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Comment No. (Score 1) 11

it seems it's more of a 'cross-compiler' (if that's a term, post says 'transpiles')

Both cross-compilers are transpilers exist and are different things.

* A cross-compiler compiles code on one platform but generates and executable for a different platform. Example: building an ARM64 executable on a x86_64 platform.
* A transpiler is a "translating compiler" which translates code from one programming language to another. Example: Java source code to Javascript source code.

So, it's for JAVA programmers who don't want to learn JS? The deliverable seems like a monolithic, minified, partially obfuscated text file?

Maybe but it's a near certainty that people will target WASM. WASM is bytecode that has many similarities to assembly language, so it's likely to be binary blob.

Yes, it will almost certainly be a monolithic, until someone starts hosting the myriad of Java platform libraries.

Comment Re: Coal is dirty, gas less so, nuclear not at al (Score 1) 59

Also I recognize it's a two party system but that doesn't mean it's a 2-cnadidate system. In 2024 Republicans had a half a dozen candidates to choose from. We could be sitting under President Haley who probably would have walked away with 57% vote share and had you know, not all this shit and not Harris either but Republicans and Republicans alone said "No, more Trump". You eat this one alone.

Comment Re: Coal is dirty, gas less so, nuclear not at al (Score 1) 59

But again...if you're not actively fighting satan-hitler by any means necessary, you're carrying water for him, eh?

No, not actively fighting but not defending, justifying and making excuses. You can just say "Yeah, Trump is real bad and doing fucked up shit" or you can not say anything and not have to desperately do the "but.. but.. biden!" because thats what Trump does and wants you to do.

Of course that's if you recognize those things he's doing as bad at all, some people think it's quite good, they voted for it. They saw Jan 6 and said "more please".. You might be one of them. Then again I'd be surprised if 1/5 of them know the fake elector plot was a thing at all.

When youve tossed your lot in with an extremist it's in their favor to have you think everyone else is just as extreme. It's right in the authoritarian playbook. Get your national park ID that they made sure to put his face on. Nothing weird and fashy about that!

Comment Apartment charging isn't about bad landlords (Score 1) 107

Your apartment building only has so much power coming in. It might be as little as 10amps per unit. This works because most people don't run their stoves at the same time. Window AC units really put your building close to the max. In Canada we brought in rent controls in 1976. In the first part of the 70s purpose built rental units made up 1/3rd of new dwellings. It went to zero by 1978. The same thing played out in the rest of the English world. So your rental appartment building is likely over 40 years old. It isn't designed for even one AC per unit let alone a bunch of car chargers. Oh, and you can't upgrade your building because the street it is on is also maxed out.

Comment Re: Coal is dirty, gas less so, nuclear not at al (Score 1) 59

is it better to be openly crude, the way Trump is,

This is the game you play. Trump says *demonstrably bad things*, encourages violence as you basically admit and you just handwave it as "crude" and then both sides again!

but I know what is unacceptable to me.

Yup and it's not attempting to subvert the election, incite a riot at the capital, release thousands of convicted criminals back on the street *explicitly because the violence they perpetuated was to help him and send the message that political violence on his behalf will be excused*, none of that is unacceptable. It's not defying court orders, putting military on the streets in defiance of state and federal laws. its not unjustified killing of civilians. It's not deporting veterans and legal immigrants to central american prisons. It's not the President building himself an anonymous bribery system and doing pay to pay with convicted criminals for pardons.

  But a single tweet to a fund *even though both her and Biden made repeated condemnations of rioting and violence*, that's a bridge too far.

You are not serious people, it's all a game to justify the unjustifiable because you know what it is and you do not care

I'm not asking you to become a democrat, i'm asking to stop stop carrying water for a fucking criminal. But nah, you're good, gotta own them libs!

Comment Re:Makes no sense (Score 1) 53

The spec is not for competing implementations. The spec is for assuring properties of code. Something critically important in secure coding. Yes, many people do not understand that, but most people do not understand what secure coding actually means. Yes, the implementation may still have bugs, but with a spec you can reliably find out whether something is a bug or not.

Comment Re: Energiewende (Score 1) 110

Did I claim renewables were "CO2 free"? No, I did not. And they are not.

The point is: the intrinsic method of energy generation is CO2 free. The rest is dependent on the "state of technology".

What a nice lie by misdirection you have there. Protip: By that measure, _all_ energy generation forms can be made CO2 free. You are just pushing nonsense.
In the real world, the one which you do not live in, it matters how much CO2 gets released, no matter why, per amount of energy generated.

Comment Re:Why should I subsidize EVs? (Score 1) 107

"Someone" told you wrong.

That probably was me, and I've brought receipts.

EVs represent 1.4% of the US vehicle fleet. There's a lot of cars in the USA. If you assume demand is linear and just added an extra 1.4% to the price of gas, well, that'd raise the current average price of gas by about $0.04/gal.

Granted, the real economics are probably a bit more squirrely if say, a magic genie showed up and granted the petroleum industry their wish that every EV instantly became a dino-juice burner, as the sudden surge in demand would cause a massive price spike at the pump. But in an alternate reality where Musk decided that drones to deliver fast food were more interesting than EVs, their gas prices aren't far off from ours (and they're getting burgers from heaven, so maybe it's not so bad).

From 2018 through 2024, about $16 billion was spent (or more accurately, mostly consisting of income tax money returned to taxpayers) on federal EV subsidies. Nice if it helped you afford an EV (raises hand), but admittedly, a pretty lousy bargain in terms of the amount of gasoline demand it abated.

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