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New comment by sgtlaggy in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

sgtlaggy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:01:07 +0000

Similar to the XML config you mentioned, WoW uses/used a plaintext config file where a realmlist URL can be set.

New comment by sgtlaggy in "Backing up Spotify"

sgtlaggy — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:58:58 +0000

Music might have higher quality audio-only files as provided where Youtube might have it combined with video and a generic compression algorithm applied as with all other uploaded videos.

New comment by sgtlaggy in "Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]"

sgtlaggy — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:08:40 +0000

> everyone inside the plane gets cooked in 39 seconds

From the video, the 39 second figure is for the cockpit if the pilots don't get their masks on in time. The passenger cabin would be uncomfortable but wouldn't (or just didn't in that case) reach lethal levels given the volume.

New comment by sgtlaggy in "Python 3.11 vs 3.10 performance"

sgtlaggy — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 15:41:59 +0000

Concurrency in Python is a weird topic, since multiprocessing is the only "real" concurrency. Threading is "implicit" context switching all in the same process/thread, asyncio is "explicit" context switching. On top of that, you also have the complication of the GIL. If threads don't release the GIL, then you can't effectively switch contexts.

New comment by sgtlaggy in "AltWinDirStat"

sgtlaggy — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 21:51:01 +0000

I've also been using WizTree for quite a while, but recently learned WinDirStat scans the filesystem instead of trusting the NTFS metadata because it can sometimes be incorrect(?) and is a bit tricky due to poor documentation. The WDS developer actually addressed this in AWDS's issues 4[1] and 19[2] a few years ago, and even said he's contemplating supporting the MFT but it seems he hasn't gotten around to it.

1: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4#issuecomme... 2: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/19#issuecomm...

New comment by sgtlaggy in "Lua and Python (2020)"

sgtlaggy — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:12:20 +0000

I have mostly the same feelings, though my only experience is with WoW and Payday 2 addons. A big gripe of mine is there's really only one namespace. If something is exported, it goes to the aether and everything can see it, making it very difficult to track where variables are defined and modified.