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New comment by mmilunic in "Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake"

mmilunic — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:40:27 +0000

Kinda a smart alec response, but how do you know you aren’t going to increment off the end of the array when operating normally? I guess it is twice the danger.

New comment by mmilunic in ""cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2"

mmilunic — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:52:55 +0000

I think in the context of these it’s more of “we’ve discovered a bug” which gives you more information than “there is a bug”. The main difference in information being that the former implies not only there is a bug but that LLMs can find it.

New comment by mmilunic in "Four Column ASCII (2017)"

mmilunic — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:29:32 +0000

Either way you would still need some check to ensure your digits are digits and not some other type of character. Having zeroed out memory read as a bunch of NUL characters instead of like “00000000” would probably be useful, as “000000” is sometimes a legitimate user input