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Evansbee

203 karma · joined April 24, 2010

Electrical and Computer Engineer.
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Evansbee··on A beginner’s guide to game hacking techniques [pdf]
Is there some way to do this work of memory hacking from OUTSIDE the VM? I've always thought that it would be "safer" to do the work by just being able to scrub the hosts side of VirtualBox, then stuff events back in through the keyboard and mouse rather than getting on the inside of the VM and hooking/injecting inside the target executable.
Evansbee··on Factorio's Belt Bug
I bet you just nerd-sniped them into their next FFF post.

This is almost certainly a side effect from their belt optimization from years (?) ago? Strangely I do sushi belt science sometimes and I’ve never noticed this bug, I’d wager the splitters and circuit network stuff changes the behavior enough to avoid the problem.

Evansbee··on [dead]
Do these numbers actually make any sense? I feel like I'm missing something here, 800k of 1.4m refuse the vaccine, but 68% of the 1.4 are already fully vaccinated? Is there a primary source out there for this?
Evansbee··on 3dfx Voodoo – Retro Gaming PC Build
I would do this just to play starsiege: tribes.
Evansbee··on Kid Pix as a JavaScript App
Trying to figure out why the hn post screen didn’t flag this for me, I’m usually pretty religious about amplifying existing posts and not reposting.
Evansbee··on Why is CSS the way it is?
Disagree. This is utility classing and you can target pseudo elements and deal with responsiveness. Tailwind is pretty popular and uses this methodology.
Evansbee··on Make your 404s into 302s
Don’t 404 links on your new site, 302 redirect to previous versions on different hosts until you run out, then 404.
Evansbee··on Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
But perhaps an ai could be trained by it.
Evansbee··on The Psychology of Japanese Train Stations
That's in a separate section of the article. "Point and Call" isn't nudge theory either.
Evansbee··on Guild Wars 2 distributed spyware in order to detect cheaters
> would it even work on an MMO?

CheatEngine is a great first step in developing any bot, for any game.

GW2 doesn't have to trust the client for CE to be useful, it's just that the usefulness is different than what you're using it for currently. The goal of CE in developing an MMO bot is to figure out where in memory things like player location, party members, linked list of all nearby objects, etc, are. This allows the user to write the bot in a way that's pulling information directly from memory. CE is a great way to back into this data (coupled with a debugger/disassemble, of course).

Evansbee··on An employer asked me to do a HackerRank test. Here's my alternative proposal.
But hiring and the work force AREN'T fair. My performance review, salary increases, and bonus aren't based on some normalized criteria, we're rewarded for going above and beyond.

Even on the surface "fairness" isn't really the objective, because there are going to be different hiring managers and interviewers throughout the whole process. The salary negotiation isn't going to be "fair" in this way.

I'd rather have someone who had a rich github history and a record of real accomplishment than someone who had none but could produce a good hacker rank score. Hiring is the most important thing that we do as managers, I'd be selling myself short if I didn't take it all into consideration.

Evansbee··on Broadcom Offers $105B for Qualcomm in Landmark Deal
Is it strange that Broadcom cut a deal to move HQ back the US at the same time it's buying a US-based company that would give it a near monopoly in the industry?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/92617682311707443...

Evansbee··on “Technical difficulties” plague Arizona lottery; same winning numbers drawn
This would seem to indicate that the best strategy for playing the lottery was to pick the numbers that came up last time. If it's truly random, they're equally likely to win again and if the random number generator is broken, they're more likely to show up again.
Evansbee··on Millennials are killing chains like Buffalo Wild Wings and Applebee's
Most likely it will be millennial focused.
Evansbee··on Why Japan’s Rail Workers Point at Things
It feels like our equivalent would be Rubber Duck Debugging.
Evansbee··on New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
inoreamp jj <ESC>

This has made my life so much better.

Evansbee··on Today's Coding Interview Game
I believe that /this/ is short sighted.

I do interviews, I care less about the right answer than I do about the problem solving approach. I interview electrical engineers and I make them do simple transistor problems. If someone gave up and said that they couldn't do it without some sort of SPICE program, I'd cut the interview pretty short. But if the fundamentals are there, even if they don't remember something stupid, knowing how they approach a problem and if they know how to ask for help is more important.

Every time someone says "I didn't get the job b/c I couldn't do a linked list on the whiteboard." I'm fairly certain it was more than that.

Evansbee··on Today's Coding Interview Game
I feel bad for this lady, but there's a flaw in this logic (and with the logic of many commenters here).

Everyone assumes that the battle is between...

Person 1: -Great resume -Relevant work history -Strong sense of corporate citizenship -Can't code on white board

and Person 2: -Can code on whiteboard -Smokes crack in the bathroom

But the reality is, you're all interviewing for the same job! You're not getting the job, not because you can't whiteboard code, but because someone else has the same qualifications AND CAN whiteboard code.

Which would you choose?

Evansbee··on Why we moved to Linode
My zip codes don't work in your app, but I really like the idea.

07030 - Hoboken, NJ 07647 - Rockleigh, NJ