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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • Have you seen these people with a weird tripod on construction sites ? They’re surveyor and have tools allowing them to do very precise measure (A guy told me that one of the coolest things he has done was to make sure railway track were aligned below 1mm on both side of 2 km bridge to build) I would expect that drawing a circle isn’t that complicated.

    Then the rest is usual road construction, add temporary marking, close the road, do the measurement and build the roundabout




  • Peer review…

    Too many cooking sites are let’s exchange your recipe and end up with either stuff missing or absurdly high amount of sugar (as a rule of thumb divide by 2 the amount of sugar) or a lack of salt/spice even when they’re notsimply forgotten.

    Published books tends to be a bit better as in principle they’re revised.

    Peer review is how scientists correct that. Often it’s as simple as on figure 2, the labels are too small and sometimes it’s I don’t get how you’ve built your experimental setup can you clarify this section? It’s rarely catching biq mystake but really improves overall quality


  • I think you’re under estimated how much fossil fuel are used and the electricity production from solar and wind farm.

    It’s definitely possible to replace all fossil fuel by electricity, but it’s a massive shift involving multiple nuclear power plants (or the green equivalent which is even more expensive/complicated) , not a few windfarm and solar panel over the parking lot. And today there is no political will to do such massive investment, let alone the NIMBY


  • I think you’re under estimated how much fossil fuel are used and the electricity production from solar and wind farm.

    It’s definitely possible to replace all fossil fuel by electricity, but it’s a massive shift involving multiple nuclear power plants (or the green equivalent which is even more expensive/complicated) , not a few windfarm and solar panel over the parking lot. And today there is no political will to do such massive investment, let alone the NIMBY




  • Mimicking a patented process is also grounds for a lawsuit.

    Just note that at lest within EU, pure software patents are illegals. It’s still a bit tricky because you want to sell globally (including places with software patent) and that it’s possible to patent device/process using software. So, to my understanding you can’t patent let’s say A game where you build a maze and put tower to defend-it, and use XP to make your tower bigger, but you can’t patent let’s say a device using sensor, servo an algorithm to let a car drive itself.



  • Unfortunately, in this economy, young graduate needing one year to find a job isn’t uncommon.

    As usual,

    • how easily can you move, it’s easier as a 20 year old kid than as a middle aged parent with an employed spouse in a niche sector

    • Lookat various temporar/consulting agencies. It pays badly, isn’t a permanent position but any experience is better than no experience

    -what about further training? A non professional bachelor, is usually too theoretical for employer, and when they want theoretical profile they are people with master degree

    -What about government job, may be not a dream job, but with just a bachelor you’re eligible to middle management position, not fun to manage a team of civil servant in charges of dealing with whatever paperwork, but again, it’s a job.

    • don’t forget to join an union supporting the Universal basic income and affordable housing so you can do something to improve our situation



  • Do you know which kind of facilities you have at the camp place? There is hotel like camping with swimming pool, restaurant and even a night club. It’s just cheaper because you bring a tent.

    And then there is roots camping with just a field where you can put your tent and a more or less clean shozer/toilet building. I ever saw place where you add to pay an extra for hot water ( A 5 € per night climber’ s camping)

    Bring earplugs so your neighbour snoring won’t prevent you from sleeping and a red light so you don’t wake up everyone when you go peeing in the middle of the night.

    And expect the morning to be cold