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New comment by darkfloo in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

darkfloo — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:51:21 +0000

Because the fact that it is a tech gadget makes me more likely to write stuff down instead of believing I can remember everything. That’s about it , at least for my use case

New comment by darkfloo in "Late Bronze Age Collapse"

darkfloo — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:06:10 +0000

Shameless plug for my favourite YouTuber of all time https://youtu.be/aq4G-7v-_xI?si=GviYcvEtOAJ1mln7

New comment by darkfloo in "Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem"

darkfloo — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:41:22 +0000

It’s only a problem for Facebook if they get prosecuted, so far it’s a problem problem for Facebook users(a very bad one to be clear). I’d love to believe they will be dragged in front of a court, but it’s unclear to me what could be charged , unless they are knowingly involved.

New comment by darkfloo in "How to get better at guitar"

darkfloo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:56:07 +0000

I’m French, this is definitely not an urban legend, for some unknown reason « wrongly » spoken French sounds especially grating to me and all the other French people I know. We might not say it to your face , but it is extremely hard to ignore. I wonder if it’s the same with other Latin languages, or if it is just some consequence of years of forced standardisation of the French accent.

New comment by darkfloo in "Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance"

darkfloo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:55:16 +0000

Can also offer anecdotal support from esports I know about (League of Legends , StarCraft 2, and counterstrike) For StarCraft 2 the best historical players are all child prodigies , same for Formula 1 , all recent World Champions are child prodigies

New comment by darkfloo in "From sci-fi to reality: Researchers realise quantum teleportation using tech"

darkfloo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:14:07 +0000

Anyone better at physics than me willing to explain how this does not break general relativity ? I might be missing the point of the experiment completely to be fair

New comment by darkfloo in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

darkfloo — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:01:07 +0000

Yes , this is fundamentally an incomplete view , Japan index peaked in 1989 before peaking in again this year, if you bought at the peak it would have taken you 35 years to recover your money. Past performance is not indicative of future performance

New comment by darkfloo in "Show HN: A roguelike game that runs inside Notepad++"

darkfloo — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:24:05 +0000

It was always pretty nebulous, relevant video by DoshDoshington https://youtu.be/FT6XfaHgyh0?si=xayqzhkkmYjB4_UC

New comment by darkfloo in "Rising young worker despair in the United States"

darkfloo — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:56:19 +0000

That only works if rates don’t go up which is probably not a good premise to rely on

New comment by darkfloo in "uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users"

darkfloo — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 09:33:09 +0000

As a semi casual user of python that had to battle w/ dependency management recently, can you elaborate on why that would not be a good thing ? I thought about switching our project to uv but could not find the time necessary

New comment by darkfloo in "Cameras of 1930s Era"

darkfloo — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:02:54 +0000

Medium to some extent and large format can produce some exceptional image quality (Sharpness, details and contrast). Cliché at this point but Ansel Adams work still look very modern today. They where however slow, heavy ,difficult to work with and extremely expensive so most people stuck to small format when they became available . In fact I would bet that most pictures taken before small format took over look better technically than after it took over

New comment by darkfloo in "Impact of Low Temperatures on the 5nm SRAM Array Size and Performance"

darkfloo — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 11:30:04 +0000

Slightly unrelated but is there any way of maintaining that low of a temperature (77k and 10k according to the paper numbers) that does not immediately kill perf/w and perf/$ ? Otherwise might as well just buy more cpu

New comment by darkfloo in "Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy"

darkfloo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:16:13 +0000

Planes are cheaper as a function of the infrastructure needed to allow their use (? Feel free to correct me). As long as we allow airplanes companies to not pay for the long term externalities that they are creating planes will stay cheaper.

New comment by darkfloo in "List of books that will induce a mindfuck"

darkfloo — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 10:30:29 +0000

Iain M Banks use of weapon is both an incredibly good book and a portal to the culture series , in which almost all books are just as good.

New comment by darkfloo in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

darkfloo — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:52:14 +0000

Do you have to pay taxes on dividend under American law ? If so I guess that makes stock buyback better from a point of view of shareholders

New comment by darkfloo in "Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappear"

darkfloo — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:19:28 +0000

No? I’m sorry as much as I would like this to be true luxury watches are a sign of external wealth / conversation pieces for the wealthy (5/100M range I would guess)

Might not be the case for the tech wealthy crowd as I know these circles less

But for the traditional/family/business wealthy crowd watches are an easy icebreaker, especially if you mention you don’t care about the price and you like them for x other reasons

New comment by darkfloo in "Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors"

darkfloo — Thu, 30 May 2024 01:06:44 +0000

Does torrent have addition overhead that regular hosting does not ?