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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Which is what worries me. A far right government in France might spell doom for the EU
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
In terms of raw capabilities, sure. But they will still feel worse since native apps are almost always much nicer to use in my experience.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
PCs are much more expensive than consoles, with that gap only increasing with recent soaring prices for GPUs. I’m guessing this will just force more people into using their smartphones for this.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
What if it just makes consoles unprofitable and Sony and Microsoft stop making them?
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
I have never encountered a PWA where you couldn’t immediately tell it was one. If that ever goes away, then maybe.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Directly here refers to explicit detection (“here is a signal that is DM and gives us immediate knowledge about its properties”) as opposed to implicit detection through inferring DMs existence from a lack of something. A lot of people comp
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
It’s not good because it means there is something in nature that we cannot understand and study, because we cannot in fact observe it directly. The gravitational discrepancies we have already, but without an explanation or observation, they
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
I guess the nightmare is more that it might be undetectable. There’s a real possibility that DM is real, but we hit the neutrino floor at some point without finding anything (maybe couplings are too weak). Until there’s an actual convincing
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
On iOS/macOS you can use iCloud Drive to synchronize without the subscription. It doesn’t work flawlessly but it’s „ok“.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Kind of, if you happen to have the right include paths and compiler flags, which even a compile command database from e.g. CMake doesn't give you (by default)
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Running this on header-heavy or header-only code is still an unsolved problem however.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
My PhD thesis compiled for about 45mins (300+ pages)
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
She was apparently very hurt by the negative response to this article.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
I’ve never had a single lightning cable fail ever since they switched to them.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Plans continue because if they didn’t, starting from scratch and ramping up again would take decades. This is simply because expertise would be lost in the meantime. Just because the plans are being made does not mean it’s inevitably going
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
I concede that the Rust tooling is miles ahead no question.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
In what world is C++ harder to learn than Rust?
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Exactly. This is the software delivery mechanism for the LHC experiments. It’s a read only globally distributed (sort of) POSIX filesystem. We use it in ATLAS to deploy both tagged releases and nightly builds. These can be about 100GB in si
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
I've never got it either. I do have to say though that the German society is super focussed on cash as a thing so I wouldn't be surprised if the associated cost of it were lower there. It doesn't make sense to me however that
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
That’s due to societal reasons though not really technical ones. In many cases it’s the businesses not being willing to pay the extra fees at all, regardless of how low they are. This seems to indeed have started to rapidly change with covi
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
> Alpha radiation is completely harmless and doesn’t even get through a sheet of paper. That is not correct. Yes, alpha radiation doesn’t penetrate skin, but is dangerous if you ingest it. That’s one of the reasons people have abandoned
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
I know literally not a single person who has had a severe reaction to any of the vaccines. I find it fascinating that on HN anecdata that conforms with the vaccine being dangerous is totally accepted, but anecdata about people getting very
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Which is part of the reason why France during winter typically imports electricity from Germany, because their nuclear plants can’t keep up.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
The native Revolut app (at least on iOS) had been doing this excessively for a while. I think they toned it down now.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
This is super frustrating. I’ve described it like feeling like you have Alzheimer’s as everything changes all the time.
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Like the sibling comment says: we’re currently doing this. Higher energies are not really feasible without a bigger ring though so we’re increasing the beam intensity (sort of) to produce more physics per time unit. This very likely won’t
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by ephimetheus 4y ago
Right. A guy I know had this fail while riding up a mountain (I believe he said the battery died) and he could not change gears at all even though he tried. He effectively had to limp his bike home because he was stuck in the gear he had ri
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by ephimetheus 5y ago
I know that is not really what your comment is about, but symmetries, conserved quantities and Noether’s theorem are some of the neatest bits of fundamental physics. Basically you observe that stuff stays the same if you move around (not tr
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by ephimetheus 5y ago
The oscillation mechanism that we’ve come up with (and that fits data from reactor experiments to astronomical ones pretty well) only works if the mass eigen states of the neutrinos are different from their flavor eigen states, otherwise th
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by ephimetheus 5y ago
Just as a data point from outside the US: a 4MB MMS is about 5$ in Germany, even on a 30+$/mo base price package. Sending that to a group call multiplies the cost with the number of recipients. MMS (and in all likelihood RCS) is a comp

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