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by chippiewill 9mo ago
Wrong way round. She was born in the UK and was a British Citizen at birth and had a British passport She is (maybe) entitled to Bangladeshi citizenship which is why the UK government was allowed under UK law to remove her British citizensh
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by chippiewill 9mo ago
It's to remove a syntax ambiguity with c-style function declarations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse The syntax ambiguity adds a lot of complexity to the grammar that makes parsing a lot more compl
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by chippiewill 9mo ago
> beside that my internal ip's are changing every day to bring more confusion into my internal net. nice! You can set it up so your devices can have two IPv6 addresses. The shifting address for external traffic, and a static one for
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by chippiewill 9mo ago
In the UK there's a standard grid used for local-only mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid It's a transverse mercator projection rather than a mercator as you might often see b
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
Browsers made a fundamental change a while back to not share caches between origins because caching it became a side-channel to detecting if someone had visited it before. So now if two different websites embed the same remote font then vis
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
Use it on an Air and there aren't even fans to be spun up
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
per-minute isn't a crazy unreasonable proxy for it though: - logs are generally proportional to the length of the job - other artifacts also usually correlate to an extent - some of the cost for Github will be for the entire time the j
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
There are the parliament acts which restrict the length of the delay the HoL can inflict (including to just 1 month for money bills). They also cannot amend money bills. There is however the Salisbury convention which is that the HoL should
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
I believe the removal of the "experimental" nomenclature is just an indication that Rust is "here to stay" in the kernel (which essentially means that developers can have confidence investing in writing Rust based driver
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
They probably get a few for "free" from LLVM supporting them
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
That was a single message in a very large thread. It absolutely was not just about code quality.
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
Lets Encrypt are doing is because of the decision that CAs and browser makers made that it needs to be reduced (browsers have been reducing the length of certs that they trust). The why is because it's safer: it reduces the validity pe
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
Capex vs Opex and scale-out. For a start-up it's much easier to just pay the Cloud tax than it is to hire people with the appropriate skill sets to manage hardware or to front the cost. Larger companies on the other hand? Yeah, I don&#
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
The problem is that Cloudflare do incremental rollouts and loads of testing for _code_. But they don't do the same thing for configuration - they globally push out changes because they want rapid response. It's still a bit silly t
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
Well, agreed, I just didn't want to completely shit on it.
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by chippiewill 10mo ago
> WordPress is a nice piece of software, but the plugin situation is getting worse and worse The plugin situation is a mess largely because Wordpress isn't a nice piece of software. It's popular, and functionally it's grea
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by chippiewill 11mo ago
No, the "if it compiles, it works" is genuinely about the program being correct rather than just free of memory errors, but it's more of a hyperbolic statement than a statement of fact. It's a common thing I've expe
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by chippiewill 1y ago
If that happens then Trump doesn't get to stay president, the 20th amendment means his term ends regardless.
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by chippiewill 1y ago
The point of the project is not meant to be an experiment in "programming language co-development", the point of the project is to use Rust in Linux kernel development. The project was started by Linux kernel developers who want t
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by chippiewill 1y ago
I think that's close to the truth. IIRC it's something like a massive cluster of machines that are effectively powered off 99% of the time with a careful sharding scheme where they're turned on and off in batches over a long
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by chippiewill 1y ago
It's a low level library, it's probably just the register on the sensor itself is 16bit so that's what gets propagated up to the OS. The most I can reach on mine is 132deg
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by chippiewill 1y ago
As someone who worked in this space, you are absolutely right, but also kind of wrong - at least in my opinion. The cold hard truth is that LIDARs are a crutch, they're not strictly necessary. We know this because humans can drive with
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by chippiewill 1y ago
Comparing to the UK probably isn't the best though since the UK latitude makes it not super favourable to Solar. It would be better to compare it to Southern Europe. Spain has 40GW and GDP that's about 1/10th of China. Still,
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by chippiewill 1y ago
That's always been the case though, even when labs started. The reason labs was started was to be able to produce different kinds of content, and to have a moat on technical data and quality of reviews that no one else can pull off.
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by chippiewill 1y ago
I agree, although I think one of the disadvantages in the UK is that the suppliers aren't paying the cost for their own volatility. A renewable supplier can add 1GW supply to the grid, but 1GW of natural gas generation capacity is stil
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by chippiewill 1y ago
Why would they charge up with natural gas? The UK often has excess wind energy, and for Tilbury in particular that problem is set to grow as National Grid are building out massive grid capacity from the North Sea wind farms through Tilsbury
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by chippiewill 1y ago
I haven't done serious Rust development since AI got good, but I did have a brief play last December and it's shocking how good they are at Rust. It feels like the verbose syntax and having tons of explicit information everywhere
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by chippiewill 1y ago
`uv` isn't a package manager (that's the `uv-pip` sub command), it's a project manager. It's meant to manage all aspects of the project.
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by chippiewill 1y ago
I've been waiting. uv is trying to deliver the same experience as cargo does for rust. Just install a single CLI and it's the only tool you have to worry about when working on your Python project. There's nothing wrong with `
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by chippiewill 1y ago
It's part of the mission for uv to become "cargo for python". A one stop swiss-army knife for everything you need to manage a Python project. I think it'll get a `uv test` command at some point too. The whole point is yo

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