Hacker News: shooly

New comment by shooly in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

shooly — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:29:25 +0000

It's not about perspectives, basically every human has the same baseline reasoning capabilities. Understanding that "more work = more time needed" is part of that baseline.

The only "excuse" would be if someone didn't know what a film is at all, because they can't be expected to reason about something they don't have any knowledge about.

New comment by shooly in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

shooly — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:23:15 +0000

"Does it take longer to upload 10,000 photos than to upload 1 photo?"

If a 40-year-old can not answer that question, then they are in fact - dumb.

New comment by shooly in "Building Pi with Pi"

shooly — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:17:21 +0000

Racism is a bias regarding humans, not machines. "Machine" is not a race.

New comment by shooly in "Building Pi with Pi"

shooly — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:09:41 +0000

Lots of people can think for themselves and don't need to wait for others to tell them what they should think.

New comment by shooly in "Building Pi with Pi"

shooly — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:58:36 +0000

This article also - unironically - says, that building a data center near specifically black people is literally racism. Don't waste your time reading this garbage.

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:13:04 +0000

The comparison was about `to_enum_string` example, so I'm asking for exactly that! You can't just make up different rules, that's not how comparisons work!

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:59:15 +0000

XD.

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:46:09 +0000

> Reflection is built in

Can you quote the C++ standard section that specifically talks about the `to_enum_string` function?

New comment by shooly in "New Nginx Exploit"

shooly — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:43:27 +0000

> not necessarily in a good way

How do you think versioning works? You know that it's completely arbitrary and up to the author, right? Very ironic comment.

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:11:48 +0000

So it is NOT built-in and the code example shown above is dishonest - @SuperV1234 compares how "lean" two languages are but conveniently hides half of the code in their preferred language to make it seem simpler that it actually is, as otherwise it would look bad in the comparison!

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:03:50 +0000

So finally, it's NOT built-in, and the parent comment was showing that in other languages - it IS built-in. So your code example is NOT correct and comparison is NOT correct, because you just hid the most important part of it, which is the implementation, that the user has to either: a) write themselves, b) find somewhere on the Internet.

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:11:18 +0000

> And my answer demonstrates that you do not have to

Then again - "where does that `to_enum_string` come from exactly?".

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:08:24 +0000

What? No. Parent comment is comparing C++ to modern programming languages, showcasing how they provide commonly used utilities out-of-the-box instead of making every programmer re-implement them again and again and again and again and again.

New comment by shooly in "Cost of enum-to-string: C++26 reflection vs. the old ways"

shooly — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:56:59 +0000

... and where does that `to_enum_string` come from exactly? It doesn't seem to be built-in, which is the point of the parent comment.

New comment by shooly in "Virtual violin produces realistic sounds"

shooly — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:58:41 +0000

Not sure if that's news, Audio Modeling[1] has been doing that for quite a long time now. The big plus of physical modeling instead of sampling is disk size - instead of tens of GB of samples, you get a 15MB plugin.

It's much more difficult to use, though - you have to control lots of aspects of the simulation (using automation in DAW or MIDI controllers) to make it sound actually realistic.

OK I guess it seems like this is more of a tool for luthiers than for composers or music producers.

[1] https://audiomodeling.com/

New comment by shooly in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

shooly — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:13:41 +0000

False. There's lots of side-by-side recordings of Denuvo and non-Denuvo versions of games on YouTube clearly showing that Denuvo does impact performance.

New comment by shooly in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

shooly — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:59:49 +0000

So as I said instead of confusing a minority of people, we confuse everyone instead?

New comment by shooly in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

shooly — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:39:51 +0000

What fingerprinting? What does this have to do with anything?

New comment by shooly in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

shooly — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:33:48 +0000

Red/green is the most common way to show bad/good, error/success, etc.

Using any other color scheme would just confuse everyone instead of only colorblind people... how would that be any better?

New comment by shooly in "Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared"

shooly — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:30:04 +0000

> they don't follow platform guidelines

Do platforms even follow their own guidelines? And if they do, are those guidelines good? Microsoft doesn't seem to care about UI/UX at all, Apple's UI/UX quality gets worse each year, and Linux is all over the place with each distro doing its own thing. What guidelines are those apps supposed to follow?

Looking at the current state of things, I think it's good that apps tend to do whatever they think is best for their use case. Also, most people don't switch between 100 different apps all the time.