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lcordier
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  1. Learn a bit from GenX, booze up ;) Don't do it irresponsibly thou. Find your tolerance.

    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/15/booze-gen-z-...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTKaM_bu9iY

  2. Shameless plug, https://louiscordier.com/the_3_book_of_louis/ I wrote it earlier this year and are tracking its adoption and spreading. It is hitting a plateau though, so now I am nudging it ;)
  3. How tech change in just 40 years. https://xkcd.com/1909/

    I also use <username>.github.io and https://archive.org/ (offline at the moment)

    See also https://archiveprogram.github.com/

  4. "The new business road test" - John Mullins "Will it fly" - Pat Flynn

    "Start marketing" - Rob Walling (https://robwalling.com/assets/ebook.pdf) I recommend the article on "Why Startup Founders Should Stop Reading Business Books" ;)

    https://youtu.be/19WpIbBhxJU

    (don't know where I got this...)

    Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

      Explanation:
      AWFUL IDEA           -1
      WEAK IDEA             1
      SO-SO IDEA            5
      GOOD IDEA            10
      GREAT IDEA           15
      BRILLIANT IDEA       20
      
      NO EXECUTION         $1
      WEAK EXECUTION       $1000
      SO-SO EXECUTION      $10,000
      GOOD EXECUTION       $100,000
      GREAT EXECUTION      $1,000,000
      BRILLIANT EXECUTION  $10,000,000
    
    To make a business, you need to multiply the two.

    The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.

    The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

    That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.

    I’m not interested until I see their execution.

  5. What you are looking for is Ikigai... I am not quickly finding a good article so these will have to do. ;)

    0. https://becomingbetter.org/ikigai/

    1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

  6. Here is my 2c. First try to avoid the languages with too many warts. Why do that to your brain?

    0. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

    1. https://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/thinkpython2.pdf

    2. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/

    3. https://htmx.org/ (let the little framework handle JavaScript)

    4. https://cssgridgarden.com/

    5. https://flexboxfroggy.com/

    This should give you nice overview to get started...

  7. Don't do what @BillGates push, sterilized mosquitoes. (sorry Bill) Rather accommodate and breed dragonflies instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kx2im0ceCc
  8. i3, vim, Obsidian ;)
  9. Lots of theory, yes.
  10. IIRC we did a digital control system for an electric motor drive circuit but that was a different subject: electric machines.
  11. I failed control-systems in my third year. Was too focused on other more fun subjects. Maybe it is a fun issue?
  12. Flying is like the physical internet, a true miracle in human evolution, step in and in a few short hours you step out on the other side of the world. And yet the insane complaints about lack of comfort, especially in Y, blows my mind. Finally some sanity in a thread about 192Y easyJet A320s.

    Quoting flyingturtle (Reply 20): I'm 1.7 m (5.57742782 feet), and I felt more squeezed in a German long-distance bus than in any LCC I've ever flown. The bus ride? Six hours.

    I Elon, if you are reading these, I would pay R2 for a Tesla S, but wait it is a NFT. https://lcordier.github.io/blog/20231231

    I have one customization request thou. We can discuss.

  13. It prolly started as analytics for the engineers than corporate started seeing $$$ signs.
  14. Less space is a positive thing. More junk is just a mental tax.

    Keep it secret, you're in the lead ;)

  15. "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  16. My worries are with translocation of oral bacteria.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6427756/

    Once it is in the gut you have Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) issues. (could have ;)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMWy2Rg6Ul4

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