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New comment by petre in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

petre — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:16:23 +0000

Maybe we colld getan AI agent to pester them with forms?

New comment by petre in "Kakoune Code Editor"

petre — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:04:15 +0000

I searched a bit to find the extension language. Basically an embeddable Scheme similar to Racket in Rust.

https://github.com/mattwparas/steel

New comment by petre in "US announces new sanctions on top ICC figures"

petre — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:39:15 +0000

> Rubio accused the court of being "a corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate.

Interesting times indeed. The foreign affairs secretary of the most corrupt US administration cries foul of the ICC.

> Despite its significant global representation, dozens of governments are not parties to the ICC, including China, India, Israel, Russia, and the United States

What a great club to be in, ripe with war crimes and human rights abuses.

New comment by petre in "South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North"

petre — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:43:17 +0000

Not going to happen. China and Russia won't let it happen, since the DPRK is a buffer state. Kim has his nukes and doesn't want to lose power. Basically Soth Korea doesn't have any allies in the area, aside from US which has bases in Guam and Okinawa and has been unreliable under the current administration.

New comment by petre in "South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North"

petre — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:39:12 +0000

The US couldn't handle Vietnam either. Iran is a citadel by comparison.

New comment by petre in "Romania shuts only nuclear plant as heat causes drop in Danube River level"

petre — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:35:00 +0000

Okay, so there are updated CANDU 6 designs which aren't EC6?

New comment by petre in "Romania shuts only nuclear plant as heat causes drop in Danube River level"

petre — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:43:04 +0000

Romania's two units are not CANDU 6.

"In March 2021 Nuclearelectrica stated it expected to commission unit 3 by 2031, starting construction in about 2024. The largely-new reactors will be updated versions of the CANDU 6, but not the full EC6 version, since the concrete structures are already built. Unit 3 was reported to be 52% completed and 30% for unit 4, though in 2017 the reported figures were 15% and 14%. They would have an operating lifetime of 30 years with the possibility of a 25-year extension."¹

CANDU 6 is open cycle. EC6 can work in a closed cycle with cooling towers. One just doesn't simply make alterations to nuclear power plant designs without the appropriate design, testing and certification. Unit 1 was also completed in 1996, so it's at near the end of its planned operating lifetime.

The Indian PHWR developed from the CANDU can also work in a closed loop.

For Romania there are other solutions, like redirecting flow through the Old Danube branch, which they already attempted through rock blasting and sinking a bunch of rock filled barges in order to buy two more weeks before shutting down the plant. This, of course, comes at a cost for shipping traffic.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Romania

New comment by petre in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

petre — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:18:29 +0000

Sure. What difference does it make if they're 1.2b or 800m? It's still huge by any metric. The current US administration is definitely clearly working in their favour. That's part of why Detusche Bank is a yuan clearing house now.

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-thucydides

New comment by petre in "Western Sahara"

petre — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:58:10 +0000

Possibly related and explains Western support for Morocco.

https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/byrfqojbz...

New comment by petre in "Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice"

petre — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:29:05 +0000

On Europe the 860MHz band is subject to more restrictive transmission duty cycles, LBT or FHSS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-range_device#SRD860

In the US you also have the FCC reshaping the 900 MHz for industrial broadband and NextNav. So there will be more competition.

https://www.nemko.com/blog/fcc-reshapes-the-900-mhz-band-for...

https://www.landisgyr.com/br/pt/home/knowledge/blog/Navigati...

New comment by petre in "The House of Ellison Is on the Brink"

petre — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:16:02 +0000

I hope they turn out to be right. What the article describes is a ponzi scheme and Larry is deeply involved in it. Even if it was AI written is more to the point than the NYT article that goes on and on rambling about his private island and 23 year old Chinese wife. Why does it matter?

New comment by petre in "Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices"

petre — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:54:03 +0000

Qatar is pretty much screwed as they can't get the gas out of the Gulf. The Saudis will have to eventually do something about Yemen, because Bab Al-Mandab tanker traffic is also under threat and Asia id paying good money for fossil fuels right now.

New comment by petre in "Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the AI Bubble?"

petre — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:58:18 +0000

> In more recent years, he had been spending time on a quixotic “agtech” start-up that was promising to disrupt the global food chain.

Oh just great. I hope he fails.

Wasn't he also going to build Pre-crime with AI?

https://www.404media.co/larry-ellisons-ai-powered-surveillan...

> […] he and Musk and their respective teams started discussing a plan for Oracle to build and operate a massive A.I. data center for xAI. It would be in Abilene, Texas, and it would be constructed in the shape of an X.

The shape is super important.

New comment by petre in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

petre — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:57:10 +0000

5. scrap 1..4 and build a gas cooled reactor instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTR-PM

New comment by petre in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

petre — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:50:00 +0000

Would a cooling pond with controlled discharge into the river maybe mitigate this problem? One could also cycle the water from the cooling pond through the plant's cooling loop. The worse that could happen is evaporate the water from the cooling pond which is gets replaced with new water (sans fish) from the river.

New comment by petre in "Our position on open-weights models"

petre — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:55:57 +0000

Keep an eye on Central Asia and Pakistan then? They are heavily infuenced by China.

New comment by petre in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

petre — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:00:47 +0000

And in turn Russia's ally Assad was removed from power by HTS aided by yours truly, Türkiye.

https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IN/HTML/IN124...

Anyway, the key to securing the Black Sea is Türkiye with the other smaller NATO allies.

New comment by petre in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

petre — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:52:03 +0000

It's basically targeted maketing. They pretty much wanted the West lethargic and unreactive at some point early in the war. Like "don't bother sending aid to Ukraine because Putin is kicking the bucket soon" kind of a narrative.

In Russia yes, they project the strongman narrative.

New comment by petre in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

petre — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:57:06 +0000

Nothing to do with Amazon. They sell military and dual use goods, that's why.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/07/26/8045972/

New comment by petre in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

petre — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:49:17 +0000

The poor health thing "Putin is sick" was a FSB psy-op. Maybe he's sick in the head but otherwise in good health.