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A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#43My results:
uptime: 7:44
score: 259513
mode: easy
How did yours compare?
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#44I like to imagine that, as in Ender's Game, the top-ranked player is unknowingly allocating memory for some critical infrastructure somewhere.
Getting Severance vibes.
Oh man,(spoilers) my pet theory is that the 'work' is actually them self-adjusting their implants. Remember they describe a number as a 'feeling' and some numbers 'feel' wrong. And we see behind the scenes that they are testing the main character with the psychiatrist/wife to see if it breaks the 'chips control/severance'.
They are simply engineers perfecting the implants so that they operate better.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#45You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It's basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old/archive file types towards the inner tracks. I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.
I felt that way about PCB routing and layout when I was building electronics.
You're talking about Shenzen.io by Zachtronics, aren't you
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#46FWIW, this was posted to HN on Sept 30th* and gained zero traction, with even the poster deleting their own comment.
As I posted there, it's a really good concept. Add in levels (eg microcontroller in $interesting_product, is on a smartphone, load balancer or api box for a SaaS company), with the levels letting you introduce concepts one at a time, and then you've got yourself a college grade operating systems class. Throw in a bit of programming for automation and dig deep into OS cache algorithms (LRU baby!) and that's something I could have finished before I graduated high school.
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#47I selected easy and still got fed so many processes I cant possibly satisfy them all for more than a minute. What am I doing wrong?
Same. If easy is that stressful, what happens on higher levels?
I think easy makes you forget about memory-swap side of the game. Still feels unfairly hard tho
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Getting Severance vibes.
Oh man,(spoilers) my pet theory is that the 'work' is actually them self-adjusting their implants. Remember they describe a number as a 'feeling' and some numbers 'feel' wrong. And we see behind the scenes that they are testing the main character with the psychiatrist/wife to see if it breaks the 'chips control/severance'. They are simply engineers perfecting the implants so that they operate better.
I think that the numbers are in-house red team fuzzing attempts against the implant, with the goal being lower mean time between failures of the implant. It could also represent a debugger IDE, with the “spooky” numbers that we see jumping around onscreen on the workstation representing some kind of bad data that doesn’t pass tests that the normal numbers onscreen do pass.
I’m reminded of the in house help desk tech support that someone calls for in the film Vanilla Sky, analogously.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#49My results: uptime: 7:44 score: 259513 mode: easy How did yours compare?
6:15 174612 on normal mode.
Strangely fun.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#50You know what would be cool? A defragmentation game. It's basically Tetris but in a circular layout, and you get more points the better optimized it is - with frequently used data blocks towards the outer tracks and old/archive file types towards the inner tracks. I always enjoyed watching graphical defragmenters do their magic back in the day and would unironically love to play a defragging game.
Lets up the stakes and use a real drive as part of the sacrifice to the game.
Let's up the stakes and use a real production storage in the game