DrBazza

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by DrBazza 2y ago
One of my first pieces of code from my first job in 1997 still exists and runs according to a long suffering colleague that still works at the same place. That also means the code has gone from SCCS -> CVS -> Clearcase -> Perfor
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by DrBazza 3y ago
When I was at university, we did a different Jupiter simulation - the whole planet. We were fortunate enough to have a comet smack into it and ring it like a bell. Then a few of my senior colleagues used the observations in asteroseismolog
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In the UK many years ago, there was the Net Book Agreement, which was price fixing and Amazon, BooksOnline/StreetsOnline comprehensively broke that. Unfortunately, book shops didn't really learn, and we are where we are. Back to
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by DrBazza 3y ago
By "stopping" do you mean reversing immigration? If so, then yes that could "stop" housing construction. Reducing net immigration by any amount wouldn't stop house building as those workers are already UK reside
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The problem is that we can't just wave a magic wand and increase supply instantly, or even with a year, or perhaps 5 years (lack of trades, materials, and so on), but we could, at the stroke of a pen, flatten demand right now. The fact
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by DrBazza 3y ago
There always seems to be implicit assumptions or unstated points of interest in articles about the UK housing market: 1. too much immigration is somehow unsavoury so we'll gloss over that; 2. a price correction should happen quickly;
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by DrBazza 3y ago
As someone old enough to remember right-to-buy, and old enough to have grandparents in World War 2. Both sets of grandparents lost their own houses in the Blitz. They were subsequently housed in council houses, and received nothing for th
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> (1), (3), (4) and (5) are all covert admissions that there's not enough available housing. Well, (1) isn't. It says demand outstrips supply, as the birth rate on its own would be a shrinking population in the UK. The obviou
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Any non-trivial python is indistinguishable from magic.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
This is the future: swarms of tiny drones with just enough explosive to kill a person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqoGacUu07I
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It's "easy" to go from nothing to 'the latest'. It's not easy to go from 'established' to 'the latest'. Ignoring the way China tramples over its peoples' rights, it was largely agrari
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I didn't see any mention of the fact that both Lewis + Tolkien lived through World Wars. Nor the fact that those books were also written in an "era". I can't say that I'm surprised at the tone, or 'verbose&#x2
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by DrBazza 3y ago
You can build all the vanity projects you like when you're rich with petro-dollars, and pay Asian workers less than $10 per day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa#Labour
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Buzzword soup and lots of X% better than Y or Z times something. Any ELI5 version of this with concrete numbers and comparisons?
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Still hoping for micro-black holes as the solution as the early universe density must have been enough for some to form. Also, where's the anti-matter gone?
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by DrBazza 3y ago
And if the code submitted used Rust's 'unsafe'?
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Would a 'memory safe' language really have stopped any of this? From what I've briefly read, this incident the whole attack process (PR, fake test data, social engineering) from start to finish by a state-actor (most likely)
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by DrBazza 3y ago
In the UK bookshops, helpfully put sci-fi books in the "Sci-Fi AND Fantasy" section. Because, of course, people that want to read about aliens and FTL want to wade through hundreds of vampire-werewolf-human-love-triangle books f
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It’s been over 50 years and we still haven’t built the only proposed reservoir in Kent at Broad Oak near Canterbury. We are useless at getting things done in the uk. That a third Blackwell Tunnel is being built is incredible.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Unfamiliar with this, but are you suggesting that the airport would cover the railroad, or simply just finish before it? If it covers it, then from the satellite pictures it would be trivial to bury the line in a cut-n-cover tunnel for litt
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> I'll probably be even slower on my feet and harder to adapt and learn in my 40s. I'm in my 50s, and in my current job, I've arguably adapted faster than the 20-30 somethings. As for learning, I've probably learnt m
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Does a static site generator really need to produce a site with Javascript? Seems a bit self defeating.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
You care if you're on mobile on a slow device with a poor network, a megabyte of slow loading javascript isn't great. That's about 50% of the planet by all accounts.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The open paragraph regarding London is very much 'of now'. Air pollution in London in the 2000s has been the lowest it has been in over a century. The Great Smog of 1952 killed perhaps 10,000 people over a very short period. An
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by DrBazza 3y ago
BBC version of same article - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68518623 > An estimated 500,000 trees are in the UK compared to 80,000 in California. > To assess how these towering giants are adaptin
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by DrBazza 3y ago
C++20 doesn't stop someone writing new/delete/malloc/free, or using pointer arithmetic. For me to be sure your code is 'safe', I'd have to audit it visually, and that's the worst of all worlds. The r
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by DrBazza 3y ago
My leading comment - "How do I get to Dublin?" "Well I wouldn't start here" All of the alternatives you (and I) mention - Carbon, Cppfront, Circle, aren't really fragmentation. They're all experiments at
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by DrBazza 3y ago
That's Hyrum's law, basically. With feature flags and epochs, it is possible to evolve C++ in the right direction with the minimum of friction and make it opt-in in a consistent fashion. Circle already proves this a feasible appr
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Everything in space is about distance - want to stop an asteroid walloping the Earth? Nudge it when it is a few million [time or distance] unit away, and it will miss the earth. You could imagine a future spacecraft might have a leading a
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by DrBazza 3y ago
"How do I get to Dublin?" "Well I wouldn't start here" I've been a c++ dev for 30 years. I'll be retiring in a decade (or perhaps keep going), and I doubt I'll ever see a 'safe' C++ in my w

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