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New comment by markus92 in "Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time"

markus92 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:52:10 +0000

Netherlands is mostly rooftop solar, which is easy and cheap to install there. No permitting required, previous net metering policies gave a very predictable ROI and cost is very reasonable: say 3k eur for 8 panels including installation, that would get you like 3000kwh/year. Panels would be just over 2k, the crew to get it done like 600-800 euros. Electricity ain't electricity cheap there to the point the ROI would be just a couple years with the net metering. You'd be stupid not to get it at that point and a few thousand bucks is a very feasible investment for most people without having to resort to financing.

I live in Texas now where there's a lot more sun and a lot more electricity usage (though it's cheaper per kwh). Panels and inverters are a significant percentage more expensive due to tariffs and stuff, but that's not even the biggest cost driver. It's the permitting and installation costs that make it so so so much more expensive. If I could get a bunch of panels on my roof for $5k, they'd be there already. But typical costs I'm seeing is low five figures which is well beyond my appetite or electricity costs.

New comment by markus92 in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

markus92 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:42:27 +0000

There's been a lawsuit about this in Europe, couple years back. Employee won, breach of privacy according to Article 8 the European Convention of Human Rights. See https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63203945

New comment by markus92 in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

markus92 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:07:09 +0000

One of the oldest rules in F1 is that the driver must drive the car alone and unaided. That's been explained as no traction control, ESC, ABS brakes etc. etc.; Teams kept cheating so the only good way to prevent this was to standardize the ECUs.

New comment by markus92 in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

markus92 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:25:50 +0000

They all run the same ECU and the same firmware on it, yeah. Teams can control some parameters though. It's to stop any kind of traction control.

New comment by markus92 in "Norway Should Buy OpenAI"

markus92 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:09:35 +0000

"We're selling to willing buyers at the current fair market price."

New comment by markus92 in "Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions"

markus92 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:43:05 +0000

There’s places where taking photos inside the voting box is illegal for this exact reason.

New comment by markus92 in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

markus92 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:18:20 +0000

It is. We still run quite a few of them in prod and with 580 drivers they run just fine. Very useful GPUs still.

New comment by markus92 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

markus92 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:02:07 +0000

I think OP means more why politics hasn't changed this. Even at state level there's plenty of stuff that can be done about this but seemingly no one cares enough.

New comment by markus92 in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"

markus92 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:51:36 +0000

Temu has EU warehouses they appear to ship from: all return addresses I've seen are EU addresses.

New comment by markus92 in "Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities"

markus92 — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:20:41 +0000

They absolutely suck in HPC environments. Bunch of users running all types of code that can just LPE themselves to root, not a good scenario.

New comment by markus92 in "Testing UPS Output Waveforms"

markus92 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:42:03 +0000

Capacitive touch screens when plugged in with cheap chargers to crappy waveforms, behave weird.

New comment by markus92 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

markus92 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:49:16 +0000

Samsung Galaxy S5 is the first one to cross my mind.

New comment by markus92 in "For the first time in the U.S., renewables generate more power than natural gas"

markus92 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition

New comment by markus92 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

markus92 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:52:28 +0000

Better than expected as it's mixing userlands. We didn't put the entire /usr/lib of the old system in LD_LIBRARY_PATH but just some stuff like old libpng, libjpeg and the shebang. Taking an image of an old compute node still on RHEL 7 and then dumping it a container naturally worked, but at that point it's only the kernel interface you have to worry about, not different glibc, gtk, qt and that kind of stuff.

New comment by markus92 in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

markus92 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:11:34 +0000

This looks like Rotterdam ten years ago

New comment by markus92 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

markus92 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:31:06 +0000

We (small HPC system) just upgraded our OS from RHEL 7 to RHEL 9. Most user apps are dynamically linked, too.

You don't want to believe how many old binaries broke. Lot of ABI upgrades like libpng, ncurses, heck even stuff like readline and libtiff all changed just enough for linker errors to occur.

Ironically all the statically compiled stuff was fine. Some small things like you mention only linking to glibc and X11 was fine too. Funnily enough grabbing some old .so files from the RHEL 7 install and dumping them into LD_LIBRARY_PATH also worked better than expected.

But yeah, now that I'm writing this out, glibc was never the problem in terms of forwards compatibility. Now running stuff compiled on modern Ubuntu or RHEL 10 on the older OS, now that's a whole different story...

New comment by markus92 in "Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics"

markus92 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:40:20 +0000

Your capacity drops dramatically, by at least an order of magnitude if not more. The Jubilee line can do 30 trains per hour, 875 people per train is 26250 people per hour. Say an average minibus can hold 26 people, you'll literally need a thousand busses an hour to move everyone. And yes it all runs at capacity especially during rush hour.

New comment by markus92 in "EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars"

markus92 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:00:57 +0000

Hit by A/C is negligible in most EVs. What you're saying is more that there is a current charger shortage, supply/demand will take care of that in the future.

New comment by markus92 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

markus92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:57:14 +0000

Exactly, they can’t just pay the 5 million and call it a day.

New comment by markus92 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

markus92 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:19:25 +0000

Na, but under the Dutch legal you can go back to the court if they pay the 5 million without changing anything and ask if they can increase it cus it clearly wasn’t enough. They’ll just keep tacking zeroes on.