The problem is in power transmission. Transmission fee is a big part of the cost. Anything helping for at home generation should be encouraged.

Right now plug in solar is starting to appear. It is big in Germany. Utah has passed a law to cut the red tapes to allow home owners to install plug in solar themselves. More states should follow.

The rub is that people don't want transmission networks to go away. They just don't want to pay for the maintenance.

In many US municipalities the cost of infrastructure is rolled into the per unit fee meaning high consumers pay more. This works fine until folks adopt solar and their consumption goes negative.

The right answer is a connection fee based on the cost to maintain your hookup to the grid.

As is the case in Australia. We personally pay around AU$2/day grid connect fee

This is huge. Sony is trying to make Cox into law enforcement to do their biddings. The Supreme Court struck that down.

Should have called it A^3I^2 - Arm Agentic Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure.

I'd throw in an Inference there for the AAAIII symmetry. At a certain point it starts to just look like a scream haha.

The last time I built a native Windows app years ago, I used WTL 3.0. It’s a light weight wrapper on the native Win32 API, lighter than MFC. It took out the unpleasantness of working directly on Win32 API and wrapped it in a simple OO framework. It had access to all features of Win32. It could produce runtime binary in dozens of K, instead of MB or GB.

Microsoft released it open source later on. Looking at the repository, looks like it has been kept up and maintained, up to version 10 now.

GitHub mirror of the sourceforge repo: https://github.com/Win32-WTL/WTL

WTL delivers very small and efficient code, very close in size and speed to SDK programs, while presenting a more logical, object oriented model to a programmer.

The autoboxing in a loop case can be handled by the compiler.

Branch prediction works really well on loops. The looping condition is mostly true except for the very last time. The loop body is always predicted to run. If you structure the loop body to have no data dependence between iterations, multiple iterations of the loop can run in parallel. Greatly improve the performance.

It’s not a win win policy. The citizens lose massive amount of their money to government on the bond yield delta. It preys on people not knowing the effect of long term compound interest.

Edit: in fact interest delta is how banks make their huge profits except the government here does it by force.

What's your source on the yield delta? In fact if you bought regular Singapore government t bills you will actually get a lower rate than the CPF rate. And neither do banks and saving plans give higher rates.

The average person does not make meaningful interest or investment income, its not practical to on individual small salaries.

In this case the citizens are forced to save, but the interest they're given is less than what they would have earned by saving the same amount on their own.

Also, the average person in the United States does have meaningful investments toward retirement age.

This assumes citizens actually putp a lions share of their money into more risky investmemt vehicles. For reference, this may not be the case with a large swathes of our older population. Bank rates, t bills and bonds here are generally lower than cpf. If you are a high income earner the contribution is capped and combined with low taxes this is not a bad thing.

I was just setting up a new machine and was setting up the Rust environment. The very first thing rustup-init asked was to install Visual Studio before proceeding. It was like 20-30gb of stuff installed before moving forward.

This tool would be a great help if I knew beforehand.

Before rustup can run, the very first message rustup-init spits out is asking to install the visual studio tool chain.

Space offers some unique benefits that enable computing that’s impossible or very hard to do on earth. E.g. Super conducting computing is possible, which can be thousands times to millions times faster than current CPU while using very little energy. When the satellite moves in the shade of the earth, temperature drops significantly. It can be low enough to enable superconducting. When the satellite moves under the sun, the solar panel can start charging up the battery to power the ongoing operation.

i don't understand? you won't insulate the craft from the sun? and you expect the craft to get rid of its heat just from being behind the earth for a moment?

When did I say no insulation? If it took only one moment for the satellite to fly by behind the whole earth, its speed is so great that it would be flung out of the solar system.