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As I understand it's mostly because it doesn't matter. It's not a standalone law, it's an amendment to the budget. Budget that has close to 0 chance to pass.

I believe they did the same thing last year. Everyone did their own pet amendments, claimed victories. And then when it was time to vote for the budget with all the amendments, the assembly unanimously voted against, scraping the whole thing.

Huh, all the time?

We were asked to migrate from Zoom to Teams recently. We have to use git and GitHub. Recently, there's a mandate to migrate from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. We have to use Windows or Mac, no Linux. We have to have the corporate VPN and antivirus running. And so on, and so on.

I don't know about PHP, but at work our artifacts are signed, and you certainly cannot have the signing certificate on your laptop. It's stored in some secure server, and only accessible from some allowlisted build nodes, for specific builds (release branch, ...).

Now of course, there are ways around that if required, but they are, by design, manual, cumbersome and slow. I could not create a release build locally in a few minutes. A few hours maybe if the whole organisation dedicated itself to it.

I believe the car market is very depressed in the summer months, especially August, so a good chunk of it is probably simply people buy more cars in September than in August. Proportion would be more interesting.

See the 5y graph here: https://tradingeconomics.com/european-union/car-registration...

There's always a massive drop in August for some reasons.

Yes, the GP was referring about Swiss German. Not sure if it's used in all the dialects, but at least Züritüütsch uses it.

But you're right it's most likely a much more recent import from French, just like "velo", "merci" and others.

The question is not about solar or not, it's about what amount makes sense in a given place at a given time.

Sunny places close to the equator can probably go 90%+ from solar + batteries. Somewhere like Europe will have a lower number, maybe more like 40/50%.

And there's still the big question of: what do we do when solar and wind and storage are not enough? Because the numbers above are averages, not constants.

Right now all the answers are unsatisfactory: do not match supply to demand, but there's only so much you can do before people can't afford to heat themselves, and it's not good for your industries. Use gas-powered plants, but we want a carbon free grid. Nuclear but it's very expensive. Massively overbuild renewables but it's also very expensive. Add transmissions to far away places where they have power: also very expensive, and an added dependency/geopolitical risk.

On average. That doesn't mean there aren't sunny weeks where you get a lot more, and dark weeks where you get less. For instance if you get snow, output is pretty much 0 unless you clean them.

I believe there were 7-10 days in January 2025 where both solar and wind were in the single % digit for instance.

It's definitely a better approach. I was just checking what the models were capable of with a simple one off approach. And honestly, it mostly did what I required, which was the texture work. The rest didn't really matter in my case.

I'm sure with a bit more efforts/tokens, you can do something amazing, with a virtual visit and so on.

Fwiw, I'm currently having an house built, and I was asked to choose the colour of the garage door.

I tried giving AI all the plans, descriptions, 2D artist renders, and pictures of the house under construction so that it could make a render with a bunch of different options to help me choose.

The textures were surprisingly good, but the overall plan was a total disaster, even if I tried to guide it. It's two semi detached houses, but there was just one really long house. There was either one too many floor or one missing. The windows were totally random. And the orientation/positioning of the buildings on the plot had nothing to do with the plan. It even hallucinated stairs to reach the property when the whole thing is flat.

All of this to say I don't think AI is there yet to build this kind of illustrations based on just a floor plan and some pictures.

I believe the argument was that for some people, switching stocks into cash actually do change the wealth, because they own such a large % they are meaningfully moving the market by selling (the "paper money" argument).

And the answer to that was "if you're so afraid that selling will tank the value of the stock, then we [the government] will happily take your taxes as stocks directly, and we take on the risk that selling it will reduce its value".

AI auditing of dependency updates will mostly likely come soon (if it's not already there), and should mitigate the most obvious cases at least.

(By this I mean integrated in something like dependabot, not just some security companies doing it and publishing reports.)

Well, if the first increment is 100%, you only need 50% the next time to get the same absolute increase as the first time. And then 33%, and so on.

That's how I read it at least.

That works for artifacts, but there's no easy solutions for all the security tools that relies on pulling up to date external databases. Databases that are out of your control and often down in my experience.

For what it's worth, at my workplace AI has uncovered quite a few issues that have been there for a decade or two and survived countless rounds of careful reviews, external security analysis, pen testing and so forth for all those years.

What's compilation time like when using it?

I see there's an issue in the tracker to get more accurate data, and since it's using an under dev feature in compilers, it's not going to be definitive, but any rough numbers?

What makes large scale solar no longer profitable? Distribution costs have outpaced the efficiency gains of the large scale installation?

> People like to save 3 cents on their monthly internet bill

It's rarely 0.03 though in my experience. More like 10 a month or even more between the cheap options with bad support and the better ones. Even if you have one issue every year (sounds high to me), that's over a hundred per support phone call. Makes you think twice about the trade-offs.

I love how they clarify that it is used.

I agree, but it's also a lot easier to promise a silver bullet to everything than to propose improvements to the actual, hard problems.

Yes infrastructure are strained, but it's not like nothing is being done. It's just that it take decades, and will be too little, too late.

Same thing with housing. Every one is saying we need to make the procedures more efficient, but when it comes time to actually makes changes, there's no consensus to drop anything.

They could have done better, but it would have been very easy to make nothing but empty promises. I prefer they didn't.

Although I thought weird that SVP brought the "we will need to increase retirement age" themselves. It's actually pretty likely, but sounds like a massive own goal so close to the vote given how unpopular it is.

As a non American, I have to admit a lot of things sounds very weird to me, especially on the "mortgage loan fees" part.

In particular, the title part sounds horrible (and expensive). As far as I know, over here it's all handled by the state, no insurance required. I don't know if it's because of different laws regarding future claims (the registry is the truth, too late to change it?) or just better records?

Same with tax/insurance escrow, you just pay directly as it comes, but since we have essentially no property taxes, it's probably not required?

On the other hand, here mortgages only have a closing fee (and quite often even none at all, with all the small fees being invisible and rolled into the margin), so that transparency is welcome.

> I think this recently changed, though

Yes, it will take effect in 2028. Although that's unfortunate, it was a good tax to equalise tax treatment of owners vs renters.

The Swiss market is also different in many ways: no capital gains taxes except on real estate, which really shifts the invest against house appreciation towards renting.

> Basically farmers and the upper quartile of income earners are the majority of owners.

I'm not certain the second part is very true. Of course, given how prices are you need to be rich to buy, but I think the bias is a lot more towards age than income: those that own are overwhelmingly those that bought a long time ago or inherited.

Finally, rent control results in some crazy price to rent ratios in the big cities: Zürich is around 35. But as usual with rent control, it's if you can find the right place.

Is there any specific technical value in the shape, or is it just iconic and there are plenty of other just as good shapes?

It's also annoying you cannot delete the attachments whilst keeping the text of the email. It's all or nothing.

The poll is by Tamedia, a reliable polling company (as much as any polling company can be). It has been widely cited in others media, including the public one.

There is significant support for the initiative. Initiatives tend to lose steam as time go by, so it might not be enough in the end, but like Brexit, don't underestimate it.

I doubt someone manually went and flagged all the accounts as invalid suddenly or whatever and that was their goal. By a bug I mean some kind of automated action that did not produce the expected outcome.

Also because, at least on our side, the account was in an inconsistent state: we were correctly enrolled/validated, but could not access the signing interface.

Apparently it's quite widespread, so I would assume a bug on their side. That's what support seemed to imply at least. We're still blocked at my company for one month+ now.

If I remember correctly, in all the recent cases it was picked up by automated scanning tools in a few hours, not because someone updated the dependency, checked the code and found the issue.

So it looks like even if no one actually updates, the vast majority of the cases will be caught by automated tools. You just need to give them a bit of time.

Usually the luxury part is not the price of the car, it's the associated costs, especially parking. Coupled to the fact that you don't actually need the car (and it's probably a hassle for day to day life, so you only use it for the rare out of town trips).

From experience with Microsoft (paid) support (after doing 5 tickets because it's never the right team and apparently moving tickets internally is for losers), they will ask for proof of the reproduction. And they will take every opportunity to shift the blame ("Oh I can see in the log you're running an antivirus, open a ticket with them. Closed").

GA has FLARM.