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3.4M Solar Panels 3 months ago

What are all the tables and plots for rooftop solar presented in the article then? I am confused.

3.4M Solar Panels 3 months ago

Amazing how politicized panel use is obvious by these maps, as opposed to effectiveness.

I've never have a personal computer that came even close to powerful enough to do what i want. Compiles that take 15 minutes, is really annoying for instance.

well, the mismatch here is widened by the fact that almost everyone it seems uses git with a central, prominent, visible, remote repository. Where as git was developed with the a true distributed vision. Now sure that truely distributed thing only becomes final when it reaches some 'central' repo, but it's quite a big different than we all do.

I definitely think it's language specific. My history may deceive me here, but i believe that LLMs are infinitely better at pumping out python scripts than java. Now i have much, much more experience with java than python, so maybe it's just a case of what you don't know.... However, The tools it writes in python just work for me, and i can incrementally improve them and the tools get rationally better and more aligned with what i want.

I then ask it to do the same thing in java, and it spends a half hour trying to do the same job and gets caught in some bit of trivia around how to convert html escape characters, for instance, s.replace("<", "<").replace(">", ">").replace("\"").replace("""); as an example and endlessly compiles and fails over and over again, never able to figure out what it has done wrong, nor decides to give up on the minutia and continue with the more important parts.

IMO mockito has a relatively good use experience. If you use MockitoExtension, especially, you write code that is relatively maintainable, and easy to mutate. The problem without MockitoExtension is you can throw all kinds of junk in there and it just sits there doing nothing, without you knowing it.

Spy's on the other hand, are a pain in the neck. I think they should be good in theory, but in practice they are difficult, the debuggers really don't work correctly, setting breakpoints, stepping, etc, is just broken in many cases. Would love to know if this is just a difficult bug, or something that is baked into spying.

the advantage of fast-food over groceries, is that you don't have to worry about spoilage and waste. So the delta is probably less than you think. Now granted McD is an s-show, they are no longer the restaurant of the poor, You likely can get a better burger meal deal at a Chilis than a McD, as sad as that is.

peppermint altoids, to be specific (sorry). they use a good quality peppermint, as opposed to other cheap peppermint candy (typically).

Fun fact, Altoids tend to be one of the better treatment for dismotility, meaning folks who have esophagus's that don't operate correctly to help swallow down food.

Easy Forth (2015) 10 months ago

> The thing that separates Forth from most other languages is its use of the stack. In Forth, everything revolves around the stack

I mean, that's pretty much every language. The main difference is that the programmer's access to it is unconstrained by things like method call definitions.