J'ai eu une énorme phase dans la vie où j'ai voulu lire tout ce qu'on le recommandait, et j'ai lu le seigneur des anneaux, dune, et une bonne partie de game of thrones.

Je déteste le style de Georges R. R. Martin ( si vous l'aimez tant mieux pour vous, mais c'est vraiment pas ma tasse de thé).

Je trouve que Tolkien mets 300 ans à arriver où que ce soit, et fait des détours qui m'insupportent (je me fous de ce qui arrive au poney, me fais pas un laïus qui est contredit par la suite de l'histoire).

Mais j'adore Dune (les 2 premiers livres, après c'est plus mitigé).

Tout ça pour dire: ne t'interdis pas de lire autre chose, tu as maintenant le super pouvoir de dire "mouais, pas mon kiff" et ne pas finir le bouquin.

Left handed people

The Czech republic has non optical microscopes only because FEI (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) has its manufacturing plant there.

Since there are basically two manufacturers of election microscopes on earth (the other one being Zeiss) and one of these bad boys will settle you for millions of dollars, this explains how it's the country's main exports.

Before being aquire by Thermo Fisher Scientific (in 2014 or 2015, not sure) FEI's annual gross income was around $1B, so around the figure cited here.

Source: I worked at FEI when it was aquire by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Well, to get humans to space today you have either the crew dragon on a SpaceX falcon 9, or a Soyouz.

And relations with Russia are a bit tense nowadays, so if you are not Russian, there are currently no other options than SpaceX.

Kinda looks like a monopoly, with another actor starting to compete (and SpaceX is historically very competitive on prices, so without huge government subsidies, I doubt Boeing would consider maintaining their crewed vehicle)

Je me suis acheté "The Last Spell" car il était en promo.

J'ai découvert ce jeu quand j'ai vu un nouvel album de "The Algorithm" (un artiste français) qui le semblait très musique d'ambiance à la première écoute, du coup j'ai regardé de plus près, et j'ai mis le jeu sur ma wishlist.

Ben le jeu est vraiment cool, très prenant, et la musique défonce, parce que The Algorithm.

Gave a presentation last year, using a joy con as a remote for switching slides.

Nice thing is you can have mouse with the joystick as well

I'll explain as if your first language is not English.

Dry means something that has no moisture in it, like sand can be dry or wet.

Obviously something dry contains no moisture or liquids.

A Martini is a cocktail, mixed from mostly gin and vermouth. In this context, dry means "little vermouth", so the taste of the gin is most prevalent.

So the joke is between the two different meanings of the word, as obviously a dry cocktail makes no sense if you take the first meaning of the word.

What did you dislike about those movies?

That's not Idaho, that's Gurney Halleck !

I'm very sad they are closing shop, but I understand it.

I find their last DLC awfully expensive, but I think I'll buy them anyway, as I really loved all their games (bought desperados 3 day 1, same for shadow gambit, and no regrets).

Their games were crafted with love, and it shows. If you haven't, go and try them on, it's a fun genre.

I started playing because I had nostalgia for the commandos games, but they really refined the gameplay and made the different difficulty modes so everyone can have fun.

I highly recommend it, its a very good game.

Have you ever tried storing a string in an INTEGER column ?

Due to a bug it happened in a software I worked on.

SQLite just stores the string. I have no idea if the column type has any real effect on storage as far as SQLite is concerned.