Hacker News: McP

New comment by McP in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

McP — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:49:31 +0000

Same for me except I'm currently in France.

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

New comment by McP in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

McP — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:01:10 +0000

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

New comment by McP in "What has Docker become?"

McP — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:08:54 +0000

What are your thoughts on Podman?

New comment by McP in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

McP — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:05:28 +0000

Biden pardoned several family members

New comment by McP in "Converting a Git repo from tabs to spaces (2016)"

McP — Fri, 02 May 2025 21:48:18 +0000

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.

New comment by McP in "The case of the critical section that let multiple threads enter a block of code"

McP — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:41:26 +0000

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

Why not link it?

New comment by McP in "Performance of the Python 3.14 tail-call interpreter"

McP — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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

New comment by McP in "Does the American Diabetes Association work for patients or companies?"

McP — Sat, 04 May 2024 22:26:09 +0000

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-...

New comment by McP in "The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction"

McP — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:31:43 +0000

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.

New comment by McP in "Speed Up C++ Compilation"

McP — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 06:42:25 +0000

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.

New comment by McP in "Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years"

McP — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 10:35:31 +0000

Sigh. Socialism is not a synonym for communism.

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

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

New comment by McP in "C++ at the End of 2022"

McP — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:04:06 +0000

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...

New comment by McP in "Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative"

McP — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:09:30 +0000

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.

New comment by McP in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

McP — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:38:36 +0000

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

New comment by McP in "Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it?"

McP — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 14:33:18 +0000

"big evolution"

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

New comment by McP in "Challenges for Rust"

McP — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 14:05:32 +0000

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 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.)

New comment by McP in "Ask HN: How to get a job as a compiler engineer?"

McP — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:21:15 +0000

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

New comment by McP in "Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted"

McP — Wed, 25 May 2022 18:56:06 +0000

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

New comment by McP in "Git security vulnerability announced"

McP — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:24:12 +0000

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

New comment by McP in "Git security vulnerability announced"

McP — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 07:22:08 +0000

CVE-2022-24765 is not Windows-specific.