aldonius

I think it's also that Mittens has a bias towards very aggressive rather than strictly optimal play?

I'm a big Rust fan in the sense that it's the language I go to nowadays to write anything serious. But it's quite a lot in terms of bootstrapping.

Whereas this? Just the very basics, fully portable, pretty much any C compiler has you covered.

Steiner preschool also entrusts children with knives to cut fruit (or at least mine did, back in the 90s).

I would trust 5-7 year olds with knives unsupervised or semi-supervised more than 8-11 year olds and definitely more than 13-15 year olds!

Brake dust is less of an issue, but tyre dust is arguably worse (since EVs are near-unavoidably heavier than ICE equivalents).

And on the flip side, EVs tend to be heavier and therefore work their tyres even harder.

I'd typically use the term "vicious circle" for "things get getting worse because they keep getting worse" situations.

I use rcm. It assumes you keep a separate (potentially version-controlled) folder at ~/.dotfiles or similar, and it provides a suite of tools for managing the symlinks.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

Thing is I seem to remember people saying "If we were going to build nuclear, the time to start was 15 years ago"... about 15 years ago.

Two party preferred is more a statistical count done on the assumption that {Labor, Coalition} = {Government, Opposition}. Of course it'll be decreasingly relevant now if the teals can stick.

Depends on your tradeoffs.

If you elect, oh, 5 people in each district then your proportionality is still granular to about 17% of the vote in the district (for single member districts it's granular to about 50%, of course). And your districts are 5x as large as single member districts are for the same number of representatives. What it does give you though is better electability for local independents.

With mixed-member proportional you can easily get down to couple-percent granularity while maintaining medium-size districts (typically twice as large as single-member).

Whether later-no-harm is a feature or a bug is the biggest difference, I think, between people who like STV/IRV and people who dislike it.

Definitely not holding my breath.

Every time the Coalition say the magic words "national security" Labor jump without even stopping to ask "how high".

Not familiar with that specific app, but... I'm guessing it's trying to re-rendering the entire document every keystroke?

This. Good bike infra is also good mobility-scooter infra.

At least on my machine, it's a GNU Make... version 3.81.

I can only assume that's the last of the GPLv2 licensed ones. Classic Apple.

So... the system WebView library?

And since then, development has continued on mrustc - it can now bootstrap Rust 1.54 directly (about 10 versions old as of now).

Queenslander here. Are you referring to intercity routes? Because all the private operators under TransLink (or qconnect) just tender to run the rotes in a specific service region.

The point you're making is more visible in log form:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-in-the-uk-...

The core Rust project (and consequently much of the ecosystem) is dual-licensed MIT or Apache-2.0, so it's not at all surprising to see that continue here.

> because personal politics or identity issues or whatever were wholly divorced from writing code to make computers do things

I'd disagree there. The free-software movement, for example, is fundamentally tied up with a certain set of political-moral principles; the open-source movement is similarly tied up with a somewhat different set of principles.

If someone's "not political" then maybe they're a weathervane, or professionally neutral, but it's probably more likely that what they think of as "politics" isn't currently fighting over a topic of salience to them.

> Philadelphia is about twice the size of San Francisco, which has outsized visibility in our political culture but is in fact about the size of Nashville.

Well yeah, SF's visibility comes because it's the original centre of what is now a much bigger area.

So really, you're not so much writing Python as writing Django, which just so happens to be Python.

you can get a long way with something like

$ echo "<sqlite3 commands / sql queries>" | sqlite3 FILE

They expect to be able to move (or out of business) by the time that it becomes an issue. If it's just an office building in the downtown, the tech company doesn't own the building anyway, they've just signed a reasonably long lease.

For all that we have instant-runoff preferential voting, we still have single-member districts for our House of Representatives (and 150 members of said House). We also have compulsory voting and (at the federal level, and in most states), a full-preferential ballot.

When you have 150 single-member districts you're probably going to get two major parties regardless of whether you have FPTP or IRV or even Approval voting. What compulsory voting and preferencing add on top of that is both of Australia's majors have to win the centre, rather than energising their base per the US.

What our system does allow for is for smaller parties in our Senate. It's generally elected 6 people at a time, allowing for e.g. 1 Green, 2 Labor, 2 Liberal-National and 1 One Nation (this is a very plausible result for Queensland next year).

So what does the US system allow then? Well, every system has to let its steam out somewhere. The US has its primaries, which often has a level of access and openness that greatly surpasses any Australian preselection (generally still getting out of the smoke-filled-room era).

Very nice!

One hour later...

Well there you go.

Voltage supply levels vary a little bit from country to country and modern PSUs are built to accommodate that. My laptop PSU for example will take anything from 100V to 240V, at either 50Hz or 60Hz.

Yeah and it used to switch back every time I reopened the app.

So I use Twitteriffic now.