lime!

they did, that’s why spotify won

well that’s a little disappointing

idk, i’ve not seen their designs elsewhere and they offer pretty bonkers customisation.

really? sounds like a weird span of systems considering they share so little code. i’d like to read on how they did that.

the part that’s safe is in the browser. it’s a basic fact of how http requests work that you can just request data and then not read it.

also, “task managering the popups”? unless i’ve missed some very weird development that has literally never worked, because popup windows are part of the parent process.

yeah.

it feels kinda like “what’s the point”. i’ve been doing this for 10 years and i love the problem solving parts, but the stuff around it takes more and more effort to do, especially when an llm could do boilerplate in a quarter of the time with some manual checking. if it can do that, why can’t it just do all of it.

ooooooh, right, i was thinking that it was re: DeepL translating it as “english”.

like in english? i don’t think i follow

not fully sure on this but i think by “biomass” they mean peat, which is a controversial fuel.

if the netherlands is anything like sweden, farming is likely heavily subsidised by the eu. that’s the annoying part; there are valid criticisms of the union (inconsistency, inertia, advisors, lobbying) but anti-pollution regulations with appropriate compensation is not it.

yeah, it’s the hungarian word for the hungarian language. it could be one of those situations where the actual meaning is “the language” or something, hungarian is a very unique language.

wait is he really named “Peter Hungarian”?

i mean they don’t take a cut directly, but the membership fees are proportional to GDP. some countries get back more money than they pay.

the electricity thing is different, and annoying. electricity doesn’t care about markets, it just goes wherever. the nordics still have europe’s cheapest electricity by far, but as long as the grids are connected together it’s all just one big machine and trying to treat it as a segmented market just leads to problems. it’s an abstraction.

just as a comparison, the big swedish natural resources (mining, fishing, forestry) are still basically all swedish (a bit of the forestry is part finnish which i don’t really see as an issue) so that’s not really a problem, and there’s no real movement in the EU to grab it.

don’t buy cocraft. its just no-name chinesium tools with a swedish label.

so, YaST?

steam that runs turbines tends to be recirculated. that’s already in the paper.

data centers are mainly air-cooled, and two innovations contribute to the water waste.

the first one was “free cooling”, where instead of using a heat exchanger loop you just blow (filtered) outside air directly over the servers and out again, meaning you don’t have to “get rid” of waste heat, you just blow it right out.

the second one was increasing the moisture content of the air on the way in with what is basically giant carburettors in the air stream. the wetter the air, the more heat it can take from the servers.

so basically we now have data centers designed like cloud machines.

Edit: Also, apparently the water they use becomes contaminated and they use mainly potable water. here’s a paper on it

i’ve not seen much finnish comedy but i did almost die laughing at napapiirin sankarit (second one was also good) so i will keep these recommendations. it probably helps that rural finland and rural sweden are pretty similar, all the types of guy are accounted for.