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- Uranium is very power dense. If there is a supply chain disruption, it is problematic but France keeps around at least 5 years worth of nuclear production, which gives it some time to react and adapt. Also, Uranium is not very rare nor expensive, so reliance on one producer is not that worrying I think. Enrichment facilities are rarer, but there is also one in France, so I can see French nuclear tech work on its own.
- I had a Lenovo Thinkpad L14 Gen [the one with AMD Ryzen 5000 series], and in terms of build quality all I can say is that it's already dead due to motherboard flex (or rather, it can boot but resting my palms below the keyboard gives it a seizure).
So I would never recommend that one, but reportedly this is common among the "low-end" ThinkPads (mine was at around a thousand euros).
- As far as I understand, the closer the points are to the line, the more distant they get to the rest of the plane. That's why he says that "this is an improper triangle", as the point of intersections of the hyperbolic lines are theoretically at an infinite distance from the "origin", and thus that the lines connecting those points have an infinite length.
- I wrote an app using Wayland and XCB/X11 and honestly, I found the Wayland part to be much easier to write than the XCB part, even though it required me to write more code.
This is partly due to the fact that everything you can do with Wayland is defined in protocols that are straightforward to use whereas in X11 you have atoms and messages with arcane name and structures for everything, a lackluster documentation and terrible error handling.
- Telegram Desktop is using Qt as far as I can see.
- I remember using curryst for my proof trees (a few months ago) and they looked fine if I recall correctly. But I agree that often using typst means searching for package that may not exist or is not working correctly since the ecosystem is not very mature currently.
- I am not talking about XCode command line tools. I am talking about currently available open-source tools that can actually replace those command line tools. I don't think that would count as Xcode as those tools are available on systems Xcode can't run on.
- No they didn't. As a matter of fact Fortnite has not only been put on the Epic Games Store on iOS, but they are also supporting it on Alt Store. They just disliked that Apple forbade them from using their own payment infrastructure to bypass their fees and policy.
- It probably doesn't, as you practically never need Xcode for simple apps. From my experience, currently, you need Xcode to compile storyboards (NIB/XIB files) and bundle Assets.car (macOS BOM files); and compile Xcode projects, btw. I may be missing another important feature used in a lot of apps but otherwise for the most part you can build an iOS app without Xcode (or even macOS).
- You can also have code completion with old CLion+Theos+Objective C, or with VSCode+SPM+xtool toolchains btw. It's not a great experience either but at least it did not force me to deal with macOS to start with.
- > Europe can never compete in each wave of tech (mainframe > pc > internet > mobile > social > AI > etc.)
I would not dismiss the contribution of European companies to each one of this domains so quickly though. Especially on the mobile side, there was a time where Nokia/Siemens/Ericsson/Alcatel were big names in that industry.
- I did not check but I think that the term may be older than Android, iirc on Symbian phones installing custom Java applets required a computer to place the package on the phone.
- On Linux you can write the dashes by setting a Compose key.
--. → – --- → — - Wait, you're not using GtkSourceView? Cool
You could also have used Mono.TextEditor btw. I personally find it better than GtkSourceView, and for having ported it to GTK# 3 myself, it was rather straightforward to port.
- Honestly the second screenshot with Sticky Notes is definitely ugly, but that one? It looks fine for me. The left margin is where the text is, and on the right there is an illustration which has (almost) uniform padding on the right and on the bottom, which leaves enough room for the popup not to feel cluttered. You could maybe add a little more margin to the left of the text, but it really isn't that visible to me. I would rather complain about the settings icon which feels bigger than the close button, if anything.
- Fun fact, in your first sentence there is approximately 30% of the words which are not Germanic.
(my separation of the words, which may be slightly off:
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- According to this paper [0] and my own experience, it's way easier to pronounce a word in French given the spelled word than in English. It's slightly harder to spell French than English for the model of the study, but it's really close. Now, in my personal experience, I feel like French has a lot of rules while English has a lot of outliers which do not follow any rules. But my native language is French, so I am obviously biased.
- It makes me wonder what is a Societas Europaea then. I thought it was some kind of pan-European legal entity, even though it's probably not suited for startups at all, as it looks quite complicated to set-up from what I read on Wikipedia. If anyone has more insights, I am interested to learn more about that.
- There are cryptography primitives allowing you to privately make an intersection of the certificates you have and the providers the site would trust and compute a kind of score while not exposing any of your certificates or which providers trusted you amongst them. (the only thing is that a website could extract the knowledge that one specific provider trusted you if they only trust one, but that could probably be fixed with a better protocol that the one I have in mind).
In GNOME. There is a protocol to set your window icon, and it will be respected by the Wayland compositors which are considering that there is value at having custom icons for each window. GNOME also considers it's confusing to have multiple windows from the same program with different icons, especially since the only places those icons could be displayed on GNOME are in the dock and in the Alt+Tab menu, but you pin apps to the dock, so those custom icons cannot be displayed there when there are multiple windows from the same app.