The cause was tractors stopping all traffic on a highway, setting up show with barbecues and what not. Then some people drove into the tail of the traffic jam.

Has nothing to do with driving being dangerous, but with the choices of these farmers to start a demonstration in the middle of a highway

They already did it a few times before, and they were warned that they should expect killing people. The question was not if, but when. They still did it.

6 dollars per gallon is 1.37 EUR per liter... Here I am in the netherlands paying 2.74 EUR for a liter of diesel...

The EU imports 97 percent of their crude oil, which is needed to refine diesel and still import a further 10% of their refined diesel.

It is somewhat amazing that Europe hasn't embraced electrification even more but taxing diesel use to encourage using it wisely is a smart geopolitical play given their situation.

Tax was already high on diesel fuels and cars, which is fine. The most recent rise in price is only due to market prices going up.

Ok, but my specific comment applies to a large degree to every EU country individually and as a bloc, so you are splitting hairs pointlessly.

Then your comment is sort of pointless too. Unless you want to argue "every country in the world that does not produce enough oil and does not have enough refining capacity for said oil should electrify".

Then singling out EU countries becomes silly.

I do argue that every oil importing country should electrify.

EU (collectively or independently) is distinct only in that it is ahead of the pack on many of these topics, hence why the Netherlands diesel price is higher than the US price, as noted by the comment I replied to.

But EU countries could and should still go further.

By all means, I don't disagree. I just have a policy of stressing the point that EU is not a country when people comment on it as of it had the powers of a national government.

In fact, as someone that lives in one of those countries, I am actually viewing the events in the middle east with optmism. The closure of Hormuz and Bab-el Mandeb are the sort of harsh push that we needed to get out of our collective asses and cut our dependency on a resource that is in every angle you look at terrible for those who depend on it.

I am not naive, and I know that it is not possible to cut it entirely (oil is used for more than fuel). But if we stop depending on it for vehicles, electricity generation, heating and ao on, it will make a huge difference already.

This caps the amount of CO2 you can emit; which is good :)

I personally think forcing less well off people to use worse modes of transport (or not travel at all) is not a well thought out scheme for reducing environmental impact.

For me, it doesn't matter because my main mode of transport is an EV - but it's a luxury I can afford. Many people that live around me cannot.

It just means these people donate more of their money to the wallets of already absurdly rich owners of companies like Shell and Exxon - instead of using it to enrich their own lives (see the increased profits these companies are making since Iran).

But at least on a positive note, EV sales in my country have never been higher since Trump invaded Iran, so it is somewhat triggering the well-off to finally make the ("scary") switch to EV's.

Why would you use a constrained edit tool when you are also allowed to use the complete power of python?

Because the complete power of Python also includes the power to fuck things up.

So does using an LLM.

In fact, that's kind of the whole point of using LLMs in the first place. Their value is in their general capabilities.

…which we attempt to constrain by encouraging the use of tools that make it harder to fuck shit up.

Why even offer the edit tool in that case? Also, what kind of editing could they possible do what wouldn't be possible with POSIX ed?

You can chain a lot more commands together with this technique than with a single Edit tool call.

The funny thing is that... POSIX ed is composable :-)

You can do a gazillion edits with it in one shot.

Of course, LLM edit tools are probably small bits of their custom code, I just find it funny. I wonder if it's a desire for certain technical characteristics that require custom code or just a lack of info on basic tools. Heck, if it's about platform availability, using an LLM to port ed to Windows (for example) should be trivial[1].

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[1] And there are probably a million existing ports. Also, sed, ex, vi, whatever.

Having an agent edit 100 files means the job will definitely get done correctly. When it writes a script to bulk edit things it fucks up and spends ages debugging their script.

Have you ever counted the number of times Claude fucked up quoting/escaping and had to issue a corrected tool call? Or get stuck in some tricky quoting situation for two minutes, throwing a couple piles of shit at the wall to see what sticks. IIRC I’ve even seen it eventually using the edit tool out of frustration once.

Simple is better than complex Complex is better than complicated

Or something, I don't remember...

... simply the best, better than all the rest (Tina Turner)

Ușor, Burebista :-)

That was pre LLM. Now everything is a prompt that you type into AI lol

And it's been a thing wayyyyyy before 3D printers were even a twinkle in some engineers eye

I don't think the person you reply to conflates "information diet" with "tech". They are just saying that their information diet consists for a large part of tech news, and other people have other information diets that don't contain that much tech news..

The description reads like someone asked opus 5 to build this, then asked them to "write a short description of what this is".

nuh-uh, it was Fable :P

> "Skills" as developer macros can be useful, but at most those are things shared with the team (in the repo), not something you download from the internet. If you have so many skills that you feel the need to manage them, that's a code smell.

I have three development machines. You kinda need something like git to keep everyone in sync!

And there's still value in encoding a process in a skill - it's way more token efficient to tell the model what but also HOW to do something. Otherwise, it just spends a lot of tokens figuring out something that they previously did already.

> I have three development machines. You kinda need something like git to keep everyone in sync

I got tired of the constant git push/git pulling just for inter machine transfer, now I just have a ~/Git directory with all my projects that I just Syncthing between my desktops/laptops and Syncthing ignore any repos that specific machines don't need

"Why not" is a perfectly good reason to do things, and we do things like that all the time

They even make the front page of hackernews all the time. Like spending 6 months making Doom run on a calculator

In my country (for people with a so called "dynamic pricing" contract) the price of electricity already drops significantly when we have a load of green energy (wind, solar). I guess this is just a side effect of not having a well-balanced grid. But still that's already kind of a CO2-based pricing - although not directly

This is what makes me wonder how much additional benefit an explicit carbon signal actually buys you over normal dynamic pricing

On grids where pricing declines due to more low carbon generation generating, there is no extra value. On grids where pricing declines due to more fossil generation running, that is the signal you want to avoid loads during those time windows.

At the moment, lower prices are not necessarily a guarantee of lower emissions. And so, if you want to orchestrate loads to move them to the lowest emission time windows (perhaps not prioritizing cost), carbon signal is the way to do so.

Mostly yes, but it works the other direction as well: a fossil power station may not want to completely shut down because it expects more demand later in the day, and offer a few hours of low cost electricity to stay in the merit order.

A lot of fossil power stations cant shut down for a few hours, they have to keep themselves on.

Coal mostly. This is why coal is largely being phased out for natural gas which can cycle on and off as needed.