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orwin··on The unbearable cheapness of open weight models
Mythos was outperformed by small, specific local models in multiple oss project.
orwin··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
Last night, or rather this morning, the temperature reached it's lowest at 5 AM: 28C. When I woke up two hours later we had 33, and when I started working at 9, 38. The thermometer then reached 43 at noon, where it it still stuck 4 hours 45 minutes later, despite the rising humidity (I live by the sea), making the humidex reach 51. The temperature won't be below 34 before midnight, and might be below 30 at 5AM tomorrow morning.
orwin··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
I mean, huge part of the EU population is USA cultural vassal. Not being one is almost considered as a social distinction for some.
orwin··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
I live by the sea, it was 28C last night, will be 30C tonight, I absolutely need AC. Sadly I have to get a mobile AC unit, which are the worst, but well :/
orwin··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
Unless you have split mobile AC portable units are very inefficient.

Tbh even in old buildings it might be possible to reabilitate old chimneys for AC (or rather heat pumps).

orwin··on GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump
>The feels 20% faster but actually 19% slower I believe is a few years old at this point

No, it's from last october, and it probably lasted until at least codex5.3/sonnet 4.6, so it's 6 month old at best, maybe less (You can't say the same with Opus though for sure). I felt faster for sure, but all metrics (except LOC) from my team were worst, and we spend a lot of extra time bugfixing. We're better now, but it's hard to say if it's because the models are that much better or if now the people generating 100% of their code now actually review the code themselves before opening a PR (also we are a bit more coercitive during the PR reviews, what use to be non-blocking like style choices is now blocking, and we dig way more).

orwin··on Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards
And even when you have a credit card, it might act like a debit card (every payment shows as debit in your banking app, even if you really pay on the 10th of the month or something).
orwin··on Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
> It's just LARPing.

Usually LARPers are conscious that they don't have magic or any sword skills. I'm pretty sure the person who you respond too really think what he wrote.

orwin··on SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch
Not is: might be.
orwin··on HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30
Some strain survive on toilet seats or in sauna/hammams.
orwin··on HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30
For information (for men who think this doesn't apply for them especially), some strains of HPV have very inconvenient dermatological effects that can leave scars on your thighs, bother you when walking and make masses that are quite ugly and might bother your partner. I had those effects for ~3 years.

If you are a young man not vaccinated yet and sexually active, you should get the vaccine if you can.

orwin··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Can they identify easy stylistic device, like an extended metaphor or an anaphora?

Because until they do, I will consider their comprehension skills limited.

orwin··on US and Iran announce deal to end military operations
I think you misunderstood my point, I might express myself poorly: I totally agree with you. To quote myself:

>> The only good point about that is that it makes the regime weaker to domestic insurrections.

But it will make the regime harsher on its population, and cause more suffering.

orwin··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
Enedis is basically a state owned company (to be clear, they aren't the one selling electricity, they are the one in charge of the network and the distribution, so I'm not sure if it counts as utility).
orwin··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
Didn't use it, it was fixed, so I don't have more details, sorry.
orwin··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
https://warning-trading.com/enquetes-et-decryptages/karsyl-s...
orwin··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Like I said in another comment: nuclear only makes sense if you build it at scale, because you need very specific skills and knowledge that is hard to get to build it securely, on time and cheap. Ideally you would have one company/conglomerate that would get one plant off the ground per year across the EU, but currently that isn't possible.
orwin··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
I didn't think about seasonality of hydro power. You might want french design then, they are the most effective as starting/shutting down.
orwin··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Technically yes, but also no. The European electricity market have way, way to many rules and caveat to draw any conclusion, especially France with ARENH and other distortions.

It's probably too expensive, because the best way to make nuclear cheap is to build it 'at scale', and here I mean, continuously. You need a company that will get a reactor out of the ground every year or so, continuously, to avoid loosing knowledge and build upon failures or success.

I know three persons who work or used to work directly with nuke plants, one my age who is currently working in getting the newest french reactors off the ground, and two who are friends of my father, one who finished his career in China, and the other became a submarine welder. From the discussion I've listened to, and especially from the welder, the technical requirements are very high, knowledge and techniques have been lost and making nuke plants correctly nowadays on the first try would be a miracle (he is also very skeptical of the first wave of french reactors), you need to iterate and build knowledge, which isn't cheap.

orwin··on Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants
Switzerland, Norway and Austria are probably the country that needs nuclear the less, but anything to start the discussion in other European countries is good.

Probably not economically viable in Switzerland though.

orwin··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
The Sitbon family didn't lobby hard enough to prevent this.
orwin··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
My electric company gave me a number (UID, not phone number) to resume a call if the issue wasn't fixed within 24 hours, and I'm pretty sure internet operators have the same protocol (at least used to).
orwin··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
He is an engineer in material physics (DEA is basically Master degree in engineering + 1 year of internship/certification).
orwin··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
It's a philosophy thesis, and unlike STEM or soft sciences (history, linguistics...), they are very light on fact which make them very dry. The will read the introduction, conclusion (which can have more words than a physic thesis), the main thesis that interest them the most, and count on their collegue to read the other main thesis.

Also, very dry, so it's easy to loose focus, and you can read a rephrasing of your own thesis as a "he has the same ideas" (also, if you do that, please reference the author?)

I find a few of the example damning (hje should totally have added a citation and build his argument around it). Most less so, and i understand that a reader could not catch them.

orwin··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
@dang: is it possible to add a word to the title to make it less clickbaity? French physicist and media star loses +++philosophy+++ doctorate after plagiarism investigation
orwin··on French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation
It's not his physic thesis, it's his philosophy thesis. I think i will make a comment or ask dang to change the title to make it clear
orwin··on U.S. science is in chaos
> realizing that not all fields of research merit the same amount of funding

Unless america does it _very_ different than the rest of the western world, this is already the case. STEM research receive way more public funding and have way more PhDs than other fields, in my country it's almost two order of magnitude (this has to do with the cost of instrumentation mostly, but not only).

On the "science have turned political", yes, but that has always been the case. You can be political and non-partisan. UNSCEAR has been political from its creation, but is still non-partisan, anybody can use its research to make partisan proposition on nuclear. Same for WHO, it was _obvisouly_ political, advanced the interest of the first world in poorer countries, but it stayed non-partisan. This is probably the same for any medical research: obviously what is researched is political. Non-partisan though. Just because heart attack research was done by, with and for men, women also benefit from the research (although to a way lower degree until like 2010).

The only counter-example i can think of is the GIEC group3. I don't think it is partisan, but i can hear arguments that say that it is, and debate. But it has the lowest amount of funding of the 3 groups, and Group 1 and 2 are not partisan at all.

orwin··on Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
Sorry, i wasn't clear. If you have digital ID, you can emit time-limited certificates.
orwin··on Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
If your country has a digital ID, it is possible.
orwin··on Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
2008? You mean Habbo, MySpace or Bebo?
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