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by adev_ 5mo ago
> At some point, businesses will choose the option that provides the most value. I'm very skeptical that Mistral will survive long-term. This is a pretty naive and innocent take. There is good reasons to why customers might continue
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> 100K-$200 is very expensive for many. better find used old one It is true. But the stock of old repairable tractor will soon or later run dry. The price of some of these are currently increasing on the secondary market. If you told me
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> Up until a year ago I was regularly using a Massy Fergusson 135 There is a tradition in several European countries named Affouage : If you live in a rural area, you can get very cheap (or even free) wood at the condition that you go t
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, [...] before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". 'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses'....Henry Fo
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> Sorry, but you seem to be implying that European public owned media outlets are not normally to be trusted. Why? The quality of European publicly owned medias is highly country specific and variates quite a lot: - Some of them are crit
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by adev_ 6mo ago
So...For a bit of context on the video and the article: - The documentary is from the RTS. The RTS is the main publicly owned media from Switzerland. They are not the typical European owned public media: They are generally pretty well funde
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> Packaging is actually a huge amount of effort if you try to package for all distros. That's the neat part: You do not have too package for all the distro. Just make your components easy to decouple with provided pkg-config (ideall
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by adev_ 6mo ago
A little feedback to AMD executives about the current status of ROCm here: (1) - Supporting only Server grade hardware and ignoring laptop/consumer grade GPU/APU for ROCm was a terrible strategical mistake. A lot of developers exp
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by adev_ 6mo ago
Contrary to a popular belief, most high temperature Geothermal plants have a predicted death date. This is due to the physics reality of the ground itself: Power of a Geothermal well will decay over time to a point where the well become unu
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> skipping cmake completely? would this be feasible? Feasible but difficult. CMake has a tremendous user mass, so you do want to be able to use a CMake-based project as a dependency. The CMake Target/Config export system expose CMak
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> The only time I used -march=native It is completely fine to use -march=native, just do not make it the default for someone building your project. That should always be something to opt-in. The main reason is that software are a com
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by adev_ 6mo ago
1500 C/C++ individual software components. The 15000 was a typo on my side. Fixed.
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by adev_ 6mo ago
Feedback of someone who is used to manage large (>1500) software stack in C / C++ / Fortran / Python / Rust / etc: - (1) Provide a way to compile without internet access and specify the associated dependencies pa
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> with the president of the EDF at the time Marcel Boiteux, who said that this will happen, but it's not a big deal because it will happen after the plants had reached their EOL in 30 years. That's not what he said. He said thi
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> Why is China adding so many new generation plants powered by coal? On this and other forums, I see claims all the time that solar is cheaper than coal. As the world's leading producer of solar panels, you would think that they wou
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> I followed that topic at the time pretty in depth You apparently did not. because you are the revisionnist here. CSC (corrosion sous contrainte) is a well documented topic with accessible reports from the ASN (the french nuclear agenc
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> decades of massive help (nationalisations building it, monopoly, gift-loans, debt cancellation... I start seriously question your intellectual honesty here. - For the last 2 decades, EDF was privatised and give back to the state an ave
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> No, it's correct, the total costs of the 2022 bailout was almost 10bn, and that was to get control over a company that had over 50bn in debt. Bailout of 2022 alone was around 22bn€, which was added on top of it the historical debt
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> France had to nationalize EDF due to the exorbitant cost of their nuclear fleet That's just wrong. EDF nuclear fleet is highly profitable with around 92TWh exported in 2025 and more than 5 Billions of benefits for the country and
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by adev_ 6mo ago
> Vehicles already on the roundabout must yield to cars entering it. Yeah but that's theory and theory only. I would say that 99.9% of anything that look like a roundabout is a "normal roundabout" where the priority is for
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by adev_ 7mo ago
> I long thought their strong Gaullist stance on sovereignty was a bit silly in today's world There is very good reasons why De Gaulle was always a bit doubtful about American military protection and why post-war France put a stron
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by adev_ 7mo ago
One of the greatest figure of computing in history and an example of humility as a human. Thank you for your work on ALGOL, you were multiple decade ahead of your time. Rest in peace.
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by adev_ 7mo ago
Then we disagree. > (and btw it's not just time that matters here) My remark is still valid. Even considering memory space and cognitive complexity. > even function calls are not always zero-cost. For multiple reasons, some of wh
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by adev_ 7mo ago
Let me clarify something here (And my apologies if this looked a bit aggressive). There is always a cost to abstraction, and that can take different form. In C++, it is often build time (and/or complexity). And Chandler, in his talk,
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by adev_ 7mo ago
There is plenty of zero cost abstractions in C++ (and Rust to some extend). This talk just point that unique_ptr is not one of them due to the side effect of C++ move semantics being non destructive. People that do not understand that shoul
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by adev_ 7mo ago
> "low-latency links", says the article. I wonder if they consider 500 ms ping to be low, or if they want to replace Geostationary with Low Earth Orbit. Directional laser beams are orders of magnitude to jam compared to radio w
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> One of the bedrocks of a startup economy is that the rule of law applies equally to the powerful and to the less powerful. That has nothing to do with startup and economy. Equality in front of the law is one of the most basic property
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> I have been happy with Botan Botan is under rated. It is nowhere as optimized as OpenSSL but its APIs are one order of magnitude better to use. The team behind also demonstrated a pretty serious handling of non-trivial issues like timi
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> As a westerner you should always be OK, but this is a country with no rule of law. Let's be clear: I am not discussing nor defend China internal policies here. I honestly do not care and I am not pro China. I am pointing a single
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> Then, some topics becoming political taboo where the unorthodox opinion would get you fired and canceled This is garbage. What you describe might be the case in some social-sciences circles but never has been the case in most STEMs fi

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