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

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Post by yiyus »

OJFord wrote: post #152
serge2k wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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..

At difference of complaining about people complaining, which I see is worth your time...

Take it easy people. The web site was not clear for me, the author was asking for input so I raised my point. I already apologized for using the wrong words.

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

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Post by Roodgorf »

Natanael_L wrote: post #151
Roodgorf wrote: post #47

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

We can make it one! Who'll launch the kickstarter?

Top contributor decides which editor we write it in.

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

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Post by vortico »

ryan-c wrote: post #121
sarciszewski wrote: post #46

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

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

And dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda & is probably faster than shred, but I could be wrong as it might be doing essentially that.

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

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Post by Fiahil »

malka wrote: post #157
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

Civilization Twitch. 1 stream / civilisation.

1 week later Nukes flying all over the place.

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

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Post by techdragon »

DonHopkins wrote: post #163
eloy wrote: post #26

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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".

Which is a book inside a smaller book which is inside a smaller book ...

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

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Post by quarktasche »

amyjess wrote: post #130
igorgue wrote: post #87

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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.

  mv mirrorlist mirrorlist.bak
  rankmirrors -n 10 mirrorlist.bak > mirrorlist

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

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Post by api_or_ipa »

ciupicri wrote: post #36
eru wrote: post #35

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Ctrl-z works universally, doesn't it?

Not really. Some programs disable it including vim (at least on some setups).

Every vim I've ever played on has respected `ctrl-z`. In fact, I use `ctrl-z` to jump out of my vim (to restart a server, ls the local dir, etc).

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

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Post by api_or_ipa »

__david__ wrote: post #136
schwap wrote: post #63

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Back when I first started my CompSci degree, a friend of mine always "quit" emacs with ctrl-z. Or, at least he did until he managed to fill his entire home directory quota with emacs backup files that were never cleaned up...

Ha, I still do that! $ jobs [4] Stopped emacsclient -a '' -nw [redacted] (wd: [redacted]) [5] Stopped emacsclient -a '' -nw [redacted] (wd: [redacted]) [6] Stopped emacsclient -a '' -nw [redacted] (wd: [redacted]) [7] Stopped emacsclient -a '' -nw [redacted] (wd: [redacted]) [8] Stopped emacsclient -a '' -nw [redacted] (wd: [redacted]) [9] Stopped emacsclient -a '' -nw [redacted] (wd: [redacted]) [10] Stopped emacscl…

`fg` is your friend
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