ziotom78

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by ziotom78 12d ago
Uranium price accounts for just ~10% of the overall cost of nuclear power.
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by ziotom78 12d ago
I would add the loose definition of interfaces, because it is hard to tell if you have implemented everything or not. (The compiler does not check, you have to write extensive tests.) It's one of the reasons why I am using Julia only
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by ziotom78 15d ago
Congratulations for this new release! Instead of commenting the many improvements, I would like to praise the quality of this Release page: everything is explained clearly, with concrete examples, measurements, and small videos. Bravo!
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by ziotom78 1mo ago
BearLibTerminal might be something on this line, although its purpose is mainly for developing rougue-like games. It simulates a terminal in a GUI with a high-level API http://foo.wyrd.name/en:bearlibterminal
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by ziotom78 2mo ago
I would use Guile for that, its documentation about how to use it as a scripting language within a C program is excellent. It is being used by many projects for this purpose: GNU Cash, Lilypond, GNU Guix... I don't know about games, ho
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by ziotom78 2mo ago
Absolutely. And eggs too [1]: these are libraries provided by the community, very easy to import and use. [1] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggs
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by ziotom78 2mo ago
I was eagerly waiting for this release, which brings full Unicode support. Congratulations to the team, Chicken Scheme is a little gem!
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by ziotom78 2mo ago
True, but this is C++23, while the post is about C++20.
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by ziotom78 3mo ago
This is relevant for solar irradiance but tells nothing about storage capacity.
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by ziotom78 3mo ago
Exactly
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by ziotom78 3mo ago
> It is absolutely ridiculous: of all countries, Italy has totally the means to rely only on solar and batteries Do you have any trustable source for this?
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by ziotom78 4mo ago
I believe that what we can reasonably expect in the future is machines that act as if they experience consciousness. But the fact that this is true consciousness is highly debatable, as the thought experiment of the Chinese room [1] expla
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by ziotom78 5mo ago
I agree, but I would add that they can be very useful even if you do not have clear expectations but have some solid ways to verify their claims. Often in doing this verification I came up with new ideas.
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by ziotom78 5mo ago
I fully understand your rant! I pay ~20€/month for the Pro account, as my university has a deal with Microsoft and only seems to recognize Copilot, so it’s very hard to use one own’s funding for paying something else.
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by ziotom78 5mo ago
I am a physics professor and often use Gemini to check my papers. It is a formidable tool: it was able to find a clerical error (a missing imaginary unit in a complex mathematical expression) I was not able to find for days, and it often un
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by ziotom78 5mo ago
Initially, I was skeptical and thought that this is the millionth vibe-coded project that will die once the author gets bored. However, when I checked who the author is, I found he is is Graeme Geldenhuys, the author of the fpGUI library [1
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by ziotom78 5mo ago
Giuseppe Tartini claimed his violin sonata "Il trillo del diavolo" (Devil's trill) was played to him by the devil itself during a dream. However, unlike you, Tartini declared that he had been able to capture only a small part
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by ziotom78 5mo ago
> they'll have to run for 25% of their expected life span to get them back Do you have a Life Cicle Assessment source for this? This paper [1] quantifies the Energy Payback Time for a modern nuclear plant to be roughly 6 years (see
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by ziotom78 6mo ago
True, but what if you need to re-run that command several months later and you can no longer find the message?
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by ziotom78 6mo ago
I too was perplexed, but the main use case seems to be when you want to share a particular configuration or need to be sure that you always use the same set of flags: > Flags are ephemeral – you have to share the command line or wrap
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by ziotom78 6mo ago
Not the OP, but a few weeks ago I posted a comment about my problems with Wayland, which forced me to go back to X11. (I am still using it.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46001622
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by ziotom78 7mo ago
Thank you! I regularly use Reveal.js to create interactive slide decks for my classes, and your project will be a great tool to have!
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by ziotom78 7mo ago
Correct, but I would add: Julia is better than Python+NumPy/SciPy when you need extreme speed in custom logic that can’t be easily vectorized. As Julia is JIT-compiled, if your code calls most of the functions just once it won’t provid
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by ziotom78 8mo ago
It will surely be worse, at least at the beginning. But there is a significant chance that with time they will improve it, and one can hope that one year after the first release the product will actually be better than Teams, given that the
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by ziotom78 8mo ago
A few weeks ago I decided to test C++ modules, but I had a hard time to figure out how to make them accepted by CMake. After a few days of struggle with `set(CMAKE_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX_IMPORT_STD "d0edc3af-4c50-42ea-a356-e2862fe7a444"
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by ziotom78 10mo ago
It’s fantastic they were able to find these issues! That four new CVEs (two high-severity!) were found in a mature and well-tested library like png reminds me how non-trivial and unforgiving software engineering can be. Security flaws are o
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by ziotom78 10mo ago
A few months have passed and I might not remember everything correctly, but there was a series of problems: - I use several symbols as Greek letters (α, β, γ…) and mathematical operators (×, −, ·, ∂…), and after much digging I found that th
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by ziotom78 10mo ago
Xdotool and Xmodmap are the two main reasons why, after a few months running Wayland+keyd+dotool I went back to X11. I found really hard to have the following things working at once: - Italian layout for my keyboard with heavily-customized
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by ziotom78 10mo ago
As others have commented, this trick alone cannot ensure truly "reproducible" builds. We used the same trick (git hash + git diff to monitor uncommitted changes) in a Python simulation framework we are developing for the JAXA&#x2F
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by ziotom78 10mo ago
I believe they are really referring to the default mode used by GCC when no standard is explicitly stated. The email mentions that the last time they changed it was 5 years ago in GCC 11, and the link < https://gcc.gnu.org&#x2F

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