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by troupo 8mo ago
> Which is why nukes don’t get built. Nukes don't get built because: - billions (if not trillions) of subsidies were poured into wind and solar over decades to make them viable while nuclear energy was addled with additional taxes,
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by troupo 8mo ago
I couldn't parse your demagoguery, bad analogies and non-sequiturs, and I don't want to. Adieu.
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by troupo 8mo ago
The best gut GUI is GitUp: https://gitup.co/ Magit is not even close to be on the same level. Any insane operation you want at your fingertips.
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by troupo 8mo ago
> I do this several times a day in a major US city for close to a decade now and I I, I, I > Vehicles and everything else on this rock flying through space obey the same laws of physics. Yes. Yes they do. That's why some countrie
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Vehicles are not going to materialize out of nowhere and crash into you. At 60kmh a vehicle travels 16 meters per second. In freedom units: at 37mph a vehicle travels 54 feet per second. A vehicle will materialize out of nowhere and
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by troupo 8mo ago
Design for the sake of design. That entire paragraph reads like a post-hoc justification for a design decision they never thought through
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by troupo 8mo ago
> 5% per minute is not extremely fast. 5% of nameplate capacity . > You'd think it means "changing the power output from moment to moment to match electricity demand" but for nuclear plants it means "changing from
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by troupo 8mo ago
> The obvious counterexample is Chernobyl, You mean the obsolete design that is not used even in old reactors, not to say of modern designs? Quote: --- start quote --- The minimum requirements for the manoeuvrability capabilities of mode
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by troupo 8mo ago
Cheap as in "requires proper location and the destruction of ecology on large scale" cheap? Edit : https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/energy-storage-ana... To cover Europe's need you only need to
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by troupo 8mo ago
> this must be something with fast cold start. So black/brown coal power plan will not help you, similarly nuclear. Nuclear plants provide base load and they are extremely fast at ramping up/lowering production. All modern
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The curious case of Alan Dye(dmitriid.com)
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by troupo 8mo ago
Stop giving Alan Dye the Package Designer God-like powers. As if he was alone reaponsible for any design changes. Federighi answers only to Cook and God (not sure about God though), and he and his minions have been happily implementing ever
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by troupo 8mo ago
> As far as I've ever heard, "le code" used in a codebase is uncountable Now I can't get the Pulp Fuction dialog out of my head. - Do you know what they call code in France? - No - Le code
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by troupo 8mo ago
1. No one asked them. 2. Half (or more) of those things they bought.
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Anthropic is the power company that has a 3D printer to make a faster Maglev than anyone. And yet they can't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281246
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by troupo 8mo ago
No. They literally can't. E.g. they claim it's a difficult task to render a few hundred characters on screen, and that their CLI wrapper is a tiny game engine: https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931
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by troupo 8mo ago
How is it "light years better than Slack"? It's a terminal wrapper for Anthropic API . It somehow baloons to 68 gigabytes when all it needs to do is call an APi and slowly draw a few hundred characters on screen. And they
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by troupo 8mo ago
> I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information. It does. And a lot of this information is highly sensitive. Imagine my company's surprise
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Slack won't open up their data moat to AI, which is shameful. Ah yes. It's shameful that Slack won't open data moat to AI. You know, those millions of chats (including private data) by people who didn't give consent
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by troupo 8mo ago
Slack doesn't require nearly as much to run. And Slack has about two orders of magnitude more functionality
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Claude Code could absolutely build a chat client in the hands of someone who could also build the rest around it. So why can't Anthropic build a CLI client that doesn't flickr and doesn't consume 68 GB to run a CLI wrapp
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by troupo 8mo ago
Anthropic? The company whose CLI wrapper for their own API was consuming 68 GB RAM (yes, that's 68 gigabytes )? https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987 You'll rue the day when they decide
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by troupo 8mo ago
It routinely can't "connect dots" on a 10 kloc project with design notes right there in the same project. It routinely cannot read files more than 2k lines long. You can't even provide detailed CLAUDE.md instructions bec
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Is there anything Flash could produce that wouldn't render these days with SVG + CSS + JS? This sounds like a "is there anything you can do in C++ or Javascript that you couldn't do in Brainfuck?". Flash was a compl
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Why be angry at Steve for playing around with a fun hobby project that goes nowhere? People dislike scam artists, hype artists and bullshitters. Especially when said artists had something actually useful to contribute once upon a tim
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by troupo 8mo ago
People should stop giving Steve Yegge as much attention as they do. It's slop on top of slop on top of slop. It's not even quality slop. Apart from bloviated self-aggrandising blog posts, the ideas are trivial, and the execution
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by troupo 8mo ago
> I’m saying I don’t think there’s something special about “big picture” information processing tasks, compared to in-detail information processing tasks, that makes them uniquely impossible for LLM. LLMs can do neither reliably because
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Why can’t LLMs understand the big picture? Because LLMs don't understand things to begin with. Because LLMs only have access to aource code and whatever .md files you've given them. Because they have biases in their training
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by troupo 8mo ago
> Make sure your dock, dongle, and/or cables aren’t bottlenecks. I've switched docks, dongles, cables, to no avail. Support also varies a lot between M chips, and Thunderbolt often doesn't support high refresh rates https
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by troupo 8mo ago
I could never get my two ASUS displays work at anything but 60Hz

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