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McPon ML promises to be profoundly weird

Same for me except I'm currently in France.

Can read the article at https://web.archive.org/web/20260409111708/https://aphyr.com...

McPon RISC-V Is Sloooow

Power - how many Watts does it need? Speed - how quickly can it perform operations?

McPon What has Docker become?

What are your thoughts on Podman?

McPon Trump pardons convicted Binance founder

Biden pardoned several family members

McPon Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)

Nice to see ignore-revs getting some love :)

I originally wrote it because I wanted to do a mass-refactoring to llvm-project to change its weird naming convention and "it will mess up git blame" was an objection that was raised. Getting ignore-revs landed took many iterations over several months (thanks Barret!) and at the end of it I felt so drained that I didn't have the energy to do the mass refactoring I originally planned. Oh well. Maybe someday.

McPon The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...

Why not link it?

McPon Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter

LLD has a new option "--randomize-section-padding" for this purpose: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/117653

McPon Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?

Yes it is new. The WHO only changed their guidance about a year ago [1]. Still, as far as I know the evidence is only associational. From the paper the article links to: "Potential for reverse causality cannot be eliminated".

[1] https://www.who.int/news/item/15-05-2023-who-advises-not-to-...

McPon The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction

I agree with you but also: I gave my young daughter her own Android phone last week. Google Family Link is fantastic. It prevents her from using a web browser or any other things I don't want her to do. All she can do is message people, call people & look at maps. It turns itself the phone off an hour before bedtime. She can get headlines from Google search, which I didn't expect, but it's not proven a problem since the links can't be opened. The usage tracker shows she spent almost an hour messaging/calling yesterday, which is more than I expected, but if it gets too much then I can limit it. One happy customer here.

McPon Speed Up C++ Compilation

I was expecting its Java based nature to be a problem but in practise found bazelisk to be remarkably self contained and fast. Bazel has issues but Java isn't one of them.

McPon Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years

Sigh. Socialism is not a synonym for communism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

McPon C++ at the End of 2022

I tried using GPT to write code and it was very impressive but this cartoon cuts to the truth of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/zdvpwb/how...

McPon Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative

I've helped compile guidance on inclusive language for my company. Whoever came up with this list has scored an own-goal against people who genuinely seek to make their communities more inclusive.

There are words like "slave" that actually cause offense to real people when used in a trivialising way. Accordingly, terminology around databases and the like has changed, and that's a good thing.

A laundry list of terms to be "eliminated", some of which are completely harmless makes a joke of real problems and is the opposite of helpful.

McPon Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

McPon Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?

"big evolution"

"u" is next to "i" on many keyboards.

McPon Challenges for Rust

Computing is full of metaphors like "kill".

My 7 year old niece looked over my shoulder as I was writing this and said "kill!?" with a look of disgust! Disgust! I suspect that this reaction is typical of many females getting started in computing. Could it be a small part of why there are so few women in computing?

My niece gets very excited when she sees me use commands she knows like ls, cd, cat (especially cat!). The fact that she could grow up to become a DBA and won't have to talk about "dumb slaves" is something I celebrate. It's not nearly as important as <insert whataboutism here> but it's progress.

(If you or someone you know has been victimised because they're comfortable with existing terminology then I'm sorry for that, really. If you feel that changing terminology is a waste of time that is OK. If you don't want to rename your branches then no-one should give you a hard time about it.)

McPon Ask HN: How to get a job as a compiler engineer?

Arm is hiring compiler engineers in the UK: https://careers.arm.com/search-jobs/Compiler

McPon Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted

Good list, but the closest thing to a mass shooting after 1996 is a familicide with 7 killed [1]. It doesn't really compare to the Port Arthur massacre.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmington_shooting

McPon Git security vulnerability announced

A fix has already been released: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24765

McPon Git security vulnerability announced

CVE-2022-24765 is not Windows-specific.

McPon On the Weaponisation of Open Source

Accusing people of virtue signalling is a prime example of virtue-signaling.

But really I don't know your motivations and you don't know the motivations of the Terraform folks. Let's be a bit more humble please. But yes, I also find it unprofessional.

McPon Worms or bust: The story of Britain’s most tenacious indie games company (2016)

Thank you Team17 for giving me my break into software. I was/am a massive introvert and had failed many interviews because I was so awkward to talk to. At Team17 the interviewer just talked at me for an hour while I listened and that was it (my demo was a pretty awesome GTA clone so I guess he didn't feel the need to assess my skills further). But yeah, lots of Worms games. Worms 3D and Worms Forts were in full production simultaneously. The lead designer explained to me that this was what the publisher demanded, and he had a mortgage to pay. So it was a bit disenchanting but I'm still grateful to have lived the dream.

McPon Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta

What's a DE?

McPon Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'

CFR?

McPon Will Nix Overtake Docker?

https://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/ It's the most similar I've found to TortoiseHg which is the standard, and excellent, Mercurial GUI. (TortoiseGit does not live up to the family name)

McPon Message from cycling heaven: it’s not that fantastic here

Thanks for the links. My point was that studies wouldn't invalidate mattlondon's observation that cyclists more often break laws that affect pedestrians. The studies you referenced do seem refute his claim "cyclists - as a general rule - totally ignore any rules" - presumably the non-aggressive majority aren't catching his attention.

McPon Message from cycling heaven: it’s not that fantastic here

Which studies? You say "the rules" - I suspect it varies a lot by rule. Speeding? Yep, drivers are going to slip above the limit unless they're very careful, whereas you have to be a very capable athlete to do that as a cyclist. Running a red light or going on the pavement? I'm pretty sure cyclists break these far more often.

McPon Google developing own CPUs for Chromebook laptops

Sounds like an interesting interview. Do you have a link?

McPon Top German court strikes down Facebook rules on hate speech

I looked for stats on this and came up with https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education...

From looking at the maths results I came to a very different conclusion than you did.

McPon Cop investigated for blasting copyrighted music while being videoed by protester

Good idea, and the answer is, in theory at least, yes. You can effectively subtract the copyrighted music from the audio track.