> Except for the situation where your implementation explicitly specifies that it provides a predictable behaviour for a specific case of UB, there's literally no guarantee of what will happen.
That situation is "when you have UBSan turned on".
Ok, that’s not unreasonable. But I think that making an unrelated comment like that is really only a bad thing if it’s in bad faith. He made that comment expecting a response, I’m not like hounding him. And yes, I said some rude things. Are you going to downvote every comment that you see from me because some other comments I made were rude? Doesn’t really add up. And why are you policing the threads? That’s more weird than asking for a twitter space.
I don’t think asking for a twitter space is all that weird. I am constantly frustrated talking with people on HN because what could take 2 seconds takes 20 minutes. I often find that a debate never even has a chance to be resolved because everyone just gets worn out trying to talk through a digital straw. Plus, asking for a twitter space doesn’t involve exchange of personal information or anything concerning. It’s definitely not done and off the wall but I don’t think it’s problematic.
Edit: the more I think about it, the more sense it makes. HN has a problem with being flooded with vitriol and and lots of other negative behavior, long chains that are just useless. It would make a lot of sense to offload most of that to another platform since HN as a platform is not well suited to debating. Instead of initiating a huge chain of vitriol, a twitter space could be initiated when people want to debate something. Instead of tons of noise and garbage, HN would host a link to the space. And it would be better because the nature of a space lends itself to people coming to a conclusion, covering the issue more thoroughly and people letting loose less hate, all because of the high bandwidth, intimate nature of real-time audio. It also helps filter out people who are bots or aren’t serious or who don’t really care about the topic being debated. I am legitimately going to email HN admin about this.
But sure posting in the wrong topic will get a downvote to turn your comment gray. What is wrong with that policing?
> Are you going to downvote every comment that you see from me because some other comments I made were rude? Doesn’t really add up.
...what? You continued the thread here. Nobody is downvoting random comments of yours. Your comments on that story and this story are part of the same conversation.
And if you can't figure out how to reply in a deep thread you can just wait a couple minutes for the link to be there.
> a twitter space
Oh, the chat thing. I thought you meant tweets. Sure, that's a reasonable idea for some conversations.
Hey, I think getting into arguments for a day then randomly giving up and wandering off is what the sites all about. Actually, I think the guy who stops replying first kind of wins - it's similar to why you shouldn't double-text when dating.
> I don’t think asking for a twitter space is all that weird.
My issue is that I don't think I have anything to contribute as I'm not making original conclusions but kind of just quoting a typical labor economist. (Different from quoting the average person, they're usually worried about different things.)
It's not directly related to the topic at hand. It's meta-commentary about the discussion, not about the actual topic. That, and your post I'm replying to, and this reply I'm making should all be downvoted as they're all off-topic.
That situation is "when you have UBSan turned on".