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desdenova··on Show HN: Noite – Enjoy Most of Cloudflare Worker APIs on Your Potato VPS
Its slop, though.
desdenova··on Show HN: Every Credit Card
Was it supposed to be scrollable? Because it doesn't scroll.

Also missing a slop warning.

desdenova··on Don't use musl if you care about performance
Most of musl's performance issues come from their allocator. Using it with a third party high performance allocator allows you to benefit from static linking with very little performance loss.
desdenova··on “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers
Coding is not programming.

Typing code is indeed not the hard part, programming is.

desdenova··on Akse3D – open-source 3D modelling anyone can master
This is closer to an open Sketchup than a Blender. I think they fill different niches.
desdenova··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
You could've changed the setting that puts the button back on the lower left corner and saved your relative the trouble.

The new default is truly terrible, though, and this was the first setting I had to change when I was forced to use a windows laptop by the company I work in.

desdenova··on What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
Wouldn't hurt if interactive elements didn't require me to zoom in order to interact with them on mobile.
desdenova··on Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?
Wtf did I just read?

The fact you started the text with is true: there aren't vibecoded complex apps, because vibecoding doesn't work.

The rest of the text is an incoherent rambling that looks like two people arguing and doesn't make any sense.

You should probably stop using gen AI and seek therapy.

desdenova··on Native all the way, until you need text
The purpose of not wasting memory is so we have free memory to use productively.

What's the point of having 64-128GB of RAM if we're using apps that eat 10GB to do the same things we were doing 20 years ago using a few MB?

desdenova··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
Believing something to be real that isn't is basically what psychosis means.
desdenova··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
A very good alternative to this vibecoded slop.
desdenova··on They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
It's slop though, which is even worse than the ads.
desdenova··on Zig → Rust porting guide
The fact someone who works on Bun is willing to create and even push a branch generated by a stochastic parrot is very telling of the direction the project is going.

Doesn't matter if it's "experimental", it's a dumb experiment that shouldn't exist.

desdenova··on Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved
> or can't be used (private projects)

As if they cared about that

desdenova··on It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
The problem with floating point comparison is not that it's nondeterministic, it's that what should be the same number may have different representations, often with different rounding behavior as well, so depending on the exact operations you use to arrive at it, it may not compare as equal, hence the need for the epsilon trick.

If all you're comparing is the result from the same operations, you _may_ be fine using equality, but you should really know that you're never getting a number from an uncontrolled source.

desdenova··on Understanding the Go Runtime: The Scheduler
> If you have a system, go is not the right language for it.

FTFY

desdenova··on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
They turned proprietary. That's why libresprite exists.
desdenova··on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
Didn't know about Pixelorama, looks interesting.

Libresprite (since aseprite went evil) has been the only editor I can use for over a decade, glad there are others now.

desdenova··on LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor
Curious on what languages have a hard time saying Libre.

Every latin-derived language (which are most of the western languages) can pronounce it naturally, and even English speakers can approximate it well enough to be understood (even though they're incapable of pronouncing the non-retroflex `r`).

desdenova··on Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS
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desdenova··on Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance
You can use lit-html to get declarative reactivity, but then it's just basically react again.
desdenova··on 200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop
Running apps is what RAM should be used for, not wasted on the base system.
desdenova··on I Got Scammed
This is just slop.
desdenova··on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser
It was already brought down by Rockstar as well.

This isn't just reverse engineering, it's a decompiled source from the original binary.

desdenova··on Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
The US is a terrible example for anything, anyway.

I was talking about the civilized world.

desdenova··on You can now play Grand Theft Auto Vice City in the browser
Would that be Urban Chaos?
desdenova··on Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?
Airbnb, Uber and Amazon were already making everything worse. We're past the "bleak threshold" for over 10 years now.

Airbnb is inflating the real-estate bubble everywhere. Apartment building now are mass produced, tiny, and expensive, targeting investors who are only interested in Airbnb.

Uber/ifood and other transport/delivery apps are just working around labor laws, undoing centuries of progress towards worker rights and approaching slavery-like situations.

Amazon is just another monopoly, not sure why you put it beside the others, but it's one of the companies lobbying to make the world a worse place.

Then came crypto"currency", which started the "age of anything goes", where tons of money are thrown in the trashbin for the next speculative pseudo-tech bubble.

AI is just the bubble that came after crypto, little practical utility with lots of hype from billionaires who threw money at it.

After it bursts, there'll probably be another.

desdenova··on This Month in Ladybird
Yes, that was the joke.
desdenova··on This Month in Ladybird
I'm pretty good at C++.

By using a very simple technique, I've managed to write 0 bugs in it in the past 15 years.

desdenova··on This Month in Ladybird
I wish I lived in the same world as you.

There's basically 0 rust jobs available that aren't scam startups.

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