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> Scotland ends up paying for things like HS2 and other London centric.

i find it hard to believe Scottish people don't travel outside of Scotland.
Scotland's implied deficit in 2020-21 was £36.3bn, or 22.4% of GDP. [1]

When the SNP set up the Sustainable Growth Commission before the last independence vote it advised that public sector cuts would be necessary to reduce the country's deficit to sustainable levels. [2]

You can't just make things up because you wish it was so. It is not sensible.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/18/scotland-soa...

[2] https://ifs.org.uk/publications/13072
So what? They are mostly fleeing from the chaos that the Western nations are responsible for: Western "donations" of surplus food (to keep our prices from collapsing) have wrecked local farmers in Africa, Western "donations" of second-hand clothing (aka mitumba) have wrecked the African textile industry, Western shelters and laundromats for dark money have enabled countless dictators to steal from their people, and it was Western colonialism and the handling of the collapse of said colonialism that is directly responsible for many of the border and land conflicts in Africa. And now, with climate change where the Western nations have emitted the vast majority of CO2 responsible for said climate change, it is once again the Western nations that drive the next wave of people fleeing from droughts and hunger.

People risking everything on the dangerous migration paths out of Africa don't do that out of fun, they do it because they have literally no other option left. The chickens are coming home to roost, one might say.

Besides: the hurdles that "point systems" place are, similarly to many social security/unemployment insurance systems, set up in a way that allows deceptive politicians to claim "but we have a system!!!" while fully knowing that the hurdles allow only a tiny amount of people to actually use it.
Not really.

https://images.app.goo.gl/HnsR6uZ436wRQxhf6
Yes. Children can be (unintentional) little shits. I could go on for hours about all the shit me and my brothers did to each other much worse than just gaslighting.
Does the UK really run these kind of referendum based on a simple 50% majority? That seems like a recipe for chaos (if true).
In addition to the other points, the GFA was used to create a democratic starting point for Ireland and Northern Ireland to decide their own future after an antagonistic history with Britain. Even without Brexit, that process hasn't ended. It's not a desirable end-goal.
Many people have seen big advancements in electric motors in the last ~50 years. More power in the same space. More efficiency. Etc.

However, this is deceptive. In fact, most of the advancements in electric motors are in fact advances in electric motor controllers. Having a more advanced controller allows uses of configurations previously impractical (eg. BLDC motors). It also allows increased efficiency.

Better controllers are mostly down to the development of fast high power MOSFETs (electronic switches). They allow electric currents to be directed very precisely and with low losses, unlike previous tools of relays and mechanical switches (eg. motor brushes), which provide far less control. Combine that with microcontrollers and mathematical models of the motor executed in real time, and you can direct varying currents to each motor coil to achieve very high performance with very high efficiency.

One other big contributor is the development of cheap neodymium magnets, which enables stronger magnetic fields in less space, again making motors smaller and more efficient for the same power.

Modern motor+controller systems are now usually above 90% efficiency, and can go above 98%. So there is limited room for further improvements there, although I'm sure we'll still see them get smaller and cheaper to manufacture.
Yes, we were counting on O_DSYNC to set the FUA bit on the write syscall so that we could avoid an extra F_FULLFSYNC fcntl syscall.
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good luck to scotland. if things fall into place, it just might give more attention towards my hometown "kashmir" which has literally been suffering for hundreds of years of foreign rule but more importantly, the constant war between two neighboring countries which use us as a bargaining chip for the last 70 odd years.

i hope scotland gets their independence. they might help us when our time comes. fingers crossed
Citation? I'm going to assume that you are referring to pre-covid.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/government-expenditure-rev...

£13-15b deficit per year

https://fullfact.org/economy/tax-and-spending-scotland/

Just one year that revenue (including north sea oil) was higher than spending as a proportion of the UK. Maybe this year too with oil at a high price.
Given that the EU has been happy to use America's defense guarantee to subsidize their own defense for a few decades that doesn't exactly ring true. That said, I do understand the need for EU strategic autonomy, especially since the U.S. has been pushing for it since at least the Obama administration but I just found it odd that the U.S. would be lumped in with China. One's influence I'd say is clearly malign, the other often at least tries to be mutually beneficial.
Conversely, anything else is a good choice for startups because most start-up fold and will never have to actually fix all of the memory leaks/security vulnerabilities/slow implementations.
> Anyone can claim the situation has changed, every year. Life does not go backwards. I'm still not clear why that means "once in a generation" becomes "as soon as I can get what I want".

So for you Brexit, a harder one than what anyone campaigned for ( the hardest one i recall hearing about was "Norway-style"), isn't a change ?
Economically it's a pretty stupid idea...far stupider than Brexit was.

But nationalists gonna nationalist I guess.
Veto powers are a good thing as long as you don't have too many parties involved. With an EU27+++, they are unsustainable (as seen by what has become known as the Visegrad block).

So, as an EU citizen: Let's get rid of these.
National "debt" is not debt at all and doesn't work like a person going to the bank and loaning money. There are plenty of countries with higher national debt / GDP ratio than the US and doing better than the US in terms of quality of life.
It's not about travel, it's about economic activity. HS2 will funnel economic activity from poorer regions into London. Great for London.
> nobody is forcing you to use these systems

The general sentiment from blockchain enthusiasts I talked with is that conventional system is obsolete and must be superseded by what they’re building ASAP. If you are OK with blockchain and adjacent tech being a niche, then I don’t really have anything to object to (whatever floats your boat and all that).

> what is your alternative? forced trust, dependence on third party authorities?

No… I sort of spent a while describing it in my original comment.
Why not just use artificial words generated with Markov chains or whatever? Finding it extremely hard to invent meaningful names for every tool/script I write I decided to just go this way.
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Rest of UK excluding Scotland.
Go Scotland!

I would certainly be happy to welcome Scotland back into the EU, no questions asked. You have a lovely country, people, culture and mindset. I have always felt more than welcome when visiting Scotland, and I can only wish to return the favor.
There's a great song by Titãs, Epitáfio, which imagines a gravestone with all these thoughts, "I wish I had watched more sunsets, I wish I had cared less..."
Because we have learned the US to be an unreliable partner and a source for most of our problems, several times now. It's time to stand on our own feet.
Which is probably why art exists. Sometimes a painting seems to capture reality better than a photograph.
Because it’s a spectrum. A minor change of policy? Not a solid basis to reevaluate a constitutional referendum.

Completely rewriting huge chunks of your country’s constitution and international relationships? Probably grounds to rethink your own constitution.
> protecting borders from illegal immigration

Asylum-seeking is not illegal immigration.
> England voted on behalf of Scotland to leave the EU.

The voting was done by British citizens, England and Scotland didn't get a vote.

> > a third of those voting for independence also want(ed) independence from the EU, it's just an excuse.

> That's great for them, that means that a supermajority of Yes voters want to leave the UK but remain in the EU. That's as defintive as you can get in a vote.

I would say that the actual vote results are the most definitive. One was remain, one was leave.
World peace sounds dystopian to you?
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> Also curious why Scotland is not able to apply if it leaves the UK?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-scotla...

They're talking nonsense. There is sometimes talk of Spain veto-ing Scottish accession to the EU as a sort of warning to Catalonians (who closely identify with the Scottish indy movement), but realistically Scotland is aligned with the EU acquis so there's no really go reason not to. They won't be able to rejoin on the same terms as the UK were in, but that's something that was lost forever after Brexit.
> Just imagine Ukraine allowing people in Donetsk and Lugansk to actually decide their status themselves, instead of using an army to force them into Ukraine.

> Freedom of association is the basic human right, and no majorisation should be allowed to happen. Never.

Russia has cleansed the occupied territories of ethnic Ukrainians pretty well over the last years since they took them over. Any form of "referendum" to associate with Russia is nothing more than a plain land grab, a sham election.

In contrast, there has been no campaign in Catalonia or in Scotland to forcibly remove ethnic Spaniards/English people in order to stage a fraudulent vote.
I cannot find out if I've hit the paywall or the article was just very short ?
Last sentence reads

> Though circumstances put Mondella and the bees on opposite sides of an issue, the beekeepers still speak admiringly of him, and express regret at his unhappy end.
you sound like the arrogant one, to be honest
I don't think even the most fundamental left leaning people are against sending illegal immigrants away - the problem is that UK is choosing to send people away to Rwanda, basically telling them that it's a safe African country, good luck there. Ministers have confirmed that yeah, it's "possible" that for instance Ukrainian refugees could be sent there if they didn't follow the right procedures and are deemed "illegal".

I can only imagine that if not for horrible optics, UK would send them to Australia.

But oh well, I guess if your dream is to resurrect the British Empire, having a foreign penal colony is one of the requirements.
Not the same distribution of revenue and resources though. London & Westminster have an excessive degree of power and might, and the other nations, as well as much of the rest of England, are powerless as a result.
Didn't the UK made a rather unprecedented move of lowkey changing some Scottish sea-border since to get some potential gas fields on the english side?
Some really basic questions will need to be answered.

1) What currecny are you using?

2) Where is your central bank?

3) What debt will you be departing with?

4) What cuts will be required when you can no longer take 32bn a year via the Barnett formula?

Just simple, fundamental things really.
I am happy for them to become independent, but I thought that last time this was a "once in a generation" type thing not a "every few years until we get the result we want"?

It strikes me as unfair to just do another referendum again so soon (I think it was in 2014, so like what 8 years?).

I think perhaps if they get one on Scottish independence, perhaps we should have a reverse-brexit referendum vote!
https://www.reddit.com/r/nethack/comments/adbgzd/yaap_swaggi...

> Fountains have a 1/30 chance of summoning a Water Demon when quaffed, this demon has a (80+DL)/100 chance of being hostile. If not hostile, it grants a wish and vanishes.

> every time the character attempts to walk into a wall, it calls random() without wasting any in-game time

> So it is advancing the RNG millions of times (or whatever is necessary, maybe not that many times) for each "real turn" until it reaches a favorable point in the RNG as tested in parallel offline (e.g., find a spot in the RNG such that a quaff 1) gets a demon that 2) grants a wish and 3) the fountain stays... advance the RNG as many times as it takes to repeat that... again and again, for 90 wishes)?

This is not solving nethack, this is just save scumming / cheating.
Yes, Rust jobs pay really well.

I'm mentioning pay cuts because one of the side-effects of joining a startup is that they can be tight on money and will offer early employees shares instead.

I work for a startup and am coding Rust and my salary went up by taking this job.

So I'm only saying this as a general thing; I'm sure a lot of startups where Rust makes a difference (I'm sure a lot of startups would be just as well off with Python), they can probably afford a competitive wage. :-)
When it’s refugees legally seeking help? This policy has nothing to do with illegal immigration.
Depends how you look at it. Someone got a nice bonus...
Can you say more about this? My first thought is that you're talking about the various data types in Clojure being implemented with Java interfaces. But my understanding is (I'm not a Java developer) that interfaces existed pre generics, just without static type checking support, and thus Clojure could have been developed with a pre-generics Java version just fine?
Maintenance is where Rust really shines and makes up for it's initial learning curve and slightly slower writing speed. In terms of hiring I can't imagine it being a problem either. There are lots of developers who would jump at the chance to work with Rust, and comparatively few Rust jobs (especially ones that don't involve working with cryptocurrency).
Perfect, thank you.

Relevant quote:

> In February, Ipsos Mori found 29% of SNP supporters would vote to leave while Survation for the Daily Mail put the SNP’s Brexit vote at 28%. On 2 May, the latest Survation poll, for the Daily Record, found 25% of pro-independence voters want to leave the EU – more than the 16% of no voters in that poll who back Brexit.
As a software developer, you are going to use gpt 42 to develop software. You will probably write a lot less code manually, but it’s not a bad thing.
Your sibling found an article, thank you for bringing this to my attention :)
>One's influence I'd say is clearly malign, the other often at least tries to be mutually beneficial.

A Chinese citizen would say the exact same thing, countries switched out. Both countries do whatever is in their own best interest, it's naive to pretend otherwise. Now what's in the U.S. best interest might have historically been more aligned with the EU, but that doesn't mean it stays that way.
Lip service while they tried to backtrack on banning conversion therapy.
We discovered this through our use of O_DSYNC, and O_SYNC also has the same problem.

I think that for macOS so far, the focus has been on ordering guarantees, i.e. write barriers to reset the disk back to some atomic point in time after a crash.

However, for distributed databases like TigerBeetle, we also need durability guarantees, i.e. be able to know that the disk has the data down cold, that the disk won't “forget” data that the node has underwritten and ACK'ed externally.
Yeah, it's really weird that when you:

- Take a bunch of Russian money
- Hang out with a bunch of Russians
- Ignore the recommendations of your national security apparatus to appoint Russians to permanent positions in your upper house
- Employ a bunch of people who have ties to Russian interests.
- Delay investigations into how your government didn't do anything to prevent Russian interference in a national referendum.

People make the completely illogical conclusion that you're somehow sympathetic to Russian interests.
Perhaps the pay cut statement is too hypothethical.

I have only experienced the opposite: That Rust jobs pay well. Also for startups.
Sure, this might be the best they could do on short notice.

Doesn’t change the fact that I find it low effort - I had the same conclusions about Sriracha from just cursory google research.

Let’s agree to disagree.
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Nobody is subjected to hazing or “excessive“ drinking. These are voluntary activities you can choose to engage in or not. For criminal matters there’s the police.

It was not limited only to fraternities either.
My own music is familiar, which removes a source of distraction. Plus, doesn’t come with either news or marketing announcements in a language I mostly understand, but automatically raises my attention when I hear it.
If Rust fizzles, which it still very much could, it will mean you are stuck using a 10-year-old compiler on an ancient OS release.
Have fun clicking around until it works
Cars in general need way less maintenance than they used to. I vividly recall my parents taking the car to the shop before every holiday, just to get it checked and all the fluids filled so we wouldn't get stranded. Who even does that anymore?
> Anyone can claim the situation has changed, every year. Life does not go backwards. I'm still not clear why that means "once in a generation" becomes "as soon as I can get what I want".

Are we pretending that Brexit wasn't a massive change of situation?
When you make a change to your job/status you can make it so it doesn't get propagated to the rest of your network. I keep all my status changes quiet for the exact same reason as you would like.
What’s your reasonable definition of far-right?
Seeing as London has been corrupted by Russian money, numerous Russians have been murdered/attempted to be murdered by the Russian state in the UK, and the current PM is the former mayor of London, it’s more than valid to discuss Russian influence in the UK.

Further reading: https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/21/butler-to-the-...
I very much agree. I recall around the era of iPhone 4 or 5 (?) that I could easily navigate the Settings app without ferreting around looking for the right page.
Now I have found that I can almost never find what I’m looking for without searching.

The macOS System Prefs is also not ideal but I prefer it to the iOS Settings.
Those are people-problems, not platform-problems. A NewLinkedIn will converge to the state of the current LinkedIn as it grows over time.
Am I missing that a mention of "once in a generation" is suddenly such a binding statement that the speaker can't go back on it?

"What are the odds?" 'Once in a generation, I should think'

"Things went badly, let's try again" 'Can't! Once in a generation!'
The situation I'm describing is any trip for which the potential of waiting an hour (or more, in many cases) at a fast charger is problematic. My car can be nearly empty in my driveway, and it costs me two minutes to fill it up. This means that if I needed to sprint to the state border before it closed (a real-life scenario for several of my coworkers during COVID), I could. Ditto for any other situation where you might be time pressed. A BEV is charged every time you take it out, but it also needs to be, because charging isn't a two minute thing. Like it or not, this affects its utility relative to a standard vehicle, in certain situations. Maybe it's a 1% kind of thing, but again, I'm not convinced that most of us buy cars for the average use case. If we did, SUVs wouldn't be the highest selling segment of the market.
All referenda in the UK are advisory, and non-binding. Parliament doesn't technically have to abide by their decisions at all, but it would be damaging politically not to do so.
During the Brexit debacle, I joked with my Scottish ex-boss that, one day, Scotland will leave the UK, rejoin the EU, and then reabsorb the UK. And then the UK will be renamed United Kingdom of Scotland instead of United Kingdom of Great Britain. He laughed.
Basic CS fail.

Most translation units have maybe 100 header files or fewer. While a hash map might be O(1) (O(n^2) worst case) and a linked list O(n^2), the overhead of every insertion into a hash map is significantly greater than into a linked list. If you have such a tiny n, a linked list is almost always more time- and space-efficient. Switching to a more inappropriate data structure is more likely to negatively impact the performance of your toolchain.

Of course the best answer is to make the change and collect measurements before and after using a spectrum of data sets, then compare. Don't let me stop you. But remember for that small a number of items bubble sort is usually the fastest, most efficient algorithm. Also remember that looking up a header name at preprocessor time, no matter how slow, will likely not show up on your profile graph when you turn on the optimizer.
> Spain parliament is against unilateral declarations of independence.

For background, it's because the Spanish government is afraid that recognizing independence movements legitimizes the Catalonian independence movement in their own country.
> I’d say post-Brexit England has drifted away from the far right.

> By any reasonable definition England is currently governed by the far right.

These can both be true, IMHO you're talking about different things - 1) the position of the electorate and 2) the position of the government.

And the growing gap between them.
> but Scotland still has to convince the world to lend it a hell of a lot of money every year to pay for those services, even if they took all the North Sea old revenue (which seems an odd thing for a government with Green backing to be relying on)

The revenues from oil are going to be somewhat predictably stable for the next ten to fifteen years, there is simply too much infrastructure in Europe that relies on burning or otherwise using fossil-origin oil and gas. Banks and other investors can make an investment backed by this expected income.
To each their own, I guess. I usually chat with multiple friends and do other things at the same time, so to have to stop everything to listen to a voice note of someone pausing and trying to figure out what to say feels like they're intentionally making me wait for their convenience.
Don't worry too much about it. Start coding (or whatever other CS related thing it is that interests you), does not matter what it is as long as it's engaging enough to keep doing.. Don't do it for others, just for yourself, and do the deep-dives you encounter along the way.. This builds strong skill.

As for jobs, I don't know how tough it is right now, but if you can get your foot in the door, actual experience is way less important than the ability to learn..

Get foot in the door, do work, people see that you're capable, develop your skill while working.
There are lots of people curious about coding Rust in production, and most of them consider themselves competent to write it. But that is not what you look for when hiring. Or, it shouldn't be.
Seems like MIT's crackdown on Senior House.
They need to be answered at some point, but not necessarily before the referendum. Not saying it's a best way to do it, but it's the most likely way.

Brexit for example, was a referendum on a very broad question, the specifics were worked out afterwards.

But most likely there will be a transition period, where monetary sovereignty is sacrificed in the short term, to allow central bank to be set up and votes held on various questions including some you list.
Overton window in action: the far right is the new normal, so the old far right isn't necessary anymore. New 'parties' will soon aim to achieve another shift.