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You'll want to brush up on punctuation rules, the space before an exclamation mark is a dead giveaway of a French writer :) (Source: fellow en-GB-using-frenchperson)

It's honestly not hard either. Certainly doesn't require any face-to-face interaction or anything.

I've racked my brain trying to write it in a good enough approximation, but honestly the "eu" sound doesn't have a match in most English accents, and neither does the "r", so it wouldn't make much sense trying to write it down in English. Youtube will give you hundreds of videos pronouncing it correctly if you want to check!

Well if it's negative 48V the electricty flows out of your circuit and back to the grid, so you need to make it positive to have the electricity come in.

PeakFinder is indeed an excellent app, worth every cent.

It's also available as a website! https://www.peakfinder.com/

If it helps, I use the NERDTree plugin which gives a very decent file tree to vim.

Wait until my pals Saul and Ronald team up!

As a native French speaker, I have to interject and push for the use of "utilise" as it's closer to our own "utiliser"!

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And French completed this merge by having both "lawyer" and "avocado" translate to "avocat".

It's from Boileau! Beautiful alexandrine verses:

Ce que l’on conçoit bien s’énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems:

  Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen?

  Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many times, in fact. And I discovered that it was actually the systems at KLM and Northwest that would throw my ticket out, my last name being “Fake.” And I have missed flights and have spent way too many hours with customer service trying to fix this problem. Here’s another thing too, is that I was unable for the first two years of Facebook to make an account there also. And probably  all of my relatives.

The whole point of inheritance tax is to redistribute some of the accumulated family wealth across society. You think that's unfair? Grow up.

Storage in UTC and converting to a local timezone for display / notification purposes has been the standard practice for a looong time.

All good until summer time kicks in and your recurring 9am meeting now starts at 8am, oops.

Is it that awful? Each option is nicely explained, and the documentation is exactly where you need it, when you need it. I personally found it extremely helpful during my first interactive rebase, and still give it a glance from time to time when I forget the difference between squash and fixup.

It's definitely news to me!

Intuitively, I would have expected AWS to send back the EBS volume backing a powered-off machine into the Whatever Long-Term Storage Is Behind EBS, and therefore start-up time to be ~identical to a fresh start as the steps would be the same: retrieve data from long-term storage into a readable EBS volume, start VM etc.

It's very interesting that it is not the case, and that keeping the EBS volume around after a first boot makes a second boot so much faster.

That's very interesting, as a Frenchman I assumed it came from "brutal", like "brutalité", as the raw concrete and abundance of right angles tends to make these buildings feel, well, aggressive (to me at least).

I'm not sure there is a consensus on ice baths at this stage? Some athletes swear by it, some say it's useless, and last I looked at it the science was ambivalent (somewhere between small to no effect, either positive or negative).

Fwiw this is how I use Loki most of the time. Pick an app label, pick a time period, look at raw logs. The LogQL for this ends up something like `{app="workload-foo"}`. Loki is excellent at that.

Then if I know which pod I'll filter down to a specific pod with `{pod="workload-foo-1234"}`, sometimes I'll search for a specific term (error message etc) with `{pod="workload-foo-1234"} |= "error message"` then look at the logs around that. There's really no point writing complicated queries unless you need to.

Yeah but Prometheus has a web ui where you can run PromQL queries and it'll give you basic graphs back, which is handy for throwing a quick query at it before putting it into something more long-term like a Grafana dashboard or an alerting rule.

You're in a lot of trouble if your _hooker_ is feeding the scrum!

It is indeed used quite a lot in France, and it's great but... For extra confusion my parent's street starts with straight numbers (1, 2, 3...), _then_ switches to distance-based count! So that on one side of the road, we get houses 43, 45, 47, then suddenly 947, and on the other side 64, 66, 68... then 920.

If you're interested in diving deeper, the History of Aotearoa New Zealand podcast ( https://historyaotearoa.com/ ) is a great resource, very well researched and engaging.

Also a looooot of coal. https://www.energy.gov.au/data/australian-electricity-genera...

Service mesh. Istio for example injects an envoy sidecar to each pod, and manages everything "meshy" (routing, retries, mTLS, etc) via this sidecar.

This is also how linkerd works, though they're using their own purpose-built sidecar rather than envoy.

It seems to be exchange-specific, I assume the main reason for this article is:

For example, on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), if a security's price closed below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, that exchange would initiate the delisting process.

It can be avoided via a "reverse stock-split", which seems to be easy enough to get approved (no owners of the stock want to be delisted!), so nothing hugely dangerous... But it's not a good sign for you company's general health I guess.

Nitpick, but I don't think this is necessarily correct - if the end client has _no_ UK presence, then the "old rules" apply for IR35, i.e. the contractor is responsible for determining their own status.

If the end client has some UK presence (a branch, etc), then yes the "new rules" apply and the end client is responsible for determination.

From my adjacent experience (ultrarunning / multi-day races), after trying a bunch of different brands, I've settled on Drymax. By far the best blister resistance! They're really good at keeping feet, well, dry, which helps a lot against chafing.

If you have particular hot spots, I'd also recommend applying some foot cream like Trail Toes. I always use it for runs over ~30km.

There is a shortage of Dijon mustard *in France*

This has strong IT Crowd vibes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGFGD5pj03M