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by tonfa 4mo ago
What's the issue with WSJ? "people familiar with the matter" is standard lingo, means the journalist and editors have vetted the sources (multiple).
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Seems like it's 4 per hour on Rotterdam/Utrecht, seems similar to Geneva/Lausanne with 6 per hour. In any case, I think commuters are fine with every 15 min, as long as there's enough seats. (for long distance like train
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Yeah there's tons of work ongoing. Lots of line close to the big hubs have ongoing construction to eventually switch to 15min takt. Improvements on various train station (new underground stations in Geneva and Luzern, extra platforms,
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Well there's anyway going to be a referendum about the bilateral. (which is why I find the initiative somewhat stupid, you can vote on the real deal in a few years, about whether people want or do not want to have agreements with the E
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by tonfa 4mo ago
> The public version of Gemini is ridiculous. At least half their search "answers" are just wrong. That's not Gemini, that's AI Mode (in Search), they're different products built by fairly different part of Googl
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Especially after we saw how happy the EU was to negotiate (they didn't budge) when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Swiss_immigration_initiat... passed. The new initiative is basically the same, but with no leew
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by tonfa 4mo ago
> This referendum is an attempt by the members of SVP/UDC, the right-most party, to show that on immigration topics they have more popular support than what their relative power Not really about immigration but EU relationship. Almo
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Unlike UK, the impact to the EU is minimum and Switzerland doesn't have leverage (if the EU still stands). Of course if you have EU dismantlers in power anyway in FR/DE, they'll just be happy to sabotage.
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Germany (16% of recent immigration), followed by France and Italy (12% and 11%). https://cms.news.admin.ch/fileservice/sdweb-docs-prod-nsbcch... (page 5)
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by tonfa 4mo ago
"the swiss equivalent" As OP explains, freedom of movement can't be stopped in isolation from the rest of the bilaterals. (btw funnily Schengen is just about the border control, we're talking about freedom of movement wh
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by tonfa 4mo ago
> This is only about the Schengen, Switzerland is not a part of the EU Not really, the bilateral are a package and the EU doesn't want CH to pick and chose. If freedom of movement stops, a whole lot of thing also stop. It happened t
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by tonfa 4mo ago
If you're truly convinced there's nefarious reasons for including megacap IPOs in passive index, you can always short the stock (or use derivatives) by the same amount. I'm not sure you'll come out ahead. (Personally I d
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by tonfa 4mo ago
The float will get bigger as you wait tho, since it's common for early investors to be locked for e.g. 6 months. You can argue it's better to smooth the entry as float gets unlocked rather than being front run by all the hedge fun
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by tonfa 4mo ago
Also they needed to wait for the person to travel to the US.
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by tonfa 5mo ago
> Also, they are only renting out colosus 1 ($10B), not colosus II ($18B). The news from the S1 is that they're renting both (see OP).
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by tonfa 5mo ago
Afaik this is because there is a community and database around them.
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by tonfa 5mo ago
+1 I learned so much about software engineering (Software design, network protocol incl how to handle backward compat in sane ways, ...) thanks to the mercurial community.
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by tonfa 5mo ago
> but at a slower rate that can be sustained by inference revenue. reply also it's possible that the scale of inference needed (e.g. Jevons paradox) keeps growing to the point that training costs can fully be absorbed (since trainin
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by tonfa 5mo ago
> Did anyone try to map this code back to the original codebase to see if this memory problem exists in the original codebase? FWIW what is being discussed is not memory problems, it's breaking rust invariants (the unsafe code has t
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by tonfa 5mo ago
> Windows is practically banned. FWIW I don't think this is accurate (was kinda true in the 2010s?). I wouldn't be surprised if it's almost easier to get windows laptop than linux one now.
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by tonfa 5mo ago
Since it's mostly browser tabs, as long as you have ample memory (eg 16gb) it's good enough.
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by tonfa 5mo ago
And the counter intuitive thing is that people in countries with lots of renewables and not so many external links (e.g. Scandinavia with hydro) might be against adding more links since it will increase electricity prices.
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by tonfa 5mo ago
Bloomberg has a long read about this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/why-uk-gu... (pottty training strategy changes were apparently somewhat pushed by researchers close to disposable diape
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by tonfa 5mo ago
> Why did google code end? Was it too hard for them to monetize? My guess is that abuse (people hosting files/data that google didn't/wasn't allowed to host) made it untenable for a service that wasn't generating
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by tonfa 6mo ago
For me, can do anything complex in terms of history rewriting without ever shooting myself in the foot (worse case just `jj undo`). And the UI is pretty intuitive so don't really have to search for a solution, usually the command to us
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by tonfa 6mo ago
Do you use a mega-merge + absorb workflow on top of the faned-out changes?
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by tonfa 6mo ago
Yeah same here, have been using jj exclusively, the only reason people notice is because my branch names default to the changeid in my setup so I've had questions about the random looking strings.
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by tonfa 6mo ago
> And? Reduced capacity for awhile raises prices That oil is being consumed somewhere, countries/industries will face shortage (in addition to the price increase).
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by tonfa 6mo ago
FYI this is a parody website. (in case it's not obvious)
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by tonfa 6mo ago
For context, in 2025H1, 480 tons where moved from CH to the US (I assume originating from UK after being recast). My guess is that the choice to sell rather than transport was also due to using the (at the time) price divergence between US

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