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What do those CPUID VM checks do anyway?

cristeigabriel — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:58:27 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/cristeigabriel/1fd1cc3c81c966a5feef8fde97d170ef

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42799343

Points: 1

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New comment by cristeigabriel in "Losing my son"

cristeigabriel — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 09:51:10 +0000

What a bullshit response.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Losing my son"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:47:17 +0000

And we help them out for their own sake, so that they can live a life of their own eventually.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Losing my son"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:32:10 +0000

I think you forget the fact that his son has 0 ability for self-preservance. In some cases, we may make things that have no chance to exist on their own, persist, but in this case, what does it serve, but our own selfishness?

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Losing my son"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:30:34 +0000

I believe it's selfish to keep somebody going when they have absolutely 0 ability for self-maintenance.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Losing my son"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:26:32 +0000

Seconded. For reference, I have experience with this kind of scenario first hand (helping care, and living with, somebody with dementia combined with complete immobility and many other things making the quality of life for absolutely everybody involved worse). I hope that with time we become more comfortable with euthanasia, most of us in the scenario found it to be the right choice, but society goes against it.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Show HN: Talk to any ArXiv paper just by changing the URL"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:29:16 +0000

The questions would come from reading a paper in particular. Have a question? Ask away. That's how I'd use it personally.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:25:38 +0000

I am aware. I am asserting the distinction there.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:22:05 +0000

Since words have to mean stuff, I would definitely call it immediate mode, it's not trivial at all to hack a generic retained mode UI library into being as flexible to what's on screen as ImGui. A generic retained mode design would more rather require pointers to some dependency state to check per update, with ImGui the schema gets rebuilt constantly, instead of being reactive. And there is definitely use cases for this design, constantly changing stuff would probably fit with Dear ImGui or others better than with a generic retained mode UI toolkit.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:15:29 +0000

It does require some state in the back for everything to work as it does.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:23:30 +0000

I think it fits, Dear ImGui is the most popular immediate mode GUI, and it's what most people think of when they hear "imgui" even though I've seen people shorten "immediate mode GUI" to "imgui" too.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:14:04 +0000

ImGui supports multiple text rasterizers.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:13:02 +0000

Egui is not the "Rust version" of ImGui. There's libraries which allow for ImGui in other languages by applying the hourglass pattern first (making a C api for the C++ api), to allow for the creation of bindings, since most languages support C FFI, and then somebody writes an API in the target language which calls to (and maybe extends) the C api.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dear ImGui: Graphical User Interface library for C++"

cristeigabriel — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:06:42 +0000

I believe you mean the (general) transparency of state? But yes, that's quite great when you're getting stuff together quickly. It's even used for more serious stuff, where immediate mode is a necessity.

New comment by cristeigabriel in "The mysterious second parameter to the x86 ENTER instruction"

cristeigabriel — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:07:03 +0000

Seconded!:)

Ask HN: I mastered a trade, how do I keep that up while working towards another?

cristeigabriel — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:53:41 +0000

I made the question broad, I'm intetested in how one can be a master at something, in perpetual re-actualization, and somehow make time for another "trade" to work towards (not for work necessarily, but passion)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591207

Points: 2

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New comment by cristeigabriel in "Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS"

cristeigabriel — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 09:57:54 +0000

Do you have something like exceptions and segments? Itd be cool if it didn't IMO (besides for permission situations, I guess)

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Show HN: Homebrew 16bit CPU from 74HC logic with C compiler and Unix-like OS"

cristeigabriel — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:39:30 +0000

So lovely!

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer"

cristeigabriel — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:09:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

New comment by cristeigabriel in "Dogbolt Decompiler Explorer"

cristeigabriel — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:57:23 +0000

It makes sense, it's a perfect advertisement of their superiority.