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EnPissant··on Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study
You think 40% of the people in that area have THC in their system?

Of course you don't. So why make this argument?

Are you funded by Big Cannabis™?

EnPissant··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Claude Code is just a better CLI:

- Planning mode. Codex is extremely frustrating. You have to constantly tell it not to edit when you talk to it, and even then it will sometimes just start working.

- Better terminal rendering (Codex seems to go for a "clean" look at the cost of clearly distinguished output)

- It prompts you for questions using menus

- Sub-agents don't pollute your context

EnPissant··on Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's
He was a super hipster who pretended to be an anti-hipster.

This combination allowed him to make people feel like they were getting let in a little secret and were now part of a club that was better than everyone else.

EnPissant··on Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November
Incredible this comment is 4 hours old and not flagged. Hacker news is dead.
EnPissant··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
Why would you want such a thing? HDMI 2.1 does HDR 4k @ 120hz without compression. The entire TV ecosystem uses HDMI. If you want to connect a PC to a TV they always have at least 1 HDMI out, and some have a couple.
EnPissant··on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Then why doesn't some other established brand open in the same area and undercut them?
EnPissant··on Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
Yep! It's green jelly beans cause acne almost exactly.
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
So edgy?
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
Several people are saying that.
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
The parent comment described her as a drug addict?
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
Oh, he chose to dump his wife and get into a relationship with a drug addict?
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
Why does she have responsibility and he does not?
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
I was replying to this in the parent comment:

> supplying him with drugs

They are blaming this woman for Anthony's drug use and I am just pointing out that he has always been an addict.

EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
He dumped his wife and abandoned his child to be with this woman 18 years younger than him, and he used drugs his entire adult life, long before he met her. No, I would not describe her as a predator.
EnPissant··on Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's
I quite disliked him. He always came off as a smug asshole, and I think the evidence backs that up.

His core shtick was being a food hipster which often involved putting down others preferences to prove how superior he was. For example saying that a Chicken McNugget was the most disgusting thing he has ever eaten.

He treated his staff like trash on one hand while publicly proclaiming "Mistreat the floor staff and you are dead to me." for cool guy points.

Add to that the incredible narcissism of dumping both his wives for younger women as soon as he could, but then playing the victim when his new younger wife cheats on him.

EnPissant··on Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs. SHA-3 vs. BLAKE3
Yeah, I was objecting to this part:

> If you have a file and the BLAKE3 hash of that file

To me that means the final hash. If you have the full tree of hashes that is a different story!

PS. Thanks for making BLAKE3! I use it in several pieces of software.

EnPissant··on Employee quits job over an Nvidia RTX 5060
Dear Penthouse...
EnPissant··on Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs. SHA-3 vs. BLAKE3
> If you have a file and the BLAKE3 hash of that file, you can generate a proof that a portion of the file is correct

This seems wrong to me? I would expect you could only verify the entire file.

EnPissant··on Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch
This is closely related to the Heckler's Veto.
EnPissant··on Several core problems with Rust
Were any parts copy pasted from LLM output (and possible changed after)?
EnPissant··on Several core problems with Rust
> It really depends on what you are compiling. I did lots of C/C++ that compiled 50k lines of code in 10 seconds FROM SCRATCH — I doubt you can do it in Rust. To be fair, headers in that project were somewhat optimized for compilation speed (not "hardcore", but "somewhat"). People forgot how fast C/C++ compilation can be without 10 Boost includes in each module.

Incremental compiles in Rust are very fast because it has an actual module system instead of textual include. I don't care much how long from scratch compiles take, but even there my experience is Rust is faster than C++.

> Arc<RwLock<Option<T>>> — sounds good now? Don't get me wrong — C++ can be just as horrible, but Rust made it a rule, you can only write your program like this.

I'm not sure what non-garbage collected language would be better here. C++ would be about the same. C would be far far worse as it has no templates. Garbage collection would allow you to omit the Arc, and a language like Java where nearly _everything_ is optional would allow you to omit the Option, but I don't think many people would make this trade.

> I've already answered above, but I can repeat: there are runtime models that allow crash and recover, there are models that crash and limp. In Rust there is only one model of crash: you just crash.

You haven't defined what "crash" means. Rust uses a Result types for error flow and you have just as much control over recovery as any other language. If you are talking about panic, well yeah, that's like calling abort() in C, except it allows more fine grained error recovery with catch_unwind instead of a global SIGABRT handler or w/e for your OS.

EnPissant··on Several core problems with Rust
> Do note that binary trees are mostly an obsolete legacy today — they are way too cache-unfriendly

BTree is not Binary Tree. It's B-Tree and is cache-friendly

> C++20 with concepts mostly reproduce the traits.

C++20 concepts are not the same as traits. Concepts are structural and awkward to use compared to Traits which are nominal. There are other important differences, too.

EnPissant··on Several core problems with Rust
Nothing forces you to panic in Rust any more than anything forces you to call abort() in C.

    let a = b.unwrap();
is conceptually no different to:

    if (b == NULL) {
        abort();
    }
    a = *b;
don't write either if you don't want to halt.
EnPissant··on Several core problems with Rust
The ragebait part is because it feels more provocative than sincere.

Some examples from the introduction:

> Its compilation is slow. I mean SLOW. Slower than C++. I know over years Rust became several times faster, but objectively we need it to be two orders of magnitude faster, not just two times.

I've done significant C++ and Rust and Rust compiles WAY faster than C++ for day-to-day incremental compilation. C++ suffers from the header inclusion problem and modules may as well not exist because you can't practically use them.

> Arc<Mutex<Box<T>>>

This is intentionally over complicated, there is no reason for the Box to be there.

> You cannot get 99.999% reliability with Rust — it crashes all the time.

What does this even mean?

EnPissant··on Several core problems with Rust
I 100% think LLMs were involved in its production, just not written wholesale.
EnPissant··on Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
The 96GB RAM kit I bought in June for $320 now sells for $1175. Insanity.
EnPissant··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
Do you feel the same way about murder? Gary, Indiana has a murder problem for decades. Should we stop prosecuting it? Would murder get better or worse?
EnPissant··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
There were a lot of things not to like about the bill, such as being tied to Israel/Ukraine aid, setting an emergency trigger that normalized flooding the border, and it being a token measure for Biden to use in the election.
EnPissant··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
In reality, CBP and ICE have very little power.
EnPissant··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
It's not a checkpoint, it's surveillance.

Presumably CBP is not stupid and that surveillance is providing value they can not otherwise get only in Texas.

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