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New comment by weltensturm in "Reasoning models reason well, until they don't"

weltensturm — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:26:09 +0000

> Reality is measurable

Heisenberg would disagree.

New comment by weltensturm in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

weltensturm — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:11:14 +0000

Rust has a million ways to solve a specific problem, as it is not opinionated and gets you down to the lowest level if needed. On top of that there's a million ways to encode your types. Then there's a million ways to bind C libraries.

The solution space is basically infinite, and that's a good thing for a systems programming language. It's kind of amazing how far rust reaches into higher level stuff, and I think the way too easy to use package manager and lively crate ecosystem is a big part of that.

Sometimes I wish for a higher-level rust-like language though, opinionated as hell with garbage collector, generic functions without having to specify traits, and D's introspection.

New comment by weltensturm in "The Missing Nvidia GPU Glossary"

weltensturm — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:37:36 +0000

that's pretty

New comment by weltensturm in "Vision Pro teardown part 2: What’s the display resolution?"

weltensturm — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 23:21:53 +0000

> which is why your phone’s screen needs a higher resolution than your TV, and why a movie at the theater looks fine, even though it may only be 2K

They should have measured the angular screen area for those scenarios, because this is entirely backwards.

New comment by weltensturm in "The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers"

weltensturm — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:44:12 +0000

Why is it http.Error(w, ...) and not w.Write(http.Error(...))? The latter would be way more clear in showing that nothing magical happens and a return (if wanted) is still necessary (I don't write Go, so I don't know the conventions)

New comment by weltensturm in "Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring"

weltensturm — Thu, 26 May 2022 18:27:59 +0000

I meant the Ryzen CPU (is there a GPU with that name?), should have been more specific.

My GPU is a GTX 1080 and it was unenjoyable to me with that CPU, now I have a 12600KF and it runs pretty well.

The OP article shows quite well how CPU bound this game is.

New comment by weltensturm in "Behind the Pretty Frames: Elden Ring"

weltensturm — Thu, 26 May 2022 09:27:56 +0000

So that's why my 1600X was not good enough

New comment by weltensturm in "First Principles Thinking"

weltensturm — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:31:17 +0000

All things start from theory, just not the kind you think about. It seems you are referring to the academic style of theories, but in reality it is much closer to your mentioned trial and error - if you think about it, trial and error also requires guesses and theories to be viable, just that they don't come in written form, but rather from intuition. And I think intuition is the fundamental building block of first principles thinking or whatever they want to call it.

New comment by weltensturm in "Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12"

weltensturm — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 11:37:37 +0000

nothing is true; everything is permitted

New comment by weltensturm in "Untapped potential in Rust's type system"

weltensturm — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:56:53 +0000

Heh, this sounds just like the global event system I made for my D window manager: https://github.com/weltensturm/flatman/blob/master/common/ev... (which has some extra jingles with method annotations and event filters for convenience)

New comment by weltensturm in "Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid"

weltensturm — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:05:12 +0000

It looks like they switched from .doc to .docx in January, I wonder if the old format was the attack vector

New comment by weltensturm in "Everything you need to know about pointers in C (2010)"

weltensturm — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:58:13 +0000

By C half-assedly trying to make "* " part of the name, just so you can use "* ptr" everywhere like it is an actual variable name, you get confusions such as this.

First "foo_ptr's type is int * ", but then "The pointer has a type, too, by the way. Its type is int.".

I also refuse to agree with "An int * * 's type is int * ". :)

But I guess "the type of `* ptr` is int, the type of `ptr` is int * " would be even more confusing.

New comment by weltensturm in "Show HN: JavaScript-free personal bio hosting"

weltensturm — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:04:33 +0000

How does "built-in privacy" hold up when the bios are basically public?

It looks like the generated links are just based on the person's name as well, so it would be pretty easy to find a lot of people fast. Letting the user generate UUID (or something) based URLs that are valid for a limited time only should be standard.

New comment by weltensturm in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel"

weltensturm — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:01:53 +0000

These things are very vendor specific and proprietary, I was more thinking about general purpose programming languages.

New comment by weltensturm in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel"

weltensturm — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:45:49 +0000

There will never be anything that is as portable as text, and I think that is the sole reason we will never see any other widespread method of storing "code".

Imagine having to update to a new language version if the code is blobs, I feel sick already. And all the language vendor specific software you'd need just to do anything with it in general.

New comment by weltensturm in "We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus"

weltensturm — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 15:18:50 +0000

So don't tell us to trust you?

New comment by weltensturm in "Ownership and Borrowing in D"

weltensturm — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:25:03 +0000

Becoming a C++ expert is impossible in a lifetime, becoming a D expert is a matter of months.

It is, from the very core, a way simpler language than C++. I'd argue it's simpler than Rust, even. IMO acknowledging a few function attributes is way simpler than learning all the flairs of ownership and lifetimes.

As for metaprogramming, I love D's introspection capabilities, while I kind of want Rust's ability to create unquoted DSL.

The only "non-uniform" part of D that I can think of is the oddness of `shared`, and a few outdated stdlib modules. Everything else (betterC, pure, live, etc.) is just a subset of a powerful, coherent multi-paradigm language.