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xani_··on Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?
Okay but that's like 1% of programming
xani_··on Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at?
Uh, no. Find what things you like, then find which ones make money then look at one you're good at.

I like music. Music makes bad money. I'm not good at music. I don't look for music jobs.

I like tech stuff. Ops stuff makes decent money. I'm good at ops stuff. I do ops stuff.

I like tinkering with hardware. It can make decent money but hard to find a job in. I do it as hobby

xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
> And the reason there's so many successful plugins for minecraft is _because_ it's in an "easy" language like java.

Minecraft got mod support way after there was already a ton of mods for it. The way it got initially was basically hacking into game jars, not because it was supported in any way, it only got support later.

Granted, Java JVM did made that easier, but still the reason it got so much stuff is because it was so fucking popular first. All of the modding tools were pretty much made by community from scratch, way before Mojang moved their ass.

xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
Okay? What makes you think this would stop them from just running some GPU in the corner and generating a bunch of expensive items to peddle ? They'd have all the access to make it look legit ?
xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
>The article strictly points out the need for a shared concurrency models required in the functioning of a online game thats massively parrelled across both clients and various individual 'servers'.

Uh, no. The servers are essentially independent. Each server have maybe few thousand clients at once.

The data most clients change is independent of eachother. Hell *you don't need to store most of them*.

All you need to store is basically some world state data (nobody GAF that non-boss monster just respawns after server restart ,no need to store that data in the database) and player possesion

>Unique, hash based, 'stacked' items that are non-fungible with a decentralized shared state across clients.... yes, technically that's 'Just a database' but a highly complex one.

Uh, no.

<server-id>:<item-id>:<account-id> + a server signature to signify it was actually generated by that server.

Any change of ownership within a server is server changing account ID item belongs to + signing the transaction and resulting record. Alert on fraud if someone has same <server-id>:<item-id> pair.

You reduce the problem space to "do I trust the other server" which is much easier to solve. And even if you say allow malicious server with tons of accounts having cheated in items transfer to yours.... each item has that server's ID so you can trivially fix it by removing them from yours.

All that would need to be tracked above that are account transfers.

xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
a minecraft server yes, but this is forcing same set of rules to every server
xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
And how the fuck would blockchain help here ?
xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
So spend man-hours on developing a feature for one player in the game.

or just tell them to type that command once in 2 weeks when he logs on

Yeah good fucking idea, let's waste dev time on that!

xani_··on We Burned Down Players’ Houses in Ultima Online
Don't think it's related in any way to wow thing aside from a fact you can stand in fire in both games...

But I remember telling our DPS "THE GREEN FIRE DOES NOT HEAL YOU" in some boss fight...

xani_··on Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay
Their servers still get your IP tho and by default nothing in USA is GDPR compatible because US government can enforce leaking any info they want from company
xani_··on Think apartment-hunting is frustrating? Try doing it with an electric car
...so ?

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-wall-connector...

xani_··on You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now
Here are two

https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/wavestate/

https://www.korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/opsix/

Although that's with the CM3

xani_··on Postgres WASM
Huh, thought for a second that was a WASM support for stored procedures or something and was excited for a second
xani_··on Researchers develop new rocket-propulsion system (2020)
Having working engine launched would be "revolutionary", but prototype of something that was already prototyped aint that.

But JAXA got one launched in 2021...

xani_··on Think apartment-hunting is frustrating? Try doing it with an electric car
One way would be having charger have an app and charger itself be managed by utility company, then just add the charging costs to the electric bill
xani_··on Think apartment-hunting is frustrating? Try doing it with an electric car
> 3) Their breaker apparently can't support 2 Teslas charging at once. This doesn't seem to be a problem with two non-Telsa EVs, or one Tesla and one non-Tesla, but if two Teslas plug in at the same time the breaker blows and both chargers are out of commission for 24-72 hours until maintenance gets around to fixing it.

https://www.tesla.com/support/gen-3-wall-connector-power-sha... ?

Or chargers are non-tesla ?

xani_··on Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity
Well, the new change in ethereum fixed that "problem"
xani_··on Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay
> If my tools are gathering data behind my back and not telling me, that is troubling. I should not be liable for this, as it is an abuse of trust that would result in me no longer using the tool had I known prior.

Well, you can sue tool makers if they lied to you.

But ability to just say "but I didn't know" would be catastrophic to any accountability, as nobody would even read a manual to be able to plausibly claim that they didn't knew.

In similar way you can't go shoplifting then claim you didn't know that was a crime.

xani_··on Google Analytics is injected with Stripe.js when enabling Google Pay
IP is considered PII in certain circumstances.
xani_··on Cloning a Rare ISA Card to Use a Rare CD Drive [video]
ISA bus is basically just quasi-memory bus with some extras. You get address, you either get data or send data, done.

You just set an address and write/read data to it.

All you need to do simple input/output on it is to

* wait for "right" address on bus and "right" pins to light up * either latch the data, or output the data * bang the right control bit.

It is entirely doable using basic logic chips, because back then any kind of programmable logic was super expensive.

Compare it to usb-c where you need tens of thousands of lines of code to even negotiate some power stuff (or use specialized chips... that have those tens of thousands of lines of code baked in).

xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-fi...
xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
FF is doing same thing with VPN lmao
xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
I'd bet FAR more people got infected by malicious ads than "some site cajoled them into running an extension"

> but I'd never want my screen casting extension to be mining bitcoin on the background

You'd "just" get ads or sites doing it

xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
Chrome is good enough that tech-illiterates won't see the benefit.

The only reason mozilla switch "worked" is that at the time it was a significantly better browser

xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
They want to have puppet that makes it look like they're not a monopoly on the market. That doesn't really work if the puppet is so niche companies stop even supporting it
xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
> If ad blocking really became a significant problem, the next big change I suspect is server-side ad network integration for ad serving.

I'm surprised that's not already the case. Well, not that surprised, it's a business where at least one of sides is scum and server-side makes it a hell lot easier to cheat

xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
Firefox is pushing with V3 too. They are keeping ad stuff but rest of the disadvantages will be there
xani_··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
Why is FF going with it ?
xani_··on Baker's Math (2009)
> That method is industry standard, we try to teach it to a journeymans. If only they didn't have problems with basic %'s... H_2O ? What's that ? NaCl ? Forget it. Seriously, what teachers in basic schools are doing ??

Teaching it in such uninteresting ways kids don't remember it. And I'm not surprised based on funding and wages...

xani_··on Stadia Is a Major Driver of Vulkan Adoption
Distinction without difference.

People buy it to use like console

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