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New comment by oriolid in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

oriolid — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:18:18 +0000

I can totally understand why. I tried fixing ag around the time Ripgrep was first published and once I learned about rg I never looked back.

On a related note, it's now ten years since an everyday tool written in Rust was released and Rust is still seen as a scary new language that might turn out to be a quick fad.

New comment by oriolid in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

oriolid — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:47:35 +0000

For me it was trying to add a filter to search CMake files to ag and then realizing that the code had some rather stupid design decisions that prevented it. I wrote a pull request that fixed enough things to add the filter, got ignored by the maintainer and later realized that other people had already written the same filter and were ignored too.

New comment by oriolid in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

oriolid — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:39:42 +0000

I'm not completely convinced. When I was a teenager I pirated games because I didn't have money (and games were incredibly expensive back in the day). The people who I copied them from did it to show off their collection and connections, or just because they were my friends.

New comment by oriolid in "IBM Patented Euler's 200 Year Old Math Technique for 'AI Interpretability'"

oriolid — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:28:30 +0000

I think every every company I've worked at that had R&D had some kind of reward system for patents. Yes, most of the software patents were nonsense but those who have their names on it still did get paid.

New comment by oriolid in "The history of Casio watches"

oriolid — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:35:53 +0000

Suunto, Polar and probably a lot of others were doing the same. Android was attractive because it would be a huge saving on software development costs, have maps out of the box and allow third-party apps.

At least Polar had a watch that would run in low-power mode by default and had a separate CPU that could run Android Watch when needed but that would drain the battery quickly. They had the sense to not make it the flagship model and it looks like the current models don't have anything like that.

New comment by oriolid in "The history of Casio watches"

oriolid — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:26:10 +0000

> "Peeing yourself to stay warm".

Which in-house OS this was about? For Symbian, "burning platform" was at least honest.

New comment by oriolid in "Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome"

oriolid — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:53:40 +0000

Make it idiot at algorithms and I believe you.

New comment by oriolid in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

oriolid — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:05:43 +0000

Did you actually look?

Typical websites are not static and include a huge amount of JavaScript and other stuff from different ad networks, analysis tools, etc. It looks like most of it isn't cached. Video delivery on the other hand is incredibly well optimized because everyone knows it's data intensive.

New comment by oriolid in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

oriolid — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:37:47 +0000

No article sorry, it's just what the bandwidth display on my home router shows. I could post some screenshots but I don't care for answering to everyone who tries to debunk them. Mobile version of Facebook is by the way much better optimized than the full webpage. I guess desktop browser users are a small minority.

New comment by oriolid in "A 14kb page can load much faster than a 15kb page (2022)"

oriolid — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 09:58:33 +0000

> The vast majority of internet bandwidth is people streaming video. Shaving a few megs from a webpage load would be the tiniest drop in the bucket.

Is it really? I was surprised to see that surfing newspaper websites or Facebook produces more traffic per time than Netflix or Youtube. Of course there's a lot of embedded video in ads and it could maybe count as streaming video.

New comment by oriolid in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

oriolid — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:30:08 +0000

To each their own.

New comment by oriolid in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

oriolid — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:10:45 +0000

How much did you get paid for this comment? And if not, why was it worth writing?

New comment by oriolid in "Why F#?"

oriolid — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:35:50 +0000

CMake has fetch_content, and CPM is a package manager built on top of it. They are not great.

New comment by oriolid in "The polar vortex is hitting the brakes"

oriolid — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:05:24 +0000

It's missing one important distinction: Below 0C: Freezing, probably slippery, not raining water. Above 0C: not freezing, probably not slippery, rain comes as water. They are as uncomfortable as you make them.

New comment by oriolid in "OpenBSD Innovations"

oriolid — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:11:13 +0000

Don't you remember how hostile people were to ripgrep just because ag or find + xargs + grep existed? Or the same with meson because cmake exists and cmake because autotools exists? Or systemd or clang? It takes an unusualy stubborn person or strong corporate backing to actually create an alternative to an established open source project.

New comment by oriolid in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

oriolid — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:49:47 +0000

No, drunk people who do stupid shit or have passed out in public are just locked up for night and then let go unless they injured or killed someone.

New comment by oriolid in "Shmøergh Hog – The making of a simple analog synth"

oriolid — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:05:39 +0000

Cool project! I understand mass producing these doesn't much sense, but would a build kit that has just PCBs with SMD components in place and the rest of work left to user work? I know someone who did a similar project and it turned out that when ordering PCBs, single one is really expensive compared to even a tiny batch.

New comment by oriolid in "Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance"

oriolid — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:04:16 +0000

I doubt that it would be good business for Microsoft though. The people who use them, and the people who buy them and force others to use them are two separate groups, and anyone who cares even a bit about user experience and has power to make the decision has already switched to something different. It's also the users, not Microsoft who pays for the wasted power and lost productivity.

New comment by oriolid in "The Fastest Mutexes"

oriolid — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:47:33 +0000

> apple finished the transition fat binaries are useless again?

Is the transition really finished? I'm writing this on a x86_64 Macbook with a browser that is distributed as x86_64/arm64 universal binary.

New comment by oriolid in "Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age"

oriolid — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 06:37:31 +0000

Yes. The problem is that the field is insanely competitive, as in there are so many beginner pianists and so few paying gigs. Yes, there are many people who have made it as concert pianists, but concerning childhood dream careers, it is far easier to become an astronaut or formula 1 driver instead. Even the fallback jobs playing bars or accompanying when full orchestra is not available are going away.