Hacker News: wqweto

New comment by wqweto in "jQuery 4"

wqweto — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:54:48 +0000

Last available Chromium on XP has 0-days too, so not a big win.

New comment by wqweto in "jQuery 4"

wqweto — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:52:14 +0000

XP support IE8 max

New comment by wqweto in "Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter"

wqweto — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 20:47:33 +0000

Europe is not a country.

New comment by wqweto in "I hacked Monster Energy"

wqweto — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:28:56 +0000

Btw, you completely missed the point of the parent question. . .

New comment by wqweto in "Yet Another Zip Trick"

wqweto — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:05:45 +0000

Btw, in ZIP archives there is *no* header field that instructs what the pathname separator character(s) used are.

New comment by wqweto in "Bulgaria to Adopt the Euro"

wqweto — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:02:43 +0000

Why don't you bring back the kuna to reduce the inflation? Hold a referendum? Why no one believes this will bring down the inflation?

New comment by wqweto in "What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?"

wqweto — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:51:14 +0000

And Delphi

New comment by wqweto in "Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds"

wqweto — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:05:46 +0000

> taking creatine without doing the work probably won't make a difference (except to your wallet)

Creatine is dirt cheap. Anything expensive is probably a scam.

New comment by wqweto in "Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself"

wqweto — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:11:50 +0000

Usually it’s easier to just cross-compile for the new target. No need to start from ground zero.

New comment by wqweto in "Running WolfSSL and Curl on Windows 2000"

wqweto — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 15:36:33 +0000

Btw, VbAsyncSocket[1] project already supports TLS 1.3 on NT 4.0 and Win9x[2]

[1] https://github.com/wqweto/VbAsyncSocket/releases

[2] https://dl.unicontsoft.com/upload/pix/ss_vbasyncsocket_win9x...

New comment by wqweto in "Pay once. Use forever. Find the best purchase alternatives to subscription"

wqweto — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 07:39:53 +0000

Office 97 works on Win11. No emulation needed.

New comment by wqweto in "Large Text Compression Benchmark"

wqweto — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 14:18:17 +0000

We use bsc and nanozip for archiving DB backups (usually 1-100GB files) and have not found anything remotely close to these as CPU usage vs compression ratio.

    c:> bsc.exe e "%~1" "%~1.bsc" -b1000 -m4e1t -M4H20

This uses 3GB of RAM and compresses w/ about 300MB/s but is slow on decompression while

    c:> nz.exe a -cd -p2 -m1024m "%~1.nz" "%~1"

uses about 1GB of RAM and compresses w/ about 250MB/s to worse compression ratios but is much faster than bsc on decompression.

Both of these smash zstd and 7-zip on compression and speed -- something like 2x better and 10x faster.

New comment by wqweto in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"

wqweto — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:39:17 +0000

Btw, dont’t remember Turbo C or Borland C++ to be able to compile to 32-bit x86 on DOS

New comment by wqweto in "Lowercase letters save data"

wqweto — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 09:07:30 +0000

Probably true for Russian cyrillic alphabet tradition but not so much for Bulgarian and other cyrillic ancestry where lowercase letters differ almost for every letter with few exceptions, no matter if handwritten, cursive, italic or normal.

New comment by wqweto in "Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)"

wqweto — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:21:35 +0000

The hierarchical nature of the registry elevates old INI files to at least TOML format in this regard :-))

New comment by wqweto in "When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code"

wqweto — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 15:54:49 +0000

Very useful!

Posted this on behalf of the silent majority that likes the approach.

New comment by wqweto in "Abstracting away correctness (2020)"

wqweto — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 12:54:43 +0000

There is no short article from fasterthanlime. These have to be worth their money I guess but anyway I always like everything by him.

New comment by wqweto in "Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log"

wqweto — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 10:52:09 +0000

Is this bit rot happening on a server w/ ECC RAM just curious?

New comment by wqweto in "Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)"

wqweto — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:50:56 +0000

Is Rust as first programming language a thing?

New comment by wqweto in "Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours"

wqweto — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:28:04 +0000

It's even harder playing it under Remote Desktop over slow connection!