mahmoudimus (u/mahmoudimus)

mahmoudimus commented on Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite rkblog.dev/posts/pc-hardw... · Posted by u/geekman7473

artimaeis · 10 days ago

It offers native x86, Windows on ARM, and Apple Silicon versions.

I think this is incorrect. Specifically the Windows ARM support. Official hardware support page indicates that the Windows version requires x64. I unfortunately don’t have the hardware to confirm for myself. But Blizzard is the kind of company that would have made a blog post about that.

https://us.support.blizzard.com/en/article/76459

This is neat, and exciting that Windows emulation tooling is progressing! It seems like there’s a lot of work hardware vendors would need to do in order to make Win/Arm viable for game devs. I really wonder if that’s ever going to happen.

mahmoudimus · 10 days ago

Windows ARM builds are available on their CDN.

mahmoudimus commented on Building the mouse Logitech won't make samwilkinson.io/posts/202... · Posted by u/sammycdubs

privatelypublic · 4 months ago

Does this fix (or does anybosy know of a fix) where a m705 mouse stops responding to clicks on left and right?

I'm about to test the "wetting current" theory by using a bench supply to actuate the switch near max specs.

mahmoudimus · 4 months ago

Are the switches bad? I recently replaced the switches on my mouse as I had the dreaded double click problem and it was unusable. Then they stopped responding. So I just did something similar to the OP, desoldered and soldered new switches and the mouse was as good as new.

mahmoudimus commented on Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet bozmen.io/fhe... · Posted by u/barisozmen

ipnon · 5 months ago

Don't you think there is a market for people who want services that have provable privacy even if it costs 1,000 times more? It's not as big a segment as Dropbox but I imagine it's there.

mahmoudimus · 5 months ago

there is, it's called governments. however this technology is so slow that using it in mission critical systems (think communication / coordinates during warfare) that it is not feasible IMO.

the parent post is right, confidential compute is really what we've got.

mahmoudimus commented on Clarifying our pricing cursor.com/en/blog/june-2... · Posted by u/twapi

tom_m · 6 months ago

Roo Code manages context a LOT better than Cursor or Windsurf. Cursor and Windsurf don't care about this because they want people to use more tokens. Their investors want more people to use tokens.

Think about this one. They don't even tell you what your usage is! Look at Roo Code showing you the context usage and cost of each conversation. Features to compact the context. It's built around bringing awareness to the unit economics of AI and built to give users choice. The tools that work to keep users in the dark are serving someone else's interests.

mahmoudimus · 6 months ago

Cursor does. It tells you how many tokens right above the chat box in the upper right hand corner.

mahmoudimus commented on Clarifying our pricing cursor.com/en/blog/june-2... · Posted by u/twapi

tom_m · 6 months ago

There's is absolutely nothing that Cursor has that anyone else can't easily and doesn't already. In fact better. Open-source solutions already outpace Cursor.

The difference is open-source doesn't exactly have a giant marketing budget. So most people haven't caught on yet, but they will.

mahmoudimus · 6 months ago

Who is better for that tab completion?

mahmoudimus commented on Codex CLI is going native github.com/openai/codex/d... · Posted by u/bundie

rileytg · 7 months ago

node install can be a real pain sometimes. node ecosystem has had a number of security related issues over the years. supply chain attacks are one of my main fears.

mahmoudimus · 7 months ago

I think most package systems are going to start, if not already, facing real supply chain attacks. The node ecosystem, from an attacker's lens, had quite a heavy leaning ratio of non-security conscious users which makes a better breeding ground for exploitation.

mahmoudimus commented on Codex CLI is going native github.com/openai/codex/d... · Posted by u/bundie

winrid · 7 months ago

Getting Node installed is a blocker for some of their customers, evidently. It doesn't surprise me. If it holds back one mid sized enterprise customer, the rewrite is worth it.

mahmoudimus · 7 months ago

I have largely avoided the entire typescript / JavaScript ecosystem specifically because I don't want to deal with node or its ecosystem. It's just so confusing with yarn, npm, npx, then the build systems gulp, grunt, webpack, etc etc - felt very overwhelming.

Yes, if I spent more time learning these things, it would become simple but that seemed like a massive waste of time.

mahmoudimus commented on Learning C3 alloc.dev/2025/05/29/lear... · Posted by u/lerno

metaltyphoon · 7 months ago

Tiobe really?

mahmoudimus · 7 months ago

I hate on Tiobe as well but it is a good benchmark for world wide adoption commercially.

Posted by u/mahmoudimus 7 months ago

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033...

mahmoudimus commented on ReactOS, an Open Source Take on Windows thenewstack.io/reactos-an... · Posted by u/Liriel

pipeline_peak · 7 months ago

After Microsoft stopped charging for upgrades and desktop Linux advanced in user friendliness, ReactOS became pretty much useless.

It relies heavily on Wine……which also runs on Ubuntu, MacOS, etc, etc.

mahmoudimus · 7 months ago

I disagree. It's an important project. It's not about Windows per se, but it's amazing to have a source available implementation of Windows internals. There are some really interesting use cases for it that are pretty important.

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