mono442

I don't understand why SQLite has become popular for stuff like a website where it is not really a good fit due to concurrency.

If HA, replication, etc isn't needed, installing and running PostgreSQL or MySQL isn't much more complicated than SQLite.

It's possible if the central bank steps in, especially if the current administration pushes it to help fund the AI.

The website of the Gleam programming language seems very political. I don't think I want anything to do with it. It's probably run by insane people.

A bit surprised they have decided to move to python. In my experience LLMs don't work well with dynamically typed languages.

Isn't much of the science work just taking money for doing basically nothing? I don't think that is a loss for the us.

I don't think java itself is the problem, the real problem is the overengineered, hard to debug libraries like spring.

slop

The problem with disabling the memory overcommit is that then the RAM is wasted. That can be worked around with setting up swap but then the disk space is wasted.

why are they burning gas when supposedly renewables are the cheapest option?

since this is tree walking interpretator, won't it be quite slow?

> You're confusing money supply and price levels.

They're closely related.

> And since most money is privately created, controlling how much money is and isn't created "out of thin air" is actually quite challenging.

It's the central bank which controls the interest rates, the reserve requirement and other stuff which affects it.

Every investment is somewhat of a ponzi scheme. With stocks or real estate you also rely on the fact that the economy will function in the future and future generations will buy them back from you.

> Powell cured the resulting inflation without causing a recession. He did that without adding anything to our national debt.

That doesn't actually seem like a huge achievement. Inflation is the rate of change so if you stop creating as much money out of thin air, then it's not really a surprise that prices don't increase as much.

The car I drove from 2025 didn't have it.

It doesn't work on macbook neo.

Modern cars are horrible. I recently discovered that all new cars sold in the EU constantly beep at you for supposedly speeding, even though the system doesn’t work well, and it has to be turned off every time you start the car.

Studying at MIT in the AI age is a complete waste of time and money. I'm surprised it's only 20%.

The reality is that expensive electricity in the EU is by design. The EU ETS imposes heavy taxes on fossil fuels (and they are set to increase even more), which in turn causes the price of electricity to rise. Fully renewable electricity generation is still a long way off, so this will continue for a long time. But it is entirely a self-imposed political problem and could easily be fixed by getting rid of the EU ETS or capping the price of emissions at a more reasonable level.

there's a third party repo called rpmfusion for that

It's usually so much more expensive than an air source heat pump that makes it completely not worth it.

a cap-and-trade system is just a tax but more complicated and less predictable

I think it's impossible to calculate at this stage since there're no fusion power plants which actually produce net power.

China is building a lot of coal power plants

tokyo is cheaper than most cities relatively to the average income but you have to consider the fact that many apartments are like 20 - 30 m^2

I doubt recommendations will change anything unless it's an actual law that forces companies to offer remote work.

Can batteries store enough energy for dunkelflaute in winter? I don't think it's possible with the current technology.

I see an increasing number of chinese cars where I live in Europe. Though almost none of them are fully electric ones (BEVs here have different licence plates), they're plug-in hybrids at best.

Then why the EU is hell bent on the ETS since it's clearly not working the best?

I don't support it because it doesn't work (at least for me, I guess there's some middleman in the grand scheme of things who is profiting off of this). E.g. Texas has a high share of renewables too without carbon taxes and with much cheaper electricity.

Electricity generation from natural gas is intentionally made more expensive by the EU ETS. It could be cheaper if politicians wanted it to be.

Tbh coal definitely should be restarted and used more, there's more reliable supply for coal than for lng.