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Zardoz84 commented on Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library   github.com/zserge/fenster... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
socalgal2 · 20 hours ago
> API is designed to be a polling loop

IMO this is a mistake. The most popular platform in the world does not allow using a polling loop. You can hack things to simulate it but eventually you'll run into where this will break for you. Better to start with something more forward compatible.

Zardoz84 · 12 hours ago
why hell would you use a c library to make a gui on the web when you have HTML ?
Zardoz84 commented on Bullfrog in the Dungeon   filfre.net/2025/08/bullfr... · Posted by u/doppp
wincy · 11 days ago
I remember Dungeon Keeper was the first time I ever “hacked” something, I had a demo of Dungeon Keeper that I’d downloaded over 56K, and couldn’t afford the game at 14 or so, but by looking at the config files realized all the characters and their stats were in there, so I was able to unlock all of the units, only without their art assets! Invisible giants were walking around my dungeon doing my bidding. I was very proud of myself and spent many dozens of hours playing this demo because of this, and it probably helped lead me to becoming a software engineer eventually.
Zardoz84 · 10 days ago
hey! I did the same thing. was funny playing with the invisible Dragon.
Zardoz84 commented on A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package   righto.com/2025/08/intel-... · Posted by u/robin_reala
MBCook · 17 days ago
Is it possible it could’ve been EISA and that’s why it seemed different?

I can’t remember if those were available on 386s or started in the 486 era.

Zardoz84 · 17 days ago
A Local bus ? The VESA Local Bus (VLB) was a thing in 486 boards and, I think, early Pentium boards. but was predated by privative local buses. I don't know if there was one on 386 boards.
Zardoz84 commented on A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package   righto.com/2025/08/intel-... · Posted by u/robin_reala
lisbbb · 17 days ago
Went to a computer fair circa, gosh, 1989? My Dad bought me a 386 DX 25MHz with like 4MB of RAM and a whopping 40MB hard drive. This was a remarkable upgrade from the Tandy 286 16MHz that I was using. The 386 we got was not the standard 20MHz or 33MHz, 25MHz was some kind of hype thing, as I recall. The 33MHz was the bomb, but of course that cost more bones $$$$. The computer fairs were cool.
Zardoz84 · 17 days ago
My father bought and built my first PC with an AMD 386DX40 in 1991 . I have good memories from these computer, and from the Spectrum +3 that He bought a year prior.
Zardoz84 commented on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model   github.com/KittenML/Kitte... · Posted by u/divamgupta
mlboss · 21 days ago
Zardoz84 · 20 days ago
Sounds very clear. For a non native english speaker like me, it's easy to understand.
Zardoz84 commented on More than two hard disks in DOS   os2museum.com/wp/more-tha... · Posted by u/yuhong
mikeytown2 · 21 days ago
Sound Cards with IDE ports for CD-ROM drives were definitely a thing back then
Zardoz84 · 21 days ago
Yeah! I'm trying to get a Sound Blaster 16 with IDE + a VESA IDE controller working on a 486DX2@66
Zardoz84 commented on Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate   github.com/w3c/png/issues... · Posted by u/marklit
jchw · 21 days ago
JPEG XL definitely has advantages over PNG but there is one serious seemingly insurmountable obstacle:

https://caniuse.com/jpegxl

Nothing really supports it. Latest Safari at least has support for it not feature-flagged or anything, but it doesn't support JPEG XL animations.

To be fair, nothing supports a theoretical PNG with Zstandard compression either. While that would be an obstacle to using PNG with Zstandard for a while, I kinda suspect it wouldn't be that long of a wait because many things that support PNG today also support Zstandard anyways, so it's not a huge leap for them to add Zstandard support to their PNG codecs. Adding JPEG-XL support is a relatively bigger ticket that has struggled to cross the finish line.

The thing I'm really surprised about is that you still can't use arithmetic coding with JPEG. I think the original reason is due to patents, but I don't think there have been active patents around that in years now.

Zardoz84 · 21 days ago
You can use a polyfill.
Zardoz84 commented on So you want to parse a PDF?   eliot-jones.com/2025/8/pd... · Posted by u/UglyToad
xp84 · 22 days ago
I’m with you on PDF, but is docx really that bad in practice? I have not implemented a parser for it so I’m not pushing one answer to that. But it seems like it’s an XML-based format that isn’t about absolutely positioning everything unless you explicitly decide to, and intuitively it seems like it should be like an 80 on the parsing easiness scale if a JPEG is a 0, a PDF is a 15, and a markdown is 100.
Zardoz84 · 22 days ago
Docx it's a proprietary format. So it's a direct no
Zardoz84 commented on This Month in Ladybird   ladybird.org/newsletter/2... · Posted by u/net01
Zardoz84 · 24 days ago
The web is UTF-16 ? WTF
Zardoz84 commented on From XML to JSON to CBOR   cborbook.com/introduction... · Posted by u/GarethX
surajrmal · a month ago
Or compute. Compression isn't free, especially on power constrained devices. At scale power and compute also have real cost implications. Most data centers have long been using binary encoding formats such as protobuf to save on compute and network bandwidth. cbor is nice because it's self describing so you can still understand it without a schema, which is a nice property people like about json.
Zardoz84 · a month ago
gzip, deflate, brotli ?

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