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by dbrueck 2y ago
Not when talking about geometry - the idea is a 4th spatial dimension.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
> I don't know why this isn't part of HTTP already It could probably be improved, but HTTP does support this already: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616#section-14.15
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Interesting! It's worth noting though that HTTP actually works very well for reliably downloading large immutable files. And since this proposed protocol operates over TCP, there's relatively little that can be done to achieve the
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Sorry for not being more clear, I was referring to the advertising or promotion that comes via the elite players. Take Valorant, for example. Riot Games leveraged their League of Legends user base and gave early access to high-end players
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Relevancy filtering is more for network traffic optimization, it doesn't really help with cheating in most cases. In a FPS, for example, the actors the cheater most wants to know about are almost always also network relevant. But takin
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Hmm... isn't Blizzard's main FPS title Overwatch though? Cheating seems pretty common in that game (and there are tons of forum threads where people are complaining about it).
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by dbrueck 2y ago
I appreciate the feedback - I've edited the comment to hopefully do better. Thank you for taking the time!
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by dbrueck 2y ago
The anti-cheat problem is long-running and complicated. If you choose not to run anti-cheat because you understand that these are opaque rootkits, good for you! That's a totally, 100% valid choice. But please keep in mind: - you ar
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by dbrueck 2y ago
It's fun to experiment and try out ideas - kudos to the author for doing this and sharing the results with the community, I love that. As far as the results go, though, I don't see any realistic scenario where this is a net win vs
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Amit Patel has been my hero since Solar Realms Elite.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Not the OP, but the appeal of languages like JS has a lot to do with developer productivity. I write gobs of JS and Python code and the finished programs and libraries can be strongly and statically typed end-to-end. I just don't wan
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by dbrueck 2y ago
We don't run node servers.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
I agree with this recommendation - they work great with Wireguard. And if you're travelling, some of the features like handling captive portals are handy.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
> Honestly this feels like an indictment of privatizing space travel NASA has involved the private sector for over half a century. Taking that out of the equation leaves you with SpaceX absolutely killing it and Boeing bumbling along des
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by dbrueck 2y ago
I enjoyed the Pitch Meeting summary at least: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPL7OZF1iI4
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by dbrueck 2y ago
> The interconnection of “the divine” and science was central to the scientific revolution Agreed. Even today, for many people there is no fatal tension between science and religion (often in large part because they serve to answer diffe
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by dbrueck 2y ago
> ELI5: Why do people love Python so much? Developer productivity. > Maintainers seem happy to introduce breaking changes without major version bumps Nah. Keep in mind that this is a PEP, not an announcement of what is going to happen
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Mal: "We got work to do, dong ma?"
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Chunked transfer encoding can be a pain, but it's a reasonable solution to several problems: when the response is too big to fit into memory, when the response size is unknown by the HTTP library, when the response size is unknown by t
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by dbrueck 2y ago
The HTTP 1.1 spec isn't 175 pages long just for the fun of it. :)
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Agreed, and so far the replies to your question are (for me at least) deeply unsatisfying. We already had SSR back in the CGI days, and it was awesome when we moved a lot of that stuff to the client. I know this is all a giant Wheel of Time
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Nim uses it too. IIRC, Python's predecessor (ABC) didn't have the trailing colon but they did some experiments and found it increased readability.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
...yes? Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. :) (funny enough, that particular scenario is actually harder to miss in Python since it often produces an error that prevents the program from running at all)
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Oh, I thoroughly understand the parent's point, I'm just disagreeing that it is a problem that needs to be "addressed". Most language design decisions involve tradeoffs, and for me this one has been a big positive, and t
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Whitespace is semantically significant in nearly all modern programming languages, the difference is that with Python it is completely significant for both the humans and the tools - it is syntactically significant. I've actively use
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by dbrueck 2y ago
This is so cool! From one random internet person to another: you can do it!
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by dbrueck 2y ago
A lot of happy memories playing this game on a knockoff Apple II+. To this day it's still impressive to me that they got 3D wireframe rendering (with hidden line removal!!) working on a 1 Mhz 6502 chip - that thing doesn't even ha
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Yes, we did this at a few places and it's boring and low tech and... works extremely well. Loose coupling, very small interface, and bad behavior on either side doesn't impact the performance of the actual DB, etc.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
The sense of nostalgia this evokes is so strong, thank you for sharing this!
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by dbrueck 2y ago
I'd be willing to bet that a lot of it is influenced by context and expectations. Take one of those images, put it in a nice frame, hang it in a quiet art museum, stick a little placard on the wall next to it with a made up backstory,

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