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New comment by pathartl in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

pathartl — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:35:17 +0000

We regularly play Dark Messiah at our LAN, and I got that working straight off the disc. The only issue I've had with Source is SDK 2007 mods, but only because it's _extremely_ hard coded to have the SDK in a specific location.

But yeah, games that do outright crash are pretty easily patchable and most likely already have been.

New comment by pathartl in "Windows 1.0 and the WinAPI, 40 Years Later"

pathartl — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:33:37 +0000

I'd like to know which ones you've had issues with. I've compiled a collection of hundreds of Windows games from ~96-2006 and I've only run into one that's required an appcompat flag (carmageddon 2).

New comment by pathartl in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

pathartl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:28:34 +0000

It's also worth noting that semantic markup is not a feature of CSS, it is a feature of HTML. CSS has almost no power if something like a scraper or a reader mode chooses to ignore it. Of course that would be pandemonium and we would never get good results.

I feel like something in the CSS camp that could be highlighted in a "great idea, okay implementation, poor reception" that the OP is going for is print stylesheets. Those are incredibly underused.

New comment by pathartl in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

pathartl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:22:05 +0000

To call a CSS pixel not an actual pixel but a measurement of an angle at a reading distance is... technically correct... but isn't really representative of how it's actually rendered. On a non Hi-DPI display at 100% scaling in the browser and OS, a px is a device pixel. An css inch is considered 96px, with the assumption that a CSS inch is an imperial inch on a 96 DPI display.

Yes, it's a bit fuzzy now with modern displays (especially when display scaling is not at a whole number haha) but it just kinda feels like searching for something to complain about. If your browser and OS doesn't get in the way you can get exact measurement. This also applies to almost any UI framework that has some integration with the OS.

Show HN: LANCommander v2.1.0 – New Avalonia-based launcher

pathartl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:17:10 +0000

Article URL: https://lancommander.app/Releases/2.1.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467068

Points: 7

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New comment by pathartl in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

pathartl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:19:09 +0000

They were only suffering and had great battery life because they were kneecapping their own machines with improper cooling. It's pretty obvious their last few Intel laptops were intentionally designed so that the M1 would look better in almost every way. It was still an incredible chip, but I personally didn't believe that it was a fair comparison.

New comment by pathartl in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

pathartl — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:24:57 +0000

It's about 15 miles north. Microsoft is already building a data center on some of the land that Foxconn didn't use

New comment by pathartl in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

pathartl — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:48:39 +0000

No, it's had an increasingly difficult time keeping itself ever since they fixed their uptime metric collection, added Actions, and exploded in users.

New comment by pathartl in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

pathartl — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:09:11 +0000

Yeah, there's some tubers out there that have absolutely scathing reviews for their customer ervice.

New comment by pathartl in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

pathartl — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:25:16 +0000

We have similar issues here in Wisconsin. Especially when it comes to solar and battery storage facilities. I absolutely think there needs to be more regulations carved out for data centers, just as there is for any other industrial building, but yeah the great mongering is incredible to see. Especially when the argument of "save our beautiful farmlands" is brought up. Do you even know how nasty agricultural runoff is?

New comment by pathartl in "GitHub Is Down"

pathartl — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:54:10 +0000

I think this is minimizing the Xbox platform. They are also a massive digital distribution platform where almost every game is a digital download now.

That being said, you are correct. It is absolutely no surprise to me that Actions has the worst uptime.

New comment by pathartl in "1.4 GW: battery storage at former Grohnde nuclear power plant"

pathartl — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:52:46 +0000

The argument is only fair if they provide some valid information to back up their claims. There's a project to put in a BESS near my rural hometown and every anti argument is based on non-LiFEpo cells and self-inflicted confused overlap with the data center water use arguments. This is while completely supporting "beautiful farmlands" that leech pesticides and phosphates into the water table

New comment by pathartl in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

pathartl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:11:06 +0000

Idk, I'm in my mid 30's and I've never had a moment where I've been glad to see something on SourceForge.

New comment by pathartl in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

pathartl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:25:22 +0000

Comparing GitHub and SourceForge as if they were cut from the same cloth is laughable to me. SF has always been a wretched hive of ads and dark patterns.

New comment by pathartl in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

pathartl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:40:21 +0000

Not that I disagree with you, but some of us still use desktops because laptops don't always get the job done. That being said, how hard is it to hit ctrl-s

New comment by pathartl in "18 Years Later, IPv6 Reaches Majority"

pathartl — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:43:28 +0000

Someone better tell my ISP. Being on fiber with a CGNAT and no IPv6 is imo intentionally negligent.

New comment by pathartl in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

pathartl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:09:22 +0000

Added a footnote. I still chock it up to bad naming. React as most people know it could really be considered React for Web.

New comment by pathartl in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

pathartl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:07:32 +0000

Agreed. Swapped it out. Still not great proportions, but at least it's not blurry.

New comment by pathartl in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

pathartl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:07:04 +0000

Added some footnotes to add clarification

New comment by pathartl in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

pathartl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:51:49 +0000

Yep, oversimplification on my part. I'll make some edits.