Quel est votre pire "sunk cost fallacy" culturel?
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    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.

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  • Which European Countries Dominate Global Exports in Specific Products? A Visual Breakdown of World Export Leaders
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    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.

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  • EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO
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    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.

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  • [Dimanche Jeux Vidéos] Vos aventures vidéoludiques de la semaine!
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    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.

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  • It’s liquids all the way down
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    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.

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    Zootopia 2 Cancelled: The Truth Behind the Rumors
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    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

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  • Mimimi Games revived a genre, pushed it forward, and then shut down
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    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.

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    TIL that SQLite has only five data types
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    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.

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  • abandonware empires
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    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).

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  • I've lately been making my git commit messages with AI
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    but it started splitting my commits in chunks

    Wait, it can split commits ? I thought you "just" used a LLM to write the messages, but it can also act on the commits ?

    How did you achieve this?

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  • I've lately been making my git commit messages with AI
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    I'm really curious to see examples of commit messages.

    And more details on how you achieved it, I'd like to give it a go myself, as some of my coworkers commit messages are less than stellar.

    Does it write in the conventional commit formalism ?

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  • Hi ! Since this community is brand new, let's get it started with the classic recommendations thread :⁠-⁠) I haven't read mangas in a while, and my favorite were (in no particular order) * Kenshin * Hunter X Hunter * GTO I also liked one piece, but got out a few years ago and now catching up seems like quite a bit of work, and the start of Naruto before stuff got too weird. Do you have good mangas to recommend for me ? Thanks a lot :⁠-⁠)

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