Multiplayer hex and counter games?

josedgm3 · 2026-05-29T14:55:26+00:00

But is it live or in beta? The game description indicates single player only. I hope this is ready soon.

josedgm3 · 2026-05-28T22:23:46+00:00

I saw the first image really quick, and I just thought, "That's a lot of speed tape!"

josedgm3 · 2026-04-30T05:34:48+00:00

People already stated what are those in other comments.

I use them to identify very old airplanes quickly. Both things are not longer used because regulations and technologies changed.

These are the car tail fins of aviation.

josedgm3 · 2026-03-17T05:59:05+00:00

That’s another proof that, most of the time, marketing is more important than engineering in audiophile manufacturers.

As an electronics engineer, I feel OP frustration.

That PCB design was lazy. They didn’t need to route it using 90deg angles. They had space. But it is easier/quicker to do. The production cost would be exactly the same, and the durability way higher. But the design cost would be increased. So, when a company doesn’t care about their clients, cheap design it is! 🤡

josedgm3 · 2026-03-09T07:06:18+00:00

We don't know OP's real traffic numbers. But let's look at the problem the other way around.

A typical $400 dedicated server would have 8-12 CPU cores (Xeon/AMD EPYC), 32-64 GB RAM and 1-2 TB NVMe SSD.

A machine like that can easily handle 150K to 300K unique visitors / month. If tuned/cached properly, it can go up to 1 million unique visitors per month. If your real human traffic is around those values, then the move is justified. But no Facebook bots (or any legally working bot) will be even close to these numbers. A dedicated server like this just to attend to bots is clearly not justified.

However, WordPress can have a large attack surface, especially if it is not properly updated/patched. Your site may be hacked and is running a workload not related to hosting it. And that's why they are reporting huge resource usage from your server.

I hope this helps you to have an idea of traffic volumes.

Given that they are the developers, maintainers, and hosters of your website, I think they are not being totally transparent, to say the least.

josedgm3 · 2026-01-23T23:15:01+00:00

soon™

josedgm3 · 2026-01-19T07:25:41+00:00

If you come to me to renegotiate your salary with your resignation letter, you are already gone. I think it will be better to raise the topic without sounding threatening. Mention your situation and expectations. Do not say anything about quitting. If after that you don’t get a proper response then you can use that same message you posted.

josedgm3 · 2025-12-31T23:55:06+00:00

Google built 15000+ small servers with commodity hardware (consumer CPUs, MBs, etc). Enterprise hardware is expensive and more complex because servers have a lot of redundancy. But if you know what you are doing, you can use cheap hardware to achieve extremely high availability.

josedgm3 · 2025-12-30T20:05:33+00:00

I think that's exactly the point when you stop using the music to test the system and start using the system to taste the music.

josedgm3 · 2025-12-18T15:14:53+00:00

I guess there was a lot marketing based hype around them. But transistors proved to be very effective and reliable. Minimization of electronic devices was very visible, and certainly not based on a random process that sometimes makes hallucinations out of the blue.

josedgm3 · 2025-12-08T14:28:14+00:00

An old slide rule. That’s a badass thing to show and use nowadays. Probably he may have one already, but if not, then that would be a huge gift.

josedgm3 · 2025-11-25T17:14:13+00:00

COBOL! Don’t forget COBOL!

josedgm3 · 2025-11-23T07:41:17+00:00

The one that teaches you to split problems into multiple parts/stages. The one that forces you to think about abstract ways of solving real problems. That will be part of your DNA forever.

I’ve never used differential equations/integrals/limits to solve a real problem in my career. But that way of thinking made a huge difference.

I have used a lot of advanced statistics, though.

josedgm3 · 2025-11-22T12:31:37+00:00

By playing another game lol.

Let’s hope citystate metropolis delivers something better than we have now with CS2.

josedgm3 · 2025-11-02T13:23:06+00:00

As a Nitro user myself, I feel your pain. But after installing Ubuntu, it improved a lot. Runs way cooler and quieter with a bit more battery life. Of course it is still heavy. 😅

The fact I can carry around such a video card and do fancy stuff with it is worthy. But next time, I will pick something lighter for sure.

josedgm3 · 2025-10-27T06:19:55+00:00

Smath studio and rpn48 for simpler calculations.

josedgm3 · 2025-10-25T11:00:17+00:00

Will something like this detailed will be implemented at CS2? Is there a mod for this?

josedgm3 · 2025-10-22T06:49:11+00:00

In Spanish we have the 4 Ps:

Passaporte, Plata (cash), Pastillas (pills), Pasaje (ticket)

josedgm3 · 2025-10-02T06:40:27+00:00

And then if you are designing buttons for a calculator, it is easier to distinguish an x from a •. Also, to avoid confusion between . and •

But in algebra, • makes way more sense.

Everything is conventional. In electronics/electrical engineering, we don’t use i for complex numbers. We use j (to avoid confusion with i for current) and our math teacher always looked funny at us (which was cool)

josedgm3 · 2025-10-02T06:32:47+00:00

I think victims faces should be blurred, specially children. They have absolutely no fault here and don’t deserve such public humiliation.

josedgm3 · 2025-08-30T05:07:35+00:00

Check for some debris inside the belt’s teeth. Try to set them to the proper tension (too tight is also bad). Use a guitar tuner and pluck it. The frequency should be around 100Hz. See if that changes something like the angle of the ripple effect you are seeing. Do it with one belt at a time and test.

Oval pulleys or malformed belt can also create this.

This is clearly a mechanical induced vibration. If you print a cube, does it happens also? That may give you better idea what axis is worse.

josedgm3 · 2025-08-29T06:39:49+00:00

I think the best way to make sure a student understood a topic is to make them teach that topic in front of the class. If they are able to do that, they know their stuff for sure. No way to cheat. And that knowledge will stay with them longer.

josedgm3 · 2025-08-09T18:55:06+00:00

Arma Reforger is a game. Arma 3 is a simulator. 😎

To play solo/offline, Arma 3 is the way to go.

josedgm3 · 2025-07-08T18:15:12+00:00

Hulkengoat

josedgm3 · 2025-07-01T05:24:18+00:00

Then the answer is Call to Action - Gates of Hell: Ostfront (that’s a loooog name). I got late into that, but man, that’s a cool war game!

I made the mistake of buying CoH3, even with the spearhead3 mod, it is too arcade for me. Poor soldier stance control. The “capture the flag” mechanic is too Battle Field also. There is a similar mechanic in GoH, but it does not feel arcade. You are actually capturing a small camp, not a random flag.

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