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by shakow 4y ago
> but it feels to me like goal-post moving Because the two ‶they″ in your sentence are different people. Sure, for fundamental researchers, solving protein folding is a big thing – and although AlphaFold made strides in this direction, i
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by shakow 4y ago
> GCC and LLVM both have terrible UX with their ridiculous compilation times. And so will go if it implements the optimizations they implement. GCC and LLVM are not putting sleep(10) everywhere just for the sake of longer compilation tim
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by shakow 4y ago
> how should they incorporate the "optimizations that other languages have had for 30 years" Leverage an already existing compiler backend, typically GCC or LLVM – just like Julia, Rust, or Swift. Or, similarly, target an exist
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by shakow 4y ago
Well, they don't get cutting edge treatment for sure.
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by shakow 4y ago
Of course, and naturally, first-of-a-kind are bloody expensive. Maybe there's a way to make small nuke plants economical, maybe there's not, I dont' know. But it's definitely not ‶impossible″ to humankind.
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by shakow 4y ago
> which I agree would be good for all humankind. I disagree with that statement. I know it's fashionable on HN to spit on Reddit, but for all its flaws, Reddit also birthed fantastic communities that are hard to replicate somewhere
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by shakow 4y ago
That's moving goalposts; of course small-scale production is going to cost an arm and a leg. The original post said it was impossible, not expensive.
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by shakow 4y ago
> Germany is definitely a lighter shade of brown than the US on average It is now that we are in the middle of the day and that solar starts to take over; it was not when I posted the chart this morning. > why is that? I don't ar
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by shakow 4y ago
Am I living in an alternate universe? US, UK, Russia, France have been putting nuke plants in submarines for half a century, most of these countries have done the same with surface ships, be it carriers or ice-breakers, Russia has built nuk
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by shakow 4y ago
Right now, France is importing ~4% of its electricity from Germany: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/FR
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by shakow 4y ago
Germany definitely does do abysmally w.r.t. the money they invested: https://app.electricitymaps.com/map After billions over billions poured in wind & solar, they have roughly the same carbon-load on their electricity t
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by shakow 4y ago
> A nuclear reactor cannot be shipped Have you ever heard of nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines?
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by shakow 4y ago
Is that really a problem now that the overwhelming majority of C++ programs run on 64bits platforms?
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by shakow 4y ago
> You argue against cherry-picking, and then you think you can prove something with one single example? Yes, that's the whole point of a counter-example... If I try to prove the all odd numbers are prime (look, 1, 3, 5, 7, ... – it
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by shakow 4y ago
And Singapore has a very punitive legal system, while featuring a recidivism rate around 20-25%. You can't just take two cherry-picked examples and proclaim the ‶idea of punishment as [...] dead and buried″.
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by shakow 4y ago
I did it for some zip stuff that was already implemented in the Erlang stdlib, it was surprisingly easy. I assume the very small numbers of types in Elixir helps with that.
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by shakow 4y ago
I don't know this guy; maybe he is a raging monster, no idea. But in any case, he has virtually no influence in shaping “rus” (you know they switched to “russian” for over five centuries now, right?) culture and imperialism.
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by shakow 4y ago
> Some of the rus authors have had a significant role in shaping the current rus culture and imperialism. The same that thinks it’s alright to murder, loot, rape and pillage. You don't really know Tolstoy, do you?
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by shakow 4y ago
> or else he’s the world’s worst businessman. According to this hypothesis, he would still walk out with 7.5B in hard cash instead of 8.5B in Tesla share. I'm not in his boots, but I see how it can be seen as worth it.
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by shakow 4y ago
Ah ok, I see what you mean. I didn't see it as I was looking at France. It's weird, because at large scale there are no borders, at medium scale there is a weird mix of national and local borders (Western EU countries have state-l
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by shakow 4y ago
At the same time, from a consumer perspective, this sacrifice to internal political pressures won't hamper your usage of the product. It's not like if international borders were the most important annotation on a map for everyday
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by shakow 4y ago
Well, the CeCILL licenses have been validated by the French institutions themselves, I hope they know their own laws better than you do.
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by shakow 4y ago
> I would assume that the disclaimer protects the copyright holder but not the distributor. Why assume when you could check? Because the license text shows that you're wrong, just read section 8.2 once again.
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by shakow 4y ago
> There are plenty of jurisdictions where such a disclaimer is void. France, for example, probably I would be surprised, as such disclaimers are included in the official French flavor of the GPL family ( http://cecill.info&#x2F
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by shakow 4y ago
FTR, the accurate French pronunciation would be something like leeb-roffice, the "e" in "libre" being absorbed by the o. But in any case, I agree with GP that the naming is meh.
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by shakow 4y ago
Just FYI, in French, we would just skip the "e" and say something like leeb-roffice.
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by shakow 4y ago
> To be honest having a person's name be the same as their nominative case pronoun is kind of cool The whole point of a person's name is to sufficiently differentiate them from the other persons. Using pronoun as name (or vice
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by shakow 4y ago
Maybe that's a geographical thing; I live in Europe, and there are barely any SWE without a master or equivalent here.
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by shakow 4y ago
Average construction worker, bartender & hotel worker don't have a Bsc/Msc.
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by shakow 4y ago
I have to agree with GP. I know many developers in France/Germany at the Master level, and although their job is far from being the worst, their total compensation is rather in the top 30%. Not bad, but far from a 6-figures.

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