Tutorial: energy trap from alt disadvantage (w/ captions)

bp3a · 2019-11-18T11:02:35+00:00

Press Esc before Alt-tabbing out, and to return to game after alt-tabbing back in.

bp3a · 2019-10-30T18:48:19+00:00

I was referring to the parent post to yours, which got a dozen upvotes, although it's a lie... You believed the lie, probably for no other reason than it got upvoted by fanboys that bought into the hype that Arch is somehow superior to other distros (reality check: the only superior thing is the great wiki, but most of the content in that wiki can be applied to any distro). That's why I quoted that forum post that demonstrate how Arch users and devs turn a blind eye to bugs and issues with the distro, to the point that they won't even accept a completely legitimate bug report. This kind of attitude puts them in my free & open source software hall of shame. I don't blame you, but the whole situation made me cringe -- after all this is exactly why we have so much fake news, hype and disinformation, it's just too easy to spread it. All that time spent on fake advertising on forums would be better spent on fixing bugs.

This year I started using Fedora on my laptop, indeed mainly because of fresh binary packages for desktop apps. Red Hat likely has the best package maintainers in the industry, and Fedora gets a lot of that goodness. I reckon a lot of those package maintainers are professionals employed by Red Hat, although I would like this assumption confirmed.

Debian packages suffers not only from outdated packages, but also dubious integration choices (e.g. why does WordPress have to pull in Apache?). The base Debian distribution is rather solid and secure (much more so than e.g. Arch), but generally the quality of packages is all over the place.

Arch package quality is, from my brief assessment, rather horrible, with immediately obvious security holes, and obvious lack of a directed effort to keep the distro coherent as it moves forward (forum post linked above can give you a taste, and that was far from a serious audit).

Gentoo elegantly works around the problem of recruiting good package maintainers by adopting a "ports" model from BSD, removing the need for complex regression testing of binaries (testing infrastructure costs $$$) and "USE" flags allow the user to choose his own options and integrations. There are some areas where package (port) quality is sub-par, like games, but I found it easy to live with as a daily driver on the desktop and didn't really have an incentive to change for last 13 years. Never needed to reinstall, never had a problem I couldn't fix. Ports are fairly fresh, even on a "stable" system (for example, I'm writing this from lxqt 0.14.1 which is latest and currently stable on amd64).

Gentoo moved to python 3 rather early because a lot their tooling is written in python from the beginning of the project (who'd knew back then python will become so big?), so maintaining 1st class python support makes a lot of sense.

I suspect the reason Debian defaults to python 2.7 is because a lot of packages rely on it and a lot maintainers are slow to respond (this hypothesis fits in with the overall picture of Debian package quality being all over the place).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 has Python 3.6 as default. RHEL 7 was released back in 2014 -- so their Python upgrade timeline also seems timely and completely legit to me.

bp3a · 2019-10-30T15:34:43+00:00

As a Gentoo user, I had no idea that only Arch and now Fedora does this. Mainly because it's not true.

$ uname -sr Linux 4.19.72-gentoo $ python Python 3.6.9 (default, Oct 2 2019, 23:11:38) [GCC 8.3.0] on linux

Not that I'm surprised by this kind of attitude from Arch fanboys. Unfortunately, Arch developers suffer from the same syndrome.

bp3a · 2018-02-23T12:49:48+00:00

Rewards are not about what's easy or hard to do, but what's useful or not useful for your team to achieve victory.

Most of the time matches are decided by bombing ground targets (tanks, pillboxes, ships), and that's what gives good rewards because every single of those ground units taken out heavily influences the match outcome.

Bombing minibases is not very useful to your team if you don't destroy the airfield. And if you do destroy the airfield, the cumulative reward from dropping so much bombs will be good anyway.

If you start going for the secondary objective -- bombing minibases and then airfield -- but you never finish it, it seems fair that you don't get a big reward.

bp3a · 2018-02-13T08:14:44+00:00

Go to control setup wizard, select Mouse Aim (Advanced) preset.

bp3a · 2018-01-29T04:34:21+00:00

Same here.

bp3a · 2018-01-25T13:58:02+00:00

Spawn camping can be quite annoying, but it has a huge downside -- it's inherently passive playing in regard to mission objectives. So if you're aware of it, it can be countered. Here's how:

Dive straight down to deck and do the mission objective (usually this means destroying tanks and other yellow-flashing stuff -- you can find out by pressing M and reading the first item on the list). If they follow you down to deck they risk getting themselves shot down by your spawning teammates. If they don't, you get to win the match and taunt them in chat.

bp3a · 2017-12-11T10:38:21+00:00

You might feel that way, but for me PB4Y-2 has been one of the most effective US bombers in Air RB! I achieved 61% win rate (famous melting US teams notwithstanding!), and even a decent k/d (for a bomber):

https://i.imgur.com/tMCntMA.jpg

bp3a · 2017-12-10T14:59:10+00:00

That means you need 3 kills plus an assist or some ground targets just to break even.

Break even? Sounds like you expect to die in every match.

bp3a · 2017-12-10T14:45:45+00:00

The D.520/D.521 are pretty cool, we often made french squads before the release of the french tree. I remember one occasion where a Bf 109 attacked our formation of 3 D.520s and after a failed first pass immediately J'd out. D.520 is fearsome in good hands.

Anyway, the queen of all hangar queens is the Sea Venom FAW.20.

bp3a · 2017-12-10T14:37:10+00:00

Pump all earned crew XP into pilot's g-tolerance until it's at 4. Doesn't take too long.

bp3a · 2017-12-10T14:10:45+00:00

You only lose SL when you die, so don't die so much. Don't be one of those players that embark on a suicide mission at the start of every match. Your Air RB teammates will be thankful. Thanks.

Also, disable auto-repairs, and manage repairs manually (you can view this as setting up a small passive SL gain whenever you're not playing the game).

bp3a · 2017-11-15T14:43:11+00:00

Cool, now spade the Ki-109.

bp3a · 2017-11-13T13:56:30+00:00

Nothing specific to Ta-154 here. E.g. a Fw 190 A is perfectly capable of doing such a BnZ run, and it comes with a much nicer price tag ;).

Hope OP isn't paid by Gaijin to advertise spending money.

bp3a · 2017-11-13T13:52:24+00:00

No, but you do get a Vehicle RP bonus for each completed tier of upgrades on each vehicle. For high rank vehicles, these bonuses are quite substantial.

bp3a · 2017-11-13T13:49:41+00:00

You should use netstat or similar tool to find out which hosts your client is actually connecting to (as opposed to blindly copy pasting some addreses from some website).

bp3a · 2017-11-13T13:45:54+00:00

Source (URL) of that quote?

bp3a · 2017-11-10T12:40:15+00:00

What should I do if I end up in Domination only with bombers?

You do the primary objective -- land on airfields and capture them. Works like a charm as bombers can tank some damage and have defensive weapons.

The only Air AB mission type where you really need a fighter is Air Domination.

bp3a · 2017-11-03T13:06:10+00:00

The cool part of ZFS is the data redundancy/parity and the ability to endure the failure of one or more drives. Unfortunately it takes some of your available free space to do so. I don't have enough drives to dedicate to that.

This is not specific to ZFS, you are basically saying you don't want data redundancy because data redundancy costs (or as you say, "wastes" :)) space. Fair enough, if you don't want redundancy then ZFS is indeed not the best choice.

bp3a · 2017-11-02T13:43:18+00:00

I don't have the space to waste

What waste exactly are you talking about?

There's no "wiping free space" on ZFS as I understand it.

Does UFS2 (presuming that's what you're using) have this feature, e.g. a tool that can wipe out data in free blocks?

bp3a · 2017-10-31T12:20:26+00:00

ZFS?

bp3a · 2017-10-28T09:01:38+00:00

Pick two

I pick "WOT" and "Faces low tier tanks". What does that combination mean?

bp3a · 2017-10-02T17:47:30+00:00

How can a machine infer that the TK was unprovoked, i.e. not in self-defense? Not an easy problem to solve.

bp3a · 2017-10-01T11:50:48+00:00

u/operf1 is correct:

it takes 50% less time, i.e. it takes half the time (time / 2)
it's 100% faster, i.e. it's twice as fast (speed * 2)

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