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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.

Number Form

messe — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:41:06 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_form

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665955

Points: 5

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New comment by messe in "Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing"

messe — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:29:45 +0000

In this case, it was not used in a jocular way. It was a British person demonstrating their complete and utter ignorance of the only country they share a land border with, and I will call them out on that any day of the week.

New comment by messe in "Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing"

messe — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:57:02 +0000

No, I'm saying that it's associated with a certain outdated and bigoted attitude toward the Irish.

Using Éire in English, would be seen as odd. You wouldn't say Deutschland or Danmark.

> If I change the rest of the sentence to Na Gaeilge will that be better.

No. And you've used the genitive instead of nominative there, so I have some doubts that you could.

New comment by messe in "Unlimited OCR: One-shot long-horizon parsing"

messe — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:15:34 +0000

> Eire

A nitpick, because it's often a dogwhistle: but almost nobody in Ireland calls it that when speaking English. And that's still incorrect in Irish, the correct spelling is Éire.

New comment by messe in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

messe — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:12:45 +0000

You can own multiple guns and store them at your residence in Denmark. I know a couple of people who do so, admittedly both ex-military.

This isn't limited to shotguns or bolt action rifles for hunting. You can own up to six handguns.

You do need to be licensed however, and given Andersen's history he probably wouldn't be permitted.

New comment by messe in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

messe — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:17:59 +0000

Umm, yes? My contact information is attached to the business names I trade under? Which is publicly available information.

Is this an alien concept to you?

New comment by messe in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

messe — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:16:32 +0000

Yes... if you want to do business with people, then those people want to know who they do business with.

What a fucking tragedy.

I'm sorry you have to live in such a socialist hellscape.

New comment by messe in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

messe — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:18:56 +0000

Precisely what inconvenience does it actually cause those businesses?

New comment by messe in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

messe — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:04:57 +0000

On a similar note:

There was a period post-Brexit when I hadn't moved away from Ireland yet during which I also did my best to avoid UK produced goods too.

Now that was a lot harder though due to the UK still being in the single market at the time, and on top of that just how integrated supply chains between the north and the rest of Ireland are.

I'm cautiously optimistic that the UK is moving back toward sanity though.

New comment by messe in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

messe — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:26:22 +0000

Actually, it's not. Speaking from experience. I'm a sample size of one, but that's still one better than your extrapolation from zero.

One of the local supermarket chains here in Denmark (Salling Group) even puts a star on the price tag for products of European origin.

For larger purchases, I'm doing research on the product anyway.

I still sometimes buy American at times; sometimes there's no avoiding it for certain items. But on the whole avoiding American goods isn't that hard, and doesn't require much effort.

New comment by messe in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

messe — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:35:13 +0000

It doesn't have local hidden variables. That's an important distinction.

I'm not sure a non-local hidden variable explanation of QM is any distinct from superdeterminism though.

New comment by messe in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

messe — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:32:49 +0000

It was far from exactly like that. GR was in part prompted by the precession of the perihelion of mercury for which there was plenty of data.

New comment by messe in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

messe — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:56:30 +0000

> Linux developers should be doing a lot more of this. We should be making everything work better for us without caring how it's going to impact other irrelevant platforms

Linux developers already do. Using a BSD can already be a pain in the arse, thanks to (often poorly thought out) Linux-isms cropping up everywhere.

New comment by messe in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

messe — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:42:05 +0000

Apologies, and noted. I wasn't my usual self, which is honestly what prompted me to give in to replying to them. I usually try to do better, and will do in future.

New comment by messe in "What type of code should you generate with AI?"

messe — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:00:54 +0000

A fun first project would be something to cultivate bitter almonds, and then isolate the cyanide compounds from them.

I don't know what you'd do with the cyanide compounds. But maybe you could get some inspiration from the current attitude toward "AI" products.