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tedunangst

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tedunangst··on Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
Oh, grabbed the wrong link.

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

tedunangst··on Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse
Why do you link that article but not this one?

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

tedunangst··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
It's not like the State Department would ever mention Kim Jong the Second in documents.
tedunangst··on Slashdot effect
Stories were selected by site mods (editors) and that's censorship, man!
tedunangst··on Internet Archive's legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost
Why not? The Wayback Machine predates the National Emergency Library by many years, suggesting it is possible for one to exist without the other.
tedunangst··on Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?
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/

tedunangst··on How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
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

tedunangst··on How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
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.
tedunangst··on Apple M4 Series Feature Support
> 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.

tedunangst··on How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods
Are you confusing pink slime and meat glue?
tedunangst··on A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life
So... 0.5? Thanks. :)
tedunangst··on I write type-safe generic data structures in C
Quote a different standard.
tedunangst··on I write type-safe generic data structures in C
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.

tedunangst··on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi
Extremely hard working "could".
tedunangst··on A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life
"People" could really use a number attached to it.
tedunangst··on Most ints are not floats
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.
tedunangst··on BusyBeaver(6) Is Quite Large
Can you elaborate on what's wrong with this post?
tedunangst··on Why is the Rust compiler so slow?
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.

tedunangst··on Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL
You can copy from a zero sized pointer with memcpy, but not NULL.
tedunangst··on How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack
I ran a qotd server for a while, only retired two months ago actually. It wasn't very popular.
tedunangst··on How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
Shared memory, like shm_open and fd passing, would be even faster and fully portable.
tedunangst··on Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]
This seems likely to create some inexplicable performance elbows where you have 1000 strings, but there's one code path that replaces one with a number, and now the whole array needs to be copied. Tracking that down won't be fun.
tedunangst··on Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
The funny bit is the other six control codes are mapped ctrl-2 to nul, and ctrl-3 forward to the five remaining.
tedunangst··on Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso
Is this consequential for a project the size of chromium?
tedunangst··on AMD's Freshly-Baked MI350: An Interview with the Chief Architect
A solid 40% of George's questions were deemed great. (Not counting some fluff like what's your job.)
tedunangst··on Libraries are under-used. LLMs make this problem worse
Is it your assessment or the LLM's that it's a good library? There have been many times I looked at the API for a library, said this is bonkers, and bailed. The weird contortions needed to use something should be a signal.
tedunangst··on Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu
That sound you hear is all the old men yelling at clouds that a full screen terminal editor is not a CLI editor.
tedunangst··on Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)
Apple CPUs have AV1 support in hardware.
tedunangst··on Meta ignores RFC 2920; ZuckMail can't send mail to servers running OpenSMTPD
Not supporting pipelining is a somewhat effective low effort spam filter. Spammers don't have time to wait for response codes, just blast the message and move on to the next sucker.
tedunangst··on Debunking HDR [video]
That said, I appreciate thumbnails while scrubbing, and critically need playback speed multipliers. And key controls to skip ten or twenty seconds. Plenty of room for browsers to improve.
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