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by harrouet 6d ago
Plus they have an Amazon-scale infrastructure to manage...
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by harrouet 6d ago
The one topic that is almost not addressed in this post is: what happens to the React Native developer team? Technologies are never the issue. The people is.
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by harrouet 6d ago
On the same boat and totally agree with the analysis: replaces the iPad Mini, not the iPhone Mini. I pulled out my passport and held it in my hand like a phone: it is not possible to hold it AND use the thumb on the screen. Look at the mark
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by harrouet 6d ago
France recently announced for €93B of data center contracts to be deployed in the next few years. The countries that could decarbonize their electricity all rely on nuclear, hydro or geotherm.
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by harrouet 6d ago
Note that no such deal is based on solar or wind power alone.
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by harrouet 7d ago
I you can fit an iPad Mini in your pocket, you don't need a foldable display.
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by harrouet 7d ago
Same here: 13 Mini (bought new at launch) with renewed battery. I took my passport in my hand yesterday to see how it feels. Yikes, it feels even harder to control the whole screen with your thumb.
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by harrouet 8d ago
Interesting... But do both parties need to agree to the reversal? Then that's really trivial... and not prone to work against fraudsters. I suspect that a legally-mandated transaction reversal supposes that an authority has got power o
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by harrouet 9d ago
The issue at stake is that financial markets are order-2 chaotic system, i.e. acting on them can change their outcome. Put simply, if you open source your magic recipe, the behavioral change will affect the prices and you recipe will not wo
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by harrouet 9d ago
Try to open a support ticket with Microsoft and you'll get exactly the same experience: a maze of webpages that don't work, and the full corporate organization complexity to navigate. Once a ticket is successfully opened, you&#x27
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by harrouet 9d ago
But isn't it the same as Facebook letting you consent (without actually reading the ToS) that your friends on that freshly-uploaded photo agreed to appear online and have their face scanned?
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by harrouet 10d ago
That the concept of comments: those lines come from me. No AI (can you believe?)
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by harrouet 10d ago
> you started this conversation with arguing against yourself How so ? Meanwhile, what you qualified as blog spam is actually proving to be written by a human spending too much time answering your rant.
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by harrouet 10d ago
I am just saying that this would not happened with a normal bank. Pure DeFi structural deficiency. But I see how polarized you are about the topic.
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by harrouet 10d ago
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by harrouet 10d ago
So there are people who actually spend time on the LinkedIn social feed? Man, it has been purely made of fake content, even since before LLM were a thing. And the notifications are so senseless that everyone disable them -- and people don&#
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by harrouet 13d ago
I have the same feeling. It is not unlike old-Siri receiving hard-coded workflows for each type of question. It will not scale.
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by harrouet 13d ago
Imho, NVIDIA is buying two things here: - A workflow + distribution channel of open models, which sells GPU - A world-class AI infrastructure know-how, which is actually hard at this scale. I can imagine NVIDIA contemplating the o
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by harrouet 13d ago
At least there is Europe to enforce antitrust.
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by harrouet 15d ago
First, overall consumption is smaller in June than in January, when days are shorter and heating is on. So I don't see how comparing these 2 numbers makes a relevant argument. Second, you can't compare technical (planned) maintena
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by harrouet 15d ago
Nuclear power plants are expensive because 95% of the cost of the produced MWH is in building the plant. If you avoid irrelevant comparisons of costs (e.g. vs intermittent sources), nuclear is actually attractively priced.
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by harrouet 15d ago
This is absolutely not true. Actually, nuclear is safer than, say, hydraulic power. With that said, it requires a country with good governance and an independent safety regulator (like in France).
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by harrouet 15d ago
I always get touchy when someone compares the cost of nuclear MWh to the ones of solar and wind turbines, because they are essentially NOT the same MWh. Nuclear works 24x7 on its own. Intermittent energies don't. Intermittent energies
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by harrouet 27d ago
Yes I am, and it is a nice hack. But it does not make my hand bigger to hold my phone, and it adds a gesture i.e. friction to the UX.
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by harrouet 28d ago
I remain an irreductible fan of the one-hand theory, and therefore stick with an iPhone 13 mini. I might be late at the folding-phone revolution. Alas it seems we won't see any such phone that fits in a pant's pocket and that can
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by harrouet 29d ago
So, a time-constrained ambitious dad spends his time on HN and reads extensive biographies. Good luck :)
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by harrouet 1mo ago
Is it an AI self-realizing its own existence?
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by harrouet 1mo ago
Inspiring article, I will keep the following bits: - with AI, bad engineers (bad designs?) lead faster to catastrophe - Frontier AI companies pay their SW engineers very much --> we need highly-skilled sw engineers and the lesser ones wi
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by harrouet 1mo ago
As a young telecom engineer working in "Intelligent Networks" in the late 90's in the UK, I learnt that UK phones had a code that could be dialed during a call, so that the line could not hang up anymore. That was geared agai
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by harrouet 1mo ago
Uber is the wrong example here, as it has destroyed $27B of value since inception. Or maybe that's exactly the right example...

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