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New comment by damienmeur in "A Silly Adaptation of "The Odyssey""

damienmeur — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:19:29 +0000

The film won't mark generations like Interstellar but is far from being silly.

This is a deliberate interpretation of the Odyssey with a very interresting approach IMO: can a man who destroys a whole civilization can come back home as a hero ? The main theme is about shame and how to deal with it. The film is really pretty good and far above any avg blockbuster.

New comment by damienmeur in "Abstracting Effects with Continuations"

damienmeur — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:49:13 +0000

With the AI era I really think there is a renaissance in functional programming, look at effect-ts which just reached 17M weekly downloads and is recommended by Claude itself when starting a new TypeScript project.

Effect-ts is kind of a continuation DSL interpreter, an interresting concepts they brought in addition to the error channel is the "R" dependency channel so that you can be type guided for missing injected dependencies, very cool for testability.

As all these structures (effects, continuations, ...) are monadic, the best part is the thigh composability possibilities as basically you can jut chain them.

Very cool to live the resurrection of all these 50's mathematics concepts, that takes all their sense now at AI era

New comment by damienmeur in "Show HN: One More Letter"

damienmeur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:26:34 +0000

Very cool, little improvements: the hint I got contained the ethymological "root" of the word to find. Might be better to make the hint never leak too much on the word itself

New comment by damienmeur in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

damienmeur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:03:01 +0000

Just wake me u when I can run fable or gpt 5.6 for free my raspberry-pi 4 at 2000 tokens/s

New comment by damienmeur in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

damienmeur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:01:11 +0000

With all these new banking methods, also "Hero" more recently, I really don't know where this new "Numerical Euro" stuff from the ECB is going

New comment by damienmeur in "The lost joy of music piracy"

damienmeur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:30:37 +0000

IMO it's just very scattered across very huge players / very small players that dont really live out of their artist work (it s just like a "hobby").

If you look at this year rock werchter festival in Belgium, it's ofcourse very good artists: Gorillaz, The XX, Franz Ferdinand,...

But almost only groups from the 90`s / 2000`s that could make their name when the industry was more tolerant with non-pop / blockbuster music.

I m over caricaturing ofcourse, but probably that if Gorillaz was created in 2026, Damon Albarn would post his work on a forgotten soundcloud, do some bartmitzvah during the weekend to roundup the end of the months while working as a ubereats delivery driver.

New comment by damienmeur in "The lost joy of music piracy"

damienmeur — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:07:56 +0000

I think what the article is missing is that main issue with streaming platform (for music and videos) is that it reshapes completely the business models of the music/movie industry. A CD or DVD was maybe a bad product, but it allows not "TOP" artists/production to still get ROI without needing to be viewed/watched by audience of billions.

The music/movie industry is now way less diverse, because smaller actors cannot live out of it, so only the big players remain and produce stuff that only a very large audience would like but not love (you cannot please everyone whenyou have a 1B audience). Smaller categories in movies and music will just disappear: look at the 2000`s movies like the Ninth gate or some cool thriller, these could not make enough money just with the theater tickets but they could exist thanks to the DVD money. Now with streaming there is not enough revenue to capitalize on second tier movies (not block busters) that would be really loved by a smaller audience.

We have a less fragmented culture so by definition it just slowly looses its richness.

New comment by damienmeur in "What Do ASML's Q2 2026 Results Tell Us About the AI Boom?"

damienmeur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:03:40 +0000

As US is currently urging to get back semi-conductors sovereignty by having a TSMC manufacture on its soil, I dont get why they don't do the same with ASML.

ASML is kind of the SPOF of whole western world right now