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by vvanders 7y ago
Yeah, one of the things that struck me when reading about the development of the SR-71 and F-117[1] was how a lot of what we consider "start-up" culture has already existed in one form or another. [1] https://www.amazon
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by vvanders 7y ago
Had to write the SDP handshake and re-build a subset of SCTP from scratch since the only SCTP implementation uses a global listener which doesn't play nice for a clean server implementation(it was also a royal pain to compile in a way
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yup, it's been a while since I read the spec but I believe it leaves the transport up to what can be negotiated for maximum compatibility. If you handle the SDP and SCTP handshake you can force it to only use UDP via SCTP. Chrome and F
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by vvanders 7y ago
That's also true in Games and VoIP, only things that need to be reliable have acks for them.
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by vvanders 7y ago
You can already do this with WebRTC, you just need and implementation that won't fall back to TCP if the UDP negotiation fails.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Using the term "zero" is not the best choice. UDP packets have the same latency as TCP packets, you're just saving the handshake. Games and VoIP still have latency, they're usually structured such the data loss and dupli
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by vvanders 7y ago
I've always wanted to mess around with the beagle black since the two PRUs are supposedly built to handle cases exactly like this.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Most of the comments I've seen from authors have been pretty negative. My limited understanding is that previously they had a 1:1 backing of physical book to what could be "checked out" digitally. Now with the NEL they'v
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yup, so much truth here. Take a look at Real-time Collision Detection[1]. I takes a great look at both algorithmic complexity and cache awareness. That's how it should be done. [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/15586
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yup, linear data reads are easily 10-30x faster than random thanks to cache miss penalty staying static since the 90s. If you want to see real-world DDR speeds figure out what algorithms do linear reads.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Certainly not independent but given the option of supporting people in a time of need and pushing them back to work and stressing the healthcare capacity of the county we certainly seem to be trending towards the latter.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Usually they don't say the quiet part out loud, and yet here we are. We're incredibly fortunate in tech that we can do a large portion of work remotely, many people aren't so lucky. One would think that we'd value life a
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by vvanders 7y ago
Oh yeah, I didn't mean it to be a knock against Agones, more that there seemed to be a fair amount of marketing speak in the google copy("supercharged", "Companies like Activision Blizzard are benefiting from our ... art
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by vvanders 7y ago
Thanks, that's what I thought and was trying to figure out if I missed any reason this was staying on the front page given it's just a re-branding of an existing open source solution.
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by vvanders 7y ago
So... it's the same problems that we've always had hosting a dedicated game server fleet. Game solutions have always been custom because there's never some one-size-fits-all engine(although bless Unreal and Unity for taking a
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by vvanders 7y ago
Well isn't everything "at scale" difficult? I just don't see what makes this special, dedicated servers don't require GPUs, just a good amount of cpu and a moderate amount of network bandwidth. This just feels more
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by vvanders 7y ago
It's been a while since I spun up a dedicated server but how is this anything special compared to just spinning up normal server instances? I see a lot of buzzwords but nothing that stands out technically. Throw some cpu+memory, open a
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yeah, for me the inflection point was NOAA and hurricane Dorian. Only so many people can put their careers on the line before something breaks in an organization.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Nuclear Throne is outstanding and really deserves more recognition.
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by vvanders 7y ago
From what I've seen it survives 2-3x less on cardboard[1] compared to plastic/metal. Probably a vector, but less likely than hard surfaces. That said the best way to not transmit it is to shut down non-essential services and focus
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by vvanders 7y ago
Considering that the virus can live for up to 9 days on metal, glass or plastic[1] I'm not sure that mandatory hand washing is going to do much in an assembly line where everyone interacts directly vehicles on the line. [1] https:&#x2
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by vvanders 7y ago
Yeah, I'm as big of a Tesla fan as you'll find but the lack of closing the factory in one of the epicenters has really lowered my opinion of his leadership. While I understand he's one to zig when everyone zags I feel like th
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by vvanders 7y ago
Considering the Seattle Flu Study had to violate the law[1] to get the first few confirmed cases in WA I don't have a lot of high hopes. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/seattle-flu-study-coronaviru...
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by vvanders 7y ago
None of the things you're talking about exist within the repo tool, it sounds like these are all things that you had to layer on top with a separate CI system. It's been 12 years since the Dream was released and we're still n
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by vvanders 7y ago
That's fair enough, it's something that's worked well for me and I find it handy for giving visibility into smaller things that I might not email/im about and would get lost in the mix.
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by vvanders 7y ago
Pretty decent list, as someone who's full-time remote let me add one more: At the end of the day send your manager a quick email of what you did and things that happened. You shouldn't spend more than 5 minutes and there's ne
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by vvanders 7y ago
Oh I've been working with git for ~9 years now, it's not a lack of familiarity. Take AOSP, even Google had to overlay the repo[1] tool to scale past git. It's a hot pile of garbage that won't let you sync all repos to
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by vvanders 7y ago
What happens if you're not around to drive the process? What about if you don't have the organizational backing to drive the process? What if a team goes AWOL or isn't bought in to your process? I've seen variants of all
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by vvanders 7y ago
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. It sounds like we just come from different development cultures. Your solution to lack of locking sounds like a top-down hierarchy that wouldn't be flexible enough to support the teams
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by vvanders 7y ago
If by P4 centric you also mean SVN as well then sure. I will say however that if you think locking is optional then you already don't understand these workflows and why they're so critical. Art/design/animation doesn&#x2

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