Jan Ringoš

finally. #embed It happened. Nearly 5 years of paper writing, being snuck Committee Meeting notes on the DL until I could access them myself and absolve my co-conspirators of their sins, 5 different implementations/p...

And that's just the bare surface of C++ std committee politics. They routinely nitpick to waste time of others, and vote against others' papers to shift limited resource to their one.

See how hard it was to push #embed through for this guy:
thephd.dev/finally-embe...

And since it's a well known person, everyone else piles on you too, and downvote you to oblivion.

And if you dare to talk back, you get warning from a mod for personal attacks and such.

Yeah. Ask me how I fucking know.

And the very first comment is some old guard from the committee ripping you a new one for not having written a whole fucking paper solving all the dependencies on other features and pending papers too.

Some other comes scolding you for not having clang forked and implemented it yourself yet.

They'd tell you: "Because nobody proposed it, yet. If you want it, do it."

So you go to learn about the process, and the first bullet point says: "Don't write full proposal at first, float the idea on social networks and forums."

So you create a thread to "float the idea" on /r/cpp for example...

I'd work for Microsoft for free, if I was allowed to work on the issues in Windows that bother me. And my commits couldn't be rejected for political reasons.

Yeah, I know those are impossible demands.

> Everyone and everything is unpleasant

Exactly. I'm a sucker for post-apo realism and, in such setting, a good half of the characters, mainly both protagonists, would never be allowed to behave like they do in the game.

That was probably just that they paid for those actor's faces, so they had to figure out how to show those faces. Not have them in a gas masks all the time.

But I agree that Season 1 was above average.

...for the sole purpose of invoking emotions. Apparently they explicitly said it's not meant to be "fun" so there's that.

I still liked the gameplay. Sneak or go Rambo, all fun.

The show is just shittier and shorter version of all that.

Note that Season 2 is just first half of the game.

The game is IMO masterpiece in details, mechanics, realism -ish, environmental storytelling. It has dozens of little cool stories intertwined. But its main story has too many plot holes, contrivances and coincidences...

This depends on how much you know about the story, and the level of disappointment and second-hand embarrassment you wish to experience.

It could also probably use a review by an English speaker.

The abysmal state of Taskbar icons of Windows 11

A few words about the latest thing that irks me about Windows:
👉 github.com/tringi/paper...

They would insert more bugs into his other orifices.

Absolutely.

But there's quite a little complexity if you wish it to have dark mode on Windows, respect DPI and text scaling, don't hang up on shutdown, and all those little things.

And run on Windows 7 of course.

I thought I'll have it in a weekend, but it's been months and it still doesn't work.

Well, I started making my own Notepad, and it's not that trivial actually. Or maybe I'm overcomplicating things again.

I love it.

For some reason I too found it amusing to port things to old NT recently. Much smaller apps though (like the viewer I posted) ...and only as far back as NT 4.0 because I can't get anything earlier running in Hyper-V, but damn I love the look and feel of 3.1 GUI.

If anyone wants a quick and dirty KUSER_SHARED_DATA viewer:
👉 github.com/tringi/KUSER...

Did you know that the old deprecated GetTickCount actually returns 64-bit (not-overflowing) value, same as GetTickCount64, but computes the result differently?

Alright, now I'm fully on board of the #Microslop train.

The last time.

Hyper-V CPUID on 26100.32230 now reports Service Pack 32.

Amusing.

All the while Microsoft and all their "modern" frameworks keep dropping support for ClearType, due to their incompetence.

IMHO he's not *completely* wrong.

A ton of great, creative and knowledgeable people, who affected the discourse and enriched the place with their knowledge and ideas, ran away here, and here I see them getting 1/100th of their previous reach and influence. Basically isolated.

It's sad to see.

Alright, those are valid points.

IDK, it doesn't sound that crazy to me. He's not saying "don't vaxx," just "schedule differently."

Some `winver` am I right?
github.com/tringi/winver

It was supposed to fit into 4 kB at first, but many nice-to-have features keep popping up. What should I add next?

That sounds like it relates to VRAM, not RAM. But I'm not familiar with WDDM or D3D much nor do I see into the function, so it might be related.

Or perhaps, were I to be VERY optimistic, they are finally inching towards making large pages pageable and thus available to user applications by default, and this is a byproduct of that incomplete work.

I don't think it's a mystery. I think there's no longer anyone in Windows division of Microsoft, who'd sit down over all the scenarios and decide on the proper configuration.

Or such task died in an endless bureaucratic prioritization queue somewhere.

The name of the function, MiRebuildLargePages, does sound peculiar. Could it be doing some memory defragmentation to make large pages available even after the OS has been running for some time?