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by adev_ 8mo ago
The damage is done. Scientific collaborations are built on trust, not on an election mandate. And the trust is undeniably damaged. Which funding agency will accept to bring money to the table if the other partner is likely to run home and a
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> I never heard of Europeans being treated like shit in China -- simply the better hosts! Yeah. Also lets not forget: - Citizens from most EU countries can now enter China visa free. No ESTA and no other administrative crap. Generally n
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> what do you think the mid-term (next ~decade) looks like if the US is somehow able to flush the toilet and do a complete 180 from a policy and administration perspective? I honestly do not know. Academia works with networking between p
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by adev_ 8mo ago
You are not going to find much because China is not yet part officially of Horizons (South Korea and Japan are but not China). Most of these collaborations happens under the hood and are peer-to-peer and project based. I can speak for the
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by adev_ 8mo ago
European researcher here. There is an other thing that should make America worry. Research grants have been cut everywhere in the US. That cuts deep and terminated many scientific collaborations between USA and the EU Horizons projects in m
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> There are studies showing that regulating adolescent social media use is better than a ban for example. Not in disagreement. I believe that the ban is not even strictly applicable. It will just lead to the redirection to a new platform
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> It’s like if children were forbidden to drink a soda at a bar because they also sell alcohol The comparison is wrong. It would be more "It is like if children were forbidden to be in a smoker room, just because they are not the on
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> Even during president Obama. the US spied on Merkel's mobile phone. There is a huge gap between spying on someone phone and calling openly to invade a territory. Every country spies on each other for various reasons (industrial, g
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by adev_ 8mo ago
> Meanwhile in Europe ? Take your time job hunting a new job, healthcare is still free. Currently, healthcare coverage tend to be better in several European countries when you are jobless... because the system try to compensate the fac
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by adev_ 9mo ago
> auto start/stop systems Most start stop systems will disable themselves when the heater of the car is turned ON and the car engine not hot enough yet. As a cyclist (or motorbike owner), it is pretty usual in city to have >50% c
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by adev_ 9mo ago
> At large companies, I've rarely found a reason to speak out on a project. That's true. And it is currently one of the main reason why startups are so efficient compared to MegaCorps. In small companies, it takes few enginee
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by adev_ 9mo ago
> The LGPL is a product of a very specific moment: European legalism meeting American corporate compromise If I tend to agree with the general message of the post, this specific point does not make any sense. The LGPL and the GPL are 100
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by adev_ 10mo ago
> Is it? You just add "restrict" where needed? Yes. That is the main solution and it is not a good one. 1- `restrict` need to be used carefully. Putting it everywhere in large codebase can lead to pretty tricky bugs if aliasing
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by adev_ 10mo ago
Aliasing is no joke and currently the only reason why some arithmetic intensive code-bases still prefer Fortran even nowadays. While it is possible to remove most aliasing performance issues in a C or C++ codebase, it is a pain to do it p
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by adev_ 10mo ago
The legend says that after few generations, the bears developped a taste for high quality pasta. They also refuse to eat in the trash bins of anybody that drink Cappuccino after 01:00pm in a sign of integration.
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by adev_ 10mo ago
That's a very partial view of the story. Over-regulation does not help but it is very far from the only element: - Funding for startup in Europe is spare. There is nothing similar to the USA's VC culture here. - Market is naturall
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by adev_ 10mo ago
Matt Godbolt is an absolute gem for the C & C++ community. Many thanks to him for that. Between that and compiler explorer, it is fair to say he made the world a better place for many of us, developers.
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by adev_ 10mo ago
> or is he indeed faking it ? On a domain side to nerdery: video games. There is zero doubt he is faking it entirely. The streams he publishes on game like PoE or Elden Ring, have been long commented on online boards https://w
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by adev_ 10mo ago
Yes. As far as business is concerned, facts speaks for themselves. But that has nothing to do with the valley chips and computer nerdery
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by adev_ 10mo ago
As far as physics is concerned (his initial background), he definitively is knowledgeable for a CEO yes.
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by adev_ 10mo ago
> Elon Musk must be one Spoiler: He is not. But he is very good at faking it. Anytime he tries to give a serious opinion on anything related to computers: It is laughably bad and out of touch (SQL, compilers, languages, performance, etc.
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by adev_ 11mo ago
> It is about fundamentally changing how you think about software. > I'm not sure what they expect, but to me Zig looks very much like C Yes. I think people should sincerely stop with this kind of wording. That makes Zig looks li
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by adev_ 11mo ago
This is honestly a pretty terrible advise. Silos have very concrete negative consequences: - In large structures, you indubitably finishes with 4 teams doing the exact same thing in parallel and ignoring each other because communication did
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by adev_ 1y ago
Question: Since when a random Union is representative of the political opinions of an entire profession ? Spoiler: They never are. Specially in France. Even CGT, the biggest union in the country is currently a perfect good example of that.
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by adev_ 1y ago
> It's also worth noting that members of the second system Nope. This picture was found in the office of an Union related to "magistrats". Magistrats is a broad term that also include Procureurs, Judges but also some Lawye
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by adev_ 1y ago
> So you could be certain that such a high-profile case was not done without the go-ahead of the executive. In that sense, it can be considered politically motivated. Not really. It is more complex than that. There is two systems within
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by adev_ 1y ago
> Couldn't he setup some crypto fund instead? Or investment in ballroom? Or simply just receive present, let say plane, instead of money? Would that help him in this case? An other French politician, Francois Fillon, tried that with
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by adev_ 1y ago
In short, yes. Additionally budget for political campaigns are strictly regulated in France. And getting bribes from foreign dictator is, of course, not allowed. The reason he did not get condemned also for that is that the judge could not
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by adev_ 1y ago
> Apologies, the 2029 figure was the annual install amount. Total estimated installed amount is 400 GWh. Solar Power Europe says "780 GWh by 2030 to fully support the transition". It is still nowhere enough. It is barely the ca
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by adev_ 1y ago
Solar capacity is over 400GW now in Europe and projected to be over 700GW in Europe in 2028. So, considering that. The battery storage estimate you give is still one order of magnitude under of what would be needed. Even considering the opt

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