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deburo··on Arduino PLC IDE
Ah, I thought it was something new, perhaps offering a IDE built on modern tech. It looks like it's built on old Win32 common controls, surely with poor text editing features.

I wonder who's going to be the first to integrate something like VSCode in their dev environment.

The dev tools in the industrial automation industry are so depressing, luckily we have the excellent Ignition (from Inductive Automation) for HMI/SCADA development.

deburo··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
It's not just Elon. Michael Shellenberger & TheFP for example has been reporting on this as well. You might not be impressed by the censorship happening in your country, but it's certainly worrying. I wouldn't know what to think if Canada banned Twitter.

See here: https://www.thefp.com/p/matt-taibbi-on-the-global-censorship...

deburo··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
Brazil is being overtaken by politicians who think they are above Brazil's constitution, which is quite catastrophic since Brazil seemed to be a good (?) republic.
deburo··on Will we ever get fusion power?
There's a huge surge of investment into Nuclear these last few years. Innovation is starting again in that sector, I wouldn't bet against it.
deburo··on Drugmaker to testify on why weight-loss drugs cost 15x more in the US
Same thing in Canada, as a google search tells me that "Ozempic costs between $200 and $300 per month in Canada."

But that doesn't tell us anything about the reasons behind the pricing strategy US drug companies are using.

deburo··on California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects
Incredible. The degrowth movement is really something.
deburo··on Some lithium could come from wastewater
Every few months they announce a new lithium mine. I don’t think this matters at all.
deburo··on What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
Hm, i smell a google here. What a shame tbh.
deburo··on Germany's solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
>Now they have and they won't fucking shut up about China, which is annoying, same as it was back when it was about Russia.

Why is it annoying?

deburo··on Intel prepares for $100B spending spree across four US states
After a bunch of delays, maybe they will see some profits: https://www.silicon.co.uk/workspace/components/tsmc-further-...

What's annoying about this spending spree (from the perspective of the gov) is that this is supposed to secure chips production in North America (motivated by the China threat on Taiwan), but the government doesn't really seem to care about delays as it forbids TSMC/Intel to bring external talent & include DEI clauses in their deals.

deburo··on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports
Drunk texting is never good.
deburo··on In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way
There are other factors to trains not being viable in the states: cost to build. Every project they try, it’s almost always a financial disaster.
deburo··on US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal
Our better model (in Canada, Quebec) is increasingly disliked by our population. The private sector is getting more popular, enough so that our government is thinking about banning it.
deburo··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
Are you not aware how dire inflation and the very high interest rate make the current situation?
deburo··on Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition
Cost cutting or killing a competitor (does they own another virtual host company?)?
deburo··on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
What's the cost of maintaining both green energy plants & non-green plants for Portugal? What's the cost of electricity there? Is it subsidized (perhaps heavily)?
deburo··on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
At what cost?
deburo··on Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood
If you're using Twitter to follow popular fellows, you don't really care about pay-for-reach.
deburo··on In Québec, a New Traffic Light Only Turns Green for Safe Drivers
Turning right on a red light is permitted everywhere in Québec, except on the island of Montréal and in places where a sign prohibits it.
deburo··on Relational is more than SQL
That looks awesome. Does it support directly querying against databases (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, ...)? ie. is there a "Run" command in vscode that takes care of compiling & running the compiled sql?
deburo··on America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
I guess you can keep cheerleading UBI then.
deburo··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
Why isn't he seeing his successful companies fail then?
deburo··on John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)
People say that, but I don't think our culture would permit it at this point.
deburo··on John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)
working over 40h is only « forbidden » where i live because paying 1.5x/h is not acceptable from the employer’s pov. it’s annoying from the worker’s pov since you’re necessarily capped at 40h if your employer doesn’t want to pay that rate.

i don’t understand your race to the bottom argument.

deburo··on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
It’s also pretty easy to imagine a family member to whom money is never given because he cannot be trusted.
deburo··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
You're basing this opinion on nothing but gut feeling.
deburo··on Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more
Hah, even the youtube video is constantly buffering for me. I guess I'll wait for a summary article.
deburo··on Zed, the new code editor from Atom developers, has entered open beta
Ahh bummer :/

> https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/174

> Hey y'all – We are excited that you all are excited to try Zed. Just want to make sure expectations are in check – We plan to release on multiple platforms for 1.0, but work on these has not even begun yet.

deburo··on South Korea government proposes increasing cap on weekly work hours
Is the Golden Week because they don't have paid vacations? Why would many "consecutive free days" necessarily be better than off days here and there?
deburo··on Starbucks illegally fired US workers over union, judge rules
Why is the BBC even reporting on this?
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