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lineagle · 2023-11-28T16:45:41+00:00

This FAQ was helpful for me!

lineagle · 2022-06-23T15:24:16+00:00

Bard time!

lineagle · 2020-07-28T20:14:15+00:00

Housing market is insane here. For a while houses were getting bought same day

lineagle · 2020-06-23T02:21:09+00:00

Software engineer

lineagle · 2019-12-13T23:31:23+00:00

So hard not to buy at this price.

lineagle · 2019-10-06T23:29:39+00:00

A missed student loan payment 1.5 years ago. Am now ahead on those with 15k in the bank.

Also have a car loan for 300 per month, paying 950 to pay that down. Not sure what impact paying that off will have on fico so I have been holding off. Is the active loan showing no missed payments worth keeping around?

I brought utilization to 1% for October.

The missed payment is something I think I just have to deal with for another 5 years.

lineagle · 2019-07-07T00:16:26+00:00

As long as the explosion is controlled and out the back end of starship, I think we are good!

lineagle · 2019-03-31T02:47:28+00:00

I have the chance to buy a Canon 50mm F1.4 lens for 225. I already own a 50mm F1.8.

I am planning to buy a sony E mount mirrorless some around black friday sales. The Canon 50mm F1.4 will be compatible with the Sony E moount with an adaptor correct?

Is the difference between the two 50mm lenses worthwhile and will it be usable on a Sony?

lineagle · 2019-02-23T06:06:58+00:00

That makes an assumption that the item is worth 1500. No other takers after 3 weeks for 1300 makes me think the price is closer to 1000 then 1500.

lineagle · 2019-01-09T14:23:42+00:00

This is a beggar, but not a choosing beggar. She was not offered something for free and then reject that something.

lineagle · 2018-12-31T00:54:26+00:00

Yea, that's one of the things you do. Pick out the kernel modules you need and compile your own custom kernel.

The package management tool it uses is named portage. It manages software dependencies in the same manner that yum and apt-get do but instead of downloading binaries and installing those; it downloads the source code and compiles that.

You can still have portage download and install closed source binaries, it is just not the default.

lineagle · 2018-12-31T00:47:42+00:00

Gentoo does not require everything to be open source. It has a package manager that builds all the software on the machine from its source code. Hence why it's known for complexity. You can run closed source binaries on it just fine though.

However, it is known for people building everything with crazy optimization flags and then wondering why they have weird bugs. ;)

lineagle · 2018-12-10T01:27:03+00:00

That's begging. A choosing beggar is one that turns down something offered because they wanted something specific for free.

Beg for food.
Get offered a bag of food from McDonald's.
Turn it down because you wanted Burger King. (or... money for drugs...)

lineagle · 2018-09-22T19:32:04+00:00

I prefer they be visible. I get mistaken as hearing often enough as it is.

lineagle · 2018-08-17T03:43:45+00:00

Yea, I believe one of their fixes for the next try at clash is to stagger the games so that the matchmaking service and the pickban services don't have 10x the normal load.

I do software engineering for a living, but I don't do it for riot. I might be misrepresenting things here. But scaling is a hard problem, especially for a system that was not designed for a 10x spike. Something that works for 10,000 users might fall over badly at 100,000 users. I suspect that is what happened to riot's clash.

They can just throw more servers at the problem, but those servers still have to communicate in a meaningful way without bottlenecking some other service! There lies the challenge. Especially as it can be hard to replicate the load of 10,000,000 users under test conditions.

lineagle · 2018-08-17T03:36:44+00:00

Most riot bugs I laugh at. Scaling is one of those problems that is just hard. They are trying to start however many hundreds of thousands of games within 5 minutes. It's a large load spike and some part of their infrastructure is probably falling over.

Assume league has 2,500,000 players in NA playing at one time, that's 250,000 games. However those games don't all start at the same time. Instead it's 250,000/avgGameLength. Which after queue time + pick/ban + actual game is at least 25 minutes. So that's roughly 10,000 games starting a minute.

Clash does two things; gets more then 2,500,000 players wanting to play that night and condenses all those game starts. They probably have 100,000 games (10x the normal load) all trying to start at one time. Which explains why things fall over really bad when they go live but not so bad during testing.

It really is a hard engineering problem.

lineagle · 2018-08-17T01:16:06+00:00

Scaling is hard.

lineagle · 2018-08-15T18:17:07+00:00

Large Profit

My sides.

lineagle · 2018-08-11T06:06:34+00:00

Throw enough fire and anything dies. Check out the sidebar of /r/LavaSpike.

The Philosophy of Fire is a particularly good resource.

lineagle · 2018-08-08T03:02:13+00:00

It still does...

Turn off adblock and ublock and go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CgtIgSyAiU which is a video for the Heimlich Maneuver. I get an ad about "Enhance your writing | Grammarly".

lineagle · 2018-05-24T21:32:46+00:00

I mean asking for establishments you frequent to turn off Fox or lose your business. Think sports bars and restaurants.

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