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I play Zero-K (a related open source game) a few times a month. I really enjoy their 'cold take' blog series discussing game mechanics and the history of TA derivatives. https://ze…

PCI still recommends 90 day password changes. Luckily they've softened their stance to allow zero-trust to be used instead. They're not really equivalent controls, but clearly laid…

I think this could still be a very useful question for an interviewer. If I were hiring for a position working on a complex system, I would want to know what level of complexity a …

I worry that this change increases the attack surface of what was a very safe application for viewing untrusted files. Of course, I worried about that at the release of 'new' notep…

I actually recently delivered a project which uses almost this exact technique. Python lambdas that operate on SQLite files have the benefit of being much simpler and cheaper than …

I personally replaced tailing logs with lnav (lnav.org, also in Debian repos). Coloration, decompression, filtering, etc. with no learning curve made it an easy transition for me a…

I have always interpreted bones/ghosts as using previous runs as an additional source of level-generation data, rather than a progression mechanic. In the game, it is realistic tha…

Some casinos sell some retired dice with holes drilled through them as souvenirs. They retain a good-enough balance for casual play. Here is a link I found by searching 'dice holes…

I start my manual picks at 3000 to avoid conflicts with users created by people like you. (I'm not only making a joke, I really do. My siblings are people like you, too.)

Snowflake ID[1] is another system related to those in the article. It uses 64 bits only, and has good sharding support, so can be more useful in some contexts. However, it naturall…

It seemed very strange. Many big partners, but social media accounts less than a year old. Turns out, it is the evolution/opensourcing of AWS Lumberyard. Wikipedia cites https://ve…

Sorry if I'm missing context, but where is the write-up?

I don't care for some of the chosen replacements - "sanity check" and "double check" are not equivalent phrases to me. The only linked justification I could find was inclusivenamin…