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Correct; On July 9, 2026, the Bundestag passed Germany's new electricity-capacity law, which subsidizes reserve/dispatchable power capacity as coal is phased out. SPD and CDU/CSU v…

> Texas which are covered with turbines, and they absolutely do not look cool. Compared to coal plants, which are _extremely_ cool-looking. /s

> If you continue to use our services after the billing adjustment, you will be deemed to have accepted the adjusted billing terms. If you do not agree, you may choose to cancel yo…

> You can't just raise minimum wage and expect people to make more money since businesses need to fire everyone who aren't worth the new minimum wage [...] This way of thinking is …

"Good artists copy; great artists steal" - Pablo Picasso, but was also used by Steve Jobs, ironically.

I've been doing the same-ish workload the past week (the graph shows the whole month), and it's been consistently on $10 USD/day. Yesterday, however, spiked at $50 USD, and after j…

> I put Proxmox on it [...] How, exactly? Doesn't it require phyiscal access to the server?

> A very similar development is going on in neighboring Finland. Same in neighbouring Norway. Hi, neighbour! :)

> When I was in middle school (1970s) we learned how to file a tax return. For some reason this is no longer taught today. We have the same problem in Norway; youngsters aren't tau…

If it's that simple, how come it's so complicated that the US have an entire business line profiting from tax filing?

A Norwegian "ENK" ("enkeltmannsforetak"; self-employment) deals with a more integrated state reporting environment, stricter cash-sale controls, more emphasis on formal bookkeeping…

Having a proper system for handling citizens' main priorities is important. What happens in 3rd world countries is a struggle that UN++ needs to focus on.

It's completely unbelievable that so-called developed countries are struggling with this in 2026. In Norway, we've had a more or less automated tax system for many years; every yea…

Good for you. Not sure how your comment contribute to ... well, anything, but... Good for you!

> Apple doesn't want us to keep using old hardware even if it's similar to new hardware. I'm not disagreeing with you, but is this a fact, i.e. has it been proved?

Not related to this release, but their trade-in for old hardware is a joke to me. My 2019 MBP i9 2.4GHz w/64GB RAM and 2TB SSD is worth $200. It seems to me that they don't even wa…

You assume that what smart people _do_ is the same as what humanity _ought to do_. Even if every genius on Earth spent their days trying to get rich, that would show something abou…

> Cost wise it does not seem very effective. Why is this so damn important? Isn't it more important to end up with the best result? I (in Norway) use a homelab with Ollama to gener…

And IMO that's what should be done. Don't get me wrong, I like the idea and all that, but this is another pgsql "solution" that is tied to the database layer, when it should be in …

> It's similar to when we wrote all our business logic in eg pl/sql [...] What do you mean with "when"? /s I dread companies who still have logic in their databases when it's not n…

> There's a lot that hosted services with extra features can give you. I totally agree with that, but in my experience 99% of "application developers" don't need all these features…

> Give me virtual machines, reliable block storage, file storage and object storage, networking, dns, managed kubernetes, [...] But managers wants to _buy_ these services, not be d…