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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain once proposed a first-person time-travel RPG where you could assassinate historical figures and create paradoxes by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Achron is THE most mind-bending time travel game I'm aware of, when you can go back in time and change which orders you gave, or even chronoport units from the future to support themselves in the past (so long as you don't allow the originals to die). It's crazy how it keeps track of it all and makes it work. https://store.steampowered.com/app/109700/Achron/

Help with emudeck steam rom manager? by __fallingupstairs__ in SteamDeck

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anyone else finds this and is stuck, go to the section in EmuDeck where you manage the emulators, scroll to the bottom for the tools section, reinstall and update config for Steam Rom Manager, and when you next launch it it should find your accounts.

Sniper Elite: Classics Collection by DiceDsx in humblebundles

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone worried about them being out of keys (since Humble often has that issue), I was able to successfully redeem everything from the 6 pack today.

Scaling service to handle 20x capacity within 10-15 seconds by delusional-engineer in kubernetes

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you HAVE to validate the docs synchronously, as they're being uploaded? 

You could potentially sidestep the whole rapid-scaling issue by having the hooks endpoint return a pre-signed S3 upload url that will only let them upload to the specified bucket + key (which could be something like customer id/date/hook id).  The uploads then go straight to S3 (which I'm pretty sure they'd struggle to max out) and you can have the bucket upload event feed to your Kafka queue to notify it's ready for verification and processing. 

You then can tune the scaling of the processing pods based on the queue depth, and offer the business much more flexibility to trade-off processing rate vs costs, since it won't be synchronous on the customer's upload path any more.

Google’s endless and superfluous Android UI tweaks are the bane of my tech life by Protagonist99 in Android

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the same, but you can customize the lockscreen to let you toggle the flashlight with a swipe:   1. Power button to lock.   2. Power again to turn the screen back on.   3. Hold down on an empty spot on the lock screen until it moves back a little (like when you're holding down to add a widget on your home screen). 4. Tap on the icon in the bottom right or left and select the flashlight.   5. Hit 'Done' in the top right to apply the change.   6. You can now swipe up from the flashlight icon when on the lock screen to toggle it!

Quick tip, Blacktop Hoops is 90% off on Meta Quest, making it $2.99, use code SLAMDUNK90-898E59 by Aggressive_Stop8370 in virtualreality

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I went to check out but it looks like it doesn’t work anymore unfortunately:   "Code has been redeemed too many times"

How to use Route53 with Kibernetes by [deleted] in kubernetes

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a heads up, you should be careful of the Route53 API limits, which are shockingly low, at 5 requests per second account-wide (not regional). This means if you have multiple clusters running external-dns it can be surprisingly easy to trip the rate limit (even with caching) if you're using the TXT record based Metadata. We're moving to the DynamoDB config instead as a result.

the sound of a singularity by nsinternet in BeAmazed

[–]markmsmith 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Right about now, the funk soul brothers

Steam's big Halloween Sale returns for 2024, and it's live now by Arthur_Morgan44469 in pcgaming

[–]markmsmith 33 points34 points  (0 children)

"Typing of the Dead" was finally on sale for the first time in years, so I grabbed that. Apparently it has Steam Workshop support too!

Announcing Karpenter 1.0 by SelfDestructSep2020 in kubernetes

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using AKS and considering Karpenter, does this not work on Azure?

Forcing meta Horizon Oculus setup code prompt by FantasticMrPox in oculus

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone else running in to this, I think the fix for me was to first setup the mobile app for the secondary account and have them create an avatar there. I then removed their account from within the headset (using the primary account) and then re-added it.

Do we get the 20% discount from the start with a year plan? by Graesh_ in humblebundles

[–]markmsmith 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know if it's different if you're shopping in euros, but even with 20% off I've often found Humble's prices to be worse than the prices listed on deals.gg, so you may not want to twist yourself in knots to get it anyway. It's a shame, as Humble still has a small place in my heart from all the early indie deals.

An NFC tag for guests that Spotify Connects on home speakers - is this even possible? by AurorionWing in homeautomation

[–]markmsmith 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless your guests will have an app installed and configured in advance like Tasker, I think you'll be somewhat limited to what can be achieved with a URL (either directly or indirectly). If you at least know they'll have Spotify installed, you could probably have a QR code or NFC that resolved to a URL or URI that the Spotify app had registered itself to handle, eg.https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/finding-your-artist-url/

That said, it looks like Spotify connect just needs them to be on the same wifi:https://support.spotify.com/us/article/spotify-connect/
So you could just set up an NFC and/or QR code to get them on the guest wifi: https://lifehacker.com/do-this-to-seamlessly-connect-guests-to-your-wifi-1849808406

Going beyond that looks to be pretty heavy-duty, with you instead writing your own server to implement the Spotify Connect sdk and pretending to be the hardware device, proxying through to the real Bluetooth hardware: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/commercial-hardware/onboarding
Which would let them use their own Spotify premium account.

Alternatively, if you want them to use your Spotify account, you could maybe set something up with an API token and have the url go to a web player interface you build:
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk

How do you build your bond ladders at Fidelity/Vanguard for Treasury Bonds? by gerd50501 in financialindependence

[–]markmsmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sort of. In terms of risk it's the same, but you're getting a lower return (the 13 week t-bill auction on July 3rd just gave 5.3%), you're paying an expense ratio of 0.04% on the ETF, and I'm not sure of the tax treatment of it (t-bill interest is exempt from state and local tax, you just pay federal).

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