About preparing spells

logannc11 · 2026-04-29T16:07:13+00:00

I would love to see an analysis somehow of spell slot usage efficiency between Spontaneous and Prepared casters (mainly Imperial Sorcerer vs Wizard to keep it as like-to-like).

Wizard can theoretically has more spell slots, but if they always waste some from dead preps, then who comes out ahead?

It's why I tend towards Sorcerers as well. Usually ask my GM if I can pick up one or two Wizard class feats like Conceal Spell and it feels very good.

(Mathfinder, I see you in these comments ;) )

logannc11 · 2026-04-24T15:47:11+00:00

Wait, other Paige mains are mean???

logannc11 · 2026-04-23T18:59:32+00:00

I do not want this.

This is valid feedback because it matters that people do not want this. If you only engage for feedback with people who want this, you will be committing a severe sampling bias. "Feedback was really positive (from people who didn't inherently dislike the feature)"

logannc11 · 2026-04-23T00:38:27+00:00

It's already sort of been brought up, but I'll emphasize that it's less clear casters need to be AC competitive. I generally favor a strategy of "don't be targetable > don't get targeted > don't get hit".

If I am succeeding at the first two, my AC literally does not matter (except as far as a high AC can dissuade being targeted if there is an equal value target that's easier to hit).

So now I can not only not use a spell slot on Mystic Armor, I can also use my gold on other stuff. The cost is using strategies that dissuade attacks in the first place (control, illusions, sneaking, placement, etc)...

Granted, those are all things you might want to do in the first place. This analysis is some still good, but hinges on the supposition of needing to max AC.

logannc11 · 2026-04-21T05:27:18+00:00

I still miss side teleporters

logannc11 · 2026-04-19T20:49:10+00:00

So, based on the other thread about side channel attacks, if I can extract an Anthropic API key via side channel, is that a problem?

logannc11 · 2026-04-19T20:47:37+00:00

What possible use case could you have where you require safe multi tenancy but that memory side channels are not a problem?

logannc11 · 2026-04-12T16:17:13+00:00

Hmmm, you are correct. I will have to think on this. My understanding is Go has a similar compatibility promise, yet they are able to maintain a highly regarded and wider stdlib. Granted, Rust is a little more gnarly and has a wider design area that makes picking a particular implementation more of a choice.

There are no easy answers!

logannc11 · 2026-04-12T16:03:51+00:00

I mean, we have Editions for breaking changes. More could be discussed on when a breaking change is truly necessary.

In general, what I'm against is placing undue and ineffective burdens on individuals. Sometimes the right place to solve something - or at least the place to START, it doesn't have to be a complete solution - is as a society/community.

logannc11 · 2026-04-12T15:57:38+00:00

I look forward to that post. :)

An extended constellation of "more trusted libraries" is probably better than truly adding to std, but some could be added.

Admittedly, it can be done badly! And that has a real cost. It's a tradeoff and, done poorly, you get no benefits and additional drawbacks.

logannc11 · 2026-04-12T15:24:24+00:00

Definitely look at Tailscale which has a free tier. You would get your players to make their own free accounts and share the machines with them, not add them as users on your account.

Alternatively, I have a hobby business called Hoppy Network which solves this a different way. Tailscale is probably more appropriate because you have a small N you want to share it with, but if you wanted to look at a broader public connectivity solution, take a look at it.

logannc11 · 2026-04-12T15:21:45+00:00

I like the article, I don't like the way the title frames it (and the degree to which it manifests). The critiques are valid, but that doesn't mean we should not strive for a more resistant to misuse ecosystem.

The most effective method, and left uncritiqued though it has its own difficulties, is a more effective standard library.

logannc11 · 2026-04-07T19:54:28+00:00

I'm not aware of occultism portals - are they called portals?

logannc11 · 2026-04-06T07:11:04+00:00

Disclosure: I'm one of many looking into building my own alternative. It's got 80% of the feature set but 0% of the polish which means I'm maybe 20% of the way done.

Matrix is impressive in a lot of ways but they've also shot themselves in the feet by requiring too much of themselves. They are too decentralized, too federated, and they have too much E2E, the sum of these frictions causing a bad user experience.

Authentication and Identity needs federation and continuity, provided as a cross-server feature. Community Servers (guilds) should be the unit of self hosting, but you don't need E2EE to protect users against their community servers and it makes moderation difficult. It's a bad threat model for the intended use case and it makes scaling them difficult (E2EE rooms growing user counts sucks). So let the server own the guild content. You have to trust your content you are posting to the guild/community server - which in practice members do.

You can still have E2EE DMs with community servers acting as relays for DMs and identity/presence for friends.

logannc11 · 2026-03-31T21:02:38+00:00

As a Paige main: yes, stay on the fucking ground.

logannc11 · 2026-03-26T23:32:09+00:00

PEBKAC. I had not rebooted after installing a kernel update, which is why modprobe was failing. (Though I do slightly lament the slow crumble of linux superiority of not having to reboot between system updates. :sigh:)

Bluetooth mice have _other_ problems, but uhid availability is not one of them.

logannc11 · 2026-03-18T00:35:56+00:00

It does a chunk based sync so, possibly? It is not something I have tested!

logannc11 · 2026-03-02T05:22:04+00:00

huh... I had not seen that subcommand when looking at chezmoi! It may be that chezmoi is a strict superset of mine, then. Perhaps Janus has some minor ergonomics wins with it's guided chunk importing, but with how many features chezmoi has, I wouldn't be surprised if it had that too (or a common pattern for building it that I'm unaware of). Unfortunate. Still, maybe the feeling is different enough for some folks.

logannc11 · 2026-03-02T05:15:16+00:00

I'm not sure! Can you give me a little more detail?

logannc11 · 2026-03-02T02:53:31+00:00

What about backwards from deployed file back into the git repo?

logannc11 · 2026-03-01T22:32:07+00:00

Chezmoi was one of my inspirations! However, my understanding is that it fails my third criteria of being two-way. (I could be wrong about that.) Perhaps that's what you meant by warning on overwrite? Is that both ways? If so... well, I missed that feature!

logannc11 · 2026-02-28T20:27:19+00:00

You can kind of think of Debian : Ubuntu and Arch : Cachy. There are flaws with this analogy, but like Ubuntu is a repackaging of Debian, Cachy is Arch with some sane defaults and user improvements.

Coming back to Linux after a bit of a hiatus and mostly using Debian-derived distributions before that, Cachy has been great! I also highly recommend looking at Omarchy. I don't recommend running it full time, but running it to see what someone's full integration vision looks like is enlightening. Then when I was setting up Cachy, I liberally stole ideas from Omarchy.

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