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New comment by dingdingdang in "Ferrari Luce"

dingdingdang — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:21:53 +0000

Worse in my opinion since the look is simply Tesla (whether one likes that or not), no one would have blinked an eyelid if Tesla released this car whereas Ferrari doing so comes off incoherent.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 rav4 hybrid"

dingdingdang — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:41:50 +0000

Excellent practical guide and pictures, if OP is around on this thread: well done! Your future self is going to appreciative too when this needs repeating at some point!

New comment by dingdingdang in "Dav2d"

dingdingdang — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:56:01 +0000

Gotta admit this was the first thing I thought of as well. Hard to focus on the code implementation with that in mind!

New comment by dingdingdang in "Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive?"

dingdingdang — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:42:54 +0000

These days it's for sure the dev environment that is lacking, hardware is okay (potentially great?!), software abysmal. To run a local llm in a stable manner implies using Vulkan.. any attempt at ROCm is totally hamstrung by haphazard support of hardware alongside with an online presence poisoned by people primarily discussing work-arounds rather than work when it comes to AMD as a platform. Argh.

New comment by dingdingdang in "EFF is leaving X"

dingdingdang — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:44:41 +0000

It's sad that they have gone political whereas their goal should, in my optics, be almost technocratically in favour of their own stated goals of "protecting user privacy from government/corporate surveillance, defending free speech online, enforcing net neutrality, promoting encryption, and combating abusive intellectual property laws".

New comment by dingdingdang in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

dingdingdang — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:29:09 +0000

I do find the down votes odd, comment seem to contribute to the discussion, is it a reflex move because of intense dislike of the sitting US president?

New comment by dingdingdang in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

dingdingdang — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:08:35 +0000

Having your stuff stored in another country is ultimately a voucher of confidence, I can't see Trump or anyone else willingly misusing that trust. I do think the Western leaders need to temper their tendencies for isolationism these days, what's the alternative guys? And why even think that other people/cultures will want you in their swimming-pool if you can't keep your own one clean/functional?

(this comment also covers France recently bringing home their gold)

New comment by dingdingdang in "We sped up bun by 100x"

dingdingdang — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:56:31 +0000

But then there's this: "When evaluating the complete bun install improvements, it came out speed-wise to about the same as the existing git usage (due to networking being the big bottleneck time-wise despite more cases being slightly faster with ziggit over multiple benchmarks). Except, it's done in 100% zig and those internal improvements pile up as projects consist of more git dependencies. All in all, it seems like a sensible upstream contribution."

Sooo, after burning these 10k+ worth of tokens we find out that it's sensible to use it because the language (zig) feels good as opposed to git itself which now has +20 years of human eval on it. That seems. Well. Yeah...

New comment by dingdingdang in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

dingdingdang — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:09:13 +0000

Yep. that's the route I tried before, no good, maybe it's just that the documentation is past it's sell by date, maybe it's lack of community use.. I'm just not seeing it. Even the article itself describes how to make an exe file... that will then work in Linux? Or is it simply a program that's easier to run on Wine? Loads of text with unclear details throughout it.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

dingdingdang — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:23:36 +0000

With this exact point in mind: I've recently written a pretty straight forward win32 c implementation of a utility with some context dependent window interactions and a tray icon to help monitor and facility reload of config file.

Is there any way I can use the Wine project to facilitate this compiling and running straight under x11/linux environment as a integrated project that doesn't require the end user to fiddle with Wine? I don't mind bundling shared code as needed. Help appreciated, I tried hard and failed at this endeavour priorly.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

dingdingdang — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:42:42 +0000

This point stands to be underlined! Even the least possible friction is more than people at large are willing to deal with, it's only if the system changes are pushed from the top (rumblings in the EU block at the mo) that we'll see casual consumption of Linux in more mainstream context. Having run Linux Mint across a 50+ coworker setting from a sysadmin perspective this is entirely doable, most will not even notice as long as Chrome is in place alongside with something office-like.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg"

dingdingdang — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:09:57 +0000

How far are we from having ffmpeg make automatic rotoscope versions of our videos?!

New comment by dingdingdang in "GIMP 3.2 released"

dingdingdang — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:22:24 +0000

It always had worked like that and it has always been a 100% nonintuitive and peculiar way to deal with this operation

New comment by dingdingdang in "Show HN: OneCLI – Vault for AI Agents in Rust"

dingdingdang — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:44:24 +0000

But surely the point is that the proxy key is for your local network, it ain't got no value on the interwebz.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

dingdingdang — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:26:25 +0000

I abandoned MacOS back in 2018 since I found it too quirky and poweruser-unfriendly (the main thing that comes to mind is neatly indicated by todays other MacOS related frontpage article on resizing). Now we can add overt instability to the list.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

dingdingdang — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:50:42 +0000

Confusing mg and IU units up front really do NOT inspire confidence on the topic and conclusion as a whole.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Devuan – Debian Without Systemd"

dingdingdang — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:37:32 +0000

I use another distro but totally appreciate the effort to keep different branches of potential futures alive. Humans have a tendency, in tech and most other domains afaict, to put a lot of eggs in one basket because it's easier/allows-faster-moving-forward.. but that basket may have structural weaknesses that only shows once it has A LOT of eggs in it.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives"

dingdingdang — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:23:19 +0000

Never read the Foundation series, the concept of psychohistory makes me want to though!

New comment by dingdingdang in "Anthropic Economic Index report: economic primitives"

dingdingdang — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:07:00 +0000

The title actually cringes me out a bit, it reads like early report titles in academia where young students (myself no doubt incl back when) try their hardest at making a title sound clever but in actuality only achieve obscuration of their own material.

New comment by dingdingdang in "Go away Python"

dingdingdang — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:35:33 +0000

Yeah.. this is exactly the overall reality of the ecosystem isn't it? That being said I do hope uv succeeds in their unification effort, there's nothing worse than relying on a smattering of diff package managers and built streams to get basic stuff working. It's like a messy workshop, it works but there's a implicit cost in terms of the lack of clarity and focus for the user. It's a cost I'm not willingly paying.