We have a giant fusion machine in the sky delivering energy in great excess what we use, and we only capture a tiny fraction of it at the moment. We can make each household practically independent. Fission and (hopefully soon) fusion will be good for meeting grid demand when renewables can't, but a distributed grid is simply more resilient to everything, from local events to country and nation-wide disruption of central generation points.

Redid APU and GPU with PTM and VRMs with paste. -10C on average on the APU with way lower idle temps, and GPU went from being thermally throttled at 60W to being able to push until 110W. Fan is basically silent for 3 months now, whereas previously I could hear it from the next room.

I've always used source-based packages, but chromium was the one I simply dropped in favour of Firefox.

On a 16c32t / 64G machine, compiling Firefox takes ~1h with LTO and PGO, while Chromium already took 5+h in 2019 without PGO. Then they removed jumbo-build because there were some issues and kept adding code and toolchain deps (jumbo-build is a build step that merges a few hundred source files before compiling to do the header processing once, shrinking the build from 5h+ to ~1-2h). Last time I checked the build had 70k+ build steps, with the final link step easily taking 10m+ with LLD. Answering some other comments: ccache doesn't help, because every version will have some minor header changes somewhere, so basically the entire cache gets invalidated even within the same major (e.g. 151.44.22.11 to 151.44.23.28).

I used to think so, but no, not in a school zone or cities at least. They might be safe for the car, but not for pedestrians and cyclists. Those are road users, and speed limits take them into account as well. That's also why you don't see 25mph limits on highways: pedestrians are not allowed there, and the lanes are designed to support high speeds, so the risk for all allowed users is lower and limits can be higher.

Couple that with the fact that everyone wants to ride the fine-limit (and not the road limit) and a 50mph road becomes effectively a 55-60mph road, because you know, shaving 1m off a 1:30h commute is such an achievement.

Some people here complain about 30mph limits, but in EU many city/school zones are becoming 18mph or even 12mph. Two reasons:

1. An impact at 12-18mph might break your leg, but you otherwise have a very good 100% recovery chance. At 30mph, major injuries become more common, and you risk crippling another human being for life. And again, 12-18mph for many people really means +5-10% or more depending on the fine, so 15-25mph in reality.

2. (not accounting reaction time in the following) At 12-18mph, an SUV can break in 13-30ft on wet pavement, which means you might bump someone and they might break a bone or two, but will otherwise probably be okay. At 30mph that's 115-150ft, which means with the little space you might have, there's no way you're going to stop in time to not run them over and cause them major damage.

Madrid has 3.4Mln people and is the second-largest city in the EU. How big do you want it to become?

I disagree on "just build more". There was a time where salaries moved more or less line with cost of living, and especially rents, but with AirBnB and estate funds sucking up any and all places they find, there's an enormous pressure that drives up rents for common people, which already struggle as-is to make ends meet. "Just build more" would simply keep pushing those towards the edges of town over time, while the city becomes a glorified luxury hotel that only rich people can afford. I welcome new regulation to combat this.

I just hope this event shatters any hope for the ultra-right parties that voted against it, and that people remember this. Ultimately, if anyone will build more, it'll still be the large real estate companies and funds that keep increasing rents on their tenants.

Consider that it's packaged for many well-known distros, so pop_os install base alone doesn't tell the whole story: https://system76.com/cosmic/download

I daily drove the alphas before the betas, and of course there were a couple rough edges. But I had a minimal working desktop instead of sway or KDE/Gnome (too heavy).

It has been releasing non-betas for a good year now, and it's been a smooth sailing.

For all the heat they got in the beginning when they were figuring out production (esp. panel alignment), 2019s were already very good performance and maintenance-wise.

Yeah, except it costed 12x per-flight, ran at 30x/kg, and wasn't reusable. So not exactly the same thing.

I programmed in rust a bit and can't say I'm an expert, but in my view rust mostly-solved the memory management problem at compile time and without a GC, and it works very well. The biggest con and cost I've always seen repeated so far is that "it's slow to compile", and I get that, if you're past 250 crates the final --release link tends to become noticeable, but there were improvements to incremental compilation.

On the other hand - looking at the syntax from this post - Zig feels a blend of javascript, python and golang syntax that still requires memory management. So a nicer-written C that inherits all the issues from C? From the post: no functional programming, data mutation, memory leak, double-free, memory corruption.

Personally I'd rather trade a couple minutes of final link every time when this is the other option.

EDIT: they have a FAQ about it: https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/about-autism/w...

This sounds like another early M3 frequent complaint. I've had exactly 1 issue under warranty for my M3 2019, have recommended it to friends that are also very happy with theirs (I also live in the EU). My cousin leased a mid-spec VW, and I heard more complaints from him in 2 years than I've heard from the 6+ Tesla owners I know the past 8 years. So, again, german brands are not really indicative of quality anymore. And Tesla offers better features, performance and UX for the same price anyway (and a few other EV brands, but those cost more).

> Why is it a "must-have"? There is literally nothing I want to look at on a screen in a car, ever.

Because it provides a lot of useful information?

Above all I like having the integrated navigator without having to attach a mobile or TomTom to my windshield (which can move and fall). Also because if I do that, then I might get useless notifications and have them at eye-level, which is more distracting than a purpose-placed screen. Same reason I hate Android Auto / Apple CarPlay.

Perhaps you always move around in your area and know exactly where to go, but I often go to new places and I'd rather have the integrated navigator than a flimsy windshield phone holder (or even worse, people that drive by looking down at their phones every now and then).

Besides navigation, I can change the car settings and functionality easily with an intuitive UI that includes help, rather than having 200 buttons I don't remember the symbols and states of.

The 80k cars were the early M3 performance I guess? The only one I see selling for ~80k now is the Cyber Truck, which I agree was a fail but for other reasons.

If you look at any other recent/modern car, ICE or EV, you'll find few brands have kept the "quality" interior that was characteristic of premium cars in ~2010 (yes, even German brands).

> I don't like the gigantic screen in the middle. I don't want any kind of lit-up screen in my car, for anything.

I understand the take, but since it's basically a must-have nowadays, I'd rather get the big high-res integrated Tesla experience rather than the Android Car / Apple CarPlay cheap mess. Consider that if you think it's a distraction for night-driving, Tesla will automatically switch to dark mode at sunset, and I've never had any trouble so far driving even on very dark roads. The brightest I've seen the screen at night is still way darker than my wife unlocking the mobile phone.

I guess if you use it for personal stuff it's as close as it gets to unbreakable. My father in law is also very happy with it.

I use it for work and I managed to have it panic multiple times over the last 8y besides the death by a thousand papercuts that the UI and *nix subsystem are. I can't wait for the day that proper Linux laptops get sanctioned in the company because I hate with passion to be locked in the MacOS "proper way of doing things" ®.

It's specific brands, I'm happy with my Tesla (see my other comments).

We're already set to pass 1.5C warming in the next couple years, which was supposed to be the best-case scenario as of 10y ago. I don't know if you noticed, but batteries cost more to make because we're building the supply chain for them, after 100+y of "bog standard" vehicles left us with a world that each year registers new temperature records and increasingly violent weather events.

You can definitely ride it smoother and I haven't had anybody complain so far, but I guess after hours of driving the real issue is the torque. On one hand you want to have it available to be able to merge into traffic ASAP and go on your way, on the other hand 500Nm torque means that in order to get gentle acceleration you have 3mm of play on the accelerator pedal, and you need to caress it rather than push it (own a M3). I guess after hours of driving one might be tired enough that their sensitivity is way lower than when they started in the morning.

That'd be horrible. A medical emergency of one would potentially turn into a medical emergency of many.

With a Tesla you can use cruise control without autosteer also on smaller roads, and it should also slow down for turns (since ~1.5y or so IIRC). Normally it's good enough that I don't mind.