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New comment by farialima in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

farialima — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:56:19 +0000

In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes)

Really feels like 1928

New comment by farialima in "A digital resource for studying the graffiti of Herculaneum and Pompeii"

farialima — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:31:05 +0000

It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them

Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something

New comment by farialima in "Elite Overproduction"

farialima — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:01:45 +0000

I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s.

The previous generation – the one that reached adulthood before and during WW 2 – had upward mobility in the 40s, 50s, and wanted its children to have too

New comment by farialima in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

farialima — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:51:18 +0000

- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening)

- the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess online

New comment by farialima in "German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins"

farialima — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 21:04:53 +0000

> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII.

that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence, but the Germans did not exercise any power. In fact, there was a "palace coup" that switch alliances in 1944.

New comment by farialima in "Denmark to build one of the most powerful AI supercomputers"

farialima — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:50:51 +0000

( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )

New comment by farialima in "The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids"

farialima — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:41:26 +0000

on the contrary let's have fun about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA [IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge]

New comment by farialima in "Flaubert's letters are as hilarious and humane as his best fiction"

farialima — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:17:03 +0000

These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life:

L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe

The future torments us, the past holds us back -- that’s why the present escapes us.

New comment by farialima in "Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh/kg"

farialima — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 11:15:40 +0000

it's actually shipping !

Leroy Merlin (the French "big box" home improvement chain) is selling a electric screwdriver that use sodium-ion battery, seems to be working well: (French) https://www.leroymerlin.fr/produits/outillage/outillage-elec...

doesn't seem to be many in stock - it's only available at some stores - but seems to be victim of its success

New comment by farialima in "Tips to Optimize Your AWS Lambda Performance"

farialima — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:33:26 +0000

I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS instance, LOL).

From my experience, they are clumsy, complex to set up, to manage, you can't easily have CI/CD (I still don't know how you get the code of a lambda from and to git ?!?!), etc, etc...

Is it just me ? Am I alone ?

New comment by farialima in "Sweden brings more books and handwriting practice back to its tech-heavy schools"

farialima — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:07:22 +0000

> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible

It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :)

Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you I've never seen a country where people would say good things about their own education systems

Not sure why... probably simply because everybody has (good !) ideas on how it could be better, but they are not easy to implement ! :). Probably also because that's really something people care about

New comment by farialima in "Arduino raises $22M Series B round"

farialima — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:23:10 +0000

The business of VCs is to take risk. VCs _know_ that 8 out of 10 of their investment will return zero, zitch, nada. They just expect one of of 10 to make it even -- and another one to make it 20x.

So that doesn't mean that Arduino is on anything great: it just means it has been able to convince VCs that there's _some probability_ that they will make it big.

But the probability of doing something big is still very low...

( In fact a VC once told me that, 3 months after investing - i.e. a few board meetings max - he already knows if the company will succeed or not. And in 8 out of 10, he will just do the figuration until failure - at best, buy for cents on the dollar)

New comment by farialima in "Ask HN: What's your favourite hobby and how did it start?"

farialima — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:26:25 +0000

Violin.

I can't spend one day without it, as a break every few hours of coding or meeting, it's really great

It's quite a lot of work, but really the best way to make your brain two sides work together - as well as your fingers, arms, body...

I started 5 years ago, with some prior knowledge of music from being a kid.

Oh, and now I can play with people, to people. I started in my mom's retirement home - she loved it, and other residents too, and even the staff, because all the residents would be so quite after that... and now that I play better I can play to my friends, family..

It changed my life.