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jetbalsa··on Ask HN: 9-yo son wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
I would say Garry's Mod + Lua Scripting / WireMod

Easy to get into since its rather old at this point and its easy to get bootstrapped with simple logic in WireMod, Its how I learned programming, has multiplayer and really supports messing around.

jetbalsa··on What Are File Descriptors in Linux
Looking at [2], They did not. Only has FWRITE and FREAD, later on in the linked v7 they added FPIPE, not sure how TTY's are handled back then, but I bet it was a device driver of some kind with the real basic BIOS those systems had.
jetbalsa··on 1899 Peruvian dinero: the mystery of a coin that wasn't officially minted
TL;DR: Its a very old counterfeit coin.
jetbalsa··on What went wrong with Horizon: learning from the Post Office Trial
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240104150909/https://www.benth...
jetbalsa··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
also if the amount of EV charging stations was the same as the amount of gas stations we wouldn't have that issue as well. Early gas was bought at stores in cans most of the time, bulk pumping was just not very common.
jetbalsa··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
and at the time of the Model T you could just about run them on anything with hydrocarbons in them with some adjustments. A electric car required infrastructure that just didn't exist at the time until after the Rural Electrification Act in 1936
jetbalsa··on IDEs we had 30 years ago
I'm going back to FRAMESETs :V

Responsive UI like its 1996!

jetbalsa··on Twitter Ad Scam Drains $59M from 63k Users in Crypto Heist
Its wild to see the community notes under most of the ads warning of scams. I've see debates break out in the comment thread under the ads about just what kind of scam it is.
jetbalsa··on Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try Out Mozilla's .deb Package
I get it from a "users are dumb" and cybersecurity aspect of it.
jetbalsa··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
I'm in the process of trying to convert to openstack at my university. but so far its been slow going. I've got a few smaller clusters online currently running it
jetbalsa··on MOVEit Hack at AutoZone
And don't forget Employee records
jetbalsa··on OpenVMS Account at DECUServe
There are some old unix shell providers still floating around. I'm still a active user of sdf.org
jetbalsa··on Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
I'm a huge fan of using Alpine with the RPi due to reducing writes to the SDCard. it will only save data to disk with a lbu commit -d and by default boots into a kind of tempfs.
jetbalsa··on It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian
I think they are talking about this case, it was thrown out.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/missouri_html_hacking...

jetbalsa··on Enable ARMv9 Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) on Pixel 8
One of the things that Graphene doesn't support is Android Auto -- They have stated they will never support it due to the sheer rootkit levels that Android Auto does to the OS. Its a shame they have not found a good work around for it yet.
jetbalsa··on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats
I love the fact in 7zip you can open disk images and it can read ext4 and other filesystems to extract files out of them and write files back into them
jetbalsa··on eBPF-based auto-instrumentation outperforms manual instrumentation
Got to get PHP on that list :)
jetbalsa··on What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
With something as large as a end user language format for input, this is a change we ourselves cannot make, just as using another calendar for dates. Just because I want to use the year 2002023 calendar with 29.5 days per month, doesn't make it useful to others or myself really.
jetbalsa··on VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
That is not a bad model if you completely trust the server owners. I feel there are more secure ways, but I suspect if a Arma3 server wanted to infect a machine with a bad mod they could. so the threat vectors are the same really.
jetbalsa··on What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023
I feel its the same as with any long standing computer system we have today. It was designed as more and more of the world came online and all the growing pains it came with. Could it be built from scratch today better? Yes. Will it? No. I suspect it will be around long after we are all dead. Same with IPv4 :V
jetbalsa··on A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
Wasabi might been a good choice for you on that front
jetbalsa··on Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
So once you join you are housed in a dorm on campus. Once you start to leave they will help you find a job, a home and give you starting money. You will not leave the campus until all of this is done. Once you are out on your own, You can rejoin Job Corps if you are still under aged and do a different program and get all the same benefits
jetbalsa··on Job Corps: free, residential training and education for low-income young adults
I attended this program about 10 years ago. To answer your questions, It is a school, they pay the student a stipend and lots of other benefits. the courses are mostly "blue collar" related job training. So thing like Welding, Brick Laying, Computer Repair. You will find most of their courses are targeting job sectors that are in need of people. they also house you for the entire time and is a rather good program to get into.
jetbalsa··on Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention
There is some scuttle butt from some of the goon's I've been overhearing, It was a package with a planted scent/treat package that they use to train the bomb dogs. You can imagine what happened from there. I suspect it was a attendee playing a bad practical joke on DEF CON
jetbalsa··on Is parallel programming hard, and, if so, what can you do about it?
I've seen stuff like that before with a game called Factroio, The only game I've ever see that is optimized so hard that your RAM Speed can affect large bases rather quickly, same with faster L2 Cache. Their entire blog series[1] covers a large part of how they did this. but for a game written mostly in LUA they sure did a good job on it.

1: https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-204

jetbalsa··on Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
While impressive, I don't think IPFS can scale to any kind of real load that even a fifth of the users of reddit using this could handle. Its a super heavy daemon and if its just gateway users there is still a little bit of centralization going on. Like who runs "pubsubprovider.xyz" that most of the data is being relayed with? same with "plebpubsub.live"
jetbalsa··on Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip
You can do that with 7Zip as well, its a part of the context menu for that.
jetbalsa··on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
Hi-Fi Rush is a perfect example of how a game should be It had all the details you want in a game to make it look awesome but the style and art was paid close detail
jetbalsa··on Lessons from Isaac Asimov on Taming AI
It really feels like anyone who uses Asimov's Three laws have not read "I Robot" at all. The entire thing was stories of edge cases and failures of the three laws.
jetbalsa··on We’re one step closer to reading an octopus’s mind
There is a sci-fi book that covered this a little, its the Children of Time series, rather good look into a "uplift" virus going wrong. (used in Children of Ruin, the second in the series on Octopuses)
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