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by staunch 7y ago
For major games like PUBG and Fortnite this shouldn't be a problem at all. It might mean that it takes 60 seconds of matchmaking to join a new game instead of 6 seconds. What you get in exchange is a stable and predictable competitive
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by staunch 7y ago
Fair point but bandwidth has also increased from 56 kbit/s 100,000 kbit/s. CPUs have had similarly massive increases in speed as well. A lot of the extra bandwidth usage is also probably in large part due to sloppiness. John Carma
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by staunch 7y ago
NetQuake feels excellent at < 30ms. Even higher is easy to get used to with some practice because it's extremely predictable due to a lack of CSP. And yes, the solution is to have servers within ~500 miles of players so ~20ms avg pi
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by staunch 7y ago
Within a US city or state it's very rare to have much packet loss at all. It's very easy to spot using the builtin netgraph in Quake Live and other games. Players that are separated by thousands of miles should not be playing comp
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by staunch 7y ago
This is why you ping restrict servers. There's no way to make a game competitive when one player has 10ms ping and another has 100ms (10x higher!) ping. It's just bad for everyone. Which is exactly what competitive Quake Live play
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by staunch 7y ago
I get 8ms RTT to servers in my city on a normal cable modem today. People in major cities have nearly LAN-quality latency within ~500 miles. Packet loss is extremely low, which is easy to tell using a builtin netgraph. Screen buffering shou
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by staunch 7y ago
Sure, this is why you have a < 60ms ping restriction or whatver. You simply don't let players play on a server with high latency because then it's a bad experience for everyone else. This is how competitive Quake Live servers w
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by staunch 7y ago
I successfully ran from an armed robber in SF at around ~7PM. I spotted his gun from ~15 feet and pulled my friend into traffic to run away. Others have been shot and killed on the same block. My co-worker was robbed with a gun inside the C
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by staunch 7y ago
Other technical people used them as well but probably no one more popular than Carmack. I still remember clearly fingering his .plan directly and excitedly reading them. The good ol' days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by staunch 7y ago
What's kind of sad and funny is that these assumptions changed again and no one seemed to have noticed. We're not on PPP or SLIP connections anymore and yet game devs are still writing netcode as though we are. Client side predict
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by staunch 7y ago
I always preferred regular NetQuake to QuakeWorld and I played a lot of both for many years. The weird jello-jiggly behavior of client-side prediction with 400-600ms difference between players was always horrible. With NetQuake you could le
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by staunch 7y ago
In both cases the software was designed to prevent the pilot from stalling the aircraft i.e. to enhance safety. And yet hundreds of people died in Air France 447 because the pilot stalled the aircraft when sensor failure disabled the Airbus
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by staunch 7y ago
I don't think it matters how big the global pilot pool is for 737s. What matters to a specific airline is how many of their pilots are type rated for a particular aircraft. An airline that has standardized on the 737 is going to have
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by staunch 7y ago
What regulations are you referring to? Yes, it's true that it would be have been free from this specific MCAS issue. But what other issues would a new design have had? It's impossible to know. It's also true that if Boeing ha
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by staunch 7y ago
Now imagine if Boeing had created a brand new design instead of the 737 MAX and it had some mysterious fatal flaw as well? Second System Syndrome is something every engineer should understand. There's just no good reason to suspect a b
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by staunch 7y ago
> Both the UK and France have a completely independent nuclear response. Small nuclear arsenals that are not highly redundant. They do not have MAD-level nuclear forces. > None of these countries have kings. This is just semantics
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by staunch 7y ago
Banning spammers and system abuse is one thing but it's probably not a good thing that HN bans people for other reasons. At the very least HN should have a public log showing all administrative censorship so people can judge it for the
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by staunch 7y ago
Legally they have no obligation but IMHO Zuckerberg does have an ethical obligation to uphold freedom of speech, particularly as a citizen of a country founded on the principle. Facebook is as influential and dominant over information as
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by staunch 7y ago
What is so worrying about China's massive military build up is that there's no benign explanation. China has long had enough conventional power to defend itself and more than enough nuclear weapons to hold up its side of MAD. It r
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by staunch 8y ago
Given how absolutely critical sensor data is becoming to aircraft software, it seems like airplanes should probably have a dozen redundant AoA sensors and pitot tubes. And the sensors should be of different design and manufacture, so they&#
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by staunch 8y ago
Is it temporary safety though? A large enough DNA database might nearly eliminate serial rapists. That's one hell of an immediate (and permanent) benefit to trade off against some theoretical downside. I'm not so sure Franklin wou
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by staunch 8y ago
Any time I read or hear "AI" these days I automatically translate it in my head to the word "software". After all, all software is a kind of artificial intelligence, so it's not exactly dishonest to use the term AI
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by staunch 8y ago
If you use the word "wealth" instead of "privilege" there's not much to argue about. The problem is that there are many people today (with very dubious motivations) trying to confuse the issue of wealth with other i
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by staunch 8y ago
The term self-made is just too imprecise to be useful. The three major factors involved in an individual's success are: #1 Genetics - High general intelligence, ambition, etc. #2 Environment - Highly educated well-off parents, etc. #3
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by staunch 8y ago
YC has pro rata rights, so maybe that 4% is low? Regardless, I concede that it's entirely possible many (or all) of the YC batches are unprofitable without the hits. It's an interesting question. I just think the entire concept of
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by staunch 8y ago
(I find this topic interesting to talk about and I don't mean to make this a huge criticism of what you're doing. I think it's great any time someone in a position to help early stage startups does so.) I'm definitely
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by staunch 8y ago
Thanks for the reply. I hope you appreciate some critical feedback that comes from a good place. Helping early stage startups is a great thing. But the entire point of startups being hit-based is that not even the founders themselves know h
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by staunch 8y ago
TinySeed seems much better than the "predatory" deal Earnest Capital is offering[1]. But they still seems hamstrung by not understanding that startup investing is inherently a hits-based business. At some point they're go
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by staunch 8y ago
Unfortunately, after further analysis, my suspicion that this is a very bad deal for founders seems to be true. A founder would have to be desperate and ignorant to take this deal, and no one deserves to have years of hard work wasted by ta
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by staunch 8y ago
Anyone helping early stage startups is doing god's work as far as I'm concerned. Technology is what pushes the world forward and anything that helps that is, with limited exceptions, a very positive thing. My questions/commen

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