nico_h

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by nico_h 22d ago
Just insane RAM price. Can’t wait for the bubble to pop. AI is useful but not at the currently unsustainable price (too expensive for the provided value to corporate customers at too cheap per token vs the actual cost of creating it)
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by nico_h 23d ago
It passed on a technicality of present reps voted against in majority but not enough total votes because the president had triggered a special vote for the last session before recess when less reps are present.
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by nico_h 1mo ago
Porque no los dos? Given the number of billionaires in China, it can both be true that workers are exploited, meaning they could earning more for less hours, and that the living conditions are better on average and possibly medianely than t
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by nico_h 2mo ago
Electric long distance passenger planes. Possibly requiring the help of EMALs. Electric long distance container ships. Useful portable laser, coil- and rail- guns. Even longer range drones.
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by nico_h 2mo ago
The downside of hydratation, with its kidney saving, headache preventing benefits is that the more hydrated you are, the sooner and more frequently you need to leave the workstation…
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by nico_h 2mo ago
Is there anything special in making a $21k gas truck in 2026? I’m guessing you could get a second hand gas truck for this price?
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by nico_h 2mo ago
They are nice but please also look into the atreus, it uses a column stagger and has least some angling for your wrists. It’s both a finished product and also a set of instruction for DIY. Otherwise r/ergoMechKeyboards has a plethora o
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by nico_h 3mo ago
The current AI tech (LLM and other Gen image stuff) is impressive as heck, but it has flawed origins (facebook torrenting the books, everyone scraping the web and anything they can without attribution) and downright evil boosters advocating
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by nico_h 4mo ago
The rich already have control over the government, as exemplified by the fact that it’s impossible to tax them. Amd also over large part of the media (as they own it and are concentrating the outlets). The poor (all of us HN reader) have so
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by nico_h 6mo ago
The very plot of rainbow 6, a 1998 Tom Clancy novel, except the preppers are actually helping the catastrophes along. And, if I’m not misremembering, of Silo as well.
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by nico_h 7mo ago
I don’t know how relevant the samples are, but while the details are lost, the essence seems well preserved. It seems it would be really useful for performing OCR on.
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by nico_h 7mo ago
Oh you sweet summer child. Under capitalism money is a function of how low you can pay your fungible organic units before they look for other opportunities or worse, unionize (but that can be dealt with relatively easily nowadays). Except
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by nico_h 7mo ago
What about coops? Or partnerships?
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by nico_h 8mo ago
Maybe the high sea will become less policed by the Canadian IP police
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by nico_h 8mo ago
It’s a cool name but there is already another project called ferrite, related to audio recording. https://www.wooji-juice.com/products/ferrite/
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by nico_h 8mo ago
I’ve been a passenger in the front and the back of a C15 and they are pure utility vehicule. You get heating in winter and ventilation in summer. The windows are manual, front seat are okay, and I don’t know if they have updated models with
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by nico_h 10mo ago
If it’s sourced from abroad it has to be shipped (blockades anyone ?) If your usual trading partner is inaccessible for reason X , what are the odds your alternate trading partner is also affected by reason X? Are there geopolitical or nati
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by nico_h 1y ago
Same! I want a small and not too expensive phone for typing and using on the go, fits in my hand and in my pocket. And a (small) tablet for drawing and videos, it has less constraints in term of size, and can live in my bag.
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by nico_h 1y ago
iPhone 4 was a beautiful piece of hardware, but it felt indulgent. Just too heavy (it’s still my second favorite iPhone design). The iPhone 5 and 5S were a better compromise in terms of performance and design per gram. I contend they were t
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by nico_h 1y ago
Probably not enough margin in microwaves ovens to justify putting GaN stuff in it yet. Maybe for premium products. Bigger volume! Silent operation! More efficient!
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Ask HN: macOS+AWS Workspace+Bluetooth sucks: dongle headphone recommendations?
2 points by nico_h 1y ago|0 comments
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by nico_h 1y ago
I mean if we were talking about Cheetos or Coca, I’d agree with you, but we live in a Duopoly on both Mobile, Desktop and the web. If you’re an adult, you’ve been living in their ecosystem for years. It’s kind if hard to not be emotionally
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by nico_h 1y ago
While that sounds like a solution it’s of the “simple but wrong” kind. Just like you, they are product of propaganda, though theirs is less based in reality than yours. If you don’t counteract the source strategy (like the lack of education
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by nico_h 1y ago
There’s a movement called “barefoot shoes” / “barefoot running”. Very different gait from usual running and all the cushioning is in the muscles/ tendons. You can find some brands that have coton + rubber shoes (rubber is from a p
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by nico_h 1y ago
Zoom way out, the usual area is a bit “south”.
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by nico_h 1y ago
Yes. The side effects of solar panels is indeed a cooler ground underneath. Plants have difficulty growing in the shade. Panels have a darker shade than most ground they are covering, so they might actually absorb more heat than the typical
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by nico_h 1y ago
At this point i think removing any heat from ground is a net win. Solar is just transforming light into electricity, i don’t think it’s removing any heat from the system unfortunately, unlike radiative cooling paint. Now that we should be p
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by nico_h 1y ago
I think except for rock music and comic books and 3d printing the naysayers are proven to be right? The luddites went at it wrong , but the externalities are definitely terrible for all your examples.
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by nico_h 1y ago
All those LLMs are trained on stolen data, is pushed by ultra capitalist tech bro and billionaires, and eliminating jobs in creative industries. It’s heralded as a tool for increasing efficiency (a western capitalism favorite euphemism for
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by nico_h 1y ago
Sadly we’re already in the long term impact of the previous energy revolution, so we’d better get starting now instead of when we’ll feel the impact of this next compute evolution.

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