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New comment by asveikau in "Solo – a .so loader for static Linux binaries"

asveikau — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:08:55 +0000

> system C/C++ ABI

C++ abi should not be included in this. It is independent from the other pieces and historically a source of incompatibility on its own.

Saying "C/C++ abi" as if they are the same is looney tunes, the former is very simple and stable and the latter is very complex.

New comment by asveikau in "Claude Code Teaching macOS to Natively Print to the HP Laser 1008a"

asveikau — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:46:31 +0000

It didn't write a driver. It used a linux driver. You don't need an LLM.

New comment by asveikau in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

asveikau — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:56:37 +0000

But the dominant print daemon on Linux, CUPS, was literally acquired by apple to form the basis of their printer architecture.

New comment by asveikau in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

asveikau — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:56:38 +0000

I'm pretty sure I've used that exact printer on Linux without issue. Long ago, deep into the pre ai era.

Edit: no, I was thinking of the older p1008.

New comment by asveikau in "We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng"

asveikau — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:19:59 +0000

I am an old man yelling at cloud, but why is a library that does something this simple something that needs maintenance? Like if your jaw is dropping because an environment variable parser hasn't seen commits since 2023 ... ... How old is /usr/bin/env ? Lots of code churn on that one?

New comment by asveikau in "Llama.cpp v0.1.0"

asveikau — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:01:42 +0000

The github release pages for this project have me wondering who it is for. There are multiple releases per day. Also the Linux release binaries do not compile for CUDA.

It's more reasonable for a lot of people to just follow master and build from source.

New comment by asveikau in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

asveikau — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 02:26:05 +0000

I'm hoping when the shit hits the fan, you can get a sick GPU for cheap.

New comment by asveikau in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

asveikau — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:25:54 +0000

Ah ok. So the Bulgarian printed lowercase looks similar to Russian cursive.

New comment by asveikau in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

asveikau — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:56:28 +0000

> OCR all the business copy of receipts from the till,

I would not do this at all. OCR is still very bad. If you want incorrect dollar figures be my guest.

New comment by asveikau in "Tess's Android Wayland Compositor"

asveikau — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:27:04 +0000

I don't think it's NIH so much as the glibc ABI is a broad surface of implementation specific choices outside the C standard, and a moving target. It's an emergent property of many small implementation choices that another libc project would find too difficult to replicate.

I had a recent experience fighting this sort of thing when I wanted to cross-compile from a distro using glibc to a distro using musl.

Glibc is also kind of bloated and it's reasonable that android or a similar embedded project would not want to pull the whole thing in. Especially when you consider the original goal of bionic was just to bootstrap Java code, which was meant to be the primary platform interface rather than C, they would want a very minimalist libc for that purpose.

New comment by asveikau in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

asveikau — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:08:56 +0000

Is that true? Other than things like not seeing a Ы, Э or Ё in Bulgarian, the modern printed fonts look the same to me, though I am not from either country.

New comment by asveikau in "Using GCC's Nested Functions with Wide Pointers and No Trampolines II"

asveikau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:00:18 +0000

I know it's not the same, but you can "kind of" name them by using them as a template parameter, then, scoped to the template, you can reference them under the template parameter name.

Anyway, I don't see it mentioned anywhere in this discussion, but imo the area where c++ lambdas shine is the way they interact with copy constructors and move constructors.

New comment by asveikau in "A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms"

asveikau — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:00:02 +0000

> Can't you just repeat it?

I wouldn't assume you could. I guess that's why people study these things.

New comment by asveikau in "We tracked down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug"

asveikau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:05:08 +0000

> SQLite corruption is possible, but it’s highly unusual and not something you should encounter in normal operation

If there's a hardware failure, for example a flaky SD card, it's not out of the question. A mobile app with a lot of usage will see it.

(Yes, I know this appears to be a server use case.)

New comment by asveikau in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

asveikau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:44:11 +0000

This subheading popped out at me:

> The new AI economy

I don't know if this phrasing is intentional, but it gives me a chuckle. The dotcom boom was called "the new economy" about 26-28 years ago.

New comment by asveikau in "llama.cpp"

asveikau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:46:16 +0000

I was playing with ollama because of name recognition. I was finding pretty quickly that the selection of models on the "ollama store" was pretty stale, and gguf models on huggingface are technically downloadable but don't work as well.

The "friends don't let friends use ollama" article linked in another comment convinced me to try llama-swap. I find it easier to directly deal with gguf files. Hard to quantify, but the outputs of the LLM seem better too. Asking the same gguf the same question with the same chat harness, I subjectively find llama.cpp does better. Might be some different defaults. I haven't dug deeply.

New comment by asveikau in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"

asveikau — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:20:03 +0000

Have you met cops? They are not able to sit still or write things down. You expect too much of them.

New comment by asveikau in "OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1"

asveikau — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:39:01 +0000

If they disagreed about something so fundamental as the attribution of copyright, it would be a serious schism, from my outside perspective it seems along the lines of something that would lead to a fork or separation between the projects.

I also just read more context on the thread and it seems like Damien Miller is in there saying much the same thing as Theo. He wrote:

> ... use of AI-written code now [will] expose us to legal risk.

New comment by asveikau in "OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1"

asveikau — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:47:47 +0000

These policies seem to be often evolving lately in many projects, but I believe OpenBSD (the project OpenSSH is contained inside) is currently skeptical of AI generated code contributions at this point in time.

For example, I found this on a Google search, here is a thread from Theo, the project leader, about LLM output and copyright, where he says they can't accept it into the tree on copyright grounds. https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=177425035627562&w=2

Elsewhere in the thread he implies using it for a code review tool is ok

New comment by asveikau in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

asveikau — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:45:05 +0000

If you've seen Zuckerberg for long enough you'll see he doesn't hold any position for all that long. Remember they renamed the entire company for a product idea he basically abandoned. So if he does "the right thing" you can just wait, he'll give up on it pretty soon.