hgomersall

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by hgomersall 10mo ago
FWIW, rust is great on a tiny embedded system.
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by hgomersall 10mo ago
Or they could make, you know, new stuff people want to watch?
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
I learnt the most from bad teachers#, but only when motivated. I was forced to go away and really understand things rather than get a sufficient understanding from the teacher. I had to put much more effort in. Teachers don't replace e
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Which is absurd, because most creators would benefit hugely from an expanded public domain.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Isn't the question whether it's reasonable for people to be rentiers? Clearly lots of the population are, but wouldn't it be better if they carried on creating rather than sitting back and doing nothing for the remainder of t
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
If you are waiting for a hardware interrupt to happen based on something external happening, then you might use async. The benefit is primarily to do with code structure - you write your code such that the next thing to happen only happens
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Async and concurrency are orthogonal concepts.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
That doesn't follow. Say you write a proof for a something I request, I can then check that proof. That doesn't mean I don't derive any value from being given the proof. A lack of trust does not imply no use.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
This was literally their policy. Make the searches worse so people search more. https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Seigniorage absolutely relies on the fact that money redemption value is different to the value of metal (or whatever). That difference is the liability.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
All money ever has had an associated liability. Commodity money absolutely relied on the face value as the basis of the commodity value. Any metal/face value disparity could lead to cross border arbitrage (making use of counterfeiting)
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
It's not money because there's no associated liability.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Each one of us occupies our hallowed space in the rich tapestry of neurodiversity. Only a few people design our social institutions though. "Normal" is looking like those few, and tbh, varies widely. Compare normal at a Cambridge
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
There's always going to be excess supply at night, because demand is lower. At the moment the difference is large because battery capacity is low, but even as more batteries come online, it will stay lower because battery capacity will
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
What's the price cap got to do with it? You can get tariffs that are very cheap and outside of the price cap: https://www.goodenergy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Good...
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Electricity costs in the UK (which I believe is still in Europe) are cheaper now than they've ever been if you have the right tariff and that's all due to renewables. Granted, that's primarily at night, but for EVs that'
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
But classes are a really crap way to share code, since you get the is-a relationship rather than the has-a relationship which is almost always what you want to express. Rust traits and derive macros are a much better abstraction for everyth
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Yeah, that aligns with my thinking that such a view has rather a narrow view of a "function".
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but can you give an example of a non functional requirement that influences the design?
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Even if it's legal, it's pretty stupid.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
A customer generally provides requirements (the system should do...) which are translated into a spec (the module/function/method should do...). The set of specs map to requirements. Requirements may be derived from or represented
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Wow, that sucks. Why so expensive? COVID is more in the UK, like ~£80.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Seriously? I just had mine for £23 at the pharmacist in the UK. I just walked in and they did it.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
There are plenty of reports of crews being overworked and underslept, so clearly some shipping companies still cut corners as regards staffing.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
I think using a language without a borrow checker is already a massive footgun (albeit less of one for GC/RC languages). More sensible move semantics would still be a big ergonomic improvement.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
No, it should move properly when passing by value (as in, essentially the rust move semantics). If you want a copy, that should be explicit.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
In addition to the sibling comments, Braess's paradox actually goes beyond this. You can add capacity and every actor acts rationally as you describe and the net result is an objectively worse situation for everyone , in which the deci
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
I'm actually curious now how this is stored on `Range` in rust. I've certainly used ..= for exactly the reason you say, but as far as I'm aware `.end` on the range is the exclusive upper bound in all cases. What happens to `.
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
It seems clear he understood it was a tricky problem, and writing at the time many of the potential problems were not apparent: "Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy a
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by hgomersall 11mo ago
Yeah, I wasn't aware of that writing but I read the Wikipedia article and what it describes seems spot on to me.

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