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Hithredin··on Using Qt for Mobile in 2023
Why didn't the author consider Kotlin Multiplatform in the conclusion?

It seems to be the most accurate choice to answer the described needs while solving the lack of native dependency that QT is apparently facing.

Hithredin··on Desalination can beat batteries for excess energy
This is just naturally solved by capitalism, no magic.

When electricity on the grid is cheaper, all intensive applications can run at that time. Just make the difference of price worth the pause of the industry when electricity is scarce.

Hithredin··on Accidental database programming
Realm Sync, Mongo + Kotlin MP will cover basically all platforms (server, web, mobile, desktop)... at a cost. Actually interested by alternatives. Will this be part of your article?
Hithredin··on How BlackBerry failed to respond to the iPhone
Blackberry simply lost the appeal/marketing.

Yes the Storm was horrible and the Torch was just ok.

But Blackberry 10 didn't come that late. At release time it was superior to the current iPhone and Android in many points. Usability, dynamic permissions, the Hub, animations were so fluids and responsives, virtual keyboard, advanced dev toolkit...

It was one single thing that killed it: Customers were told Blackberry is old and un-cool. So they think.

Hithredin··on Decades-long bet on consciousness ends
That's quite a big stretch saying that. Christians did keep old greek writing during middle age. And muslim did Destroy as rich Persian knowledge.
Hithredin··on Ohio Prison System Bans Java Computer Manual, but Allows Hitler’s Mein Kampf
Those books may have illegal arguments
Hithredin··on Humans have pumped enough groundwater to change the tilt of the Earth
We don't need this story to care about water usage...
Hithredin··on A non-technical explanation of deep learning
Actually, the god is the AI trainer. The AI is the god tool and us poor villagers are forced to worship the first.
Hithredin··on Office of the President of Mongolia: Top to bottom text on the web
The interesting thing is that Cyrillic is the official script in Mongolia and original mongolian script survive in China.
Hithredin··on Modern software performance is firmly in its “beyond parody” stage
They suppose to publish a more performant crossplateform solution.

But yeah I won't blame them not to use xamarin/maui.

Hithredin··on The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck
But Koningsberg is czech!
Hithredin··on Extending the Android SDK
It feels like Play Services is for Google to own valuable features privately over an open source OS.

Not about version support.

Hithredin··on AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent defendant in court
But this xan be be a. ery good complement to an actual layer.

The layer would spend less time preparing (so cheaper) and will basically direct the IA and act as safeguard when the AI gets so confidently incorrect.

Hithredin··on How transportation technologies shaped empires
This medieval example sounds like an easy shortcut though.

At part of Europe, roads were always maintened. Maybe with more local that country-wide focus sometimes. The feudalism may not caused by road system efficiency. Good roads on a empire splitted by succession are still no match to fast manoeuvrable drakkar raiders.

Local power and defence is needed... leading to another important parameter. Size of empires is proportional to time of travel and relative defensive strength of the remote area.

Hithredin··on How transportation technologies shaped empires
I guess the distance is also proportional to the strenght of the remote part and the brutality of a vengeance from the capital.

England, Fance, Spain, Portugal keeping colonies for a while until they technologically matched and that enlightened europe would be less tolerant of a bloody revenge.

Russia, China still controlling their colonies because there is no local comparable strenght in those moutain/toundra/desert parts.

Hithredin··on Migrating our largest mobile app to React Native
How does QT fare for multiplatform dev? This is often forgotten when talking of the choice available.

At the time of Blackberry 10, this was an appealing solution with Cascade. But now?

Hithredin··on Using rats to clear land mines in Cambodia
From a strategic perspective, obsolescent mines make total sense. I wonder why it is not the norm.

Country usually don't wage war just to destroy (Seeing Ukraine, not so sure anymore). But to own and use the land. This allow to keep the territory futureproof. While for the defender it's even more logic.

Long live mines are only useful around long term places: military base, korean border, ...

Hithredin··on H2G2 Is Still Relevant
Since the fiction predate the tech, what if the fiction simply inspired the tech. Making it less prescient but still valuable.
Hithredin··on Speculoos-2c: A new potentially habitable earth
That would be as windy as Contrevent
Hithredin··on Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper
So basically it means it can only build by mutualism. A wheel organism and an axle organism, both feeding independently and somewhat connecting. Maybe male/female like anglefish
Hithredin··on Solar-powered desalination device wins MIT $100K competition
Yeah... Such a great idea to have every company discussion validated and approved by an AI.
Hithredin··on Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?
The most simple one, but so useful that time:

This car cheap autoradio has no random nor memory. Everytime the engine start, the music restart from the beginning.

Just coded at a stop a little python script for Nokia to randomize the name of the music files of the usb stick.

Hithredin··on Show HN: Detect Russian visitors to block them and protest the war in Ukraine
Some harass people, the other kill them. Which one is not a good idea, tell me?
Hithredin··on Quantum friction explains strange way water flows through nanotubes
Doesn't they mean they plan to build a "simulation" when saying computer design?
Hithredin··on Ask HN: Where do you go to meet interesting people (not engineers)?
Buhurt,

You will meet so many colourful interesting people from every horizon, origins, political views, ...

I guess it would be the same for every young small and growing sport or communities

Hithredin··on Evolution of the elephant depiction throughout the middle ages
https://sketch.metademolab.com/canvas

Let's try

Hithredin··on Ask HN: Do you also feel you retain nothing after reading a technical book?
Same.

Take notes. Make sure you read them again a week later and reorganize them into smaller meaningful notes.

Those "Cards" can be re-read very quickly. And the simple notion of the few words a month later will replay and refresh the full context in your brain.

Works well if you don't have the time nor occasion to apply it

Hithredin··on U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics
True.

The funny one was when China became the first to ban the Boeing 737 Max.

So many hate speech against China on this well educated community.... until the rest of the world followed China within days

Hithredin··on Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips
Why even bother charging when you could replace a loan battery at pump station ?
Hithredin··on Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
Where is the tax on the poor here?

He basically shared that some costly energy consumption (such as water heating) can be easily shaped to the supply.

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