rasz's comments

On: Ask HN: Almost a thousand dollars for a 20 minute new patient visit?

[rasz]

>A routine colonoscopy came at $19k

$80-300 in capital of Poland when going full private. Its crazy than not everyone in US is combining medical/dental procedures with Euro/Asia vacation yet.

On: Improving performance of rav1d video decoder

[rasz]

Is the encoder any better than previous AMD offerings?

https://goughlui.com/2024/01/07/video-codec-round-up-2023-pa...

On: Chinese College Gives Harvard International Students 'Unconditional Offers'

[rasz]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-23/germany-o...

On: AMD's $299 Radeon RX 9060 XT brings 8GB or 16GB of RAM to fight the RTX 5060

[rasz]

Back in 2001 Nvidia GPUs topped out at 64MB https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce3-ti500.c741

but that didnt stop vendors from offering bottom of the barrel low end models with very same 64MB https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/msi-geforce2-mx-400-64... Not only same type of ram, but even the bus width is the same.

On: Show HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript

[rasz]

Hear me out guys - SQLite, but in a browser! We could call it WebSQL.

[pwdisswordfishz → rasz]

That's pretty much why it failed: https://www.w3.org/TR/webdatabase/

> This document was on the W3C Recommendation track but specification work has stopped. The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a standardisation path.

[rasz → pwdisswordfishz]

It stopped due to politics, specifically LOL arguments about "inelegant developer aesthetics" coming from Mozilla https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis.... Somehow everyone and their dog using same Chrome codebase is fine, but oh no not the SLQ backend!

Instead we are saddled with garbage IndexedDB so bad nobody uses it natively and thousands of developer hours are spend building shims and wrappers to shield us from the brain rot.

On: Google's Veo3 Is Already Deepfaking All of YouTube's Most Smooth-Brained Content

[rasz]

This is the first time I cant tell AI slop by the pixels :| dark times ahead.

On: 32 bits that changed microprocessor design

[rasz]

>STRCPY opcode.

whats wrong with rep movsb?

[saagarjha → rasz]

You'd need to run strlen first.

[cesarb → saagarjha]

> You'd need to run strlen first.

I might be a bit rusty in my x86 assembly, but wouldn't "repnz movsb" be the x86 strcpy opcode, for zero-terminated strings?

[saagarjha → cesarb]

Not a thing unfortunately; you can only use the rep prefix with movable.

[muziq → cesarb]

movsb doesn’t set any flags, so no, it isn’t..

[joezydeco → saagarjha]

Real men just blast through memory until hitting a zero. If it's there at all.

[rasz → saagarjha]

If you care at least a little about buffer overflows You will run one anyway.

[saagarjha → rasz]

If you want a strlen+memcpy you are more than welcome to call it yourself

On: The SpaceX genie is out of the bottle

[rasz]

Yes its pretty stupid. Works only against non nuclear adversaries, and after Budapest Memorandum fiasco this ship has sailed.

On: Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane

[rasz]

@Grok is this true?

On: Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane

[rasz]

You havent met Gwendolyn bot.