Hacker News: tedunangst

New comment by tedunangst in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

tedunangst — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:28:46 +0000

Oh, grabbed the wrong link.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/steamos-vs-windows-o...

New comment by tedunangst in "Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse"

tedunangst — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:52:18 +0000

Why do you link that article but not this one?

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/11/ars-benchmarks-show-s...

New comment by tedunangst in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

tedunangst — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:37:21 +0000

It's not like the State Department would ever mention Kim Jong the Second in documents.

New comment by tedunangst in "Slashdot effect"

tedunangst — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:01:26 +0000

Stories were selected by site mods (editors) and that's censorship, man!

New comment by tedunangst in "Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost"

tedunangst — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:54:23 +0000

Why not? The Wayback Machine predates the National Emergency Library by many years, suggesting it is possible for one to exist without the other.

New comment by tedunangst in "Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?"

tedunangst — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:20:46 +0000

Why not? This wasn't found by source review. The computer was slow, somebody looked into why. The bug was discovered via analysis of binary artifacts, and only then traced back to the source. Bruce Dawson does this all the time on Windows.

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/category/uiforetw-2/

New comment by tedunangst in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

tedunangst — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:22:50 +0000

That article is very confused. They're saying that transglutaminase, street name meat glue, extracted from bacteria is literally the same thing as pink slime. Lean finely textured beef, street name pink slime, comes from cows. However processed, it's still beef. You can't squeeze it out of bacteria.

Reading the Wikipedia articles it's pretty clear these are different things, even if both are added to beef in some way.

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

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

New comment by tedunangst in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

tedunangst — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 06:32:08 +0000

Do you have a source for transglutiminase used to put the pink slime back together? This is the first I'm hearing it. I thought they just stirred it into the ground beef.

New comment by tedunangst in "Apple M4 Series Feature Support"

tedunangst — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:28:04 +0000

> Note that as these machines have not been released for general availability yet, supported and missing features are predictions based on what Apple has changed on a per-SoC and per-machine basis in the past. This page will change rapidly once work begins on support for these machines.

These machines have been available for quite a while.

New comment by tedunangst in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

tedunangst — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:56:30 +0000

Are you confusing pink slime and meat glue?

New comment by tedunangst in "A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life"

tedunangst — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:37:35 +0000

So... 0.5? Thanks. :)

New comment by tedunangst in "I write type-safe generic data structures in C"

tedunangst — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:00:05 +0000

Quote a different standard.

New comment by tedunangst in "I write type-safe generic data structures in C"

tedunangst — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:32:42 +0000

This is incorrect. In a function definition, an empty list means it takes no parameters. 6.7.5.3 Function declarators

> 14. An empty list in a function declarator that is part of a definition of that function specifies that the function has no parameters.

New comment by tedunangst in "Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi"

tedunangst — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:24:30 +0000

Extremely hard working "could".

New comment by tedunangst in "A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life"

tedunangst — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:27:54 +0000

"People" could really use a number attached to it.

New comment by tedunangst in "Most ints are not floats"

tedunangst — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:12:17 +0000

I'll take the contrary position and argue that most ints are floats, because ints are not uniformly distributed. 0, 1, 10, etc. are far more common.

New comment by tedunangst in "BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large"

tedunangst — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 18:33:22 +0000

Can you elaborate on what's wrong with this post?

New comment by tedunangst in "Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

tedunangst — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:32:59 +0000

I just ran cargo check on nushell, and it took a minute and a half. I didn't time how long it took to compile, maybe five minutes earlier today? So I would call it faster, but still not fast.

I was all excited to conduct the "cargo check; mrustc; cc" is 100x faster experiment, but I think at best, the multiple is going to be pretty small.

New comment by tedunangst in "Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL"

tedunangst — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:53:16 +0000

You can copy from a zero sized pointer with memcpy, but not NULL.

New comment by tedunangst in "How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack"

tedunangst — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:44:12 +0000

I ran a qotd server for a while, only retired two months ago actually. It wasn't very popular.