North Korea would be very excited about this

Once European banks realize how horrible EU is to do business with they will reunite with Visa

European banks operating in EU countries, using Euros, and under the European Central Bank already know things work.

Not to mention that some of the alternatives are owned by a consortium of... European banks.

That is not true. EU members barely understand their own regulations and often out source to US firms for this.

If it wasn't a technical constraint it would make sense financially.

I think we've spent exponentially more effort to ensure the code is readable by machines.

I also don't understand why you assume what the AI generates is more readable by AI than human generated code.

If so it will be acquired by a US company

> Used each month by more than 500 000 staff, in 15 ministries and many administrations.

Right. Just like edge is used on 100% of windows

Okay fine, I'll take the bait. How do you define "working out" to conclude that there's 0% chance of it?

You think government staff just use whatever software they want?

While no doubt all these changes are for the best I have to wonder how many are using htmx for the same reasons as I do. It’s simple. I don’t need much functionality. I don’t want to spend time in frontend work so any changes are just a pain and only risk losing business. Htmx 1 and Django are working great for me and I don’t need to change for some time.

I started w htmx and golang backend, and later switched to sveltekit since its just easier to build ui w these frameworks

Half the EU are a few percentage points away from electing their version of trump.

I think they are a decade or two late to migrate away. They will end up developing their own in a time where these are loss leaders. It’s likely they will pay for it in a bundle while just not using it.

Not to mention in my experience EU companies don’t know how to migrate away from anything as their tech companies operate at the efficiency of a US government agency.

It's not always a no-brainer. If you live in a good established neighborhood in a warmer climate you'd have to remove tree coverage. Even if you did that, it's the other guys not oil or gas that will make it a hassle.

New panels are much less impacted by shade. Friends out of town just installed the same setup as ours, didn’t want to cut down three monster Doug firs shading their roof in summer.

Made 6.9Mwh in 2025, only just less than ours with no shade at all.

Shade on older solar systems would impact energy production disproportionally. You would typically see dramatic reductions like 50%-80% reduced output due to 10-20% shade. New shade-tolerant solar systems are closer to being proportional.

This is because a string of panels in series are limited by the weakest link — if one cell is fully shaded, it blocks electricity flow through it, and therefore through the whole string. Bypass diodes mitigate that to some extent. But with electronics costs still falling, it's now possible to use more smaller inverters to connect the solar array to the grid, each one with its own separate string, or even an individual panel (which is a series string of cells).

And bifacial panels with higher efficiency were invented to work around that physics.

Real numbers don’t lie.

No one works around physics. You work with physics or you don't work.

What you are describing is adding more solar capability to counter act the shade. Also the other part of it is that the panels work in parallel/not in series or alternatively don't dis activate as many conversion points as possible.

Physics never lies - they are the only laws that you cannot break.

Houses where the roof is completely in the shade from trees? That's not a very common sight.

It's a very common site and greatly increases the value of the property.

It reminds me of when I was telling my Canadian friend how my pool gets a lot of leaves in it from all the trees and they said that was unfortunate. In Austin the pools get too hot to actually swim in if they aren't shaded.

Depends on the city. Here in Atlanta we are a "city in a forest" and for older neighborhoods with mature trees it's more common than not.