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New comment by happyweasel in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

happyweasel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:51:38 +0000

Proof that rucking is good for your health

New comment by happyweasel in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

happyweasel — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:03:06 +0000

Tunnel it

New comment by happyweasel in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

happyweasel — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:38:37 +0000

Telegram on the desktop used qt widgets and not qml, at least on windows

New comment by happyweasel in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

happyweasel — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:26:33 +0000

You are essentially one executable just an editor so why don't you link statically ? Apart from the c runtime?

New comment by happyweasel in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

happyweasel — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:17:04 +0000

100% of the user space programs were from gnu. Compiler was from gnu

The initial filesystem was minix

The kernel was Linux.

So I would say Linus had 100s of man years of ecosystem he could benefit from and that is the oss spirit.

But yeah he did not write a shell or an editor or Compiler etc and the kernel was of course oriented towards an unix like os.imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios.

New comment by happyweasel in "Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy"

happyweasel — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:29:06 +0000

"AI is a jet engine "

and rust just wants to ensure you are a capable pilot that can actually steer a plane before stealing everyone else's attention

New comment by happyweasel in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

happyweasel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:58:39 +0000

Porting perfectly working C code that has been in production for decades (and has a great track record wrt to security fixes) to rust is more or less an obfuscation challenge.

New comment by happyweasel in "Kimi K2.7 Code is generally available in GitHub Copilot"

happyweasel — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:55:15 +0000

Same ,I switched to cursor. I told it how to invoke msbuild and it can edit away without needing a native Visual studio plugin.. no problems at all. Target language c++

New comment by happyweasel in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

happyweasel — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:54:43 +0000

wow, basic stuff c++ had since the 80s. congrats. clap, clap, clap. now can someone please make this app that is running with -Xmx360m not use 700mb of resident memory ? asking for a friend.

New comment by happyweasel in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

happyweasel — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:03:34 +0000

You go to the gym to lift. Not to talk. You may talk shortly if it is related to something you need to continue your workout. Apart from that you do not talk. End of story.

New comment by happyweasel in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

happyweasel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:54:49 +0000

Used this kind of font for output on the 320x200 screen all of the time in the late 80s while coding 68k asm on the Atari St

New comment by happyweasel in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

happyweasel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:01:34 +0000

In the early 1990s, C++ had not yet been standardized by ISO, so your argument doesn’t apply to that period.

New comment by happyweasel in "Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp"

happyweasel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:58:06 +0000

Let's see how this unwrap()s in production scnr

New comment by happyweasel in "Shrinking While Linking"

happyweasel — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:15:04 +0000

hmm how can I reuse this useful Go library in python... Oh I can't.. hmm and how can I reuse this useful java library in php ? Oh I can't. Oh and which of the programming languages you mentioned can and do use C libraries? All of them.

Reminds me of that coworker who thought that OpenCV was basically written in python.

New comment by happyweasel in "Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"

happyweasel — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:54:35 +0000

does your gtx 1060 help in any way for the NAS use case?

New comment by happyweasel in "Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive"

happyweasel — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 08:13:36 +0000

>BUT there's another piece that makes or breaks these tools... whether they can >build a community around them and stick around for years...

Why ? who cares? if the tool solves the problem, you need a community maintain it. And that's it.

New comment by happyweasel in "14 Killed in anti-government protests in Nepal"

happyweasel — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:09:34 +0000

Oh, let me guess... The protests were organized by groups that get their funding from the NED or other Western sponsored NGOs ? (Asking for a friend)

New comment by happyweasel in "XMLUI"

happyweasel — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:34:45 +0000

I always wanted to check out https://qskinny.github.io/ it looks compelling and sticks to c++

New comment by happyweasel in "Show HN: CXXStateTree – A modern C++ library for hierarchical state machines"

happyweasel — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:07:29 +0000

vcpkg it

New comment by happyweasel in "Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix"

happyweasel — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 14:15:29 +0000

I share the same perspective .. I was also wondering how UDA handles the problem of evolving schemas, "old clients" communicating with newer server or vice versa.