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> C++ is also surprisingly good, but you pretty much have to tell the LLMs to treat it like Go and don't use any of the dangerous features for normal code. For existing codebases I…

I stumbled upon the very experimental nix-ninja [0] recently. They seem to create a dynamic nix derivation per compilation unit, which would be very similar to what you describe as…

Your post sounds like there is some strange rule regarding taxation of solar installations, but it is (or rather was) just treated as any other income from commercial operation. - …

Some thoughts on why I think this is wrong: If no one needs it during the day, they can't sell it. That's not how markets work. Energy that is generated, needs to be consumed or el…

> I've seen some examples of C++ contracts replacing CRTP, but it used templates, which again, not a fan of. I think you meant concepts. C++ Concepts are the right answer in my opi…

I recently read about Aptera, a company building a commercial solar car: https://aptera.us/first-vehicle-off-validation-line/ I think it is quite interesting, because it also tries…

> Yes, that's drive me insane, west which is biggest advocator of climate change and preaches renewable energy has not done as much as a poor country like Pakistan has done. The "w…

Had a self hosted nextcloud instance runnning on my homeserver, but migrated away two years ago to a Hetzner Storage share. All in all I'm quite happy with that. There are some dow…

Probably true, but one unique thing about Julia is, that exposes almost all stages of the compilation to the user. From typed IR to native code generation you can customise the com…

Nix devShells works quite well for Python development (don't know about JS) Nixpkgs is also quite up to date. I haven't looked back, since adopting Nix for my dev environments.

I struggled with remote deployment + secret management, too. Like a lot of folks, my nix-config grew over the years as I added secrets management, user management etc ad hoc. I rec…

Kartoffel is the standard German word. Erdäpfel is used in many dialects and has plenty of variants. Actually the various different words for potatoe and their distribution across …

I tried different LLMs with various languages so far: Python, C++, Julia, Elixir and JavaScript. The SOTA models come do a great job for all of them, but if I had to rank the capab…

> nowadays Element is actually on a more economically sustainable path Good to hear. Keep up the good work.

That's not correct. For ordinary computers there is Landauer's principle, which gives a theoretical lower limit for the energy needed for computation [0]. I say "ordinary computers…

I came to like auto over the years, although I also use it sparingly. Sometimes the concrete types only add visual noise and not much helpful information, e.g. iterators: auto it =…

Damn, I always thought Fuchsia is just a colour, but today I learned - Fuchsia is a flower - which is named after a German botanist (Leonhart Fuchs) - Fuchsia in English is pronoun…

> Thing is that you need a complex JIT like Julia's or stuff like https://github.com/marcoheisig/fast-generic-functions to offset the cost of constant dynamic dispatch. Julia is al…

> V2G is a pipe dream. Seems a bit early to come to this conclusion, but I would also suspect, that the value of a parking garage full of EVs is not in providing energy to the grid…

I went through a similar journey recently for the local development environment of my team. I couldn't figure out yet, whether there is a reasonable and safe way to authenticate at…

Counterintuitively Julia recommends the use of immutable data types for performance reasons, because immutability enables more flexible compiler optimisations An immutable variable…

> Most of Europe became rich under imperialist, authoritarian governments not with their current system Europe prospered under democratic governments after the second world war. My…

This lead me done a rabbit hole on wikipedia: Advent calendars in their earliest forms were invented approx. 80 years ago. The four week advent period goes back to the 7th century …

I was pleasantly surprised, that a recent update for plasma fixed the fingerprint reader for my thinkpad t15. It previously had an issue, where it didn't work after waking from sus…

I disagree for Julia, but that probably depends on the definition of static typing. For the average Julia package I would guess, that most types are statically known at compile tim…