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raphaeljon Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has come

Where do you get that data from? I checked on electicityMap [1] and the British wind farms are producing more than 6 GW at the moment [2].

[1] https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/GB

[2] https://i.imgur.com/URVfMDT.png

raphaeljon Ask HN: What has been your experience with bigger tech companies in London?

Workers in UK also work less than their US counterparts (paid holidays, parental leave, sick days ...) [1]. Would make more sense to compare these countries by hourly income, not yearly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...

raphaeljon Ask HN: Is anyone else genuinely scared that this is the start of WW3?

Doesn't Russia already have access to the Black Sea ?

raphaeljon Ask HN: Why Isn't Starlink Built on Solar Powered Drones?

That's nice, but these do not stay in the area, and have to take into account air currents.

raphaeljon Why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war

It's already driving gas prices up, which also has some effect on oil prices.

raphaeljon Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

https://noisycamp.com

A web platform I created 3y ago to help Musicians to find spaces to practice music.

I'll most probably not be able to live on it, but it might generate some income.

raphaeljon Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy

Past spending are actually not relevant, as renewable got significantly cheaper, while nuclear got more expensive.

Solar is today 5x less expensive than it was in 2010[1].

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[1] https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication...

raphaeljon Ask HN: How do you validate demand for your side-project?

Would you be interested in a call to share experience?

I'm currently developing a similar platform for music practice space (https://noisycamp.com).

raphaeljon Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

I hope to reach $500/m in early 2022.

I'm making a web app to help Musicians finding and booking places to play Music: https://noisycamp.com

raphaeljon European alternatives for digital products

Well, you will pay these 20k only the 40-ish years you'll work, while you'll pay your US health care insurance until you die. The average American pays more for healthcare over their live than the average European, and the outcomes are objectively worse.

Also, EU governments provide retirement benefits while the US's doesn't. This is the main expenditure for these governments.

Not saying that your argument has not some truth in it, but it's definitively wrong in the case of healthcare.

raphaeljon Ask HN: Would you like me to review your resume?

Not really my resume, but I just created my Portfolio website: https://rjavaux.be/.

Let me know if you can find anything you would improve :).

raphaeljon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

Could it be because we just got slightly better at treating Covid before hospitalization?

raphaeljon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2021)

Hi !

I’m available as a Freelancer.

Location: Remote (located in Belgium)

Remote: Yes!

Willing to relocate: No. Frequent travel possible.

Technologies:

    - Python (Flask, Django, SciPy, SciKit-Learn …) 

    - C / C++ (embedded and high performance) 

    - Scala (Play Framework) 

    - Haskell 

    - TypeScript / JavaScript (VueJS)

    - Linux / UNIX (Docker)     

    - SQL / PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV:

* Portfolio: https://www.rjavaux.be/

* GitHub: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelj/

Email:

    raphael at noisycamp dot com

My hourly rate is €80/$90.

raphaeljon Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs. native apps and OS

Except that Qt might not be loaded/initialized by the time you launch your app.

raphaeljon Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs. native apps and OS

Most Linux and Windows apps do any significant computation except when relying on (usually) native/C/C++ libraries that do it (GUI, science stuff, IO ...). So it does not really matter if it is coded in Python, C# or C++, as most of the CPU time is spent on native code anyway.

Code quality is a way more important factor in app perceived slowness.

raphaeljon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2021)

I'm available as a freelancer, up to 30h per week.

Location: Liège, Belgium

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Web (Flask, VueJS, Play Framework), embedded (C/C++), SQL/PostgreSQL, Linux/UNIX, Python, Scala, Haskell

Résumé/CV:

   - Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaelj/
 
   - GitHub: https://github.com/RaphaelJ/

Email: raphael [at] noisycamp . com

raphaeljon An error message if you put more than 2^24 items in a JS Map object

It's easy to imagine some app to reach that amount of keys pretty easily. Like games, scientific simulations or GIS apps.

raphaeljon Ask HN: Who wants project feedback? (August 2021)

I'm developing https://noisycamp.com, a platform to help musicians to find and book spaces to practice music. I'm also helping music studios by making it easier for them to manage their bookings.

raphaeljon 'World longest' (330m) solar panel bike path opens in Utrecht, Nederland

What problem is it even solving? We are not missing space to put panels on, we need to make them cheaper. This will only make panels more expensive and maintenance cost will rocket.

raphaeljon Show HN: Survey of 10k freelancers, their salaries, locations and tools

It looks gorgeous, but it's totally inadequate to show the data. Plus the way the scrolling gets hijacked is frustrating.

raphaeljon Summary of June 8 outage

Use a short TTL on the CDN subdomain you use. Then setup an alternative CDN provider in advance, so that you can switch from one to the other in a matter of minutes.

raphaeljon Fastly Outage

> The internet is designed for redundancy. Wonder why these companies don't have a fail over network. Makes me wonder if cost is factor considering their already massive infra. But a single point of failure ..

Well, Internet was indeed designed for redundancy, and it worked as intended. A no point in time it failed to make you reach the server it was supposed to make you talk to.

What are failing are all the application protocols that are running on top of the network.

raphaeljon Fastly Outage

Only their main website though. My Heroku apps work pretty well.

raphaeljon Fastly Outage

Couldn't be happier I moved https://noisycamp.com to BunnyCDN.com.

raphaeljon Fastly Outage

But they have competing products through AWS.

raphaeljon Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance 2021

Well, it might be true for some positions, like engineering, but it definitively does not apply to all of them.

raphaeljon There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic

The more cases you have, the more overwhelm your testing system is. The difference in death rate is most probably due to the fact that Finland was testing more positive cases (relatively) to Sweden.

raphaeljon There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic

And that’s with all the safety measures most of us have been following for more than one year now.

raphaeljon Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

Any idea why they shutdown some engines during ascent?

Seems efficient as you are fighting gravity with less acceleration and more dead weight.

raphaeljon India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first

Parent was referring to the doubling rate.

Cells produce more than one additional particule per reproduction cycle, so the doubling rate is lower than 8 to 72h.