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NakedMUD (and probably SocketMUD) uses a temporary file during copyover. https://github.com/avidal/nakedmud/blob/fcab059439515be9ad93...

> blocking handsets because they can't access 000 anymore As the article explains, many handsets which can access 000 are being blocked. My iPhone XR can't make calls anymore, for …

I think this comment oversimplifies gambling addiction. Yes, chasing losses is a behaviour common to many gamblers, and yes, winning money provides an incentive to gamble in the fi…

> So, if the plaintiff can prove the content was pirated, then the use of that content downstream is tainted. Has that been tested in court? This is quite an interesting case. Obta…

Cool talk to watch: Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

This page is informative: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/notifiable-data-breaches/not... > Just over half (54%) of cyber incidents involved malicious actors gaining access to acco…

What you're arguing for are more accessible immigrant visas ("green cards"). AFAIK there is nothing currently stopping a US company from hiring a person, sponsoring them for an imm…

I've used this for many real applications that I would characterise as small (biggest being ~10KLOC excluding tests, types, etc.). I've applied the pattern across entire codebases …

I agree with the parent and grandparent comments. That said, when I was sponsored for an E-3 visa by a US company the recruiters made it clear that my position was permanent (subje…

The one doesn't excuse the other; if you're required to keep this data you should be treating it with the respect it deserves. That said, yes: government legislators and regulators…

You can see Optus' ID requirements here: https://www.optus.com.au/for-you/support/answer?id=9438 Here are the ID requirements for their major competitor, Telstra: https://www.telst…

> Companies should only collect data that they really need. Collecting and keeping this data is a regulatory requirement for Optus. The problems with this breach have their roots i…

> Whidbey Island Great ice cream there.

> So far this has led to $8.9m in service costs saved by the South Australian Government. > The Aspire SIB is a $9 million bond which has a life of 7 years. Extraordinary that in a…

Ah, yeah, "restart the process" was not the right description of what was happening in the cases I was thinking of - they'd exec themselves to hot reload code which I see is the fi…

Depends what you mean by server. Some old game server processes would support a "copyover" function. They would write the file descriptors of connected sockets to a file, restart t…

Not just strongly influenced. Those early MMOs were often called "graphical MUDs". Indeed, Dark Age of Camelot was a direct successor to the Darkness Falls MUDs. Its gameplay was e…

It's very accessible. If you can grok the first 30 minutes of this talk you can grok the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdqhHKjepiE Strong recommend, if only to understand h…

Highly complex, in-depth, system simulation is like a siren song for game developers and players alike. There's this perception that an amazing simulation will be the basis for an …

I don't watch baseball, but I always assumed MLB.tv and NHL.tv used the same technology. The way NHL.tv used to work, the blackout check would be done when you opened the stream. S…

I worked for the APS as a very junior programmer 10 years ago. To interact with our database we had a custom JDBC driver which used a VT100 terminal emulator to connect to what had…

> Why do you think this is? Successive Australian governments since the early 90s have expanded public service outsourcing dramatically. Here's a comprehensive discussion from the …

We had magpies living in a large tree in our front yard. Never bothered us, but we did see them swooping the occasional passer-by. One time we saw them breaking small twigs off the…

> Why Tony Blair is singled out, for something in hindsight, and the other 411 people are given a pass? Your point that the legislature voted on the invasion is a reasonable one, b…

Foxes were introduced to Australia for sport hunting, not to control the rabbit population. The presence of rabbits likely helped foxes spread across Australia. I agree with your p…