Benjamin_Dobell

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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
Bizarre Insights: - performed population-wide meta analysis: https://bizarre.gg/meta - and let you analyse your own games in great detail: https://bizarre.gg/runs/00493ccf-5b96-523c-beb4-06e8154cc158
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
I just shut down a companion app for a game I'd reverse engineered — developed over the last 2-3 months. The companion app, among other things: - Generated insights — https://bizarre.gg/meta - Show detailed interactive
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Tech overview of my reverse engineered game companion app (now shutdown) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago|1 comments
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
It's common for founders who have exited to become angel investors. Donating to a startup probably doesn't make a heap of sense though.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
> Just like children of smokers know their smoking parents telling them not to smoke are full of shit. Wait. Surely these aren't the same. My dad smoked and always told us he'd kick our ass if we started smoking. From as youn
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
I see you've repeated this in a few comments. Do you have a link? By the way, I'm not disagreeing. I'm Australian and curious about the US situation. My understanding was that whilst you can't assign copyright — insofar
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
If it is dynamic one of the loops will also suffer from an off-by-one issue. You can't add 1-based indices together like you can zero-based indices. It's also worth noting your solution exhibits similar off-by-one behaviour. The l
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
Because it's a simplified example to demonstrate the problem. If you do as you've described you need three separate assignments. What happens when the number of groups is dynamic? Nested loop? This is suddenly getting a lot more c
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
Hang on. Off by one issues are the argument frequently given in favour of zero-based indices, not the other way around. For example, let's iterate through items placing them in 3 different groups; JS: for (let i = 0; i < items
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
It's worth noting I'm completely locked out now. Any verification attempts I open are now being closed without me even reaching the point where I'm able to upload documentation.
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Ask HN: Can someone at Microsoft help with identity verification?
8 points by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago|1 comments
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
I'm not sure precisely how this legislation is to be phrased, however I assume all the use cases you presented from the 90s are still permitted. Social media is a very different beast than closed communities / interest groups.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
My daughter loves creating things — art, books, videos etc. She's shown an interest in learning to code, but she's only six, and I don't want learning to code to be a chore. So I've built visual scripting into her favour
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
Hacking TVs was a favourite pasttime of mine. There's nothing quite like flashing a TV with AOSP such that it thinks it's 55" smartphone. Lock screen and all. See if you can find a service manual for your TV. You'll want
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
I just applied for a staff level position at a large company and for the first time in my career failed a coding challenge. The feedback given was absolutely baffling and just goes to show it's really a crapshoot applying at these larg
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
There are other apps out there that do this e.g. ToothFairy https://c-command.com/blog/2024/03/06/toothfairy-2-8-4/
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
This is a surprisingly crowded space. Aside from the big names like Scratch, Blockly, Roblox and (to an extent) Minecraft Education. There are heaps of projects out there created by educators who wanted to improve their own course. One part
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
The apps are signed, so it's possible to compare signatures against the originals. I haven't seen any reports of signatures not matching from Apkpure, though certainly possible. But more importantly, what's the actual threat
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
Wow! I have this book and read it to my kids regularly before bed, but I was not aware it was an entire franchise until I followed your link. I'll have to check out some of the other stuff too.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
By no means condoning this behavior, just wanted to comment that you're largely correct in that EdTech companies tend to start out with altruistic intentions and and shift away from that over time. However, I wouldn't say that it&
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by Benjamin_Dobell 2y ago
Fair question if you've bought the app.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
I hope Andrew wanted to maintain the software again and didn't just feel obligated after what happened to xz. In any case, Andrew Tridgell's contributions to open source, both direct and indirect (Git), are substantial. Hopefully
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Account created 6 hours ago and has just posted this comment. Twice. This ah, probably doesn't come across the way you'd like it to. More than that, isn't this precisely the kind of product that you would want operated by a l
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Point of sale. Although, if I'm getting into the weeds, I should probably use the terminology "consumer rights and guarantees" rather than warranty, since I believe that's how we make the distinction locally. What's
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
The no sale requirements in the "contract" is interesting. However, is the following actually legal in the US? > You have only yourself to blame. Once you get the unlock code, your device is no longer covered by the Motorola w
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
I'm in Australia so have had similar thoughts about the Dash. Because it's my daughter and not me, I figure I better not. When the Omnipod 5 lands in Australia we'll likely swap over since it supports closed loop out of the b
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Yeah, ControlIQ. I do imagine it's different for everyone though, and would also depend on what your alternatives are. In our circumstances, it's a huge improvement over manual injections. But by no means the closed loop silver bu
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Agreed. My daughter (5) is using a G6 + TSlim X2 closed loop. The target blood glucose is 6.0 mmol/L and you can't decrease it. However, I haven't tried (and likely won't try) anything DIY since it's my daughter and
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
Interesting. Are you on mobile web, or desktop? I tried on mobile web on a tablet and phone, but haven't tried desktop.
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by Benjamin_Dobell 3y ago
May well be Japanese course specific. I am on Android and checked on web also — same experience. I have an iPhone too though, so will check it out and report back. In my experience with the Japanese course, there are no text prompts at all.

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