Hacker News: Almondsetat

New comment by Almondsetat in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

Almondsetat — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:21:40 +0000

Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again

New comment by Almondsetat in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

Almondsetat — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:00:52 +0000

Feel free to post a project of yours where you gave a bunch of prompts to an LLM and it produced a working application written in assembly without you having to check for anything

New comment by Almondsetat in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

Almondsetat — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:32:31 +0000

"A tester in A/B testing situation swears that B tester is not telling the truth"

New comment by Almondsetat in "MPEG-2 Transport Stream Packaging for Media over QUIC Transport"

Almondsetat — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:17:01 +0000

Is MPEG-2 still used over h264 for things that would justify this RFC in 2026?

New comment by Almondsetat in "Dav2d"

Almondsetat — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:54:11 +0000

And? It's common knowledge that the "reference" or "research" version of any codec is always quite high level to get development going and actually produce a working bitstream

New comment by Almondsetat in "Dav2d"

Almondsetat — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:35:09 +0000

What are you even implying?

New comment by Almondsetat in "Dav2d"

Almondsetat — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:58:25 +0000

So a project should change its name because when it will be production ready 6 years from now the 1% of the 1% of the 1% will think for 1 microsecond about a piece of news from today?

New comment by Almondsetat in "A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)"

Almondsetat — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:36:24 +0000

So humans just have a mouth and that's it? Language is the be-all-end-all of how humans can interact with the world and express themselves?

New comment by Almondsetat in "A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)"

Almondsetat — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:25:32 +0000

One can appreaciate striving for simplicity (a programming language that can be taught and explained with pen and paper), but one must also consider that computers are meta-devices.

Before computers, we could write things only on paper, either with our hands or a typewriter. So, naturally, when computers came about, the way of thinking about programming was very text-driven, with an emphasis on what a typewriter could represent.

But then, code could be written directly with computers, opening up more typesetting possibilities thanks to keyboards not being bound anymore by the mechanical limitations of typewriters. You could add keys and combinations to your heart's desire, and they would be natively digital and unlimited.

Now, with graphics, both 2D and 3D, and a myriad or other HIDs, shouldn't we try to make another cognitive jump?

New comment by Almondsetat in "You can beat the binary search"

Almondsetat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:06:54 +0000

your loss

New comment by Almondsetat in "My audio interface has SSH enabled by default"

Almondsetat — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:55:47 +0000

I'm sorry, are you trusting an LLM to touch a camera that costs like a new car?

New comment by Almondsetat in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

Almondsetat — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:37:32 +0000

Windows' subsystem for Linux

New comment by Almondsetat in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

Almondsetat — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:28 +0000

So the EU is the objective truth of the universe, I guess

New comment by Almondsetat in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

Almondsetat — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:02:16 +0000

Says who? Not all devices can have the same level of repairability by laypeople. What if I complained that todays' CPUs are too miniaturized and that in my time I could swap the individual vacuum tubes in case something went wrong?

New comment by Almondsetat in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

Almondsetat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:08:18 +0000

On Windows: download a 3GB exe and install

On Linux: add repository and install cuda-toolkit

Does that take a few hours?

New comment by Almondsetat in "Lunar Flyby"

Almondsetat — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:29:25 +0000

We're so not accustomed to moon pictures taken with "normal" cameras. These almost look like 3D renders to me, it's incredible

New comment by Almondsetat in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

Almondsetat — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:03:46 +0000

>This barely mentions Windows Forms

Apparently, you do too, since what you said is basically the same as what the article said (.NET wrapper for C#, fastest prototyping to date)

New comment by Almondsetat in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

Almondsetat — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:17:44 +0000

Can you build a computer at home?

There is absolutely nothing self-sufficient about computer hardware

New comment by Almondsetat in "Software never had a soul"

Almondsetat — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:58:39 +0000

When people talk about software or computers being "fun" in the past, it reminds me how advertisements about children's foods talk about how their cereal brings "fun" to the breakfast.

What does that even mean? Seems like empty words to me from people too accustomed to tv commercials.

New comment by Almondsetat in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"

Almondsetat — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:54:17 +0000

Sure, but: that single human with the intelligence of a top tier engineer of scientist will have immediate access to all human knowledge. Plus, what do you think happens the moment its optimizes itself to run in 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. parallel instances?