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fp64··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
I agree, the original article is rather questionable. I do not write code like the article advocates for. I would probably go for overloads for each data type I have considered and tested, or maybe something fully templated, or std::span/boost::span (hash function is, interesting enough, the very example boost docs give to illustrate boost::span).
fp64··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
Depends on the use-case, hashing can also be used for checking integrity/change in which case you exactly want the behavior that only bit-exact-equality is desired, even for arbitrary structs. Maybe that's somewhat niche, I mention it as I have such a use-case actually.
fp64··on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++
I think the article names hashing as a use-case, which I can somewhat still agree. Operations that only depend on the bytes, I guess. But yeah, most things worth saying about this article have been said here already
fp64··on How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?
My most generous interpretation would be: the marketing/website team didn't get the pictures in time from the respective teams, so without much thinking they edited some. Like those print-on-demand t-shirt websites that don't have real models wearing the real shirts but crappy photoshop composites.
fp64··on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Don't get me wrong, this is cool. We just have some stricter requirements on a country/state/union level that while this might help with parts, I don't see how it can easily scale up and generalize
fp64··on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
That's for 5000 people. And only covers heat. Happy if it can scale and move from prototype to long-term deployment at a reasonable cost, serving heavy industry in manufacturing.
fp64··on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
I'm not against solar, my primary issue is that in northern Europe there's not much sun at some times. Energy storage and "smart grid" are not there yet, in my view, but maybe should have come first. Hydrogen (electrolysis) sounds a bit wild and impractical to me.
fp64··on Every Byte Matters
A sibling comment also mentioned Jai. Not sure what I am missing that the original post was explicitly referring to Jai, some inside joke maybe?

I am sorry, I only know Odin. Jai is this cult on reddit/discord, right? You get access if you socialize enough or something? Not my thing. Not for a language.

fp64··on Every Byte Matters
Odin has some helpers, was one of the more interesting features I found, but never tried. Not sure if you want to consider Odin OO, but well https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#soa-struct-arrays
fp64··on My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month
Funny, learning Janet I exactly did that. Was quite a fun experience with the built-in PEG, so I did markdown parsing from scratch. Maybe eventually I will be a true lisper (fell in love with Scheme over 20 years ago but could never really use any lisp professionally. Now I at least do some small things in Clojure and babashka. I love babashka)
fp64··on Ferrari Luce
They are priced for wider appeal and a different target group. At my local dealer I have the impression it's mostly a certain kind of owners (who got it from their partner that bought a 911) but that's purely anecdotal. Don't think this works for Ferrari, but then again I see also quite some Lamborghini Urus which I will never understand
fp64··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
As I replied before, in that document,

>As the EU reviews cybersecurity and privacy legislation, VPN services may also come under stricter regulatory scrutiny. For instance, it is likely that the revised Cybersecurity Act will introduce child-safety criteria, potentially including measures to prevent the misuse of VPNs to bypass legal protections.

fp64··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
I am not aware I was spreading conspiracy theories, and I do not understand why you have to be so aggressive and simultaneously defensive.

An independent, objective, and authoritative analysis requested by a MEP speculates that a restriction or ban on VPN is likely. I think this is valuable information. You are saying this is worth nothing until it actually gets up to a vote. I disagree, I see your point and maybe it's fine to panic only when it actually comes to a vote, but I prefer to know what to expect, and what the Research Service considers an "independent, objective, and authoritative analysis" on this topic.

fp64··on I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
My understanding is that the research service is providing legislation with research to inform them on how to implement. What is your claim? That the parliamentary research service is just a bunch of people writing documents nobody cares about and if you look just long enough you will find for each of their results something that claims the opposite?
fp64··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
> its just a random idea someone wrote down.

It's a result from the "European Parliamentary Research Service", hosted on the official website of the European parliament. And it is fully inline with recent attempted and success legislation of the same parliament. I am not sure why you would call this a "random idea" and an established member of the Parliamentary Research Service as "someone".

fp64··on Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Interesting, the reversing was done with radare2? I mean it's pretty neat and I wish I would use it more often (so I don't keep forgetting the commands and workflows...) but Ghidra or even the now-free-for-personal-use IDA Pro are so much better and move convenient, at least to me.
fp64··on FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX
I also don't think there's anything to it, but do not forget that any serious state-level actor with the means and interest to remove such people also has the means and interest to cover it up. IIRC there are manuals how to drive somebody into a desperate situation so they don't see a way out (Stasi in GDR), or manipulate any of their acquaintances in a similar manner, and you have a huge amount of the weirdest drugs available to help with that.
fp64··on Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net
Now I'm curious, how is it called in the UK? I tend to use "FTC" as the general term when I want to refer to a trade regulatory body in a country, as in "UK's FTC equivalent". I wasn't aware it is so obscure?
fp64··on Peptides: where to begin?
Is there any evidence supporting the claim there is a significant overlap between the group of people who "refuse injections the government recommends" and the group of people who take "peptides"? The article is carefully crafted to evoke this impression without clearly stating it, listing only anecdotal evidence.
fp64··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Fair point, but for scripting I don't feel fish (or zsh) offer an advantage big enough to bother learning that language with their rather narrow scope. But bash it's good to anyways know, you don't really get around it either. Larger/more complex scripts I write in other languages (depending on domain I and other requirements I guess). It's also not that I daily write those scripts on my shell, so I also think that even if I learned fish or zsh, I would have to look up things again every time I need to write something again.
fp64··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Here's my favorite tip: If you use bash, you can write bash on your prompt (duh). But this is one of the biggest reasons I stick with bash everywhere, as I am quite comfortable and experienced in bash and sometimes it's just easier to write things like `for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i $i ...` etc. If it's re-usable, I write it to a bash script later.
fp64··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
I've installed "More Better Ctrl-W" for Chromium, and mapped Ctrl-W to do nothing, and Ctrl-D to close the current tab
fp64··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
You're not alone, I heavily rely on vi mode and often struggle if I'm on someone else's machine and can't use it. I always wonder how you're supposed to work without it but I never dare to ask
fp64··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
Are you saying unethical behavior is not a choice but forced by the system? That it would be unreasonable to expect people to behave ethically in situation were the system is set up in a way that does not reward ethical behavior? That lying and cheating can always be excused because if people didn't, they would endager their societal status?
fp64··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
Circumstances can help explain, but never excuse unethical behavior
fp64··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
Sad state of things. He did it because he was sick? That's close to claiming his dog ate the original quotes so he had to make some up.

Well, Ars Technica is already for quite some time on my ignore list, and this further solidifies its place there.

fp64··on Show HN: VOOG – Moog-style polyphonic synthesizer in Python with tkinter GUI
It compiles and sends bytecode to the server, no? I'm quite sure the server at least does not run a plain interpreter, and I know for sure you build a graph there. That's why you can also use it with other languages (Saw a clojure example I think I wanted to give a try)
fp64··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
I do not think this is an unpopular opinion at all. In fact, it's one of the most popular ones I believe.
fp64··on Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
>The game is not playable from start to finish. You can play deathmatch and other odd modes.
fp64··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
Why bring politics into this discussion?

Edit: that person (or bot) has almost exclusively posted on this website about the current US president. I think it's a waste engaging and I already regret my comment here

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