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nrc @ncameron.org · 4h

South Wellington in particular did awesome, proud to live here! And a good show on Māori wards, though honestly I’m sad that there were any no votes at all. The rest of Aotearoa needs to do better, much better on that front

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nrc @ncameron.org · 4h

Proud of you, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, mostly good voting, even if we did let a few of the cookers in. Could have been better (if there was a better mayoral candidate, if Chung et al didn’t get back in, and so forth), but could have been a lot worse.

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nrc @ncameron.org · 9h

☹️

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 19h

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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nrc @ncameron.org · 1d

I like the borders! If they had used a gradient on the background but not the design element, I think it would work nicely, but there’s gradients everywhere! All going in different directions!

nrc @ncameron.org · 1d

And the icons look bad - too busy, too distracting. They’ve started with a design then made it as minimal as possible then added a bunch of gradients, so it’s both character-less and busy.

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nrc @ncameron.org · 1d

Liquid Glass review: the overall look is nice, some of the effects and layering need more polish, way too many animations and flashes and they feel too attention grabbing. Overall feels like a good idea but needs another few months of iteration

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nrc @ncameron.org · 3d

That's a good idea!

nrc @ncameron.org · 3d

Heh, no it's exactly the sort of thing one should use. What I meant was that I was looking for something which might appear in real code one would write outside of a benchmark

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nrc @ncameron.org · 3d

I was trying to do it without 'cheating', black_box does work, but I can't find anything else which does

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nrc @ncameron.org · 4d

Surprisingly difficult to trick the Rust compiler into not eliding bound checks in a micro-benchmark (even more so in a way which isn't nullified by the CPU's branch prediction)

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nrc @ncameron.org · 4d

I have availability for Rust consulting or coaching. More details soon, and yep my website needs updating. But if you're considering adopting Rust, want your team to use Rust more effectively, or need a drop-in staff engineer, get in touch!

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nrc @ncameron.org · 4d

And I bet people are thinking about how to do a targeted attack. And I bet it will be possible some how

nrc @ncameron.org · 4d

I’ve been thinking a bit about supply chain security, but honestly the equivalent risk from ai seems so much worse. The equivalent of an SBOM is impossible, any concept of trust feels impossible. Like a targeted attack seems really difficult, but a fuck up feels guaranteed

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nrc @ncameron.org · 4d

Hope it’s a great week!

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nrc @ncameron.org · 6d

Gives either 90s video game or bad racism vibes

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nrc @ncameron.org · 9d

For regular (non no-std) programs, failing to alloc will abort rather than panic, however, I just checked the docs for `push` and it will panic if it goes over the max capacity, which I hadn't realised!

nrc @ncameron.org · 10d

Off the top of my head: numeric overflow/underflow, out of bounds indexing, explicit panic macro and similar macros, assertion macros, unwrap/expect and similar methods

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nrc @ncameron.org · 10d

Is there an exhaustive list somewhere of all the places in Rust language and std which can cause a panic?

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nrc @ncameron.org · 13d

Depending on one’s temperament?

nrc @ncameron.org · 13d

Huh, this is the complete opposite of how I feel about it. Using AI seems to be a huge change to style of working from more fun things (eg exploratory coding) to less fun things (eg code review). I wonder if the very bimodal opinions on AI are partly due to making work either a lot more or less fun,

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nrc @ncameron.org · 14d

Tiny, irrelevant, little men. Failing utterly to be anything at all. Specks of shit floating in currents of mediocrity and subservience

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nrc @ncameron.org · 14d

Just shocked and appalled at our shitty, pathetic government. When I came to NZ, I was impressed that even the conservative government was so much more decent than in the uk. Now our government are such cowards that they can’t acknowledge this era-defining genocide in the most theoretical of ways.

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nrc @ncameron.org · 14d

Tiny, irrelevant, little men. Failing utterly to be anything at all. Specks of shit floating in currents of mediocrity and subservience

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nrc @ncameron.org · 14d

Just shocked and appalled at our shitty, pathetic government. When I came to NZ, I was impressed that even the conservative government was so much more decent than in the uk. Now our government are such cowards that they can’t acknowledge this era-defining genocide in the most theoretical of ways.

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