Hacker News: vrodic

New comment by vrodic in "The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X (2012)"

vrodic — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:48:45 +0000

i kind of hate that OjectiveC killed ObjectPascal and that we don't have a mainstream modern kernel written in Pascal.

New comment by vrodic in "25 Years of Dillo"

vrodic — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:37:24 +0000

it can show a basic unbloated news site from my contry

it can show lwn.net

it can show HN

it can show old popular local forum

it can show rss feeds

it automatically blocks (does not work on) all the popular social networks

what else is there?

New comment by vrodic in "Leaving WordPress (.org or WPF, still unsure which one)"

vrodic — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:14:19 +0000

there's perefectly working stuff from php from over 20 years ago that only had to keep up with security patches

New comment by vrodic in "Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1"

vrodic — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:38:44 +0000

apparently a lot of hardware is still not properly supported, like speakers, microphones and energy saving

New comment by vrodic in "“Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”"

vrodic — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 08:00:50 +0000

Sounds like headers in general are not necessarily a good idea.

They provide flexibility but at a cost.

I enjoyed Borland Pascal compilation speeds and clean dependencies before switching to Linux. I miss it, together with Delphi.

New comment by vrodic in "From Node to Ruby on Rails"

vrodic — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:59:21 +0000

If there was only a good Ruby in browser implementation, I'd be more than happy to go Ruby everywhere.

New Rails with turbo streams is great, but often times it's desirable to do data processing on the client, and then getting back to JS feels like a step down.

New comment by vrodic in "Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?"

vrodic — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:29:30 +0000

I was under the impression that a lot of the original team was hired by MS and that was the end of Borland that created Delphi.

New comment by vrodic in "Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?"

vrodic — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:28:25 +0000

Still Delphi was better.

- DSL for UI (Forms) - fast native compiler that produced self sufficient binaries - great component library and many open source libraries - Object Pascal was extended to fit perfectly the needs of UI programming

New comment by vrodic in "100 years of whatever this will be"

vrodic — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:51:09 +0000

Hetzner is super affordable alternative to AWS, now with a DC in US, east coast.

New comment by vrodic in "The cognitive costs of air pollution"

vrodic — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 20:26:10 +0000

I have pms3003 you can get for about 12 USD on AliExpress.

I bought a small usb-to-serial adapter connected to Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Here's a combo with a similar device here:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32617788139.html?spm=2114.12...

There are plenty of comparisons available online, but there's a good overview site here: https://aqicn.org/sensor/

New comment by vrodic in "Tether: The Story So Far"

vrodic — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:13:20 +0000

It's good that the banks can be bailed out. It's good there's some inflation. It saves capitalism from itself (the rich acummulating all or practically all the coins).

New comment by vrodic in "Firefox 70"

vrodic — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:48:02 +0000

Chrome does this for a long time now and I don't consider it an issue. You see a frozen version of the last decoded keyframe until the next one is decoded. Elegant solution IMO.

New comment by vrodic in "Firefox 70"

vrodic — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:46:02 +0000

It might not be perfect, but allowing only web workers (if you agree on getting push notifications from a page) might be the solution.

New comment by vrodic in "How to make Linux run fast again on Intel CPUs"

vrodic — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:13:39 +0000

If you don't run untrusted code you should be fine on bare metal servers too.

New comment by vrodic in "Understanding the working of X11 from the ground up (2017)"

vrodic — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 19:19:11 +0000

> As someone who is working with X11, I strongly disagree. It really needs replacing badly. It doesn't even work; only a few code paths even get tested on for example GLX, which is why complex X11 apps like browsers need blacklists.

Blacklists are needed because OpenGL drivers for specific hardware have bugs and can have missing functionality. Those can affect Wayland too, since the same drivers are used.

Modern Xorg supports direct rendering well, Keith Packard authored a lot of modernized infrastructure such as DRI2/DRI3, and even support for VR (work he's been doing for Valve).

There's also the important VK_display_timing extension implementation he's done with Croateams Alen Ladavac:

https://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2018/presentations/... on Xorg

Sadly, I don't see much more recent activity from him or Alen about these topics, but it shows that Xorg is still the main platform of inovation for Linux real-time graphics needs.

New comment by vrodic in "How Dark Deploys Code in 50ms"

vrodic — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:52:14 +0000

You must be doing something wrong. There's a lot of overhead for frameworks like Symfony, yes. But it's possible to write reasonably productive and modern website code where you can get sub 20ms responses (doing auth, fetching from db, processing and rendering html). I know because I've done that, on PHP 5.4.

New comment by vrodic in "Smartwatches know you’re getting a cold days before you feel ill"

vrodic — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 18:30:23 +0000

Smartwarches have body temperature sensors now? Which ones are okay to buy?

New comment by vrodic in "Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway"

vrodic — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:56:38 +0000

A mid sized web site with 5000RPM would be 219 million of requests per month: so 766 USD/month just for API GW, without data transfer, lambda, static/cdn or DB costs.

New comment by vrodic in "Going Serverless: From Common Lisp and CGI to AWS Lambda and API Gateway"

vrodic — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 12:32:33 +0000

Most of these articles I read about AWS Lambda (they rarely mention API Gatweway because it's expensive) sound like paid marketing.

I've seen just API Gateway costing more than entire infrastructure costs of similarly sized websites.

If you can properly saturate EC2 it will be significantly less expensive than Lambda but with lambda you have to pay API GW and the vendor lock-in price.

I've started flagging these submissions.

New comment by vrodic in "Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016"

vrodic — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 07:00:56 +0000

It's easy to support Mozilla if you are not a mega-corp https://donate.mozilla.org/