AHTERIX5000 (u/AHTERIX5000)

AHTERIX5000 commented on Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer til.andrew-quinn.me/posts... · Posted by u/hiAndrewQuinn

Lariscus · 9 days ago

It also buffers the downloaded data completely into memory last time I checked. So downloading a file bigger than the available RAM just doesn't work and you have to use WebClient instead.

Another fun one is Extract-Archive which is painfully slow while using the System.IO.Compression.ZipFile CLR type directly is reasonably fast. Powershell is really a head scratcher sometimes.

AHTERIX5000 · 9 days ago

Yep. And 'wget' is often alias for WebRequest in PowerShell. The amount of footguns I ran into while trying to get a simple Windows Container CI job running, oh man

AHTERIX5000 commented on How I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (2024) edw.is/learning-vulkan/... · Posted by u/jakogut

bsder · 23 days ago

You don't have a tiny brain--programming Vulkan/DX12 sucks.

The question you need to ask is: "Do I need my graphics to be multithreaded?"

If the answer is "No"--don't use Vulkan/DX12! You wind up with all the complexity and absolutely zero of the benefits.

If performance isn't a problem, using anything else--OpenGL, DirectX 11, game engines, etc.

Once performance becomes the problem, then you can think about Vulkan/DX12.

AHTERIX5000 · 23 days ago

What about new features? There are many small features that can't be used via older APIs and bigger ones like accelerated ray tracing.

AHTERIX5000 commented on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with tomshardware.com/video-ga... · Posted by u/jrepinc

nick__m · 2 months ago

I consider that the core of Windows (the NT kernel and win32 api) is actually a very polished gem but it is encased in layers of upon layers of barely polished turds ( winui, the win11 shell, the over agressive telemetry, forced ms635 integration, etc..)

AHTERIX5000 · 2 months ago

The kernel might be a polished gem but win32 API?

Practical is a term I'd use as win32 has managed to survive to this day but that came with a boatload of hacks and problems. It's ugly.

AHTERIX5000 commented on Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction? forum.cursor.com/t/why-th... · Posted by u/fork-bomber

AHTERIX5000 · 2 months ago

2025 was the year when my fear of being replaced by an AI changed to fear of a big economic disaster caused by AI bubble

AHTERIX5000 commented on In Defense of C++ dayvster.com/blog/in-defe... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

AHTERIX5000 · 3 months ago

I write C++ daily and I really can't take seriously arguments how C++ is safe if you know what you're doing like come on. Any sufficiently large and complex codebases tend to have bugs and footguns and using tools like memory safe languages limit blast radius considerably.

Smart pointers are neat but they are not a solution for memory safety. Just using standard containers and iterators can lead to lots of footguns, or utils like string_view.

AHTERIX5000 commented on macOS Tahoe apple.com/os/macos/... · Posted by u/Wingy

AHTERIX5000 · 3 months ago

It's not as bad as the first previews but ugly nonetheless and overall accessibility nightmare.

All I hope is that the design language stays contained in Apple ecosystem and does not spread.

AHTERIX5000 commented on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/zora_goron

not_your_vase · 4 months ago

3 days ago I saw another Claude praising submission on HN, and finally I signed up for it, to compare it with copilot.

I asked 2 things.

1. Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico with st7789 spi display drivers configured. It generated garbage devicetree which didn't even compile. When I pointed it out, it apologized and generated another one that didn't compile. It configured also non-existent drivers, and for some reason it enabled monkey test support (but not test support).

2. I asked it to create 7x10 monochromatic pixelmaps, as C integer arrays, for numeric characters, 0-9. I also gave an example. It generated them, but number eight looked like zero. (There was no cross in ether 0 nor 8, so it wasn't that. Both were just a ring)

What am I doing wrong? Or is this really the state of the art?

AHTERIX5000 · 4 months ago

I've had similar experiences when working on non-web tech.

There are parts in the codebase I'd love some help such as overly complex C++ templates and it almost never works out. Sometimes I get useful pointers (no pun intended) what the problem actually is but even that seems a bit random. I wonder if it's actually faster or slower than traditional reading & thinking myself.

AHTERIX5000 commented on MacBook Pro Insomnia manuel.bernhardt.io/posts... · Posted by u/speckx

resters · 4 months ago

My iPad only lasts a few days even with zero use. I have not been able to figure out what settings to modify so that I can (for example) pick it up a month later and not find the battery dead.

AHTERIX5000 · 4 months ago

I have the same issue. I've disabled "Find My" feature and uninstalled everything that kept showing up as battery draining apps. My iPad loses about 20-25% of battery every night and there is nothing showing up in battery details anymore.

I'm pretty sure the problem would go away with a factory reset. Just like it with old Windows installations, except you had a better change debugging those...

AHTERIX5000 commented on Anticheat Update Tracking not-matthias.github.io/po... · Posted by u/not-matthias

nulld3v · 6 months ago

Very nice walk-through on the reverse engineering process.

Also, they linked this post that made my jaw drop: https://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/anti-cheat-bypass/667333-...

Apparantly BattleEye anti-cheat had an exploit where hackers could permanently ban any player they wanted. BattleEye allowed anybody to log in as a "game server" so hackers simply booted up a fake server, told BattleEye that "player X has logged in and is doing a bunch of suspicious stuff" and then player X's account was no more...

I'm sorry, why do we trust these guys again?

AHTERIX5000 · 5 months ago

That's scary. I have an old Steam account with tons of games and already got banned once due to a bug in anti-cheat software and for a while my whole account was marked with a cheater tag.

The bug was so widespread that developers eventually removed bans but I'm sure something similar could happen where problem goes undetected and it would be really hard to try to convince developers to lift a ban.