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by bestouff 2y ago
Regular (French) trains could already do >500km/h back then : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV_world_speed_record
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by bestouff 2y ago
It makes perfect sense if they want to keep the market.
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by bestouff 2y ago
> Bread is mostly sliced bread in the US which lasts long. Can be frozen. Lots of meat / fish is frozen. Oh I see. We have the same word to designate different things. "Sliced bread" is no bread at all.
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by bestouff 2y ago
You probably meant 128GB
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by bestouff 2y ago
"Didn't want to depress the market seems deeply un-American. They have that religious belief in the market magic hand that auto-regulates everything whatever you do. Me first, the market will solve it.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Please leave that Frankenstein of a language alone. Stop bolting features on it, it's already a monster.
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by bestouff 2y ago
> I don't get why people want to poke so many holes in the sandbox. Because what's a sandbox to you is an universal API layer to some.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Brillant rant.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Unfortunately it's not sufficient. Facebook tracks you from bits of js embedded in many (you have no idea) pages you visit nowadays.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Dont forget having multiple versions of a library will blow up your cache.
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by bestouff 2y ago
The flagging gets out of control on HN these days. @dang can we start flagging some flagging ?
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by bestouff 2y ago
> They did also all seem to be active churchgoers but that must be some kind of coincidence... Oh i love this one !
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by bestouff 2y ago
Electronics don't fail because it's all so brand new. And this is due to programmed obsolescence or whatever you call it where software will force you to throw it while the hardware is still perfectly functional.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Out of curiosity could you describe the failure mode ?
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by bestouff 2y ago
Naah it's perfectly good marketing: "for lazy developers" is way more catchy than "for perfectionists". Look how we discuss that.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Not 50% but 240km to 340km is still more than 40%. Not too bad.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Well, obviously you can't run them so hot ...
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by bestouff 2y ago
I love how this movie starts ...
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by bestouff 2y ago
@dang do we miss a "mark dupe" button ?
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by bestouff 2y ago
Yes ! I wonder what's the Windows implementation of the equivalent API.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Replying to myself: apparently it's not 100GB VRAM but more around 700GB VRAM that's needed to run DeepSeek R1. The gear needed to run that would cost something in the vincinity of 100K€ !
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by bestouff 2y ago
Out of curiosity, would an A100 80GB work for this ?
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by bestouff 2y ago
There was evil-helix but it looks like it's stalled. I wish there was one.
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by bestouff 2y ago
Depends on the country.
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by bestouff 2y ago
At one extremum there's e.g. Brad Pitt, how could you tell him not to base his whole persona around its job ?
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by bestouff 2y ago
The only negative point of Golf Peaks is that it's too short !
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by bestouff 2y ago
SeedVault is a trainwreck. Backups sometimes fail, restores very often fail. It's time this thing gets a rewrite.
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by bestouff 2y ago
I'm rising 3 kids (in France, I don't know if it changes much). We have banned TV, very heavily restricted phones, and we closely follow homework. I'm persuaded it makes a difference wrt parents that don't do that, but s
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by bestouff 2y ago
I have the feeling this will be more and more the norm rather than the exception.
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by bestouff 2y ago
So if you know someone you can get out of shit. We're in a privilege-based society.

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