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Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe Youtubers, as soon as you want to do something barely elaborate. Sometimes free tools don’t benefit the user, but their audience ;)
Comment · 4 years ago
Is there a shortcut to reuse the result of the last command? “which java => ll $(!!)”, but the “!!” reexecutes the last command, I’d like something which doesn’t.
Comment · 4 years ago
Everything uses --version, except `java -version`.

Except Java 17. Java 17 went to `java --version`. And `java -version` doesn’t work anymore (Yes I jumped from Java 8 to 17, but most people did).

Comment · 4 years ago
How many tickets do you have in your non-Jira ticketing system? I count 100 tickets per person per year.
Comment · 4 years ago
> 1) This outage will get their organization to prioritize work such that it never happens again

It has already happened in the past.

Comment · 4 years ago
Let me bet: Rebuilding from Jira email notifications. Yes, the diffs in the notifications.
Comment · 4 years ago
When is the Party congress? Can it happen that, after the congress, they let the Covid run rampant, to get rid of the elderly and have better figures for a few years after that?
Comment · 4 years ago
Let’s take time to discuss this, as it’s easier to discuss when it happens to another country with an entirely different social system.

I was surprised, last year, that techniques we were condescending about, and saying it only happens in China, were applied in Europe and USA. As if it was an emergent property of a human group facing a new disease.

Comment · 4 years ago
Isn’t that because there is a 400-year tsunami of 60m high, and they’re trying to de-densify?
Comment · 4 years ago
Aren’t they using 3D? inside the first machine for example, a human can’t monitor, and the pieces falling off seem to have lunar gravity.
Comment · 4 years ago
In both cases, they are guilty of speaking. If they were benevolent, but wrong in terms of science, then they should shut up.

“But it was impossible to predict!” that the mask was useful. Well, Pr Raoult did. Many doctors did. Government can’t claim innocence “by being wrongly advised” after implementing nationwide policies without knowing anything correct AND banning criticism on Facebook.

You can’t claim innocence when you perform wilful censorship.

Comment · 4 years ago
> 2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn't want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them.

This is the most probable explanation for governments around the world saying that masks are “Absolutely useless” (literal quote) until June 2020.

It is lying-as-a-form-of-governance. It’s extremely detrimental to credibility: From that point, anything new a government said can be taken as a probable lie, since they lie as a routine operation of their job, just for practicability, because it’s easier than explaining. The common answer was “Doctors say masks are useless, why don’t you believe science.”

> I wish more people thought critically and had healthy criticism

The Covid response has killed the permission of citizen to doubt science, even though it is widely recognized that “science” had been used to make people do the opposite of what’s in their interest. You can’t both admit they told people not to wear masks at one point AND ask them to believe that they can trust the vaccine. Newspapers had to be in on the lie, social media had to prevent critical thinking for the duration of it: It’s extremely damaging to public health.

I’m surprised that individual governments didn’t even think about “Let’s not participate to a blatant lie, let’s tell people we don’t have masks and they should not buy one to let them available to hospitals, but tell them they should wear anything they have at home.” No government used the pedagogy method. They all opted for lie-as—a-policy, and-pretend-it’s-science.

Comment · 4 years ago
EZ also made it clear that a French Muslim is French and he won’t touch them, so it’s not like he’s hiding that he’s targetting delinquants.

Targetting delinquants is often seen as straight up racist, which kind of proves the point.

EZ is the Muslims’ best opportunity to separate the good from the evils, because many Muslims in France would like the bad ones to be convicted, which the current system prevents. Macron has instaurated a system that can be summarized as “Let’s free all Muslim criminals”, which does a lot of torts to all of them.

Comment · 4 years ago
Zemmour has been convicted for saying the truth.
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you think it is fine for EDF to operate 8 nuclear plants of UK, “outside EU”? Do you think it is fine for Gmail to suppress email accounts of entire companies in Europe? Especially if they already did it for individuals and their work Gmail.

I think we live in a dangerously intertwined world, and a bit of email redundancy in each country would be quite important.

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