tqh | 7 years ago | on: How to Design Software Good
Writing good software is hard I guess :)
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tqh | 8 years ago | on: Introducing DNS Resolver, 1.1.1.1 (not a joke)
No mention of IP v6 at all in the post but luckily they did better on their docs at https://1.1.1.1/ It is 2018, IP v4 isn't really something you should use other than as a fallback.
"For IPv6: 2606:4700:4700::1111,2606:4700:4700::1001"
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Dell launches 2018 XPS 13 laptop (this time it's even thinner)
I was hoping for a Ryzen version.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What would be your ideal phone (smartphone)
A Nexus One with modern specs.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Resources on how to write a UEFI application from scratch?
I wrote this: https://github.com/tqh/efi-example
It's using the linker script and headers from GNU-EFI. Also check Zircon bootloader https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/zircon/tree/master/bootloa... It is Googles UEFI loader that works on x86-64 and arm-64. It's quite new, and has it's own linker script.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Firefox Is as Fast as Chrome Now, and No One Cares
Firefox development process is so bad/slow. New features will take ages to appear. Mercury, Bugzilla are old relics and the review process is from the 90's and very strange. I think that is one of the reasons they copied functions to XPCOM instead of fixing them in NSPR. It was easier to add new stuff than get a review to fix existing code.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Keeping Time with Amazon Time Sync Service
Amazon TimeSync is probably a lot more than NTP as well. It must be part of XEN/hw as it is not yet available on the Nitro based instances. That it provide's an NTP endpoint is just the top of the cake...
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Blade Runner 2049 underperformance at box office a 'mystery' to Denis Villeneuve
After Ghost in the Shell i don't watch remakes in cinema. I'll watch it when it comes to Netflix.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Efficient strlen implementation in C (2007)
I can't see where that was written. Only that malicious users may read past the end.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Efficient strlen implementation in C (2007)
Broken. This will generate page faults if your string ends at a page-boundry and start address isn't aligned on four bytes.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Bad touchpads – hardware or software?
It's mostly about bandwidth depending on how the device is connected inside the computer (usb is much better than ps/2 or serial), polling frequency, and software filtering raw data properly (duplicates and such). Some improvements https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c774326a219536ab615...
tqh | 8 years ago | on: A straight talk about btrfs
Same here. I lost a disk to btrfs and did not manage to recover any data. No longer on my list of filesystems-I-trust. I guess Suse is the biggest contributor since the others stopped? It doesn't give me any confidence that it can be trusted.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Ars spends too much time trying to work in Haiku, the BeOS successor
We stopped working on BeZilla when Mozilla decided to scrap all native gfx-backends and use Cairo.
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's Faster than Redis
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Why is Chrome's font aliasing so much worse than Firefox?
No idea, but they have signed distance fields font rendering (phew) which you can enable to get proper font rendering: chrome://flags/#distance-field-text
For some info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZRHJvJYIg
tqh | 8 years ago | on: Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Creating Tiny Go Images
For Go (as it is statically linked) you can use FROM SCRATCH. It's faster, smaller, easier.
https://blog.docker.com/2016/09/docker-golang/
tqh | 9 years ago | on: Rpmalloc – A lock-free memory allocator
They don't mention anything about memory fragmentation..
tqh | 9 years ago | on: Haiku booting in UEFI mode
The minnowboard has GPIO connectors, and has already managed to boot Haiku in UEFI mode. A bit expensive though.
tqh | 10 years ago | on: Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
Seems to be a running joke in titles :)
Why Vector Clocks are Easy
Why Vector Clocks Are Hard
Why Logical Clocks Are Easy
tqh | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Laptop bag for 15“ Macbook Pro for inclement weather
My favorite:
http://www.thewrendesign.com/new-ppc-cement-laptop-bag-desig...
Waterproof test: https://vimeo.com/39962259