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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @09:53AM (#44097435)
Oh you know, just the most advanced mmometarpg in history.
Re:You're a little company, now act like one on Sunday May 25, 2025 @01:17PM (#44089228)
When you've been saving the entire company on the reg and get a 1k Christmas bonus and the sales guy gets your entire salary as a bonus, yeah, it causes some fucking resentment!
Re:How to Make a Longbow on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:31AM (#43654996)
In my family boys are taught this at about 8. This makes me want to do it again. I had my grandfathers bow stolen out of the trunk of my car and haven’t nooked an arrow in a long time.
Re:Strengths Are Your Weaknesses on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:18AM (#43654815)
Wow, I hadn’t thought of it like that before. I’ve recently been finding real insights in such reframing.
Re:Man pages are great, man readers are the problem on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:45AM (#43632729)
Gnu info for anything gnu, then man pages, then tools like tldr
Pids and cgroups all the way down (also why the wise greybeards rejected docker)
Re:What to Do on Saturday March 29, 2025 @09:05AM (#43515214)
Working on it. :)

Looking forward to showing HN one day.

Re:Google to buy Wiz for $32B on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @12:36PM (#43401423)
its like every problem slice Ive been solving over the decades as a sysadmin is a huge market opportunity
Re:The A.I. Monarchy on Sunday March 02, 2025 @12:22PM (#43232686)
I’m taking it meta. Not only am I properly embracing high-tech, low-life in game world, my design is of a metaverse preemptively designed to learn the lessons to avoid a corporate dominated abusive version.
Re:If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @08:46AM (#43183564)
I suggest emacs org mode or asciidoc
Re:Recurring checklists using Org Mode in Emacs on Saturday February 15, 2025 @02:30PM (#43061466)
use some of the gscript and api code
In reality, the market will do it for them as the datacenter and energy boom requires more energy than green can provide and the money will flow anew to nuclear and fission.
Im at the stage where Im having dreams regularly about mmo architecture design and this is a good intro article to the topic. My big challenge is in the data size and speeds required for such a high tick rate with physics objects instead of just binary presses such as in most mmos. (in godot 4.4)

/goes back to thinking about the fastest in-mem DBs and how they might work in such a stack

Im annoyed at all the servile responses in defense of these bad companies.

Wanna hear my conspiracy theory?

Three letter agencies are using games as an intel gathering tool, and KLA is part of that. What if the CEOs are getting NSLs, etc?

Re:SELinux Bypasses on Friday October 25, 2024 @05:41PM (#41950084)
GRSec is better imho but I’ve never convinced anybody to put it in prod so meh
I worked in 18 a wheeler automation unicorn.

Never rode in one once for a reason.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Sunday September 29, 2024 @04:55PM (#41690431)
Taking my metaverse/game to alpha and crowdfunding.
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:00AM (#41003822)
dumb techbro c-suites: what, why would you have an issue with a proprietary closed source app that frequently self updates and sends tons of data to a third party while essentially being a backdoor? We said we wanted security and this has Security(tm) all over the literature! Look we even have dashboards for the gui-ninjas like the security team!
Re:SSH as a Sudo Replacement on Saturday June 22, 2024 @11:30PM (#40764548)
Good stuff. Imagine this though: ssh as user access control using a multiuser system such as gnu/linux

byw everyone should be using ed25519 or at least 2048+

When you think about it, farming is the perfect physical application of scaling.
Add it port knocking and this is how I do it. nftables ftw
All the replies ignoring the elephant in the room: three letter pressure. To me such large moves could indicate an event is in the near/medium future.
Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:31PM (#40570122)
Which is why my foss metaverse is gonna rock!!
Re:Simplicity – Google SRE Handbook on Sunday May 26, 2024 @01:30PM (#40483872)
At the last “real” job I tried to help implement this as part of and later the manager of the ops team. It’s a great start, but in that case management wanted the idea of devops/sre but didn’t actually support it, and it really was a shit show. If you have a bad CTO and leadership on the board level, no amount of re-tooling will paper over their lack of support for the real principles.
In godot (compile main daily) I am running 120 tick rate but have found some interesting optimizations happen there and above (240) and am seriously temped to just make 240 my default (but I need to do more server load tests as I’m planning to scale)
Re:Hymn for Walpurgisnacht on Thursday May 09, 2024 @07:27PM (#40313961)
The plebs have no idea how bloody a day it is.
Re:Cult of the Dead Cow – Veilid on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:22PM (#40175417)
love cDc but they drop more projects than google - people just remember the ones that stick/stuck
“Ceremonial” etc:

Behind Closed Doors: Oaths to the Monarch (who, by the way, was besties with necro-pedo-murderer Jimmy Saville)

Gtfo of here brits - the Irish were on the right side of history and it’s high time for a revolution and you know it’s true!

Re:A BSD person tries Alpine Linux on Friday April 26, 2024 @09:40AM (#40169257)
As a greybeard GNUlinux sysadmin: nftables raw ripping out iptables (newer gui/tui firewall interfaces support nftables) rip out NetworkManager, and use systemd-resolved to manage DNS. (On non-systemd systems like Devuan then this changes.) Use systemd units for powerful program and service control, including systemd-nspawn for containerization.
goods ops teams always have a real(time) one somewhere though

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