johncoltrane

Since when does VLC produce content?

Casio Pro Trek PRW-30Y: solar powered, radio controlled, tough, big digits… a zero maintenance marvel. Peak watch IMO.

Don't let them watch YouTube/TV on their own for hours on end. Instead, set a dedicated daily slot and be with them for answering questions, providing perspective… and most importantly having fun with your kids.

J.R.R. Tolkien: The lord of the Rings (lost count)

Philip K. Dick: Ubik, Flow My Tears The Policeman Said, A Scanner Darkly, etc. too many to count (many more than twice)

William Gibson: everything at least twice

Neal Stephenson: Snow crash (three times, I think)

Clifford D. Simak: City

H. P. Lovecraft: everything at least twice. There is a French compilation of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Silver Key, and Through the Gates of the Silver Key that I've read countless times. I've used two editions and I'm at my third.

Maurice G. Dantec: Babylon Babies (three times)

Possibly many others.

Notational Velocity's last update was in 2011. Still works like a charm 15 years and 14 macOS releases later.

Using high-schoolers and students to stir things up has been a traditional MO of the french "left-of-the-left" for decades. It's not particularly hard to convince a group of teenagers to skip class and join a "manif'". From there it's all just a walk in the park for "agitateurs" to turn them into cannon fodder and set up the good old "bavure" trap for the government.

The big selling point is that everything stays in the same window.

- The split view is a special looking tab you can come too easily. - You can have several split views in the same window. - Selecting what tab you want in the split view is much cleaner than tearing off tabs into windows. - No conceptual switch between "tab" and "window".

The _real_ problem with news is that, positive or negative, they are mostly irrelevant to one's real life and non-actionable. The negative stuff pushes you down and you can't do shit about any of it. The positive stuff pulls you up but it's all about people, places and things that don't actually matter.

Filtering out the negativity only leaves you with useless positivity.

Well, engaging in subversive activities comes with some level of risk, Emily, you should have known that.

Easy: do not hand _any_ decision to LLMs.

Everywhere I worked, PMs were ultimately in charge of deciding what gets shipped and when so "is this feature shipped yet?" is the last question I would expect from them.

It's probably a good thing that you build this but there definitely are deeper issues at play, here.

Yes, "just". Because the Morocco bit of the article is mostly inconsequential. Those unsolicited telemarketing calls are extremely annoying no matter who is calling and from where. That's what this is all about.

> Or is it deliberately done because it is cheaper?

Well, of course it is.

> Why not have these in France proper giving jobs to French people?

Because you would have to pay them French wages, which would make no economical sense. If anything, the fact that most of that industry is abroad probably makes it easier to pass such a law.

Morocco is just where lots of french-speaking call centers are located. The industry generates a non-negligible part of Morocco's GDP and most of the clientele is from France. So yeah, Morocco may be right to be concerned by an eventual shrinking of the market.

The call centers themselves are in Morocco but the calls never come from +212.

Coding _as a job_ stopped being fun a long time ago and I think it has a strong effect on my hobby choices. After a day of dealing with issue trackers, AI-generated accessibility reports and all that crap I find it harder and harder to switch to my side projects.

I've been logged out of my personal GitHub account for months, actually… and that's probably a good thing: more outdoors, more photography, more drawing, more reading, etc.

Everything in Blade Runner is amazing.