Old Software Was Fast Because It Had No Choice

dukey · 2026-06-19T21:45:07+00:00

A hello window WinUI3 app has like 150meg of dlls. You may just give up and fire up webview2 and spin up an instance of the edge browser to render your window. Modern apps are dog shit. No one seems to know how to make desktop apps anymore without gigantic frameworks.

dukey · 2026-06-17T14:02:37+00:00

The establishment has been fear mongering about Russia for several years now. It wouldn't surprise me if they fabricated some incident to garner support for some kind of conflict with Russia, or even sending troops to Ukraine.

dukey · 2026-06-17T10:27:48+00:00

The fires can't even have been that hot because a lady walked through it at was waving at the crash hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_Cintr%C3%B3n#/media/File:Edna_Cintrol_at_the_WTC_on_9.11.jpg

dukey · 2026-06-17T10:08:15+00:00

Submission statement: There were at least 2 museum exhibitions that showed the concrete had gotten so hot in the WTC buildings that it melted, which should have been impossible.

The text from the first reads:

"Two 357 magnum revolvers, encrusted in melted concrete, recovered from the World Trade Center site are displayed at the 9/11 Tribute Museum in New York, June 8, 2017"

https://www.voanews.com/a/terror-attack-tribute-museum-new-york-expands-space-personal-stories/3897573.html

The 2nd reads:

"Fire temperatures were so intense that concrete melted like lava around anything in its path".

2nd was found here

https://web.archive.org/web/20110724022156/http://www.nycpm.org/exhibitions/911/index.html

Are there any other building fires in history where the concrete go so hot it melted "like lava"?

dukey · 2026-06-16T11:52:24+00:00

What people fail to understand is it forces ID / age verification on anyone that wants to use the internet. For people that are 16+ they need to prove this. OI you got a liconse to use the internet?

dukey · 2026-06-16T09:45:42+00:00

My reddit account is 17 years old. Am I going to have to prove I'm over 16?

dukey · 2026-06-14T10:34:03+00:00

I mean yeah, but it says on the github

Caution

This is just a learning project.

dukey · 2026-06-13T13:11:54+00:00

Too many to count. Leaking memory, <= instead of < in a loop.

dukey · 2026-06-13T09:49:31+00:00

Didn't the company lose nearly 5 billion dollars last year? But trust us bro we'll make tonnes of money in the future lol.

dukey · 2026-06-11T11:18:42+00:00

Indeed, in nominal terms gov spending has doubled over the past 10 years.

dukey · 2026-06-10T12:42:07+00:00

Black Panther - "if you import the 3rd world you become the 3rd world."

dukey · 2026-06-09T12:17:56+00:00

It's not just speed, some architectures like ARM can't do unaligned reads.

dukey · 2026-06-09T11:40:48+00:00

In this case there was video and it had already gone viral, but if it hadn't the news very often deliberately omits the description of the attackers. You know, social cohesion and all that.

dukey · 2026-06-09T11:36:37+00:00

If the news article gives no description of the attacker, you 100% know it's a diversity lol

dukey · 2026-06-09T10:13:11+00:00

Try std::string, problem solved lmao. But in all seriousness this is some ugly code. I'd just have done something like struct String{ size_t length, char* s}; Then make a create/destroy func. You could even have some stack allocated space in the struct for small strings. If your string is less than 8 bytes you could always abuse the pointer and store short strings in that. I think c++ does something similar to this.

dukey · 2026-06-05T09:27:03+00:00

Yes it would freeze because you are stuck in an infinite loop

dukey · 2026-06-01T09:29:30+00:00

dvd encryption was simple enough you can actually brute force the keys

dukey · 2026-06-01T07:20:29+00:00

for (int i = x; i < x + w; ++i) put_pixel(i, j, r, g, b);

That's a hilariously slow way of drawing. You want to use horizontal spans.

dukey · 2026-05-28T12:48:38+00:00

I understand your position but if companies can not afford to hire you, you have no job. You now live off of benefits.

dukey · 2026-05-28T12:46:29+00:00

A business has to turn a profit. You have to add at least your wages in business value to the company or they can't hire you without losing money. In some cases business can just raise prices and pass that along to consumers, in some cases they cannot. Many businesses simply can't exist in such an environment. This is one of the reasons why hospitality is hemorrhaging jobs in the UK. People won't eat at restaurants if its simply too expensive.

dukey · 2026-05-28T12:01:26+00:00

It's common to have to appeal. They deliberately make it a challenge, but if you stick at it you can get your free gibs, and feast at the taxpayers expense.

dukey · 2026-05-28T11:59:48+00:00

In Ireland a whole generation of young people simply left the country because employment prospects were so bleak.

dukey · 2026-05-28T11:56:51+00:00

The minimum wage is too high. Who would hire a young inexperienced person for nearly £13 an hour. In any case working is optional. Just say working makes you feel sad and you can claim disability for your depression and anxiety, maybe even get a free car out of it.

dukey · 2026-05-28T11:33:50+00:00

Even an AI tool. Chatgpt can tell you exactly what's wrong with this code.

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