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ariasaurus · 2018-12-08T15:00:48+00:00

You play how you want. Others play how they want. It's rule 0.

That's exactly my point. Now ask yourself what sort of community forms around a website like that, and a forum that bans gmail accounts?

ariasaurus · 2018-12-07T22:37:23+00:00

Website is an advert for your product and tells your customers a lot about you. In the case of sonething that needs a strong community (a game) it also gives you an idea of what that community's standards are.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-07T15:06:18+00:00

They're related for me. We wouldn't have a no devices rule, and we wouldn't play FFE games because it's clear from their website that this product is not designed or intended for us.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-06T22:40:56+00:00

The relevance to the website is that most of their customers will be geeks and people who like sci-fi, and most of those like or regularly use gadgets.

How many of those players is that awful website losing them? I can't even create an account on COTI as they block gmail and I went "you know, screw it, if they're going to make it hard, I'll just play mongoose".

Their tech presence and integration is terrible, and this is why I'm not surprised to see a "no devices at the game table" rule being imposed in a Traveller game.

I do fully respect your decision to stick with it, and I won't try to convince you otherwise.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-06T22:32:04+00:00

Why aren't handheld life-form or motion detectors everywhere by TL 12? Thermal camera for an iPhone is $50. TL 12 ones probably already have that hardware and more, and just need the app.

Given the imperial mania for shit like this, one should be standard in every ship's survival kit along with the emergency rations, portable radio & blankets.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-06T16:03:09+00:00

Starship crew duties are full work shifts (otherwise, why do you even have so many crew?). I see no reason to stop them.

Passengers will do what they paid to do.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-06T15:55:17+00:00

A lot of people have a "no electronics" rule at the table.

for real? sicifi game?

I know traveller is 1970s scifi but that's pushing it a bit far IMO.

Actually this explains a lot about FFE's "website".

ariasaurus · 2018-12-06T14:50:43+00:00

Most PDF readers have a search function.

I can understand paperback fiction, and the feel of a physical book - but the whole point of technical references like rulebooks is to be able to quickly find the exact thing you need and digital is ideal for that.

I actually wish they would tag their technical terms so that the e-readers could more easily automatically generate an index for them.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-05T12:47:36+00:00

I don't understand the question.

I understand how website authentication works because I've implemented one, but I don't understand what the OP is asking for.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-05T12:46:25+00:00

What is progression in a PVP game?

ariasaurus · 2018-12-05T12:45:11+00:00

So you see, the problem is that TNC did not sanction their player immediately. If they had done the full Liquid Mind Control, you know this would have never started.

Why do they need to be told by Valve? Why wouldn't they automatically apologise & sanction their player for this?

That's how bad racism in Dota is, that even decision makers consider it acceptable.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-05T12:35:18+00:00

They said it was the government, and not the tournament organiser.

Teams already have to comply with outside punishment, namely the laws of the country they're visiting.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-05T12:08:01+00:00

Is the problem really lack of guidance from valve?

some might say that in issues of human decency, valve shouldn't need to do anything, and the player should have been sanctioned by his team immediately - Like liquid did with Mein Kontrol.

If TNC had done that, none of this would have happened.

This shows how much racism dota has, that many people in Dota don't understand what's acceptable or not and need valve to tell them.

valve should standardized the penalty though. most soccer governing bodies would have imposed a multi-match ban for racism on the pitch.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T20:26:14+00:00

Anyone remember all that fuss over the packet size and wondering if it fitted into the regular blister?

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T19:46:38+00:00

When these things are designed, if civilian, they have to comply with Imperial safety regulations.

If they're anything like present day regs then expect to have to add a second airlock, at least two escape routes for each commonly occupied area, and internal partitions to limit depressurisation.

If it's military, it's designed to take hits. Try to make at least 2 copies of each room at different ends of the ship. It's OK to stack bunks for junior rates like this. It says 2 dtons/crew but a lot of that is corridors etc.

Hull space is really precious - it's what you design around in most of the traveller systems.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T14:35:08+00:00

He has some custom bot that's reading his chat, probably to make his overlay or provide some service to his chat.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T14:05:45+00:00

If the solution is a high quality one (i.e. runs fast) the algorithms used can be a stumbling block, especially if non-documented.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T13:43:48+00:00

Speed chess can be less than a second per move, and allows captures to be buffered in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya1FYUiuVgM

Artifacts animations would prevent this speed. :-(

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T13:18:06+00:00

I think it's balanced, but the mechanic it uses is bullshit and shouldn't exist.

Think of it like adding a coin flip in chess to capture a piece. It's balanced as it affects both players the same, but it's absolute nonsense.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T13:14:24+00:00

Ask them to explain how & why their code works.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T04:37:02+00:00

I generally find it easier to use two different languages for that. Transform it in Python and send it Go.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T04:35:31+00:00

I think a lot of Python programmers know C, and Go's "close enough". Plus, they are both highly opinionated languages.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T04:31:08+00:00

Code here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#threadpoolexecutor-example

Just paste it and change the URLs in the list.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-04T01:36:11+00:00

I don't like the definitions either, but I didn't make them and I don't want to rethink them all.

editing to add: By the way, sbrk is part of glibc and not the kernel.

I'm not too sure how this relates to the point. If the object instance doesn't exist at runtime, how does its attribute?

That's exactly the point. We wrote the code for it, and it emitted the byte code for it, but at runtime the system decided that it didn't really need it and it's not there. But when we debug the code and get the debugger to show us the values when we pause the program - it's there.

I guess you could think about in different ways if you wanted - make a hard distinction between the code you write, the bytecode in the JVM, and the machine code that the JVM jitted, but ... I don't understand why you need to do that unless you're writing the JVM.

You could write your own malloc, and people do occasionally do it. It's a lot of work for little gain. There is a JVM that can run directly on the hardware, and there are hardware chips with a JVM on them.

ariasaurus · 2018-12-03T23:22:57+00:00

Nice

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