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New comment by biorach in "The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]"

biorach — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:27:45 +0000

You have completely misunderstood the author's point - a misunderstanding that would have been easily avoided by reading just a little bit more of the 23 pages of detailed exposition which is very clearly not the outcome of a 'lack of effort'

New comment by biorach in "The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]"

biorach — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 12:25:12 +0000

> Stopped reading right after that. > Why is this so high up on HN?

Your question would have been answered if you'd just read a little more

New comment by biorach in "Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel"

biorach — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:11:41 +0000

The data race is exactly the kind of subtle bug that even very experienced programmers would make in this circumstance.

The patches that Linus posted are relatively small and self contained and from reading the thread it seems came from a series of in depth conversations with Claude and were carefully reviewed by Linus.

So what we're seeing here is a tricky concurrency bug that even an expert would make. You can't use it as an example of slop

New comment by biorach in "Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel"

biorach — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:06:44 +0000

Looks like Linus doesn't agree with you

New comment by biorach in "11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker"

biorach — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:04:12 +0000

> rust will drop the string l before q

Why?

New comment by biorach in "apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper"

biorach — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:39:46 +0000

what quirks did you bump into with sqlite3?

New comment by biorach in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

biorach — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:02:54 +0000

It's not asserting corruption. they were the voluntary caretakers of a system designed to ensure their prosperity and they provided their time and energy so that the system would continue to do so.

New comment by biorach in "Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust"

biorach — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:34:14 +0000

How much work is involved with mantaining a linker in deep maintenance mode?

New comment by biorach in "The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors"

biorach — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:30:36 +0000

The tapestry is not considered French

New comment by biorach in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

biorach — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:12:56 +0000

It's long been clear that there were fundamental implementation choices that mattered between async runtimes, but _nine_ design dimensions? Damn.

I think async is deceptive in that it seems like a self-contained and relatively straightforward aspect of a language. But there are many design choices to be made and they all have wide implications.

Plus I think the implications of many of these dimensions are not fully understood and that collectively we are still trying to understand how they are playing out in implementations. Add to this the subtle nature of some of the implications plus the combinations...

I think a good comparison is lexical vs dynamic scope in programming languages. This is a design dimension that was argued over for a decade or two in the early years of programming language design. It was only as time went by, and experience gained by working with concrete implementations that it became clear that lexical scoping should be the default choice and dynamic scoping should be restricted to various niches.

New comment by biorach in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

biorach — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:52:23 +0000

No. Because concurrency vs parallelism

New comment by biorach in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

biorach — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:16:50 +0000

> What is "await" if not a synonym for "suspend"?!?

it's a question of whether the runtime is guaranteed to suspend at an await point or if it may choose not to

> async/await is one product of a long line of thought that says "threads are too hard for programmers to get right".

what? no! concurrency vs parallelism etc etc

New comment by biorach in "A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await"

biorach — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:11:48 +0000

At last someone took the time to pore over all the tedious crap that I have been trying and failing to keep straight in my head since forever.

New comment by biorach in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

biorach — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:51:59 +0000

Please no. Africa has suffered enough.

New comment by biorach in "Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales"

biorach — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:01:17 +0000

This migration predates the arrival of Celtic speakers by many thousands of years.

New comment by biorach in "The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

biorach — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:49:09 +0000

I did not.

Having spent considerable amounts of time undoing the effects of overconfident junior programmers who decided to be interesting and novel on small business code bases, I guess if we're going to replace juniors with AI we may as well ask for the full experience.

New comment by biorach in "The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

biorach — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:04:32 +0000

It's extremely unlikely that there is anything interesting or novel in the optimisation of a small SaaS SQL

New comment by biorach in "Asahi Linux on M3"

biorach — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:00:15 +0000

> Regardless, saying it would be too much effort for Apple

That's not what they said. Please don't misrepresent

> is laughabe

And this disparaging language about commenters is not OK. Please stop.

New comment by biorach in "Asahi Linux on M3"

biorach — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:38:49 +0000

> not locking you out is not a big heroic move you're trying to picture here.

The person you're replying to didn't say that. Please don't misrepresent and please keep it respectful

New comment by biorach in "UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa's true scale"

biorach — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:04:39 +0000

Kind of hard to hang a globe on a wall in a satisfactory manner.