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messe··on Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers
If they're the type of tone deaf person who thought that the alternative interview was a good idea, how likely do you think it is that they'll take your advice?
messe··on The Importance of Limitations for Creativity and Learning (2023)
Spam bot.
messe··on Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
If only Claude didn't constantly drop to less capable models whenever it encountered anything vaguely cybersecurity related (despite being part of the Anthropic Cyber Verification Program and having Mythos access, albeit limited).

We're strongly pushing for a move to a mix of Codex and open models at my workplace because of Anthropic's ridiculous nanny-ing.

messe··on There is no official XScreenSaver GitHub repository
> Maybe someone should fork xscreensaver as xscreensaver-ng as a community project?

Feel free.

messe··on How Do Fungi Keep the Planet Healthy?
No shortage of fossil fuels though...
messe··on OpenBSD 8.0
The art is credited to yvaneht nioj, another simpsons reference.
messe··on Type-safe HTML templating in Zig

    <!-- #include file="header.html" -->
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
messe··on OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics
Proofs are much easier when one just lists their axioms, leaving the rest an exercise to the reader.
messe··on More floating point alternatives
> In this conversation, the intended meaning was clear

Apparently it wasn't, as the commenter who originally used the term has now clarified that they did indeed mean non-deterministic. You misunderstood them.

So maybe being specific about terminology here isn't just pointless pedantry?

messe··on More floating point alternatives
All of which are well defined and can be configured from user space. That doesn't make them non-deterministic.
messe··on More floating point alternatives
They're not associative, sure. But that's a very far cry from claiming they're non-deterministic.
messe··on More floating point alternatives
Floating point is deterministic, what are you talking about?

> You just have to use other data types to handle money or complex mathematical operations like 0.2+0.1

Such as... decimal floating point.

messe··on Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
> I gonna be generous and guess this was upvoted as top post for being maybe possibly midwit-correct, hoho you are so right good sire, reddit-fedora-tip herpdy-derp.

You may want to look in a mirror. Your snide tone does not add anything here.

messe··on One year of sponsored Servo development
Fashware.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/fashware

messe··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
"A Fire Upon the Deep" and "a Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge
messe··on Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds
> - if they meant "diameter is similar to Ohio dimensions", they are a little bit off, because Ohio is about 355*355 km and Enceladus diameter is around 500km

I think they used the diagonal of a hypothetical square Ohio: sqrt(355^2 + 355^2) ≈ 502 km.

messe··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Good? They don't own the commons.
messe··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
> First of all, there are many studies that show that plant-based meat alternatives are healthier than their meat counterparts

Define healthier, and link the studies.

I eat vegetarian more often than not these days (although I don't usually use plant-based meat), and I'm not disagreeing with you. But cite your sources rather than making vague health claims.

messe··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
The beyond burger is decent, but there's no way it's fooling someone in a blind taste test.
messe··on Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
What does this have to do with the article?
messe··on AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study
They look more like OCR errors than encoding errors.
messe··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
One represents rotation in 2D space, the other in 3D. So I think it's a bit more than that.
messe··on Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
Yes and no. The x in e^ix is to SO(2) what Euler angles are to SO(3).
messe··on git git git git git
Exec replaces the current process, so yes[1].

[1]: Unless git is doing fork()+exec() and then waiting for the exit code.

messe··on Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter
Ireland isn't in NATO.
messe··on Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)
> In 2001 Mark Probst implemented tail-call optimization in GCC with a separate calling convention; he lists the limitations of the then-existing tail-call optimization in GCC in section 6.4, among them: "It cannot handle indirect calls" (which would have been used in tail calls for interpreter dispatch).

Relatively recent being a quarter of century? Or at least a fifth of a century for indirect calls[1] (GCC 3.4.6 is the earliest I see on Compiler Explorer, released March 2006).

[1]: https://godbolt.org/z/vvcnn54oM

messe··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
It has never been tried.

Remind us what the U stands for?

messe··on Let's all meet up in the Y2K
I get to spend more time at social activities I enjoy on days I work remotely because I don't have to waste my time on a commute.

> I actually think everyone should be forced to 5 day RTO for their own good

I think you should get a life outside of the office.

messe··on Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages
> which was clearly not my intention.

You did not express that clearly enough then.

messe··on A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return
California for one.
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