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by Loic 10mo ago
You know that if you ask the LLM correctly you get top notch answers, because you have the experience to judge if the answer is top notch or not. I spend a couple of hours per week teaching software architecture to a junior in my team, beca
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by Loic 10mo ago
3 kids, same honest conversations, 2 where it worked and works very well, 1 where it is a constant battle. So sorry but no, the platforms are addictive and not all the kids can resist against an armada of statisticians ensuring the systems
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by Loic 10mo ago
My personal experience: Electric toothbrush and razor. I especially hate the razors, you can replace the head, they could last a lifetime, but the battery is practically dead after two years. Toothbrushes are improving, the last one has 3 y
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by Loic 10mo ago
I think the OpenAI deal to lock wafers was a wonderful coup. OpenAI is more and more losing ground against the regularity[0] of the improvements coming from Anthropic, Google and even the open weights models. By creating a chock point at th
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by Loic 11mo ago
I wrote about the high energy, long life waste. The part really causing issues.
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by Loic 11mo ago
Long life, high activity nuclear waste represents less than 3500m3 (one Olympic swimming pool), and this, since the start of civil nuclear electrical production in the 50's. World wide.
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by Loic 11mo ago
Durable is really the French household name "par excellence".
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by Loic 11mo ago
La disparition[0], Georges Perec. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
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by Loic 11mo ago
Currently renovating our house, everything will be KNX based. Offline, no servers needed (even within the house) but nice for visualization, standard, 500+ vendors of compatible hardware. Highly recommended.
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by Loic 11mo ago
If you are retrofitting a complete house at the same time, look at KNX. If not, do not explore this rabbit hole.
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by Loic 11mo ago
Swiss like French have hundreds of different cheeses, so calling a specific cheese a Swiss cheese is like telling "Why does American car is powered by an electrical motor?", talking about a specific Tesla car while you have hundre
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by Loic 1y ago
Tracker systems with "hail stow"[0] mode. They bring the panels as vertical as possible. [0]: https://www.energy.gov/femp/hail-damage-mitigation-solar-pho...
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by Loic 1y ago
Off-Topic: Thank you for not only providing a stellar service with Fastmail, but also for contributing back to the OSS ecosystem and the specifications/RFC work. This takes a lot of time and we all benefit from this work. It helps many
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by Loic 1y ago
My kids are playing Fortnite on a PS4, it works, they are happy, I feel the rendering is really good (but I am an old guy) and normally, the only problem while playing is the stability of the Internet connection. We also have a lot of fun p
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by Loic 1y ago
Do not worry, I am mentoring a young engineer in my team. It is painfully hard to get him to improve his code, because it works. It is badly structured, lot of small "impedance mismatches", lot of small security issues, all that i
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by Loic 1y ago
The economics changed, it is now cheaper to put more panels East/West than having tracking ones as the tracking hardware is expensive. The tracking panels have the advantage to be put vertically in case of heavy hail.
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by Loic 1y ago
> It's very, very, very hard to maintain sharp coding skills decade after decade. I am at the end of the third decade, soon entering the 4th. I find it easier with the time. This is because with the experience, I can directly zero o
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by Loic 1y ago
Because ChromeOS is not an open base?
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by Loic 1y ago
Even my kids (full in the Apple ecosystem) are using Garmin watches because for sport, it looks like they are one level better than Apple. Especially the battery as they are often 48/72h without access to power.
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by Loic 1y ago
Because they have money to burn?
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by Loic 1y ago
I am French living in Germany, the amount of time Claude saves me every week by reviewing the emails I send to contractors, customers is incredible. It is very hard to write good idiomatic German while ensuring no grammar and spelling mista
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by Loic 1y ago
10 years ago, OVH datacenter SBG1 was below 1.1 with a mixture of natural convection + liquid cooling. But I have not been following in the latest years.
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by Loic 1y ago
French living in Germany, sometimes I am mixing up things. What is interesting is that the Swiss person (probably German speaking) did not notice. Thank you for allowing to laugh after the fact :-D
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by Loic 1y ago
FYI, the rental skis, even if they look the same as the same skis you could buy retail are not the same. They have bigger edges and a dicker base. The bindings are not the same. This is because they are built to go through the machine after
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by Loic 1y ago
The full advice: My advice, for the moment: - Tune out both the most heated and the most dismissive rhetoric. - Focus on tangible changes in areas that you care about that really do seem connected to AI—read widely and ask people you trust
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by Loic 1y ago
Take everything Cal Newport is talking about with a large grain of salt. I don't know a single person with a bit of seniority, using Claude Code, who wants to go back to any IDE from 5 years ago.
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by Loic 1y ago
Exactly right now, I am helping a big oil and gas company have a process simulation software to correctly converge on a big simulation. Full access to the source code, need to improve the Newton method in use with the right line search, val
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by Loic 1y ago
> What junior devs will do, I'm not so sure. They somehow have to jump to the top of the mountain, but the stairs are gone. Exactly my thinking, nearly 50, more than 30 years of experience in early every kind of programming, like yo
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by Loic 1y ago
It is more than depressing. During my PhD/Postdoc, we had excellent collaboration with the EPA on stuff which then really improved the life of people in the US. These agencies need to do research to stay ahead of/keep up with the
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by Loic 1y ago
Thank you for the pointers, I will explore them!

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