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trønderen wrote: Politicians sold us the idea that forcing a split up by law would be a good divide and conquer strategy for the benefit of the consumers.
Same here in the UK (electricity, gas, water, railways), but most of these decisions were forced on us by the EU. And in reality they were a costly waste of time and money.
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Considering the cost of manufacturing and then installing everything needed to get that "green power", who's the winner here?
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There just was a huge protest rally in Germany against Tesla, who chopped down half a million CO2 absorbing trees, to make room for their new factory for building cars with less CO2 emissions.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I don't understand half of this whole conversation. What's this Free Electricity magic you all speak of?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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It is something related to the free beer you get at FOSS gatherings.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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The way I understand it is that energy suppliers pre book blocks of electricity months in advance. If they use it all, then they pay £X per unit. But if they don't use it, the price goes up because the actual energy generator has planned their usage and is pissed that it doesn't get used.
So it's cheaper for the supplier to offer free electricity in the hope that we will use the whole block (and maybe exceed their booking) to keep the price to them down.
Stupid system all round, which only exists so the middle men (suppliers) can make a (sometimes massive) profit.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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That's crazy. But it must be profitable all 'round (except for consumers) if no one is crying for change (except consumers). Now I'm going to have to research how electricity is distributed here from the TVA to the local carriers, most of which are cooperatives or owned by municipalities. I assumed it was billed by actual usage, but after learning of your European schemes ... sheesh. All I know is they've never offered me free juice.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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This company is the first that's offer me any either.
What really gets me annoyed is that they swear all my power is from renewable resources - but the price follows the oil and gas prices up (and occasionally down ...) 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Why, that's not suspicious at all. 
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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So y'all know... I'm getting my Zig on. And I come across videos about how slices are sooooooooo powerful, like Zig invented it. Basically, a slice just takes a subsection of an array with a pointer and a length. So you can focus on one part of it, in memory.
Now... all you C coders know exactly what I'm about to say here... 
int main() {
int data[] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
int *slice = &data[4];
*slice = 42;
printf("Bruh %d", data[4]);
return 0;
}
Don't get me wrong. Zig does have one nice abstraction in the fact it tracks the length for you for bounds checking. But still... come on. Gotta give props to C when talking about stuff when making it seem like this is something new.
Jeremy Falcon
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My favorite optimization is Java substring which returns “slices” which reuse the source string’s char[].
If you have a big string in memory you can pull as many substrings as needed without ever copying a char.
Each substring has the storage overhead of a char* to the shared buff, offset, and length.
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That's pretty cool.
Jeremy Falcon
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We had this in the proprietary language I started using in 1981. They were known as descriptors: each one contained a pointer and the number of elements, with the size of the elements determined at compile time. They could be created at run-time by specifying the first and last offset into an array.
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Unrelated to that... After the recent discussions of C/C++, I began a bit of C refreshing today. I had forgotten so much over the past twenty years of using C#.
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Yeah man, it's fun to dust off the cobwebs every now and again. Not gonna lie, I still love C and can't swear I'll never use it again. It is fun trying new stuff though. Or, in your case old new stuff. 
Jeremy Falcon
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In case you're wondering why my sudden interest in systems coding again, for the application I'm working on I need extreme performance. So, time to get raaaaawwwwww. Muwahahahah
Jeremy Falcon
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