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Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by panglott » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:41 PM UTC

yiyus wrote: post #109

robwilliams wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Finally" figured it out? Did Google not give you this result? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon

Yes, but isn't it expected to find that information in the "About" section of the main site instead of needing to search for it? I am just asking for an introductory paragraph like the first paragraph in that Wikipedia article. I apologize for my tone, but I still think it was a fair complaint.

Huh, I'm surprised it was notable enough to have a Wikipedia page. I would have Googled, but figured the answer was in some walled garden or cryptic forum posts.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by yxhuvud » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:41 PM UTC

Paul-ish wrote: post #73

iancarroll wrote: post #53

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It looks like there is a system reset command that can be voted for.

What's the worst that could happen?

They could ssh somewhere and commit felonies.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by DonHopkins » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

eloy wrote: post #26

FranOntanaya wrote: post #19

I'm afraid they'll manage to launch vim and will never be able to get out.

They should read the book "Popular Unix text editors and how to exit them"

Not to be confused with the book "Popular Unix text editors and how to nest them".

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by DonHopkins » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:45 PM UTC

znt wrote: post #44

This is definitely going to be good fun. Next in series: - Twitch manages a portfolio - Twitch defuses a bomb - Twitch controls air traffic - Twitch performs a heart surgery

Twitch moderates the Republican debates.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by JonnieCache » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:46 PM UTC

The chat on the twitch page is live already and well worth looking at. They're currently arguing over which desktop environment to use. Some people just want to install FreeBSD instead.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchinstallsarchlinux

Click the arrow in the top right if you don't see the chat.

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by awalton » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:49 PM UTC

How long until someone gets wget installed, wgets a binary from some random Russian site, and owns the VM?

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by JonnieCache » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:50 PM UTC

yxhuvud wrote: post #162

Paul-ish wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the worst that could happen?

They could ssh somewhere and commit felonies.

Who would get the blame though?

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by ChrisArgyle » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

scarmig wrote: post #34

eloy wrote: post #26

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They should read the book "Popular Unix text editors and how to exit them"

quit ? exit ? end ? done ? bye ? quit! ? ^X ? ^C ? ^C ? help ? ? ? ^Z $ killall ed $ vi

^D^D should do it

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by Keyframe » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

Roodgorf wrote: post #47

eloy wrote: post #26

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They should read the book "Popular Unix text editors and how to exit them"

I was much too easily convinced that this could be a real book.

Accompanied by coffe table book 'Greatest screenshots of ruby in Sublime with dark themes'

Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game

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Post by beefhash » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 7:56 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #92

DanWaterworth wrote: post #71

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Random binary dumps aren't what they used to be. You should manually decode some 8-bit ascii by hand: $ python Python 2.7.6 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import random >>> print(''.join([chr(random.randint(32,255)) for x in range(50)]).decode("latin-1")) ¿IBÄõq½¦Áºn}@õÖhzUÌÓQ£m5ë¢ümÇ®=ÇÆªLÛHt Now that's quality random binary garbage.

Medium-quality random binary garbage. randint is an alias for randrange,[1] which produces "slightly uneven distributions" according to the docs before version 3.2.[2]

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand... (There's no such hint for the 2.x docs, but I'm guessing it was just added later for clarification)

[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand...