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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.
We can make it one! Who'll launch the kickstarter?
Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
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Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
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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.
I guess if I were writing it, I might have made [how chaotic Twitch Plays Pokemon was](a link), but it's not exactly something to go complaining about..
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
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Gentoo is real hard, but I've heard from people the Arch install is even more painful :/
Nah. Format the disk, bootstrap your root partition, edit some config files, install your packages, done. If you know what you're doing and have a fast internet connection, you're talking about 10 minutes to a working OS. Unlike Gentoo, which has a days-long compilation step.
You missed setting up a bootloader, which often is the most tricky part, sometimes due to some funny update in the freshest version of the ArchLinux which wasn't fixed yet. Bleeding edge and all.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
#154I was thinking, "won't Twitch ban this for not being a game?". But the I realized that this itself is a game. I wonder what Twitch's policy on meta-gaming is.
They have a "creative" section that a lot of non gaming stuff falls into. A few months ago there was a twitch plays a neural network thing, where people in the chat told the neural network what to hallucinate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IREsx-xWQ0g
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
#155How will you react on people doing illegal stuff such as trying to setup up a spam server or downloading illegal things?
Since this seems to be a ""collaborative"" game, if someone manages to go that far without anyone else foiling their plans, they deserve a medal!
They might be able to do it with a minified url and a script.
curl lo.ly | bash
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
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Many solutions, e.g. make sleep 0.9 sec, i.e. less than period to guarantee entering the critical 1 second span at least once.
Even if you set the interval to the minimum possible, there is no upper bound on how long it may take to complete, or indeed, any guarantee that it will complete. In this case it doesn't matter, but I point this out because I've seen people trying to use this sort of logic in places where it does matter in the last three months.
If they'd just switched it to greater than and used a unix timestamp...
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
#157This 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
Civilization Twitch. 1 stream / civilisation.
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
#158This 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 simulates quantum physics
Although I'm not sure anybody could tell the difference...
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
#159Hey guys, author here. Feel free to ask any questions, and I'll try my best to answer them!
What happens if somebody runs a VM sandbox break exploit (however unlikely that is)? Do you wipe the hardware completely?
Re: Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game
#160The 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?
Because this isn't mission critical code, and it will work 99+% of the time. If it doesn't work the author can manually intervene.