1. Naru41 Oct 11, 2025 parent

   This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

   https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...

   --

   "Cheesy and dated" -- it keeps hitting me through the years.

2. Naru41 Sep 15, 2025 parent

   Utility-scale solar is very unpopular in Japan. Because most suitable lands of them are densely forested, and installing utility-scale solar systems requires destory the forests.

   There are concerns landslides due to reduced water storage functionality, and emotional antipathy at having their hometowns' mountains covered with solar panels.

3. Naru41 Aug 22, 2025 parent

   I think Rust is the biggest winner that has from LLM support. When I got an compile error, it is painful without LLM to reverse-thinking how to re-write something and why it needs to be written that way.
4. Naru41 Aug 19, 2025 parent

   True.

   The number can be determined at comp-time.

   Buffer sizes should be computing manually.

5. Naru41 Aug 18, 2025 parent

   I've often thought that if C just had a syntax like Go definding method, C would be much easier to write.

   uint16_t (MyStruct* s) some_func() { .. }

   uint16_t MyStruct_some_func(MyStruct* s) { .. }

   (I guess I should just use C++... but C++ is overwhelmed in many ways)

6. Naru41 Aug 6, 2025 parent

   Funny trivia. But of course -- there is absolute zero reason to base64 encode ascii text. Evenmore laughable to put Json encoded in base64 text inside regular Json.
7. Naru41 Jul 19, 2025 parent

   The ideal HTML I have in mind is a DOM tree represented entirely in TLV binary -- and a compiled .so file instead of .js. And a unpacked data to be used directly in C programming data structure. Zero copy, no parsing, (data vaildation is unavoidable but) that's certainly fast.
8. Naru41 Jun 14, 2025 parent

   This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now -- (Windows engineering team 2012)

   https://web.archive.org/web/20120614042824/http://blogs.msdn...

9. Naru41 May 28, 2025 parent

   They skipped iPhone 9 once. So iPhone 17 and going for iPhone 2026 could be better for measuring the age of the device and could be beneficial for consumers -- but what about the OS version? No one care that.

   From an engineering standpoint, skipping a sequential number is just wasteful.

10. Naru41 Apr 14, 2025 parent

    I don't see the point - ASCII vs. binary doesn't make any real difference. And there's no an actual unencrypted HTTP/2 traffic, so there's no incentive to censor.
11. Naru41 Mar 27, 2025 parent

    > A cryptosystem is incoherent if its implementation is distributed by the same entity which it purports to secure against.

    That's what the recent Signal tormoil is like.

    Communication via Signal app that's safe if you could be sure it was compiled from verified open-source code, but Signal still doesn't provide any way to in principle eliminate the possibility that client binary distributers put in a backdoor at the last minute.

12. Naru41 Mar 24, 2025 parent

    Successful Math/CS people have a hard time applying it in biotechnology.

    https://x.com/iskander/status/1903077361152610374 -- about a dozen of us with math/CS backgrounds ditched tech for biomedicine. And we got humbled hard: most of what we did flopped & techies

13. Naru41 Mar 9, 2025 parent

    Yup, I don't understand why Google would sponsor McLaren F1 team. They've already done a better promoting Chrome.
14. Naru41 Feb 25, 2025 parent

    > I'll be expecting my Nobel peace prize in the postbox and several job offers in my DMs within the next 3 working days.

    This joke alone was worth the read.

15. Naru41 Feb 8, 2025 parent

    No-modularize is strictly good if you can avoid it. Hardcode memory addresses at compile time is simpler and faster.
16. Naru41 Jan 12, 2025 parent

    More than decade ago, I didn't understand an actual value of Lisp, but I remember this song well.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM1Zb3xmvMc

17. Naru41 Dec 25, 2024 parent

    As the name suggests, it's just a Perl alt... everyday chores, data analysis, some automation tools.
18. Naru41 Dec 23, 2024 parent

    If Android had provided an defining UI API like this entirely in C without using Java, Android would have 100% monopolized the mobile OS market. So fast, efficient.
19. Naru41 Dec 21, 2024 parent

    Excellent. If these compiled data structures were the web standard instead of HTML, www would be ridiculously fast.
20. Naru41 Dec 17, 2024 parent

    Why not just use a naive struct from the beginning? memcpy is the fastest way to get serialize into a form that we can use in actual running program.

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