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Comment · 4 years ago
How does that offsetting work? Facebook is going to maintain a growing forest for the next few 100k years?
Comment · 4 years ago
Jep. Secure C++ is no C++ - given you don't fall back to C or ASM, and consider safer alternatives
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not completely fixed, e.g. you can dismantle trees with fireballs, dig for minerals in caves or work on rocks
Comment · 4 years ago
And docs.microsoft.com pulls the language unchangably from the location: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/feedback/issues/462

It's so annoying. There is an option to change the language, however I have to change it every time I search for something, because the language doesn't get saved

Comment · 4 years ago
It wouldn't because as a producer you would remove CO2 from the atmosphere which brings its carbon footprint close to zero
Comment · 4 years ago
PV needs physical resources that aren't for free or unlimited. PV needs space. Most energy used has still an high negative impact on the atmosphere. Low efficiency somewhere is energy potentially wasted that could reduce carbon emissions somewhere else.

Heating is waaay more efficient with heat pumps. Aviation... Well who can still afford it...

There are other forms of storage as well, e.g. hydro, heat storage, and many more

I'm not saying it doesn't have it's uses, but efficiency is important

Comment · 4 years ago
It's cheaper, but the costs are external costs (calculated for the next 100 years about 600 Euro per ton of emitted CO2).

They could be internalized by CO2 pricing, such as CO2 tax or certificates

Comment · 4 years ago
Well, short term it may be cheaper. Long term you are going to pay, because the efficiency is horrible, 10-30% depending on who u ask
Comment · 4 years ago
It's not faster despite being in WiFi
Comment · 4 years ago
Well, punished twice for listening to lobbyists instead of climate scientists
Comment · 4 years ago
True for your new project from scratch when you already sucked up C++ such that you know what&when.

But at this point you know C++ pretty well (including all what you don't want to use, take a look at the CPP Core Guidelines), and using Rust is almost trivial, since Rust doesn't really introduce anything really new you wouldn't be already familiar with.

At least that was my experience.

Comment · 4 years ago
C++ is way more complicated than Rust though.
Comment · 4 years ago
> unless you load from a separate domain

Which is the case... app.element.io doesn't host a Matrix server. Servers are completely independent of that.

Comment · 4 years ago
I wonder how you would build an encrypted messenger like like Element (app.element.io) without SPA style.

I think it's not even possible, since you are required to process incoming messages client side and must not send any private keys to the server.

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