jerome-jh

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by jerome-jh 2mo ago
There was a report a few months ago predicting 4°C by 2080. It came to this figure by selecting the most likely emission scenario and warming scenario from the GIEC report. In particular, it is hard to be optimistic on the emission scenario
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
Protecting kids and other vulnerable people matters to everyone, so why not the government? What would think of a country where, let say your mother cannot go out without fearing getting robbed or raped? Same for kids. Maybe you do not have
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
If the kid knows how to buy a certificate from a shady website, then probably he his old enough to watch porn and other disturbing content. That does not mesn the system should be thrown away as a whole.
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
I upvote for the wonderful formatting ;)
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
We could prove P=>~P if we had earlier in our context another hypothesis Q, which is false. So proving P=>~P does not imply P is false. It means our context is inconsistent. It could be inconsistent because of P or because of Q?
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
There is something which always made me uncomfortable with informal proof by contradiction (by informal I mean "with pen and paper"). So OK we reach a contradiction, and then immediately "oh yeah, that is _this hypothesis_ wh
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
I sometimes wonder, what is real and what is a concept in physics: is that force , energy, ...? There are often two ways to solve physics problems: one describing the problem with forces, the other reasoning with energy. So they look like t
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
It would be bearable if they would just be rich and shut the **** up.
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
I will be on the job market soon I will change decade this year I still have not found my passion nor encountered the big project if my life. I am interested by too many things and have too little agency or perseverance.
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
In the small town were I lived as a teenager, there was a successful garage owner who had a Ferrari. It was during the early 90's. One evening after a dinner at a restaurant with friends, a young woman insists to come back as a passeng
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by jerome-jh 3mo ago
Recently, Claude (through Copilot) found a hardware issue on our product. I was asking it to find an issue in a specific feature of a device driver, that could cause what we observed. It determined the feature was correctly implemented. The
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by jerome-jh 4mo ago
Why no Salvetat? https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Salvetat_(eau_min%C3%A9rale...
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by jerome-jh 4mo ago
Do people solve business problems with OR-tools? I suppose yes, but what can you say about the real applications?
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by jerome-jh 6mo ago
Replying to myself Christmas 2023: I ordered a number of books from the local bookstore. One failed to delivered, so Christmas 2024: I ordered most of my books from Amazon. No two deliveries went the same (see above), total randomness. Chri
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by jerome-jh 6mo ago
My local book store accepts online orders and I can fetch my books from the shop a few days later. I am finding this more convenient than Amazon, even if a little more expensive. I also appreciate to have a book store in town, for the few t
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by jerome-jh 9mo ago
AI can be a great tool. It can make our children (and us) lazier, but not necessarily stupider. Short video platforms OTOH certainly make our children stupider (and depressed).
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by jerome-jh 9mo ago
Securing soldered components with epoxy? You have to be very confident at your soldering :) You had no hot glue?
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by jerome-jh 9mo ago
In a world of international tensions, governments tend to favor their mega-corps and monopoly. It is a way of weakening your adversaries. It is commercial war.
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by jerome-jh 10mo ago
When I started working, more than 25 years ago, we had one team meeting per week (1 hour), very few other meetings. Cellphones were getting mainstream and people had these funny ringtones, but since communications were expensive, phones wer
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by jerome-jh 10mo ago
And if the satellite's orbit is not perfectly circular, you may even be able to gain altitude by moving a mass at specifics times, like a kid on a swing or a skater in a ramp.
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by jerome-jh 10mo ago
I would tend to think it uses Earth's magnetic field. Magnetizing or demagnetizing a moving mass would make its potential energy vary inside Earth's magnetic field. This may occur without reaction (I am not sure about this, my p
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by jerome-jh 10mo ago
It is striking to read this and two links above the article about so-called Bitcoin's biggest secret.
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
That's how I like computers: simply useful, down to earth. Congrats to the creator. (BTW reminds me of the wonderful lylipond https://lilypond.org/ )
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
From the top of my head, for about 300 nuclear power plants around the globe, there have been 3 core meltdown accidents. It is a 1% catastrophic failure rate. It is quite bad! Whatever the circumstances of these accidents, human nature and
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
Social media platforms are no more closed circles. They are platforms for advertisers and "click fishers". And people engage with content which revolt them. As a consequence social platforms, and low quality newspapers, have conve
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
You americans are strange. Your government makes arbitrary arrests, illegally searches phones, massively de-funds science and health projects, and only a handful of people demonstrate. Now a company wants the identity of the companies it wo
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
This is a modularity vs integration tradeoff. - Linux is a patchwork of SW, written in a variety of programming languages, using a variety of libraries, some of which having the same functionality. There is duplication, misalignment, legacy
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
"are we the baddies?" We are and without AI. See how people struggle with their computers and devices, and how it is often caused by an undesired software update. See how software updates, or the lack thereof, are weaponized to ma
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
The rich have too much money. Period.
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by jerome-jh 1y ago
Assuming the recruiting manager is non technical, he should have referred to the team in need when he received the "specification" email, something like "what should I do with this candidate?". A 5min chat with engineers

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