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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That does NOT sound like a good idea.

  We’ve turned our development model into a well-oiled engineering marvel,

  Exactly, and I’m pretty sure one of the reasons is that it’s remained on C, and NOT switched to C++, as has been often suggested.

  The second they make it a mixed code base, that’s the same second quality will deteriorate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know that, but yes, it would probably seem confusing to use different terminologies for essentially the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes of course, you are 100% right. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Although dubbed a trifold, the phone has three mini-panels and folds only twice.

  It’s three elements that can fold together. I see nothing wrong or confusing with the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Tips are legalized begging.
  Accepting a job where your pay is partially based on tips, effectively makes you a beggar.
  Offering a job that is partially based on tips, means you accept begging as part of your business model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife actually used that for something she needed to be able to remote control a few years back. She tells me it an amazing chip. 😀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1999, 1991 is Yeltsin,

  You are absolutely right, my bad on that one. But actually under Yeltsin there was still room for optimism, and in those years cooperation between the west and Russia increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow you are way off time wise, I spoke of the 70’s and 80’s. Everything you mention is AFTER that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically everybody making a game for Amiga made the equivalent of their own graphics drivers. Programming direct to the specialized hardware.
  That way of programming apps is completely obsolete today. Now it’s all about abstraction layers. And for a guy like me, it feels like I lost control.
  If you want to program “old school” you have to play with things like Arduino.
  I’m a relic now, that’s just how it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more a matter of the ideals of the times, Foss was created in the 80’s, as I see it as an ideological child of the 70’s, a period of time where progress, optimism and idealism about creating a better future and a better world probably peaked.
  Of course there is also idealism today, but it’s different, at least the way I see it, the sense of quick progress especially on the humanitarian side is gone, the decades of peace with Russia is broken, and climate change hangs as a threatening cloud above us, and the rise of China creates turbulence in the world order.
  So although things maybe weren’t actually better, there are definitely aspects that look very attractive in hindsight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This article has waaayyy too much “if this actually worked worked it could be used for…” and “instead of other methods that don’t work” and waaayy to little about the actual validity of the process.

  This is a general trend every fucking time an article claims to have something on CO2 or batteries or global warming. IMO this is probably because the actual idea is bullshit.
  Sorry but my ADD prevented me from reading all that non content crap to see if there were actually anything real to read.

  What if, instead of pumping the carbon dioxide underground, we made something useful from it

  What if instead of having your head up your ass, you at this point had already written at least a teaser about how this is any better?
  99% sure by now, that this is a fucking waste of time.

  Please inform me if there’s any actual content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Arm reportedly to start competing with its own customers this year.

  A few decades ago, this used to be a sure recipe for losing customers and marketshare, but the world has changed, maybe because the market lacks real competition, of course there is competition, but the number of players are too few, and they are too specialized for direct competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What I see is “Gulf of Swastika”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No need for rewrite, when it’s perfect already. 😜

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For idiots to know the answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  will the sun powered line hop over to another one

  This is why you need a new meter, at least that was the situation for us. If we didn’t get a new meter, we would only be able to use one line, and the surplus would go to the grid.
  They actually forgot to tell us that, so after some very confusing analyzing of what the fuck was wrong, I complained that the system didn’t work, most of our generated power was sold, and then we had to pay to sort of buy it back!!
  This was all down to the meter not being replaced for one that was meant for handling local production properly. We basically lost 3 months of production on that account. After we got the new meter, it worked perfectly, and production is as advertised, and I was very happy to see that production in winter was almost exactly as I’d calculated: 😎 Although obviously you can’t calculate the number of sunny days in advance.

  Something that surprised me, was that in the summer, production is still reasonably good even on days where the sky is completely overclouded, as long as the clouds are white, enough light penetrates so we can still achieve almost half the full capacity.

  Another fun story IMO, is that we switched electricity supplier February last year, and they work with advance payments, and since we were new customers, we got a bill for 3 months of normal use. We just received the “bill” for 2nd quarter, with negative payment amount, because there is still money left from our advance payment! 😋 AND that is without sales, which is a separate account, but is only about €15 per month on average. (for selling 7844 kWh for the year 2024) So about 2 cent per kWh on average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, when he got famous because of Tesla, I think he got high on the attention. But that attention is turning negative now.
  He is also very obviously high on power, and as a narcissist he cannot tolerate opposition exactly like Trump.
  But the difference is that Musk is losing control, I think that was also what happened when he did the heiling, he was so high on himself he ignored all concepts of being cautious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I can see you also included it as part of the post. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahah exactly, that’s a good one. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Tesla’s sales slump down to Elon Musk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100% yes, Even if it’s not the heiling and endorsing AfD, Musk is the CEO of Tesla, and has made false promises about the car for a decade.
  And many other false promises like hyperloop not being that hard, manned missions to Mars 2024. Completely failing on any of his “visions” with X may be minor, but still another drop that helped the glass pour over.
  Even if you initially trust a car from an untrustworthy company with a liar for CEO, the truth will dawn at you at some point.
  And this is all on Elon Musk, Everything bad about Tesla is on Elon Musk. FSD not really being FSD 7 years after it was promised. Failing to present new models for years apart from the Cybertruck being a gigantic failure and a joke, Musk laughing about the competition before losing to them, the same way Steve Balmer laughed of iPhone when Jobs presented it.

  Apologists claim the model Y facelift will restore sales, but will it also restore failing sales of model 3?
  Even without the heiling Tesla marketshare would have dropped off a cliff in January YOY. Because the trend was started already from January 2024!!
  What’s worse for Tesla is that with only 6%, their profit margins are now SMALLER than the competition.

  Of course profits could be helped a bit just by firing Musk! Which they probably will have to do at some point soon anyway. Because Musk is getting ever more erratic, and if his behavior on social media and in public is any indication, it may be only a matter of time before he turns to physical violence.
  He actually challenged Zuckerberg, but copped out when Zuckerberg accepted, probably because Musk is pussy that doesn’t do any training, he just takes the hormones without the training.
  He also threatened Johnny Depp, threatening to chop off Musk’s “lower appendage”. Musk completely failed to see how insane Amber heard was when she was unfaithful with him, and maybe believed the lies that were later revealed in court?

  He is a complete failure as a human being, and people are beginning to see his lies, and he can’t stand it, it’s probably driving him ever more insane, maybe helped by the abuse of ketamine and other substances that aren’t helpful for a man losing his senses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Paywall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. 😀
  Going off grid was absolutely a consideration, but only for a very short while. There are too many downsides. We would need twice as much solar capacity, and a way bigger battery, and batteries are still pretty expensive, but even with that, we would still need a generator. And we wouldn’t be able to sell surplus energy. It would more than double the cost, and only provide 25% better self sufficiency for the whole year than we have now.
  We live in Denmark, and we can risk to have to go through almost all of December with only a few days sun. Running a diesel generator for power would be both noisy and smelly, It would also require more work to maintain, and it would actually cost slightly more to us a generator than to simply buy the electricity from the grid.

  Remember doubling our capacity will not bring us from 41 to 82% self sufficiency. Because there is some loss in storage, and even double our battery capacity would not be enough to store 48 kWh like we made today in the span of only 7 hours. (Today was the best day of the year yet. 😎)
  Even in January on a perfect day, we can make twice what we use, but such days are rare in January. (we use about 15 kWh per day.)

  The final problem with a generator is that we would never be able to achieve remotely the stability we have with the grid. We’ve been living here for 6½ year, and the power has only been out once!!!

  The problem with making it bigger than we have at all, is that after you’ve reached a point of above 50% self sufficiency, you are entering the area of diminishing returns quickly. On a yearly basis we are about 72% self sufficient. To reach that extra 22% probably cost 50% extra.

  This is if you live as high north as we do, because the extra capacity is only usable in the winter, in the summer it’s all surplus, and you get so little for selling the power it’s basically irrelevant. There is too much solar now, so when solar panels have high yields, prices often go down to almost zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh boy, apparently there’s a lot I don’t know. It’s really cool there are those cheaper options now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When we bought the house, that was one of the parameters on our list for “the perfect house”. So the roof to the garden is also almost perfectly towards the south. 😀
  Even in January we’ve made 41% of our power consumption from the solar panels. 😎 You are right that it is a bit oversized according to “normal” recommendations which are 8 kWh for a house the size of ours, but we went a bit bigger in preparation for air to water heat pump, so warming the house will be electric, (currently wood pellets), and also we plan to buy an electric car within the next 2 years.

  Also it was a bit for fun, because of the movie spinal tap, so our panels go to 11 instead of just 10, because we need that little bit extra. 😋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No the price was not including installation, We have 11.2 kW panels and 7.5 kWh batteries. Installation was almost $5000.- !! That was probably mostly the 28 panels on the roof. But we had one installer handling everything, who was also responsible for the electrician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You need a suitable electricity meter

  That makes sense, we also needed new meter, and that was about €200.- with installation. Not a big deal for a big installation, but for a system that can cost only €300.- an extra 200.- would be pretty significant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Still very cool, because selling surplus power is almost completely worthless anyway. (at least it is here)
  In the summer when you can sell, prices are generally extremely low, we have sold about twice what we use, but the value of selling is only about 5-10% on average, compared to the savings of using it ourselves. That’s because the price often drop to close to zero in the middle of the day, and sometimes even below.
  Electricity itself is dirt cheap, the reason the prices are high are transportation and taxes, and short peak prices. Here transportation alone is more than the electricity itself during winter.
  And we are only paid the pure electricity price here, which I suppose is the case most places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s amazing. 😀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks really good info. 👍😀

  A layman can literally plug it in to an existing wall socket

  I had no idea that is possible??? Is that special for Germany? (sorry for keeping on with new questions). 😋 I’ve never heard of that option here in Denmark.

  cost between 299€ and 800€

  No wonder it’s a popular option, our system is of course bigger with 11.2 kWh and 7.5 kWh battery. but it was $17000 1½ year ago. Prices have dropped to $12500 for a similar system, but still such an 800W system is dirt cheap by comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For apartment buildings I don’t think that’s possible, since electricity is a per household connection with separate meter.