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Except people don't eat money, so raising supply needs to be done in a way that won't kill the economy.

The issue with the current system is it gives a lot of money and power to banks, and finance.

The issue with the proposed system, is that debt is actually a good thing for normal people. For example if you are young, productive, and come from a poor background, then you might buy a house with a mortgage. If debt is more expensive, then you are less likely -- and older people (and rich kids) are more likely -- to be able to afford these houses.

You might say that the current system is unfair, because wealthy people won't need loans and can put their money to work exploiting poor people. But in a system where we redistribute wealth this way, the impact is harshest on the poorest people. The things that are limited in supply and high in demand will immediately go up in price. The things they wish they could buy, and plan long-term, will become unattainable. And I've not even gotten onto how this would affect productivity.

Everyone is focused on how the rich are getting richer. This is inevitable in liberal societies. The goal should instead be to stop the poor getting poorer, and I'm going to need some serious convincing that handing people a CBI, instead of providing debt, is going to actually benefit and not hurt them and the whole economy.

You don't want more immigrants, you want more skilled and young immigrants. This is an important calculation that's missing from public discourse, instead most people will say "yes immigrants" or "no immigrants" but the right policy is more nuanced than that. If you want to solve aging population and add to the economy then you can't just have unrestricted immigration.

> This is really more a C pattern than a C++ pattern, isn't it?

You're right, although it feels a bit safer in C++ with the extra type safety. And that in my mind makes it more powerful in C++.

Almost to a weird extent, this is the only software that most of us will ever be able to write, code that we could write the MVP for in a day. Because anything else is too hard to see to completion. There's something to be said about going for that MVP and then iterating.

Working as a regular delivery driver in sprawling futuristic underground tunnels sounds awesome, not going to lie. To each their own.

A good picture, unfortunately most modern apps are full of meaningless icons.

And yet Android's calculator is quite bad. Despite being able to correctly calculate stuff that 99.99% of the population don't care about, it lacks many scientific operations that a good chunk of accountants, engineers and coders would make use of regularly. This is a classic situation of engineers solving the fun/challenging problems before the customer's actual problems.

Yes, and a lot of people feel that way, but that's 'booting', or 'bootstrap'. A program like that is what I might call a bootable application. It's just not what an OS is. "Operating System" has quite a clear meaning, being software that assists the general operation of the computer. If it's not capable of running general programs then it's not an Operating System.

Got to agree, not to knock OP for sharing this because this is a fun hobby project, but to most people this doesn't meet even loose definitions of OS.

I'd say this is a bootable environment or something.

To be an OS it would have to have some way to run programs as well.

Capitalism started Moore's law.

WebAssembly isn't a programming language, it's an ISA or a bytecode VM. They've defined it in a very over-engineered way, with different representations all the way through. It has created issues for people working on assemblers and code generation because it's hard to choose a good representation for compilers to generate. This all could have been avoided.

> You can understand the WASM spec in your sleep if you’ve ever worked through a type-system paper from the last two decades

Is there a lot of crossover between those people and people who work with assemblers or code generation? There's even more crossover with those people and understanding how to read a minimal ISA document.

> actually quite readable, although some of the language can be a bit intimidating if you're not used to reading programming language papers

You're more generous than me, I think it's rubbish.

Would have been easier to read if they had written it more like an ISA manual.

The difference between protocols and these social media giants is like the difference between C and Excel.

And this is probably because Canon corporate won't justify a budget for developing this software unless they expect separate revenue for it, even though it's clearly just value-add to the (already very expensive) hardware.

Yes

Thanks for complaining about McDonald's self service, which is truly dreadful and just gets worse (no I don't have the app, why would I want something you people made on my own phone, stop asking!).

Another "they don't care" is the TV screens that have the menu on in the background, that used to have menu and prices when you went up to order, and now display "cool animations" half the time so you can't read the menu while you're up there ordering and have to wait and look like an idiot for the menu to come back.

That's the case where I live, there's only a few surgeries I'm allowed to register at and they all have this problem. I think there is some manipulation of statistics the surgeries do to prevent more being created, and to hide the difficulty in getting an appointment. For example rather than having 6 month waiting list, they don't make appointments more than a few weeks in advance, so you just can't get an appointment and it looks like nobody waits more than a few weeks. I think while surgeries are allowed to do this we'll never understand the real capacity.

I don't understand how they're safer, because locally they've installed a few and they're already dying, and dying by strobing on and off at about 1Hz, which makes it quite hard to drive through. They're so bright that this failure mode is like a disco strobe light.

This failure is so severe that regardless of how it might be elsewhere, to me it seems like the people who decided to use these LED lights and continue to advocate for them really don't care about people.

It sounds like this is an old CPU(?), so no need to worry about the future here.

> I didn't find any references mentioning that timer clock affects read time of TMR_CVWR.

Reading the register might be related to the timer's internal clock, as it would have to wait for the timer's bus to respond. This is essentially implied if Marvell recommend re-reading this register, or if their reference implementation did so. My main complaint is it's all guesswork, because Marvell's docs aren't that good.

> This is a workaround for a hardware bug of a certain CPU.

What about different variants, revisions, and speeds of this CPU?

There's a great comment on a breakcore video that says something like "remember that decade between 1999 and 2000". Maybe that decade is yet to happen.

It doesn't feel like reading 4 times is necessarily a portable solution, if there will be more versions at different speeds and different I/O architectures; or how this will work under more load, and whether the original change was done to fix some other performance problem OP is not aware of, but not sure what else can be done. Unfortunately many vendors like Marvell can seriously under-document crucial features like this. If anything it would be good to put some of this info in the comment itself, not very elegant but how else practically are we meant to keep track of this, is the mailing list part of the documentation?

Doesn't look like there's a lot of discussion on the mailing list, but I don't know if I'm reading the thread view correctly.

That's not sane at all, because then you can't send e.g. Japanese arguments to tools that support wide chars or have UTF-8 codepage in their manifest. And then there's yet another difference between Python versions to trip you up. And why should the default not allow internationalisation? Doesn't fit with the idea of Python 3.

Also the font isn't incredibly easy to read on Windows. I'm assuming Georgia was selected? Which has been on Windows for years but renders so badly it looks like the font color isn't black, even though I think it is black? This isn't really your fault but I would have stuck to Times New Roman for Windows' sake.

The bit that feels dishonest is they share a brand, and publicly present themselves as a charity, and actually it's for personal gain. Sure they dotted their i's, but it seems like the key difference between the RPI foundation and the Captain Tom Foundation[1] is they have better lawyers.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/21/captain-tom-...

Can someone explain to me why they're even allowed to do this? I thought they were a charity.

Smart enough to make the proposition, but not smart enough to disprove it. Middling intelligence might be the greatest threat to society.

This article recommends .eu domains.

There is a caveat to this, in the unlikely event your state leaves the EU you will be forced off, this happened to many UK entities after Brexit, they were forced to stop using their .eu domains.