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New comment by mschuetz in "GLP-1 may slow biological aging"

mschuetz — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:52:40 +0000

I'd assume most of what it does is a due to losing weight and reduced metabolism due to lower caloric intake.

New comment by mschuetz in "C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour"

mschuetz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:18:30 +0000

Seems trivial to me for infinite loops. Nothing special to specify here, they're already specced by the definition of loops.

New comment by mschuetz in "C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour"

mschuetz — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:32:52 +0000

I don't see the issue. Just let wrong code do wrong things But let it do the expected wrong thing, rather than changing the code to something unexpected.

New comment by mschuetz in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

mschuetz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:27:01 +0000

That's unfortunate. Cuda has shown that, when done right, defaults and a convenience layer can make for a well received API without sacrificing performance.

New comment by mschuetz in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

mschuetz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:22:27 +0000

> The best way to program GPUs is face up to the reality that they are not the same machine as the CPU, write your kernels in separate files, and launch them manually,

Yes, I also prefer doing it that way, but in Cuda with the driver API. Allows you to handle kernels like shaders, including editing and hot-reloading at runtime.

The reason I'm sticking with CUDA is because it's by far the most convenient API to use, without nonsense like 50-liners to alloc memory or the need to manage descriptors, bindings, queue families, etc.

New comment by mschuetz in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

mschuetz — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:23:22 +0000

Just looked it up, and I find it rather bland. It's not bad, but not great either, and the immediate surroundings are barren and boring.

New comment by mschuetz in "The case against JPEG XL"

mschuetz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:22:47 +0000

Gif is still there because it's still often the only option for frictionless video embedding. Embedded videos usually come with a video player that hardly ever quite works out well, often not starting automatically, not looping, or showing video player UI elementa that shouldnt be shown.

New comment by mschuetz in "CUDA for AMD on Windows"

mschuetz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:10:35 +0000

It could easily be a competitor to Cuda, if it just made things easier. Like, why does it take 50 lines of code to allocate memory in vulkan, and just one single line in cuda? Vulkan should just provide a single-line gpuMalloc convenience function. And not just for allocation, for all the other nonsense as well.

New comment by mschuetz in "CUDA for AMD on Windows"

mschuetz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:44:55 +0000

I wouldnt consider Vulkan any better in that regard. It's pretty damn terrible, UX-wise.

New comment by mschuetz in "CUDA for AMD on Windows"

mschuetz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:08:08 +0000

The problem with the open standards is that their dev UX is absolutely horrible. You can't neglect usability, and then be surprised that there are no users.

New comment by mschuetz in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

mschuetz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:05:27 +0000

I'm generally suspicious of the effectiveness of ads. It always amuses me when Ibbuy something, and then I start getting ads for the thing I already bought.

New comment by mschuetz in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

mschuetz — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:27:15 +0000

I've had great experienced with it. It's almost certainly not as full-featered as premiere pro, but it runs buttery smooth and robust, while Premiere Pro kept crashing frequently and was a bit tedious to use for simple tasks.

New comment by mschuetz in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

mschuetz — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:47:00 +0000

I know people who would get it for local LLMs for use in their company.

New comment by mschuetz in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

mschuetz — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:29:51 +0000

Not at all. I specifically bought a MacBook Air M4, first Mac product in my life, for its fantastic performance in a passively cooled notebook. I have zero loyalty to Apple and usually use Windows. If someone else starts beating them perf wise, I'll happily switch again.

New comment by mschuetz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

mschuetz — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:36:27 +0000

> and deal with consistent downtime,

Wildly exaggerated. I use github almost daily and can't remember when the last downtime was.

New comment by mschuetz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

mschuetz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:34:48 +0000

What do you mean "why"? Setting up and tinkering with systems is work I loathe to do, obviously. I want to code, not host coding repositories. I did it in the past because I had to, and now I don't have to do it because github does it for me. It's great.

New comment by mschuetz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

mschuetz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:39:58 +0000

But I don't want to have to do this kind of work, you're only listing disadvantages from my viewpoint.

New comment by mschuetz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

mschuetz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:38:47 +0000

Well, yeah, I am. It's not something I want to have to care about. I want to code, not host code repos.

New comment by mschuetz in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

mschuetz — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:24:18 +0000

Except anything I'd self host would be down much more often. I've hardly ever actually experienced down time issues with github when I needed it.

New comment by mschuetz in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

mschuetz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:11:44 +0000

I wouldnt recommend anyone going to Vulkan, though. It's pretty much the worst graphics API out there, and WebGPU is mimicking outdated Vulkan design decisions that even Vulkan is currently outphasing, like render passes and static pipelines.