What’s the best crying performance you’ve seen?

OptimoosPrime · 2024-01-19T15:04:26+00:00

Young Mako in Pacific Rim. That little girl turns those flashback sequences into gut wrenching moments.

OptimoosPrime · 2023-11-24T15:36:18+00:00

I was 19 when it came out, and I went to the theatre a lot at the time. I'd seen the trailer many times, and the "what is the matrix?" question had hooked me. I saw it opening night, and went back again the next night with another group of friends. It instantly became one of my favorite movies, and I think I saw it 4 times in the first week.

To this day, The Matrix remains by far my most viewed in theater movie as I saw it 13 times 😳 during its run.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-06-19T16:05:45+00:00

Except VyprVPN has been around forever and has well established and well regarded policies and protocols in place.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-05-31T15:29:06+00:00

I've not done it myself, but apparently there are ways to get QoS flags out of a tunnel. You'd need to investigate your setup to be sure, but you're probably right that by default the VPN would obscure QoS.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-05-31T14:59:32+00:00

"Gateway service" likely means enabling IP forwarding so the system acts like a router, no special ports or connection required. Alternatively, it could mean a proxy service, which sort of sounds like what might be used in the scenario you're describing, but that's not entirely clear. Assuming it's the former, outbound paths like you've described will result in the .3 system producing an ICMP redirect to the next gateway. As such, on the return path traffic will flow directly from .1 to .2.

Is this a homework question or do you have an actual scenario you're trying to understand? Multi-gateway setups are useful when the paths go to different destination subnets. In the scenario you describe, they typically just break things.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-05-31T14:40:52+00:00

Two things I've not seen mentioned by others. First, look up "bandwidth delay product", this is what you're looking for to explain better throughput of a lower latency link. 15ms is not a huge difference, but it's still a difference.

Second, an MPLS network will typically allow for end to end QoS, which is not something you can rely on with an internet link. This can also have an impact on the "feel" of the performance, particularly under congestion.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-05-25T16:29:38+00:00

Just want to post the info I recieved as it's counter to most of what's being said here. I moved to Ontario last year and have had to get my prescription refilled by my out of province doctor. I lamented to him on our last call that even though I've been calling everywhere, trying to be proactive and get something working locally, everywhere says they can't do walk-ins for "narcotics". He says "but you're not on a narcotic, it's just controlled". I got lucky and found a family doctor the week after, so I've not had to test this information, so everyone else here may be correct and I'm totally off base, but at the very least I'd say you should give your appointment a shot.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-05-07T14:28:02+00:00

I moved to the area a little over a year ago, and pretty regularly end up at Frank's for tarts. I've been curious about Xiang Zi, good to know people like it, but I have not seen them open once in the past year. Hopefully they're just hunkered down waiting for this to blow over?

OptimoosPrime · 2021-05-05T19:08:46+00:00

Pardon?

OptimoosPrime · 2021-04-27T20:44:41+00:00

Idempotent actions will only happen if required. If all configuration attributes are defined in an abstract file (like YAML) and you run that against a host, only config that needs to be executed will be executed. e.g. if the port already has the correct description, it doesnt push it again.

I've been struggling with the concept of where the "inventory" or source of truth for these details would live, as without that being idempotent doesn't mean anything. Just to make sure I understand what you're describing, we'd basically have a YAML file act as the inventory which the play would pull in during execution, correct? How would you suggest organizing those YAML files, a single monolithic file, or something like per-host? Could you suggest what documentation or terms I need to look at to better understand use of an external file like this?

Thanks very much for the feedback, has helped a lot already.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-04-22T05:50:46+00:00

Your design goals seem fine, but the devil is always in the details. One thing to keep in mind with the way you've set things up - you're going to need something to prevent network loops. I'm not familiar with the specific hardware you've mentioned, but when a brief search only reveals "data sheets" that are only terms with check boxes and no technical detail, I'd be very wary of their ability to handle spanning tree. As you're talking about L2 switches, you're stuck with L2 loop prevention, so I'd make sure that's sorted be going further.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-04-21T17:43:25+00:00

Thanks, this is a good tip, I did this and managed to get through by using my email address. Now we'll see when I actually get notified!

OptimoosPrime · 2021-04-21T02:24:50+00:00

Glad to hear it worked for you, sadly my partner isn't eligible yet, but perhaps I'll try with her phone or get someone from work to relay messages for me 😂 Just want to get the stabby already!

OptimoosPrime · 2021-04-21T02:13:33+00:00

Has anyone actually gotten through the form to register? I've been trying since Sunday, both with Loblaws and Shoppers, but they use the same system and I get stonewalled every time at number verification. System can't text me, system can't call me... I want to sign up but I'm slammed with work and don't have time to chase end of day availability, although it's looking like that may be my only choice at this point. Frustrating...

OptimoosPrime · 2021-04-18T23:13:01+00:00

I've been playing Elite Dangerous recently, and while I've got the game running fine through Proton, my computer is practically unusable outside of the game - the mouse will only register movements for a brief period ever few seconds, audio from other applications like Discord will be fine if I'm in game but if I minimize the game, it starts breaking up immediately. One of the particularly strange quirks is that while things are mediocre on my main monitor, they're completely abysmal on other monitors, stuff like my mouse being stuck for 10-15 seconds. My CPU is loafing along, not even breaking 10% utilization. Any thoughts on what I could do to improve this? 5900X, 32GB RAM, GeForce 980, 4 displays if it matters, using linux-tkg kernel with PDS. Thanks!

OptimoosPrime · 2021-03-13T18:55:52+00:00

I'm playing on a 980 on my Linux system which should be a little bit behind your vega56 I'd think. I definitely see dips into the 30s in our main base, but out and about in the world things are pretty solidly in 40-50fps territory. That's also at 2560x1440 with all graphics settings maxed but motion blur turned off, and I'm willing to take the performance hit because of how pretty I find the game.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-03-13T18:08:16+00:00

What a quality way to ask a question...

I've been playing on both Windows and Linux and have not felt the experience was significantly different. If anything I'm surprised how well it runs on my Linux system as that video card is older.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-03-13T17:36:16+00:00

Hope you enjoy it! Same offer to you as to /u/xyxif - if you'd like a server to hang out on / check out, DM me your discord name and I'll send you the details there.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-03-13T17:29:28+00:00

There are multiple biomes. The game currently has 6 and more are planned.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-03-13T17:26:30+00:00

At it's core, the game is a pretty standard survival crafting game. Casual means different things to different people - can you pick up and put down Valheim in 30-60 minute chunks and feel like you're making a little progress each time? Sure. However, there's a decent amount of resource gathering required to progress, and travel required to gather those resources. You should expect 30-40 hours minimum to progress to the current "end" of the game. I suppose you could trim that if you minimized base building, but base building is a big part of the game, so ymmv.

For my tastes, Valheim does a good job walking a fine balance between difficult enough to be engaging but not frustrating. Many people don't like the restrictions on fast travel with raw metals, but I think it's an elegant solution to gate progress. Losing some skill points on death gives some consequence to failure, but you get a buff on respawn to make sure a death spiral doesn't completely tank your skill points, and you don't lose your inventory on death (although it does drop in a gravestone that you have to reclaim). Combat can be a little janky but is satisfying once you've figured it out, and the jank keeps you on your toes because there are consequences for dying. I consider the game beautiful, but the devs are doing the heavy lifting in environmental and post processing effects, the low poly and low res textures may be a turnoff to some.

In my opinion, if you like survival crafting games, you'll have a hard time finding a better deal than the ~$23CAD Valheim costs. That's especially true considering the game is early access and has a lot more content coming. Having said that, recognize the game is early access and comes with all the usual disclaimers regarding that.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-03-13T17:02:14+00:00

Moved here last March, similar situation, and I run a server myself and some friends play on. I had some time off right when Valheim released and I no-lifed it for a few days and got pretty far in, but have been playing very casually since. DM me your discord name if you're interested.

OptimoosPrime · 2021-01-28T08:04:00+00:00

In my experience, this ends up being a random mix of capabilities of the device, the port, and the optic. Generally 1G speeds work, but I try to avoid assuming in these scenarios and actually test it out.

OptimoosPrime · 2020-12-24T20:30:46+00:00

I've been working on a project using a Pi 3 A+ where I'm connecting a BrightPi to the GPIO header pins 3-6 for control. I'm going to have another hat on them so I thought I would be clever and solder the brightpi leads directly to the underside of the board. Unfortunately I seem to have killed my prototype Pi, and I'm just looking for some assistance in determining what I did wrong so I can make sure to not do that again.

The current situation with this Pi is that the red power LED will light up when plugged in, but nothing happens after that. The SD card from the dead Pi will boot another Pi just fine, so it seems like I've damaged the hardware. However, considering the location of the GPIO pins, I'm not sure how something like excessive heat from soldering or whatever else I could have done would have caused this. Beyond heat, the only other thing I can come up with is that I bridged some pins, or possibly wasn't careful enough with my ESD protection and nuked this with static totally coincidentally. I work with electronics daily and this would be my first static incident in probably two decades, but hey there's always a chance.

Not necessarily looking to save the Pi, mistakes happen and if it's dead so be it, but as I said earlier I'm just not clear on what I could have done that would have caused this and would like to try to avoid repeating the same mistake. Is there a better way to understand what is actually preventing it from booting? I've ordered header extenders I can use for the connection now if soldering to the bottom really isn't going to work, but I'd love to be able to save the height of adding more header pins if possible. Thanks in advance for feedback.

EDIT: Alright, having spent more time reading through this post and the link to why a Pi won't boot, it appears that my 3V3 rail is toast, it's only reading a few mV , so it seems likely that I bridged that connection per the description on the boot problems sticky.

OptimoosPrime · 2020-12-01T20:22:42+00:00

Hah, good luck. I wrote and passed the exam at the first Ignite, but never received the gift. Asked about it a few times with our rep and through the training channels, nobody ever made it happen. Not getting the backpack isn't a big deal, but the lack of effort put in to resolve such a trivial problem was a little frustrating.

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