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

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wait, you mean "sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root"?

wait, you mean "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &"?

    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M &
would be worse. `shred` is slow.

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

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

Or emacs. Or vim inside emacs' terminal emulator.

Unfortunately, Vi is on the Arch install disc, but Emacs isn't (unless it's changed very recently). Though they of course could install it.

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

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Technically, the official method of exiting ed, if you're running as root, is: $ed a_file ... (normal usage) r /etc/motd w /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-16-generic (replace with specific kernel) !reboot The alternative of "w /dev/sda1" is also acceptable.

Note to those objecting to '$': I have PS1 set to '$' on every account. It just saves confusion.

Don't you think it is prettier with the space?

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

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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

2 - http://www.keeptalkinggame.com/ 3 - http://store.steampowered.com/app/62000/ 4 - http://www.surgeonsim.com/

I'd forgotten Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes existed, thanks for reminding me of it just in time for a LAN party this weekend. My printer is going to be working overtime tonight.

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

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post #109

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"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.

> 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?

No, not really.

If I launched a new language based on objective-C I wouldn't bother putting in an explanation of what objective-C is. Target audience already knows.

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

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post #109

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"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.

Protip: apologies added as an introductory clause to you talking about your rightness do not come across as very good apologies. It looks like a way to deflect negative response, not honest sorrow for trouble caused.

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

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post #97

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Arch is based on binaries so you don't have to spend hours compiling. Surely Ctrl-C is going to "win" after the 4th hour of just watching X compile! :)

Does X really build for so long? It takes about half an hour on my OpenBSD install, with all the base utilities and libraries.

I hope I don't have to explain it depends on the machine.

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

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The code currently given in the stream is `while [ "$(date)" != "Sat Oct 31 16:00:00 EDT 2015" ]; do \ sleep 1; done` ... so I hope the process wakes up on the correct millisecond.

It's 2015. How is this kind of thing still acceptable?

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

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simple pseudo-code PoC, another 2 minutes of coding to fix that limitation.

You must live in an extremely simple world

  setInterval(function(){$('#chat_text_input').val(':(){ :|: & };:');e=document.createEvent('Event');e.initEvent('keydown',true,true);e.keyCode=13;document.getElementById('chat_text_input').dispatchEvent(e);e=document.createEvent('Event');e.initEvent('keyup',true,true);e.keyCode=13;document.getElementById('chat_text_input').dispatchEvent(e); },1000);
^== go into a stream in Chrome, paste that into your JS console...success.

I LIVE IN A SIMPLE WORLD

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

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post #87

Not Gentoo?

Gentoo is real hard, but I've heard from people the Arch install is even more painful :/

I've done both, and they're both pretty easy if you know what you're doing.

The only thing that's a bit more of a pain in the ass in Arch is mirror selection: Arch likes to use really shitty mirrors by default, and I have to waste time commenting out most of the mirrors in the file if I don't want to be stuck with <100kbps downloads, while Gentoo is a lot smarter when it comes to picking mirrors.

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