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arka2147483647on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

The security boundary here is difficult, if you intend to integrate with native workflows.

Also difficult to manage fake websites duplicating the look and feel. Scamming people into giving access or passwords.

A native app which is installed once from a good source is more secure, i feel.

arka2147483647on Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons

In real prisons the people who fail a test aren't terminated. But AI agents of course are.

So maybe Cloud Agents are in AI death camps?

arka2147483647on The AI trade now runs on borrowed money, and the lenders are repricing it

> Most people mean this to say that 1 trillion is a lot of money, but it still comes back to what you believe AI is- in hindsight, does 1 trillion dollars to build the internet sound like a lot or a little?

You are talking about the Value of AI, but the key is the Revenue of AI.

If AI companies cannot get the Revenue to pay for all those investments, somebody is going bankrupt.

A trillion is a lot of money to cover.

arka2147483647on EU Fines Google $1.02B for Favoring Its Own Services

Does not work for me. Presumably there is some popup you have to accept somewhere for it to work.

arka2147483647on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests

Often the biggest blocker on moving to a new programming language, is the cost of re-writing everything.

Cue some story here on a bank or airline somewhere still relying on cobol backend servers.

These LLM conversions really seem to make modernization of large parts software layers possible!

arka2147483647on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again

There is deep history here. For most of the past centuries, most Europe was from where you immigrated FROM, not where you immigrated TO.

There just is not the kind of immigration culture as in America. Some people don’t even have a notion why anyone would want to come to Europe.

arka2147483647on Espionage Against the European Parliament

Could those have been intercepted or suppressed somehow?

arka2147483647on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

Its important to understand that in Game Dev a ’git clone’, aka ’p4 sync’, can be a terabyte of stuff.

Git is bad at such volumes of binary assets, textures, models, sounds, etc.

arka2147483647on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

I’ll add some more

- The P4 cpp api was apparently designed before any modern Cpp std lib was available. And is at best archaic, and stringly to use.

- P4 encoding support is pain in the ass to configure. And ensist on adding or removing bom to files.

arka2147483647on Formal methods and the future of programming

> Industrial logics are really practical and allow you to write all sorts of sophisticated properties that your system should satisfy in a very succinct way.

It sounds like what you think as positives are exactly the things parent comment thinks as negatives.

arka2147483647on The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++

The best part of void* is that it is very terse. Both in definitions, and in access.

All cpp alternatives are more wordy.

I wonder how this conversation wound go if the was an as terse, but also typesafe cpp alternative.

arka2147483647on Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

There is LPCAMM2, if manufacturers want to use it.

So, it does not have to be soldered.

arka2147483647on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

I wonder if this is just a way to recycle the chips that did not bin good enough to used for DGX Spark?

arka2147483647on Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM

I miss the days when this would just have been named win2wasm.

These branded projects become difficult to remember when everything has a random non-mnemonic name.

arka2147483647on Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?

If you are a DIY, you might use a tool once a week, or once a year. A pro might use a tool everyday, all day.

A different durability requirement.

A Ryobi is not bad, if it fills your needs, but might not be enough for heavy use.

arka2147483647on Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

All of those platforms are HUGE and well worth the hassle.

I think Valve is trying to leverage the Steam Storefront into a full-fledged Platform. It is not quite there yet.

As such, they have invested a lot of effort into the compatibility layers, which allows gamedevs to support Steam Devices with no extra effort, or minimal effort, which is very important business vise.

As a gamedev, you essentially get a bonus platform for your game without extra dev effort!

arka2147483647on Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)

> Proton represents Valve's failure to make Linux gaming attractive to game studios.

> Not even those that have Android/Linux NDK builds, bother with porting to GNU/Linux.

It is a huge hassle to make a new build to a new platform. You double build system, release management, and testing. Compared to just one plat. Games are complicated, and testing all the dynamic behaviour is also complicated.

Making just a Win32 build really saves resources.

Also Win32 has been a stable api for a long time. Linux apis tend to change, and old games don't get re-built. The win32 build is therefore also provably a lot more long lived, compered to anything you build on linux.

Thats also important because of the Dont Kill Games effort and so on.

arka2147483647on Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive?

The important part of Hardware, is Software

After all, if the Software does not work, its just a Paperweight

arka2147483647on XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?

> The answer is so obvious

A tangent, but what is Obvious depends on what you know.

Often experts don't explain the things they think are Obvious, but those things are only Obvious to them, because they are the expert.

We should all kind, and explain also the Obvious things those who do not know.

arka2147483647on The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

The advantage, as i see it, is that this could be done incrementally. Every new router/firmware/os could add support, until support is ubiquitous.

Contrast this with ip6, which is a completely new system, and thus has a chicken and egg problem.

arka2147483647on AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation

Surely you could have compiler types for 128, 256, 512, etc, and then choose the correct codepath with simple if statement at runtime?

arka2147483647on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

This is a EU initiative. Confusingly, EU is often called Europe in spoken/non-official speech. Sort of the same way it is said that Washington does something, when it is the US gov doing something.

arka2147483647on IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT

Smart home and lighting standard Matter over Thread requires it. Discovered this after i bought some Ikea smart lights. Though you don't need a public IP6, a local static IP6 with SLAAC is enough.

arka2147483647on EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

> Delaware C-corp, UK Ltd is OK too

Neither of which is in EU, which is exactly the point. Should be an EU one which is usable...

arka2147483647on No strcpy either

Sadly, all the bug trackers are full of bugs relating to char*. So you very much do those by accident. And in C, fixed width strings are not in any way rare or unusual. Go to any c codebase you will find stuff like:

   char buf[12];
   sprintf(buf, "%s%s", this, that); // or
   strcat(buf, ...) // or
   strncpy(buf, ...) // and so on..

arka2147483647on Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

For someone who is not a rust programmer, but would like to keep up to date, can somebody tell me what "Tier 4" is. And why must it be quoted?

arka2147483647on Under the hood: Vec<T>

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/reserve.h...

says

> Increase the capacity of the vector (the total number of elements that the vector can hold without requiring reallocation) to a value that's greater or equal to new_cap.

I belive that the behaviour of reserve() is implementation defined.

arka2147483647on Under the hood: Vec<T>

All the functions mentioned above, even the cpp one, will reserve atleast the number of elements given to resize() or resize_exact(), but may reserve more than that.

After some pondering, and reading the rust documentation, I came to the conclusion that te difference is this: reserve() will grow the underlaying memory area to the next increment, or more than one increment, while reserve_exact() will only grow the underlaying memory area to the next increment, but no more than that.

Eg, if grow strategy is powers of two, and we are at pow(2), then reserve() may skip from pow(2) to pow(4), but reserve_exact() would be constrained to pow(3) as the next increment.

Or so i read the documentation. Hopefully someone can confirm?

arka2147483647on Memory access is O(N^[1/3])

Honestly, i doubt it. That exposes many details to the programmers that many of them would prefer not to know.

The higher level the language, the less interest there is to manually manage memory. It is just something to offload to the gc/runtime/etc.

So, i think this is a no-go. The market wont accept it.