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Re:What I love about Django on Thursday August 06, 2026 @10:02AM (#49196861)
I did not really knew why DHH was controversial until a few month ago. He was heavily promoting the en translation of an old super far right french book. It is from the 70's and it is absurdly far right when you look up who wrote it and who promoted it in France at that time.

He is probably at a KKK level of racism.

Re:Android now stops you sharing your location in photos on Monday April 13, 2026 @09:21AM (#47751591)
On reddit half of "the is it AI?" question are answered by "Yes, it say so in the metadata".
Re:Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015 on Monday February 16, 2026 @05:06AM (#47033172)
I do not work frontend and yet, I always end up having to do some CSS here and there.

I have never been happy on how I manage CSS. With tailwind, I am still unhappy about my styles but I can make my ugly UIs faster.

Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube on Saturday February 14, 2026 @01:22PM (#47016917)
I am incredibly out of the loop in the world of blu-ray. Do you still need to buy a terrible video player to read them legally on windows ? I give so little attention to physical media that I do not even know if 4k blu-ray use the same blu-ray storage format or if it is some sort of upgraded blu-ray with more storage.
The thing is that AI researchers that are not focused on only LLM do not seem to think it is in reach.
I cannot agree more. Since I understand (more or less) how trackers and ETF works, I have a hard time believing economist and economy specialist arguing that you can model human behavior around rationality in an economic system...
Basic big trackers. I understand very well why tracking a country/continent/the world market is a good idea, and that very understanding also tells me It would be as time consuming as a part time job to invest in specific companies.
And Hollywood was created on the west coast because for intellectual property it was still the far west and it allowed them to ignore patents on movie technologies.
Re:Building a Medieval Castle from Scratch on Friday January 24, 2025 @05:05AM (#42811843)
Totaly, and I can attest that kids around me still love castles and big things in general.
The spec sheet on the store is confusing. It says :

Intensity(Ah) Less than 1.5

Tension (V) 3.6

Amperage (Ah) 0.7

Edit : the box indicate 0.33 Kg, the 0.5 weight probably include the charger and other parts.

This summer a French company started to sell sodium ion battery power tool in a major hardware store.

National French research agency announcement: https://www.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/batteries-sodium-ion-une-pre...

The power tool : https://www.leroymerlin.fr/produits/outillage/outillage-elec...

Unfortunately, all I could found about the Wh/kg efficiency was an article about the same company saying they were currently able to build cells at 90Wh/Kg in 2017.

Nevertheless, it's not a promise, it's a product currently on sale.

Re:Man Spends Entire Career Mastering Crappy Codebase on Thursday August 03, 2023 @10:43AM (#36986668)
I did a real internship (as in it was for my diploma and lasted only a few months) in a medical facility operating Big Machines. I remember a guy soldering a new battery to some old DEC/Digital hardware.
Joke on them, you are already getting unsolicited anime content when using Stable Diffusion.