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I don't understand why SQLite has become popular for stuff like a website where it is not really a good fit due to concurrency.

If HA, replication, etc isn't needed, installing and running PostgreSQL or MySQL isn't much more complicated than SQLite.

The website of the Gleam programming language seems very political. I don't think I want anything to do with it. It's probably run by insane people.

Latta Java 17 days ago

I don't think java itself is the problem, the real problem is the overengineered, hard to debug libraries like spring.

You're confusing money supply and price levels.

They're closely related.

And since most money is privately created, controlling how much money is and isn't created "out of thin air" is actually quite challenging.

It's the central bank which controls the interest rates, the reserve requirement and other stuff which affects it.

Powell cured the resulting inflation without causing a recession. He did that without adding anything to our national debt.

That doesn't actually seem like a huge achievement. Inflation is the rate of change so if you stop creating as much money out of thin air, then it's not really a surprise that prices don't increase as much.

Modern cars are horrible. I recently discovered that all new cars sold in the EU constantly beep at you for supposedly speeding, even though the system doesn’t work well, and it has to be turned off every time you start the car.

The reality is that expensive electricity in the EU is by design. The EU ETS imposes heavy taxes on fossil fuels (and they are set to increase even more), which in turn causes the price of electricity to rise. Fully renewable electricity generation is still a long way off, so this will continue for a long time. But it is entirely a self-imposed political problem and could easily be fixed by getting rid of the EU ETS or capping the price of emissions at a more reasonable level.