> So you aren't breaking any laws of physics, you are just able to make much better tactical decisions.
With respect I'd like to disagree on this subtly. A lot of games have the client send their cursor position at relatively frequent updates/packages (i.e. sub-second). So the server knows pretty precisely in which direction and to which object a player is looking.
This in turn can be readily used upon when using wall-hacks, as most players, who use wall-hacks tend to almost faithfully follow objects behind walls with their cursor, which good moderators can usually spot within a few seconds, when reviewing such footage (source: I was involved in recognizing Wall-Hacks in Minecraft, where players would replace textures, to easily find and mine diamonds underground).
> It’s an ugly, toxic cycle that bottoms out at everyone constantly having their knowledge and competence questioned over things they know and can do, by people who don’t and can’t.
That rings so true in my head. Being too open and transparent got me quite a lot of misery already. More than once, I got the work of months discarded, because some other (shiny or new) approach was deemed to provide a better solution -- only to the effect that it was later discovered that it was the worse approach.
Apparently it is very easy to miss in the pursuit for the best solution, in unfortunate favor of one's preconceived notions.
Another prime example on the typical arrogance of this trade, of computer scientists:
My brain immediately goes like: You nitwit, base64 comes back from E-Mails, where you would work with Mail-Server's conception that your mails were all written, legible characters. Of course you should expect newlines, potentially whitespaces and tabs in it.
But that would be stupid of me. There's so much old knowledge and know-how we carry along for many decades - around 50 years in case of mail and SMTP. Unix and Linux are a specially egregious example, with so many conventions.... just ran into a long standing bug a few days ago, with some GECOS implementation (that's 62 years old stuff). We do a lot of good in throwing out the now unnecessary old stuff and separating the wheat from the chaff. Again and again.
In so far: Thanks for the pointer on that Base64 appears strange (also please do not let us talk about groff).
Surprisingly lots of good advice, especially when one got a few years of professional experience.
> Do It Scared
True. I've deep dived enough topics and technology to confidently say that pretty much everyone is just cooking with water as they say. .... The special specialist doing super professional job with X? - well they are probably just using this or that standard tool. Resolving problems with some very sound approaches (which they probably taught themselves through experimenting, through practice).
Especially with software: Just have a go at it. The worst that could probably happen is that you need to reinstall your Operating System (and please don't ask me, how I developed some kernel-patch-performance-evaluation)
> When my phone plays certain tracks it makes and explosion of noise when switching songs. [...] Apparently this service has some sort of bug.
Using Chrome on Android and also on my computer, the annoying pop does thankfully not appear between music tracks with my Simple Music Player, called JUkebox with Php and Html5, short JUPH: https://github.com/quimoniz/juph
I tried to make it dead simple, using the HTML5 Audio element.
Now it's been lying around for 4 years... does anyone else know of a similarly non-sophisticated audio player?
Pretty much the definition of 90 % of all the meetings. Just putting on bluetooth earpieces and doing the laundry doesn't deduct the value of me hearing another round of very efficient 'cost savings' that they thought about somewhere up the chain or other administrative ideas.
With respect I'd like to disagree on this subtly. A lot of games have the client send their cursor position at relatively frequent updates/packages (i.e. sub-second). So the server knows pretty precisely in which direction and to which object a player is looking.
This in turn can be readily used upon when using wall-hacks, as most players, who use wall-hacks tend to almost faithfully follow objects behind walls with their cursor, which good moderators can usually spot within a few seconds, when reviewing such footage (source: I was involved in recognizing Wall-Hacks in Minecraft, where players would replace textures, to easily find and mine diamonds underground).