Mark Imbriaco

Head of Engineering @ Railway. Prev. Epic Games, GitHub, Heroku, 37signals. Father of 4.

[Mark Imbriaco @markimbriaco]

There's technical debt, then there's technical subprime mortgages with exploding balloon payments.

[Mark Imbriaco @markimbriaco]

@CalvinMcConne12 @Codydearkland @ngeloxyz @Railway There is a brand new shell (ssh console) in priority boarding. More about it in last week’s changelog along with a link for how you can enable it:

https://t.co/QPPhd2kUdQ

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@spiritfan8 @ScoutingTheRefs Final score was 6-1 not 4-0. Was a correction for the article, but I could have been more clear.

That said, I was at the game, am a huge Canes fan, and thought it should have been called back. Wouldn’t ultimately have changed the outcome but was a bad call.

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@ajambrosino My regex experience was forged in the fires of Perl, I don't even need memory it's pure instinct.

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@ScoutingTheRefs "Carolina went on to defeat the Habs 4-0 in Game 5 to win their seven-game series 4-1. The Hurricanes will advance to face the Vegas Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final."

Ummm.

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@danlatorraca In Rod we trust.

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@chrismunns It was electric in the building and this was one of my favorite parts.

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Did someone say the Canes are boring? Not sure, couldn’t really hear over this OLE chant …

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@mitchellh Not the same, but I stopped right before my PP-ASEL checkride because I realized I wasn't going to make the time to stay current. Learning to fly was great fun and I don't regret it.

Glad you got to enjoy it when it made sense!

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@mcclusk @BizNasty2point0 @spittinchiclets @RearAdBsBlog Lenovo was awesome for this in game 2. The traveling Habs fans sang along to O Canada and the rest of us sang along to The Star Spangled Banner. It was great.

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@TheGentleGoat You have the agency to not run their game. It’s quite simple.

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I love everything about this DMA blocking anti-cheat saga. Riot’s anti-cheat team is crushing it.

[Riot Games @riotgames]

Does Vanguard physically damage hardware?
No.

Does this impact hardware or software in any ways unrelated to Riot’s games?
No. The IOMMU security protection does not impact hardware, and would only impact the ability of players using DMA cheat devices to play our games.

Are normal players affected?
Players not using DMA cheat hardware are unaffected.

Why target DMA cheats?
DMA-based cheats are among the most sophisticated forms of cheating because they attempt to bypass traditional software detection by accessing memory directly through external hardware.

I’m affected by this. How do I fix it?
To continue cheating in other titles with this device, you may simply disable IOMMU in BIOS in the same place that you enabled it. Of course, you still won’t be able to play our games with these cheat devices enabled.

Why did Riot joke about “bricking” PCs?
We didn’t. The “paperweight” comment was about VALORANT cheat devices that no longer work in VALORANT. No hardware is being damaged and no other functionalities are impacted.

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@ChogoSprow The next time that happens will be the first time, so I’m profoundly unconcerned.

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@chrismunns Agreed with all and we're addressing it.

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tar files -> rcs -> tar files -> svn -> sourcesafe -> svn -> git -> perforce -> git

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

fun fact: my career was svn (tortoise) -> git -> perforce -> git

My first year at netflix was a downgrade to perforce... I hated it.

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@holman But at least we got an epic video of the new data center build after we left them.

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@BenjDicken @levelsio @PlanetScale SQLite and rsync is all you need

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@chrismunns A database is really just two S3 buckets in a trenchcoat.

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@buildwithparas @tqbf And nobody cared or noticed. Which is, in fact, the point.

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Welp, concerns about the Canes being rusty can be put to bed. Let’s go Canes!

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@jmclarty @JustJake These are almost always failing servers, not something we do by choice. I think we fixed the email subject very recently. Sorry for the unclear messaging there.