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40k is not a lot. Honestly that sounds like something that should have no consequences.

Dependa how you use it. If it's only for backups then it's fine.

The easiest place to save is in entitlements. Saving there is unfortunately a really good way to avoid reelection. If you want to save money, get a better demography. That's impossible, but not more impossible than cutting benefits.

The only real use-case for IPv6 is self-hosting, and that's just very niche. Other than that the arguments in favor of IPv6 turn to stuff like latency and network complexity. That's not nothing, but it won't make anyone change ISP, and so ISPs don't have to care about it.

From the ISP's POV a complex IPv4 network plus a simple IPv6 network is more work than just having a complex IPv4 network. IPv6 is optional, and IPv4 isn't.

The only way I can imagine IPv6 succeeding is if somehow big websites decide to slow things down for IPv4 users enough that they complain to their ISPs.

I get a feeling that the best way we currently know how to use these tools is to not read their code at all. Models code and models review. Humans just ask questions and guide. Claude Code has no code editor on purpose.

Is this sustainable? I've got no idea.

If there is a will there's a way. LibreOffice can have any feature ypu want if you're willing to pay for it. If you're not willing to pay then it wasn't that important to begin with.

Moving to LibreOffice cannot be a money-saving exercise if it's going to work. It has to be a political priority.

Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. It's just a min-maxing hill-climbing machine.

Or maybe the reason more bribes are paid to the current administration is that the current administration is more receptive to bribes? The ROI on gifts to Trump is probably higher than on gifts to Biden so it makes sense to give more.

There's only so much hydro power to build out, and nuclear takes forever. Solar only works in summer that far north, and without insane batteries wind power just becomes greenwashed natgas.

The new drone companies seem to favor Rust more. Helsing sponsors a lot of Rust conferences and stuff. Quantum Systems has job postings for embedded Rust. For companies that don't have a lot of legacy influencing their decisions, Rust is pretty much always going to be in their software stack. The big primes will probably come around to it in a decade or so.

I like "do, don't show" but I don't think that precludes a thin layer of gameplay over a story. Walking simulators are a prime example. The entire point of a walking simulator is the story, but the game doesn't progress without input from the player, unlike in a cutscene/movie. What Remains of Edith Finch is one of my favorite games, but the gameplay is pretty barebones.

Unfortunately Trump is worse than Musk. And it's Trump who's to blame for the Ukraine speed restrictions.

Population control, preventing overgrazing, stuff like that. However, the Netherlands (unlike most countries) is basically a big farm with practically no wild nature, so humans manage that stuff already. Maybe I'm exaggerating a tad, but I don't get what benefit wolves have in the Netherlands specifically.

Another interesting niche is in between JPEG and RAW. RAW files are a pain to deal with, but editing JPEGs can be problematic due to bit depth and whatnot. Personally I just want to shoot pictures and not edit/convert/whatever, but sometimes I have a shot that could benefit from a bit of adjustment, and that's where even large JPEGs have an issue. Bit depth and whatever isn't suitable.

The issue for me is that RAW sucks, and Jpeg also sucks. Jpegs are standardized and display anywhere, but are also super lossy. RAW, like fish, is not actually a thing beyond a sorta "I know it when I see it" deal. It's non-standard even between camera models from the same manufacturer, and there are like 10 pieces of software that bother with this bullshit and afaik none of them are OSes or browsers.

On an ecommerce site? Who cares. On instagram or anywhere people share photos? Amazing.

Nothing. Europeans can be divided into two groups. Skilled people working nice jobs. These people already have enough and are satisied with their lot. Then you have the people that are struggling. These are generally not the kind of voter that would support effective government policies and instead mostly gravitate towards pro-welfare and anti-immigration parties.

Something that distinguishes Europeans from Americans is the general level of economic security here. This is generally good for the mental and physical health of everyone involved, but it does mean that there's no hustling or grindset among the educated classes here.

Why suffer worse bureaucracy than you absolutely have to? As long as there are no trade barriers companies will go where circumstances are the most favorable. What's the argument in favor of settling in Europe?

Yes, I agree, but first you need to get planning and connection permission for those battery storage locations. I wouldn't hold my breath.

In absolutely no way is that true. The EU price varies by renewables production. When it's dark and still that's when electricity costs the most, and that's when Germany imports energy. It exports when there's sun and wind, but then the energy is cheap. So Germany sells low and buys high. Doesn't matter if Germany is a net exporter because it exports at the wrong time.

It's a music player, and it's way too heavy for what it does. Well, it does a lot it doesn't need to, too. Uses 1.5GB of RAM on my laptop atm. Since I only have 16GB on my work laptop that's noticeable. I'd love it if Spotify AB could replace its client with a native Rust one, although using an immediate-mode GUI library like fastpotify does might not be the best option...

Is there any music streaming service with fast native cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows, Android) clients? Because I'd switch. Feel like Spotify's recommendations have taken a nosedive lately, so that wouldn't hold me back too much.

Seems like a good time to recommend Apache Datafusion. It's designed to be a library, but works pretty well standalone as well. There's a CLI version, but also Python and Java bindings, as well as a Rust library, of course.

From my own experience I can say it integrates far better into your Rust app than DuckDB does.

Well over 100 monthly contributors, too.

This practically means you can't ship any runtimes, standard libraries, nor any big libraries with your app. Your app has to be just the business code and all the extras has to be stuff already on the watch. Crucially, size requirements like this doesn't mean you can't write slow python apps or whatever, so long as the watch ships with a python interpreter.

I suspect 10MB might be more friendly in the current day and age.

An OS has massive network effects. You get Windows because you want to run software compiled for Windows. The OS itself is a necessary inconvenience.

I think all tertiary software job markets are like this. Full of bosses and coders who don't even know how bad their practices are.

I think PLCs are programmed using a mix of text and visuals. Or at least that's what I remember from uni. I'm not entirely sure why that is. I suppose it makes it a lot more obvious to your coworkers and management when you make spaghetti code, which I suppose can create pressure to not make a total mess of things.

I can totally see that. I imagine it's great for hiking and food. But if/when this company has an issue you'll have to move again or start working at the local Sparkasse or something.

These people are hiring in... Freiburg im Breisgau? Wonder how hiring is working out for them there.

Usually Justwatch should be able to tell you where something is available. However I will note that it's remarkably common for something slightly old to just not be available anywhere. You cannot watch Das Boot in my region on any service so far as I can see. So I guess you loan from the library or buy DVDs off of ebay or something?

This critique has accumulated some issues over time. Modern approaches like GTAO are way less intense than before. They essentially only add shadows to crevices. A normal corner like this will barely look different. More importantly, techniques like SSGI will correctly take color into consideration to darken black corners and brighten white ones.