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BeefySwain··on Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Developers will have to opt-in to allowing Wine/Proton users to play.

Pertinent info on this change is in the Unreal dev docs here: https://dev.epicgames.com/docs/services/en-US/GameServices/A...

BeefySwain··on Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
This appears to be correct.
BeefySwain··on Epic launches anti-cheat support for Linux, Mac, and Steam Deck
Some additional context here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/09/epic-games-announce-fu...
BeefySwain··on 2006: Dwarf Fortress
This is not in 5E, right?
BeefySwain··on Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
Yep!

You could take this a step further; once you have determined that a set of chunks have been modified significantly, you could apply that set of changes to the same coordinates of any map generated from that seed, meaning you can combine changes from multiple worlds into one (with the same seed).

BeefySwain··on Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
Sent!
BeefySwain··on Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
I'd love to discuss helping out with this project, but I don't see a way to contact you on your HN profile or on the site. Is that something you are open to?
BeefySwain··on Almost free serverless on-demand Minecraft server in AWS
This gives me an idea for recycling the powered down worlds into "new" worlds for new users. Being able to see and use the abandoned bases of past players would be quite fun.

You could take this a step further by "decaying" the bases in some way (remove torches, remove some large percent of the items in chests, add vines, weather rock, move blocks from the ceiling to the floor, etc)

BeefySwain··on Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares
> The morally correct thing is always the better thing for shareholders in the long-run

Are you asserting that this is the case in reality, or that we should strive for a society and economic system in which this would be true?

BeefySwain··on Software Development Waste
A good explanation of a couple of these terms were found here: http://sedano.org/software-development-wastes/mismanaging-th...

"This waste is also related a tension: intransigence versus capricious trashing. Responding to change quickly is a core tenet of agile development and often thought of as the opposite of refusing to change. However, responding to change is more like a middle ground between intransigence (unreasonably refusing to change) and thrashing (changing features too often, especially arbitrarily alternating between equally good alternatives)."

BeefySwain··on Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse
This only works until every "smart" device has a cellular modem built in.
BeefySwain··on Claimed AT&T hack of 70M customer records including SSN, name, address
> None of this was difficult nor illegal nor expensive.

Is giving a false name to the CC companies not illegal in some way? At the very least I'm certain it is a breach of contract.

BeefySwain··on First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
I was being facetious :)
BeefySwain··on Git password authentication is shutting down
Git merges by default when you pull, for one.

Another extremely common pain is trying to "delete" a local commit.

BeefySwain··on First batch of student’s washing machines shipped to Iraq
Perhaps they are asserting that America only has one health problem?
BeefySwain··on Git password authentication is shutting down
I also have found teaching someone how to be even marginally capable of contributing to a Github project from scratch to be a very time consuming and frustrating thing. Think, having your graphics designer able to make commits, or having someone who only wants to update docs.

The worst part is the "easier" solutions are actually just footguns in disguise, as soon as they accidentally click the wrong thing and end up with a detached HEAD, a few commits ahead and behind the REMOTE, and halfway through a botched merge, you have to figure out how to bail them out of that using a GUI you've never actually used. Knowing all this, you either teach them git (high short term pain, high chance of them just giving up immediately) or you tell them to download the first result for "windows foss git gui" and pray that history won't repeat itself.

BeefySwain··on Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs
I particularly love your followup: https://twitter.com/lorenc_dan/status/1209290259386769408
BeefySwain··on Firefox: Performance in Progress
What does this do?
BeefySwain··on Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs
> If there's more information that people want to know, create the expectation that they should just ask in the comments.

To expand on this, it may be the case that less is more here. Making the description be very short (a paragraph or so - no more than 200 words total) and being emphatic that the founders need to be available to respond to comments will result in greater engagement I'm sure.

If in the course of discussion, the same question keeps popping up, adding a FAQ or some addendum edits to the body should work to fix that.

BeefySwain··on What solitary confinement taught me about surviving isolation (2020)
How is 4 CONSECUTIVE years of solitary isolation not "cruel and unusual"? I'm not asking rhetorically, or to start some kind of debate or discussion about the state of incarceration in the US. I am literally asking on what legal basis those who have fought such things (I assume that they have) have lost those cases.
BeefySwain··on Backblaze submitting names and sizes of files in B2 buckets to Facebook
Can someone here translate the PR/marketing speak here for us mere mortals? How does having Facebook tracking on the web front-end of existing and paying users help with lead generation?
BeefySwain··on GitHub, fuck your name change
Massive corporate tax cuts? The end of Net Neutrality?
BeefySwain··on We Don’t Use Docker
> Deployments, N+1 redundancy, HA etc

None of those things are mutually exclusive with vertical scaling?

Having two identical servers for redundancy is doesn't mean you are scaling horizontally (assuming each can handle the load individually, nothing better than discovering that that assumption was incorrect in an outage).

BeefySwain··on The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired
The really telling part to me is that (seemingly) no one from any of the organizations involved (the hospital and the prosecutors office) will come forward and outright say that what was done was immoral. They are all hiding behind a veneer of "what he did broke the rules and my job is to enforce them", which is about the weakest argument one can make in defense this sort of thing.
BeefySwain··on Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out
Look again, that is per thousand captchas.

Still pretty expensive if you wanted to do every single Valid CC #, though.

BeefySwain··on Show HN: Polotno Studio – Canva-like design editor, without signups or ads
On https://polotno.dev/#price

> Fof non-commercial or development usage only

BeefySwain··on Horseshoe crab blood to remain big pharma's standard as group rejects substitute
Interesting. We tend to feel the same way about those who disagree with that premise.
BeefySwain··on Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_voting
BeefySwain··on DOJ – International Statement: End-to-End Encryption and Public Safety
By some definition of "elected"
BeefySwain··on DDR5 Is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix
My understanding is that Dwarf Fortress is memory LATENCY limited, not bandwidth. Definitely could be wrong though.
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