mono442

High energy prices are a self-imposed problem. The price of electricity is heavily dependent on the price of the most expensive energy source. Electricity from fossil fuels is expensive in European Union due to emissions trading system. A coal-fired power plant pays around 2x more for the emissions than for the coal itself. I don't know how the maths work for a natural gas plant but gas is more expensive in Europe anyway compared to the US.

At least European countries excel at introducing new regulations and taxes.

I wouldn't exactly call Flutter native. It uses its own rendering engine and doesn't necessarily behave like operating system native controls. It is not really different from using electron.

Speaking of lisp, if I wanted to use a lisp nowadays, what would be the best choice, common lisp, clojure or some scheme implementation?

Did they even really do anything wrong? This whole emission trading thing is a bordeline scam anyway, they just didn't have the right connections so they weren't allowed to profit from this and got caught.

European Union forces some sectors to buy permits for co2 emissions.

Yep, there're all sorts of things like this in Perl. Its semantics has always been confusing to me.

I think it is due to the fact that Perl has some confusing bits like those variable prefixes ($@%), the lack of function arguments (I know that this has changed recently), not really great error handling, etc and so people started using languages which seemed easier to use like Python.

All of them are trying to create something which seems declarative on top of a mutable system.

In my experience, it only works decently well when a special care is taken of when writing playbooks.

To be honest I don't really see a reason to use a *BSD system myself other than just for the sake of using something different and less mainstream. FreeBSD had some advantages in the past but nowadays Linux has caught up in features.

I mean, it is probably country dependent. In my country in Europe a medical doctor right out of the university makes around the same as a senior software developer and the difference only gets bigger with time.

I doesn't seem so. It looks like there's a huge oversupply of software engineering and that will only make the salaries go lower.

I think something like a medical doctor or a dentist is a much safer bet. They have basically always been able to maintain high salaries for their work.

To be fair, even at a small scale something like k3s is usable and not that hard to run.

I can't speak for the whole Europie but in my experience those kind of jobs just don't really pay well. They kind of make sense when living in a cheaper area but I personally wouldn't imagine actually making ends meet from this kind of job in a capital city in my country.

To be fair, it is more difficult to lay off in Germany so the company takes more risk.

Are you ready to live in a 300 sq feet shoebox apartment instead of a normal single family house?

How would this even work when the devices are already on sale and people are using them?

It is not really suited for software which need to maintain long lived connections and that's the case with nextcloud when uploading or downloading large files.

Is this true even for financial services like for example cryptocurrency exchanges?

Well, obviously there are differences, but some overreaching and, I believe, unrealistic policies, such as the EU's climate policies, are somewhat reminiscent of the Soviet Union's central planning.