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New comment by messe in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

messe — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:13:32 +0000

Ireland isn't in NATO.

New comment by messe in "Tail-call optimization in C is relatively recent (2025)"

messe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:23:31 +0000

> 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

New comment by messe in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

messe — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:19:51 +0000

It has never been tried.

Remind us what the U stands for?

New comment by messe in "Let's all meet up in the Y2K"

messe — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:18:46 +0000

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.

New comment by messe in "Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages"

messe — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:54:58 +0000

> which was clearly not my intention.

You did not express that clearly enough then.

New comment by messe in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

messe — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:10:04 +0000

California for one.

New comment by messe in "An iroh powered smart fan"

messe — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:01:24 +0000

> Does C also have a compiler that turns C code into assembly before the real runtime does its work?

What do you think ahead of time compilation is?

New comment by messe in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

messe — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:10:26 +0000

Denmark too. Aarhus looks like a war zone from the smoke on new years.

New comment by messe in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

messe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:13:04 +0000

> Distilling a model is a method that can push the entire market to low margins and prevent companies from making money off such research

Then it's on Anthropic to actually price their models accordingly so that distilling isn't profitable. Why does this need a legal remedy when market forces could easily resolve this?

> Is it in the interest of the USA, probably no

Good. The world needs to diversify away from dependence on US technology.

New comment by messe in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

messe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:57:30 +0000

> Copyright law and IP law is not the same although everyone seem to conflate the two.

> Search engines for example historically ignored copyright law by copying excerpts or serving other site images

Excerpts are often considered fair use, but it depends on country.

> it doesn't mean someone copying Google's code has some moral frepass

Nobody copied Anthropic's code. They used it's output to train another model. At most they violated some terms of service.

Did they maybe abuse Anthropic's subsidised pricing? Sure. But that's what happens in a free market if you sell below cost.

New comment by messe in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

messe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:10:42 +0000

> Alibaba reuses the IP anthropic used to train the model that's more akin to historical Chinese reverse engineering methods and disrespect of IP

Why is this any worse than Anthropic's disrepect of IP? You've apparently drawn a distinction between the two here, but I'm failing to see what it actually is.

New comment by messe in "Podman v6.0.0"

messe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:15:07 +0000

That's the "podman compose" wrapper command. podman-compose (the implementation referenced in the first sentence of your quote) does not call docker-compose: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose

New comment by messe in "This blog is written in en-GB"

messe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:31:11 +0000

And kilometers instead of miles.

New comment by messe in "More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)"

messe — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:32:00 +0000

I can confidently say that nobody has ever confused The War of the Worlds with The Two Planets.

New comment by messe in "AI in mathematics is forcing big questions"

messe — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:53:18 +0000

But part of the point of mathematics is human understanding. I think most would be willing to accept the proof. They just wouldn't think it's nearly as useful as one that could be understood.

New comment by messe in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

messe — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:11:33 +0000

> Europe at the very least

How's life under that rock?

New comment by messe in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

messe — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:44:54 +0000

That's only because we write numbers in big endian.

New comment by messe in "Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in Mars crater"

messe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:27:32 +0000

> Organic matter, i.e. originating from once-living matter.

No, it means matter composed of organic compounds[1]. It categorically does not in this instance mean originating from once-living matter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound

New comment by messe in "Spatially distributed complex organic matter detected in Mars crater"

messe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:01:50 +0000

> Although in situ Raman analyses cannot determine whether these organics denote abiotic or biotic sources, the organic association with both depositional and diagenetic minerals and the detection of organics on the martian surface suggests that the organics observed ubiquitously at the Bright Angel outcrop may be resistant to radiation and oxidation or have been relatively recently exposed.

New comment by messe in "OAuth for all"

messe — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:28:20 +0000

> was there for some good reason (security?).

To cover the myriad of (sometimes downright stupid) requirements that large enterprises have.