Posts made by Cheesegrater

I sure wouldn't do anything custom at that rate, but I might sell somebody a chargen at around $50 if I thought there was enough of a market (I doubt there is personally) that I could sell a half dozen copies.

If you like getting paid and don't like web development, Embedded systems are booming right now, what with every new product needing to be on the IoT or controllable via a smartphone app.

@Sparks said in Web Based Client:

the server serving the webclient needs to make any actual backend connection to the game.

Yeah, that's what it does.

http://www.cheesesoftware.com/MUCon/

@Lotherio
Battletech MUX is a hardcode fork. You can get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/btech/

@HelloProject said in Computer Science:

Excuse me for being late to this, but what are the prereqs of symbolic logic?

None. It's usually a freshman course offered by a Philosophy department. With respect to the folks recommending it, you won't really apply it directly to Comp Sci unless/until you get to formal proofs of correctness, which would come a couple years into a computer science degree. Probably as an elective.

And while we're at it, what are the prereqs of boolean algebra?

Basic high school algebra. It's not a very big topic. A university class usually won't spend more than a day (maybe two) on it. It's often (but not always) covered as a part of Discrete math. You can find books specifically on it, but they usually end up packing in some related stuff (like set theory, which is itself worthwhile) to get the page count up.

My coding endeavours have been going well. I've actually been doing FreeCodeCamp, because it's good career-wise and college is dicking me around with trying to do financial aid anyway.

If you're accepted somewhere, you should look into Summer of Code. You can qualify even if you haven't actually started taking courses yet.

@Jim-Nanban said in HOW-TO: Reneg on a promise to write an AWS How-To:

Yeah, I recall @Cheesegrater mentioned it's not that expensive... That's awesome, but with the byzantine options provided at this point to me I can't see how he gets the price he pays, and so I can't in good conscience at all help people get embroiled into something I can't get them out of and can't be sure they won't get themselves into trouble with.

Here's my price breakdown for one instance, which is all you need for a MU*.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud running Linux/UNIX Reserved Instances
USD 0.006 per Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC), t2.micro instance-hour (or partial hour) 744 Hrs $4.46

EBS
$0.05 per 1 million I/O requests - US West (Oregon) 885,105 IOs $0.04
$0.05 per GB-month of Magnetic provisioned storage - US West (Oregon) 23.000 GB-Mo $1.15
$0.095 per GB-Month of snapshot data stored - US West (Oregon) 10.837 GB-Mo $1.03
Total: $2.22

Total for instance $6.68.

I pay a little bit more (pennies) for bandwidth.

If you run on-demand instead of reserved it will cost you about double that, but reserved has a minimum contract term. Up to you.

@faraday said in AWS (Amazon Web Service) as MU Hosting:

have to pay extra for disk space

The free tier includes 30 GB of storage. It is pretty cheap even after you leave the free tier - I run a MUSH server, a couple of web sites, and my HTML5 MU client for around $11.50 a month.

Also AFAIK the service you're talking about isn't up continuously like a MU* needs to be. It's designed for websites which only need to be spun up when someone's looking at them. But I could be wrong there.

Yeah, you are wrong. EC2 stays up as long as you want it to.

Linear algebra is a freshmen year college course and typically has no prereqs. As long as you remember your middle/high school algebra you know enough. Linear algebra is helpful for 3D graphics and/or solving large systems of linear equations (like you'd find in a physics engine), but it isn't super commonly used in computer science per se.

The mathematical topics that are really commonly used in Comp Sci are lumped together and called 'Discrete mathematics'. There's a book called 'Introductory Discrete Mathematics ' by Balakrishnan that we used to teach from in my TA days. It's a Dover book so it is one of the cheapest around, but it is a little densely written in places. If your basic math is shaky you might want to spend more on a book that elaborates a bit more. Just scan amazon for discrete math, there's lots of them.

@RDC

No, they understood what MUing was - Steve Jackson Games hosted/ran PyramidMOO back in the day, predating the US edition of In Nomine.

They've just always been very touchy about computer licensing of their products, ever since the deal to license GURPS for Fallout fell apart and they missed out on getting their name on one of the most beloved CRPG franchises ever made.

Trademark is a red herring.

The reason none of these authors want to give permission is to protect licensing deals. If they want to license their IP for a TV show or an MMO or something, it is more lucrative to sell exclusive rights. If they gave permission to a MUSH, the rights wouldn't be exclusive.

Also, fictional characters are generally protected by copyright, not trademark. (Though some used extensively for corporate branding, like Mickey Mouse, are protected both ways). Reusing a distinctive character is automatically a derivative work, even if you don't copy any text or images verbatim.

@Thenomain said in Flights 'n Tights MUX:

Versatile how? Are there un-versatile bisexuals? Are there versatile straight women? What in the world does this mean?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top,_bottom_and_versatile#Versatile

@Arkandel said in The Shame Game:

@Cheesegrater What do flat earthers say about calling their friends in different timezones at noon and it's night where they are?

They think the sun is moving along a circular track overhead. The opposite time zones are on the far side of the track.

@ThatGuyThere said in The Shame Game:

You can measure the angle we can view the sun at different places to be different at the same time, and the difference could not be accounted for solely by the variance of the sun's position.

A flat earther would point out that Eratosthenes' math also works out if the earth is flat and the sun is both small and close by.

I'm OK with it, if you swear a solemn oath not to be a jerk, lame-ass, or use it to run a creepy my little pony game or something.

I have the original commented/installable version, which I'm guessing Whirlpool doesn't have - would probably get you up and running with less effort if you don't mind that it is vanilla 3.5, not pathfinder.

@Alzie said:

they have in the past shared their codebase.

If they did, they did without the permission of their original coder.