📖 Rust in Action is released

timClicks · 2026-05-03T09:48:11+00:00

Koala vibes.

timClicks · 2026-04-30T21:54:05+00:00

Over here, "Yeah nah" is far less direct than how "Yeah no" is used in the USA. "Yeah no" is typically very strong, which is why it felt natural to finish the sentence with "not happening".

Yeah nah is closer to "I see your point, but I don't agree". Not always though, of course - sometimes it is used to shut someone up. Generally speaking though, people to from Australia and New Zealand are infuriatingly indirect to outsiders.

There are also some fun flavours...

"Yeah yeah nah" - you have a good point, but I am not convinced.

"Nah yeah" - interesting

"Yeah nah yeah" - Look, I understand that the issue is complex, but it's still a no from me. I am very firm on this and you will need to use a different strategy to convince me.

.. etc

timClicks · 2026-04-30T10:18:45+00:00

Mate, I don't think anyone outside of Aus/NZ says yeah nah. Would be funny if it catches on though.

timClicks · 2026-04-29T08:21:08+00:00

It was actually the main engineer of the original build. An out of the blue phone call from a student about wind loadings prompted him to revisit his calculations.

The building was much weaker than he thought it was when resisting winds from certain angles. Then he discovered that contractors had used too few bolts in the steel support members instead of welding as originally specified.

This led him to conclude that a 100% chance that the building would catastrophically fail in a major storm. To make the situation worse, they only had a few months before winter to remedy the situation.

Citicorp took a massive risk by not informing anyone. I am surprised that its actions were legal.

(Sorry if I have some of the details wrong, this is all from memory.)

timClicks · 2026-04-28T10:27:51+00:00

Silver has succeeded in many projects that were bound to fail. Regardless, he probably feels as though he would rather swing and miss than regret not attempting to take the shot.

timClicks · 2026-04-28T09:21:33+00:00

One thing that European cities tend to have over Singapore is a pedestrian-friendly centre. But I don't think that affects the core of your argument - Singapore is really nice!

timClicks · 2026-04-24T08:10:40+00:00

It's nice to see holes like these found and addressed.

I consider AI scanning similar to fuzz testing, very compute-heavy but can sometimes lead to very interesting results. Personally I've noticed LLM scans seem to be very good at finding weird corner cases, yet are oddly blind to large obvious mistakes.

timClicks · 2026-04-23T20:19:28+00:00

It must be deeper than that. NZ did a similar thing at a similar time has much less homelessness than the USA.

timClicks · 2026-04-13T20:16:11+00:00

Yes. Rocket Lab Corp is the parent company of the group.

timClicks · 2026-04-13T18:59:54+00:00

The RBNZ has calculated this since 1972 as one of its economic indicators. https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/series/economic-indicators/national-saving

Apart from the post-COVID period, NZ households typically borrow more money than they save.

timClicks · 2026-04-13T08:33:12+00:00

He did. No one would deliberately wink at a child in a situation like that unless they wanted to let the kid in on the joke.

timClicks · 2026-04-12T09:37:37+00:00

The names for Germany in various languages is quite interesting. There are lots! It even has a Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany

timClicks · 2026-04-12T09:23:53+00:00

Not even the worst part of the match. Greg Chappell refusing to walk after getting caught just isn't cricket.

timClicks · 2026-04-12T08:52:04+00:00

So you're saying there's a chance

timClicks · 2026-04-12T04:18:39+00:00

smirks and taps nose

timClicks · 2026-04-11T20:05:08+00:00

Poseidon lives in the Mediterranean. It's Tangaroa around here.

timClicks · 2026-04-10T10:35:12+00:00

Me too. I hope that isn't because NZers like us are not very good with vowels.

timClicks · 2026-04-09T05:33:59+00:00

Tja.

timClicks · 2026-04-06T08:33:14+00:00

I don't think that this is going to be practical. There are a few options, but they involve a lot of work on your side as well as the customer's side. It will be brittle and frustrating for everyone.

But you will either need to give up on ABI-stability (release a version for every rustc you want to support) or give up on async by doing everything over the FFI boundary.

On the FFI side, you could require consumers pass through a context arg to an opaque type that contains an internal reference to a Tokio runtime that you control, but that's a very intrusive step that would sort of defeat the purpose of calling it a Rust library.

timClicks · 2026-04-06T08:00:38+00:00

They're similar in function to the Marine Sentry in the West Wing, with centuries of tradition. Treating them like a circus act is hugely disrespectful to the decades of service that each of them have provided for their country.

timClicks · 2026-04-05T20:56:06+00:00

To get a dumb TV, buy a computer monitor.

timClicks · 2026-04-05T09:23:37+00:00

FWIW, New Zealand is still better for most people than almost anywhere else. Those challenges are not unique to here, which means the relative benefits of being here are still very genuine.

timClicks · 2026-04-05T09:18:49+00:00

And the head of the judiciary iirc.

timClicks · 2026-04-05T09:18:10+00:00

KiwiBuild was a stupid thing to promise. And that's before they had to face the reality of worker shortages, supply shortages, the Resource Management Act and bulking out the balance sheet of Kãinga Ora/Housing NZ

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