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My favorite game.

GTA III, Vice City and San Andreas had mod allowing to play online (multiplayer) called "Multi Theft Auto" (for Vice City there was another one called VC:MP)

As far as I remember, the MTA project was started by a guy who initially tried to build a trainer by reverse engineering one of the GTA games, in the end he ended with a multiplayer mod. Fun times.


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Visitor needs a GitHub account to comment? OK if all of your readers are programmers I guess...


Theory: Database Lessons by Dr. Daniel Soper (watch at x2 speed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1LIXLIF50uXWJ9alDSXC...

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I think he meant Ryan Dahl's talk: Design Mistakes in Node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA


If cable gets cut somewhere, how they find out where it happened?


ISPs or dark fiber providers have detailed maps aligning with road networks. If there’s a suspected fiber cut they’ll run an OTDR from the ODF box or the source photonic equipment which will show high reflection/ signal degradation where the break occurred to the nearest 100m dependant on test granularity.


> ISPs or dark fiber providers have detailed maps aligning with road networks.

Most of the time. I worked a summer for Virgin (UK) basically digging holes to run cables.

I'd say 1 in every 6-7 jobs we dug the hole and found no existing Virgin inf. in the ground. You'd have to come back the next day hopefully with better information to try again.


I believe they use devices that act like some kind of radar. They send a signal across the wire and measure how long it takes to bounce back. They can get a really good estimation of the distance between the ping and the cut.

But maybe others can explain how this works.

Edit: this website explains other methods very well https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2015/06/cable-faults-ho...


Also, fiber optics needs repeaters, so as a first rough estimate resource you can very quickly determine between which two repeaters the cable was broken.


Time-domain reflectometry


I haven't read any of their book yet but I found they have page with book collections: https://dl.acm.org/collections


Cambridge allowed everyone to access their library but then they changed it to "available online to students through their university library regardless of whether they were previously purchased" https://www.cambridge.org/about-us/covid-19/


This article is from 2016. We are in 2019, I'm curious what happened to the author, did he eventually found a job? switched career?


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