Ben Matthews

Indeed - why so low in most of Poland, compared to neighbouring regions with similar climate/crops, also I wonder if tibetan plateau is really so great for Fungi? Or are these artefacts from the machine-learning algorithm?

This article feels to me really out of date. Scala3 was launched nearly five years ago, The tooling and lib-support was indeed dodgy back then but works very smoothly now. Scala3 also broke Scala2 macros, and some people whose business-model was selling support for clever libraries built on those macros made a lot of fuss (bad publicity). Meanwhile Scala3 has new more robust macros which work fine.

I develop in scala an interactive climate-scenario model web-app . It’s running the model in your browser (500 years x 250 countries x many gases, sectors, feedbacks etc. - so it’s complex)… The scala code compiles to js (or wasm) -which is what runs this web app - but the same code also compiles with scala-native to run fast batch- calculations or tests. It also compiles to the jvm app like my older java code, but I rarely use this now.

Scala3 code looks more like python than java - minimal brackets, and much nicer to read and higher level than rust.
As for tools I just use Zed editor with Metals for LS, Mill for build, and other libs from the lihaoyi ecosystem, no web ‘frameworks’. Scala is both robust and flexible. In general - if the code compiles, typically it runs correctly first time, if not the very-intelligent compiler identifies precisely what to fix where (very different from so-called ‘AI’). So instead of reams of junk ‘tests’, it’s usually just enough to check whether my climate system plots look and behave as expected - higher level thinking.

As for Kotlin it was effectively a russian-led (at the time) fork of Scala, staying closer to Java - so less flexible, but they did much more systematic marketing - and I suspect some of that deliberately pushed blog posts knocking Scala.
What Scala lacks is promotion, so those following fashions of this hype-driven world won’t find it.
For those who use it, it’s a great language, to do complex stuff that scales robustly.

Good, makes sense, as Scala is ‘made in Europe’ (mainly swiss and polish teams), and makes very robust software. Only it’s under-hyped. Here you can try my interactive climate-system web-model written in latest Scala, which compiles three ways - to the web-app you see, to native code for fast calculations, and to a jvm desktop app (with 25 years history, originally java).

If you really want the selfie-type view, try this espreso link.

I hope you are right but fear that in practice (has this ever been tested?) you might not be.
See for example this discussion ( note especially comments by ‘MadHatter’ )

When I look at polls it suggests little moved since last election, so Продължаваме Промяната & Демократична България are still far from leading an alternative government. Are those polls wrong ? Or is this another example of optimistic youth on streets in the capital, outnumbered by conservative old people in small towns (as elsewhere in europe)? How do they expect to change this ?

I’m still confused by this. Doesn’t that imply that if a derivative SaaS is created in combination with a weaker ( less-copyleft ) license such as GPL, Apache or MIT, then the weaker licence wins, so the derivative source code no longer has to be published ? I’m not looking for a ‘do whatever you like’ licence, I’d prefer a copyleft approach like AGPL, but one that’s easier to defend in europe.

Some comments below the article are good. I like especially this one:

One thing that seems to me to be shaking out of LLMs: if an LLM can do it well enough to pass muster, it probably didn’t need doing in the first place. Coming at it from a programming perspective: if an LLM can generate the required code, it shows that you could have better abstractions that describe your behavior with less code. If an LLM can generate a document, it’s a sign that the document isn’t necessary in the first place- it’s a bit of leftover make work that should be subsumed into a better process. And so on.

Glad you raise this topic.
Can anybody elaborate on the practical difference between EUPL and AGPL ?
Iirc, although these both cover software as a service, EUPL is more relaxed about conversion or combination with other ‘compatible’ licenses which don’t include SaaS. So I’d be worried this keeps open a pathway for a bigger power to ‘enshittify’ my code.
Another question - has anybody experience defending rights under EUPL ?

It’s well known that each person has to have a different account for each of those big-tech services. Whereas in the fediverse, the original idea was that one account can traverse multiple services. The problem as the OP explains, is that it may seem you are following your friend’s account, whereas actually you might see just a small fraction of it, and not be aware that there is more.

I recall China had comfortable sleeper buses back in the 1990s - when they had more gaps in their railway network. Tatami -style mats were enough, what’s important is to lie flat. It can help sleep to feel a little movement, knowing you’re going somewhere. But to succeed in europe they should integrate better with railway stations.

I think OP has a valid point - it’s not about experienced users, but newcomers to the fediverse, who may think they are following an account, when actually they only see a small part of it - there could be some indication of what’s missing.

Seems dust devils make sparks fly.

I suppose to get more ships to the Caspian, they’d have to transport them in sections (from Europe or China) to assemble them in situ - some modular concept ?
Side thought - has anybody considered refilling the caspian sea via some pipe from the black sea ?

That’s a rate of only 1.2% per year, was that your intention ?

I wish you were right, but ponder the last point - do they really want returns ? For the oligarchy it’s just about maintaining power, arabs bought crazily expensive us fighter jets for years with zero ‘returns’, except political favours. In this case datacenters also support fossil demand expansion narratives. Has anybody done the math of the scale of those ‘reserves’, compared to the bubble ?

Interesting concept, but the efficiency compared to standing turbines needs to be calculated based on the expected lifetime. What’s the leakage rate of the helium? What’s the resistance of the fabric (or whatever it’s made of) and cables to UV light ?

A more convenient link format:
!india@lemmy.zip
Note also:

• !Indianews@lemmy.run
• !India@lemmy.ml
• !Indianpolitics@lemy.lol

(there may be others - didn’t re-search).
Although I don’t live there, I’d like to see more discussion of India on Lemmy.

I guess you are right about building railways in Romania, for example I remember a train crossing the (then) shiny new EU-funded rail bridge across the Danube from Vidin, then continuing at a walking pace towards Craiova. However, where i lived near Ottignies in Belgium it was no better - they demolished houses, build tunnels and bridges, then postponed laying the rail track for over a decade. As for projects getting delayed and costs inflated by archaeological digs - check out tunnels in London… And don’t get lemmings (?) started on DB infrastructure… Maybe the emergency situation in Ukraine, oddly helps them to get some things moving faster ?

I remember in 1990s the talk about “Europe from Lisbon to Vladivostok”, also having crossed the land border from Russia to China several times during that period, I felt the relative european culture on ‘our’ side. So, yes, there was a lost opportunity, and we could have been more welcoming, but it was not a conspiracy, nor were any specific political groups to blame (as article hints) - rather just the slow muddled consensus-processes of EU and NATO could not cope with any faster expansion, meanwhile russians got impatient and let Putin (KGB) take over, so it went bad.
If we were to redesign the whole structure, I’d say we should abolish NATO and replace it with a mutual defence organisation for democracies anywhere in the world - including Brazil, Japan, India, etc. if they like, but with no permanent membership. There should be clearly specified democratic criteria including freedom for political opposition, media, NGOs, etc., and when these are no-longer fulfilled, a procedure for suspension of rights that requires a large majority but no vetos. So, currently Hungary might be suspended, and even USA if it continues its current track, while democrats in Russia (or in exile from R) might be encouraged to see a long-term pathway open.
Such redesign of NATO - conversion from a tribal members club to a defence of democracy - might even be an face-saving way to end the war.