J’ai eu une énorme phase dans la vie où j’ai voulu lire tout ce qu’on le recommandait, et j’ai lu le seigneur des anneaux, dune, et une bonne partie de game of thrones.

Je déteste le style de Georges R. R. Martin ( si vous l’aimez tant mieux pour vous, mais c’est vraiment pas ma tasse de thé).

Je trouve que Tolkien mets 300 ans à arriver où que ce soit, et fait des détours qui m’insupportent (je me fous de ce qui arrive au poney, me fais pas un laïus qui est contredit par la suite de l’histoire).

Mais j’adore Dune (les 2 premiers livres, après c’est plus mitigé).

Tout ça pour dire: ne t’interdis pas de lire autre chose, tu as maintenant le super pouvoir de dire “mouais, pas mon kiff” et ne pas finir le bouquin.

Left handed people

The Czech republic has non optical microscopes only because FEI (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) has its manufacturing plant there.

Since there are basically two manufacturers of election microscopes on earth (the other one being Zeiss) and one of these bad boys will settle you for millions of dollars, this explains how it’s the country’s main exports.

Before being aquire by Thermo Fisher Scientific (in 2014 or 2015, not sure) FEI’s annual gross income was around $1B, so around the figure cited here.

Source: I worked at FEI when it was aquire by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

God of war Ragnarok is a AAA game, and I absolutely loved it.

There, not everyone complains about all modern AAA games. Just in case you actually thought EVERYONE dislikes them, you might be in an echo chamber.

Well, to get humans to space today you have either the crew dragon on a SpaceX falcon 9, or a Soyouz.

And relations with Russia are a bit tense nowadays, so if you are not Russian, there are currently no other options than SpaceX.

Kinda looks like a monopoly, with another actor starting to compete (and SpaceX is historically very competitive on prices, so without huge government subsidies, I doubt Boeing would consider maintaining their crewed vehicle)

Je me suis acheté “The Last Spell” car il était en promo.

J’ai découvert ce jeu quand j’ai vu un nouvel album de “The Algorithm” (un artiste français) qui le semblait très musique d’ambiance à la première écoute, du coup j’ai regardé de plus près, et j’ai mis le jeu sur ma wishlist.

Ben le jeu est vraiment cool, très prenant, et la musique défonce, parce que The Algorithm.

Gave a presentation last year, using a joy con as a remote for switching slides.

Nice thing is you can have mouse with the joystick as well

I’ll soon be in the market for an EV, and I wish what you’re saying we’re true.

Other brands are more expensive, and their base price can barely compete with a tesla, but their options pricing is ridiculous.

There’s LOTS of teslas where I live because it’s the best bang for your buck right now as far as EV comes.

I dislike Musk as much as anyone else around here, but the companies he fronts have met lots of success, I guess because there are lots of very competent people actually running them (i.e. Gwynne Shotwell for SpaceX)

I’ll explain as if your first language is not English.

Dry means something that has no moisture in it, like sand can be dry or wet.

Obviously something dry contains no moisture or liquids.

A Martini is a cocktail, mixed from mostly gin and vermouth. In this context, dry means “little vermouth”, so the taste of the gin is most prevalent.

So the joke is between the two different meanings of the word, as obviously a dry cocktail makes no sense if you take the first meaning of the word.

What did you dislike about those movies?

The factory must grow

That’s not Idaho, that’s Gurney Halleck !

I can’t stand these “articles” that pad the answers you want and came for behind paragraph after paragraph of uninteresting facts.

I don’t care about the cast of the first movie, and what the hell is this about a potential release date with no information?

That reeks of AI-generated bullshit with a catchy title

I’m very sad they are closing shop, but I understand it.

I find their last DLC awfully expensive, but I think I’ll buy them anyway, as I really loved all their games (bought desperados 3 day 1, same for shadow gambit, and no regrets).

Their games were crafted with love, and it shows. If you haven’t, go and try them on, it’s a fun genre.

I started playing because I had nostalgia for the commandos games, but they really refined the gameplay and made the different difficulty modes so everyone can have fun.

I highly recommend it, its a very good game.

Have you ever tried storing a string in an INTEGER column ?

Due to a bug it happened in a software I worked on.

SQLite just stores the string. I have no idea if the column type has any real effect on storage as far as SQLite is concerned.

I have a old gaming laptop that is not supported.

Intel i7-7820HK, 4cores 8 threads 2.9Ghz.

Released in 2017.

That’s not old-arse as far as I’m concerned, and I don’t see the need for an upgrade. I’m going to install Linux on this PC because I have the know-how and desire to check out how electron fares. But I can see how that is not an option for everyone.

I don’t think it goes with the vibe of the game, it would disrupt the factory too much

They hint that the drilling awakens something, so I’m guessing different enemy

Regarding “the company made the new tech incompatible with the new tech to force people to buy the new”, I’ll invoke Hanlon’s razor.

I worked for a software company that was bought out by a microscope company, because they realized making a new software from scratch for each microscope was very expensive.

They did not have the know-how to reuse the software.

And yes. They were that bad at software, when they bought us out, colleagues of mine audited the software they were writing for their newest microscope, and it was so bad they threw out the whole thing to start from scratch, with proper software engineering practices.

Also, there is an open source toolkit that is pretty good at reading microscope data called VTK (IIRC it’s developed partly by Zeiss, one of the two main microscope manufacturers).