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Comment Re:Junior developers (Score 2) 57

> do not expect the slowdown to apply in other scenarios, such as for junior engineers or engineers working in codebases they aren't familiar with

If the juniors are working with the same code base, with the same AI that makes same incorrect suggestions which seniors reject and if AI is not slowing juniors down, doesn't that mean that juniors will accept the changes made by AI and pollute the code with wrong decisions?

I could very well imagine AI helping me to get a handle on/oversight over code bases that I'm not familiar with as well as really huge codebases where I'm familiar some parts but don't know every nook and cranny, or for insanity inducing tasks like finding memory leaks and heisenbugs but in terms of helping me code I'm not so sure. That sounds like a crutch that might be good for junior developers until they outgrow it. But why are we even talking about this? Aren't we all about to be replaced by ninja level prompt engineers straight out of primary school?

Comment Re:What will the numbers be in December? (Score 2) 73

Getting high solar output during summer is nice, but they're getting 15-20 hours of daily sunlight in the higher latitudes. It'll be interesting to see the solar number in mid-Winter, when the days are 6 hours long and the sun is low on the horizon. I suspect coal use will ramp up to keep the lights on and the heat pumps running.

Northern Europe has a lot of wind turbines, and the winds are stronger in winter.

On top of that N-Europe (Blue) also has a lot of hydroelectric and in some regions geothermal power. I'm afraid MAGA drones will not be deriving any enjoyment from seeing the lights in N-Europe go out next winter because the sun ain't shining nor will they see coal use ramping up because nobody in N-Europe uses any significant amounts of coal.

Comment Re:Two reasons... and a non-PC comment (Score 1) 299

So is a person wrong because they had multiple kids with multiple moms and supports them or had one kid and left it for dead with the mother?

My experience with guys who have multiple kids with multiple women is that they are selfish toxic assholes who whine and complain about having to pay child support for all their other kids because their pay is hardly enough to support their latest kid and baby-mama. Why, baby-mama number 5 is now married some other guy, why can't her new husband just pay for the two kids that you made with her before cheating on her and running off with baby-mama number 6?? Neither of the assholes you describe is an example worth following when trying to be a real man.

Comment Re: Norway is cold AF (Score 1) 250

Then civilian casualties wouldn't still be under 15,000 three years into the war, many at the hands of the AFU, you incompetent McCarthyite cocksucker. If Russia was in the business of murdering civilians, Kiev would have been a parking lot two weeks into the war like Gaza, not being relatively untouched.

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Comment Re:Norway is cold AF (Score 1) 250

The subsidies in the USA were not near the same as seen in Norway.

You can't subsidize people into a bad product or something they don't want to do. In parts of Europe you can practically be subsidized into a home if you get married and have kids - but the policy isn't working. If EV's were so impractical in Norway's winters, they wouldn't be dominating the roads even if you gave them away for free.

That's like pointing to that I have the technology for making coffee but failing to recognize that I've run out of coffee grounds, or there was some interruption in the water or electricity supply.

Not when Norway has a lower population density and colder winters than most of the United States.

There's a global shortage on many critical minerals for producing batteries and high efficiency motors for BEVs. Some estimates show it could take 30 years to get production to where we need it to be for BEVs to replace the ICEV as the default option for cars and light trucks.

Theoretical limits that aren't impacting manufacturing today.

Comment Re:Norway is cold AF (Score 1) 250

Norway is relatively small.

Which should work against EV's with a smaller power grid and lower population density for chargers.

Norway has a relatively large fiscal surplus from natural resource exports they partly spend on EVs.

US has also given tax subsidies to EV's for decades. Hasn't given them dominant market share.

Norway has a relatively high percentage of citizens with private parking.

It's relatively trivial to put chargers on streets like parking meters running off the existing grid.

Norway being relatively cold doesn't mean much.

It certainly does when cold is a well known battery killer.

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