hocuspocus

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by hocuspocus 11d ago
If you live in better material conditions than 90% of the world population, you're rich, by definition. This is nearly half the global CO2 footprint.
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by hocuspocus 19d ago
Even in Europe you can't necessarily bring online a 1200+ MW plant just anywhere, especially in the recent market where some PV production is curtailed in summer and brings the spot rates to zero. In theory we should start investing in
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
Pretty irrelevant to the last meter, and most ISPs do it for free when you subscribe as they can re-use conduits and sheaths for the legacy copper line, otherwise it's typically a few hours of work.
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
Where do you think is the last meter if not in the home?
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
It's not really a big issue. Connecting the last meters of fiber is cheap, either done by default in new constructions, or on demand for older houses. ISP's hardware to run PON is cheap. Once street level fiber deployment is done,
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
The main issue with copper comes from the active infrastructure rather than the physical lines. I work at an ISP that gets DSLAM equipment from Huawei, we run one of the few G.fast VDSL deployments in the world using this particular hardwar
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
And in places where FTTH is available, you pay more for 250/100 Mbps than symmetrical 10 Gbps in Switzerland.
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
France doesn't have much FTTC, VDSL and HFC exist but are fairly rare. Orange has started decommissioning its legacy copper network.
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by hocuspocus 21d ago
No, it's a competing ecosystem, even though both are built on Apache Arrow, and their dataframe APIs might look similar on the surface. DataFusion is being used as a building block for a growing number of databases and data processing
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
Codex, Kiro, Grok Build. Pi has a clone in Rust too.
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Open-sourcing Metals v2: Databricks' Java and Scala language server(databricks.com)
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
I assume you don't use Twitter, otherwise you'd have noticed that annoying bots are in the replies.
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
There are many other clues that clearly make them bots: obvious LLMisms, parroting canned talking points, accounts based in developing countries with nonsensical profile bios, ... But even without all that, it's very hard to believe th
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
Large-scale offshore wind projects in Europe are now nearly as slow and sometimes more expensive than nuclear. Solar + batteries are still not enough for countries that have long and grey winters.
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
I'm fine with this, recent geopolitical events showed that proliferation might have deterred the world's biggest bullies.
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
You don't even need that. Fast breeder reactors are enough.
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
Nuclear waste is a nice problem to have, and fairly simple compared to most pollution sources associated with our lifestyle. No need to worry though, on the current trajectory I doubt our civilization will have the opportunity to deal with
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
You're just supporting my point.
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by hocuspocus 1mo ago
Many European countries do install AC actually, poor ones at that, so it'd be a valid point because yes, it's that easy.
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
Both sides of the same coin, I'd be surprised if Databricks wasn't looking into getting rid of the JVM entirely. The data processing space is increasingly tangled with ML and AI, Python on top of C++ and Rust libraries makes sense
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
Right, especially if you were burned by Scala, Kotlin is even less principled, and lately has grown in complexity, partly thanks to re-inventing several Scala features, only worse. I also talk to pure Java teams, that never considered anyth
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
How's that relevant to people moving away from Scala?
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
Which moderators exactly? That hasn't been the stance of people in the Scala Center, Typesafe/Lightbend, VirtusLab and SoftwareMill. ScalaZ is old news and if you went there (on IRC at the time) you knew exactly what you wanted. I
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
Not only it happened at the worst possible time, but some pain points are entirely self-inflicted, like the braceless syntax hurting tooling and fragmenting the community for very little reason. But in my opinion Databricks implicitly sayin
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
I try to keep track of teams moving away from Scala at my company and among my friends and acquaintances, and I know a lot of key people in the community. Scala to Kotlin stories are extremely rare. Kotlin is almost non-existent in the da
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure most companies don't care nor are aware about the community drama. Arguably Rust is worse, and it doesn't impact its uptake. Scala was sold through Akka and Spark, solving pretty complex technical challenges t
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
I wonder how you see 10x more Clojure news. Scala's usage is stagnant or declining, but Clojure has always been tiny in comparison. It doesn't even register in most rankings (TIOBE, StackOverflow) which is also confirmed by hard n
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
In Scala, .sc is used for worksheets and inconsistently for scripting, see https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/scripting for instance.
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
Java LSPs are essentially the same approach, headless Eclipse JDT or NetBeans. While Metals for Scala was an overhaul from the former Eclipse plugin (and Ensime) plus early experiments embedded in the Scala 3 compiler. And Metals v2 is yet
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by hocuspocus 2mo ago
No I'm not. Ask anyone who tried to dispute a purchase that happened within the EEA, whether online with SCA or card present with PIN, card issuers often tell you to deal with the merchant directly. The interchange cap has significantl

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