. None have been claimed.

Well, that settles that...

I was a bit surprised to see that's it's "Free – with Full Source" until I saw that you "only pay for the AWS services you choose to use". So it's a really complex way to bring more business to AWS.

Still it's a nice initiative and could be a win-win. Especially with the rising movement of stream-to-play (is it the right name for when you don't install a game, but stream it directly from the cloud?).

There are screenshots on the second page of the menu [1] and directly on the page.

I do agree that putting them on the front page would have made a better experience.

[1]: http://exlcom.jimdo.com/about-exlcom/