Who the fuck still watches content on an effing TV in 2025?
Me. It seems like the best kind of display for a game console.
Readit Newsrecursive commented on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/bj-rn
recursive commented on Beautiful Abelian Sandpiles eavan.blog/posts/beautifu... · Posted by u/eavan0
It seems the sand only spills up and to the left.
Is this newsworthy entirely because it was made without AI? It seems like a perfectly fine ad. I just don't understand why this is significant. If people just like this ad enough to vote for it, fine. But I feel like I'm missing something.
recursive commented on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/SergeAx
At one point, I think it was TitanFall2, the pc port of a game deliberately converted it's audio to uncompressed wav files in order to inflate the install size, They said it was for performance but the theory was to make it more inconvenient for pirates to distribute.
When the details of exactly why the game was so large came out, many people felt this was a sort of customer betrayal, The publisher was burning a large part of the volume of your precious high speed sdd for a feature that added nothing to the game.
People probably feel the same about this, why were they so disrespectful of our space and bandwidth in the first place? But I agree it is very nice that they wrote up the details in this instance.
I remember seeing warez game releases in the late 90s that had custom packaging to de-compress sound effects that were stored uncompressed in the original installer.
It seems no one takes pride in their piracy anymore.
Performing is fun.
recursive commented on Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()` frederikbraun.de/why-seth... · Posted by u/birdculture
> HTML parsing is not stable and a line of HTML being parsed and serialized and parsed again may turn into something rather different
This is why people should really use XHTML, the strict XML dialect of HTML, in order to avoid these nasty parsing surprises. It has the predictable behavior that you want.
In XHTML, the code does exactly what it says it does. If you write <table><a></a></table> like the example on the mXSS page, then you get a table element and an anchor child. As another example, if you write <table><td>xyz</td></table>, that's exactly what you get, and there are no implicit <tbody> or <tr> inserted inside.
It's just wild as I continue to watch the world double down for decades on HTML and all its wild behavior in parsing. Furthermore, HTML's syntax is a unique snowflake, whereas XML is a standardized language that just so happens to be used in SVG, MathML, Atom, and other standards - no need to relearn syntax every single time.
HTML is also a standardized language.
recursive commented on COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in tritium.legal/blog/outloo... · Posted by u/piker
COM is basically just reference counting and interfaces. Also, the HRESULT type tries to give some structure to 32 bit error codes.
I remember a few years back hearing hate about COM and I didn't feel like they understood what it was.
I think the legit criticisms include:
* It relies heavily on function pointers (virtual calls) so this has performance costs. Also constantly checking those HRESULTs for errors, I guess, gives you a lot more branching than exceptions.
* The idea of registration, polluting the Windows registry. These days this part is pretty optional.
You might have been hearing some of that hate from me. I definitely don't understand COM, but I've had to use it once or twice. It's pretty far outside what I normally work on, which is all high-level garbage collected languages. I don't know if that's even the right dimension to distinguish it. I couldn't figure out how to use COM or what it's purpose was.
The task was some automated jobs doing MS word automation. This all happened about 20 years ago. I never did figure out how to get it to stop leaking memory after a couple days of searching. I think I just had the process restart periodically.
Compared to what I was accustomed to COM seemed weird and just unnecessarily difficult to work with. I was a lot less experienced then, but I haven't touched COM since. I still don't know what the intent of COM is or where it's documented, and nor have I tried to figure it out. But it's colored my impression of COM ever since.
I think there may be a lot of people like me. They had to do some COM thing because it was the only way to accomplish a task, and just didn't understand. They randomly poked it until it kind of worked, and swore never to touch it again.
My assumption is that stop signs act somewhat as a way to enforce the lower speed limits in residential areas. There's several stretches without stops in my suburb where I've seen drivers whizzing by very obviously above the 25mph speed limit, which is bad enough on its own but becomes a serious hazard when combined with the massive blind spots that come from curbs on both directions being filled to the brim with parked cars.
A better solution would probably be radar-based speed signs with printed threats of fines, though.
> A better solution would probably be radar-based speed signs with printed threats of fines, though.
I don't think people respond to those as much as they do to "traffic calming" like speed bumps, roundabouts, and narrow choke points.
recursive commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul