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nrds commented on C and Undefined Behaviour   lelanthran.com/chap14/con... · Posted by u/lelanthran
accelbred · 4 days ago
I think you are entirely missing the author's point. The author is generalizing from the specific technicalities of C/Rust/etc UB, to the problem with UB which is that should it be triggered, then you can't know what the program will do. This does not have to be the result of language specification. If writing safe Rust yourself, yes no UB will occur usually, and you can know what will happen based off of what code you wrote. The author extends UB to vibecoding where there is no specification to understand the translation of prompts to code. Without thorough review, you are unable to be sure that the output code matches the intent of your prompting, which is analagous to writing code with UB. The issue the author has with vibecoded Rust is not that the code can trigger undefined behavior at the language layer, but that the perfectly "safe" code generated may not at all match the intended semantics.
nrds · 4 days ago
If that's the author's point then the article needs a rewrite. I suspect that was _not_ the author's point and it's offered as a good faith but misplaced post-hoc justification.
nrds commented on C and Undefined Behaviour   lelanthran.com/chap14/con... · Posted by u/lelanthran
nrds · 5 days ago
Is it even worth pointing out that the author misunderstands how UB works in Rust, given that at this point such a misunderstanding has to be willful than otherwise? There is _no_ UB in the safe subset of Rust, and in mixed safe-unsafe rust, the UB can only originate in the unsafe blocks.

In modern C++ (i.e. with smart pointers) something similar is true in that the UB can only occur in code dealing with certain types and functions (e.g. raw pointers), and not other types and functions. It's really the same as rust, just without the compiler support and the explicit unsafe blocks.

nrds commented on Where did all the starships go?   datawrapper.de/blog/scien... · Posted by u/speckx
chasil · 6 days ago
Also, we've realized the scientific reality that traveling faster than light is likely impossible, and the vast distances to other habitable planets would mean tens of thousands of years of travel even with the most efficient technology.

Interstellar space is also hostile to life, and any life present at the destination will not use the same DNA coding for protein (if gene expression even works that way).

We also do not yet have the technology for a complete survey of nearby habitable planets.

It is not an encouraging line of thought.

nrds · 5 days ago
> Also, we've realized the scientific reality that traveling faster than light is likely impossible

I'm confused at what speculative fiction exists from before the 1910s (or thereabouts) which involves FTL? I've no doubt there's a handful of works but this is hardly a plausible explanation for a _recent_ decline in these topics.

nrds commented on That's not how email works   danq.me/2026/01/28/hsbc-d... · Posted by u/HotGarbage
jandrese · 16 days ago
CRITICAL MESSAGE -- READ IMMEDIATELY

The automatic payment you set up has processed successfully.

nrds · 16 days ago
And if the automatic payment doesn't go through, well, then there's nothing to report on so no email generated.

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nrds commented on Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed   github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/nurimamedov
eunoia · 21 days ago
This is real. I’ve seen some baffling bugs in prompt based stop hook behavior.

When I investigated I found the docs and implementation are completely out of sync, but the implementation doesn’t work anyway. Then I went poking on GitHub and found a vibed fix diff that changed the behavior in a totally new direction (it did not update the documentation).

Seems like everyone over there is vibing and no one is rationalizing the whole.

nrds · 21 days ago
What else could they do? If they don't vibecode Claude Code it is a bad look.
nrds commented on X (Twitter) Is Down   downforeveryoneorjustme.c... · Posted by u/uyzstvqs
dcchambers · a month ago
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Not everything is a conspiracy.

nrds · a month ago
I understand there's an increased error rate, that's how I concluded there is an attempted DOS. But it appears not to be working completely, and so a post claiming X is "down" does appear to be pre-coordinated to reflect the _intended_ rather than _actual_ effect.

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