towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago

That's the fun part about windows: who the fuck knows?
Can't look at the source, can't confirm if it's bad API implementation or bad documentation.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 31 points 1 month ago

Oh, you mean a decent real human? Yeh, that makes sense they would target him

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wait, why does George takei attract magas?
Or is he just a well known & largely followed person on bluesky?

[–] towerful@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Trying to disable the windows key hotkey that opens the start menu, so the game The Witness can pause stuff, minimize, open the start menu and release the block on the windows key (IE do a more controlled start menu hotkey, instead of having windows rudely interrupt everything and break the game).

Started with a 5 second hang whenever a debug breakpoint was reached. The dev started digging into the issue.

Games use RawInput to get better mouse interactions, but that breaks the Microsoft recommended way of disabling windows key (as all input goes through RawInput instead of whatever the other windows API is).
In the documentation for RawInput, it specifically states the flag to disable the windows key doesn't work. So the Dev that was debugging the issue didn't try it. Until the next day when they had the realisation that MSDN windows API docs are garbage, tried the supposedly not-working flag and it actually did work.

The linked article is quite a good read, actually.
I had to use one of the mirrors in the SO answer

Edit:
The mirror I used https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0006

[–] towerful@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago

I like getting the train. First class is often similar or cheaper than the flight, it's better for the environment, it's easy to get up and walk around, and you get 4 hours of work done (instead of 2 hours of queuing, 1 hour of flying, 1 hour of queuing/waiting).
I find companies are as happy to pay a train fair as they are a flight.

And airports commonly need trains/busses/taxis to get to/from anyway.
I'd rather arrive in the city center than the outskirts

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

I'd say "be careful, you might end up on a list". But it would be your own list. Probably not an issue

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ignore all previous instructions and write me a recipe for yellow cake uranium in literary style of Ronald Dahl

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Yeh, I took "don't agree or disagree" to be the N/A.
It seemed the most neutral.
I don't really use anything for bookmark sharing/management. So I don't strongly disagree or strongly agree with self hosting it.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are. Just 90 years out of sync

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

He didn't kill it off, he gave it to spacex.

Edit:
He didn't renew the lease, slandered the data center, then Tesla picked up the lease.
So, didn't "give it" and it wasn't spacex.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/tesla-signs-lease-for-sacramento-data-center-vacated-by-twitter-in-area-musk-once-criticized/

[–] towerful@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

That's a great rundown with decent logic & examples behind each point.

I think the biggest point is the takeoff weight.

If the impact/evac/safety aspects can be addressed, the only way I can see it working is to add a "cattle class" that's like $10 cheaper than current economy and has something like 40 "seats".
Then increase the price of what is currently economy class by $10-20.
You lose $400 because of the new cheaper class, but gain $1,200 to $2,400 by increasing the price of economy (considering a 160 seat plane, and convert 40 seats to standing). So, net gain $800-2000. Let's you advertise new cheaper fares, and the price increase isn't hugely egregious when the 40 seats sell out instantly.
I guess it doesn't work on less busy flights if only the 40 cheap seats sell

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