Not sure what to imagine with this given I didn't use Azure at the time. Is this like the Windows XP style task menu?
Imagine OG Xbox menus, or the PS3/PSP menus.
Readit Newshigh_priest commented on A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet messenger.abeto.co/... · Posted by u/thecupisblue
One of the most impressive things about this is that it transfers only 5.7 MB of data on initial load and then caps out at 17.5 MB for the final load.
It seems to be making smart choices about compression techniques.
This is a good showcase of how well games can work on the web if done well.
I was shocked that the game loaded fairly quickly on a 128kbps connection. I only wish it would say that it is loading additional data, because I was stuck on white screen for a bit, with no info on the state.
I love it.
high_priest commented on DXGI debugging: Microsoft put me on a list slugcat.systems/post/25-0... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Renaming anything (without a manifest) setup.exe will cause Windows to ask for UAC elevation. The user cannot opt-out. There are a few other hard coded strings like "install" that cause this AFAIR. You can also use its_a_setup_mr_bond.exe for example.
Funny, you are right. But it needs to be something without correct .exe metadata. "you_are_an_install_wizard_harry.exe" also triggers different behaviour/query for UAC.
high_priest commented on Obsidian Note Codes ezhik.jp/obsidian/note-co... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Interested as I have a basement full of stuff in questionable order.
Could you explain a bit more? If a box in the basement box is marked with 4 emoticons, how does this help you understand content, context, history of it?
I can imagine a QR generator for "obsidian://" links, which would open tagged locations, could be very useful, to identify contents of boxes without opening them.
If the codes are written by hand, then typing them into UI and manually searching for them could be tedious.
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Emojis/Random Images on boxes, could be used to quickly, visually find the right box in a sea of identical gray boxes.
high_priest commented on Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers? nolanlawson.com/2025/08/3... · Posted by u/vidyesh
Electron is just a packager for Chromium, with the minimum code necessary to achieve that objective.
Technically it is a browser. Unless I am making a serious logic flaw here, it should be applicable.
Ok, but is the eluctron runtime freed of this throttling limitation?
high_priest commented on A clickable visual guide to the Rust type system rustcurious.com/elements/... · Posted by u/ashvardanian
I find that the easiest way to remember it is to remember that 0 is positive but has no negative counterpart.
The 0 is positive is not true, but some day you are hopefully going to get it.
The true answer is that negative numbers have the top bit set, which can't be used for positive numbers. Hence positives are one bit short.
high_priest commented on The “impossibly small” Microdot web framework lwn.net/Articles/1034121/... · Posted by u/pykello
there are some efforts to compile python to webassembly so let's see who will have the last laugh!
WebAssembly in a browser, is still JS.
You should read https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1627 for a path not travelled.
Not everyone thought this was a good idea, and I still maintain the alternative path would have led to a better internet than the one we today.
Can you please elaborate? How would such a minute change lead to "a better internet"?
> I think GitHub added the “pull request” as a really useful add on to git and that really made it take off.
For the sake of correctness, the concept of pull requests was not introduced by Github. It already existed in git in the form of the 'request-pull' subcommand. The fundamental workflow is the same. You send the project maintainer a message requesting a pull of your changes from your own online clone repo. The difference is that the message was in the form of an email. Code reviews could be conducted using mails/mailing lists too.
This is not the same as sending patches by email. But considering how people hate emails, I can see why it didn't catch on. However, Torvalds considered this implementation to be superior to Github's and once complained about the latter on Github itself [1].
[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56546...
I am stunned by the fact at a 13+years old comment can be dug out, just like this, and presented as a valid argyment in a conversation.
How some people, like you sir, are able to recall such minute events, is amazing.
Why is react still considered a viable tech?