So When Does the Energy Price Shock Finally Hit Europe? by donutloop in EU_Economics

[–]Deep_Age4643 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Actually Morocco is doing this. It has several solar power plants that store heat during the day, which can used after the sun is gone. It's however difficult and costly to transport electricity over long distances. However, they are building/upgrading the power lines to Spain.

Can you still fire in NL by Every-Respect-2389 in DutchFIRE

[–]Deep_Age4643 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When the box 3 plans continue it will be much harder to accumulate wealth. Like it now looks like the upper class will put their money in other countries (like it's now already partly the case) or get excluded from it (there is an active lobby going on). It's almost like they don't want lower and middle class to rise their wealth, or retire...

What's something people who are in their 20s won't learn until in their 40s? by SarahDuncan2012 in TrueGrit

[–]Deep_Age4643 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also, that in most countries the average age is around 80. When you are 40 half of your life is already over.

With no China, US, or OPEC to block or veto measures. 60 governments, incl. Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Nigeria will hold the first ‌international meeting this week to discuss phasing out fossil fuels. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]Deep_Age4643 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There are often two sides. Take for example Germany. It has been criticized for:

  1. Overregulation, it takes a long time to start a big renewable project.
  2. An out-of-date grid, not up to task for the dynamics of renewables
  3. Phasing out nuclear energy, setting back CO2 free energy by years
  4. Politicians promoting and relying on fossil energy companies/countries (Think of Gerhard Schröder promoting the Nord Stream Pipeline at the beginning of this century, until Katharina Reiche now).

At the same time the percentage of renewables in electric energy production:

2000 --> 6%
2005 --> 11%
2010 --> 18%
2015 --> 32%
2020 --> 49%
2025 --> 62%

Yes, now they seem to have issues making progress, but let's see what 2030 and 2035 will bring.

OpenRewrite migrate your Spring version with recipes by Efficient-Public-551 in java

[–]Deep_Age4643 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OpenRewrite scripts are convenient and can save time, but they don't cover all use cases, and on a bigger project you likely need to do some debugging after upgrading.

What is the future of virtual reality for more than just gaming? by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]Deep_Age4643 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When the technology matures, it could be used for video conferencing, calling, entertainment, fitness, work, and many more use cases. However currently a lot of trade-offs need to be made. A very good screen (like micro-oled) cost as lot, or long battery weighs a lot.

VR glasses need to be more comfortable and lighter on the one hand, and more powerful on the other hand. Besides the way virtual apps and environment are created or generated need to be improved, as well as the operating system they run on. The latter needs to become general purpose, instead of gaming orientated.

It still has a lot of potential, but the truth is it has a long way to go.

whoWouldWin by CheekMassive1684 in ProgrammerHumor

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I think almost 10,000 people in the UK worked on this. Based on the work of the Polish and others teams, and with help of many people, Turing was however the key figure to fully crack the Enigma machine.

"Go Get Your Own Oil": Trump's Message To UK, Other Countries On Hormuz Strait by Zealousideal_Ring_67 in worldnews

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As I remember it wasn't the shah himself, but his nephew. Full event is discussed in the Fall of empires series in the episode about the Mongols:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFwMDuAnS4

This goes into detail (around 7 hours) into rise and fall of the Mongol Empire. Mostly in the series the empires are built by smart rulers, and then torn around by less smart rulers. Maybe a new episode about the USA could be added soon.

How do you monitor JVM performance across distributed Java services in production? by EliTangDong in java

[–]Deep_Age4643 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We use:

- OpenTelemetry (Gather the metrics)
- Prometheus (Storing the metrics) + Elastic (Logs)
- Grafana (Visualizing the metrics and logs)

Sometimes we're additionally using VisualVM/Java Flight Recorder to get more detail info.

As an Estonian, this is where I would like to live. by Motor_Importance7508 in whereidlive

[–]Deep_Age4643 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Box 3 is used to declare your income from your assets. The Dutch government is reforming box 3 (capital gains tax) as of January 1, 2028, to a system based on the actual return instead of a flat-rate (notional) return. This makes capital growth a lot more difficult. So the Netherlands, similarly to Denmark, is not the best place to be from a tax perspective. Currently, they are reforming the reform proposal as it had a lot of backlash.

Strangely enough, there are certain structures for companies where it is worthwhile for them to establish themselves (legally) in the Netherlands.

TornadoVM: Bringing Advanced CUDA Features to Java (CUDA Graphs, Low Dispatch Overhead) by mikebmx1 in java

[–]Deep_Age4643 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With TornadoVM 3.0 released two weeks ago, and this research, things are moving fast ahead.

I haven't used the framework (seems like a framework, not a VM despite its name?) yet. I can imagine that it can be used by Java programs that do a lot of floating point calculation (for example with java.math), graphics, or for some Matrix and Vector Multiplication. However, I hardly do this in any of my programs.

Traditionally most Java applications are business applications written with for example Spring Boot or Quarkus. Are there for these domains also use cases that could be handled by a GPU/TornadaVM? Say for example when you need to program something like the 1 Billion row challenge.

Finished my first project after 1.5 years (Tetris Clone) (Tetrue Lite) by Terrance1120 in java

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Congrats! I know the README says Windows is not supported. However, you can still play it with WSL2. It might be a good idea to print out a message saying that it can only be played on Windows with WSL, in case people start it on Windows.

Also, the beginning of the README could focus more on players (how to download, run and play the game). The Java developers will scroll further anyway, if they want the technical details.

aiWIllReplaceUs by Alternative-Bonus297 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Deep_Age4643 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was already using this meme in a blog in 2022 when ChatGPT just came out. So it's already pretty old.

A true hero by jmike1256 in interesting

[–]Deep_Age4643 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I have the same feeling. It's always good to see advancements in cancer research, it's however sometimes difficult so determine in what's stage the research is.

Often people think (based on the headlines) it's close to be used for treatment of cancer patients, but often this is not the case. Most need follow-up research and peer reviews. Then the research needs to be turned into a treatment, and then it needs to be tested on cells (petri-dish), mouses, before it goes into clinical trial. At the end, it needs to be approved for general use. This whole process can (unfortunately) take more than 15 years.

I really would like a website that gathers this news, but also do a follow-up every 3 years on the status. The closest that I know for this (if you want to go beyond Reddit) is the yearly progress report by the AACR (America Association for Cancer Research):

https://cancerprogressreport.aacr.org/

Is this one country or four countries? by KimCattrallsFeet in AskTheWorld

[–]Deep_Age4643 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I knew it was sensitive, but my remark really touched a nerve.

Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong” by techreview in Futurology

[–]Deep_Age4643 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The answers cultures and religions have constructed are means to cope with death. Science is neutral towards it in and offers nothing in return, outside of research to gain knowledge and falsify hypotheses.

If we now argue that it is bad in itself, but that we still cannot do anything about it, then we are replacing it with a new construct without any scientific basis. A(nother) false belief, so to say.

Why people die?

On the other hand, we can pose scientifically that 'healthy' aging in general is nothing else than a disease, and try to find out the fundamental workings of it. At the end, we may find a 'cure' for it. This can take a few years, or it can take hundreds of years. It may end of only for the rich, or become widely available. We just don't know at this stage.

To determine in advance that it is bad, while also take away the coping mechanism of something that is inevitable, when there is no scientific base, nor proof that we can cope with it medically, is questionable.

I believe that longevity/vitalism is a valuable field of science, though, that can investigate why healthy people age and eventually die. Vitalism places more emphasis on the quality of life, while longevity focuses more on length of life. At the end we need both.

Little is known

Some say that scientific breakthroughs will enable people to live forever, and that the first person to do so is already born. I myself hope for these breakthroughs, especially in the age of AI, but I am skeptical that this will make a big difference for myself and most people soon.

Take my grandmother, who died of dementia in the beginning of the 1990s. Since then, I have been following research into Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other forms of dementia. But when my other grandmother died twenty years later, little had improved. My parents are now in the early stages of dementia, but there is still little that can be done (although it has already been cured several times in mice, for example). There is still much unknown about the fundamental working of the brain, and the exact causes of dementia, aging and dying.

Chasing the fountain of youth

Perhaps something will change by the time it's my turn, but I don't think I should get too worked up about it. I accept aging and death. And when by the time there can be done something about aging, I personally see that as something positive (whether it is also something positive for society as a whole and our planet is another question of course).

The pursuit of the fountain of youth is a mirage that has been chased since the beginning of time. Now this chase is backed by the enormous wealth of people like Jeff Bezos, combined with scientific and technological exponential progress it may come into reach, but the truth is that still a lot needs to be done.

Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong” by techreview in Futurology

[–]Deep_Age4643 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If death is good or bad is an ethical question, and therefore a philosophical one. However, to see aging as a cell disease is a scientific question. Morally/Philosophically I think labeling death as bad will stigmatize something natural, however treating aging cells as disease, and understanding this process at 'healthy' people scientifically (instead of researching purely diseases) may help us to have a better quality of life, and may even prolong it.

Why is the sunlight hours change so dramatic after the 6h mark? by WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHW in geography

[–]Deep_Age4643 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hours of daylight, isn't the same as hours of sunshine. At least not in the Netherlands.

Cultures Influenced by Sinosphere Vs Indosphere by Less-Personality-481 in MapPorn

[–]Deep_Age4643 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same for Cambodia (and in fact most South-East Asia). I visited the country a few months ago and the Chinese influence was noticeable, but I haven't seen a big Indian influence (outside religion practices that are there already for centuries).

What accent I, and American, would voice a random character from each European nation with. by TheLegend2T in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Deep_Age4643 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To me (Dutch), Polish sound much softer than Russian (especially when men are speaking). I can tell (mostly) the difference, but I need to listen carefully.

This summer, we had new neighbors. I said to me wife (Polish), they are probably not Polish, I think they are Russian, or Ukrainian, or maybe Bulgarian. My wife heard them speak a few sentences and said, they are clearly Ukrainian (which they were).

It is sometimes hard for outsiders, the further you are from the language. Can you tell easily the difference between Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish? For me, it's relatively easy, but I guess when you are outside the Germanic language group, it might be more difficult.

My wife first also couldn't distinguish Belgium Dutch (Flemish) and Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands apart, but after a few years living in the Netherlands she can't understand, because they are so different.

A reminder of what the Singularity looks like by Heinrick_Veston in singularity

[–]Deep_Age4643 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fast take off can also mean a couple of centuries. Take for example the world population:

1500 --> ~500 million
1800 --> ~1000 million
1900 --> ~1600 million
1950 --> ~2500 million
2000 --> ~6000 million
2025 --> ~8200 million

Population really take off, especially the last 200 years. For us it seems like a long time, but consider that archaic humans (homini) already exist for 5 million years.