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by ecdavis 2y ago
NakedMUD (and probably SocketMUD) uses a temporary file during copyover. https://github.com/avidal/nakedmud/blob/fcab059439515be9ad93...
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by ecdavis 2y ago
> blocking handsets because they can't access 000 anymore As the article explains, many handsets which can access 000 are being blocked. My iPhone XR can't make calls anymore, for example.
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by ecdavis 3y ago
I think this comment oversimplifies gambling addiction. Yes, chasing losses is a behaviour common to many gamblers, and yes, winning money provides an incentive to gamble in the first place, but many (most?) gambling addicts have different
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by ecdavis 3y ago
> So, if the plaintiff can prove the content was pirated, then the use of that content downstream is tainted. Has that been tested in court? This is quite an interesting case. Obtaining the book in the first place[0] appears to be quite
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by ecdavis 3y ago
Cool talk to watch: Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
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by ecdavis 3y ago
This page is informative: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/notifiable-data-breaches/not... > Just over half (54%) of cyber incidents involved malicious actors gaining access to accounts using compromised or stol
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by ecdavis 3y ago
What you're arguing for are more accessible immigrant visas ("green cards"). AFAIK there is nothing currently stopping a US company from hiring a person, sponsoring them for an immigrant visa, and then waiting for that immigr
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by ecdavis 4y ago
I've used this for many real applications that I would characterise as small (biggest being ~10KLOC excluding tests, types, etc.). I've applied the pattern across entire codebases and to specific components within much larger code
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by ecdavis 4y ago
I agree with the parent and grandparent comments. That said, when I was sponsored for an E-3 visa by a US company the recruiters made it clear that my position was permanent (subject to performance) and that the company would sponsor me for
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by ecdavis 4y ago
The one doesn't excuse the other; if you're required to keep this data you should be treating it with the respect it deserves. That said, yes: government legislators and regulators have been zealously telling private companies to
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by ecdavis 4y ago
You can see Optus' ID requirements here: https://www.optus.com.au/for-you/support/answer?id=9438 Here are the ID requirements for their major competitor, Telstra: https://www.telstra.com.au/su
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by ecdavis 4y ago
> Companies should only collect data that they really need. Collecting and keeping this data is a regulatory requirement for Optus. The problems with this breach have their roots in how identity is proven and verified in Australia. Far t
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by ecdavis 4y ago
> Whidbey Island Great ice cream there.
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by ecdavis 4y ago
> So far this has led to $8.9m in service costs saved by the South Australian Government. > The Aspire SIB is a $9 million bond which has a life of 7 years. Extraordinary that in addition to the social impact, this program appears to
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by ecdavis 4y ago
Ah, yeah, "restart the process" was not the right description of what was happening in the cases I was thinking of - they'd exec themselves to hot reload code which I see is the first suggestion on the SA answer you linked.
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by ecdavis 4y ago
Depends what you mean by server. Some old game server processes would support a "copyover" function. They would write the file descriptors of connected sockets to a file, restart the process, then read the list of file descriptors
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by ecdavis 4y ago
Not just strongly influenced. Those early MMOs were often called "graphical MUDs". Indeed, Dark Age of Camelot was a direct successor to the Darkness Falls MUDs. Its gameplay was essentially the same, it just rendered the worl
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by ecdavis 4y ago
It's very accessible. If you can grok the first 30 minutes of this talk you can grok the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdqhHKjepiE Strong recommend, if only to understand how RimWorld was designed and built.
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by ecdavis 4y ago
Highly complex, in-depth, system simulation is like a siren song for game developers and players alike. There's this perception that an amazing simulation will be the basis for an amazing game. In practice, high-quality simulations see
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by ecdavis 4y ago
I don't watch baseball, but I always assumed MLB.tv and NHL.tv used the same technology. The way NHL.tv used to work, the blackout check would be done when you opened the stream. So you could connect to a VPN in, say, Germany, start th
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by ecdavis 4y ago
I worked for the APS as a very junior programmer 10 years ago. To interact with our database we had a custom JDBC driver which used a VT100 terminal emulator to connect to what had at one point been a user-facing mainframe application. When
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by ecdavis 4y ago
> Why do you think this is? Successive Australian governments since the early 90s have expanded public service outsourcing dramatically. Here's a comprehensive discussion from the early 00s: https://www.aph.gov.au/Ab
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by ecdavis 4y ago
We had magpies living in a large tree in our front yard. Never bothered us, but we did see them swooping the occasional passer-by. One time we saw them breaking small twigs off the tree and dropping them on our cat, who was sitting on our f
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by ecdavis 5y ago
> Why Tony Blair is singled out, for something in hindsight, and the other 411 people are given a pass? Your point that the legislature voted on the invasion is a reasonable one, but Blair's government gave them incorrect informatio
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by ecdavis 5y ago
Foxes were introduced to Australia for sport hunting, not to control the rabbit population. The presence of rabbits likely helped foxes spread across Australia. I agree with your point, though.
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by ecdavis 5y ago
> As you learn the measure, increase speed, but only so much that you can still play expressively. This summary omits one of the major themes of the book. Granted, the discussion of speed is quite nuanced. See 1.II.13: https:/&#x2F
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by ecdavis 5y ago
Late last year here in Australia, I remember ACT Health announced a major change to the territory's COVID restrictions exclusively on Facebook Live one afternoon and didn't update their website until the following morning. Highly
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Generation of Mythic Biographies in Caves of Qud (2017) [pdf](freeholdgames.com)
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by ecdavis 5y ago
ATAGI is an independent government body and they're pretty clear in their advice that the benefits of AZ only outweigh the risks for people over 60. Morrison has been literally pleading with them to change their advice but so far they&
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by ecdavis 5y ago
Glad to see this. There's been very little enforcement since the pandemic began. We need it now.

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