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New comment by Woansdei in "CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority"

Woansdei — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:17:11 +0000

Actually, all these problems are all in well known systems, your obscure full of holes system is fine for now.

New comment by Woansdei in "C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead “Camera View”"

Woansdei — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:21:26 +0000

C64 Basic did have integers.

A floating point

A$ string

A% int

as you would expect ints are quicker.

New comment by Woansdei in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

Woansdei — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:49:49 +0000

Perhaps not watermarks, but cameras could sign their pictures and put it in the extra data, that's not something that would be easy to add to fake pictures, or at least not the correct signature.

New comment by Woansdei in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

Woansdei — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:01:22 +0000

I can't speak for other MUDs, but discworld peaked in 2002-2003, 200 players and a queue of about 20 people waiting to get in wasn't unusual.

these days it's more in the 40-70 people range.

New comment by Woansdei in "Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look"

Woansdei — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 07:56:25 +0000

sounds more like the reverse to me, movement away from denser areas (less space), so like water leaking out of a container.

New comment by Woansdei in "The IPv6 Transition"

Woansdei — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 07:42:37 +0000

Last time I called Virgin media to get from the loyal customer (extra high) rate to something closer to what new customers get they just said no.

I switched to Vodafone which is cheaper and double the speed and got me IPv6. I think it might just be Virgin sitting on a large amount of IPv4 addresses and not wanting to spend any money on supporting v6 when they can just overcharge their loyal customers.

New comment by Woansdei in "Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017)"

Woansdei — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:20:39 +0000

Sometimes there is nothing you can do when there is an error, in that case there is no point in adding several layers of error forwarding until you ignore it somewhere higher up.

New comment by Woansdei in "A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi"

Woansdei — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:21:48 +0000

I think AI could be useful in MUD clients, to show a picture of where the player is, and in the future that might even be a moving picture showing the combat moves.

New comment by Woansdei in "A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi"

Woansdei — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 09:14:34 +0000

That's similar to what Discworld MUD ran on back then, although that needed frequent MUD reboots to keep the MUD and server somewhat useable (every 45 minutes or so). Today it is on a 8GB VM and only reboots for bigger game updates. We're looking at moving it onto a PI5. The added bloat can no longer keep up with hardware getting better :)

New comment by Woansdei in "Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?"

Woansdei — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 13:51:32 +0000

no, there has not been a single run of shor for even the number 6 as far as I know, in the link you give apendix A shows they did not in fact use the 5 bits needed for factoring 21. Every experiment I know about used short cuts to get an answer, you'd think 6 would be easy enough, it fits in the 4 bits they did use!

New comment by Woansdei in "Life Has Several Exits"

Woansdei — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 07:35:41 +0000

how did they explain the caveman surviving the centuries between first death and the body being found?

New comment by Woansdei in "Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)"

Woansdei — Tue, 23 May 2023 08:40:22 +0000

my wife does as well https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-Mary-Anne-Boermans/s?rh=n%3A2...

New comment by Woansdei in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history? It’s complicated"

Woansdei — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 11:35:50 +0000

you mean like soylent green?

New comment by Woansdei in "Ultibo – Bare-Metal Pascal for Raspberry Pi"

Woansdei — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:12:07 +0000

sounds like they made an OS without noticing that they did that :D

New comment by Woansdei in "Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste"

Woansdei — Thu, 19 May 2022 07:40:07 +0000

no idea why you're still waiting, it is available https://www.liquidglassnanotech.com/automotive-solutions/

New comment by Woansdei in "My favourite C++ footgun"

Woansdei — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:17:38 +0000

It may be valid, but I don't see any value in doing it, and it would take extra code in the compiler (and possibly the resulting binary). So did any compiler actually do that?

New comment by Woansdei in "Some idiot is using your tool to mass scan our network"

Woansdei — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 10:03:42 +0000

Doubt my ISP cares, but with 20Mb upload it's not going to send 10 million packets per second (2 bits per packet just isn't valid network traffic).