ultrahax

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by ultrahax 23d ago
P7 at Activision. Never had the problem of not enough problems to solve. I always have a priority queue of things to work on!
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by ultrahax 24d ago
I find most models generate what I would consider not ideal C++, especially in a vacuum. However, I’ve found recently it’s very good at porting existing code, as it’s largely just moving code around that I’d written previously. I had it tak
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by ultrahax 3mo ago
I keep a Starlink subscription as my WAN2, after someone started a fire in a nearby fiber cabinet and managed to knock out Frontier and Spectrum at once. It’s worth it to me as a bullet-proof WAN2, especially working from home.
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by ultrahax 3mo ago
Can confirm, we have a team dedicated to the care and feeding of p4.
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by ultrahax 4mo ago
Yamaha also made top-end archery gear for quite a while. Infamous for metric threads when nearly everything else used imperial.
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by ultrahax 5mo ago
Same; typing this on the same Drop CTRL keyboard I got when it launched.
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by ultrahax 6mo ago
My first job out of university was at IBM wrangling a prototype some research PHDs had written into a shipping product, and.. yeah, this tracks.
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by ultrahax 7mo ago
12 year old me watched this movie and immediately went out and bought colored floppy disks so I too could hack the planet. Simpler times.
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by ultrahax 8mo ago
Only time I have ever been shouted at by personnel in an airport was at JFK.
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by ultrahax 9mo ago
Us video game folks are big fans of LTO, PGO, FDO, etc.
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by ultrahax 10mo ago
Related, to this day my Frontier connection black holes all my traffic a couple of hops inside their network if I do sustained line-rate UDP (WireGuard, for example) for more then three or four minutes. After some LinkedIn sleuthing I got i
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by ultrahax 2y ago
As a games coder I was glad when the xbox 360 / ps3 era came to an end; getting big endian clients talking to little endian servers was an endless source of bugs.
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by ultrahax 2y ago
I had a watercooled 5950x up and die on me recently after 3 years. AMD RMA’d it without argument.
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by ultrahax 3y ago
Tangentially, I've faced some interesting challenges getting a multi-gigabit Wireguard VPN operating through my 2Gb Frontier connection. My UDM Pro seems to top out around ~800mbit per UDP stream - pegged at 100% CPU on a single core.
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by ultrahax 3y ago
Citibank did this to me. Venmo'd my architect for some work he was going on my house, kablammo, account closed, no notice. Was just lucky it was an account set up specifically for work on that house and not my that's-where-my-payc
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by ultrahax 3y ago
Hi Rob! Miss the DW days. Hope you’re well.
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by ultrahax 3y ago
I've had many an adventure with secure gateways on varied xenon Call of Duty games. Nice to meet the person behind them!
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by ultrahax 3y ago
“The Farthest” by PBS has interviews with the people who built the probes, it’s a pretty great watch https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/
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by ultrahax 3y ago
“Physics package” is usually a phrase meaning the explodey bits of a nuclear weapon, so that lines up.
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by ultrahax 3y ago
I have to be careful what I say here, given I work for ATVI, I'm former Demonware myself. I do feel safe in saying though that the login queues are _definitely_ not hype. They're designed to constrain a quite-complex distributed s
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by ultrahax 3y ago
They handle online services for pretty much any Activision-published game, with carve-outs for Blizzard and King - they still do most of their own backend stuff themselves, with some collaborations.
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by ultrahax 3y ago
I’m not sure your information wrt Call Of Duty is correct. To my knowledge, the client timestamps their inputs and sends them to the server; the server will then rewind the state of the world to the time of the input before applying it. RT
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by ultrahax 4y ago
When I worked at IBM circa ~2006 you'd get a written warning called a clean desk violation if you left your workstation unlocked. I wrote a little daemon that'd l2ping my Nokia brick phone; if it didn't get a response for 30
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by ultrahax 4y ago
Tesla owner here ( 2019 Model 3P, including paying for the "full self driving" ). I wish Tesla hadn't gone whole-hog after full self driving, and had just concentrated on making a Better Car.
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by ultrahax 4y ago
I've seen this first hand, across datacenter providers. The most common one is some sort of power supply failure that causes the CPUs to under-volt and throttle; the machine won't go down entirely, the clock will just go through t
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by ultrahax 4y ago
Been at current company for 15 years, from software engineer through to principal engineer. I don't see myself leaving. The work is for the most part interesting, the money is pretty decent, and the people I work with are broadly align
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by ultrahax 4y ago
Yeah, any time I'm engaged in deep thought, including coding, I just... look angry. I've had to explain to people at work that that's just how my face is when I'm working.
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by ultrahax 4y ago
Not as much as I once did. Occasional flashes of the old magic; frequent enough to keep me doing it, and the money isn't bad.
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by ultrahax 4y ago
End of page allocation has been a real life-saver. I have it rigged up to the core allocators of the game engine I work with, so you can switch it with a cmdline switch; if you suspect an overwrite, you switch on the EOP allocator ( using m
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by ultrahax 4y ago
Most engines I've seen will delta all the entity states against the client's last acknowledged state. Costs some memory and computation on both sides to keep the deltas valid, but keeps the state update to under an MTU, generally

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