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New comment by garaetjjte in "FreeDNS"

garaetjjte — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:25:01 +0000

It's possible they are both descendants from XName: https://web.archive.org/web/20120625081138/http://source.xna...

New comment by garaetjjte in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

garaetjjte — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:14:39 +0000

>how to know what good/bad code looks like, and if it matches what you're truly asking for

And how you would know to do that, if you're not writing code?

New comment by garaetjjte in "What was a Token Ring network?"

garaetjjte — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:09:30 +0000

Trivia: because IEEE 802.3 working group was formally in charge for standards of "local area networks with CSMA/CD", 1000BASE-T has half-duplex mode defined (which nobody implemented) as otherwise it would fall outside of working group purview.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

garaetjjte — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:48:25 +0000

If you think Steamworks is bad, you haven't seen Microsoft Partner Center...

New comment by garaetjjte in "Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256"

garaetjjte — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:06:57 +0000

How? Once they realized Cell isn't going to cut it PS3 just included Nvidia graphics chip.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs"

garaetjjte — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:10:15 +0000

In Win16 all instances of executable shared memory (that's why there's hInstance in WinMain). But that should be transparent to user if implemented correctly.

Except Excel, which wants to act like single application with multiple windows.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners"

garaetjjte — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:45:31 +0000

Why do you think Orange is using Uceprotect? It seems unlikely that big corp would use some weird unknown list.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards"

garaetjjte — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:44:22 +0000

No, these two elements are not related. Day/night switch is for panel backlight. Current meter indicates current drawn by rail switch motors.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

garaetjjte — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:35:48 +0000

"We bricked your board on purpose even though it actually might work fine" isn't good image either. Like, they know they are doing a bad thing!

Steam Frame, a Linux machine, doesn't support Linux?

garaetjjte — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:25:59 +0000

Article URL: https://gbl08ma.com/posts/steam-frame-a-linux-machine-doesnt-support-linux/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779735

Points: 4

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New comment by garaetjjte in "Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)"

garaetjjte — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:21:58 +0000

They did eventually design their own clean-sheet instruction set for Z8000.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Debian has begun voting on the future of AI/LLM contributions"

garaetjjte — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:37:23 +0000

It's not secret to the administrator though, as they could know who was assigned what secret. I think it could work like: before voting, you go to an office where they verify your identity and let you randomly pick envelope containing unique number from a box. After voting all votes are published and you can verify your vote was counted, but nobody else knows your number.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer"

garaetjjte — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:25:17 +0000

>Pretty much the only use of "reversed subtraction" instruction on a 3-operand machine is to implement NEG and NOT

I would argue that if you have sign-extended immediates, "imm - reg" is more useful to have than "reg - imm", as second form almost entirely overlaps with "reg + -imm".

New comment by garaetjjte in "Executable Emoji"

garaetjjte — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:48:54 +0000

>Frankly, writing directly in emojissembly is a miserable, painful slog, lacking reasonable immediate values, arithmetic operations, or sane jump offsets. Therefore it is sensible to construct a loader that can simply build 8088 code in memory and jump to it.

If you think that self-modifying loader is too easy, I recommend Tom7 take on printable x86:

>This is like telling the waiter that you don’t eat poultry but eggs are okay, and then they bring you an egg, but that egg hatches into a chicken right after they bring it to you. Come on.

https://tom7.org/abc/paper.pdf

New comment by garaetjjte in "Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon"

garaetjjte — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:42:11 +0000

...but there's a imager in orbit around the moon, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

garaetjjte — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:06:59 +0000

I don't think that's too surprising, as even if you get 1 million of signatures the only thing you will get is "response from Commission". So they can reply with legalese for "get bent" and there goes your million signatures.

New comment by garaetjjte in "Nokia's 14 Years of Mobile-Phone Supremacy Ended in an Afternoon"

garaetjjte — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:13:04 +0000

Windows Phone 7 was artificially limited crap, any amount of head start wouldn't help it.

New comment by garaetjjte in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

garaetjjte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:34:28 +0000

Only acceptable use of attestation is when done on behalf of device owner. So if they let me submit list of keys allowed for my account, fine, but any other use is just evil restriction of what software I can run on my own devices.

New comment by garaetjjte in "DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded"

garaetjjte — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:12:21 +0000

You usually hope that TTD points to the culprit in such situations. But once I encountered single-byte corruption that didn't make any sense in TTD trace, there was good value at write and next read was garbage. I never discovered whether that was CPU bug, corruption by GPU shaders, stray kernel writes, or whatever.(I think it's unlikely that CPU bug would manifest with both native and TTD-instrumented runs. Corrupted byte was inside heap allocated memory so it shouldn't be in GPU pagetables at all. Kernel writes wouldn't appear in TTD trace, so really I think that was most likely issue, but how to debug that...)

New comment by garaetjjte in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

garaetjjte — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:04:56 +0000

Maybe they don't do that for larger destination providers. But definitely no coincidences here. (in the post I replaced address with example.com because I'm curious if I will ever get other spam onto it, but here's another one unmodified)

  curl --request POST --data '{"email": "pangramdemo@milek7.pl"}' https://www.pangram.com/api/validate-email

https://milek7.pl/mailverifyspam/another.txt