Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
An even more specific version of DOOM for sysadmins, then?
A video game where you are an operating system
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Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#82Now, I want to write a program the play that game...
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#83In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
Humans often like to compare the brain to technology.
For example, when gears were high tech there were people that drew heads with gears turning inside of the head, likening the act of thinking to the motion of gears. And I think in cartoons etc we still see this sometimes.
:D
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#84In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
Humans often like to compare the brain to technology. For example, when gears were high tech there were people that drew heads with gears turning inside of the head, likening the act of thinking to the motion of gears. And I think in cartoons etc we still see this sometimes. :D
Also relevant: “How an Algorithm Feels from Inside” (2008)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yA4gF5KrboK2m2Xu7/how-an-alg...
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#85You 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.
It is still fun to run the real thing[0].
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#86In fact human living is basically a type of operating system, as we all juggle on a daily basis tasks, resources, input/output, storage, cache, and states. The concept of dashboard is an essential operating system tool, and on a human scale it is basically your bank, tasks, calendar and inboxes. Plenty of "self improvement" concepts then translate neatly into operating system best practices, such as using FIFO or LIF…
What is the operating system analogy for whacking off? Clearing the cache?
Luckily our computer hardware can Not self-repruduce yet.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#87As the game gets harder with higher utilization you should be able to "buy" upgrades with tokens that you "earn" for hitting milestones or performance targets that automate small mundane tasks. Kinda like the universal paperclips game. Then you throw pathological workloads at the user that thwart the simple automations so you have to unstick it manually. So the user buys upgrades to slightly better automations, thwar…
Yeah I want to be able to buy a memory allocator. And maybe even the option to write one
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#88Awesome idea, but it's too hard for me. In normal mode, I'm already clicking like a maniac in the first 20 seconds of the game, and red processes accumulate, even though I'm cycling out the blocked ones. I had one process killed because no IO event ever came for it. Easy mode seems to be the same, or actually even harder. I don't even get to the point where memory becomes an issue, but at this pace I don't want to.
Maybe I'm getting old, and I get that being an OS is stressful, but so is my job. I don't need another one!
With more forgiving pacing that starts out easy and then increases to keeps just outside of my comfort zone, this could be a very fun game.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#89TIL: Being a computer is hard and I don't ever want to be a computer.
Re: A video game where you are an operating system
#90Awesome idea, but it's too hard for me. In normal mode, I'm already clicking like a maniac in the first 20 seconds of the game, and red processes accumulate, even though I'm cycling out the blocked ones. I had one process killed because no IO event ever came for it. Easy mode seems to be the same, or actually even harder. I don't even get to the point where memory becomes an issue, but at this pace I don't want to. M…
That's what computers are for, doing the repetitive stuff without freaking out for you :)