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New comment by teeuwen in "IANA's email about why example.com changed"

teeuwen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:41:38 +0000

I wonder why they decided to go with the specific language order that the messages appear in on the new page. First English is shown, which makes sense as it’s the most widely spoken language in the world. But then Arabic appears, which has far fewer speakers than e.g. Spanish or Mandarin. French and Russian are also shown before the Spanish message finally shows up. Perhaps I’m reading into the details too much, but this seems somewhat biased to me.

It reminds me of the “Hello” message that appears after (re-)installing iOS, which also cycles through different languages, but there the order is at least randomized iirc.

New comment by teeuwen in "Skype Credit is no longer available"

teeuwen — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 08:08:19 +0000

I’ve found Callcentric to be pretty great for making (international) landline calls. Their Pay Per Call rate is reasonable, though I’m not sure how it compares to Skype’s prior offering. Only downside is that there’s no official client I believe. But there’s plenty of VoiP clients out there. I’m personally using the Groundwire app on my iPhone to place international calls to distant extended family every once in a while.

New comment by teeuwen in "Show HN: Pixeltune, a nicer chiptune and VGM player"

teeuwen — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 08:55:15 +0000

I’m really digging the background visuals. It reminds me of the old Playstation home screen background animation.

New comment by teeuwen in "The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword"

teeuwen — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:50:32 +0000

I do not see how the final keyword would make a difference in performance at all in this case. The compiler should be able to build an inheritance tree and determine by itself which classes are to be treated as final.

Now for libraries, this is a different story. There I can imagine final keyword could have an impact.