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@cstanhope In theory it's not giving them much more data: I already have to give the company meter readings. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/six-reasons-say-no-smart-meter/ and https://www.the-ambient.com/explainers/smart-meters-2020-uk-guide-explainer-2153/ persuaded me against getting a smart meter though. The former link suggests I won't save money or escape confusing bills, and the latter suggests the early standards haven't won. It'll probably win eventually, for better or worse.

CMake is increasingly pulling ahead of autotools in feature set: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2015-February/041394.html (interesting post on LLVM reasons for switching)

Pragmatic reasons why you can't (in all circumstances) just add floats to a language and simulate integers: