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New comment by StilesCrisis in "The Problem That Built an Industry"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:37:39 +0000

"The key insight is [...]. No daemons. No background threads. No connection state persisted in memory between transactions."

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New comment by StilesCrisis in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:39:17 +0000

This worked great for a home arcade machine. Kind of expensive, but worked equally well for both 4:3 games (Super Mario) and 3:4 games (Pac Man).

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

StilesCrisis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:12:07 +0000

Nintendo was founded in 1889 and basically predates electricity in the home. I think they did a very successful job pivoting to new forms of entertainment as they arose over the years. Not a planning failure in any sense.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:09:41 +0000

And throws in a Pac-man 8-bit level counter overflow just to remind us that AI cannot be trusted!

New comment by StilesCrisis in "The Last Quiet Thing"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:33:02 +0000

Well, it's LLM generated for sure. I wouldn't call it great.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:18:43 +0000

Why would transpiling change anything? C++ was once transpiled into C. I appreciate that you personally think JavaScript is poorly designed (I mostly agree!) but that doesn't mean it's slow. V8 can do miracles nowadays.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:29:38 +0000

It's been done, it's a valid RNG. It's somewhere on Reddit if you want to try and search for it.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:14:22 +0000

Not to defend it, but emulating Linux in WASM is possible and ought to work on iOS in a reasonably performance way. See https://webvm.io/

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:32:39 +0000

This certainly isn't the only Mac bug that would be old enough to drive.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

StilesCrisis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:11:05 +0000

I know Microsoft invested a lot into modules development and migrated a few small pieces of Office onto modules, but I'm not sure if they are actually using it extensively, and I'm also not sure if they're actually all that beneficial. Every time I hear about modules, it's stories about a year of migration work for a single-digit build-time improvement.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

StilesCrisis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:19:53 +0000

I am pretty sure you're running into a bug and trying to make sense of a behavior that wasn't intended to exist.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

StilesCrisis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:15:13 +0000

Finder does check this, yes. You can't delete open files in Finder.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

StilesCrisis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:01:02 +0000

Cool, now show me a codepen with an interactive JSON Canvas?

New comment by StilesCrisis in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

StilesCrisis — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:14:09 +0000

Interactive like this? https://yqnn.github.io/svg-path-editor/

I still don't see your point. Why wouldn't I always choose SVG? What problem or pain point is being solved?

New comment by StilesCrisis in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

StilesCrisis — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:05:14 +0000

Why use this instead of SVG?

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Chess in SQL"

StilesCrisis — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:43:05 +0000

It's not, no. The data you see in these files is reconstituted from the data that shipped with the game client, but they're not a perfect match for the real data.

The game servers are all C++ and don't use stored procedures for general gameplay management. They do handle inventory management so that item duping is generally not possible, and complex things like cross-server character transfer use stored procedures.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

StilesCrisis — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:04:26 +0000

If they're using Copilot, you're already most of the way there.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

StilesCrisis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:20:14 +0000

Much like contracts--yes, C++ needs something modules-like, but the actual design as standardized is not usable.

Once big companies like Google started pulling out of the committee, they lost their connection to reality and now they're standardizing things that either can't be implemented or no one wants as specced.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

StilesCrisis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:14:54 +0000

Right, I think the tension here is that we would like contracts to exist in the language, but the current design isn't what it needs to be, and once it's standardized, it's extremely hard to fix.

New comment by StilesCrisis in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

StilesCrisis — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:50:28 +0000

It does sound like a very Intel choice though.