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Yeah, that's the obvious counterexample, but that's why I said "more often than not". The statement I was questioning was that fast-math is " normally not more correct."

I thought fast-math meant (among other things) that the compiler could algebraically simplify things using some rules for real numbers that don't apply to 32-/64-bit floating point…

> In the same way your stance on climate change is a scientific position regardless if your stance is correct or not. Can you please just give the definition of "scientific positio…

Look, I agree. I shouldn't be forced to do something for someone who makes me uncomfortable, even if it's something that they can't change, and which doesn't materially impact me i…

> It's a scientific and political position. What exactly do you mean by "scientific position"? The term seems, to me, an absurdity. > Doesn't make it okay. Putting aside any actual…

Sorry, can you explain why the velocities should add that way? I've always just seen velocities add like regular old vectors, so this looks very strange.

That is easily avoided by having them sign off on the code they commit to the employer's repository . Giving the employer full rights over every single thing the employee creates j…

> And yet intuitively the function is increasing and so we ought to define "having a derivative" in such a way that shows that it is increasing. The Cantor function is not differen…

Yes. Some libraries, like typed-arena (and Rust's built-in Vec), will traverse the structure and call the drop implementations, and others, like bumpalo, will just leak the resourc…

Typed-arena is a bit limited, because all the allocated values must be of the same type. bumpalo[0] removes that restriction, but it also doesn't run destructors, which can lead to…

Yes, Java also has a garbage collector that does nothing, called the Epsilon GC, intended for short-lived programs and references for garbage collector benchmarks.[0] [0]: https://…

I'm not sure what the performance overhead would be, but that state can easily be stored on disk.

If we're being pedantic, > Some bundlers may even have O(n^2) complexity: as your project grows, your dev environment gets exponentially slower that's clearly not exponential!

What views are you insinuating that I have on "election interference using social media in 2016"?

How do you know that they aren't just as critical of their own government?

> why? who cares? do you not know how to skim and skip irrelevant text? Ignoring inflammatory content can be more taxing to people than you pretend, and moderators and flagging are…

> This presupposes some kind of universal value function. Sorry, I did not mean to suggest that some comments are intrinsically more valuable. But we do want to sort comments so th…

Responses have to be ranked, because some comments are much more valuable to the reader than others. Well-thought-out comments and spam lie at the extreme ends of the spectrum. I t…