baud147258's comments

On: How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous

[baud147258]

as 32 year old, I can confirm I used BIC pen (or similarly shaped pencils) to rewinds tapes.

On: Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools

[baud147258]

Maybe the particular school you went to was terrible _for you_, but personally I learned a lot, both which helped me both at the (local equivalent) university I went after school and later in life.

On: I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time

[baud147258]

> I was born and _bought_ up in the town ranked #4 in the original list (Hythe)

Blimey, it must have been horribly dreadful there if people were selling and buying children

On: Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

[baud147258]

> what do you use it for?

recreational shooting. Though that's not exactly high utility

On: I just want to code (2023)

[baud147258]

> perpetual adaptation to technology musicians have met

Didn't it also went with an important reduction in the number of people who could make a living out of that?

[Juliate → baud147258]

Precisely.

On: Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)

[baud147258]

Funnily enough, I think that's the first time I heard that Dutch oven has another meaning, beyond the cooking apparatus.

On: How encryption for Cinema Movies works

[baud147258]

Maybe the author saw a bunch of hits coming from HN and edited his post to add the link to the discussion? It doesn't seem as if the author themselves posted their article.

[perryflynn → baud147258]

Yes, I added some notes/improvements while the discussion was happening here.

Changelog: https://github.com/perryflynn/serverless.industries/commits/...

On: How encryption for Cinema Movies works

[baud147258]

> "I'm going to deep-dive this topic" to "... and now I need to go to the library, and possibly a specific library, maybe on another continent"

I remember an history professor saying that for a subject he was working on he had to borrow a book from the library of Congress (through the library of his university), where the only publicly available copy in the US was. Of course it was an academic book, so it's not exactly a common situation.

On: How University Students Use Claude

[baud147258]

in France I got a bunch of equivalent take-home tests, between high school and graduate level, mostly in math and science. The teacher would give us exercice equivalent to what we'd get in our exams and we'd have one week to complete it (sometimes in pairs) and it'd be graded as part of that semester

On: Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2

[baud147258]

that's why there's still two completly different UI for managing settings? With some settings available in an UI done in the new, flat style and the old control panel that's still there?