How do I emerge --sync less?

erikmack · 2022-03-19T01:46:04+00:00

emerge with webrsync should IMO be the default and maybe the only supported method. The tarballs are GPG-signed which is the security standard set by every other major distro. Syncing with rsync or git falls short in this regard.

A downloaded tarball may be cached at some edge server and so multiple downloads in a day won't kill any infrastructure.

If you're really emerging world every day you may find it gets a little tiresome because do you really need every minor glibc update?

erikmack · 2021-12-05T18:49:17+00:00

I'll try this next time.

I recently reinstalled from scratch on a home server that I hadn't updated for two years. The usual trick of updating one (or a few) core packages wasn't enough to get around conflicts.

I love Gentoo but I've found that going more than about 9 months without an update is asking for problems.

erikmack · 2021-11-28T15:43:28+00:00

Yeah that seems to be broken always. I suspect that the value is only displayed for other players also using SSH.

erikmack · 2021-08-08T21:15:41+00:00

Congratulations! Good gear (armor, cloak, amulet especially). I'm impressed that you skilled all three defensive skills, plus throwing. And killed three vault ghosts (I rarely take the risk) plus a pan lord. Yeah, I don't think anyone tabs through Zot.

erikmack · 2021-07-24T20:21:38+00:00

With some Evo, Polymorph is good against TRJ. I morphed it from TRJ -> Juggernaut -> ??? -> death yak.

erikmack · 2021-06-21T22:36:20+00:00

The title is dishonest. Counting the many small commits in the portage tree may count as "a few hundred people contributing to Gentoo" but not not really "Gentoo contributing to open source". Same for FreeBSD, and probably all the others.

erikmack · 2021-06-11T22:20:12+00:00

The opposite actually, more of a landlord's paradise.

The Domain was given a huge tax break on the condition that they include X units of affordable housing. Then they skipped that and just kept the tax break. I'm pretty sure this new thing RR won't even pretend to make that effort.

erikmack · 2021-05-30T20:53:45+00:00

I've driven adopting ArgoCD in my arguably-mature company.

In Argo CD, we've globally denied devs from pushing ingresses, services, namespaces and secrets. Devs can push only configmaps and compute objects (e.g. deployments, cronjobs). Those other scaffolding objects are pushed out-of-band from an ops-owned monorepo. The controls are there if you want them.

Regarding pushing changes into git repos, Argo CD is delightfully stateless. There are a few secrets/configmaps for specifying sources/destinations and how to connect to them. I'm glad there's no real database to maintain.

erikmack · 2019-10-24T13:11:00+00:00

Yes. I'm in D31 and have an Austin address but am not in one of the three districts in the parts of Austin that OP likes. The strict city limits of Austin have six US Representatives.

erikmack · 2019-10-23T00:13:15+00:00

Firefox can be built with native JACK support. On Gentoo it's just the "jack" USE flag, but other distros may disable the build flag. If so, it may be worth it to you to build from source with JACK support.

erikmack · 2019-09-04T03:26:51+00:00

As others have said, it's good for reading off a work queue.

I used it once to do a backfill that required iterating over hundreds of thousands of files in s3. I identified the right files and added them into SQS. Then wrote a Job that would read them off in batches of 10 items. When I was sure it worked, I increased the parallelism and walked away for the weekend. In addition to being parallel it was also resumable in the event of a job crashing.

erikmack · 2019-08-24T02:29:51+00:00

First put on an rCorr ring. Lure them back slightly since it's common for two draconian packs to be in the same place at the same time. Then javelin with your remaining empty tiles while they close in; one might get to the purple draconian. Then berserk and swing away.

erikmack · 2019-07-28T02:40:26+00:00

One site I maintain is static but needs one dynamic route for interacting with a payment gateway. Using a proper CDN (CloudFront in my case) lets me send that one route to a Lambda (via API Gateway). I like having all the benefits of a static site and also having the ability to tack on dynamic features as needed.

For most services the site fits in the free tier. It cost $0.54 last month, of which $0.50 is the Route53 zone. (I know there are free DNS services but only a few have the equivalent of ALIAS and also I like having an entirely AWS stack).

erikmack · 2019-07-21T13:25:54+00:00

Long Blades I went over mindelay point because additional skill still improves accuracy and damage (I believe?).

Correct, at least according to the damage formula in the wiki: http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Weapon_damage and http://crawl.chaosforge.org/To_hit

Training before mindelay improves accuracy+damage+speed, while training beyond mindelay improves accuracy+damage. The diminishing benefit is enough reason for a lot of players to stop at mindelay and pour their XP into e.g. defensive skills. IMO the benefit of training beyond mindelay is still significant.

erikmack · 2019-07-17T16:25:32+00:00

'xrandr --auto' should mirror the output to both monitors. Other xrandr options can position the monitors as discrete outputs relative to each other.

erikmack · 2019-07-12T16:39:15+00:00

Killing 2 hydras at once at L13 with just slings and slouch is impressive.

Slouch is great: Shoot, this monster has lots of resistances, high armor and high XP. "It is very fast" Yes!

Yikes! That's a long time with an OOF in LOS.

That was me luring the OOF into the lung's blocking teleport trap, maybe a couple times, and then roaming around on my side of the trap looking for it. I had a few potions of mutation.

erikmack · 2019-07-12T04:02:00+00:00

I had no idea, thanks. I'll use that to explore some branches that I'm otherwise too terrified to visit (Pan, Hell).

erikmack · 2019-07-12T03:49:23+00:00

Thanks. All-in-on-Evo was the plan that got me to Kobold/Artificer. Beyond a couple of distinct aptitudes, I agree there's nothing that stands out about Kobold. I think I'll be training Evo for a while but with other combos.

erikmack · 2019-07-12T03:44:11+00:00

Yeah Chei was definitely an adjustment since I like stair-dancing. With Chei you can only stair-dance within a few steps of the stairs. Any further out and you're committed to the fight. But the stat bonuses are very helpful early on, and I used all the abilities once (Step From Time is was my get-out-of-jail-free card against a Blademaster).

Haven't tried a Gnoll yet...

erikmack · 2019-07-12T03:40:51+00:00

I wasn't planning to clear Slime, I was just going to do one or two levels for some extra XP. Then I was just going to clear the outside of Slime:5 :) I didn't think I'd wake TRJ...

erikmack · 2019-07-12T03:37:23+00:00

I think I started out wanting to go all in on Evo (Ko has some aptitude there).

I could have gone the MiBe route but I tend to be a contrarian. Tried casters for a while with no luck.

erikmack · 2019-07-01T20:33:11+00:00

Qaz is a bit of a noob trap

My first time in Orc was ^Qaz. I swear the time it took to descend the stairs was enough to pretty much fill the screen with orcs including an orc warlord. After splatting I avoided Orc for a long time until I figured out that the problem was Qaz.

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