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New comment by vianneychevalie in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

vianneychevalie — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:00:03 +0000

As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager.

I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this daily use-case for me.

It's an easier account management tool.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power"

vianneychevalie — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:10:35 +0000

At least in France we’ve been saying that for 8 years.

The second best time to plant a tree is now.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made"

vianneychevalie — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:29:23 +0000

I think you’re mistaken, at least about the French revolution. It was carried out by rich people, looking for more power, making use of a common and regular occurence of popular uprising (Jacqueries, in political science, is the name of those quite common « revolutions »).

Royalty does not necessarily cause misery, Sweden, Spain, the UK are all monarchies. Colbert and Louis XIV built a lot of foundations that you know France for today; even later non-democratic regimes such as the Second Empire (Napoleon III and Haussman) structured the Paris that brings tourists the world over…

The French revolution - that I know of - led to the invention of restaurants because rich people from remote cities came to Paris and wanted to live the fastuous life they envied from nobles. Social cleansing? Nothing of the sort, social exploitation as always, from where money and power came as always.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "How the design of Disney parks affects our perspective (2020)"

vianneychevalie — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 06:58:29 +0000

Can confirm, there’s only one Mickey, they time their exits and entrances and have a park coordinator (mostly women under the Mickey costume, by the way, because of costume size categories).

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Fake reviews are illegal and subject to big fines under new FTC rules"

vianneychevalie — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:25:58 +0000

I work in data management for large companies and I can promise you the problem is not a technical one. Which organization has the maturity to actually follow-through with quality data for such systems? Which legislators have the power to enforce such an approach?

New comment by vianneychevalie in "LLM Powered Autonomous Agents"

vianneychevalie — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:29:38 +0000

A chain of LLMs can work in that regard, using intermediary prompts that feed answers to the next prompt. Make the LLM build a list of sections, then make it fill them with examples, then make it enrich the text. Maybe a last layer for error correction, clarity, removing mentions of "as an AI model", etc.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "New health insurance “transparency data” looks suspiciously wrong"

vianneychevalie — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:41:02 +0000

I know you're joking here, however, increasing marginal costs products are well-know and studied in microeconomics.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmargina...

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Load 'em up and throw 'em under the bus"

vianneychevalie — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 06:47:44 +0000

That’s the core of the issue: when you’re so overworked that you (a) don’t have the time to reflect upon it and thus (b) don’t realize that the situation is terrible.

It’s a not a new trope, Jack London’s Martin Eden addresses the inability of physical workers to gain culture and reflect on their situation simply through the exhaustion they’re subject to.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Banning words won’t make the world more just"

vianneychevalie — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 06:09:03 +0000

We call them a chimera?

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Where has all the Chartreuse gone?"

vianneychevalie — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 10:00:16 +0000

A friend working at Campari told me their strategy is to cut off supermarkets for a couple of years to focus on bar and restaurants, before an increase in pricing and a comeback in a couple of years.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "The curse of the corporate headshot"

vianneychevalie — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:35:24 +0000

Happened to me in management consulting: immediately after my corporate headshot, there was an increase in the number of messages from headhunters, almost three times as much. Ended up landing x2 salary in a smaller company, in a more specialized field, with bigger clients and better missions.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Facebook Container Extension"

vianneychevalie — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:43:23 +0000

I use Alt+F+B+Down arrow to browse my containers when opening a new tab. For the most frequent ones, I use Ctrl+Maj+1/2/3/4, etc., I know which ones they are.

Those shortcuts are by default, I haven't had to tweak anything, and although they're not standard browser shortcuts, I prefer that option to a remapping of standards.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge"

vianneychevalie — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:48:49 +0000

I advise using pen and paper lists of ideas, somewhere visible! Whenever I have my eyes wandering from a screen, I pick it up and start working on a couple of ideas.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Why some feces float and others sink"

vianneychevalie — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 12:42:59 +0000

I call them dolphins

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Building an e-ink weather display for our home"

vianneychevalie — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:03:35 +0000

Could be an opportunity to build a custom case hiding this bar

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Machine learning, concluded: Did no-code tools beat manual analysis?"

vianneychevalie — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 18:14:46 +0000

Can confirm, from experience in Data Management Consulting in large Banking, Insurance, Facilities Management and Food services companies: they build solutions and hope for ROI.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Local simulation feature to be removed from all Autodesk Fusion 360 versions"

vianneychevalie — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 07:30:10 +0000

The basis of your comparison is a bit weak: you’re delving into legal entity anthropomorphism.

A person, sure! A company? I don’t think it holds up. A company has no sense of morality, no career duration, no children or relatives to take care of. It has a duty to take care of shareholders. When the way it choses to do that naturally comes to oppose our ethics, we legislate.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "TikTok videos leave teens thinking they have rare mental disorders (2021)"

vianneychevalie — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 15:51:08 +0000

If you like this topic, what you’re describing is the essentialist worldview, and in my opinion a major part of societal debates today touch on the rejection of this worldview (classically by existentialists).

Is there stability to who you are? This question can also be asked of nations, of language… And this debate dates back to Plato.

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?"

vianneychevalie — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:25:26 +0000

Was money good enough to finance a ticket triaging job when you're off? Is there a startup idea right there?

New comment by vianneychevalie in "Stanford’s war on social life"

vianneychevalie — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 06:43:18 +0000

VLC was born out of the need of Centrale students to share videos efficiently on-campus. Centrale being one of the top French engineering schools.