The Case of the 50ms request

#1

Post by stochastimus » Wed, May 05, 2021, 6:41 PM UTC

The Case of the 50ms request
mysteries.wizardzines.com

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#2

Post by noodlesUK » Thu, May 06, 2021, 6:29 AM UTC

As requested by the commenter below (now I want spoiler tags):

SPOILER FOR THE GAME

I’ve seen TCP_NODELAY all over the place before, but never known why. This was a fun way to find out.

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#3

Post by dbt00 » Thu, May 06, 2021, 6:34 AM UTC

noodlesUK wrote: post #2

As requested by the commenter below (now I want spoiler tags): SPOILER FOR THE GAME I’ve seen TCP_NODELAY all over the place before, but never known why. This was a fun way to find out.

hackernews feature request: spoiler tags. :)

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#4

Post by tommek4077 » Thu, May 06, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

JavaScript is required. Please enable it to continue.

No

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#5

Post by noahtallen » Thu, May 06, 2021, 6:53 AM UTC

tommek4077 wrote: post #4

JavaScript is required. Please enable it to continue. No

It’s an interactive page, not a blog post

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#6

Post by pygy_ » Thu, May 06, 2021, 6:54 AM UTC

tommek4077 wrote: post #4

JavaScript is required. Please enable it to continue. No

This is a free, indie interactive fiction about network troubleshooting.

I mean, it could have been made as a server-side app, but going SPA makes sense here from a practical standpoint.

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#7

Post by neolog » Thu, May 06, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

noahtallen wrote: post #5

tommek4077 wrote: post #4

JavaScript is required. Please enable it to continue. No

It’s an interactive page, not a blog post

It's a webpage with buttons that take you to another webpage.

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#8

Post by lloeki » Thu, May 06, 2021, 7:01 AM UTC

noodlesUK wrote: post #2

As requested by the commenter below (now I want spoiler tags): SPOILER FOR THE GAME I’ve seen TCP_NODELAY all over the place before, but never known why. This was a fun way to find out.

Rot13 the spoiling text!

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#9

Post by slx26 » Thu, May 06, 2021, 7:04 AM UTC

neolog wrote: post #7

noahtallen wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an interactive page, not a blog post

It's a webpage with buttons that take you to another webpage.

Given the technical nature of the puzzles/adventures, I guess that if there's something we could all agree on is that the message about why javascript is required could be a bit more nuanced. Beyond that, sure, it could be done without javascript, but it's easy to see how it helps using javascript. It's a pretty fair use-case.

Re: The Case of the 50ms request

#10

Post by CaliforniaKarl » Thu, May 06, 2021, 7:07 AM UTC

A comment from the inventor of Nagle’s algorithm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9050645

(tl;dr Try turning off delayed ACK first, especially if you can’t update the code.)