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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Solar becomes top source of electricity in CaliforniaEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Well after making this comment i have actually looked into it, ofc Europe is leading on this thing

    from google AI overview

    Several European countries are implementing legislation to encourage or mandate the installation of solar panels on parking lots, especially larger ones. This is part of the EU’s push for renewable energy and energy efficiency, making use of parking areas as potential sites for solar generation.

    EU Level:

    • The EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) aims to make zero-emission buildings the standard and requires new buildings to be “solar-ready.”
    • The EPBD promotes solar energy use in buildings and encourages installing solar panels on certain existing non-residential buildings, including parking lots.
    • The EU has set deployment targets for photovoltaics, recognizing parking lots as a key area for development.
    • The EU is also working on a “Solar Standard” to further drive solar adoption in buildings and parking lots.

    National Legislation:

    • France: Requires solar panels on existing and new car parks over 1,500 m², with deadlines for compliance.
    • Slovenia: Introduced requirements for solar panel installation on new parking lots.
    • Greece: Stipulates 60% coverage of large open car parks with solar panels.
    • Germany: Many federal states have made solar panels on car parks a legal obligation.
    • Netherlands: Has large-scale solar carport installations, including one of the world’s largest in Biddinghuizen.
    • Austria: Introducing similar legislation to encourage solarization of parking lots.
    • Spain: Legislation is also encouraging solar panel installations on parking lots.
  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon studyEnglish
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    7 days ago

    For me as a software developer the accuracy is more in the 95%+ range.

    On one hand the built in copilot chat widget in Intellij basically replaces a lot my google queries.

    On the other hand it is rather fucking good at executing some rewrites that is a fucking chore to do manually, but can easily be done by copilot.

    Imagine you have a script that initializes your DB with some test data. You have an Insert into statement with lots of columns and rows so

    Inser into (column1,…,column n) Values row1, Row 2 Row n

    Addig a new column with test data for each row is a PITA, but copilot handles it without issue.

    Similarly when writing unit tests you do a lot of edge case testing which is a bunch of almost same looking tests with maybe one variable changing, at most you write one of those tests, then copilot will auto generate the rest after you name the next unit test, pretty good at guessing what you want to do in that test, at least with my naming scheme.

    So yeah, it’s way overrated for many-many things, but for programming it’s a pretty awesome productivity tool.

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN...English
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    12 days ago

    I just shopped for a humidifier, purposely avoided anything “smart”, I ended up with a really fucking simple one, it has a hydrostat and can aim to automatically reach a level you want (40-50-60), has 4 speed,1,2,3,auto and sleep.

    And the whole thing is nothing else just a wicking filter sitting in water that has a fan pointed at it, I think Technology Connectios would be proud of my purchase.

    I will have to disinfect and change filters, but no need for distilled water like with ultrasonic humidifiers, and I boil my water and let it cool back to room temperature before adding it to the humidifier, hopefully that will help with staving off build up of bacteria