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messe··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
If they're selling in a supermarket, it's more than fair to compare them to those offerings.

Who's buying Burger King more than grocery shopping?

messe··on The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
> They could have made the 'umbrella' of what they were fighting for cover 100% of the population [...] They didn't. We're all worse for it.

Other people could have stood by them and fought for those rights too. You're blaming the wrong people. Regardless of your intentions, you're not coming across well. I'd urge you to try reframing this, as you're not going to win many supporters outside of the alt-right pipeline as you're pitching it at the moment.

I don't want to accuse you of being a misogynist. Nor do I want to accuse you of being alt-right. But that is how you are coming across in your comments. Textual internet discourse always hides nuances. I'd really ask that you reconsider how you frame this, whether internally or externally, because as it stands, I don't think it's great.

messe··on The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure
I don't see how you can blame this on feminists when other people should also have been pushing for those same rights?

Why are you putting more of the blame on feminists and women than any other section of society here? It just reads as unhinged misogyny.

messe··on Why I love FreeBSD
Could be worth checking out: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/24931
messe··on Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager
The reactionary fork started by an anti vax nutcase? Yeah. It's a joke at best. At worst it'll foster an utterly toxic community.
messe··on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
> Lootboxes are not slot machines or FBO terminals. If they can't be "cashed out", they are more like collectible card games... which are also IMHO a plague on humanity, but not the same level of destructive activity as gambling for cash. They do need regulation, given how prevalent they are in games popular with teenagers, but need different regulation from casinos.

Even if they can't be cashed out officially, there are often other unofficial ways. Like selling the accounts in question.

messe··on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
Yeah, kids should be able to wander into bookies and place bets as they please. Let's let them buy cigarettes too while we're at it.
messe··on E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
Who's we?
messe··on OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
Ah, dammit.
messe··on OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas
Please don't encourage MITM-ing even more of the web by a US company.
messe··on NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun
That's how rockets work.
messe··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.
Elaborate.
messe··on Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
He went into it a bit more over on Ziggit today too. I only noticed it way after I went digging: https://ziggit.dev/t/devlog-type-resolution-redesign-with-la...
messe··on Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
Instead of being rude, consider checking Roc's website: https://roc-lang.org/

He wasn't pitching the language directly, but linking to the codebase as that was what was relevant to the comment he was replying to.

messe··on Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
I had to search for this, but managed to find the relevant mlugg@ comment[0] on the ZSF zulip:

> i had to change the bytes field from [*]align(@alignOf(T)) u8 to just [*]u8 (and cast the alignment back in the like one place that field is accessed). this wasn't necessary for MultiArrayList in and of itself, but it was necessary for embedding a MultiArrayList(T) inside of T without a dependency loop, like

    const T = struct {
        children: MultiArrayList(T),
    };
    // reproduced for completeness:
    fn MultiArrayList(comptime T: type) type {
        return struct {
            bytes: [*]align(@alignOf(T)) u8,
            // ...
        };
    }
[0]: https://zsf.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/454360-compiler/to...
messe··on Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
> Surely nobody would use javascript for either yea?

It's probably the most popular language for serverless.

messe··on Tony Hoare has died
> It can be inferred from Kay's own words. He probably was just poking fun in a tongue-in-cheek manner often seen amongst larger-than-life figures.

...is that not obvious from the original quote? Maybe it's a cultural difference (I'm from Ireland), but that's how I've always interpreted and it's never occurred to me that people took it seriously or as anything other than tongue in cheek.

messe··on Widevine retiring its Cloud License Service (CLS)
> Pirates today have to brave shady torrent sites and the risk of getting C&D letters. Asking your friend to make a copy is far more accessible.

Or torrent through a VPN, which many people have access to already.

messe··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
Presumably it's also counting non-electricity energy generation. Road and rail transport still relies heavily on internal combustion engines.
messe··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
> that any reasonable person

In short supply on that side of the Atlantic these days it seems.

messe··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
Wait. Somebody else who uses the dwarvish name for Gandalf?

Had to do a double take, as that's my steam handle.

messe··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
> Vancouver

Southerners...

(Chiming in from Denmark)

messe··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
56 degrees here (Denmark, and grew up in Ireland @ 53 degrees).

> I guess it kinda hinges on this idea of "wasting" daylight. I don't feel like that. I want the sun to wake me up

The problem is that during the darkest parts of winter, even if I postpone my wake up as long as possible, I'm still getting up in the dark if I want to be able to commute into work on time. There's no sunlight waking me up.

> Do people generally go on hikes after work? I go out for drinks. haha

No, but I still have to do things like walk the dog, do the shopping on the way home. I find it a lot more pleasant starting out that part of day with a bit of sunlight.

Also, yes, drinks. This is Northern Europe after all.

EDIT to add: Civil twilight in December where I am starts ~07:40, and I also get up around 06:30 (when not dealing with insomnia like tonight).

messe··on British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time
That has to be latitude dependent.

> you're getting natural sunlight through all your windows for hours every morning

Hah "hours". Not in Northern Europe you're not. My commute is dark on both sides. If I had to choose which side I'd prefer to be brighter I'd prefer the end of the day rather than feeling like my daylight has been wasted in the office. I shift my schedule in winter to make up for this as best I can.

messe··on AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
I'm well aware, thank you. I'm not contesting ability to run on a 386, I'm contesting the title of "most portable OS".
messe··on AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
I doubt NetBSD "just works" fully on those systems either. I see a lot of rose tinted glasses when NetBSD portability comes up. Those older systems barely get stress tested, as the system has become too large to be self-hosted on them anymore and has to resort to using cross compilation to build a working base.

At least OpenBSD, when it says it supports a platform, _actually supports that platform_, and the system is stable enough that it can build itself.

messe··on AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
And NetBSD is missing support for an order of magnitude more SoCs. I like NetBSD. I've run it on several systems in the past, and not just as a toy. I like the whole BSD family, and even deploy FreeBSD in production at work, and use OpenBSD on my home router. But NetBSD's claim as the most portable OS doesn't hold up these days.
messe··on AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
That's a very limited view of what portability means.

Driver support for a niche SoC? Good luck getting NetBSD on before Linux. The sheer amount of SoCs supported by the Linux kernel dwarfs anything NetBSD has to offer.

messe··on AMD Am386 released March 2, 1991
> most portable os

Eh... I think the Linux kernel + your choice of libc/userland has it beat these days.

messe··on Frankensqlite a Rust reimplementation of SQLite with concurrent writers
It doesn't read ambitious so much as naive.
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