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New comment by anlsh in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

anlsh — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:24:28 +0000

Man what a beautiful bit if knowledge, reminds me a bit of the eel mystery. Thanks to the researchers doing this sort of work, and I hope their conservation efforts go well

New comment by anlsh in "The Ticks That Cause Red-Meat Allergies Are Spreading Across the U.S."

anlsh — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:00:59 +0000

This is a public service announcement: please stop barbecueing your jackfruits, this is a culinary crime beyond even boiled vegetables. Please, for the love of god, just eat something fresh for once in your life

New comment by anlsh in "Lunar Flyby"

anlsh — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:35:21 +0000

wikipedia's explanation works for uniform bodies, yours doesn't. And since tidal bulges seem to be symmetric, there's no away to explain away the deformation as making one side heavier

New comment by anlsh in "Lunar Flyby"

anlsh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:24:48 +0000

I think the explanation is wrong: wikipedia offers a completely different explanation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_locking.

Planets can become tidally locked to the sun- mercury is. Probably the timescale required for the other planets is just much longer

EDIT: Apparently mercury isn't actually tidally locked to the sun, TIL

New comment by anlsh in "Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for faster VM boots"

anlsh — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:59:11 +0000

Oh neat, a post I actually know something about! I worked a lot on userfaultfd performance for GCE's live migration post-copy a couple years ago. Or more specifically, I worked on mechanisms to avoid it entirely- due to lock contention in the kennel, faults become veeeerry slow as the number of vcpus scales, and as it happens VMs these days can have a lot of vcpus

New comment by anlsh in "Magit Is Amazing"

anlsh — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:03:05 +0000

I've got [a bit of neovim config](https://github.com/anlsh/nvim/blob/8b61520a5ecd752427abffc45...) which sends you straight to `neogit` (which is basically equivalent as far as I use it) when a certain env var is set.

So in my .profile I've got

``` alias gg="NEOGIT_SLAVE=1 nvim" ```

It's definitely not perfect but it's good enough to work for basic committing/rebasing flows and it's faster than booting up emacs for the same purpose.

There Never Was a West

anlsh — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:39:05 +0000

Article URL: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west#fn_back5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45576024

Points: 1

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New comment by anlsh in "NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece"

anlsh — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 18:46:37 +0000

What an arrogant and slavish comment. Truth may be the first casualty of any war, yet here you are celebrating its demise so that war may be waged more thoroughly.

I wonder what it's like to be so convinced of your righteousness of your cause that reality itself is seondary. What a joke you are.

New comment by anlsh in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"

anlsh — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:53:35 +0000

If anyone works at bitwarden can you get your UI people to stop retheming for the upteenth time and instead make the "detailed view" of any entry read-only by default? Every time I need to access my notes on an entry I'm scared that I'll accidentally typo a letter into my password or a 2fa code or something

New comment by anlsh in "NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens"

anlsh — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:48:19 +0000

Not at all, think about it

New comment by anlsh in "NASA: Mystery of Life's Handedness Deepens"

anlsh — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 06:12:34 +0000

A very plausible explanation is that the separation was biotic

New comment by anlsh in "Code that helped end Apartheid"

anlsh — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 00:54:16 +0000

Why does a password-protected zip file reveal a list of the files within lol?

If I'm understanding this right, we'd have been hosed if the files had been TARd first?

New comment by anlsh in "When Smart Ships Divide by Zer0 – Stranding the USS Yorktown (2018)"

anlsh — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:25:05 +0000

Ok now we're talking: important clarifications. Neat read on the type systems. But this part is extremely important:

> The idiomatic way to do it is to allow garbage inputs like negative numbers into your square root function, and return garbage outputs. It is in the theorems where one puts the non-negativity hypotheses.

The equivalent condition here would be for everyone to include "zero-ness" checks on their numeric inputs. But that's awful, because whereas everyone agrees that nullptr is a meaningless pointer, zero is in fact a perfectly good integer/float whatever. So now you have something worse than null pointers- which have course caused us a huge amount of pain ever since being inflicted on the world

So x / 0 = 0 is still a terrible, terrible, idea. But introduce something like the floating-point equivalent of NaN, and say x / 0 = NaN, and now your outputs will at least be obviously wrong, instead of just silently wrong

New comment by anlsh in "When Smart Ships Divide by Zer0 – Stranding the USS Yorktown (2018)"

anlsh — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 00:41:44 +0000

Your idea that your program should just spit out an incorrect answer when it runs into an unexpected condition? That's really stupid

New comment by anlsh in "The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet"

anlsh — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:05:12 +0000

A ridiculous fairy tale. Dictatorships need hardly interfere with the "stability" of a society which launches a bloody and monumentally expensive temper tantrum in response to 9/11 but allows thousands more to die each year for want of basic medicines

New comment by anlsh in "The original magic Emacs garbage collection hack (2019)"

anlsh — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 05:01:37 +0000

Who actually has issues with gc pauses? I've never noticed them on modern hardware. Are they an issue on embedded systems or something?

New comment by anlsh in "Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics"

anlsh — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 21:26:10 +0000

No. But we're talking about cars, not computers, and their novelty is just one among many strong pieces of evidence that a much less car-dependent society is possible, even desirable. Perhaps you can refute the existence billions of people on the planet who live without commuting via car, or the dense networks of public transit which they often rely on?

New comment by anlsh in "Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics"

anlsh — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:52:22 +0000

Hah! Cars have been around for just a hundred years or so, and yet serious efforts to reduce our dependency on them are "near impossible." Talk about recency bias.

New comment by anlsh in "Tire dust makes up the majority of ocean microplastics"

anlsh — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:45:42 +0000

Not much? Do you drive? Do you see the number of consumer vehicles on the road versus the number of trucks/delivery vehicles? If we could work towards a huge reduction in consumer vehicles on the road, even if we just replaced them all with busses, that'd be a huge improvement in gas consumption, traffic, (sub)urban sprawl, and more.

New comment by anlsh in "Are the Americans Awake?"

anlsh — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:13:50 +0000

9am on the west coast and it's still at 54%- pretty sure it's broken