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wqwetoon French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video]

No country called Czechnya

wqwetoon Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different

> 5. After processing the request, save the response to the persistent store before releasing the lock.

Save only if the operation succeeds. It's meaningless to cache a failure, subsequent retries will result in failure from the cache.

Frankly you guys are overengineering the whole thing. We use the concept only for network outages i.e. it is only on timeout that we want to guard against fultilling duplicate request for the same operation.

wqwetoon Inventing Cyrillic (2024)

> The insult was so great that throughout its subsequent history, Bulgaria fought exclusively against Russia in every world war, and in the intervals between them, it diligently undermined Russia, all the while not forgetting to shout about “eternal brotherly friendship”.

You cannot expect eternal gratitude esp. when Russian Empire is constantly trying to influence its "vasals" using local puppets. Now is about time for you to fcuk off I would say -- we don't want to have anything in common with you people.

wqwetoon Hunting a 34 year old pointer bug in EtherSlip

The wrong "pointer" for `rep movsb` is in the assembly code (of the packet driver).

wqwetoon Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue

Too bad FileZilla can’t be forced to use EPSV which might just work with this buggy server.

wqwetoon jQuery 4

Last available Chromium on XP has 0-days too, so not a big win.

wqwetoon jQuery 4

XP support IE8 max

wqwetoon Europe enters the exascale supercomputing league with Jupiter

Europe is not a country.

wqwetoon I hacked Monster Energy

Btw, you completely missed the point of the parent question. . .

wqwetoon Yet Another Zip Trick

Btw, in ZIP archives there is *no* header field that instructs what the pathname separator character(s) used are.

wqwetoon Bulgaria to Adopt the Euro

Why don't you bring back the kuna to reduce the inflation? Hold a referendum? Why no one believes this will bring down the inflation?

wqwetoon What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?

And Delphi

wqwetoon Sports supplement creatine makes no difference to muscle gains, trial finds

> taking creatine without doing the work probably won't make a difference (except to your wallet)

Creatine is dirt cheap. Anything expensive is probably a scam.

wqwetoon Show HN: My C compiler compiled itself

Usually it’s easier to just cross-compile for the new target. No need to start from ground zero.

wqwetoon Running WolfSSL and Curl on Windows 2000

Btw, VbAsyncSocket[1] project already supports TLS 1.3 on NT 4.0 and Win9x[2]

[1] https://github.com/wqweto/VbAsyncSocket/releases

[2] https://dl.unicontsoft.com/upload/pix/ss_vbasyncsocket_win9x...

wqwetoon Pay once. Use forever. Find the best purchase alternatives to subscription

Office 97 works on Win11. No emulation needed.

wqwetoon Large Text Compression Benchmark

We use bsc and nanozip for archiving DB backups (usually 1-100GB files) and have not found anything remotely close to these as CPU usage vs compression ratio.

    c:> bsc.exe e "%~1" "%~1.bsc" -b1000 -m4e1t -M4H20

This uses 3GB of RAM and compresses w/ about 300MB/s but is slow on decompression while

    c:> nz.exe a -cd -p2 -m1024m "%~1.nz" "%~1"

uses about 1GB of RAM and compresses w/ about 250MB/s to worse compression ratios but is much faster than bsc on decompression.

Both of these smash zstd and 7-zip on compression and speed -- something like 2x better and 10x faster.

wqwetoon Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

Btw, dont’t remember Turbo C or Borland C++ to be able to compile to 32-bit x86 on DOS

wqwetoon Lowercase letters save data

Probably true for Russian cyrillic alphabet tradition but not so much for Bulgarian and other cyrillic ancestry where lowercase letters differ almost for every letter with few exceptions, no matter if handwritten, cursive, italic or normal.

wqwetoon Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)

The hierarchical nature of the registry elevates old INI files to at least TOML format in this regard :-))

wqwetoon When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

Very useful!

Posted this on behalf of the silent majority that likes the approach.

wqwetoon Abstracting away correctness (2020)

There is no short article from fasterthanlime. These have to be worth their money I guess but anyway I always like everything by him.

wqwetoon Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transparency log

Is this bit rot happening on a server w/ ECC RAM just curious?

wqwetoon Bastion of the Turbofish (2020)

Is Rust as first programming language a thing?

wqwetoon Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours

It's even harder playing it under Remote Desktop over slow connection!

wqwetoon Microsoft attempts to spin its role in counterfeiting case

I'm not sure you can use the serial on the sticker of a refurbished PC. The sticker is not a license as well as the serial on this sticker is not an OS license.

The original license holder cannot transfer the OS license (unless a company is being bought by other company) so using the serial on the sticker of a refurbished PC by the new owner is generally illegal.

Probably the damages for MS come from refurbishers "assisting" their customers to install OS from repair CDs using serials from stickers left from previous PC owners -- clearly not legal.

wqwetoon Don't tell people to turn off Windows Update

Stock iPhone 4 does not support anything newer than iOS 7 - what morning updates are you talking about?

wqwetoon What SimpliFlying learned from forcing staff to take regular vacation time

What do you think of two years paid maternal leave? By law. . .

wqwetoon Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?

http://www.nerds2nerds.com/ -- just to troll demigod :-))

wqwetoon Things I hate about Git (2012)

Is hg easier to use? Or any other DVCS not created by such a bad UX practitioner?