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  • EVs only eliminate tail pipe pollution, otherwise they are more of the same.
    They are multi ton metal boxes rolling on rubber wheels over asphalt roads, often to transport a single person. The create the same amount of traffic and waste the same amount of land on parking. Due to their heavy battery and better acceleration they create more fine particulates of wheel rubber.

    EV are a Verkehrsrichtungsänderung, a Verkehrswende consists of trains and public transit.













  • What’s the problem with -0?
    It conceptually makes sense for to negativ values to close to 0 to be represented as -0.
    In practice I have never seen a problem with -0.

    On NaN: While its use cases can nowadays be replaced with language constructs like result types, it was created before exceptions or sum types. The way it propagates kind of mirrors Haskells monadic Maybe.
    We should be demanding more and better wrapper types from our language/standard library designers.