Oh and to know if it's any good you have to either build two (ideally more) of them to compare against each other (ideally using different approaches so their errors are less correlated), or have access to a clock better than the one you're building to compare to. So you can rarely get away with building just one if you want to know if you've succeeded.

Source: I work on the software for these portable optical clocks: https://phys.org/news/2025-07-quantum-clocks-accuracy-curren...

I think there is a good chance it will, as long as a change of government doesn't deliberately dismantle the current approach. Yes there's population growth and yet prices have been stagnant or declining the past few years and construction has picked up. That's a good trend!

I'm not familiar with the situation with public housing but am happy to accept if the government has failed there. But this seems like a separate failure rather than an indictment of their approach to increasing supply generally which I think is working.

Things have been crazy for a long time, but I am actually optimistic for Melbourne specifically - the construction rate is up and the state government has been decreasing the power local governments have to block or delay development. If this continues, housing affordability should improve. My main concern is that a change of government may put an end to it, but I hope not.

Some details about what VIC is doing differently in this AFR article if you're interested (archive link because original is paywalled):

https://archive.md/yeDxF

Grep will find them too, but any in the diff you'll know for sure were added by you.

Mercurial on windows was "download tortoisehg, use it", whereas git didn't have a good GUI and was full of footguns about line endings and case-insensitivity of branch names and the like.

Nowadays I use sublime merge on Windows and Linux alike and it's fine. Which solves the GUI issue, though the line ending issue is the same as it's always been (it's fine if you remember to just set it to "don't change line endings" globally but you have to remember to do that), and I'm not sure about case insensitivity of branch names.

Pretty sure Mercurial handles arbitrary filenames as UTF-8 encoded bytestrings, whether there was a problem with this in the past I can't recall, but would be very surprised if there was now.

Edit: does seem there at least used to be issues around this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7256708/mercurial-proble...

though google does show at least some results for similar issues with git

As opposed to, say, interfacing with an FPGA which could be totally different way to be "FPGA-friendly".

Don't want to leap to conclusions prematurely, but that might be some progress.

[1] https://x.com/ProfRAScolyer/status/1859179205885673877

I don't disagree that the one french dude betting 30M on Trump on polymarket showed that there isn't enough liquidity in such markets for such distortions to be corrected, but whalebait on Manifold is not really related.

The dumping of this excess propellant actually caused an explosion and loss of vehicle on the second test flight.

I suppose the same effect is there with satellites much smaller than the moon, but it would be tiny.

"Chain of thought" prompting is a well-established method to get better output from LLMs.

I made this derivative market to try to address the issue somewhat, but not much trading yet:

https://manifold.markets/chrisjbillington/will-manifold-pric...