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anton96··on Euro falls below parity with the dollar
That's a very generalist statement that doesn't explain much.

That is totally to forgot that Italy has been cost reduction/ austerity since the 90's. Precisely when it's started to do that, its economy stalled.

Spain had its debt going from 30% to 70% after the 2008 crisis.

anton96··on Redis explained
Very interesting.

This is leading me to think, using redis as the sole database is very tempting but the Ram requirement is making me think twice.

Wouldn’t there be a database like redis that only stores the latest data into memory and keeps the rest in an AOF file ?

anton96··on The First Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Was Just Approved by US Regulators
For your renewable vs nuclear cost, is the cost advantage that obvious?

When price is comparison is done, does it account for lifespan difference, a nuclear reactor last 60 year vs 20 for wind and solar. That can already triple price of the renewable.

Does it account, that you should build extra capacity of many time what you need because not all the same regions have the same wind and sun exposition at the same time? You can look how oversize is the installed capacity of Germany [1] compared to France.

Also, I'm not sure for the US but the EU got its solar panel production wiped out by the heavily subsided Chinese industry. So the rather lower apparent cost of solar by might be partially driven by the Chinese attempt to pump money in to gain market share.

[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

anton96··on Ruffle: WebAssembly Flash Player Emulator
Ressource hungryness has changed since flash is no more.

Somewhere around half of the last decade, we starting having Chrome and Firefox taking hundred of megabytes per tabs and totalizing a few gigabytes that put them very close to what flash used to take, maybe cpu usage is still lower though.

anton96··on What will a Chromium-only Web look like?
Firefox is one of the example of what happened to open software during the last decade, user experience wise it stagnated.

Really close to gnome 3 spirit, it continuously removed user features and personnalisation.

Gnome 3 really epitomized that but it's a general trend of linux on desktop catching up to proprietary os in first 2 decades culminating with the bonus coolness of compiz fusion.

And then the 2010-2020 were most of the time was spend changing the technologies (removing XUL,going to system-d,wayland) and the user experience suffered.

I think open software has a special responsibility to empower users not only through programming but also through their interface, it can be extension or extensive settings but it has to.

It ends up making more practical, feature reach software and open source needs that because we don't always all the resources to make the most polished software.

anton96··on Mitochondria and the origin of eukaryotes
Does that implies that mitochondria also had to evolve at some point to detect duplication of their host cell so they duplicate at the same time?
anton96··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
So you see a doubled cost for nuclear.

But you need to add that Renewable solution only last 20 years vs 60 for nuclear. That can be seen like triple the cost you factored in already.

And also, your renewable energy source won’t work 100% of time and not at 100% of the capacity. Which also implies that you need to build multiple time what you planned to really get that planned capacity.

anton96··on Web Push for Safari
I think OP talked about the app.
anton96··on Surprising things about HTTP
It totally depends on wherever you want to teach already programmers how the web works or if you want to teach programming starting with the web as their first technology.
anton96··on CodeMirror 6.0 Stable Release
In those days when developers tirelessly try to develop in their iPads, I think a library such as this one has great future.

This sixth version fully support touch input, that is unlike Monaco editor on vs code were you can have multiple online versions (self hosted, one hosted by Microsoft and GitHub code spaces) but none of them work well on the iPad.

I don’t know if there’s something similar to vs code already implemented with CodeMirror but I would tend to think there’s market (of free editor) for that.

anton96··on California Joins Bid to Save Nuclear Power
I always read the price for solar has gone significantly down in the last ten years.

But I guess that only applies to the US or the industry.

Here in Europe for an average size roof, it’s 20k € like it’s been for the last ten years.

anton96··on Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]
> Youth culture seems dead.

I feel this is very true, I'm still in my twenties. When I was a little bit than ten, I remember that things like "teenage rebellion" and unbearable young people were still a thing.

I feel like a certain stereotype of the teenager of the 90's has completely disappeared.

Being a teenager a few decade ago was all the rage, even in self identification, I feel now people just go through 10 to 20 progressively, with maybe their set of problems but nothing as typical.... like I did. In fact I think I just saw it died when arrived in this age.

anton96··on Cooking for Engineers
The oval shape and the irregularity it gives to the label makes it it a look a bit crazy.
anton96··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
Let's see
anton96··on Speaking Freely: Why I resigned from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
I see that you complain about the quality of the debate on HN but at the same I time I still have interest for political debate here.

I know it's not the main goal of this site but at the same time, the usual culture here makes it interesting to see how it unfolds.

I wonder if the drop of quality from those subject is because they get flagged fast.

Anyway, sometimes I wish there was a website of the same quality as HN but for politics.

anton96··on Susan Kare Explains Macintosh UI Ergonomics (1984) [video]
Those things are still possible in the current Mac OS. Is there some important characteristics that were lost in Mac OS X ?
anton96··on This word does not exist
Owh almost literally cromulent! https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tramulant/eyJ3IjogInR...
anton96··on This word does not exist
I’m really surprised that nobody speaks about sudoflowerus more often!

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/sudoflowerus/eyJ3Ijog...

anton96··on Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar
This always makes me wonder if civilisations never skipped a day or something because everyone forgot or did not keep track at some point.
anton96··on Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?
And on top of that, the wages in Chinese factories are approaching and sometimes surpassing a 1000$.

Even that infamous wage gap is significantly decreasing.

anton96··on mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours
One things that obsesses me now, is how many other technologies are waiting to get has much money as mRNA vaccines did.

How often the solution to complex problems is still kinda of "throw some money at it"?

anton96··on Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free for all
I would say that the main problem is not the encryption itself but the certificate that must be issued.

It’s sad we can’t just encrypt the communication by setting up something in the server and that would be it.

anton96··on Keep Your Identity Small (2009)
Because organization always conflate many ideas and interest together and on top of that organization and their idea changes with time.

For example Props 16 in California wanted to amend the state constitution by removing the article that sated that the state doesn't make any difference between different sexes/colors/sexuality.

Depending on how you place yourself regarding recent identity politics movement, you can be LGBTQI and prefer a state that doesn't discriminate because it's progressive or a state that discriminate because it can enact affirmative action.

anton96··on WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser
If their base is node, that implies we could start to see many electron.js app being ported to the browser
anton96··on Reddit is banning any Aimee Challenor mention. UK public figure and Reddit admin
And interestingly, people still upvote this thread, it’s at 563 now.
anton96··on You Can Learn Glass Blowing (1938)
Pasting instead of copying. This scares me
anton96··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
I think it's partly that but it is also a matter of timing.

If we can consider the iPhone to be innovative, we cannot overstate how much timing was important.

The iPhone was a phone with a big screen optimized for the internet. Regarding people who are not into technology,for what I can see, their main interest to go for the smartphone has been whatsapp and free phoning in general. And as time went on, more and more services of all kind including administrative ones where more participial to use on the internet that in real life.

anton96··on Speed Is the Killer Feature
One word : Gestures.

We can think of things like slide to unlock but much more importantly scrolling. If something shows more the mastery of the iphone UX of that time it is definitely scrolling, who categories it as gesture now? It's completely normalized, on all other Platform of that time, you had to play with arrows and the scroll bar. Now every platform has it.

anton96··on New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter
If I can compare to react-native,flutter seems higher. Electron which is used widely used is the least search term.

Interesting enough, react-native and electron distinguish themselves in the Est coast and always miss the Wyoming or the Dakota's while flutter is more evenly distributed.

Which would mean that the higher flutter level might just be google cannot distinguish between the common name and the framwork.Yet the flutter trend is growing so it's certainly the framework or climate change side effect :D .

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

anton96··on Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
You can also add YouTube-dl and GitHub.
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