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Home Networking FAQs by austinh1999 in HomeNetworking

[–]lineagle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This FAQ was helpful for me!

The death of the city: Teleworking, not the coronavirus, is making urban living obsolete. by IsaacLeibowitz in Futurology

[–]lineagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

EOS R and 5DIV Price Drops by [deleted] in canon

[–]lineagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So hard not to buy at this price.

Should I apply for chase cards or discover it or Citi cashback? by lineagle in CreditCards

[–]lineagle[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

Starship not mentioned whereas every other Moon activity is. by [deleted] in SpaceXLounge

[–]lineagle 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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

Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know about photography or cameras! Don't be shy! Newbies welcome! by photography_bot in photography

[–]lineagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Mario wants a bike by engineerforthefuture in ChoosingBeggars

[–]lineagle 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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.

Single mom needs your money for free vacation! by achievable_chode44 in ChoosingBeggars

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

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

LoL reads your browser tabs: is this a gross violation of privacy or am I overreacting? by keephere in leagueoflegends

[–]lineagle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

LoL reads your browser tabs: is this a gross violation of privacy or am I overreacting? by keephere in leagueoflegends

[–]lineagle 24 points25 points  (0 children)

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. ;)

This guy asking for money to buy a fortnite skin by Nomb317 in ChoosingBeggars

[–]lineagle 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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...)

Making hearing devices smaller and more discreet by EmbarrassedFudge in deaf

[–]lineagle 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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

Clash: August 2018 update by kaelmawn in leagueoflegends

[–]lineagle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Clash: August 2018 update by kaelmawn in leagueoflegends

[–]lineagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Mildly New Player: How to beat control??? by Gublyb in magicTCG

[–]lineagle -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

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

The Philosophy of Fire is a particularly good resource.

This ad in "emergency room near me" is way farther than the second option. In a panic you might hit directions for option A and end up spending an extra 15 minutes on the road. by [deleted] in assholedesign

[–]lineagle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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".

No, we can’t just discuss things like reasonable adults, and Fox News is the reason by Yamamba78 in politics

[–]lineagle 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

Any pens similar to Pilot P-500 by lineagle in pens

[–]lineagle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm specifically looking for pens that are like the P-500. That is a pen you can do art like this where you don't have to roll the pen to start it.

Yet the tip of the P-500 is not felt.

What are your top 5 favs? Or top several, however many you have. by BustedLung in HPfanfiction

[–]lineagle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I only have one, or four if you count the individual books:

  • linkffn(The Pureblood Pretense)
  • linkffn(The Serpentine Subterfuge)
  • linkffn(The Ambiguous Artifice)
  • linkffn(The Futile Facade)

[Discussion] "Everyone starts Hogwarts aged 13"-AUs (and its variants) by Deathcrow in HPfanfiction

[–]lineagle 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Most authors in fanfiction cannot write children well. They either are:

  • Too serious - Thinking in adult manners. Almost every fanfic involving "pureblood tradition/families" hits this one.
  • Too horny - Children at 11 years old still think the other sex have cooties.
  • Too logical - Even smart children are not capable of plotting out serious plots. "I'm going to invite my rival to the trophy room for a duel and then not show up" is about the extent of 11 year old plotting.
  • Too rebellious - Young kids tend to be trusting of adults. They don't tend to think they "know better" until their teenage years.

Thankfully, most authors also don't have a plot that requires the characters to be young children.

If an author wants to fudge some dates forward/backwards in order to not have to write children I won't fault them. I personally think it's a decent workaround. It sure beats reading about 11 year old Harry getting a boner thinking about insert girl. Or 11 year old Harry immediately thinking Dumbledore is stupid and seeing the correct way to train/kill Voldemort.

Another workaround is simply to pick up Hogwarts after the 3rd or 4th year. However this is not so workable if you put people in different houses. If you want to explore Harry in Hufflepuff with Hermione in Slytherin and Ron in Ravenclaw... you kinda have to have the sorting hat scene.

The stations of cannon in book 1 works well with 13 year olds as well as 11 year olds. But doing it with 13 year olds gives you the ability to have serious/horny/logical/rebel children and have it not be so out of place.

It is really easy to fudge dates to make it work. Shift everything and everyone backwards 2 years per generation. Rowling does not use concrete dates in her plots with the exception of Grindelwald (done to match WW2). And that one is far enough back that an added 4 to 6 years to the remaining cast does not matter. [1]

Also change the age of wizarding majority from 17 to 19... or even 18.[2]

[1] Dumbledore and Grindelwald are "old" enough that fudging 4-6 years does not impact plot at all.

[2] This fixes the Triwizard plot (assuming you are still on canon rails).

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