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I am a universalist and atheist citizen of the 5th French Republic. I was born and raised in a country which official Constitution clearly states that All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Religion, skin color, age, gender, job, political opinion, nothing can legally justify any kind of discrimination, positive … Lire la suite Let’s end racism, forever
If there's one sound effect that instantly screams chiptune, it has to be arpeggios. To the profane, they simply sound like an old 80's phone, but to older geeks and nerds, they are the sweet sound of SID, AY and YM goodness. When hearing it you start seeing starfields, plain flashy colored 3D cubes and … Lire la suite 1 bit chiptune: arpeggios, eargasm on channel 3
What do some production incidents and airplane disasters have in common ? Let me tell you a very short, but terrible story. On the 4th of October 1992 at 6:35 PM, El Al flight 1862 en route to Tel Aviv crashed into two high-rise apartment complexes, exploding in a fireball. This caused the building to … Lire la suite Log analytics: The United Erratic Failed Failures of Failistan (DeLuxe)
As much as I like Linux, and while it works 100% on any server / vm / container, getting it to run on a new consumer-grade computer can range from very easy to full on nightmare mode, though most of the time, things will be just fine, only requiring a few simple tweaks here and … Lire la suite Getting my new laptop to run Linux
Back in 2011, on a Sunday evening, I updated my Seek profile. It seemed like a pretty innocent innocuous low-risk update: I changed my mobile phone number. Sadly for me, when I woke up on Monday, I felt sick. I went to a doctor nearby, spent two hours in the waiting room and finally got … Lire la suite How to look for a job, DevOps-style
In a previous blog post titled Making music on Texas Instruments calculators: 1 bit chiptune I said I would write a tutorial on how to turn your Texas Instruments calc into a sequencer, allowing you to compose the finest blip-blopy tunes ever. Well, here it is, for Linux only, but hey, the Windows version is … Lire la suite 1 bit chiptune: Setting up HoustonTracker 2 on your TI-xx calculator (Linux)
Yes, I compose music on a calculator When I was a real young person (as opposed to a, humm humm, young 40 years old person), I created games on Casio and Texas Instruments calculators. That's actually how I learned programming: I was technically in a school, but not to learn how to align bits, I … Lire la suite Making music on Texas Instruments calculators: 1 bit chiptune
Ces derniers mois, la Mort est venue me visiter à plusieurs reprises. De jour comme de nuit, elle n'a pas d'heure bien à elle, je remarque soudainement sa présence à proximité. Elle reste assise dans un coin, sans dire un mot et sans même me regarder ; elle veut être vue et non me voir. … Lire la suite La visiteuse
Le féminisme, un mouvement qui fait au choix se lever les poings ou soupirer selon que l'on est devant ou derrière les banderoles. Ridiculisé par certains, passionnément adopté par d'autres, le combat pour une meilleure intégration des femmes à la société ne fait pas l'unanimité. On lui reproche de pousser à la haine des hommes, … Lire la suite Le féminisme
De prime abord, la question peut sembler anachronique, un genre d'interrogation d'une autre époque. Et pourtant, dès qu'on touche à la science, à la médecine, à la biologie, dès qu'on s'intéresse à la façon dont le corps humain est bâti, on se fait tôt ou tard la réflexion que tout cela est un travail d'ingénieur. … Lire la suite Dieu existe-t-il ?
