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Yes, but Spotify increasly does nothing against AI generated music that gets inserted into playlists, auto recommendation feature, ... So now, artists are competing against AI gene…

Many of the dams in Switzerland have been built before the fifties and sixties, when environmental concerns were much lower. While most of the dams have been built high up in the m…

We have national media (German: srf, French/Italian: rts, Romanche: rtr), people consume that, and a few medias that have multiple language versions like 20minutes. We also have a …

Funny thing you mention that. We had a nuclear meltdown in an experimental reactor in Lucens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucens_reactor ).

French part of Switzerland is much more left leaning, so I can expect more anti-nuclear sentiment on this side. But the sentiment of nuclear depends purely on which party you vote …

This still has to pass with the people in a referendum. The discourse on nuclear is still quite chaotic in politics in Switzerland. All left leaning parties and greens parties are …

High speed travel in Europe is quite affordable. A 3h train trip (~360 miles, like the distance between Toronto and Montreal) costs about 40€ in Italy or in France if you buy in ad…

Yes, a 1MW solar plant point has about half the radius as a 1000MW hydroelectric plant point.

I would love to be able to use Rust in my professional project. Unfortunately, I am doing high performance scientific computing. Rust doesn't even come close to offer any good alte…

I'm getting symmetric 10 Gbps for 49CHF (~54$) per month in Switzerland, and this is one of the most expensive countries in the world.

Mathematica is still unparalleled in computer algebra. Yes, you can do computer algebra with Matlab or sympy, but I know a few theoreticians who use Mathematica to derive complicat…

I agree with you. The thing is, compared to some of the scientific codes out there, GPU are quite recent. Sometimes, slapping OpenMP pragma on the code is not sufficient to take ad…

It's because all these jobs using Fortran are scientific research projects. It is not explicitly asked, but if you are doing high performance computing, chances are you will be usi…

I was curious about `soup`, clicking on it, the author states: >soup is a programming language I've been working on for a few years that is designed to make it easier for the progr…

In the french dub, they say jigowatt.

Sorry but you misread the report. They are saying that typical eco-calculator usually do not take into account the emissions from construction and maintenance. You can see on the d…

Exactly the same thing with trains. I live in Switzerland, and they are adapting the capacity of the trains route by route, and to the time of the day. The train I take every day t…

This study [1] cites a 80 to 280 tCO2 per km of new high speed track laid (it includes bridges, tunnels, ...). Lets lay 700km of new high speed tracks (Orlando to Atlanta). So 700k…

I'm sorry, but rail is the lowest form carbon footprint you can find, if you exclude biking and walking. Also, boarding a train is so much more comfortable and convenient than boar…

I love these maps. Here is one from Switzerland: https://maps.vasile.ch/transit-sbb/ , just a tad bit busier than the US

Because banks have financial incentives in keeping your transactions secure, and even then errors happen all the freaking time. Government do not have this incentive, and how do yo…

I recently broke the screen of my fairphone. I went to the official website, ordered a genuine screen for 70$, it came by mail two days later. They sent me an email showing how to …

You are underestimating how much trains and public transportation can do. Public transportation is abyssimal in the US, so I get why you think that it may not solve many problems. …

I like the idea of Rust, the tooling, the package manager (far more better that what you can find in C++). What you are saying is true: I've been writing high performance scientifi…

It's 3860chf in Switzerland, valid for any public transport, even boats. However, they are talking raising the price once again, and Switzerland is not interested in making this ch…