Hacker News: muststopmyths

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

muststopmyths — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:44:19 +0000

Console applications, which do not have win32 windows with message pumps can be closed with alt-f4.

For GUI apps it sends a WM_CLOSE, because that's they way to "close" a GUI application.

For console applications it sends a message through the "Console control handler". Which the console subsystem no longer lets the application properly handle and kills the process summarily anyway.

Note that I keep saying "application" because that has been the terminology in windows forever. "GUI apps" and "console apps" were a thing before mobile.

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

muststopmyths — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:03:09 +0000

ctrl-f4 is used in MDI applications to close one document window of a multi-document application. alt-f4 to close the whole application.

Well, I say "is used", but nothing in Windows is consistent anymore. Especially since web browsers started disrespecting the OS shortcuts. Now it seems like every application follows the web browser UI conventions instead of OS ones.

New comment by muststopmyths in "MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco"

muststopmyths — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:53:03 +0000

beautiful !

New comment by muststopmyths in "The Indo-European Family Tree"

muststopmyths — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:30:30 +0000

The book I mentioned is about languages and their spread through history, not religion.

New comment by muststopmyths in "The Indo-European Family Tree"

muststopmyths — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:53:45 +0000

would you recommend a more recent book comparable to "Empires of the Word" by Nicholas Ostler on the subject of languages ? I am really enjoying the book, but it's over 20 years old at this point. I wonder how much of the information is out of date now.

New comment by muststopmyths in "Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux"

muststopmyths — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:24:16 +0000

Equivalent in Windows is Registered I/O (RIO) for sockets.

Windows network development is really, really different from Unixy stuff. But you might have fun :)

New comment by muststopmyths in "The occasional ECONNRESET"

muststopmyths — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:35:19 +0000

Seems plausible since FIN only means “I’m done sending” also called a “half close”.

FTP has different data and command connections so the server may not have an outstanding read to detect the data connection break.

But.. it should still clean up both when the command connection dies

New comment by muststopmyths in "Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions"

muststopmyths — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:53:09 +0000

Butter stick would actually be great

New comment by muststopmyths in "SFO Gate Explorer"

muststopmyths — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:32:22 +0000

During the recent shutdown, SFO was one of the airports with no TSA backlogs because they weren't dependent on the DHS funds in question.

New comment by muststopmyths in "They See Your Photos"

muststopmyths — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:49:42 +0000

I don't know much about the Google Vision API that it claims to use, but uploading the same passport photo of mine twice produced wildly different results in the "data" tab.

There are fields like interests, income, biases/predjudices which vary the most so I assume that's just the site pulling things from its own database of racist stereotypes ?

New comment by muststopmyths in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

muststopmyths — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:21:57 +0000

they possibly meant nutrition label and bread

New comment by muststopmyths in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

muststopmyths — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:58:43 +0000

Also, a vertical mouse works wonders for similar mouse-related tendon issues.

New comment by muststopmyths in "Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan"

muststopmyths — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:46:08 +0000

It’s the Java version of the game, not a game version of Java.

There’s a native version called bedrock

New comment by muststopmyths in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

muststopmyths — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:39:40 +0000

Amazing! 100% accurate roast for me.

New comment by muststopmyths in "I cracked a $200 software protection with xcopy"

muststopmyths — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 04:03:25 +0000

TFA is checking those via imports, not copied DLLs.

I suppose they could LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress at runtime, but that'd be a lot of effort for obfuscation.

New comment by muststopmyths in "Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay"

muststopmyths — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:40:53 +0000

Source or country of origin would be nice.

“Opposition leader Aquino” in article without any other context could be confusing

New comment by muststopmyths in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

muststopmyths — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:30:26 +0000

This genius probably doesn't use Windows as his daily driver so of course he's not bothered by it.

New comment by muststopmyths in "Using Generative AI in Content Production"

muststopmyths — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:34:55 +0000

It is a lot like the Division's DZ. Less toxicity out of the gate, but we'll see how that goes as time passes. They should've taken the "rogue" mechanic from that game.

Arc Raiders is a ton of fun though. Also recommend Helldivers 2 if you just want a PvE shooter. It tends to be buggy as hell but the core game experience is hilariously fun.

New comment by muststopmyths in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

muststopmyths — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:51:54 +0000

Few people have phone landlines anymore in India, but wired broadband to the home is not uncommon. It would be annoying to not then be able to have a home WiFi 6G router.

Mobile data is cheap, but broadband is much cheaper.

New comment by muststopmyths in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

muststopmyths — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 23:42:28 +0000

They rewrote Explorer for Windows 11, in the process fucking it up completely.

There is a regkey to go back to the Windows 10 explorer, but you'd have to google that.