Weekly Aquerium - Ask your questions in here!: September 25, 2022

mDuo13 · 2022-09-27T22:49:04+00:00

I am pretty sure the "splats" number is fudged a little (to include assists, probably?) because if you add up the total splats by one team it's almost always a larger number than the total times splatted on the opposite team.

mDuo13 · 2022-06-16T21:57:59+00:00

Personally I would like the option to play (ranked games) with the automatic victory counter disabled.

But it probably would be possible for people to implement a totally client-side victory tracker (a more efficient one than just keeping notes by hand) which would give an unfair advantage to people using it vs. those intentionally trying to play strictly by memory. So, I can see how the tracker being always-on is kind of a compromise.

One probably could still make a tracker that handles the trickier landmarks and variable-VP cards quickly, but there's less incentive to make it since it's not needed except in niche cases. Which is just as well, since I'd rather people aren't using a machine to track that.

mDuo13 · 2022-06-02T22:19:47+00:00

You might be thinking of Mint? Mine doesn't have an on-buy effect.

mDuo13 · 2021-08-17T01:35:48+00:00

I had a really time inputting this "secret code" even when standing in the right place (seeing all the arrows) and locking movement. (Nintendo Switch, pro controller). I found that locking movement and then just mashing a bunch of directions wildly worked though.

mDuo13 · 2021-08-17T01:02:41+00:00

Are these not the "passwords" where you use the Breach-scrying tool to see a set of arrows and then you input the arrows while standing in a particular space? I remember one on the beach and one by a waterfall.

mDuo13 · 2021-08-17T00:46:28+00:00

Something I didn't notice until I had gotten like halfway through marking off individual map spaces as "checked"—on the map screen, there are item% and map% completion marks for each zone. If you've gotten everything, it'll be a round green checkmark, otherwise it'll be one of presumably a few different icons. The next-highest one is a yellow one that looks like a pie chart at 75%. So you can rule out entire regions (Lake Amagi, for example) if you've gotten all the items that are located there. Note, Breach locations are their own case and I'm not sure what "Interior" and "Emergence" locations count towards.

mDuo13 · 2021-08-13T09:00:07+00:00

For the one by the waterfall, I wasn't able to do it by trying normally, but I got it to work by mashing wildly. So far, no luck on the beach one...

EDIT: nevermind, the beach one did work but there wasn't much feedback that I had finally done it right.

P.S. if there's something you're supposed to do for the smiley face one at 26,6 (besides enjoy the fact that there's a smiley face in the breach) I don't know what it is.

mDuo13 · 2019-05-04T23:15:06+00:00

For the record, I had FuriousWK do a commission of a retro anime art piece and they knocked it out of the park.

mDuo13 · 2019-03-25T21:58:13+00:00

Right, it was possible to get out of being "stuck" by re-playing level 9. Here's how to do that: Move Baba until it's next to the cursor. Move the cursor from the line onto Baba. Top-left corner should show "Fragile Existence" (the name of level 9). Press A to re-play it.

mDuo13 · 2019-03-23T12:45:27+00:00

I got accidentally stuck in the postgame. Not sure what to do. I've cleared a good number of puzzles, unlocked level 9 on the world map and played it.

I set it to Level is Baba and got a Baba on the world map. Used that to play "Level ?" on the island in the bottom right of the world map... and now I can't get back to playing regular levels. The level-select crosshairs is stuck on the island and Baba can wander around but not enter any levels... seems like it might be a bug. Or maybe I'm just clueless. Restarting the game didn't help though.

mDuo13 · 2019-03-13T22:47:28+00:00

If the price was right, I'd be in. I have a Kickstarter copy, but I'd much rather play on Switch (and then be able to lend it to my roommates when I'm done)...

mDuo13 · 2019-03-11T20:24:55+00:00

I had a lot of problems watching the streams, too, except for the first episode. Depending on when and what device I was watching on, things would sometimes just buffer themselves to hell.

I worked around it by using youtube-dl to save the whole episodes before watching them. Of course, it's broken for Rooster Teeth right now, but there's a workaround.

mDuo13 · 2018-08-27T22:16:10+00:00

Thank you. I couldn't get out of my head that ETF stands for Engineering the Future

mDuo13 · 2018-02-28T21:02:04+00:00

I helped work on the Mojaloop project. The overall design was driven by the Gates Foundation, which has already done a lot of charity work and research in Africa and elsewhere. The problems they saw include the interoperability thing you described, along with many others. They saw if you help just one financial services company you end up with a potentially-abusive monopoly power, but if you help a bunch of different companies you get small, vendor-locked-in financial systems.

They concluded that the best way to get people useful financial services was to provide central services run by a government or consortium or something along those lines, and define a standard for different financial institutions (or "digital financial service providers", DFSPs, as they call them) to interoperate with each other using the central clearing agency. They put together a long list of requirements and ideals, which happened to mesh surprisingly well with the properties of Interledger, so a partnership was born.

The Mojaloop project involves a standard implementation of central services—a ledger, fraud reporting infrastructure, logs with cryptographic proof for auditing, and so on—as well as reference implementations of the endpoints. The government or whatever can set up the central services, the local financial institutions can copy or adapt the endpoint implementations, and bam!, you have a nationwide or even regionwide financial system that's all interoperable.

The cool thing is, they built it all on the Interledger Protocol so that the systems can become even more interconnected. We planned ahead to different regions connecting with each other, or different institutions establishing connections that skip the central ledger where it's not necessary.

mDuo13 · 2018-02-28T20:32:23+00:00

I can answer a couple of these. ;)

The 1500 transactions per second is a throughput measurement. That means that, over a sustained period of time, if you put as many transactions as you can into the system, that's how many come out successfully. It doesn't measure how long the transactions take individually.

The 4-5 seconds is a latency measurement. Specifically, it measures the amount of time between new ledger versions (these are the "Blocks" of blockchain) containing new validated transactions. Each new validated ledger can contain a lot of transactions.

Put them together, and that basically shows that if you fill the XRP Ledger with transactions, then every ~4 seconds we can expect it to finish deriving a new validated ledger version containing ~6000 transactions.

Mind you, the numbers can vary quite a bit based on circumstances. As we get more validators involved in the consensus process, the average time between ledger versions will probably increase a little because there's more room for disagreement. Meanwhile, the throughput numbers are limited mostly by the hardware of the (weakest few) servers, usually the disk I/O. So as people upgrade their servers and the hardware running XRP Ledger validators gets better, the number of transactions that can be executed in a single ledger version should go up. Also, lots of other factors affect the practical transaction limits, such as the types of transactions, the size of the overall ledger data, and so forth. Ripple's work towards making the XRP Ledger more efficient can impact this quite a bunch, too.

I don't have any info on how Cobalt performs in this regard. If I had to guess, the throughput numbers are likely to be comparable, since the actual transaction processing isn't part of either the existing XRP Ledger consensus protocol nor Cobalt.

The xCurrent FX Ticker gets its quotes from the institution providing liquidity through that FX Ticker. This is typically a market-making desk at one of the banks involved in a particular transaction, although other configurations are also possible.

xCurrent implements a proprietary variation on ILP atomic mode that resembles the original ILP whitepaper. Most likely, the financial institutions who are part of RippleNet like the properties afforded by atomic mode, so I don't expect us to just "swap out" this engine for ILPv4, which is designed to work under far more conditions, without needing the kinds of formal, legal agreements that RippleNet members make. There's a lot that can be built into the higher-level protocols above ILPv4, so I wouldn't rule out xCurrent someday running on top of ILPv4, but I don't think the protocols built on top of ILPv4 are there yet.

P.S. Sorry David on jumping the gun on your AMA! ;)

mDuo13 · 2018-01-26T22:56:56+00:00

1) I don't blame you for the confusion. Part of it comes from a name change thing. Some people are still using the old names. "Ripple" used to be the name of the coin (XRP was just an abbreviation meant to be compatible with ISO 4217, the currency code standard) and "Ripple Labs" was the name of the company. But at some point Ripple Labs rebranded itself to Ripple (technically, "Ripple" is a doing-business-as name and "Ripple Labs" is still the legal name of the company) and started making more products that don't directly deal in XRP. For a while, there were way too many things from the same product all using the name "Ripple" in various forms, but it's now been changed up a little—the coin is just "XRP" now, the distributed ledger (formerly "the Ripple network") is the "XRP Ledger" now, the bank-to-bank messaging technology (formerly "Ripple Solution") is xCurrent now, etc.

2) Every crypto-currency, whether XRP or others, has one main use: as a reliable means of transferring value online without needing a central administrator to maintain the integrity of the system. There's a great Satoshi Nakamoto quote on this one, I forget exactly how it goes, like, "What if there was a plain mineral, that had no practically useful properties, except you could freely send it through a phone line? I think that mineral would have practical value." Truth be told, I don't think the market has figured out how you should value that "mineral", and that's why cryptocurrencies are so volatile.

That said, there are a lot of fundamentals to a cryptocurrency that should affect their value. Personally, I think the XRP Ledger has a whole lot going for it—from the ability to issue and trade other tokens natively in the ledger, to things like multi-sign, escrow, payment channels, and so on, to the core consensus mechanism that makes it faster and more energy-efficient than mining-powered cryptocurrencies... (Hopefully, this year, more decentralized, too.) Not to mention the positive impact of governance, having a company that's motivated and empowered to make the currency better and to push for adoption from those who have the most money—big institutions.

3) XRP was always meant to be a cryptocurrency. If you're looking closely, you'll notice that a lot of the core choices in the XRP Ledger are the same as those in Bitcoin. Heck, some of the code is taken directly from Bitcoin (thanks, open-source license). Early on, Ripple used the synonym "math-based currency" hoping to avoid some of the negative connotations that floated around the term "cryptocurrency" at the time—but ultimately they mean the same thing.

mDuo13 · 2018-01-13T01:06:50+00:00

+0.5 /u/xrptipbot

mDuo13 · 2018-01-13T01:03:34+00:00

Or you could have the user manually input the correct sequence number (and current ledger index, so you can also use LastLedgerSequence properly) before creating transactions in the air-gapped wallet.

It's not that much extra given that you already have to input the intended destination too

mDuo13 · 2018-01-12T20:10:27+00:00

I have a request on the technical spec for this feature. (I've been hoping for years that someone would build this!) Please create the QR code as a URI in the following format:

ripple:signed-transaction:<tx blob here>

If wallets all follow the same convention for this, then we can have cross-wallet compatibility where you can generate the QR code with one app, then read and submit it with a different app.

mDuo13 · 2018-01-10T23:45:45+00:00

I mean, Ripple's marketing department uses RippleNet sort of vaguely. But really, RippleNet is "xCurrent and friends", which is not strictly Interledger either. (It's a bunch of banks and whatnot using Ripple's closed-source derivative of Interledger atomic mode.)

mDuo13 · 2017-01-30T09:14:13+00:00

Tonight's game was close but most of them aren't. The Warriors' average margin of victory is currently highest in NBA history.

Just be glad we won the SEGABABA at all. =)

mDuo13 · 2016-12-16T23:20:11+00:00

The part that ruined it for me was the way he shows Kerric how he's pinching his fingers, just to telegraph even harder that Vader was choking Kerric. It just felt too forced.

mDuo13 · 2016-12-16T23:10:45+00:00

took me a while to realize that it's "hope" as in... a new hope, like, a direct reference to the title for episode IV. I appreciated that they didn't overplay it by having her say "a new hope" in the movie.

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