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New comment by messe in "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"

messe — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:14:26 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes

New comment by messe in "OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics"

messe — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:27:01 +0000

Proofs are much easier when one just lists their axioms, leaving the rest an exercise to the reader.

New comment by messe in "More floating point alternatives"

messe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:41:11 +0000

> In this conversation, the intended meaning was clear

Apparently it wasn't, as the commenter who originally used the term has now clarified that they did indeed mean non-deterministic. You misunderstood them.

So maybe being specific about terminology here isn't just pointless pedantry?

New comment by messe in "More floating point alternatives"

messe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:26:45 +0000

All of which are well defined and can be configured from user space. That doesn't make them non-deterministic.

New comment by messe in "More floating point alternatives"

messe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:23:06 +0000

They're not associative, sure. But that's a very far cry from claiming they're non-deterministic.

New comment by messe in "More floating point alternatives"

messe — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:55:08 +0000

Floating point is deterministic, what are you talking about?

> You just have to use other data types to handle money or complex mathematical operations like 0.2+0.1

Such as... decimal floating point.

New comment by messe in "Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side"

messe — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:58:28 +0000

> I gonna be generous and guess this was upvoted as top post for being maybe possibly midwit-correct, hoho you are so right good sire, reddit-fedora-tip herpdy-derp.

You may want to look in a mirror. Your snide tone does not add anything here.

New comment by messe in "One year of sponsored Servo development"

messe — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:21:20 +0000

Fashware.

https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/fashware

New comment by messe in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

messe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:08:25 +0000

"A Fire Upon the Deep" and "a Deepness in the Sky" by Vernor Vinge

New comment by messe in "Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds"

messe — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:42:13 +0000

> - if they meant "diameter is similar to Ohio dimensions", they are a little bit off, because Ohio is about 355*355 km and Enceladus diameter is around 500km

I think they used the diagonal of a hypothetical square Ohio: sqrt(355^2 + 355^2) ≈ 502 km.

New comment by messe in "Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%"

messe — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:10:49 +0000

Good? They don't own the commons.

New comment by messe in "Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation"

messe — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:43 +0000

> First of all, there are many studies that show that plant-based meat alternatives are healthier than their meat counterparts

Define healthier, and link the studies.

I eat vegetarian more often than not these days (although I don't usually use plant-based meat), and I'm not disagreeing with you. But cite your sources rather than making vague health claims.

New comment by messe in "Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation"

messe — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:57:14 +0000

The beyond burger is decent, but there's no way it's fooling someone in a blind taste test.

New comment by messe in "Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree"

messe — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 19:57:53 +0000

What does this have to do with the article?

New comment by messe in "AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study"

messe — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:03:00 +0000

They look more like OCR errors than encoding errors.

New comment by messe in "Turns are Better than Radians (2022)"

messe — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:53:32 +0000

One represents rotation in 2D space, the other in 3D. So I think it's a bit more than that.

New comment by messe in "Turns are Better than Radians (2022)"

messe — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:36:25 +0000

Yes and no. The x in e^ix is to SO(2) what Euler angles are to SO(3).

New comment by messe in "git git git git git"

messe — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:08:01 +0000

Exec replaces the current process, so yes[1].

[1]: Unless git is doing fork()+exec() and then waiting for the exit code.

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