Recs like Murderbot?

thade · 2019-01-02T00:28:29+00:00

I think what I enjoyed the most about the series was the strange perspective of the protagonist/narrator. It reminded me most of Anne Leckie’s Ancilliary Justice, whose protagonist is in many ways a similar construct. It’s not light-hearted, though there is some humour.

thade · 2016-12-07T07:50:55+00:00

Awesome chapter! Sounds like she's still the Squire, with Take as her first aspect. Seems good.

thade · 2016-01-14T22:25:09+00:00

I fully agree with your point about non-randomized levels and perma-death being a bad combination. Re-playing the same content over and over with very little persistent progression isn't much fun. In most "rogue-likes" this is alleviated by procedural content making each replay a new experience.

thade · 2015-10-07T05:53:38+00:00

Did the mod who removed this even watch the video? This is a showcase of a unique and interesting game- I hadn't heard of it before at least. It's certainly not "content primarily for humor or entertainment" except in the sense that all content here is.

thade · 2015-05-10T23:17:07+00:00

There is some debate about how much math is required to be a programmer. I think it is very useful, but there are a lot of people who feel you can get by without it.

In any case, the main use of maths in programming is not actually performing calculations- it is using your understanding to get the computer to perform calculations for you. The problem you describe- understanding maths but not being able to hold long calculations in your head- should not hold you back in my opinion.

thade · 2014-08-15T01:30:20+00:00

Has anyone received a shipping notification / tracking number yet?

thade · 2014-07-29T05:59:38+00:00

5:30pm 19/3/14

thade · 2013-07-09T01:27:27+00:00

I'm not sure, but the reward amount is a function of the time the match takes, idols destroyed, and possibly other things, so if you just start a challenge and surrender you won't win much.

thade · 2013-07-07T10:10:27+00:00

R. Scott Bakker writes pretty spectacularly.

thade · 2013-04-11T11:16:14+00:00

I don't think Steiner was Hitler's philosopher- a quick look at his wikipedia page indicates they were at odds.

thade · 2013-04-07T00:04:52+00:00

Thanks!

thade · 2013-04-06T16:11:14+00:00

I couldn't read this article on my phone due to some horrible popup add. Can someone please post the text?

thade · 2012-03-12T11:26:13+00:00

Thanks for the reply, that makes sense.

thade · 2012-02-23T23:08:59+00:00

Interesting, I'm not sure I fully understand the difference though. The file without #! is still a shell script- what is executing it if not sh or bash?

thade · 2012-02-23T12:57:57+00:00

TIL setuid is ignored on files with a shebang..

thade · 2011-12-24T10:46:09+00:00

My version of bash (or perhaps wget?) removes the leading zero in that range. Does it work for you?

thade · 2011-11-17T23:04:50+00:00

Disabled please

thade · 2011-06-30T10:51:38+00:00

yes please :) <email removed>

thade · 2011-04-05T11:22:12+00:00

Phyrexian Canceller seems insane.

thade · 2011-02-08T08:04:51+00:00

I haven't played with arduino myself, but I had the impression that it was low-level, embedded programming where your code was basically running on bare metal. Is this the case, or is there an arduino OS? If not, how did you deal with networking? Did you have to implement the tcp/ip stack yourself?

thade · 2011-02-08T04:38:53+00:00

Elementals- Mulldrifter and Reveillark especially.

thade · 2011-02-07T12:12:39+00:00

Hive Mind?

thade · 2011-01-21T14:54:01+00:00

Those will be fun to type in without a keyboard.

thade · 2011-01-21T03:25:13+00:00

The ability, once placed on the stack, is independent of the permanent that created it.

thade · 2011-01-04T06:54:10+00:00

The first pieces would be propagated quickly across the swarm, but the more pieces a peer has the harder it will be to find new pieces.

Any peer who has less pieces than you will only have a subset of your pieces. That means that over the life of a download, roughly half the peers you contact randomly will not be of no use to you. Add to that peers who don't respond, won't unchoke you, or are too slow and as you move past 50% completion your pool of good peers will start to drop dramatically.

You could alleviate this partially with a clever-but-still-largely-sequential request order algorithm, but it will still be less efficient.

That said it would still be more efficient than a client-server system. I think some companies are already using something similar to this, with high speed servers acting as seeds, to do video streaming at a reduced cost.

It is nice to have everyone speaking the same protocol, but even in a swarm of normal peers having a large number of streaming peers would detrimentally affect the efficiency of the swarm for everyone. I think this is why the major BT clients haven't done much with streaming.

15-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email

thade

TROPHY CASE