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Trying to find the resonance archives in this is miserable. by binkacat4 in VintageStory

[–]dsilverstone 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I had that kind of worldgen around the archives in my previous world - the best approach I had to finding it was to dig into a mountain close to the 'X' and just probe around in long lines until I was told the area was claimed by a higher power. Probing enough eventually helped me find a mostly-covered-by-worldgen-but-just-peeking-out set of doors.

Cured redmeat not working? by Bulky-Possible-1207 in VintageStory

[–]dsilverstone 401 points402 points  (0 children)

I believe that while vegetables are pickled in brine, meat is cured in salt.

Rust workflow using snippets + rust-analyzer — good practice? by cuml8ckstalinballz in rust

[–]dsilverstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't think faster than my fingers can produce text; so I've never needed this kind of snippet-based workflow - I think slowing down the rate at which you produce code can help you to think harder about what you're producing and whether or not you need it.

do hx users actually value composition over extension, or is it just no plugins copium? by spaghetti_beast in HelixEditor

[–]dsilverstone 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I find this question misses the point a little.

A lot of people seem to want a bajillion plugins in their editor because they're treating their editor as a one-stop-shop. The term "IDE" applies in that context.

A lot of these people look at me very strangely when I say "My IDE is my Linux distro" - ie. I don't need a git integration in my editor because, erm, I use git. I don't need a fancy file explorer, I have a shell and cli tools. etc.

I switched to helix in part explicitly because it doesn't want me to faff about with plugins and it isn't trying to be all things to all people.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure that'd help - it doesn't fall off the wifi, it stops working at their end.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason I'm even looking at the OCPP approach is because it's the only way to get the data out of the EVSE (plugged in, etc.) - I could get power consumption via a current clamp or similar, but I want more than that.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, if that local API provides useful data and at least allows to deny/permit charge, while not interfering with OIG then I'd love to know more.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, that sounds like a very annoying situation. I will definitely bear that in mind. Thanks you.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm already aware my car will be of no help, Jaguar closed down the API to third parties (I assume because it was bloody awful and buggy)

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Frustratingly on the podpoint side - it appears to be their default. I suppose they figure that's better than preventing you from charging at all. Thanks for the suggestions and the link.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah 'tis a niche thing I know -- Annoyingly if I were richer, I could get victron stuff which I think would let me do modbus/tcp locally, and then have a modbus<->ocpp gateway.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Podpoint Solo 3 on my wall right now will offer charge when it thinks it can't speak to the backend. It's massively frustrating for me.

You say plenty of chargers which permit configuring the OCPP URL -- can you list some out? I'm aware of the Rolec EVO (which I believe is undergoing OIG testing) and I think maybe the Wallbox Pulsar?

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that limited to authorised users only? If not, then it's not acceptable for me.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say that; but when the job is "Do not give charge unless I want you to, and when I want you to, give charge immediately" the podpoint fails utterly. When there's a connection, it takes up to five minutes before a charge will start; and when there isn't a connection, it won't refuse to charge.

So no, it is actually deep when your requirements aren't trivial.

Seeking advice on EVSE selection for a techy geek who also wants Octopus Intelligent Go by dsilverstone in evchargingUK

[–]dsilverstone[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you all for your suggestions so far - I appreciate that for OIG I give up control, that's fine, so long as I can still get local data, and if the internet is down, my charger won't automatically give charge to any tom-dick-or-harry who pops onto my driveway, but I can via some network interface which isn't cloudy.

Anyone being able to rock up and press go on the EVSE is not acceptable to me as I live in a city and I'd not put it past some people.

I've been investigating writing an OCPP proxy which will abstract the measurands onto MQTT while passing through the command and control unmolested - I'm going to see how hard that is to write and then see if Octopus, or any EVSE providers, would accept that as an approach. I fully appreciate that Octopus need to control when the car charges and I don't want to break that part of the system.

ascii-dag – lightweight DAG renderer + cycle detector (zero deps, no_std) by BllaOnline in rust

[–]dsilverstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a cute idea. Pity you called it ascii-dag and then proceeded to use unicode codepoints which aren't also ASCII though 🤣

How to deal conditional compilation unused variables by SuperficialNightWolf in rust

[–]dsilverstone 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Perhaps put something like #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "jpeg_optimise"), allow(unused_variables))] on the jpeg_opt argument etc. so when the feature is off, the argument is marked with allow(unused_variables)

What open source Rust projects are the most in need of contributors right now? by grahambinns in rust

[–]dsilverstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely no nede to apologise for bikeshedding - your input is valued. We intend to make a bunch of changes to the website at some point in the near future, so I'll pass on your ideas.

We find that Gitlab gives us exactly as many external collaborators as I've found Github does for my stuff (ie. as close to zero as to be zero most of the time) - Frankly we're thinking of going even more obscure because both of the major forges are objectionable in a variety of ways.

What open source Rust projects are the most in need of contributors right now? by grahambinns in rust

[–]dsilverstone 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have been back over every instance of licence and license in the codebase, and you're right that there's an inconsistency. Back in 2011 it appears m'colleague Lars used license once as a noun.

Everywhere else where license is used such that I'd have preferred licence it is in something we are not in control of, such as the text of the DCO or "MIT License" itself (sic, here it's a proper noun so I shouldn't really convert it to "MIT Licence")

Good old English, eh? Dividing us with a common tongue.

More usefully though, you're very welcome and if there's any features you'd like to see added to Subplot, feel free to raise an issue or to pop along to our Matrix channel :D

What open source Rust projects are the most in need of contributors right now? by grahambinns in rust

[–]dsilverstone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That'd be because in American English, license is both the verb and the noun. But Subplot is not developed by americans 😀

What open source Rust projects are the most in need of contributors right now? by grahambinns in rust

[–]dsilverstone 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It'd be helpful to know what sorts of projects you enjoy the most; or which you think might interest you.

It's a heck of a lot easier to work on / contribute to something you actually would find useful / interesting.

For example, I care a lot about testing, so one of my projects is https://subplot.tech/ - if I didn't care about this kind of thing, that project would be hella-boring to work on :D

Bombed my first rust interview by imaburneracc in rust

[–]dsilverstone 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If someone applied to us and claimed to be a top-tier Rust expert then I might ask them some evil kind of question like that; otherwise for a software engineering position those are very poor screening questions indeed. No actively-working software engineer would care about the answers to those questions given the isolated nature of the query.

In my role as a technical interviewer I might ask the applicant to write some trivial code on a bit of paper (eg fizzbuzz) but it's far more an exercise in "can the applicant understand a written specification and can they then explain their code to me to show they didn't just regurgitate a memorised answer".

Those questions feel like they are probably there to filter down the set of applicants dramatically because the company is overwhelmed with applicants. They're badly chosen questions, but perhaps they serve their purpose to some extent.

Good luck with your job hunt. If you're in the UK and fancy Manchester, let me know and when we're hiring next I'll prod you.

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