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dardeaup commented on Delphi in the Age of AI learndelphi.org/delphi-ai... · Posted by u/andsoitis

DanielHB · 14 hours ago

Lazarus (kinda of a Delphi clone that also uses Object Pascal) is probably the best way to make cross platform native desktop applications that actually uses the native GUI toolkit for each platform.

I hear it is quite popular for creating GUIs wrappers for CLI tools.

dardeaup · 10 hours ago

Yes! The combination of fpc, LCL, and Lazarus running on Windows/macOS/Linux is a powerful combination.

dardeaup commented on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center fortune.com/2025/08/24/me... · Posted by u/voxadam

jimt1234 · a day ago

I'm not super-familiar with Louisiana, but my general impression is there's a lot of climate/weather events that are gonna impact power reliability. Hmmm.

dardeaup · a day ago

If you're thinking of hurricanes (and you may not be), the location is far enough away from the coast that they wouldn't be a significant problem.

dardeaup commented on Fenster: Most minimal cross-platform GUI library github.com/zserge/fenster... · Posted by u/klaussilveira

Zardoz84 · 2 days ago

why hell would you use a c library to make a gui on the web when you have HTML ?

dardeaup · 2 days ago

Maybe it was a personal goal?

dardeaup commented on IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture servethehome.com/ibms-pow... · Posted by u/ksec

gosub100 · 2 days ago

I think you meant to say "mainframe isn't a customer" ? Power architecture runs almost exclusively on mainframes.

dardeaup · 2 days ago

Correction - POWER architecture runs exclusively on 'i' and 'p' series. 'z' series is mainframe.

dardeaup commented on IBM's Power11 Processor Architecture servethehome.com/ibms-pow... · Posted by u/ksec

gosub100 · 2 days ago

I seriously doubt there's a POWER mainframe in the back of Costco to handle the 3 UPC barcode scans per second. It's possible that every Costco store funnels its orders to a single mainframe somewhere.

I think a more realistic case is the visa and MasterCard credit card networks that have almost 0% downtime.

dardeaup · 2 days ago

No such thing as a POWER mainframe. IBM's POWER lines (i and p) are different from their mainframe line (z).

dardeaup commented on Ask HN: Best Marketplaces for Used Servers? · Posted by u/bloudermilk

leakycap · 3 days ago

Likely craigslist unless you're willing to make some local connections.

Be aware this equipment is not pleasant to be around (loud, hot)

Server hardware is too heavy/bulky to be able to support a big online marketplace. Your best bet is to identify the type of organizations that buy the server hardware you want to buy used and find out how they get rid of their excess.

I've gotten a handful of free server equipment (no drives) by being willing to show up and take whatever is being offered.

dardeaup · 3 days ago

This part is worth repeating:

Be aware this equipment is not pleasant to be around (loud, hot)

dardeaup commented on Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers github.com/cvilsmeier/go-... · Posted by u/cvilsmeier

Mawr · 6 days ago

Nit: "For benchmarks I used the following libraries: <snip>". This is begging to be a table.

dardeaup · 5 days ago

I had the same thought. A table indeed!

dardeaup commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

thiht · 6 days ago

Where's Pascal today?

dardeaup · 6 days ago

Ouch!! Pascal's lack of popularity certainly isn't due to the fact that it supports such nice enumerated types (or sets for that matter). I think he was just pointing out that such nice things have existed (and been known to exist) for a long time and that it's odd that a new language couldn't have borrowed the feature.

dardeaup commented on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever mavericksforever.com/... · Posted by u/Wowfunhappy

carlosjobim · 6 days ago

Aren't there old versions of those browsers?

dardeaup · 6 days ago

Sure there are but running older browsers is a security risk. The older it is the more vulnerable it is.

dardeaup commented on JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language infoworld.com/article/402... · Posted by u/pjmlp

tracker1 · 13 days ago

I was thinking about Delphi myself.

dardeaup · 13 days ago

Yeah, I think that JetBrains might be able to do some really cool stuff with Object Pascal. I don't know if they have the chops to take on cross-platform UI like what Lazarus did with LCL, but it would be awesome.

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