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popol12··on A new way to build chips: Sequentially stacking silicon to extend Moore's Law
Silicon is already transparent for IR. Visibly that's not enough to cool chips.
popol12··on Will I ever own a zettaflop?
Very interesting, could someone please do the same computation for filling 64 bit storage?
popol12··on Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered
Quick, book a cruise to take some picture of them before they're all dead! \s
popol12··on Setting up phones is a nightmare
You can install this to fix it, btw

https://github.com/lukaspieper/Gcam-Services-Provider

popol12··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
They released cloud backups recently and I believe they are also working on manual exports on iOS too
popol12··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
What about Chinese, Russian or European oil majors ?
popol12··on Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
« to bear the cost », not « to bare the cost »
popol12··on Show HN: Mu – The Micro Network
11£ a month is a lot. Any way to try it for free ?
popol12··on Crypto got everything it wanted. Now it's sinking
I think you underestimate how much speculation, gambling and crime happens in the fiat ecosystem. The forex, just to name one thing, is $7.5T exchanged a day.

In comparison, it’s estimated that Americans spend about $10T per year. I don’t have the numbers worldwide but America is a big piece of the cake.

So, speculation is vastly higher than regular spending, even for “regular money”.

popol12··on Shell Grotto, Margate
Why can’t someone do a carbon 14 datation of the shells to close the debate ?
popol12··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
Man, the communist party (and the communist ideology) in France is pretty much dead today. They’re not even that much to the left today. They have no power and their boss has no social credibility outside of its party (see “Fabien Roussel n’est pas un camarade” songs)

Your claim that the judges are red is a popular right wing fantasy

popol12··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
France is ultra left-wing ? Wow, the Overton window must have shifted to the right even more than I thought.

You sound like you actually don’t know much about France. For instance your accusations about left wing media rooting for Sarkozy has no foundation. The judges being biased toward left is groundless as well. Many left wing politicians have been condemned by French justice.

popol12··on Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
This is peak techno-solutionism
popol12··on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool
Open it, remove the battery and put it in a dedicated recycling bin.
popol12··on AnduinOS
I was scared too and found out that it's actually the opposite !

I'm using Manjaro (derived from Arch), so I can't talk for Arch itself but so far (2 years) it's been way more friendly to me than Ubuntu (which I used for 7 years before).

popol12··on AnduinOS
I switched to an Arch based distribution and it's night and day. Almost everything is available through the AUR, you even have the choice to rebuild a package or to use a pre-compiled one. I'll never go back to Ubuntu and apt.

Oh, and it's a rolling release so my install doesn't break every 2 years with the new LTS upgrade.

popol12··on AnduinOS
When was the last time you tried it ? What do you mean by "a comparable ecosystem of apps" ? Which apps would you miss on a KDE install ?
popol12··on Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä
What do we see here ? Artillery impacts ?
popol12··on Merlin Bird ID
I recently discovered after years of using this app that it's possible to have the names of the birds in other languages than English, it's an option in the app settings.
popol12··on Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]
Interesting, thanks. About Dubai, in french it would be pronounced "Du-bay" without the diaresis. It is not ambiguous in english though, but it never occurred to me !
popol12··on Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]
My bad, I should have checked sorry.
popol12··on Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]
You mixed it up, the guy who lost his finger was a well off co-founder of a crypto company but not super duper rich himself, he was however the friend of a super rich of his co-founders. The goal was to extract money from this other person by hurting his friend.

There was however another case with the french familly of a Dubaï expatriated influencer, with a happier ending this time.

popol12··on Wrench Attacks: Physical attacks targeting cryptocurrency users (2024) [pdf]
After all these years I fail to understand how people seemingly versed in the subject are still spelling Etherium with an "i" instead of an "e". I wonder if all the occurrences of the error are made by people of the same linguistic origin. Out of pure curiosity, I wonder if you could share if you're an English native ? If so, it would rule out this hypothesis. If you are not an English native, would you share your mother tongue with me ? I myself am (an admittedly nosey) French.
popol12··on Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment
I guess the issue is not about taking the medicine once vs twice, but rather « a few times » vs « daily »
popol12··on A first successful factorization of RSA-2048 integer by D-Wave quantum computer
Yup, I posted it for this reason.
popol12··on Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production
Yeah, I too wonder when they will release their first multi-core RISC chip. I guess it's not that easy.
popol12··on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law
Yeah but, what about apps that actually do ?
popol12··on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law
What if your app needs to send notifications and/or use bluetooth, for instance ?
popol12··on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law
I hope this will make Apple finally comply with EU law and allow app side loading on iOS. Real side loading, not the joke they implemented since iOS 17.
popol12··on How dairy robots are changing work for cows and farmers
Man, hear me out. You haven't even searched for it, and you make generalities to prove your point. Can you please give me benefit of the doubt until you've actually checked it out ? "Cow" is not a shitty partisan documentary, there's no narration at all, it simply presents the life of some cows in a medium exploitation in the UK through the seasons. It's quite unique. I've never seen another documentary like this one.

My seedbox is hosting it if you want to download it. It's not the most available file on the web: https://filebin.net/htjmlghpit9nzq84

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