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They might've pushed it from beta to stable reactively, but an improvement to startup times was in their beta channel last month: https://store.steampowered.com/news/group/4397053?emclan=103...
Re:11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:21PM (#50077163)
Rust does have undefined behavior, though.
Re:An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:20PM (#49808263)
Some of those details are available here: https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-estimates-age-without...
Re:AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0? on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:08PM (#49807372)
That first question is answered in the thread:

> Yes, when using either 32-bit or 64-bit number, the lowest portion can output a zero, as I suggested on the attached example file as a modification to fix the problem. But a true zero (fitting the requested size), on AMD, never happens.

Another person (on page 2) confirms those results on an older AMD processor (but failed to reproduce on a very new one, 9950X3D).

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @06:38PM (#49719821)
I had a different initial confusion - it seems this company has no relation to the company formerly known as Typesafe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akka.io
Re:Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:35PM (#49687197)
The article is talking about symbols that were lost. The sentence should be interpreted as "these [symbols], for Insert (now gone) and Delete (still with us)". The photo is of a symbol for 'insert', an 'a' with a caret above it.
Re:Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:41PM (#49637715)
See also https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/, a 2012 game that did the same thing
Re:Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:58AM (#49594402)
They link to their code on GitHub - see footnote 2 on page 2. I don't see it linked anywhere else, which makes it easy to miss. https://github.com/rjha18/vec2vec/
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:56PM (#49579548)
I think they've gotten worse about this as an organization over the last few years(?). Earlier this year an update to their mobile app introduced loading time, and resulting slowness, for opening menus that used to be ~instant. To me that smacks of once having known not to do that, but that knowledge having been lost (or priorities having shifted).

More specifically, I'm talking about tapping the '...' on a track for the options menu. That should be latency-free, and used to be.

Re:Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:23AM (#49444328)
Years and years ago, there was an article about the way Amazon.com's menu dropdown worked. It had the same spark (of careful attention to user behavior and needs): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5330998 / https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega...
Re:Dolly Parton has died on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @03:17PM (#49439166)
Her husband was Carl Dean.
Cities on the water make fun shapes for obvious reasons. Atlantic City, Seattle, Chicago, Galveston, New Orleans. The slices can go very far or even be omitted due to not hitting the contiguous US. Chicago's is probably the most interesting, they cross Lake Michigan before getting sufficient density to stop.
> I'm sure the record standing so long is partially down to the fact the mile isn't run at major championships

I'm not so sure about that. The 1500 is the equivalent race run at major championships (and most paced time trials). But that record (3:26.00 by Hicham El Guerrouj) has stood one year longer, and is generally considered a stronger record. This is possibly the closest anyone's ever come to an equivalent performance to the 1500 record, in either the mile or the 1500. The second-fastest 1500m time ever is 3:26.34 by Bernard Lagat in 2001. The World Athletics scoring tables value a 3:42.66 at about 3:26.3, eyeballing the midpoint of given values. (Or taking the WA point values on the top lists, Josh Kerr's new mile record is 1298, Lagat's second-best 1500m is 1297, and El Guerrouj's 3:26.00 is 1302.)

I don't know whether the WA points or other conversion methods actually have small enough error bars to distinguish between the Lagat and Kerr performances, but the 1500 record beats the mile record by a big enough margin that I don't think we need to worry about that.

https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/middlel...

https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/middlel...

> I think El Guerrouj set the previous WR in a race without pacers.

El Guerrouj had two pacers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCsj7eJKKA

In fact, looking at this race, Tanui (the second pacer) actually stays on the track for longer than today's pacers did.

Re:Emacs Appearances in Pop Culture on Thursday June 11, 2026 @07:52PM (#48498015)
I'd add rms/Richard Stallman to that list of famous emacs users. He's famous for way more than just gnu emacs, so it's not quite cheating.
Re:Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @05:06PM (#48214126)
Many OSS licenses are also free software licenses, even if they are not viral and don't impose severe restrictions on the licensee in the way the GPL does. The MIT license, for example. "Free software" and "GPL" are not synonymous, even GNU doesn't say so. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicen...
Re:Apple is dropping AFP/TimeCapsule support in macOS 27 on Monday April 27, 2026 @09:50PM (#47929631)
Longer than that, even. A similar requirement for iOS apps was in the cards 10 years ago. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=12212016b

(Yes, this article is about an extension of the deadline. I don't remember what happened after that.)

Truer than you'd think just from the information I provided. He has two world championship silver medals over 10,000m.
What does 'harder to recruit' mean though?
It's his first marathon ever, but he's a very experienced runner. It would be hard to find a better prospect for a good first marathon. He's a multiple (former) world record holder and medalist at shorter distances from the mile up to half marathon. His half marathon is still 2nd all time.

I wouldn't have predicted this out of nowhere, but if you told me a marathon debut went this well and asked me to guess whose it was, I like to think I'd have come up with Kejelcha in my top few picks.

That said, great 5000/10000 athletes don't always have great marathon careers. An example from this race is the world record holder at both those distances, Joshua Cheptegei. He's run several marathons but none spectacular by his standards. He was in this race too but 7 minutes back.

I've read that even if you absorb it all, there's some question about whether it's useful. This Alex Hutchinson article suggests, among other things, that it may spare your fat stores rather than your muscle glycogen:

> Even if you can absorb 120 grams per hour, it might not make you faster. In Podlogar’s study, cyclists burned more exogenous carbs when they consumed 120 rather than 90 grams per hour, but that didn’t reduce their rate of endogenous carb-burning—that is, they were still depleting the glycogen stores in their muscles just as quickly.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/en...

https://archive.ph/Vpk0h

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9560939/

That would not fit as well.
What is wrong in that quoted sentence? Do you mean "articulacy" should instead be "articulateness"? "Articulacy" is also a word, and correct in this context.
Re:I Forked Httpx on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:23AM (#47515477)
These days node supports the fetch API, which is much simpler. (It wasn't there in 2020, it seems to have been added around 2022-2023.)
> Scott took it too literally

He does say in section (I):

> I was particularly told to “take it as literally as possible”

Re:Sir Tony Hoare has died on Monday March 09, 2026 @07:17PM (#47317097)
But there are no citations on any of the edits claiming this, and there were two incompatible dates claimed (March 5, March 8).
Re:10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips on Thursday March 05, 2026 @09:40PM (#47270156)
[4] looks like it's only a runner for the actual testing, which is a separate crate: https://github.com/mozilla/memtest

(see: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/toolkit..., which points to a specific commit in that repo - turns out to be tip of main)

Regarding the noise you mention, I wonder if memento's use of the git 'notes' feature is an acceptable way to contain or quarantine that noise. It might still not add much value, but at least it would live in a separate place that is easily filtered out when the user judges it irrelevant. Per the README of the linked repo,

> It runs a commit and then stores a cleaned markdown conversation as a git note on the new commit.

So it doesn't seem that normal commit history is affected - git stores notes specially, outside of the commit (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-notes).

In fact github doesn't even display them, according to some (two-year-old) blog posts I'm seeing. Not sure about other interfaces to git (magit, other forges), but git log is definitely able to ignore them (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-log#Documentation/git-log.txt--...).

This doesn't mean the saved artifacts would necessarily be valuable - just that, unlike a more naive solution (saving in commit messages or in some directory of tracked files) they may not get in the way of ordinary workflows aside from maybe bloating the repo to some degree.

Re:Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014) on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:57AM (#47191011)
Re:In Praise Of –Dry-Run on Saturday January 31, 2026 @08:57PM (#46842909)
One nice way to do things, if you can get away with it, is to model the actions your application takes explicitly, and pass them to a central thing that actually handles them. Then there can be one place in your code that actually needs to understand whether it's doing a dry run or not. Ideally this would be just returning them from your core logic, "functional core, imperative shell" style.

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