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I think that your assertion about high color temperature being important is less strong than you thought it was.

> It'd have been a better experience if they'd put no thought into their lighting but used incandescent bulbs instead?

Yes.

Wave a knife around in your kitchen with flickering lights. You'll see that the effect is not invisible, but an edge case. Just like with flickering LEDs on vehicles, you can't tell right away exactly where the vehicle is. Just having a flickering light on the edge of your peripheral gives you the same alert feeling when an object is moving fast near you, such as a fly. Also, flickering room light probably interferes with rendering of moving objects on a computer / TV screen (though the effect would be subtle and the bugs in the computer would drown them out).

> On top of that, even the "warm" color temperature LEDs put out a pretty good spike of blue light.

That's what I figured. LCD monitors are all painful for me to look at as well.

You do realize Northern Europeans are adapted to needing less sunlight? I would emulate candles if I were you. Which means warm color temperatures. So you don't need the product of this thread, you just need a simple warm color temperature bulb. Do some extra research and get one that doesn't flicker.

You could have saved all this trouble and just used time-tested incandescent bulbs. No offense but this whole article and thread is just getting each other to buy stupid crap.

LED lights have far more problems than color temperature not matching the circadian rhythm (if that's even a problem... I just avoid blue light in general). 99% of them flicker, even without a dimmer, and most probably have bad color rendering qualities (CRI) too. In my experience, they're all too cold. They'll also be too dim yet still give you that "getting blinded" feeling. I visited a $7500 apartment and it was laughable how they included LEDs that flicker at somewhere around 60-100Hz. I just stopped using LEDs until I understand the market more, after already wasting hundreds on failed attempts to find an acceptable LED. For now sticking with warm color temperature incandescent bulbs, which are almost perfect. I don't need to raise the color temperature in the day.

> going huge amounts of time without physically seeing people

That's how I've always lived. The problem is more that you're stuck in a small box with bad living conditions.

All these problems are caused by the mindless American consumer. If you look at a hardware review for absolutely anything tech related, it will be some absolutely useless 1 paragraph of content surrounded by 3 paragraphs of non useful information, and then some type of sponsor insert, like a pitch, or an Amazon referral link to the product. If you shop for LCDs, there is not even one website from 2000-2023 that provides real reviews (even tft central never says anything bad about products that have pushed the envelope of lowering quality, because the author is naturally biased against that due to his conflict of interest along with not really knowing what he's talking about). The most contentful review will merely talk about how good the build quality of the stand of the monitor is. If you go on whatever forum for discussing some subset of technology, you will get banned if you point out 2 issues with some product, (due to the fanboy effect, not claiming a conspiracy here).

Continuing from that last sentence, a big part of the problem is that the Christian religion is all but replaced with a corporate equivalent. It's now plausible to claim someone is racist and homophobic if they don't like Apple products. This is a huge part of the issue. There is almost no criticism in media about technology. On any nerd social internet corner, you'll have a bunch of burger eating slobs who do exactly what I complained about: You'll explain that this toaster is bad because it smells like burning plastic and has holes in it that drop bread crumbs all over your counter which get blown around the kitchen. They'll respond by saying, "how dare you insult this prestigious company that only existed for 5 minutes, they are my favorite. I have never actually tried another product but this is the best because I bought it and it had a shiny thing on it and I felt so good after this purchase". Thanks to this social environment, it's basically impossible to get a good review of any product what so ever on the internet. 99.9999% of "Nerd culture" is actually just about buying stuff. Any time I want to buy something I expect to take days out of my time just to find a product that isn't severely crippled so badly that the mindless consumer will complain about it (on 1/20 review sites). Don't get me wrong, this isn't an internet problem. Most people IRL hold the same mentality.

Vehicles have all the garbage you'd expect for this demographic:

  - ECU with shoddy and fraudulent software (dieselgate, uConnect, unintended acceleration)
  - LEDs that flicker worse than a CRT (these are actually dangerous as at night you can't immediately tell the position of a car within a split second, which goes to show how much shits regulators give, "at least they saved a penny and some carbon emissions (TM)")
  - Terrible inputs with issues like being touch screen, horrible debounce, etc
  - Cheap, vain, lack of taste, glossy paint that easily sells to idiots who like shiny things and they'll even pay extra for it despite it being worse in every way
  - All kinds of dangerous half working gimmicks around "steering for you" which are especially easy to upsell to idiots
  - Spyware that phones home

It would be possible if there were lots of competent universities but, clearly, given the lack of quality of current software and hardware full of digital crap (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33390906#33394351), this is not the case.

Yep. Everything turned to garbage when "it all went digital", in the early 2000s. Now every single electronic product from appliances to vehicles are completely broken. Even the average thermostat spazzes out. There's no standard for anything.

I've always seen Ubuntu as extremely non-utilitarian, given that the desktop is slow and buggy as hell for example, and now even the terminal itself will show ads instead of doing work. I'll stick with Gentoo.

Well, that's one tiny step forward from "you can't share your account because I said so how dare you even think of such a thing you should be cancelled" (not even ranting about Netflix specifically, just all the companies in general that do this).

Nothing written here makes me feel unsafe about taking my daughter and wife to an Air BNB. Just what on earth is this non-sequitur, "ergo company unsafe" [10 billion upvotes]. There is nothing here even explaining how this is any worse than hotels. Yes, sleeping in some random person's house is inherently less safe than hotels (slightly) but we already knew that. So then what actual tangible point am I missing here? What do you even expect the company to do about it? This entire post and its context just seems like a Simpsons episode where Homer yells at the mayor and demands that it stop raining. I haven't have and don't plan to ever use Air BNB, by the way.

I'd agree with that it takes 10 years to become competent in all the required fundamentals for programming like math, algorithms, protocols, security, versioning, databases / persistence, scheduling, memory management, some basic electronics. Not gimmicks like C++, those take infinite years.

I don't think I could implement a correct HTTP 1 agent even if I read the specs.

Not even just TCP, basic usage of message passing and any data flow.

> Especially when the author gave a very clear use case for a very real problem in shared state computing.

He did not. One server can just keep track of a player's items then pass that state on when he moves to the next adjacent server. I don't even see the issue here except the codebase is described as something very messy with weird OO/hooking style non-abstractions that just cause bugs.

I thought the reason we can't have nice things is because everyone wants a game where they can obtain things and keep them forever except for in extremely rare "fair" circumstances.

Nice trek.

100Hz flicker is terrible. It's amazing vendors still are so clueless.

Before "multiscan"/"multisync" CRTs, there were fixed mode CRTs which would break in one way or the other if the incoming signal had the wrong timings.

> My understanding is that monitors and/or graphics cards/drivers would reject potentially harmful configurations.

It's done in the monitor.

They're still broken. Not an argument.

What's with the hacker community and their obsession with a terminal emulator? You're just writing to a framebuffer when you call printf. You may as well cut out the middleman and get better, more responsive controls and rendering of a GUI (and let's not pretend this application is not a GUI). I prefer nedit, just wish it would support Unicode. Or maybe I don't and Unicode should just stop existing. I also notice nedit has less input latency than vim on most terminal emulators.

Yes, but this was something obvious from the outset from an engineering standpoint. I would never consider requiring phone verification for my games. I don't even require an email account as lots of games do (because of cargo cult) these days.

The Western software development bubble (largely the demographic of HN) is full of self centered people / ignorant people who have never seen hardware aside from a Mac or a $2K Windows box, who buy a new phone literally every year, who claim to be saving the world. On the contrary what you get is web browsers being too slow to run on hardware of someone who lives outside the West and being banned from the game because outside the West you can't conform to the game's asinine requirements. The irony on top of the irony is that the ones who think of themselves affluent for this are not at all: cell phones and their protocols are badly engineered technology.

Consider a BR game.

100 players per game.

0.1% being cheaters means 0.01 players per game are cheating. If you play 100 games, then maybe a cheater will be in your game. In fact I have played 10K games in one BR and 2K in another, and these stats seem about accurate.

I have had far more games ruined by bugs due to irrational people being the developers.

I also beat most of these cheaters since they don't know how to play the game and they can just be outplayed.

Congratulations on proving how your outrage is over nothing. And your intrusive "fixes" are over nothing.

downvote why? out of arguments?

Of course they scale well. Each server gives space for N players.

> I would not,

None of the games I play have this problem. So you're wrong. I'm not claiming that this proves the problem is culture specific, just knocking down your counter claim.

> No prepaid

Great, so I will never play your game.

It's amazing how many oblivious, ultra consumer, pro- getting scammed, pro-monopoly, pro- proprietary protocol, people are on this so-called hacker forum. The policy you are asking for is literally one of the highest things I've ever seen that go against the hacker ethos. If you pay more than $10/mo for a smart phone in the US (prime audience of this site), you are getting scammed, no even then it's a scam as you're getting something only worth 0.001 cents.

1. It's supposed to be easy go get new phone numbers. This is required for things like privacy, bypassing block lists that you got on for reasons out of your control, getting a new number that doesn't receive 1000 spam messages per day, etc. Basic stuff any engineer knows about.

2. Some carriers (1 in 50) require a photo ID to sign up, which is ass backwards. They even have brainwashed employees that answer "maybe something happened", when you ask "WTF? Why do you need photo ID now?". The idea that a phone number is a thing conveying some sense of liability and responsibility, is asinine.

3. Whatever problem you are experiencing is over represented. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038531 . Yes, people disconnect, shit happens. Get over it. You are literally asking the world to become more police state so "you can enjoy your video game".

4. Your "there is no alternative" bullshit has been covered by other posters in this thread.

Let's actually break down this dodge and disconnect thing a bit more:

There are only two situations:

1. You're in a complete noob or unranked match. You already will get useless teammates that don't know how to play the game anyway. In fact, I'm now suspicious that everyone in this thread are this extremely bigoted player I play with sometimes in an unranked game, who gets angry at every noob when we lose with that noob on our team, or quitter, or whatever he can blame things on. Calling out dodgers is highly suspicious that you're one of those people.

2. You're in a ranked match. By definition, there are less "bad actors" here, as they would have been banned and have to work to get back to this rank. This is a straightforward problem to solve and if your company is so bad at it that every match somehow has this problem (which itself is against odds even without moderation), then they're not doing their job. Of course they could always add whatever gimmick you want to appease you instead of solving the problem (moderating better).

Yeah I was excited about the idea of MMO back in 2000 when my friends told me about one they played. Then realized they're all scams (and do not even have any MMO element; You can't actually have a bunch of players fighting and when you do it just lags and bugs) and dodged that bullet.

> Shouldn’t it be possible to prevent these players from coming back?

Just make a mechanism to slow down account generation. CD keys were good for this. It doesn't matter that it's not fool proof, it still works since you have less chance of running into a freshly made smurf or cheater account in the lowest rank. Phone does the same thing, however phone is intrusive and a bad solution. Smurf is even less of a problem than a cheater btw.

> Or how about that person who wants to shoot their opponent IRL just because they’re a bad sport? Shouldn’t it be possible to report them and get them banned permanently?

Umm, wtf? This was just an example and no they shouldn't be banned at all for that. That's also a good 50%-90% of any game's userbase.

> When a game is free to play like OW2, all of these things which are already huge problems for the OW1 player base become even worse because there’s no cost barrier to entry.

Free 2 play games are literally a scam. I don't want a game that has skins and nonsense. In fact, I take more issue to having to learn what cosmetic skins mean what (for instance in a class based game, you have to memorize each skin of a class, and for team based, some skins are the wrong color, like in Splitgate), than the perceived problems of this thread. I don't care what Overwatch does, I care about the fact that whatever nonsense they do will be normalized in the rest of the industry to the point where devs can't even argue with it.