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Idiomatically Rust explicitly prefers to make a type more generic, for example it's fine to talk about a HashMap for some arbitrary user defined type Goose with no traits, and Rust…

WWII provides some interesting data points. On the one hand, yes, as Germany occupied numerous neighbours people - even sometimes in the face of group punishment, kept sabotaging t…

Nah, this gets you the "How do I keep my bodyguards loyal?" problem. Of course they're typically not smart enough to have realised that first, but "I was too stupid to understand t…

To be fair offshore wind is relatively expensive. A brand new wind farm is probably cheaper than burning methane because Trump started another pointless war, but it's closer than f…

Notice that for the actual purpose of rescue only what they're calling "Gen2" actually works. The earlier devices which make up most of the linked examples are pretty, and would do…

Yeah, likewise the Breitling Emergency is big because it's an actual working 406 MHz Personal Locator Beacon. In principle that's all you need to have a rescue team come get you if…

Very amusing that you don't even snip the "Chat GPT" attribution off that link. Yes, the LLM can invent elaborate fantasies for anybody who will listen to it, but everybody actuall…

For sorting, conveniently we always definitely need to look at all the elements at least once anyway, so although even the early introspective sorts from the end of last century ar…

I think WUFFS "iterate loops" might help. WUFFS requires that processing a chunk of N items has code to process one at a time, which means it'll work for any N. However you can opt…

Imagined numbers are crucial to the increasingly unhinged fossil fuel lobby. They need you to stop believing facts and listen to them explain how up is down and actually there's no…

> The Entso-E report said there was a direct consequence between not having this inertia and the resulting blackout That isn't what it said > if they never used renewables or not t…

> only acquire the lock when the flag needs to be updated Unclear why you still need the lock here in that case. The idea that this flag may get updated during runtime and impacts …

Yup. This is a rabbit hole like time. Learn a little bit about it, know there's a staggering amount more and then any time you actually need it, check that you've agreed on as much…

Also this was never a real problem. "All the good names are taken" is true if you insist that every name which isn't taken is a bad name but otherwise obviously false. The same exa…

How many of these tiger deterring rocks can I put you down for? They're $1T each but we've got a 3-for-2 offer going. You may think you're not often attacked by tigers now, but can…

> Even Spain now runs some coal despite having near-100% renewable grid for a year. In fact Spain has less coal now than it did in 2025, or 2024, or 2023 and so on. And no their gr…

Sure. These decisions are tricky, I had this concern in `realistic` too. My `Rational` type is the "big rationals" (the finite subset of rational numbers I can represent with your …

> There's a policy failure somewhere if the cheapness to produce energy this way is not being reflected in the market and subsidy structure. Does anyone have an analysis of wtf is …

Manual inlining, like manual loop unrolling wants an explanation, why did you do this, why not let the compiler do it? If I see it with no explanation I am going to assume you don'…

Maybe try F#. Those "2 week CRUD bootcamp" people all write C# but the people writing F# are more likely to have some actual engineering because it's an ML but just .NET flavoured.…

I don't think it would "surely come up". The C++ community is very comfortable with "Don't do that" as the lesson even though it's not actionable. Like I said, safety is cultural. …

> Rust doesn't panic in this situation, it saturates Yes sorry, in my head I'm thinking about what I'd want here because I do not like any of Rust's 'as' casts and in fact the thin…

I think this actually demonstrates why Rust's safety culture is what's crucial, not the safety technology they have built to enable that culture and which is relatively easier to d…

Not so much this specific structure as the structure at all, the ownership of energy resources. In a country like the US somebody owns the coal. They didn't make that coal, but we …

> Energy has a whole spectrum of solutions - not the case with hydrogen. Oh my, where ever else will we be able to find hydrogen, the (checks notes) tenth most common element on ou…