Reminds me of The Lonely Island doing a song about being in Japan so that the record label would fly them out to Japan to record the music video.
Readit Newslwansbrough commented on The Bob Dylan concert for just one person flaggingdown.com/p/the-bo... · Posted by u/NaOH
lwansbrough commented on Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling bbc.com/news/articles/cj6... · Posted by u/haunter
An odd choice, for sure. Not much else to be said really.
lwansbrough commented on How private equity is changing housing theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/harambae
Lots of ideas in here that fail to properly identify and address the root cause, which is disappointing given how many of us are programmers.
Trace the problem back. Where does it start?
Why is PE investing in homes? Because they can make money. Why does buying a home make money? Because the value appreciates. Why does the value appreciate on an asset that literally deteriorates over time? Because of restricted supply. Why is there a supply shortage?
The root cause of this issue is supply. Zoning, mostly, is to blame. There are down stream issues, like the capacity of the construction industry, but that is an effect of the current environment not a root cause in and of itself — if there is money to be made, construction will grow as fast as it can.
Fix supply, and you fix the issue. This is a uniquely (English) western world problem. Go look at western countries that speak English vs. non-English housing starts. It’s just a cultural failure. You can blame corporations all you want but at the end of the day most people in the anglosphere expect a return on the largest purchase of their lives, even if it comes at the cost of materially worsening the lives of those around them.
At this point - you would think that cheaters could be detected on the server side by either training a model to flag abnormal behavior or do some type of statistics on the movement patterns over time - is a client-side anti-cheat really required?
What you’ll find is that a subset of players define a behaviour and now you have to prove that that behaviour is cheating. For most behaviours that could be cheating, it will overlap with skilled players.
Examples would be pre-aiming corners and >99th percentile reaction time.
You need a false positive rate well below 1%.
Anti-cheat is a necessity for an enjoyable game experience. If you are a casual who doesn’t care about game integrity, you probably aren’t the target audience.
I don’t want any cheaters in my games. I don’t care if a rootkit is required. Riot has a kernel level anti-cheat and it’s _really_ good. It’s so good in fact that it deters most cheaters from even trying. This is the dream for anyone who wants fair games.
lwansbrough commented on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive old.reddit.com/r/google_a... · Posted by u/tamnd
Look, this is obviously terrible for someone who just lost most or perhaps all of their data. I do feel bad for whoever this is, because this is an unfortunate situation.
On the other hand, this is kind of what happens when you run random crap and don't know how your computer works? The problem with "vibes" is that sometimes the vibes are bad. I hope this person had backups and that this is a learning experience for them. You know, this kind of stuff didn't happen when I learned how to program with a C compiler and a book. The compiler only did what I told it to do, and most of the time, it threw an error. Maybe people should start there instead.
I seem to recall a few people being helped into executing sudo rm -rf / by random people on the internet so I’m not sure it “didn’t happen.” :)
lwansbrough commented on A triangle whose interior angles sum to zero johndcook.com/blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/tzury
>In spherical geometry, the interior angles of a triangle add up to more than π. And in fact you can determine the area of a spherical triangle by how much the angle sum exceeds π. On a sphere of radius 1, the area equals the triangle excess
To all the flat earthers out there, this property can be used to find out earth is not flat, just by drawing a giant triangle on the surface, without leaving the earth. Historically, to prove the earth is round, people have relied on the sun shining directly overhead on wells in different cities. But this approach proves it without the need to refer the sun.
Once you internalize that flat-Earther-ism isn’t about the Earth being flat you realize that rational arguments are pointless.
To expand on that, it’s about community and finding people who share your interests. The movie Behind The Curve explores this idea and it’s quite revealing.
I see a lot of people in here saying no. Just don’t use it if you don’t want it. It’s really that simple. This is a very simple feature request for HN.
lwansbrough commented on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark gamingonlinux.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/haunter
The anticheats themselves typically do support Linux, it's the devs that don't choose to use them
Well EAC for example is user space only because it has to be, which some games decide is not an acceptable level of security.
lwansbrough commented on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark gamingonlinux.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/haunter
Biggest hurdle for me to do this is just multiplayer games. I wish Linux would offer a solution to that. No idea what it would look like though.
Contrary to most Linux advocates I’m a big believer in giving studios the tools they need to defeat cheaters and I don’t care much about system integrity if it means fairer games.