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Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by MisterBastahrd »

kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

Nothing wrong with it, but it does allow people to stretch their brains a bit, and sometimes you get new novel things that start out with "Dude, you know what would be cool?"

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by nonword »

So cool. Reminded of Gibson's The Peripheral - even if there's nothing so existentially twisted in what the author actually did. I suppose the interesting part is just that the author is controlling a light IRL from the center of a russian-doll of emulated environments, but it sure feels profound given that one of those environments emulates an environment you can walk around in.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by StavrosK »

kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

> my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really"

oh my god how can you not find this the coolest thing ever

> Does it make me less of a "hacker"?

Probably not.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by oldpond »

kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

"seemingly unrelated" It's not hard to imagine that this is how a flight control system for a drone might work.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by nkrisc »

tjohns wrote: post #38
easytiger wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

prob the Phillips bulbs. Sadly they don't sit flush in most sockets, despite using the same fixture name.

Definitely not the Philips Hue bulbs. Those use a REST API on port 80 for network control, whereas these bulbs are using a proprietary binary protocol on port 5577.

From what I've been able to find about the Philips API, there's also a modicum of authentication while these appear happy to accept input from anyone on the network.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by schwap »

StavrosK wrote: post #27
donkeyd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For some reason I get weary when I see cheap Chinese products that connect directly to a DC source. Mostly because of the stories of cheap phone chargers catching fire, or electrocuting users.

True, but since everything is made in China these days, probably half the products in your house that connect to a DC source are cheap and Chinese.

Yes, but they've probably been at least UL (or CSA) certified to not burn down your house.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

Yep, I feel the same way. I don't really like tinkering, though. I don't like the mindset of tinkerers, either. Every tinkerer I've come across has never finished anything of substantial size, and every one I've met had terrible programming habits, or such strongly opinionated views, you couldn't work with them or discuss something you liked because it wasn't inline with their holy views of writing god-awful code.

When I pursue a project, I work on it in terms of 10s of thousands of lines of code over a 2-4+ year span of time. When I take up small projects, I make sure they're useful for production purposes.

I often think about the portfolios of people like this, a large number of repositories to show for, and nothing ever particularly useful. Everything is a gimmick, and nothing ever took serious architectural decision making on a grand scale.

Re: Breaking the fourth wall with Minecraft

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Post by marpstar »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #48
kohanz wrote: post #30

> I have a couple of WiFi-enabled bulbs near me, wouldn't it be nice to be able to control them using Minecraft? I mean nothing against the author and like-minded individuals and I have the utmost respect for people with such a "tinkerer" mindset, but often reading things like this on Hacker News makes me feel like a bit of a fraud, because my internal answer to the question above is basically "No, not really". I'm w…

Yep, I feel the same way. I don't really like tinkering, though. I don't like the mindset of tinkerers, either. Every tinkerer I've come across has never finished anything of substantial size, and every one I've met had terrible programming habits, or such strongly opinionated views, you couldn't work with them or discuss something you liked because it wasn't inline with their holy views of writing god-awful code. Wh…

what do you do for fun? it is okay that people do pointless shit in the name of fun, right?
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