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On Auto Reliability

Number of defective German or Swiss watches: 3/5
Number of defective Seikos: 0/4
 
Note: Defects encountered on receipt of auto or in first month of use.

Watches I Wear

I enjoy mechanical watches. Unlike most tools I work with – all PCB and LCD and software – my watches hail from another era: an older, more tactile one. There’s something deeply...

Swatch Sistem51

The one – perhaps the only – attribute Swatch has going for its Sistem51 series of automatic watches are its funky designs. Having purchased a Tangerine recently I was surprised at the...

Views

I’ve realized for a time now (never voiced, mind you) that my interests lie less in social issues, but in improving the Canadian business and economic climate – especially for software...

Rust, and a common Error struct

My question in the Rust subreddit on whether Rust would benefit from a common Error struct. I believe this would improve the ergonomics of combinators and reduce the need for From::from and...