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rllj

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rllj··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
Thank you for the very thoughtful reply!
rllj··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
FUTO platforms fascists like Curtis Yavin. I'd be careful about them.
rllj··on Don't Paste the AI, please
It literally takes you more effort to get an LLM answer, and if it doesn't, it's not really a dumb question, is it?
rllj··on Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements
There's `@ptrCast` as mentioned in the post, but I agree that it's not optimal. I would really like a `@transmute` builtin.

Alternatively I suppose `extern` unions do that, but again, not quite the same syntactically.

rllj··on Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?
I was just about to comment the same! Sadly, branch predictors are incredibly well guarded secrets, mostly.
rllj··on Claude Fable 5
Why is your AI a she? What's up with gendering LLMs. Reminds me of Richard Dawkins calling Claude "Claudia" and insisting it to be conscious.
rllj··on Write up of my homebrew CPU build
You run on a Cortex-A72, because you're a bot! What a funny way to reveal oneself.
rllj··on Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste
They are indeed dangerous, and I think this is a pretty good example of why.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/openzfs-bug-ported-zig.html

rllj··on RISC-V Is Sloooow
Which extension is that?