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What's your time estimation for the last 2 points? Last I heard TSMC is not willing to commit dozens of billions to build new fabs for what might be a fad. Granted, they're not theonly foundry, but that's a signal nonetheless. Given the current craziness around hardware, I doubt the stabilization will come soon. Probably not before token costs soar.

Handling resize is a different beast than being responsive. Working for every viewport dimension under the sun is not the same thing as gracefully handling an animation while the viewport size changes - the latter is much more challenging.

Here in France, we have strict laws, and on-calls MUST be paid in some form or another. When we were bought by a US company, mgmt tried to set up on-call shifts for us - we had never needed them for the 10 years prior -, until they learnt of labor laws and went "fuck it, you're on call mon-fri, 10am - 6pm". I'm forty, have a family, and no amount of money could justify that I can't shutoff my phone at night, or prevent from going on a walk on weekends because "uptime". I've never been so glad of french worker protections.

Not sure that was the case 50ky ago. That was during a glacial period, sea level was probably 100+m below current level.

More errors for France:

- Beaujolais is in place of Lyon. Beaujolais is a wine region just north of it.

- "Tolose" is actually spelled "Toulouse"

- "Anduoillette" is actually Bordeaux. "Andouillette" (without the typo) is a pork sausage made from intestines. Typically french, but the region most associated with this food is in the opposite of the country, in the North-East.

- "Marsupial" is Marseille

The article goes on to say these stars are very young at ~10My, which is about the smallest time scale at which you might notice some change on continents'aspect. So you're probably technically right, but by a very thin margin.

The brand was pretty popular at some point, and there are a lot of enthusiasts, even a federation of Panhard fanclubs. When asking a workshop for some part, whether machining or molding or whatever, they generally group their needs to make runs of tens or hundreds of parts to make it viable.

Also I'm not talking about the CD, which is a race car and a different kind of beast, but most of their other models, from the start of the 20th century until the 60s.

My wife is related to the Panhard family and many of them are collectors of the brand. There are 2 CDs in the family, perfectly restored. That car is indeed magnificent. The main problem is there's only a handful of mechanics who know and can work on such cars (leaving out the absurd money it requires). Replacing pieces can be an industrial endeavor to set up a factory line to craft new copies of the needed pieces.

About bundling assets I'm not convinced. I've run a year-long test where 50% of our users would download a single JS bundle, and the others would use about a dozen distinct files. All using HTTP/2. I've checked every metric I could think of to see what's best. In the end the not-bundled pages would be a tiny bit quicker to load, but I the few milliseconds of difference was not significant. So I stopped bothering and do not bundle my JS anymore.

Where do you get that average life expectancy of 10-12? I never heard a figure that low, and I doubt humanity would have lasted that long if the average life expectancy was barely enough to reach sexual maturity. Also, I think these life expectancy in the past stats mostly do not distinguish between the extremely high death rate for infants, and the more normal life expectancy for those that survived past 2 y.o. The distribution is so skewed, I guess even the median expectancy would not be really useful.

When you have business in space, having independent launch capabilities is a strategic matter, whatever your relationships with your partner countries are. E.g. Europe wants to keep access to space without having to rely solely on the United States.

Holy duck, that's some hardcore debugging. There's more story and suspense than in many Hollywood thrillers, thanks for sharing.

On ChatGPT 3 years ago

Your reading comprehension of these texts is probably more than just the statistical words correlations that LLMs only care about.

I don't want to sound harsh, but "my personal comfort is more important than finding ways to reduce energy consumption" seems pretty selfish to me. That's the kind of things that make me think trying to reduce our carbon footprint is utterly hopeless. How is it weird/defective to adapt to natural conditions? We're not talking about letting people freeze in their home, but just putting on one more layer when it's cold outside.

3D in CSS 4 years ago

Yes, that feature was really helpful for understanding stacking contexts (and debugging related issues). I don't know why it was abandoned.