Weird they focused on just these three. There’s tons of other competing battery technologies out there, as well as non-chemical grid storage.

As we move towards renewables, which grid storage technology is best and how low you can get the cost really is the trillion-dollar question.

That’s pretty much how the Russian economy works right now, in a nut shell. To stop emigration caused by the expensive war, they’re giving away a ton of expensive handouts.

The interest rate is at 19% and counting. Very cool, very sustainable. I have a feeling “the last laugh” will be yours, OP, even if they win in Ukraine.

Yeah, money talks. China has a non-negligible amount of it, and very, very delicate feelings.

Ah! That makes sense. I wasn’t expecting мимо to act like a noun in this way. Большое спасибо.

вообще мимо

Please help, я это не понимаю.

The whole (Mediterranean) universe.

Haskell is Esperanto. The difference being that Rust is actually catching on.

Not surprised. The Russian Wikipedia page on it is just a stub. The English one is actually longer.

I can’t find any online introductions to it or compilers for it either, in English or написал по-Русски. Or Ukrainian for that matter, assuming I’d know it if I see it, although the Wikipedia page is longer.

Yeah, that’s my guess too.

As to whether C++ can update enough to steal it’s thunder, I feel less qualified to answer. It’d be pretty impressive if they managed to preserve backwards compatibility and do that at the same time, though.

Spoken like a true Lisp fan. I dunno, I really like static typing, and too many brackets gets tiresome.

Гарантийный без ошибки памятей!

I unironically think it would be hilarious to write a borrow-checked version of Адрес. (The Soviet version of C - or rather C is a version of it, given that Адрес was first compiled in '55)

Oh, well I can agree with that.

You can like the idea behind functional programming while believing that any application is in the end about side effects and therefore a purely functional application impossible.

It’s a bit of a tangent, but if you’re doing something completely deterministic and non-interactive, like computing a digit of pi, it’s great in practice as well. I use Haskell semi-regularly for that kind of thing.

You could argue printing the output is a side effect, but is a side effect followed by termination really “side”?

Yeah, you could dismiss combustion engines for the same reason, or like, carpentry. You wouldn’t be wrong, they have caused problems down the line at various points (modern climate change, medieval deforestation), but you bet I’d still call them an advance on mule power, or on no carpentry.

This is pretty much an nullification of the idea of technological progress existing at all, which is a kinda hot take.

@Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de, so you can reply in the right place.

TIL about this problem.

Yeah, but that makes it sound like they’re all equal, and there hasn’t been any progression, which is untrue. You’re either insane or a historical reenactor if you write something new in COBOL.

I think Rust is genuinely a huge leap forwards compared to C/C++. Maybe one day it will be shitty and obsolete, and at the very least it will become a boring standard option, but for now…

Ah, but you didn’t buy them!

This is generally the way it goes. Businesses buy rolls of quarters to fill the register, cash-using consumers “buy” bills, and gradually accumulate those quarters as the bills break down. Then, they return it to a bank to deposit them, and (possibly with a stop at the mint to retire old coins and inject new ones) the cycle continues.

Meanwhile, businesses deposit the bills they accumulate, and all kinds of wire transactions between banks, consumers, businesses and the government account for the rest of the money supply.

Good luck getting them in quantities less than a roll, though.

I can only imagine the depressing mix of religious content trying to guilt you, shitty funerary services that will send AI-generated quotes to your loved ones or something if you’ll just scan the QR code to pay, and online casinos suggesting you whale for them one last time.

Edit: Don’t whale too hard though. It’s unpaid overtime for the staff independent contractors if somebody can’t pay for the machine and makes a mess.

Inaccurate. You can’t buy anything for 25 cents.

The main barrier to the Stan Lee stuff is just that we can’t really manufacture it with any quality. The author really should have mentioned that. It sounds like they may have some personal stake in graphene, though, and could be going for “actually, it was a success all along”.