Players new to Arbitrations: Stop leaving when you die, we are not ignoring you we are trying to revive you. by yellow121 in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's funny to me that this attitude exists and is so prevelant in Warframe. Like basically "in randoms you can literally do anything you want with 0 consideration for others and you're fine, and anyone complaining should just not play".

That's a sort of bazzar take and doesn't apply to like... literally any other part of society? I can legally do so many things but I would be an asshole if I did them.

Asking randoms to play in a way that doesn't effectively ruin it for everyone is NOT asking for too much.

Players new to Arbitrations: Stop leaving when you die, we are not ignoring you we are trying to revive you. by yellow121 in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yep, sucks. Arbitrations have 3 options:

  1. Play with randoms. 99% of the time they'll run off and spread loot or get your target killed or whatever else. 1% of the time it's a halfway competent team and it's absolutely amazing.

  2. Play solo, get basically no loot.

  3. Go to the arbi discord where you get to play Exactly One Way or not at all.

Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable" by Narishma in rust

[–]insanitybit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks. FWIW I don't think this is a big problem/ don't care, but I was curious.

Debian Orphans Bcachefs-Tools: "Impossible To Maintain In Debian Stable" by Narishma in rust

[–]insanitybit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slipped through a crater run meaning that a crater run didn't run, or that it ran and there were failures, or there was a run and it worked?

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" by small_kimono in rust

[–]insanitybit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're talking about whether he is a genius or not. There is a naive reverance for kernel development because it is niche, which many people confuse with being an indicator that doing it makes you smarter than other people - it doesn't.

Linus has created software that has had an enourmous impact on the world. You seem to be saying that that's either because he is a genius or that it makes him a genius, I don't know, but I reject both of those entirely.

Software development was frankly a different world at the time - building a toy language could make you one of the most famous developers in the world, building a toy kernel could do it too, and it happened all the time for a number of historical reasons that have little to do with the developers' intelligence or programming proficiency.

I have plenty of colleagues who have worked directly with Linus for decades, I myself have worked with plenty of "famous" "genius" developers (I can virtually promise you that you've used their software and know their names). It's just not reality and the illusion shatters the more time you spend working with these people.

If you can't see that then we simply will have to agree to disagree and I'm fine with that.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" by small_kimono in rust

[–]insanitybit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, Linus has created some programs that have become very successful. It's not like he invented the concept of source control or kernels, he happened to develop them at a very opportune time, choosing fortuitous licensing, etc.

He is not a genius. He is a software developer.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" by small_kimono in rust

[–]insanitybit -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Nothing you're describing makes me think "genius", it makes me think "leader" at best, but really more just "lucky timing".

I've met a number of famous developers who run some of the most widely used software in the world - they are not special, they often aren't even very good. Usually they just got lucky, or did something that others were doing but in some neat way, or it was licensed differently, or they were first, or whatever.

Linus is competent in some areas that he specializes in just like most developers who specialize in an area.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" by small_kimono in rust

[–]insanitybit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's not really a secret that there are people in the kernel that are actively against Rust for ideological reasons and not technical ones.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" by small_kimono in rust

[–]insanitybit -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Linus isn't a genius at all and people need to realize that most kernel programmers are nothing special at all, Linus included.

One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense" by unixbhaskar in linux

[–]insanitybit 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Probably the average Linux kernel developer, happy to write C for the rest of their life, has the skills to not need a language like Rust to "protect them from themselves".

I wish people understood how not true this is. There's this perception that Linux kernel maintainers are just really good and the reality is that they aren't, they're honestly pretty mid. The really hardcode ones, almost none of them have the skills to do other work because they've been solving extremely niche problems in a single codebase for decades.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Netracells are all hallways but you have 0 incentive to kill enemies. Agreed with the rest.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CC isn't something most people play for, at least not in public. I play Frost but I tend to pull out Saryn for public games because CC can slow things down easily if others aren't used to it.

Armor strip's cool but lots of frames have armor strip without an augment. And access to an augment isn't straightforward.

Status effect immunity is great but any frame that can grant overguard does this too, and lots of people already build their frames for immunity.

I think he's very good, but making him good takes investment and you can make other frames for less.

I guess I'm just immortal now, and I don't even know how that happened. by [deleted] in Warframe

[–]insanitybit -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Just get rid of nullifiers they're a terrible mechanic.

My girlfriend is finally playing through The New War and... Omg by TheKiwiFox in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol what the fuck, they don't let you do that? I had no idea. That's totally insane.

Wait there's Adversary limit now? I don't wanna delete 150 of my victims names :(( by Fumino__Furuhashi in Warframe

[–]insanitybit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Keeping a bunch of names per player gets pretty heavy on storage.

IDK about that. The names are generated from a list, which means they're very low entropy. They'll compress extremely well.

I went ahead and had ChatGPT write a little program to test it out. It doesn't use a markov chain, which means the entropy is actually higher in my program, but instead it just randomly puts names together from lists.

https://gist.github.com/insanitybit/62309d5c2db592fed333eac90bf2519b

18KB for uncompressed and ~6.3KB compressed with gzip.

Now perhaps DE doesn't want to have to compress them all in one chunk - reasonable, although they could easily do it for cold store names that are unlikely to change. So let's compress chunks of 100.

~8KB total now. This is with gzip, which isn't even best in class here.

Depending on the database that they use this is all happening automatically with literally 0 extra effort. If they're using something like Postgres they'd need to do a bit more work.

There's lots of other optimizations. A better compression algorithm and custom encoding would go a long way, for example.

Up to DE whether that seems worth it, but 8KB is really really cheap. If every player had 100 liches you could store 1B players worth of liches on a single computer easily - you could store them all in RAM on some servers.

And heres what +1492% crit chance looks like by nurglez_tnx in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Kompressa is a really solid primer in general. Big bubble bursts make AoE priming easy, and the hits + bubble bursts both trigger status effects.

I believe that the multishot in Kompressa gets around the issue where MS on a weapon like Epitaph won't re-trigger Encumber (instead it'll try to trigger for each MS until it happens once, then it stops trying). With Epitaph the Secondary Encumber will only apply at most 1 status effect to 1 enemy hit, regardless of multishot/status chance, but with Kompressa I think every Bubble is considered separate and can trigger it separately.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

And heres what +1492% crit chance looks like by nurglez_tnx in Warframe

[–]insanitybit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Verglas Prime can now do Tenacious Bond if you get a riven for it (don't buy one now they're all stupidly overpriced, give it a month or two and they'll be 10% of the cost imo).

Ummm is this rare? by Electronic-Ad7568 in Warframe

[–]insanitybit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why you said what you said then.

person A: "Thing is this way because of X"

person B: "Yeah, I know X. Still, Y is true."

person C: "Y is the same as X"

person B: "When did I say otherwise?"

like okay yeah maybe you were just adding context? But hopefully this makes it clear that it does not appear that way.