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by cbmuser 9mo ago
»US electricity demand jumped by 135 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2025, a 3.1% increase, the fourth‑largest annual rise of the past decade. Over that same period, solar generation grew by a record 83 TWh – a 27% increase from 2024 and the bigges
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
There is no way of changing this. It’s how commodity markets work.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
Electricty is a homogeneous good which is traded at one price independent of origin. Why should an operator of wind turbine sell their kWh for less if the current price is high? That would be stupid.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
Good luck trying to enforce this!
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Grub 2.14 Released(lists.gnu.org)
7 points by cbmuser 9mo ago|2 comments
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
France was not affected and guarded the rest of Europe because the have reliable, dispatchable power. It’s not really surprising that an electricity grid becomes fragile if you remove large rotating masses which can act as power reserves wh
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
Can you elaborate on that a bit, please? I have never found myself in the situation where my terminal emulator would be too slow and I‘m using it for the majority of my day-to-day work. I honestly never ran into a situation where I would ha
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
Having to introduce a new language stack to distributioms just to be able to build a terminal emulator is what I would consider over-engineering.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
I grew up in a socialist country and anyone equates socialism with failure is 100% spot on. People who think that living in socialism is in any way desirable simply don’t understand what socialism actually means.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but the fact remains that the German government has full control over Deutsche Bahn and any mismanagement can be blamed 100% on the German government.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
You are contradicting yourself. On the on hand you claim that a government-run railway company is better off than a privately run (Japan tends to disagree here). On the other hand you admit that the problems of Deutsche Bahn stem from the f
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
> All travellers and myself had to look for Ubers, which the government also tries to suppress. No one is trying to suppress Uber. They are just obligated to adhere to the law like anyone else in this business.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
Debian's RISC-V machines are rather slow. It takes several days to build the gcc-15 package in riscv64 but just a few hours on loong64.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
> I don't think LoongArch is the same thing with MIPS according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson Where did I make that claim? I never said that.
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
I actually bootstrapped openSUSE for loongarch64 last year: https://hackweek.opensuse.org/projects/bootstrap-opensuse-on...
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
> Huh. Is this arch supported by LLVM/Rust? Yes. > It was announced recently ( https://lwn.net/Articles/1044496/ ) that Apt, the Debian package manager, would require Rust by May 2026. No, that was just t
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by cbmuser 9mo ago
> Actually Alpine had support for LoongArch64 well before Debian. Nah, we added the loong64 in Debian already in 2023: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/08/msg00... It was just promoted t
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by cbmuser 10mo ago
> What I've always found off-putting about the Debian packaging system is that the source lives with the packaging. Many packages have stopped shipping the whole source and just keep the debian directory in Git. Notable examples are
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by cbmuser 10mo ago
You can buy LoongArch hardware on AliExpress, for example.
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Debian adds LoongArch as officially supported architecture(lists.debian.org)
162 points by cbmuser 10mo ago|54 comments
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
»It could be but the US and EU have so far been unable to build commercial fission reactors without going 2x+ over budget in time and money.« The EU also forgot how to build airports and train stations on budget and on time. Should we stop
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
Wind and solar existed in the 70s as well. Plus, Germany invested 500 billion Euros in its energy transition and is STILL heavily dependent on coal.
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
»Your citation comes from an organization with pro nuclear bias.« Go and throw all your money into renewables stocks and ETFs if you’re so convinced. I bet you’re not doing that because you realize that the industry isn’t doing well and it’
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
»Enough renewables are deployed annually to replace the global nuclear fission fleet, year after year, even when accounting for capacity factor derating (to make a like for like comparison).« Wind and solar do not replace conventional power
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
Look at Electricity Maps and realize that France is the only large industrial country where electricity generation is permanently carbon-free and cheap. https://particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Document
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
Or just build out nuclear like France and pay just 20 Cents per kWh. https://particulier.edf.fr/content/dam/2-Actifs/Documents/Of...
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
It sounds great in theory but doesn’t work in practice. Just compare Germany to France.
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
We’re trying that in Germany while we’re still heavily dependent on coal while our electricity prices are twice as much compared to France. I’m sorry, but wind and solar may be cheap, but they don’t provide cheap electricity 24/7.
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Still Epic: Maintaining Linux on Itanium in 2025 (Tomáš Glozar) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by cbmuser 11mo ago|0 comments
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by cbmuser 11mo ago
Yes, that is being worked on.

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