The Bridge

6:01 AM

@balpha Chat was constantly disconnected. I could channel hop at a normal speed and it would show the chat updates, but I can not tell you how many times I saw the 'chat is not responding' popup today while I was at work.

murgatroid99

At that point, though, the FOV thing complicates things exceedingly, since the probability combinations depend on the relative positions of all of the creepers

user2334

@murgatroid99 That doesn't sound right. For one, take one chunk of 256 blocks. If they were all filled with creepers, the probability wouldn't increase at that moment in time: only one block would get hit. And two: whether lightning strikes a chunk is an independent event. Like, if you flip two coins, the probability one of them lands on heads is still 50%

balpha

@James Do you have a bad internet connection there? I recently made a change that causes the notification to possibly appear earlier than it used to, but it still requires three failed polls in a row

user2334

…right?

James

@balpha We have a 3MBit business ethernet loop.. should be nigh unstoppable, even if it is slow.

user2334

6:04 AM

I do think the chances are increased as time goes on as long as creepers don't despawn, though.

balpha

@James Weird... what browser?

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp The first thing is because you said that lightning only hits one block in a chunk at a time, so the probabilities of lightening hitting two blocks in the same chunk is not independent. And creepers can be in different chunks

James

@balpha Chrome

And I honestly thought it was just me all day until Ben said he was having the same issue.

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp Second, flipping two coins has four possibilities: "HH, HT, TH, TT", so probability of a head is 3/4

@MarkTrapp Also, in your post you pointed out correctly that if a chunk is full of creepers, the overall probability of seeing a charged creeper is greater

balpha

@James Next time that happens, can you check in the network tab of the Ctrl-Shift-J dev tools for failed AJAX requests? (also, when you don't F5, is the connection reestablished, i.e. does the notification disappear again?)

oh, and are you behind a proxy that prevents websocket connections?

James

6:09 AM

@balpha Not that I am aware of, chat has worked fine for weeks until today.

@balpha Will do if it happens tomorrow.. I am honestly hoping it wont :)

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp I would keep talking about this, but it's after 2 am here and I should go to bed

balpha

@James it's not really a question of "working", websockets are entirely optional. I made a rather large change to the whole server-communication code yesterday, so it's entirely possible (and probable) that this is related.

James

Ahhh

user2334

@murgatroid99 But if I'm looking at either coin, it's 50%. The probability of one specific coin toss isn't affected by the other. But I think we're talking about the same thing: first lightning strike, the probability is what I wrote in my answer. The second lightning strike, the probability would increase.

balpha

And when it comes to "hmm, I'm having connection issues", I erred on the defensive side here, especially with the big refactoring, since the alternative would be that people in the room are telling tons of jokes about you, and you don't even notice because the client hasn't realized that there are connection issues. So, any details on this would be appreciated if you see it again.

murgatroid99

6:14 AM

@MarkTrapp can lightening strike in two chunks at the same time?

user2334

@murgatroid99 No. It iterates over the available chunks and checks to see if lightning strikes it (1:100,000 chance). If it does, it picks one block out of 256 in the chunk to designate as being hit

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp but there's nothing stopping it from hitting another chunk in the same frame?

user2334

Well, there's nothing stopping another chunk from being hit in the same loop no… I see it

user2334

So it's probability of all the chunks available together

user2334

1:25,600,000 choose ChunksLoaded or whatever

user2334

6:17 AM

(assuming there's a creeper in each chunk)

user2334

Ugh, this problem sucks

murgatroid99

@MarkTrapp yeah. Best bet is to add the assumption of just one creeper around (and one frame in which lightening can strike) or something

@MarkTrapp Now that I think about it, I think your answer actually calculates the probability of seeing a particular creeper get hit by lightning

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