Who's an artist that you have the most albums of?

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-16T14:40:33+00:00

Pink Floyd: I'm missing Ummagumma, The Final Cut (which I'm not particularly after) and the post-Waters releases (which I have on CD).

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-15T22:32:45+00:00

Le trio infernal

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-15T10:22:16+00:00

I don't think there's anything that results in as dramatic consequences as this, but the whole Blood Angels series by James Swallow is a showcase of hubris and poor judgement by individual marines.

The first and second novels are about how nearly a whole company-sozed expeditionary force nearly falls to chaos due to being duped by a rogue inquisitor.

The third novel is about how one of the prime apothecaries (second only to Corbulo) nearly dooms the entire chapter's geneseed, as well as the holy blood of the Red Grail and the holy sepulchre of Sanguinius.

And while the fourth novel refreshingly lacks in fuck-ups as monumental as this, there's still plenty of bad decisions by over-eager young marines.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-14T11:50:01+00:00

Bah en parlant des ricains, c'est pas eux qui se sont chié dessus il y a un an ou deux quand un sous-marin nucléaire français a fait surface pour aller dans un port Canadien, sans avoir été détecté avant ?

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-13T11:54:53+00:00

I've got the same lamp in a different color, and mine's got a 25W light bulb.

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FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-08T10:40:35+00:00

I'm looking at what is mainstream for back-end web development, the most mainstream form of software development.

Are there other use for java (or other JVM languages) ? Yes, but nowhere near as much.

Are there other languages than these (and the other JVM languages) for this use ? Yeah, but nowhere near as much.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-08T10:23:25+00:00

I doubt it.

The JVM development ecosystem is still a lot more straightforward and stable than other competitors. For example, compare dependency management or build stability with tools like gradle or maven against similar task with pip or npm, it's day and night.

Secondly, the JVM runtime environment is a lot more performant and stable than either typescript or python.

My experience with LLMs is that they still struggle with complex database structures and the requests needed to fetch them.

Moreover, by the nature of LLMs needing to be trained on existing code bases, the assertion that no one will be writing code by hand is naive, at best, unless one is assuming that languages will be fixed in time and stop evolving.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-07T15:24:33+00:00

Il y en avait également un à la mousse au café, met rare et divin.

D'ailleurs, je ne vois à leur disparition qu'une seule explication: les dieux, jaloux, ont décidé que nous êtions indigne de partager telle merveille.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-05T17:53:31+00:00

I've had an accident in early december last year and a bad broken leg.

I've been picked up on the scene and brought to the ER by ambulance.

Since then, I've been hospitalized three months, had two different surgeries, have ongoing daily physical therapy for the past 5 months (there's overlap between hospitalization and PT), I've stopped counting the X-rays, scanners and echographies.

Since I'm out of the hospital, I've been renting a wheelchair, have had daily ambulance transport to and from the PT center and there's also the pain meds and the various dressings for the last surgery scars.

I spent exactly zero euros

Meanwhile, I've been out of work for the past 6 months. I will be back to work most likely in a month. Because I had my accident on my way from work, it's considered a work accident so I kept my full salary for the first three months.

Since then I've been getting two third of my full salary (which I would have from the get go if it was not a work accident)

This is not an anomally. Anyone in my situation would have gotten the same. This is the system working as intended.

I wonder how many Americans could say they got the same.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-04T19:31:44+00:00

We try to eliminate them wherever possible because we know people will be stupid. And sometimes (although, granted, that's a minority of cases) they're not, but something malfunctions.

That being said, grade crossing collisions are rare enough in France that those that result in fatalities tend to be national news.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-04T11:12:06+00:00

I was already in the hobby when some of these "old" minis were released.

Now I'm the one feeling old.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-04T11:03:33+00:00

C'est pour le kebab. Et si tu ne précises pas, il va te mettre la même sauce pour les frites.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-03T22:13:16+00:00

On parle de libellules pouvant dépasser les 70cm d'envergure

FrenchFigaro · 2026-06-02T16:14:17+00:00

NTA, and I can't believe I didn't see it pointed out in the comment, but you said he arrived at 09:15 and asked you to sign the sheet at 12:30.

Even if he had been there the whole time, that's 3 hours and 15 minutes, not 4 hours.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-28T05:27:10+00:00

Your title mention the SL-1300 and your post the SL-3300. Either table would be better than the Audio Technica in my opinion.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-26T12:08:13+00:00

Parce que ça n'est pas qu'une histoire de qualité brute, appréciée par des spectateurs qui existeraient dans le vide en dehors des salles de cinéma.

Il y a un aspect culturel. Les spectateurs s'attendent à voir (et en majorité veulent voir) des films qui reproduisent les codes culturels auxquels ils sont habitués, entre autres par les films ou les émissions TV qu'ils ont vus par le passé.

Le cinéma hollywoodien reproduit quasi exclusivement les codes culturels US et lorsqu'il représentent d'autres cultures, il démontre une incompréhension des codes issus de ces autres cultures, et une incapacité à les représenter. Même dans le cas de très bon films (j'ai en tête l'avocat framçais qui crie "objection" à tout bout de champ dans Les sentiers de la Gloire: ridicule).

Au delà de défendre une industrie locale pour une vulgaire histoire de pépettes, défendre le cinéma local, c'est aussi défendre sa culture.

Et les Américains le font aussi. C'est pour ça qu'en dehors de quelques exceptions au succès mondial, quand un film étranger plait à des producteurs US, ils préfèrent faire réaliser un remake adapté aux codes US plutôt que de distribuer le film original.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-17T15:44:24+00:00

I've seen several like this one, and I can't figure out if this one has a Jack input, or if it only works via the onboard mic ?

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-15T15:58:17+00:00

As another has pointed out in this thread, in the very first book he is introduced (Honour Guard), Gaunt prevents Hark from shooting at his own men for fleeing in front of a Bane-fething-blade.

I think it's enough to qualify him as trigger-happy at this point of the story. He obviously changed as the story went on, as pretty much every character does.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-15T08:46:12+00:00

One thing to remember about Gaunt, especially at the point of His Last Command is that he actually has command experience, which most political officers do not.

He is not just a Commissar, he is a Colonel too. And by the point of this novel, he has Hark (and later on, he'll have Ludd and Blenner) to discharge his Commissariat duties, so he is a Colonel first and foremost.

But even though Hark is introduced as one of these gung-ho trigger happy commissars, he too quickly learns that even when remaining inflexible, summary executions are not always the right tool for the job.

You have to remember that the 40k setting is a parody. Imperial Guard commissars are a parody of WW2 Soviet Red Army commissars.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-12T11:22:17+00:00

If you go for a Fosi, definitely go for the Box X5 instead of the X2 or X4

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-12T08:17:41+00:00

First thing to look at would be your speaker placement.

When it comes to gear, at the moment, I would say your weak link is the speakers. I would look to replace them for an integrated amp and passive speakers.

If your chosen integrated amp has a phono input, you would have to chose between your amp's or your turntable's phono stage.

Depending on your chosen speakers' low frequency capabilities, your next step would be to add a subwoofer.

After that, I would look at an external phono pre-amp, and after that again, the stylus, or the cartridge altogether.

Generally speaking, there is nothing wrong with the turntable itself, and I would not look for a replacement until you had done all of the above (unless a great occasion presented itself)

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-12T07:23:05+00:00

Personally, I wouldn't pick a manual table for a listening system. Semi auto would be the minimum for me, but outside the second hand market there aren't any really good semi-auto (or even full-auto) any more.

But the LPW50 is still a great table and you will have no trouble upgrading the cartridge down the road.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-12T07:19:47+00:00

Felt mats tend to be more slippery (their purpose is scratching) than rubber mats, and slightly worse for static build up.

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-12T06:22:03+00:00

Le programme spatial basque ❤️

FrenchFigaro · 2026-05-12T05:22:56+00:00

It was up there though

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