<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: UebVar</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=UebVar</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:59:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=UebVar" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by UebVar in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is historic. To put this into perspective for people how to not follow running: This is about about as big as "derGrobe" beating the one-minute-mark in 4b2c.</p>
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<p>The french company IN Groupe.</p>
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<p>I disagree. The plug is usually part of an appliance connector cable, that has no idea what happens to be on the other side aswell. If you size that cable for the same current as the socket, the cable itself is protected by the circuit breaker.<p>The correct spot for the fuse is the appliance itself. Fuses used to be easily replaceable, often with fuse holders [1]. I have, however, never seen a computer with one.<p>[1] <a href="https://uk.farnell.com/productimages/large/en_US/4578676.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://uk.farnell.com/productimages/large/en_US/4578676.jpg</a></p>
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<p>I feel like the humanoid form is getting in the way for that, and that a "Spot" like design with a hand on top is better suited for that. Also i think laundry and dishes are already 95% automated since about 50 years.</p>
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<p>"Tech" was incredible light on CapExp compared with everything else (until AI hit, that is). That is what allowed its explosive growth. On the one hand alphabet is not used to that. On the other hand it is turning into a more normal business with more CapExp, and like other more "normal" business it uses more external investment. As a general rule of thumb: The more capex, the more leverage; for example commodity extraction, infrastructure or power generation are very capex heavy, and heavily leveraged.</p>
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<p>Roads are not <i>solving transportation</i>, they are closer to a sophisticated trace track. Roads are a  constrained Operational Design Domain:<p>- Geofenced areas<p>- pre-build structures<p>- Curated infrastructure<p>- fallback to gravel in times of the inevitable event of maintenance.<p>This is not general transportation, it is a highend infrastructure inside a controlled environment. The system degrades exactly where humans/horses do not: River crossings, Creeks, steep hillsides, marshes, beaches.<p>A river flooding a road is not and "edge case", it a usual occurrence, and a problem that roads do robustly solve. It works due to extensive maintenance, not because the asphalt can actually deal with water.<p>Scaling that beyond a few mapped US suburbs into Europe is a totally different problem. Dont get fooled by Wall Street stock pumping.</p>
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<p>The interview started with the most mundane question "Who are you?", and the very first sentence of Wales is either a lie or misleading. The journalists asks for clarification (thats a journalists job, btw), and in his second sentence of the interview Wales insults the journalist. I'm pretty sure who is the jerk here.<p>It also was Wales who bought up the topic, not the journalist. If he considers it a stupid topic he does not want to talk about, why is it the very first thing he talks about?</p>
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<p>>(This is probably because Google Maps can be used for walking/biking too)<p>Please don't do that. The map is simply not good enough and does not have enough context (road quality, terrain, trail difficulty) for anything but very causal activity. Even then I highly recommend to use a proper map, electronic or paper.</p>
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<p>No, and explanations on how it could work are implausible.</p>
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<p>So you where banned for, by your own accord, motivated reasoning?<p>This is the best endorsement for wikipedia possible.</p>
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<p>Arabic, even. An outlier, as it is AFAIK the only arabic dialect that is not written with the arabic alphabet. Also it's far removed from other arabic dialects.</p>
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<p>Him being on the board of Palantir seems very specific. Empowering the worlds dictators is not compatible with my idea of a good guy.</p>
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<p>Yes, you did.<p>>We phased out nuclear power plants<p>your words. simple past tense.</p>
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<p>As you can see in the first link, there was a 472 TWh production of nuclear Nuclear power in 2024, in contrast to your claim that it was phased out. It didn't really changed that much - the absolute change in coal or renewables combinded is larger.</p>
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<p>What you say is spectacular and completely wrong.<p>What you claim didn't happen, and can easily disproven with data. Your interpretation of a reasoning of a policy (that didn't happen) is bad faith.<p>You are wrong about both electricity [1], gas[2] and total energy [3].<p>Europe was very dependent on energy imports in the past and current policy is the by far most successful attempt in a long at changing it. It will help us for decades to come.<p>[1] <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?country=~OWID_EU27" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/where-does-the-eu-s-gas-come-from/" rel="nofollow">https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infographics/where-does-t...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-stacked?country=~OWID_EU27" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s...</a></p>
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<p>> because they can only solve things that are already within their training set.<p>That is just plain wrong, as anybody who spent more than 10 minutes with a LLM within the last 3 years can attest. Give it a try, especially if you care to have an opinion on them. Ask an absurd question (that can be, in principle, answered) that nobody has asked before and see how it performs generalizing. The hype is real.<p>I'm interested what study you refer to. Because I'm interested in their methods and what they actually found out.</p>
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<p>This is "can" has exactly the same meaning as in "UB can make your programms faster". You could replace it with "it does, at least with clang". LTO is, in this regard, the same as UB, and unlike guaranteed optimizations, such as the single member optimization, or the empty base  optimization.</p>
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<p>I have worked in big environments. My idea about "big" might be naive, environments spanning different Oses and different, including old languages like fortran and pascal. But I never been in a situation where I couldn't check out said code, and open it in my ide and build it. If you can't that sounds like a another case of deficient tooling. Justifying deficient tooling.<p>These where not some SWE wonderlands either. The code was truly awful at times.<p>The Joel test is 25 years old. It's a industry standard. I, and many other people consider it a minimum requirement for software engineering. If code the "2. Can you make a build in one step?" requirement i should be ide-browsable in one step.<p>If it takes weeks to replicate a setup the whole environment is deeply flawed. The one-step build is the second point on the list because Joel considered it the second most important thing, out of 12.</p>
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<p>The argument is tautological.<p>I want to use a text editor => This is the wrong tool => Yes, but I want to use a text editor.<p>These people do use the wrong tooling. The only way to cure this grievance is to use proper tooling.<p>The github webui has some ide features, such as symbol search. I don't see any reason why not use a proper ide. github.dev is a simple click in the ui away. When you use gerrit, do a local checkout, that's one git command.<p>If you refuse to use the correct tools for the job, your experience is degraded. I don't see a reason to consider this case when writing code.</p>
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<p>Somewhat separating owning and non owning memory in the type system goes a long way. Also a much better standard library and a stricter typing discipline.<p>The fact that it's mostly backwards compatible means you can reproduce almost all issues of c in c++ awell, but the average case fares much better. Real world C++ does not have double-frees, for example. (As real world C++ does not have free() calls).</p>
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