DanielHB

Didnt it start with Korean stocks first? It feels like a wave, it hits there first then the US tech stocks. Korea index has stabilized for a few days now, but hasn't recovered what it lost.

Most extensions run in vscodium-server, extensions run either as "Local Extensions" that run on the host and "Remote Extensions" that run on the guest. You can clearly see in the UI which ones run where.

I only have a single "Local Extension" and it is open-remote-ssh itself.

Of course anything you put into the container can be compromised, like git ssh keys or cloud provider keys/auth-tokens. But at least it keeps your PC from becoming a botnet and your browser credentials out of reach. If you have a Containerfile/Dockerfile with everything you need you can quickly wipe everything and re-create your dev environment from scratch (which I do every once in a while), wiping any malware you might have gotten in there.

When running inside a container you can do some nifty things like keeping root directories immutable. I have been meaning to make some user directories immutable in my container but just been too lazy to do it.

That is really cool, our use case was powering an off-grid festival in a remote location. Our battery fit in a semi-truck (so it was fairly big, but not grid-scale). I don't remember the exact savings on fuel but it was ridiculous, like truly non-sense why doesn't everyone do it like that. I think the generator was on only about 40% of the time.

Even as backup power it still makes sense to have a battery attached because it extends the capacity of the system so much. The main problem is that you need some BMS software to coordinate the generator and the battery, but there aren't self contained solutions like this widely available (at least last I worked with it).

Factorio power generators always run at 100% efficiency, so it is not really the same thing, you still consume the same amount of coal if you have batteries or not.

I guess it applies for nuclear power if you do that jank thing to not put fuel cells unless you need power. But then it is a thermal battery...

When I worked with medium-sized scale batteries one of the most surprising use-cases was to use them _together_ with diesel generators. Diesel generators are incredibly wasteful because they don't vary the power output / fuel-consumption very well based on demand.

When you couple a large battery with a diesel generator the generator turns off when the battery is full so the generator always run at optimal efficiency.

Ah thanks, I will check it out.

Last time I checked it didn't work on Linux (or I couldn't make it work on my setup, I don't remember). It seems it still has some limitations but better than before.

Any chance to get quake-style terminal (AKA dropdown terminal) in KDE like guake and yakuake? That is the one thing keeping me from switching.

problem is not the terminal, it is the Unix philosophy for CLI programs. Non-structured text piping and bash scripting being major pain points for me personally.

There is no reason why programs input/output can't be schema'ed, consumed and piped in a type-safe manner. And why there can't be a better standard than bash for simple scripts.

But it is really hard to pull this kind of thing off unless you redesign most of the common tools by scratch and do so through a committee and somehow push it down people's throat through strict platform control.

It is because labor was scarce compared to demand after the war, same thing happened after the black plague in Europe.

The current population decline crisis will likely shift the pendulum towards labor in 50 years or so.

The great promise of crypto-contracts was to be able to write rules as code and have them be deterministic (instead of requiring a judge to rule on it) and even have unit tests. Instead it seems we are moving towards a world where rules are written in English and judged by biased LLMs.

I couldn't care less about crypto currencies, but crypto contracts had the potential to replace much (although not all) of the bureaucracy around governments and justice systems. I am very sad it didn't take off.

It was actually, but that was an aberration of the post-war period.

The lock-in is that the subscriptions plans only allow you to use their own harness.

Companies don't switch lightly.

I dunno, I always thought the AI craze started from ChatGPT which, in turn, was mostly driven by Google research papers.

Yes it would have costed them more to train the first few versions of ChatGPT if it wasn't for the crypto mayham, but it would still happen. The hardware was always available and still improving regardless of crypto or not.