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New comment by eloisant in "Substack writers, you need a website"

eloisant — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:07:33 +0000

Also because they closed all the gates of interoperability once they got big enough.

If they didn't have the incentive to get a monopoly we would have kept a more decentralized web.

New comment by eloisant in "What Even Are Microservices?"

eloisant — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:28:27 +0000

I feel like the discussion between "monolith" and "microservices" is a false dichotomy.

For a big software company, you don't have to ship a single behemoth monolith, but you don't have have microservices so small that a team of 3 has to manage 10 services.

You can have "right size" services. I don't like to call them micro because they can be fairly big and do multiple things, as long as it makes sense to have them in a single service.

New comment by eloisant in "Tesla Balance Bike"

eloisant — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:27:15 +0000

There are plenty of electric motorbikes already, problem is those guys WANT it to be noisy.

New comment by eloisant in "Tesla Balance Bike"

eloisant — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:24:17 +0000

I think it's "just" a regular balance bike that you push with your feet, although I wouldn't dismiss that kind of bike as a "toy". It's actually the best way to learn to use a bike for kids, much better than trainer wheels.

New comment by eloisant in "Study: "Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?""

eloisant — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:28:47 +0000

Not that weird, you're in the majority now and birth rates are plummeting all over the world.

New comment by eloisant in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

eloisant — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:07:24 +0000

This is true for consoles as well. Console prices are increasing, I think this is the first time I witness that. Console prices used to go down until the next generation comes out.

New comment by eloisant in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

eloisant — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:39:29 +0000

They spied on their mobile users with the Facebook app to detect Instagram and WhatsApp growth early

New comment by eloisant in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

eloisant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:26:49 +0000

Not really.

In France we have a French brand of bikes, from the sports retailer Intersport, called Nakamura...

They actually hide the fact it's a local brand, let people think it's a Japanese brand, to suggest it's higher quality.

New comment by eloisant in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

eloisant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:15:29 +0000

Don't you already have conduits, or undergrounds where old telephone lines are running already? That's what we used to install optical fiber everywhere in cities France. Really easy, nothing to tear open. And because it's dense, it's cheap per home.

On the other hand, rural areas require to digging a lot of kilometers of trenches just to connect a few houses. Much more expensive per home.

New comment by eloisant in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

eloisant — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:26:57 +0000

Human decisions but usually with external factors: increasing costs, pressure to grow, etc.

If they could get away with raising price just because they feel like it they would do it earlier and more often.

New comment by eloisant in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

eloisant — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:23:05 +0000

It's a vicious cycle if we get in an "inflationary spiral", but most of the time a small inflation is pretty healthy.

New comment by eloisant in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

eloisant — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:49:38 +0000

Comparing prices between Japan and Europe or US is strongly skewed by the weak yen.

The fact that the JPY has lost a lot of value compared to the US dollar has nothing to do with how prices or salaries in Japan evolve.

New comment by eloisant in "Free the Icons"

eloisant — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:14:45 +0000

I remember getting interested in an app because of the icon looked nice. Also couldn't use apps if the icon was too ugly and spoiled my beautiful dock.

New comment by eloisant in "Can China build its own ASML?"

eloisant — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:57:03 +0000

They have more than 1 billion people that are getting more and more educated, they have the capital and will to invest in it, they will get there eventually.

The "moat" we're talking about with private companies is that it's very hard for competitors to get enough funding to compete, and private investors are unwilling to invest in a company that will compete with a big established player. That's completely different when a state has a strategy and decides to invest to achieve a goal.

New comment by eloisant in "Can China build its own ASML?"

eloisant — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:52:40 +0000

They're already capable to build microprocessors completely in-house. This is precisely the cutting edge we're talking about.

This matters for AI datacenters in particular, if they want to be autonomous in building them they need to be able to build advanced microprocessors locally.

New comment by eloisant in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

eloisant — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:32:48 +0000

Also it's no longer a toy for hobbyist but a necessary tool to participate in society

New comment by eloisant in "Steam Machine launches today"

eloisant — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:48:15 +0000

nobody wants the Cybertruck, why would anyone scalp it?

New comment by eloisant in "Rent collections are down in New York"

eloisant — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:41:53 +0000

Depends on the country I guess, but in France it's about 3% of the rent.

For that price they will pay you the rent if the tenant is not paying, and take care of the getting paid by the tenant.

If landlords don't want to pay that, then they accept the risk of having to deal with a tenant who doesn't pay.

New comment by eloisant in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

eloisant — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:03:52 +0000

The benefit you give (be able to "cut" a kana in the middle) is really weak, I've never seen anyone being confused by that when learning in kana.

This is completely nullified by all the drawbacks of using romaji while learning and they're well known already.

The only reason to use romaji for Japanese grammar is to explain the concepts to someone who has no interest in learning the language, just for their general knowledge.

New comment by eloisant in "The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone"

eloisant — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:23:38 +0000

They are completely ignoring the market of parents who want a non-Smartphone for their kids. And I'm pretty sure this market is going to grow, much more than adults who want to limit themselves.