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New comment by bestouff in "Four Weeks of a Vegan Diet Alter Signs of Inflammation and Aging"

bestouff — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 07:03:10 +0000

I'm also vegan except for fish. And meat.

New comment by bestouff in "Don't Use a gmail.com Address"

bestouff — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:15:13 +0000

Surprise surprise : lots of companies really use gmail with a custom domain. No way to escape.

New comment by bestouff in "Don't Use a gmail.com Address"

bestouff — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:07:36 +0000

Same same. People raise an eyebrow, ensure they got it correctly then they move on.

New comment by bestouff in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

bestouff — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:51:07 +0000

Sure. In a good way.

New comment by bestouff in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

bestouff — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:34:44 +0000

I dunno about that. I'm living in the mountains (French Alps) and it's unusually dry here. Trees are dying.

New comment by bestouff in "TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store"

bestouff — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:50:44 +0000

If it doesn't survive a power loss it may not survive a kernel crash.

New comment by bestouff in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

bestouff — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:31:50 +0000

They also say that the Pixel 11 is a very very tiny improvement wrt the Pixel 10, with less RAM and more expensive.

So basically they say don't buy it, wait for the Motorola phones.

New comment by bestouff in "TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store"

bestouff — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:27:50 +0000

I said elsewhere this doesn't survive a power loss.

New comment by bestouff in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

bestouff — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:58:11 +0000

Indeed this is hard to believe : a common theme here on HN is how EU and particularly France taxes too much people earning money.

New comment by bestouff in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

bestouff — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:25:31 +0000

> Usually, this is money taken from people that aren't well off either... So it's not a clear cut positive.

Well in France I tend to think the taxes are pretty progressive, so the money isn't taken from poor people. But yes, somehow the ultra-wealthy people always manage to escape what they owe.

New comment by bestouff in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

bestouff — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:53:53 +0000

Or Deepseek, Qwen, any other open model hosted by whoever you trust most.

New comment by bestouff in "The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax"

bestouff — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:31:14 +0000

Their social credit score is the same thing as the US credit rating individuals are scored with.

New comment by bestouff in "Nearly 3M Teslas recalled in China over hidden door handles"

bestouff — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:04:16 +0000

You will never see those in the EU.

New comment by bestouff in "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU"

bestouff — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:26:19 +0000

Not on YouTube.

New comment by bestouff in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

bestouff — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:55:27 +0000

Indeed (French here). 12h time is still there in spoken language sometimes, but never in writing.

New comment by bestouff in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

bestouff — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:53:59 +0000

I learnt English as a kid with the 12h time, but UK friends nowadays say they tend to use 24h everywhere precision is needed (e.g. transport timetables) and less and less 12h in everyday chat. I was supposing USA was the same. Obviously not.

New comment by bestouff in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

bestouff — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:10:17 +0000

> Some advocates of the customary system saw the French Revolutionary, or metric, system as atheistic. The president of an Ohio auxiliary of the Institute wrote that the traditional units were "a just weight and a just measure, which alone are acceptable to the Lord". His organization later went so far as to publish music for a song proclaiming "down with every 'metric' scheme".

Ooh that explains a lot.

New comment by bestouff in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

bestouff — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:40:17 +0000

I knew for the imperial units but not this. This country ... let's say it always amaze me.

New comment by bestouff in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

bestouff — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:38:59 +0000

Ok right. I didn't know people were used to that.

New comment by bestouff in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

bestouff — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:02:49 +0000

OK, but who would use 12h time ? I never understood, this seems so backwards.