Hacker News: rmrfchik

New comment by rmrfchik in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

rmrfchik — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:27:22 +0000

I didn't expect they are running Windows up there. Shouldn't be specialized and curated ... smthing else?

New comment by rmrfchik in "Wayland Nvidia"

rmrfchik — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 07:32:27 +0000

Suspend/Resume simply nvidia bug: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/cant-resume-from-suspe...

Dozen of packages, official packages, you need bunch of, like, 590.44.01-1 packages installed: https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/deb...

Lags: sorry, I have no more nvidia and can't record video.

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New comment by rmrfchik in "Wayland Nvidia"

rmrfchik — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:58:01 +0000

Suspend/resume was broken in nvidia since release on aug 2024. I have internal bug id for it. And dozen links with suspend scripts. No more drivers I mean I don't need to install dozens of packages. While it not big deal by itself, but reverting broken driver is huge deal. Laggy desktop -- this is my experience until nov 2025 when I dumped nvidia. Desktop on both intel and amd feels like magic after nvidia.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Wayland Nvidia"

rmrfchik — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:58:26 +0000

nvidia on linux [for desktop] is utterly broken. I ran nvidia cards for almost 15 years (shame on me): laggy X11 compositing, fragile and broken wayland. Broken suspend/resume. Too many moving parts (selected drivers, modprobe quirks, suspend/resume scripts). Moved to amd: slick x11, reliable wayland, NO MORE DRIVERS AT ALL, works like charm. And yes, I do playing in Linux.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Prime Number Grid"

rmrfchik — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 07:48:11 +0000

Nice patterns are reveals when cols is prime.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Weierstrass's Monster"

rmrfchik — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:57:35 +0000

They even don't let you select and search the word. What a ... strange choice of ui/ux.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

rmrfchik — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:37:32 +0000

Yeah, all zeldas, marios and pokemons will be there by default. Still no new info ;)

New comment by rmrfchik in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

rmrfchik — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:28:57 +0000

No sepcs. No games. We need it, Nintendo, WE NEED IT.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Why are cancer guidelines stuck in PDFs?"

rmrfchik — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 08:46:06 +0000

Because writers don't think about readers. PDF is one of the worst formats for science/technical info, but yet. I've dumped a lot of papers from arxiv because it formatted as 2-column non zoomable PDF.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Charset="WTF-8""

rmrfchik — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:34:12 +0000

Wow, that's neat.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Charset="WTF-8""

rmrfchik — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:19:34 +0000

Well, the labels of input fields are written in English yet user enters his name in native language.

What's the reason of having name at all? You can call the person by this name. But if I write you my name in my language, what you (not knowing how to read it) can do? Only "hey, still-don't-know-you, here is your info".

In my foreign passport I have name __transliterated__ to Latin alphabet. Shouldn't this be the case for other places?

New comment by rmrfchik in "UTF-8 characters that behave oddly when the case is changed"

rmrfchik — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:00:16 +0000

It's not UTF-8 characters but Unicode.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Concord had a dev culture of toxic positivity that halted any negative feedback"

rmrfchik — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:08:04 +0000

I think it's wrong metrics: gameplay vs woke culture. You can't sit on two chairs at moment. Choose one.

New comment by rmrfchik in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

rmrfchik — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 07:51:28 +0000

And then you are blocked by google.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Strange Attractors (2018)"

rmrfchik — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 10:18:40 +0000

Me -- proudly drawing sin(x) plot. Guys -- doing astonishing graphics.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Visual explanation of SAML authentication (2020)"

rmrfchik — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 07:09:00 +0000

I used onelogin's java-saml-toolkit. But at first I reproduced all process by hand until I groked it. And then I hated it. To be hones, it's not such pain in the ass.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Visual explanation of SAML authentication (2020)"

rmrfchik — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:34:08 +0000

Implemented SAML sso last month. SAML protocol and formats look so fragile and confusing. XML looks outdated in modern days and XML signatures/encryption are hard. Protocol requires deflated base64 on some step, but you can't enflate/deflate easily with cli tools. On other step only base64 is required (why?). All seems error prone and inconsistent. And I feel it can be done much much much simpler.

New comment by rmrfchik in "Pseudo Scheme: Scheme Implemented on Top of Common Lisp"

rmrfchik — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:40:30 +0000

Defmacro isn't hygienic, while syntax- is. Is there way to use arbitrary names in hygienic syntax- macros?

New comment by rmrfchik in "Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled"

rmrfchik — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:33:43 +0000

Can you share plugin for NetBeans? Last time I checked it was some outdated plugin from JetBrains (who, obviously, aren't interested in any other IDE).

New comment by rmrfchik in "Java string interpolation feature has been cancelled"

rmrfchik — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:32:06 +0000

Because Kotlin as a mess language and have poor IDE support.

  $ kotlin
  Welcome to Kotlin version 1.6.10 (JRE 21.0.1+12-Debian-2)
  Type :help for help, :quit for quit
  >>> val b=ByteArray(1);
  >>> b[0] == 0;
  error: operator '==' cannot be applied to 'Byte' and 'Int'
  b[0] == 0;
  ^

  $ jshell
  |  Welcome to JShell -- Version 21.0.1
  |  For an introduction type: /help intro

  jshell> byte[] ba={0}
  ba ==> byte[1] { 0 }

  jshell> ba[0]==0
  $2 ==> true

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