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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
It's not the regulations, it's the financing scheme: if it's not state backed with a long investment horizon, it's very expensive because private investors expect 10% yields in the middle of a ZIRP to cover from the poss
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
The definition of “major accident” used in nuclear is orders of magnitude more strict than in any other industries though, which distort the picture. The worst nuclear accident involving a nuclear plant (Chernobyl, which occurred in a count
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
> So, the lessons for all other countries in the world is pretty clear: grow yourselves some mountains, dig yourselves a big river, and dam, baby, dam !! Came to say that, every time you'll see a country running on 100% renewables f
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
I've yet to see a convincing explanation of what make such a “license” legally bounding in the first place. There's no copyright on model weights themselves (because they are produced purely mechanically without involving human cr
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
A significant portion of the prominent community members come from Ruby so I guess there must be something …
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
> after someone revealed that their recipe was AI-generated, a couple people literally spat out the food they were enjoying and threw their plates in the trash Not entirely unwarranted given the track record of LLMs as a chef though: ht
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
In France History is a very big part of the curriculum (almost a quarter of the time until you get to high school) and this episode is barely mentioned despite happening in our very country.
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
“Show HN” has really become a Claude code showcase in the last 6 months, maybe it's time to sunset the format at this point …
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
> To date, the STF has received approximately $65,000 in donations. This is enough to maintain critical Session infrastructure for the next 90 days. Excuse me, what?! Spending $22k a month in infra as a pre-money startup is insane.
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
(Reference for those wondering: https://xkcd.com/2501/ )
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
And quartz of course!
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by littlestymaar 6mo ago
Even in France I'm willing to bet the majority of people outside of Avignon have no idea about it. Any history major with interest in medieval Europe, yes, any middle schooler? No way.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> There are news reports of Iranian expats and opponents within Iranian who are disappointed with the ceasefire. They wanted trump to go further and destroy the regime. That's the diaspora's luxury. They don't have to endu
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
In fairness, it's the Biden administration who gave Netanyahu the blank check first. Having another mad man at the head of the US makes the issue worse, but even impeaching him wouldn't solve the problem on its own.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
There's a much less grim end, probably coming at short term: If the US stop giving unconditional blank check support to Israel, then the nuisance power of the Jewish supremacists there disappears overnight. The US popular support for I
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
You can't cross the Arabian peninsula to the Red Sea either as there's also a mountain range on the west of it. The only viable passage would be through the center of Oman (no mountain here) but that would be a gigantic canal. And
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
Look at a topographic map instead, this is a mountain range that goes up to 1934m. Ships aren't going up there in this century.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
The US foreign policy has perfected the art of turning a stream of tactical victories into a strategic defeat. They used to spend years to do that, now they managed to do it in just over a month.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure you don't have reading deficiency, yet that's the only explanation I can find for this thread…
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> As for Rockefeller being a "robber", the rise of Standard Oil resulted in the price of kerosene dropping 70%. This is your quote right? Now tell me how this doesn't resemble the “fabrication” above? And indeed it follows
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
Given how dumb their workflow is (let Claude Code push directly to production without supervision) I'm not so sure.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> Wait, you let _Claude_ push your e-commerce code straight to main which immediately results in a production deploy? Yikes. Thank you I'm not going to read “Lessons learned” by someone this careless.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
Ten years ago, I was an acid reader of the tc39 (EcmaScript standard committee) mailing list and cancelable promises used to be the hot topic for a while. I unsubscribed at some point because I wasn't working with JavaScript this much,
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> with the answer being: > > False. Since 2019, California has spent about $24 billion on homelessness, but in this five-year period, homelessness increased by about 30,000 Ah, I see the problem now, OP changed their previous answe
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> The real culprit is saturated fat. It is the cigarettes of food. There is almost no healthy level to consume Not at all an expert, but from what I understood saturated fat isn't particularly good but it's not “no healthy leve
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
Not a very good analogy, because by the time you get 26 kg, I still have 71 years before you get the bomb.
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> Similarly to how the hard part is to cause a self-sustaining fissile chain reaction, and once you do making the bomb bigger is not the hard part. I don't like this analogy very much, because in practice making a nuclear reaction i
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> when ECDH is nearly guaranteed to be broken in five years Says who? There's a big difference between “we can't be sure that ECDH stays secure for five more years” and “ECDH is nearly guaranteed to be broken”. There has been t
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
It's not a strawman, right above you said Standard Oil didn't steal anything because monopolies “don't owe [their] customer a discount.”
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by littlestymaar 7mo ago
> Edit: This is a brief video explaining why. I knew what it was before even clicking on it. The “brief video” was a strong enough clue.

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