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New comment by cdmckay in "The scourge of x86 emulation"

cdmckay — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:30:55 +0000

I thought it was an implementation of the Win32 API as a compatibility layer.

What is it emulating exactly?

New comment by cdmckay in "OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents"

cdmckay — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:13:48 +0000

Make no mistakes

New comment by cdmckay in "Working with Git Worktrees in Magit"

cdmckay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:29:12 +0000

The problem I have with worktrees is that if I want to test the changes I need to juggle the worktrees.

It works better for me if I have multiple copies of the repo with their own supporting environment like repo-a, repo-b, etc. going to app-a.foo.localhost, app-b.foo.localhost, etc.

New comment by cdmckay in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

cdmckay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:22:12 +0000

There’s zero evidence Iran was developing nuclear weapons

New comment by cdmckay in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

cdmckay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:20:14 +0000

> Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. It's an intolerable premise

I’m not sure the only country that has used nukes on people should be the one to decide that

New comment by cdmckay in "Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements"

cdmckay — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:23:14 +0000

I suspect it’s something similar to the GDPR where the EU passes a law but has very few resources on how to check if you’re actually compliant.

New comment by cdmckay in "Parque Arqueológico do Solstício"

cdmckay — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:09:21 +0000

I thought maybe Amazon started sponsoring the site

New comment by cdmckay in "Get your Windows license refund"

cdmckay — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:05:44 +0000

Yeah this is an actually good use of AI in an OS.

New comment by cdmckay in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

cdmckay — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:55:56 +0000

China as “second place in any sense” ignores reality.

TikTok: achieved global cultural and algorithmic dominance.

DJI: controls roughly 70% of the global consumer and commercial drone market.

CATL: The world’s largest EV battery manufacturer.

BYD: Surpassed Tesla in total electric vehicle production volume.

Shein & Temu

The list goes on…

New comment by cdmckay in "The End of an Athlon"

cdmckay — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:17:51 +0000

Reminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock.

New comment by cdmckay in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"

cdmckay — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:54:02 +0000

100% agree.

They added so much new syntax to C# to the point it really is starting to feel like C++++ whereas Java has modernized itself without massively expanding its syntax and modifiers.

New comment by cdmckay in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

cdmckay — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:09:30 +0000

Source: trust me bro

New comment by cdmckay in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

cdmckay — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:45:43 +0000

I would’ve thought this was the default.

New comment by cdmckay in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

cdmckay — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:42:01 +0000

I assume you’re talking about Slow Watches? I actually have one and while I love the simplicity of it, it turns out the minute hand is actually the more useful hand. Trying to figure out if you have 10 or 20 minutes until your next appointment on a Slow Watch is extremely painful, so much so that I only wear it if I don’t think I’ll need to know the time behind if it’s “roughly between 1 and 2 pm”.

New comment by cdmckay in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

cdmckay — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:43:51 +0000

Really? I use Firefox as my personal browser and everything works fine, including Google sites. Very rarely there’s a government site that needs Chrome, but I definitely wouldn’t say it’s “many” sites.

New comment by cdmckay in "Why DMARC's new "NP" tag can fail with DNSSEC"

cdmckay — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:47:43 +0000

So you’re cool with letting anyone walk your DNS?

New comment by cdmckay in "Podman v6.0.0"

cdmckay — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:57:49 +0000

After Docker Desktop randomly started consuming insane amounts of memory again we switched to Podman and it was literally as easy as installing it and pointing it at our docker-compose.yml.

Zero changes needed and now I don’t need to keep a daemon running.

Great software.

New comment by cdmckay in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

cdmckay — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:51:56 +0000

> Windows Lite is a stripped down version of Windows. No telemetry, no spying, no ads, no AI, no .NET, nothing. Windows Lite is just win32 with a lightweight shell and graphics drivers.

So, basically Linux with Wine/Proton?

Isn’t this basically what SteamOS does?

New comment by cdmckay in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

cdmckay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:17:01 +0000

You can make it so you need a YubiKey to login to 1Password the first time on a new device

So just waiting for the password won’t be enough

New comment by cdmckay in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

cdmckay — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:00:39 +0000

I think that’s the point of the OP. Git is great at certain things but is not a one size fits all.