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  • I like the idea of the D programming language but I think I'll never use it:

    • There were issues with multiple compilers in the past and I don't know if it's solved.
    • I can do the same in Python.
    • No companies I know use it, which means it would not be useful for me. I'm mostly looking for C++20 or Rust jobs, I wouldn't know where to find D jobs.
    • D was supposed to be an alternative to Java or C++, but those languages have moved fast in the past few years. C++ is easier than ever and still very powerful, Rust exists if I want safety and low-level simplicity, Kotlin is there and it's fast too. I don't know where D fits nowadays and which problem it's trying to solve.

    The language looks nice, but it feels like it's in a weird position around all the other languages.

  • I don’t think the police enforce traffic laws in parking lots

    In France, the "traffic code" applies everywhere, even in parking lots where you have to drive on the right side, stop at the stop sign, and park where it's allowed. I guess it's equivalent in the USA or other countries.

  • En théorie, on te fait croire que c'est pour confirmer que tu as bien reçu le chèque ou le dernier salaire qu'on te devait. Mais en pratique ça confirme aussi le détail de la somme, et ça réduit ton délai de contestation de 3 ans à 6 mois je crois. C'est une belle arnaque et peu de gens sont au courant.

  • Je dois avoir un mauvais karma puisque je change d'entreprise tous les 4 ou 5 ans. À chaque fois c'est licenciement massif, manager tyrannique, ou boîte qui coule faute d'argent. Et à chaque fois on demande de signer le solde de tout compte qui n'est intéressant que pour l'entreprise. Si tu signes, ça réduis grandement le délai pendant lequel tu peux contester les sommes versées. En pratique, les entreprises restent honnêtes mais j'aime bien les emmerder un peu puisqu'ils n'ont aucun respect pour les êtres humains qu'ils embauchent.

  • Je vais râler un coup contre les entreprises. Comme je l'ai dit dans !antitaff@jlai.lu, à chaque fois que je change de travaille on me demande de signer le solde de tout compte avant de récupérer mon argent. C'est bien évidemment interdit de l'exiger mais toutes les entreprises le font.

    Ça n'a pas loupé pour mon dernier poste (une histoire sordide dont je vous passe les détails). La secrétaire m'appelle et me dit de venir à mon désormais ancien bureau pour "signer quelques papiers". Je lui réponds poliment que je viendrais mais, sachant que ce sont des enfoirés, je réponds naïvement qu'il n'y a aucun papier à signer afin qu'elle me dise explicitement ce qu'elle souhaite que je signe. Ça n'a pas loupé, c'est le fameux solde de tout compte. Je lui réponds poliment que je n'ai pas à signer ce papier mais que je viendrai le récupérer quand même avec un petit sous-entendu que je pourrais faire intervenir un ami avocat si jamais on ne me donnais pas mon argent.

    Bref, ça m'énerve et j'en ai marre des entreprises (toutes les entreprises) qui sont dans la plus parfaite illégalité en forçant des signatures qui ne servent qu'à l'entreprise tout en sachant que les salariés ne sont pas au courant de leurs droits.

  • Sorry for the rant but I only buy music from Bandcamp because it's DRM-free. I don't want to rely on obscure proprietary programs to remove DRM, and also most of the shows I would buy are region-restricted which means that I cannot legally buy them.

    But yes, since I'm an Apple user, I go to iTunes when I want to rent a movie (maybe twice a year).

  • What is your preferred format for music? I use Opus at 192 kbps since I prefer open-source and it supposedly is "near-perfect" quality, but I know a few people who store FLACs instead.

    that’s entirely around avoiding crappy streaming services

    I think it's important for OP: I too do store music that I like because I want to avoid to continuously pay for crappy streaming services. Most of my music is bought from Bandcamp, or ripped from CDs that I had previously bought. It needs some tweaking to make those files available on a smartphone, but it's worth it.

  • I don't have a big NAS but it's easy to fill a bunch of hard drives. I was born in the 80s which means that I want to watch a lot of comedies and action movies from the 70s (old stuff), 80s (childhood), and 90s ("teenagehood"). Also a lot of current movies because there is a lot of good stuff (I watched the Dune 2021 with my wife and we both agreed that it's fucking awesome, there are a billion good movies out there). I only have a thousand movies but it's already weighing more than 1 TB (each movie is 1 GB in 1080p because I don't want 4K stuff on my shitty TV). Most of those movies are what I consider "good movies" that I want to watch again in the future, the same way people had VHS libraries in the 80s.

    Now add TV shows. Each TV show has approximately 20 episodes for 10 seasons. It's an additional 3 or 4 TB of stuff that I may want to watch in the future. You can easily get a few interesting TV shows whatever your preferences are. Any kind of video that you may want to watch twice in the future. For example, I always wanted to watch the X-files when I was younger but I didn't had the time to do it. All the X-files episodes add 80 GB on my NAS. South Park: 50 GB, Bewitched (1964-1972, yes, I love that old stuff): 80 GB!

    Also don't forget cartoons (I have 500 GB of cartoons and anime), it can be big.

    Music is a smaller issue because I compress everything from FLAC to the Opus codec at high quality and, while the files may be small, it still counts. Every album weighs 100 MB, a discography is 1 GB. If you like a hundred artists, you have 100 GB of additional data.

    As for finding stuff, I don't use Sonarr or stuff like this, I only note what I remember from the past (or new movies) and get it later from TPB.

  • soit le lecteur NFC, qui vous permettra de transmettre les informations de la carte vitale en approchant votre téléphone de l’appareil

    Le lecteur NFC est, il me semble, restreint à Apple Wallet sur iPhone, ce qui voudrait dire que cette fonctionnalité ne sera pas disponible sur iPhone ?

    Toujours peu de transparence sur ce genre de projet : Est-ce que le NFC fonctionne partout ? Est-ce que les données sont stockées localement et ne seront jamais sauvegardées (notamment lors d'une backup du système) ? Dans ce cas pourquoi faire une application dédiée au lieu d'utiliser les fonctions du système ? Je trouve ça dommage (sans pour autant faire dans le conspirationnisme de base).

    Edit : J'ajoute les conditions d'utilisation qui contredisent un peu la volonté de sécuriser le système par application dédiée "Il vous appartient de prendre toutes les mesures appropriées de façon à protéger vos propres données". Ça sent le projet fait à l'arrache.

  • I worked for regulated companies too, I suspect that most companies would forbid such tools even if it's not a dependency to build the software, especially if the source code is sent to random people. IMHO, every tool should be stored locally (e.g. on a proxy server) to make sure that the whole project can be recreated in a few minutes should something bad happens (or from scratch in a CI). As long as AIs rely on private companies on the internet, I wouldn't use those tools.