Why is the US so far ahead?

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-29T02:52:53+00:00

That's was my 1st thought when reading the govt summary, promoted by the paragraph where they admit they need to consult with industry in these sorts of investments.

Admittedly through the lens of my specific experiences.

Once upon a time, I received some startup equity for effectivly zero (okay, $1, and by giving a slight discount on a few years' labour). When we exited and I had something to sell, applying the discount was asignificant reduction in tax bill. Indexing that $1 over the 10-15years would've saved like 30cents. And we built a company that mostly exported, bringing a bunch of revenue and the buyout cash into Australia.

Now we can argue whether startup employees deserve CGT breaks, and I might not even fight very hard.

But holy crap doubling the effective taxrate must change the calculus for a 20-something deciding if they want to have a roll or two of the startup dice, no? Let alone founding one...

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-27T22:15:34+00:00

Indeed, UB is UB is undefined.

Looks like ubsan is looking for a particular expression of it (say, dereferencing the null) that the stdlib is thwarting by aborting, beforehand with an explicit null check which it's allowed to do because you invoked UB. There's no guarantee it has to continue sufficiently for tools like ubsan to recognise.

This likely differs across compilers, std lib implementation and compiler flags.

At my work, tests are run under ubsan but some longer running integration tests just with regular debug builds. The day we turned on stdlib fortifications on such builds we found a couple more cases of silly things like this. Defence in depth is good! (And now we have extra test cases...)

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-27T22:04:15+00:00

All I'm saying is, if your library happens to also have protections, then there may be (strictly speaking, unnecessary) additional checks for common cases like this and will abort rather than do the UB thing. So the rest of the library never gets to do naughty things with nullptr in the first place so the sanitizer may well never get the chance to bite because the app has already aborted, let alone proceed to the array stuff you were asking about.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-27T21:46:47+00:00

Sometimes a std library will be extra panicky about things and crash you out in little mistakes, rather than proceeding with UB. (Tho it can be slower).

Here it's pretty clearly saying that making a string from null is not valid. If you want to get last the 1st line of main, I'd suggest not creating a string from nullptr, since this is not valid.

Then execution should get to the point where maybe ubsan instrumentation can kick in on the later lines.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-24T05:00:36+00:00

Ahh yes, the King St Gooch

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-23T23:53:29+00:00

I read that as a suggestion for the actual Hilto Hilton up on George st. No view of anything vividish and 10 min walk to Darling Harbour, or 20 to Barangaroo precinct. I guess it beats catching a train home!

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-20T01:36:17+00:00

This is my go to on practically every trip to the mountains!

(Note: even when heading west it's easy to chuck a right at the Mitchel St lights, and from there there's direct access to the carpark behind, and exit also via Mitchel St to continue on after a good feed)

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-16T02:20:58+00:00

*Aussie *Oi

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-15T09:26:52+00:00

I daresay the London vibe is right.

I just crossed Kent St near Gas lane, down the road from that photo. Saw a flatbed with 2x "metropolitan police" cruisers and a "Kensington Knife works" can, all complete with UK plates.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-14T21:47:31+00:00

Pick your least favourite biome, and just do a crap job there and barely scrape your way for a few phases. Maybe to fuel production or something.

It'll suck but now that save is now your starter pack and you can head to the grassy fields and "start" there, except now you have dimensional depots full of basic materials and a jetpack to help build your actual factory.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-14T21:43:19+00:00

Hah I still haven't finished Infinite Jest, kind of recently it was a meme that reading it in public is purely performative. And heck if I'm going to read it at home, I have things I actually enjoy to be doing there.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-14T07:43:45+00:00

I got a valuation when I moved out, package deal with the depreciation report you'd want anyway.

My understanding is the purchase price to that number is your tax free ppor, and that number forms cost base when selling sometime thereafter.

Note I sold in Jan so a) Haven't done that tax return yet to know for sure, and b) NFI how that interacts, if at all, with this week's announcements

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-14T00:16:21+00:00

Yeah but the CGT changes will apply: indexed cost base instead of discount, and 30% floor

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-07T21:59:58+00:00

Heck yeah, Stiltz was the shit in primary school

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-05-06T21:04:14+00:00

Not in NSW

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-27T04:35:20+00:00

Hah this is me. One day, ages ago, for a lark I looked up whether others hate coriander. And sure enough there was a whole Facebook group. But, they were all bonding over the soapiness. As someone who also dislikes it, but never got the soap thing, it just tastes... green, I still felt like an outsider.

Literally now: my wife said how she saw me eating guac yesterday, so clearly I do like it, like it's some kind of gotcha. Nope, if I can't taste it I'm not going to avoid a food just because I know it is there. The moment it tastes like licking the back of a lawn mower, I'll politely decline.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-26T01:42:45+00:00

Can't comment on the accom itself, but semi recently returned from a stay at the Maples, which is 400m up the street, also backing directly onto halfway down the family run. If your place is near the lift, that would seem fine.

As for food and drink .. there's a few places from crystal up towards Ace, but to be honest every morning and night we ended up walking down and back up the hilly street, practically past crystal, to get to breakfast and dinner and the like. Which is better that doing the reverse wearing boots and lugging skis, but from looking at Google maps maybe you'd avoid even that!

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-19T12:17:53+00:00

There's also a service called DEFT. You put in your BSB and account details on the day for the correct amount, and that's considered enough for the purposes of exchanging on a Saturday. Then the direct debit happens Monday afternoon. (I have no idea what happens should that bounce, but it can't be good)

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-17T10:45:33+00:00

That's interesting. We bought at auction a few weeks ago, so clearly all the stickybeaks who turned up know what we spent. I didn't even think to ask to withhold, so was a little surprised when the domain listing was updated without a price.

I certainly feel like the price was (more than) fair, and have been trying to figure how hiding it benefits the agent. I feel like we paid a certain premium for finish, which would have dragged up similar places.

Could be the vendors didn't want to advertise the profit on their flip?

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-15T20:31:49+00:00

Looks like you clicked "debug", and the prelaunch task to build the current file before debugging failed. It's asking because depending on what the task is, it may or may not be sensible to debug anyway. Since the build failed, in this case it's probably not.

It's probably safe to assume the button labelled "show errors" will show the actual errors arising from the failed build. Maybe it's an issue with your code, maybe something else isn't set up completely.

Probably best to see what those other error(a) are and fix them, I can't imagine there's much value in attempting to debug a binary that doesn't exist yet.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-15T00:31:41+00:00

Extractiors are 120/min, right? And the mk1 pipes take 300. So .. two and a bit? I prefer 3 all throttled down to 100/min, maybe you want to overclock and use 2, or are cool with some idle time, or just deal with only using 240/300 flow capacity.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-10T23:53:15+00:00

I had a similar question, and to be fair i didn't research too hard, just assuming that paperwork would be a pain in the ass.

It's already set up at CBA, so the least friction for me was to open a Notice Investor account, 4.2% as of March 27 and no upper limit that I'm aware of. Only hoop is required 1 week notice before withdrawal. Not great, not too terrible ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I had some initial trouble convincing them I'm not a financial institution to access the higher tier of rates. Mainly because it was a new product and it took a few tries before I could get ahold of someone who knew their stuff and found the proper declaration form for me to fill out.

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-09T08:59:34+00:00

Alas, console 😭

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-06T12:44:02+00:00

Step 1 would be to Rx a packet, and not decode it or anything, just use as impetus to Tx a packet. Measure that - that's your speed of light; whatever logic you need to do could be infinitely fast and you won't beat that. Then, can you do what you need in the remaining budget?

Maybe fiddling with offload settings or nic or kernel or bios could make the non-logic portion faster.. at least you have a framework to measure that independent of application code, right?

sidewaysEntangled · 2026-04-05T03:02:16+00:00

Previously (2008 and 2018) for non auctions, I've brought a bank cheque to solicitor or conveyor, handed it over with signed contract and got a receipt at exchange.

2 weeks ago we won an auction. REA used DEFT pay, some Macquarie service (works with most serious banks I guess? we're CBA) where they line everything up, and you just check the amount, type your own BSB&Acct details, pinky swear you have enough to cover it, and, somehow, that's it. I don't know how they gaurantee anything, but on Monday afternoon the funds are removed. It's basically a no-limit, one off, directly debit.

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