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It's mostly the same in any general purpose programming language though, parts of the language features are meant (or became seens as) tools to be used in very narrow cases, which …

Almost the latter - I can almost live without pulling anything from the grid. The huge caveat being that my system is way oversized for a normal house, since my building is multi-u…

Wind is not that developed in Switzerland because it's not actually that great of a situation... We have a lot of steep mountains which make building wind farms a real challenge, a…

Mostly all of our potential for pumped hydro is already developed, and there is not a lot left to do for non-pumped hydro. We can't grow hydro at the required scale, and the usual …

The SVP is not considered "moderate". They are a far-right party. The fact that they are wide spread and gather a lot of votes does not make them "moderate". Source: am Swiss

It's mostly similar to France. My house is in a valley (so reasonable snow) and some good solar irradiation year round. The roof being at a steep angle also means snow doesn't tend…

Exactly - I own a Tesla and an id.buzz and it’s just insulting how bad the user experience is on the buzz. I don’t need buttons for the rear view mirrors or lights, I need them to …

Another data point: my entire system in Switzerland cost me 1.3CHF/Watt including a 20kWh battery and 5000 CHF of scaffolding costs (needed because of our local OSHA equivalent law…

Maybe you should visit Geneva then, or most of the "Arc Lemanique". It's way more diverse than Zurich. Well, if you mean "diverse" as "more brown people" as your comment seems to i…

SteamOS is really a desktop linux. You can switch to "desktop mode" to see the "normal desktop" and you get a KDE where you can run whatever you want. It's "just" immutable Arch th…

Exactly - it's done in public, and not centrally. Any citizen can go and check how it's done in their own Geminde.

As a Swiss citizen I strongly disagree. Most people capable of reading and basic maths (addition!) can understand the counting of our paper ballots. My kids understand how this wor…

Custom widgets aren’t particularly hard to do in iced, but I wish some of those common cases would be committed back / made available. Except the above virtualised lists, another c…

Not contesting your claim, but would you mind sharing what major hardware vendor you mean? I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponso…

Except using the cold output from the heat pump to serve as ac (which of arguably neat) it’s a normal heat pump

Ah it does ac on top, neat. Thanks!

I have an all in one heat pump right now in my house (in Europe). Not made by Samsung. Why is this news? Is it because it can heat water to 85 degrees Celsius? Is it because it’s S…

This is extremely valuable insight for me, a non-Indian manager. Thanks a lot!

Probably an unpopular opinion, but it’s been a couple of jobs that I write “just python” to generate k8s manifests, and it works really, really well. There’s packages. You can writ…

This is bullshit, Emmentaler has holes here as well. Source: am Swiss, live in Emmental

Oh really? Wow! I'll switch over tonight and give it a shot. Thanks!

I was very skeptical of the claim that gaming on linux is good now, but fully switched over last weekend. All of the games I play on a regular basis just worked out of the box with…

Huawei is very present at EuroRust and seem to look for a lot of people to hire. I guess it makes sense, I was curious why they would want people to work on e.g. Servo since Firefo…

The EPA seems to disagree with your numbers: https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths

Battery manufacturing emissions are dwarfed by lifetime emissions of a gasoline powered car, according to the EPA. They do about double the emissions for manufacturing, but that's …