Hacker News: chaz72

New comment by chaz72 in "Zig: Build System Reworked"

chaz72 — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:56:37 +0000

My guess is that one of these (Andrew) is measuring syscalls and the other is measuring vtable indirections.

New comment by chaz72 in "Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"

chaz72 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:18:52 +0000

Seriously, turn on the news once in a while.

New comment by chaz72 in "C meeting is over. C23 added:"

chaz72 — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:09:33 +0000

That’s what I am betting on - but it isn’t 1.0 yet, and that matters too.

New comment by chaz72 in "O&O ShutUp10++ – Free anti-spy tool for Windows 10, 11"

chaz72 — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 17:14:37 +0000

This is great! https://github.com/undergroundwires/privacy.sexy/tree/master... looks like the raw data (yaml) for all these commands, including commands for macOS. With that, it’s at least plausible to audit these commands.

I probably still won’t trust it on a critical system without a reputable audit though, I think I’d still prefer to either trust Microsoft or Apple or go run OpenBSD or Linux instead.

New comment by chaz72 in "Software effort estimation is mostly fake research"

chaz72 — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:55:49 +0000

Yes! I try to always phrase it as "the part I can see from here will take at least X time".

New comment by chaz72 in "Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization"

chaz72 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 08:34:41 +0000

Okay, so your source is Giuliani. Well that is an answer, I guess. Sorry I was looking for a news source and not a political one. This is not nearly as credible - until evidence reaches a courtroom - as “somebody on the internet”.

New comment by chaz72 in "Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization"

chaz72 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 07:48:19 +0000

Never heard of this source - I hope it’s okay in this time of misinformation to ask for a recognizable source?

Edit: I mean I am okay with leaving it as “somebody on the internet says”, but wondered if the evidence was more clear than that.

New comment by chaz72 in "Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization"

chaz72 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 06:17:09 +0000

Then you can definitely name one.

New comment by chaz72 in "Judge Orders Twitter to Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy"

chaz72 — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 00:59:43 +0000

I am less certain that Fox didn't know who @whyspertech was.

New comment by chaz72 in "Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?"

chaz72 — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 18:04:50 +0000

It still might be a reasonable tradeoff for me, for some projects but regardless: thank you, that adds some nuance that I didn't get from your earlier comment.

New comment by chaz72 in "Tips for stable and portable software"

chaz72 — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 17:49:02 +0000

I've been actively wondering about generating some efficient and portable C code, and for this project it wouldn't be super-complicated, but undefined behavior is the one thing that keeps me away. C++ and Rust and C# and many other languages all add wonderful things, with side effects on portability, clarity, learning curve, language stability, etc. - wonderful things that I don't always want in a twenty-year-stable system.

Anyway, thank you for these, I'm definitely going to look further here.

New comment by chaz72 in "Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?"

chaz72 — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 16:57:37 +0000

I think they just missed the memo that Windows now has a modern Chromium-based Edge option for a web view component. I mean, before that, the situation was really pretty bad, but now I'd expect it to be fine. (Have not tested it yet.)

New comment by chaz72 in "Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking"

chaz72 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:47:11 +0000

It sounds like that, but I don't think it's really true. I think that only means that with the previous tradeoffs available, they chose to keep being tracked. No reason not to try something new and maybe they'll choose something different.

New comment by chaz72 in "Parameter or Argument?"

chaz72 — Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:46:37 +0000

Good example. First I've seen, and it doesn't apply to me so I will continue using them as I have, but good example.

New comment by chaz72 in "“But he does good work.”"

chaz72 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:03:26 +0000

I find the way you argue very frustrating. I respond to "This is a great way to make sure you have an unjust community wherein no one has the opportunity to defend themselves and speaking ill of someone is enough to evict them." by saying "It's a community they lead, they get to decide who is welcome." but then you shift the goalposts.

You slide right past my assertion that the Tor community must be able to decide who is welcome in the Tor community and refer to a nebulous "privacy community" now. Is the "privacy community" even at issue? I don't know what that is. If there is a group called the "privacy community", then yes, I agree, they should decide who is welcome in their club.

As far as I know, he's not being prosecuted. The only rights he acquires from not being prosecuted are that he won't go to jail. Right? He doesn't have any automatic right to join my club, your club, or the Tor community's club.

New comment by chaz72 in "“But he does good work.”"

chaz72 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:17:47 +0000

A slippery slope, if you will? No, let this case stand on its own:

The leaders of the Tor community were shown evidence they considered to be sufficient to boot this guy. It's a community they lead, they get to decide who is welcome. You want to start your own community and welcome him with open arms, you go right ahead.

New comment by chaz72 in "“But he does good work.”"

chaz72 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:08:15 +0000

No. Jail needs to wait for formal charges, but the community can make its own decisions whether they will accept his behavior - and they may decide they care about things that are both vile and legal, they may use entirely different reasoning than the courts.

New comment by chaz72 in "Libui: GUI library in C"

chaz72 — Fri, 20 May 2016 15:41:13 +0000

You wouldn't write the app in C at all, most likely. You would write the library in C, because every one of those alternatives can call a C library.

New comment by chaz72 in "Congress is clueless about tech because it killed its tutor"

chaz72 — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:56:51 +0000

Nonsense. I would think a government would be perfectly capable of hiring experts. I would fully expect them to have different motivations than industry and academic experts, but I would think they could easily - and fairly cheaply - minimize some of Congress's stupidest misunderstandings.

New comment by chaz72 in "Apple updates its 12-inch MacBook with faster chip, but no extra USB"

chaz72 — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:07:08 +0000

I expect it's very frustrating to see employees being given an insufficient computer. That's not Apple's fault though. (I mean unless they're misrepresenting things somehow, which I don't think they are.) Apple still has, last I heard, some great Pro machines that support far more wired connectivity options.

If a business buys the one when they need the other, or fails to replace broken cables, then that business is at fault.