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New comment by quux in "Music for Programming"

quux — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:50:47 +0000

Mark Watney sighs deeply

New comment by quux in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

quux — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:53:32 +0000

“Pay them, in the scheme of things it’s a speeding ticket”

New comment by quux in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

quux — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:09:04 +0000

OpenCode does this. Not sure about other tools

New comment by quux in "Show HN: fftool – A Terminal UI for FFmpeg – Shows Command Before It Runs"

quux — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:17:42 +0000

Any screenshots?

New comment by quux in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

quux — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:23:03 +0000

I’ve had my technicians license for about 10 months and it’s been fun, especially when I’ve spent some time in a desert with a bunch of other hams around.

Getting my general and maybe extra are goals for the year. Want to get on HF before the sun cycle starts winding down

73!

New comment by quux in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

quux — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:42:12 +0000

This article sparks joy

New comment by quux in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

quux — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:24:09 +0000

Is running an IPFS node and pinning the internet archive's collections a good way to do this?

New comment by quux in "Servo 2025 Stats"

quux — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:22:05 +0000

I have a nice workflow going for the iOS apps I work on where I use neovim for all my editing, and Xcode for building and debugging.

New comment by quux in "Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC"

quux — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:23:29 +0000

ah yes, you're right, they did try to fix it in the C64, forgot that whole part of the story.

They finally got it right in the C128 though!

New comment by quux in "Servo 2025 Stats"

quux — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:21:12 +0000

There's a few threads about this in the Swift forums, here's a couple:

https://forums.swift.org/t/ladybird-browser-and-swift-garbag...

https://forums.swift.org/t/ladybird-browser-event-loop-integ...

https://forums.swift.org/t/ladybird-gc-and-imported-class-hi...

New comment by quux in "Servo 2025 Stats"

quux — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:47:44 +0000

You don't strictly have to use Xcode to use swift, there's a good LSP for use in other editors.

That said, if you're using Swift to build an app, you're probably still going to want to use Xcode for building and debugging

New comment by quux in "Servo 2025 Stats"

quux — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:44:45 +0000

That is the plan, but they are stalled on that effort by difficulties getting Swift's memory model (reference counting) to play nice with Ladybird's (garbage collection)

I think there was some work with the Swift team at Apple to fix this but there haven't been any updates in months

New comment by quux in "PawSense: Catproof Your Computer"

quux — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:22:07 +0000

Is there a Mac version of this? I could honestly use it

New comment by quux in "Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC"

quux — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:58:18 +0000

The designers planned on using a shift register in the 6522 VIA chips to implement fast serial loading, but an undocumented bug in that chip forced them to fall back to the slow bit banging version that shipped

New comment by quux in "Commodore 64 floppy drive has the power to be a computer and runs BASIC"

quux — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:54:37 +0000

Yes you can, back in the day this is how fast loaders worked, they uploaded an optimized serial protocol to the ram on the drive and called into it.

New comment by quux in "4 billion if statements (2023)"

quux — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:02:49 +0000

I kept waiting for the payoff to be "The optimizer reduced the entire series of if statements to a single instruction"

New comment by quux in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

quux — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:45:14 +0000

Rust even works on 8-bit via the LLVM-MOS backend for MOS 6502 :)

New comment by quux in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

quux — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:44:34 +0000

Looking at the list of affected architectures: Alpha (alpha), Motorola 680x0 (m68k), PA-RISC (hppa), and SuperH (sh4) I think these are much much more likely to be run by enthusiasts than someone needing an affordable computer.

New comment by quux in "Learn Prolog Now (2006)"

quux — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:10:04 +0000

yes

New comment by quux in "Optical diffraction patterns made with a MOPA laser engraving machine [video]"

quux — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:35:03 +0000

IIRC he works (worked) for Verily, and previously was at Valve working on their VR hardware. He's also mentioned having a business pre-Valve that made MRI safe controllers for users to interact with computers while inside an MRI machine.