manquer

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by manquer 7mo ago
> size of the heart Size of one heart has restrictions that are determined by diminishing return of physics. That doesn't mean engineering a larger system is impossible or even that very difficult. Same as any other pump system
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by manquer 7mo ago
It is not limited to graphics, better packaged products, better dressed / good looking well spoken person and so on. Celebrity endorsements depend on this thesis. There has always been a bias towards form over function.
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by manquer 7mo ago
The way I am handing this - investing heavily in static and dynamic analysis aspects. - A lot more linting rules than ever before, also custom rule sets that do more org and project level validations. - Harder types enforcement in type opt
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by manquer 7mo ago
That would be the Catholic Church. Other churches have varying degrees of requirements to become a priest.
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by manquer 8mo ago
I have long since given up trying to understand voting patterns in HN :) --- Sadly it was the core of anti-trust law, since 1970s things have changed. The predominant view today (i.e. Chicago School view) in both judiciary and executive a
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by manquer 8mo ago
> how many winners ... duopoly There aren't any insurmountable large moats, plenty of open weight models that perform close enough. > CO₂ emissions Different industry that could also benefit from more competition ? Clean(er) ener
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by manquer 8mo ago
>civilized facade of mutual cooperation >Dirty tricks and underhanded tactics As long the tactics are legal ( i.e. not corporate espionage, bribes etc), the no holds barred full free market competition is the best thing for the marke
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by manquer 8mo ago
Wouldn't that be illegal ? i.e. cartel to collude like that ?
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by manquer 8mo ago
Wouldn't the panels themselves need cooling too? The ones on earth generate heat while being in the sun. There are commercial systems that can use open loop cooling (i.e. spray water) to improve efficiency of the panel by keeping the
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by manquer 8mo ago
My understanding was that access to very large body of cold water was a core feature for the project. The water was to be used for cooling relatively efficiently or cheaply.
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by manquer 8mo ago
OP is not clear , but it looks like GCP suspension not Google one (I.e email android etc) All clouds reject a lot of businesses for their services for variety of reasons and there are alternatives in the market unlike say a Google account s
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by manquer 8mo ago
if you want best support (while staying with big cloud) then Microsoft is the best . Azure has its flaws but Microsoft puts a lot of people and effort behind it . We are not that large but there are so many instances where Microsoft reps wi
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by manquer 8mo ago
It needs some evidence though? At least basic statistical analysis with correlation or χ2 hypotheses tests . It is not “black art” or nothing there are plenty of tools to provide numerical analysis with high confidence intervals .
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by manquer 9mo ago
> potentially taking months or even years On one hand OAI sell coding agents and constantly hype how easy it will replace developers and most of the code written is by agents, on the other hand they claim it will take years to refactor
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by manquer 9mo ago
On the AWS side there are "HANA certified" instances that max out at 1920 cores and 32 TB RAM - u7inh-32tb.480xlarge https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sap/latest/general/sap-hana-aws-...
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by manquer 9mo ago
> 50% discount There are liquidity preferences, nobody took a haircut, they may not made a lot of money as long as the sale price($5.1B) is greater than funds raised($1.2B) everyone made some money not as much as they thought, but nevert
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by manquer 9mo ago
Perhaps, but each time I do go to Google the results are painfully bad. I don't think Kagi is just proxying Google- while they do use it as a core source, they rerank much better The blog post talks about that specifically - Bing unli
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by manquer 9mo ago
> knock-off Is it though? It feels so better than Google results[1], while being still built partly with Google results. In the last 3 years as a Kagi customer i have rarely if ever felt the need to use bangs !g and on few occasions i d
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by manquer 9mo ago
Market share is based on factual consumption numbers however subsidized or regulated by a government not free will. Choice/Free will is an arbitrary line in the sand, one could argue how much choice we have about consuming google sear
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by manquer 9mo ago
Why would they not be use RL to learn if its OpenCode instead of Claude Code? The tool calls,reasoning etc are still sent, tracked and used by Anthropic, the model cannot function well without that kind of detail. OpenCode also get more d
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by manquer 9mo ago
Is opencode that much better than Codex / Claude Code for cli tooling that people are prepared forsake[1] Sonnet 4.5/Opus 4.5 and switch to GPT 5.2-codex ? The moat is Sonnet/Opus not Claude Code it can never be a client sid
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by manquer 9mo ago
It works, but there are fair amount of caveats, especially for someone working on things like Pytorch, the runtime is close but not the same, and its support of certain architectures etc can create annoying bugs.
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by manquer 9mo ago
Of all the companies to survive a crash in AI unscathed, I would bet on Apple the most. They are only ones who do not have large debts off(or on) balance sheet or aggressive long term contracts with model providers and their product demand
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by manquer 9mo ago
Eutelsat Oneweb is a subsidiary of Eutelsat group which after the bankruptcy, merger and capital raises currently composed of - French state(29%), - Bharti Airtel -Indian telecom group (17%), - UK government (10%), - SoftBank (10%) -Japanes
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by manquer 9mo ago
Unicode emojis aren’t ascii . Long before Unicode points were assigned we were using emojis in text communication in email and sms. you can always be quite expressive with ones like :) :D :-( or even ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - although not strict
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by manquer 9mo ago
Monorepos , or rather in large enough codebases work can tend not to overlap
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by manquer 9mo ago
I felt it became easier with slack. The culture to use slack as documentation tooling can become quite annoying. People just @here/@channel without hesitation and producers just also don't do actual documentation. They only respon
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by manquer 9mo ago
More people spent lot more time learning new tech skills (at every experience level). The excess time available (less commute or career pause etc) and more interest (much more new opportunities) were probably leading reasons why they spent
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by manquer 9mo ago
> BYD at with FSD? Setting aside the performances of similar systems, the more fundamental question is why is this even important to Chinese carmakers? 1. They are shutout of the U.S. market with tariffs from both parties, that doesn&#x2
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by manquer 9mo ago
Isn't that the model of every private equity? It was always hard to do well. Although it doesn't seem that way, there are lot of companies that have become large recently, it is best time ever historically for companies to be able

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