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mono442··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
Energy is expensive because burning fossil fuels is expensive due to taxes. A coal power plant pays around two times more for emissions than for the coal itself. They're trying to solve a problem which they have created themselves in the first place.
mono442··on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity
This doesn't solve any issue. Registering a company is already usually pretty simple in most European countries. It's running the company which is difficult due to regulations and stuff.
mono442··on 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop
At the end of the post there is a comparison of ram usage of different desktop environments and the used ram is reported differently by every tool. So what exactly is being here measured as the used ram?
mono442··on String theory can now describe a universe that has dark energy?
Only in universe with 5 dimensions. Shouldn't string theory be given up on at this point? This theory has existed for over 50 years and hasn't produced any results. Even the predictions made by it such as e.g. supersymmetry have not been confirmed despite searching for them at particle colliders.
mono442··on Finding and Fixing a 50k Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production
This post seems AI generated.
mono442··on Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year
Did those savings actually trickle to end costumer bills? I often read how renewables are making electricity cheaper but I only pay more and more despite the share of them increasing here in electricity generation.
mono442··on LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
I don't think it's true. It is probably overhyped but it is legitimately useful. Current agents can do around 70% of coding stuff I do at work with light supervision.
mono442··on Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
It works better with other European languages' orthography too.
mono442··on I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
I've looked at Gleam before but it didn't seem to have any mechanism for dynamic dispatch like interfaces or type classes. Did it change in the meantime?
mono442··on Native ads coming soon to Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange
LLMs have mostly replaced Stack Overflow for me. I wonder if this is true for other people too.
mono442··on Join the on-call roster, it'll change your life
It all depends on a software one is supposed to be responsible for. For some, it'll at most a few pages a year, for others it'll be constant pain having to deal with problems.
mono442··on Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
My experience is that I have to basically always overestimate if I can get away with it because otherwise if something goes wrong, I will pushed to do free overtime to complete all the work assigned in a given sprint.
mono442··on The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
There are many examples of this, the most recent one would be regulation regarding plastic bottle caps.
mono442··on The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
These directives are mostly useless bureaucracy. I don't think anything of value has been lost.

My experience with European Union is that the EU politicians mostly live in a ivory tower and spend their days producing garbage laws and aren't actually addressing anything important.

mono442··on Brussels pushes for 70% of critical goods to be 'made in Europe'
I didn't read the article because it is behind paywall but I fear it will actually have the opposite effect.

They have basically destroyed industry by strangling it with high energy prices and now they want to manufacture in Europe again.

mono442··on Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
It look like promising idea, though I'm a bit spectical that they can actually make it work with other executors like for example stackless coroutines transparently and it probably won't work with code that uses ffi anyway.
mono442··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
It seems like a huge stretch. The US still has a pretty good fertility rate for a developed country, much better than most of the Europe.
mono442··on Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
I haven't seen it being used for anything else with the exception of some devops tools like chef.
mono442··on Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
This can happen it every language. I have seen the same thing happen in a project written in Java when someone has wrongly set the bean scope.
mono442··on Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
RoR was a breath of fresh air when it was released, things could be done quicker and with much fewer lines of code but nowadays I don't think I would choose to use it again. Other languages has caught up.
mono442··on It’s been a very hard year
His business seems to be centered around UI design and front-end development and unfortunately this is one of the things that AI can do decently well. The end result is worse than a proper design but from my experience people don't really care about small details in most cases.
mono442··on The dark side of Japanese convenience stores
Do they really need to keep those open 24/7? There aren't probably many costumers at night anyway.

Where I live there are basically no shops open at night and it seems completely fine.

mono442··on 250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland
I'm pretty sure this is intended to store and produce heat anyway. They aren't going to be using this for generating electricity.
mono442··on Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
The generation of electricity from solar is more or less the same.
mono442··on Solar's growth in US almost enough to offset rising energy use
EU taxes fossil fuels heavily and the didn't really build more solar than the US.
mono442··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
I don't agree. LLMs don't have to completly replace software developers, it is enough to reduce the need for them by 30% or so and the salaries will nosedive making this particular career path unattractive.
mono442··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
The author may not care but I doubt people care that a software has been developed by AI instead of a human. Just like nobody cares whenever a hole has been dug by hand using a shovel or by an excavator.
mono442··on Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks
I'm pretty sure that this post is not right. JS behaves the same way Python does in this example. Not sure about C#, though I suspect it is no different.
mono442··on Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
doing the same thing with nftables is not really complicated either
mono442··on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
I wouldn't call European governments considering its people. Basically all of European countries suffer from housing crisis and nothing is being done to actually address it.
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