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New comment by weregiraffe in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

weregiraffe — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:54:53 +0000

"but stop when understand"

English language as she is spoke

New comment by weregiraffe in "SpaceX S-1"

weregiraffe — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:52:12 +0000

Short SpaceX to compensate

New comment by weregiraffe in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

weregiraffe — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:48:38 +0000

Spread the blood libel on one page, pontificate about the death of democracy on another. Stay classy, nyt.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

weregiraffe — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:20:42 +0000

If I blindly believe all accusations, will it lead to a better world?

New comment by weregiraffe in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

weregiraffe — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:22:37 +0000

Is "accused of rape" and "raped" the same in your mind?

New comment by weregiraffe in "The latest X algorithm has been published to GitHub"

weregiraffe — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:35:32 +0000

Elon derangment syndrome

New comment by weregiraffe in "High-Entropy Alloy"

weregiraffe — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:04:07 +0000

>mess of proteins and molecules

Because proteins famously aren't molecules.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

weregiraffe — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:56:30 +0000

Nah, nobody will buy games with subscription plans.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

weregiraffe — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:17:56 +0000

>you could not leave exam for the toilet without asking first and then being followed out by a watcher, which then would follow you back and check the toilet afterwards for notes.

That's not how you do it. The notes are in your pocket. You go to the toilet, read the notes, put the notes back into your pocket and go back to do the exam.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Starship V3"

weregiraffe — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:43:54 +0000

SpaceX perfected Falcon 9 reuse, they perfected Dragon, they perfected Starlink. Are you seriously going to bet they can't improve on the Space Shuttle? Which is what Starship/Super Heavy is, Space Shuttle idea implemented correctly.

New comment by weregiraffe in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

weregiraffe — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:31:51 +0000

> It’s back to only reading content produced and curated by companies for us

I didn’t know only companies can have websites.

New comment by weregiraffe in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

weregiraffe — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:00:57 +0000

You are absolutely right.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

weregiraffe — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:59:05 +0000

But you can't expect the language std to supply you with every package under the sun.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

weregiraffe — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:35:16 +0000

How can you make yourself genuinely care about something you don't care about? It sounds as plausible as changing your own sexual orientation.

New comment by weregiraffe in "I am worried about Bun"

weregiraffe — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:19:00 +0000

No. To realize the possibility of powered flight one only needs to look at birds. AGI, on the other hand, is another word for God.

New comment by weregiraffe in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

weregiraffe — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:32:42 +0000

There are two kinds of people: The symbol-minded, and the symbol-minded who think they are not.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Under sea internet cables need backup"

weregiraffe — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:05:04 +0000

No mention of Starlink, OneWeb or Amazon Leo in the article.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Bridging West Papua Through Dispossession"

weregiraffe — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:55:45 +0000

Infrastructure is colonization. Truly a hot take.

New comment by weregiraffe in "David Silver of DeepMind raises $1B to build AI that learns without human data"

weregiraffe — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:52:56 +0000

Unless they have alien data, this is bullshit.

New comment by weregiraffe in "Why Not Venus?"

weregiraffe — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:54:08 +0000

Why not Zoidberg?