I've checked out Vega strike off and on again over the years. It always looked interesting but it always seemed like one of those early access, coming soon games that never arrived.
I'll admit, it's been at least 3 or 4 years since I last checked it out but after nearly a decade of waiting for something that resembled a full game I kind of gave up.
I might give it another try though now that I've seen this to see what's changed. it has been a few years now.
I enjoyed this writeup. I always love seeing the lengths dedicated hackers will go to in order to accomplish something most other people wouldn't even consider doing.
The little tricks it takes to get something working in ways nobody really considered or accounted for.
I dunno, this kind of stuff seems like wizardry to me, yet when I read things like this, it makes it seem so easy and inspires me to try tinkering with things.
Yes, I appreciate the level of detail and the explanation of the thought process as he tried to break into the system. It really gives me a feel for what it's like and makes me think, "Hey I could learn how to do that."
I'd love recommendations for similar stories, if anyone has anything to share. I can't find it now, but I read a few blog posts by a guy who was starting to get into electronics (and helped out with the Burning Man Rainbow Bridge) and those posts have me the same sense of "oh, so that's how it works."
Reading this was a ton of fun. It captured the joy and sense of discovery that comes with figuring out how to do something you really weren't meant to do.
When I worked for a shop running windows powered CNC machines, an update broke a bunch of more updated machines one of our partner shops used, dozens of shops were affected by this.
It took a few hours for Microsoft to fix the problem, they responded within a half hour or so of the first complaint.
Two days seems like a long time for Microsoft to respond when commercial customer's businesses are at stake. Say what you want about Microsoft, i don't really like them, but their enterprise/commercial support is honestly pretty top notch, I'm really surprised it took them that long to get on top of that considering the calibre of customers involved.
Not the song that was actually playing during the stabbing, as the urban legend goes, but, I still think the Altamont show has one of the best versions of Sympathy for the Devil. So raw sounding and you can hear the crowd starting to get riled up and stuff.
Even with simple projects.. I just finished working on redoing a static webpage for a client. Really simple, started at 17 pages, cut it down to 6 pages, only text and images with a contact form and a few links. I ended up having to build 3 different versions just to get a layout and design that worked for the client's business and another version I built initially for my own working environment the customer never even seen and wasn't charged for.
Yet here we are in today's third world derived resource driven rush, where billions of dollars vanish and appear in the blink of an eye, unicorn startups come and go in a day and a fool(VC) is quickly parted from their money with a buzzword and some marketing.
I know it's not science, there's no data or anything. But, i've almost been hit as a pedestrian just under 10 times. Every single time it was by either a Mercedes or BMW sedan. My sister was hit by a BMW sedan driver, her back's been fucked ever since. Almost everyone I know that's been involved in an accident as a pedestrian has been hit by either a Mercedes or BMW sedan.
ETA: Seeing as I'm getting downvoted, might as well keep going they've also always inevitably hit and run, or been incredibly rude and scream at you as they almost kill you with their half ton of plastic and metal when they're not paying attention to the road.
That's an extraordinary amount of times to be struck by vehicles. Are there any unusual factors at play? (You live by a highway, have difficulty walking, live in area with poor traffic enforcement, are visually impaired, etc.?)
Is it? He's describing "almost being hit." That's pretty squishy. I think most people who do a lot of walking or biking could come up with 10 "close calls" for some definition of that term.
Yeah, it's a very fuzzy definitions. By HN/Reddit well to do urbanite standards I've probably "almost" been hit dozens of times. By 1970s construction site standards I've probably never had a truly close call.
Nearly 100% of my close calls have been the result of miscommunicated intentions between me and drivers and none of them have been very close. I generally prefer drivers treat me as invisible and do their thing and I time my moves to not interfere with any of that so inattentive drivers don't increase the threat much for me.
the OP said almost been hit - I've almost been hit by vehicles while walking more times than that, usually because of a vehicle driver breaking the law. that happens a lot.
as far as almost being hit while driving, drive a small car and you'll find out how many large vehicle drivers just don't see you.
>Bourke Shire Council, in the state’s north-west, killed the dogs to prevent volunteers at a Cobar-based animal shelter from travelling to pick up the animals last week,
>A source who is familiar with the arrangement said the shelter volunteers are distressed and had COVID-safe measures in place to handle the dogs, one of which was a new mother.
>According to NSW Health, there have been no recent locally acquired COVID-19 cases in Cobar,
So, it was too dangerous to travel in an area with no covid cases and bring dogs to a shelter with full covid protocols and the only alternative was to shoot the dogs?
This is just getting excessive, there's being safe and then there's I don't even know what you call that. There definitely had to be a better way to deal with that situation.
>The Office of Local Government Minister Shelley Hancock, who has previously faced questions in Parliament over the shooting of animals in council pounds,
Although, sounds like the council has had issues with shooting animals in pounds before.
An old coworker of mine was on a gang registry because of people he associated with when he was a teenager. He was in his late 20's-early 30's when we worked together. Really nice guy, super hard working, spent his free time gaming or hanging out with his girlfriend, got really into his puppy and being a dog owner. Hadn't been around gangsters for at least a decade.
He'd regularly get pulled over and hassled by cops just because when they scanned his plate he'd show up as being on the gang registry. Ended up losing his license for several months because his friend who was his passenger one time had a very small amount of weed in a bag in his pocket when he got pulled over.
Pretty much any time cops are around or even whenever he drives, there's always a chance he's going to get pulled over and harassed randomly.
Not because of anything he ever did, just because he chose the wrong friends when he was young.
I'll admit, it's been at least 3 or 4 years since I last checked it out but after nearly a decade of waiting for something that resembled a full game I kind of gave up.
I might give it another try though now that I've seen this to see what's changed. it has been a few years now.