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New comment by dataangel in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

dataangel — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:46:58 +0000

You must be trolling. Most open source software is released under MIT license which explicitly says the author isn't liable for anything.

New comment by dataangel in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

dataangel — Sun, 31 May 2026 11:45:12 +0000

Yes the person making the accusation could do that

New comment by dataangel in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

dataangel — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:14:54 +0000

I made this prediction years ago

New comment by dataangel in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

dataangel — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:17:51 +0000

As always emacs has it already

https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate

New comment by dataangel in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

dataangel — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:13:05 +0000

I mean, E2E is the entire point of Signal. if you don't think E2E is important then Signal is the wrong app. Personally given the current political climate I think having the technical knowledge to understand what E2E is and not wanting E2E is bonkers. High chance of people getting killed or jailed in the US for mainstream political positions in the near future.

New comment by dataangel in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025"

dataangel — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:51:03 +0000

For those to be equal you need both associativity and commutativity.

Commutativity says that a*b = b*a, but that's not enough to allow arbitrary reordering. When you write a*b*c depending on whether * is left or right associative that either means a*(b*c) or (a*b)*c. If those are equal we say the operation is associative. You need both to allow arbitrary reordering. If an operation is only commutative you can turn a*(b*c) into a*(c*b) or (b*c)*a but there is no way to put a in the middle.

New comment by dataangel in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

dataangel — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:11:19 +0000

Do the people who have control of the information have an incentive to lie?

New comment by dataangel in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

dataangel — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:49:35 +0000

That era was nice but it has a different problem. People will pearl clutch about kids getting exposed to someone's custom skin making their character nude, or putting curse words on the side of a gun or whatever.

New comment by dataangel in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

dataangel — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:17:24 +0000

they were hoping Cell would get more widespread use though, which it did not

New comment by dataangel in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

dataangel — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:08:35 +0000

they can't move everything to the cloud because of latency

New comment by dataangel in "PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports"

dataangel — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:03:33 +0000

imports run arbitrary Python code, making them faster is the same as making every other language feature faster

New comment by dataangel in "PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports"

dataangel — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:02:50 +0000

This would be a huge deal for Python startup time *if* it was applied to all the standard library packages recursively. Right now importing asyncio brings in half the standard library through transitive imports.

New comment by dataangel in "Cerebras systems raises $1.1B Series G"

dataangel — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:10:27 +0000

Context switching makes you less productive compared to if you could completely finish one task before moving to the other though. in the limit an LLM that responds instantly is still better.

New comment by dataangel in "A safe, non-owning C++ pointer class"

dataangel — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:12:37 +0000

The atomics in std::weak_ptr are >20x more expensive even with 0 contention.

New comment by dataangel in "Not all OCuLink eGPU docks are created equal"

dataangel — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:07:04 +0000

Why use an egpu with a raspberry pi? all the games are x86 based. LLMs?

New comment by dataangel in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

dataangel — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:35:10 +0000

If you have serious RSI I strongly suggest Svalboard.

https://svalboard.com/

New comment by dataangel in "A review of Nim 2: The good and bad with example code"

dataangel — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:34:09 +0000

This is the comment that is going to get me to actually try Nim

New comment by dataangel in "Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed"

dataangel — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:12:08 +0000

> median word error rate of 25%

So 1 out of every 4 words is wrong? How does Neuralink compare?

New comment by dataangel in "FFmpeg devs boast of another 100x leap thanks to handwritten assembly code"

dataangel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:03:25 +0000

You're a bit naive about the complexity. Commonly longer sequences are actually faster, not just because instructions vary in their speed, but also because the presence of earlier instructions that don't feed results into later instructions still affect their performance. Different instructions consume different CPU resources and can contend for them (e.g. the CPU can stall even though all the inputs needed for a calculation are ready just because you've done too many of that operation recently). And then keep in mind when I say "earlier instructions" I don't mean earlier in the textual list, I mean in the history of instructions actually executed; you can reach the same instruction arriving from many different paths!

New comment by dataangel in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

dataangel — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:05:47 +0000

It's not word salad, Grok was literally posting unironic praise for Hitler two days ago.