@AndreasmovedtoCodidact dosen't need to be

Its a tribble

the one creature the Klingons fear

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@JourneymanGeek But they told me they're lizards.

@AndreasmovedtoCodidact that's exactly what a disguised tribble would say

@JourneymanGeek It was the voices surrounding them.

ventroqualist tribbles

only a crazy person would say a hamster tribble hamster was talking to them

I’m not crazy at all.

Just completely insane.

@KevinB 👀_👀

Well turns out a game I play for couple of years has a huge dungeon I was never aware of. lol

going to beat level 7 of Palace of the Dead

I mean, I knew it exists, but not how vast or important it is.

I'm too young and stupid to know what the ajax approach would be

dunno the context, but AJAX means sending POST request to the server.

e.g. $.post(url, params);

I assume it would involve each browsing context polling, which would be.... not amazing. though I guess if a websocket connection does hartbeat stuff you could get analogous traffic overheads

And you can of course then parse the response.

@starball yeah it's one-way, you can only send a request from the browser to the server using AJAX, can't "listen" in the other direction with it.

websocket heartbeat, I was under the impression that websocket was an improvement in the context of that comment's context, since it would mean clients don't need to poll / long-poll for updates

Sadly never learned how they worked, but yeah assumed the same, that websockets use "live" connection.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda yep. that's my understanding. I was trying to learn what all this stuff meant back in... 2020? when I was working on a web game

This might have changed since...

I don't understand the spec-level details of websockets. just that it's some kind of two-way messaging protocol built on top of TCP

yup

I do vaguely recall hearing something about the server push idea dying

But I think the ordinary heartbeat mechanism of SE still use plain old AJAX. (e.g. keeping scores of posts up-to-date without reloading the page when viewing a question)

ah here we go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/….

I simultaneously feel like and don't feel like arguing with that kevin user in the comments.

I'm going to stick with not arguing (which is why I came here to vent)

@starball eh that Kevin user is here, you can ping him. ;)

oh lmao

oh oops maybe not?

Let me see...

huh? no it's a different kevin

yeah at first I thought it was kevin b too

then I noticed the B was missing

lol yeah it's not "our" @Kevin ;)

Wonder how common is that name?

I know e.g. Rob is very common...

and Dan...

man am I annoyed with SEDE captchas.

and yet, I still refuse to sign in to SEDE for no reason

@starball well, if the comments aren't correct and you can prove it, better try and argue, so others won't get confused.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1836596

oh wait I forgot to wildcard

ah there we go: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/1836598/2235780

35k users on SO with display name starting with "kevin"

OMG

more generic query - using it, there are "only" 3k Shadows, and 0 starballs on SO. ;)

Why using a different name on SO? @starball

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda because I got shown a bunch of comments of mine that weren't amazingly kind (some sarcastic, frustrated yelling, etc.), felt scolded (emphasis on "felt"), and then that's just my psychological flight response.

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda on the bright side, now, the rarity of the name "starball" on SO has achieved the unimaginable height of infinity.

I am a legend

I'll change my name back once the system allows. I felt pretty silly for reacting that way a day after I did it

funny because I did the exact same thing before for pretty much the same reason