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New comment by thesnide in "The Cost of Indirection in Rust"

thesnide — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:18:47 +0000

in a nutshell: clear defined helper functions are much better for comprehension than bigger functions. and they usually cost nothing ar runtime sine the compiler inlines them anyway.

But the real cost is that having a myriad of them is usually very difficult to get the right cut. not too small not too big and having a clear intend of what it exactly does.

so nothing new. API design is hard. naming thing even more so.

New comment by thesnide in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

thesnide — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:48:36 +0000

exactly my thought. and here thr reader view of FF is a godsend.

having 'accessible' content is not only for people with disabilities, it also help with bad color taste.

well, at least bad taste for readable content ;)

New comment by thesnide in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

thesnide — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:30:08 +0000

I'm actually loving HN because it hasn't such a system.

While it looks like a very good idea at first, it will evolve in echo chambers. Which are the bane of current society, as noone listen to challenging opinions anymore.

So, very much like the "ban of VPN" for minors, it is a seemingly good idea that will backfire in horrible ways.

New comment by thesnide in "SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution"

thesnide — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:39:39 +0000

bladeenc... now that brings some memories!

svardos comes with a nice package assortment indeed

New comment by thesnide in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

thesnide — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:05:00 +0000

I actually don't like to play with random people on the internet.

I prefer the comfort of knowing them, and usually do it in the old basement LAN party way.

In my young time we didn't have internet, and we were actually LESS recluse overall ;-)

New comment by thesnide in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

thesnide — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:00:53 +0000

I'm now even using wine & proton for it. Thanks to Valve only very few games don't work.

And it's not that i don't like windows, it is just too damn slow for me.

And no. I do not want to upgrade my gear every 2 years or so

New comment by thesnide in "Loongarch Improvements with Box64"

thesnide — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:50:58 +0000

I'm wondering if we'll see some riscv extensions specifically designed to improve x86/amd64 emulation, such as what the M1 and other did.

New comment by thesnide in "Debian's Git Transition"

thesnide — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:27:50 +0000

to be fair, it fits my exact needs. and without common javacript bloat.

so kudos to its authors

New comment by thesnide in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

thesnide — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:12:01 +0000

i'd say that wine has much less dev effort and the specs they re up against aren't as public as the web ones, so huge kudos to the wine team.

New comment by thesnide in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

thesnide — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:08:02 +0000

i'm starting to wonder what if those rust rewrites might be covert attempt to introduce back doors in plain sight?

New comment by thesnide in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"

thesnide — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:04:23 +0000

for such security devices, there is OTP.

I prefer to have my auth device bricked than compromised.

for anything else, i want to be able to reprogram.

so for vendors, a simple choice :

* be OTP, but no "patching"

* be R/W, but also by its owner

New comment by thesnide in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

thesnide — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:15:33 +0000

> more choice and greater value for me

That will exactly follow Netflix's price hikes.

As in "value for money", they silenced the latter part :D

New comment by thesnide in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

thesnide — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:59:20 +0000

indeed. and the fact that it can be resold at will makes it much worse as you just created an gambling ecosystem

New comment by thesnide in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

thesnide — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:56:35 +0000

lsw :)

New comment by thesnide in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

thesnide — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:51:36 +0000

Video tech is driven by pr0n and OS tech is driven by games.

New comment by thesnide in "Over-regulation is doubling the cost"

thesnide — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:34:33 +0000

it is usually the result of https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/04/brains-prefer-adding...

New comment by thesnide in "Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch"

thesnide — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:56:45 +0000

that's an excellent approach to ancient binaries!

New comment by thesnide in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

thesnide — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:03:50 +0000

it unfortunately died with Steve.

New comment by thesnide in "Vibe engineering"

thesnide — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:19:33 +0000

to me genAI feels like a neural implanted exoskeleton.

it does awesome in demos. it has a real use.

but

it gets a long training period when one makes mistakes with it, it is big mistakes that take long to fix

New comment by thesnide in "PGETinker is an online IDE for quick gamedev prototyping"

thesnide — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:26:03 +0000

Originally done for PixelGameEngine from javidx9 (onelonecoder).

Now supports raylib and SDL2/3 and one button share with code via an URL or an single HTML page to be able to embed it in itch.io or similar.