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New comment by ardanur in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

ardanur — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:55:26 +0000

F-35 is a stealth vehicle that works, but when you are withholding munitions from the war that can bring it to a close it becomes far less useful.

Every F-35 is capable of carrying multiple nuclear bunker busters each of which is far more powerful than the GBU-57A/B MOP.

New comment by ardanur in "Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict"

ardanur — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:06:13 +0000

Polymarket is effectively an assassination auction list, you just need to find out which low likelihood resolutions can be swayed by someone's death. But you would need to have money to start which is something aspiring assassins aren't likely to have. And you would also need the skills to launder cryptocurrencies effectively.

This is also true with traditional stock markets, except that laundering real money is much harder to do alone. In the real world an assassin can't really involve more people as those people would realize they are loose ends since they have a get-out-of-jail card in turning on you.

The markets could get ahead of this by stipulating that a resolution via murder will always lead to resolution at prices at a time prior to the death. This would technically incentivize a potential assassin to commit a deniable murder, but if they succeed it won't be the market's [PR] problem.

New comment by ardanur in "CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go"

ardanur — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:10:28 +0000

"Data Oriented Design" is more than just for performant code.

You can and perhaps should also use it to reason about and design software in general. All software is just the transformation of data structures. Even when generating side-effects is the goal, those side-effects consume data structures.

I generally always start a project by sketching out data structures all the way from the input to the output. May get much harder to do when the input and output become series of different size and temporal order and with other complexities in what the software is supposed to be doing.

New comment by ardanur in "Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS"

ardanur — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:27:23 +0000

You can turn a socks5 into an interface and then move it to a different namespace: https://github.com/xjasonlyu/tun2socks

New comment by ardanur in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

ardanur — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:32:25 +0000

Their FAQ mentions the Looking Glass Indirect Display Driver (IDD). That is something to look forward to. Looking Glass will work with an iGPU setup once IDD is released (but no 3D acceleration).

What Looking Glass managed to do was get video memory sharing to work between the guest Windows compositor and a client running on the host (with qemu). Unfortunately, it apparently requires an out-of-tree Linux kernel driver that they call kvmfr. You can apparently still share non-video memory without kvmfr, which may hopefully yield adequate performance.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg50X9w5llI