... where I seemed to recall it was a social media post, but it is unclear whether it's private messaging, public social media, or private messaging under a public social media account.

[EDIT] according to [1] it was on WhatsApp with a U.S national.

My understanding is that refusal to provide social media accounts, or passwords to devices, or passwords to social media accounts, can be considered suspicious in its own right and ground to be held in custody for further exam, and/or denied entry; foreigners do not get to have the same "give password" == "right to not incriminate yourself" that U.S of A. citizen have. In doubt I would assume I don't.

[0]: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/03/20/f...

[1]: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/22/le-r...

Flip phone is cheating! Haha kidding. Still a Z Flip 7 is giant when unfolded.

It doesn't.

In a nearby comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983413

> In mathematics (including information science, CS) there are all sorts of problems that are essentially searches for a solution, and many have the property that the search is computationally difficult, but verifying the solution is relatively cheap. E.g. finding integers such that a^2 + b^2 = c^2 isn't easy, but given a claim that some proposed satisfies this equation is easy to check. The LLM is like that: it solves a search problem that can be fairly hard.

Funnily enough, one of the attempted solves in the litterature is exploring the problem space in two-dimensional space; the LLM found one in three-dimensional space.

So far we know very little as to why and how it found the solution.

It may very well have been directed to brute force 3D space, or even "elected" to" by expanding the known-failed 2D approach to 3D as pure mimicry.

> It does so unreliably, but if you can cheaply verify the solution, there is a win there.

This circles back to what the LLM advocates are pushing for: build the harness that keeps the agent in check, guardrails all the way because it's driving like a demolition derby.

I'm not counting people that did upgrade but are spiteful of the forced size increase.

I couldn't find specs for this thing but from the picture it looks to be about the same size as the original iPhone.

GLONASS maybe? or really glasnost era satellites?

They work _exactly_ as I say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pump_and_refrigeration_cy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

> Just open the windows and blow the cold air out and keep the inverter inside

This "just" seems to hint that you don't seem to quite be grasping the concepts and scale at hand:

- Assuming perfect efficiency and unlimited free energy, where would you even put the heat from outside?

- Since energy is neither free nor unlimited, the energy needs would be enormous+

- Since it is not perfectly efficient and the energy needs are so high, the amount of wasted energy (which is heat) would be colossal, and only make the problem worse

+ The heat causing global warming comes not from human activity but from the sun, the anthropogenic effect at play is that this energy from the sun is captured by greenhouse effect.

One of the huge holdups for v6 deployment was the absorbtion of the then DOCSIS2-based Numericable, which required a huge migration to DOCSIS3 to even support it, as well as integration of the whole network backhaul that came with it.

The reputation _was_ justified at some point far back but they turned the ship around a long time ago and is now entirely an unjustified meme.

These past years it's been SFR (via RED) who was keeping the prices competitive, so I can't wait to see the remaining three vultures collude to raise the prices back up again /s.

> People just get pissy because Free refuses to pay for peering with Google for e.g. Youtube, and it feels slower, even more on v6.

Well when one's paying for a heavily marketed "the fastest around" 1Gbps+ connection or something, and it indeed negotiates the link at that, but one can't play a 720p video over that tube because backhaul routing sucks, one has a right to be annoyed.

> Green electricity means never having to say sorry for lowering the thermostat

I literally just read some reports yesterday day about how AC can be a pathological solution.

It's not about the energy being green or not, it's that independently of the energy source AC is a heat pump, so it pumps heat out into the air, which makes the air inside cooler, but hotter outside; and for that, green or not, it needs to put in energy to do the work, which results in _even more heat_.

At scale a.k.a cities this creates measurable bubbles of heat (+1-2degC) around AC'd places.

As Desty Nova puts it in Gunnm (a.k.a Battle Angel Alita):

    Now becomes the past in an instant — and everyone will eventually die! Destiny triumphs over human knowledge and goes mad! That is the way of things! I spit upon this frail, crazed, world! I spit upon the Second Law of Thermodynamics!

https://www.arcep.fr/fileadmin/reprise/observatoire/ipv6/Arc...

(2025, from 2024 data)

Reason that Google isn't seeing more is a) some BigCo v4 holdouts b) happy eyeballs sometimes landing on v4 because their v6 is shitty 6rd or something (e.g Free SAS)

i.e in most reasonable cases the risk is exactly zero and conversely it takes extreme scenarios for the risk to be non-zero.

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/source-date-epoch/

(although Nix sets it as a default)

Have we gotten so addicted to our daily token fix that we can't even fathom focusing for 48h?

Self hosting is hard (which is why I just use Fastmail now), but it's not because of that.

Not the first time an incumbent has four aces in hand and appears to be entirely unable to make anything of it.

> and if there are lessons to draw from that

Lesson 1: doing shit is hard

Lesson 2: money rules so milking the cow wins over taking the slightest risk