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by kentonv 3y ago
For me, LAN parties were always primarily about the social aspect, not actually the gaming. The games are there to give people an excuse to get together and spend way more time in the same place than they'd normally want to. I'd d
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by kentonv 3y ago
For the time being I'm installing Windows 10 and setting it up without ever logging into a Microsoft account. (There's a trick during first-time setup where if you disconnect your internet, it lets you create a local-only account.
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by kentonv 3y ago
Sounds like your design would require a much larger space than I had. The whole house was 1426 sqft, including two bedrooms and bathrooms (not shown in the photos). Having the stations fold into the walls kept space available for normal liv
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by kentonv 3y ago
Indeed, you might even notice in the pictures that one room has a wall painted blue and the other one reddish. When people asked which team to join the answer was: "What color is the wall?" :) That said, in practice we don't
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by kentonv 3y ago
Having done classic LAN parties for 15 years before building the house, I understand this feeling. That's why I specifically designed the house such that people could bring their own machines if they wanted. No one ever did. The only t
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by kentonv 3y ago
TBH we usually just turn off anti-cheat. No one at a LAN party is going to cheat against other LAN party participants. It's only an issue if we want to join an internet game but we usually don't really want to deal with internet p
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by kentonv 3y ago
Indeed, Linux gaming is way more viable now than it was in 2011, and it almost worked in 2011, so it probably works OK now. I have friends who I game with regularly who only use Linux and do OK. That said I'm currently prioritizing Win
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by kentonv 3y ago
Oh this was my house. AMA Past discussion (way back in 2011): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3342044 I sold this in 2020 when I moved to Austin. I'm building a bigger, better one here, which will be done... in ab
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by kentonv 3y ago
It looks like it is in fact universal. Just glancing at the code here, it looks like the tool searches any arbitrary file for bytes that look like encoded protobuf descriptors, specifically looking for bytes that are plausibly the beginning
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by kentonv 3y ago
As others pointed out, the article was talking about it as a CPU processing constraint, not a bandwidth constraint. In that context, it's not much. I do agree that it seems like an excessively large amount of metadata to be downloading
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by kentonv 3y ago
Cool hack overall, but some of the statements about protobuf strike me as odd. > Exploit a Protobuf Flaw to Easily Remove All Ads by Changing One Byte He's intentionally corrupting the tag on one field of the protobuf. The "fla
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by kentonv 3y ago
All the Workers stuff runs on a machine that your request was already going to pass through anyway, and does very little actual work compared to everything your client machine has to do to render a complex site. I would guess that part of t
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by kentonv 3y ago
Because JSON-based schemas are excessively verbose making them painful to read and write, to the point where really nobody wants to do so. Consider: struct Person { name @0 :Text; age @1 :UInt16; } vs.: "
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by kentonv 3y ago
A MessageBuilder allocates a single large buffer, writes into it, and only allocates further if that buffer is exhausted. If you use a preallocated buffer you can avoid allocation entirely. Very different from Protobuf which allocates strin
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by kentonv 3y ago
With all due respect, you read completely wrong. * The very first use case for which Cap'n Proto was designed was to be the protocol that Sandstorm.io used to talk between sandbox and supervisor -- an explicitly adversarial security sc
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by kentonv 3y ago
Yeah, I know. He's not a computer person, but somehow he managed to set up this web site without any help from me, which is kind of a miracle. Obviously the tech isn't great though. He doesn't actually need it to get clients
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by kentonv 3y ago
Hmmmm even though it's not mine anymore, posting the address doesn't feel right... seems like it'd be violating the privacy of the new owners of the house. Yes, even though I did post the address publicly when selling it -- t
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by kentonv 3y ago
Not similar, I built that house. (I'm Kenton.) Or do you mean the new one, alluded to on the site? It's almost done... not ready to share yet. ;)
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Well eventually I just... provided all the machines... and the house... https://kentonshouse.com
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by kentonv 3y ago
I think there was no separate enterprise release at the time. But could be misremembering.
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by kentonv 3y ago
I think it was RedHat. I had tried Debian first but switched to RedHat pretty quickly afterwards. (Back then, RedHat had nothing to do with "enterprise", it was just the most polished Linux distro around. Ubuntu didn't exist
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by kentonv 3y ago
Circa 1998 I was a teenage Linux zealot who would attend LAN parties carrying a Linux box. It actually worked -- at the time, WINE practically existed to support Starcraft, Quake 2 could run natively, and that covered like 95% of what peopl
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by kentonv 3y ago
Sorry to hear about your difficulties getting good answers from support. I will pass along your feedback. > Even though the worker modifies the contents, the IP is passed through as the end-user IP (at least the way we use them). That sh
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by kentonv 3y ago
We definitely care about abuse generated by Workers. A request coming from someone else's Worker should not "bypass" any security -- it should be treated the same as if they were running their bot on any other cloud provider
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A couple years ago my dentist sold her practice to a new dentist. Before I had an appointment with the new dentist, my wife had an appointment, and he told her she had gum disease with bone loss and needed a deep cleaning and to go on a &qu
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by kentonv 3y ago
https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/rate-limiting-rules/ maybe?
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by kentonv 3y ago
Hmm, not in that thread, but maybe in a thread about D1 or Durable Objects? We are indeed trying to make it as easy as possible for applications to shard databases by user or by "document".
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And that's how I first learned about Cloudflare. Which I eventually joined, and built Cloudflare Workers. :)
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Single interface? In the search infrastructure example I mentioned up-thread, we had hundreds, maybe thousands of schemas involved.
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They're saying that for a sequential number, you must have a central authority managing that number. If two environments have different authorities, they have a different mapping of these sequential numbers, so now they can't shar

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