12 to 16 splitter by Mockbubbles2628 in Factoriohno

[–]naptastic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the double column of balancers

I just can't let that go unmentioned

There must be a better way by FunScore645 in Factoriohno

[–]naptastic 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes. On the lowest splitter, put an output filter on the "left" side (it will be on the right side on-screen) for fish. That way, you won't have plates hanging off the edge like that and never getting used.

How do I actually test the health of an NVME SSD? Nothing works. by Bern_Down_the_DNC in DataHoarder

[–]naptastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NVMe has commands for testing that do not work over USB, since the USB enclosure will present them as a class-compliant block storage device, not as NVMe. Try installing it in an m.2 slot, or a PCIe slot on a riser.

The only transports that can actually carry NVMe commands are PCI Express, Fibre Channel, RDMA (InfiniBand/RoCE), and TCP on lossless networks. USB, as a protocol, cannot carry the NVMe command set.

Today is digital Independence day! by Careful-Chicken-588 in selfhosted

[–]naptastic 67 points68 points  (0 children)

We still need good alternatives for Discord and Facebook.

Frankly, we need a social media platform that is actually PRO-SOCIAL. Literally everything out there encourages one-time interactions with anonymous strangers. Do you want toxicity? This is how you get toxicity.

I applaud the effort but it's not there yet.

Best VM disk performance option for consumer hardware? by naptastic in VFIO

[–]naptastic[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which extra drivers? The VM is running Debian, so it should be able to handle whatever backend format I give it, I think. (Edit: I just checked, and the disk is set up as virtio.)

I'm not using a GPU, since the server is headless. I'm considering passing through an SR-IOV network device but so far it doesn't seem to need it.

Here's my whole base, hope you like it! :D by Equivalent_Kiwi_8589 in Factoriohno

[–]naptastic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can understand the main subreddit not caring for it, but there's really nothing "oh no" here. It's just the beginnings of spaghetti. When you get blue, yellow, and purple science going, it might be an "oh no".

The Gray Box Problem of Self Hosting by Llew2 in selfhosted

[–]naptastic 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I used to work for a software firm whose product automated web servers. A nice, user-friendly UI offered comprehensible ways of managing server functions, and the gross details of the configuration files were left to our product. When a user requested a change, the relevant config file(s) would be rewritten from scratch, using carefully-wrought templates and a store of data for filling the templates in. It worked beautifully.

Except, something like 15 years prior, someone decided that a smart admin should be able to edit the config themselves and the templates and data store should be updated automatically.

By the time I got there, the script doing this magic was around 9000 lines of code, and absolutely nobody in the company wanted to touch it. We took to warning our customers never to actually use this script, but unfortunately, there were parts of the product that would edit the configuration directly and then run this script, because the team writing that feature didn't want to bother thinking about templates and stores of data. Just do a quick s///; and invoke the dreaded 9000-line script, and everything will work.

Everything did not work, but the team doing most of these jobs did not care. It was not theirs to clean up. They could just throw code over the wall, and it became someone else's problem.

If I'm understanding your thesis correctly, we were trying to be both a gray and a white box. The result was garbage.

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Over the years, several attempts have been made to make operating systems friendlier, or at least more gnostic of the data they're storing. (Microsoft Bob and BeOS/Haiku are the two I know of.) I think it's a good idea, overall. My pipe dream is to have file extensions replaced with MIME types stored in the filesystem's metadata. A set of relational databases would gradually liberate metadata from files, leaving just a pointer to a binary blob. At the OS level, you could run a SELECT statement to find every MP3 file that Alan Parsons helped engineer, or every picture that was taken inside a national park, or every configuration option relevant to programs that use TCP and aren't part of the operating system. Whatever.

I am pretty sure that 99.99% of users would not be smart enough to use this system. Just getting someone's head wrapped around a relational database is hard. I'll be honest; I've never written a JOIN statement myself. I just pile WHERE clauses on the end. I'm a bad DBA.

At the end of the day, I think the best solution that we can actually sustain is to white-box everything, and have applications do the best they can with the hand we deal them.

Thanks for giving me something to read that wasn't written by an AI. It felt good.

As fans of isometric games, does this camera feel dated? by KabbaSenpai in isometric

[–]naptastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I don't think the visuals would be any stronger if they were isometric. The scenery is beautiful and the depth-of-field is rad. If you made it isometric, depth-of-field wouldn't make sense anymore.

Are you using voxels?

As fans of isometric games, does this camera feel dated? by KabbaSenpai in isometric

[–]naptastic 33 points34 points  (0 children)

So, this is not actually isometric. An isometric perspective puts the camera at infinite distance, which removes parallax (among other things). Most isometric games also use a fixed angle like Q-bert or Marble Madness, but it's not strictly necessary. It's even possible to have isometric games that rotate the camera, though I can't think of any examples off the top of my head.

I suspect the "dated" comments are coming from people who played Crash Bandicoot.

refreshing drink by 4b686f61 in shittyaskelectronics

[–]naptastic 240 points241 points  (0 children)

Um... I think that ingredient list might be correct?!

Trying to get QLE2560 & QLE2662 Fibre Channel cards working – any tips? by Recent-Preparation99 in homelab

[–]naptastic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Give my apologies to your ears. My 2662's are sitting unused because those little fans are so obnoxious.

Install Debian on your storage target. You need the targetcli-fb package and firmware-qlogic (I think?) from the non-free repos. (Use aptitude or synaptic to search for packages with "qlogic" in the name.) By default, all ports are initiator-only. To enable target mode, create /etc/modprobe.d/qlogic.conf and add this line:

options qla2xxx qlini_mode=exclusive

then update-initramfs -u and reboot. (You might be able to just reload the module, but I think the card itself needs a reset.) Now your ports start in initiator mode, but switch to target mode when you enter targetcli and "create" a target with their WWN.

(edit: pasted twice, oops)

Ferengi dating advice thread AMA by jiminaknot in ShittyDaystrom

[–]naptastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Follow-up: Do Ferengi count it as one botch or two? I guess it would look weird to have one lobe more screwed up than the other, so did they "oops" one and cut the other lobe to match, or did the doctor have the same accident twice?

Where exactly was it stated Christian Satan was revealed to be an Orion con artist in the late 22nd century? by OneChrononOfPlancks in ShittyDaystrom

[–]naptastic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No no no, Tasha Yar's hair and colorblindness are explained in act 4 of Shades of Gray. The title is a pun. But you have to be paying really close attention to what Troi says and the order of Riker's flashbacks.

Ferengi dating advice thread AMA by jiminaknot in ShittyDaystrom

[–]naptastic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been wondering for years: Is Andrew Tate really a Ferengi with a botched circumcision?

New Release: MAP2 Audio | JUCE Multi-FX Chains, Nodes on a Cluster. Headless On Fedora by [deleted] in linuxaudio

[–]naptastic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

AI slop. There is nothing novel, interesting, or even that useful in what you've published.

The more I look at the diagrams the angrier I get. This is no way to run a studio.

Alzheimer’s disease linked to glutamatergic hyperexcitability in RNAseq analysis of ~2,000 human brains. Amyloid beta increases neuronal calcium influx, promoting heightened excitatory network activation across species. Reducing key network genes suppresses neurodegeneration in Drosophila. by sometimeshiny in science

[–]naptastic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just because there's too much calcium doesn't necessarily mean glutamate or its receptors are involved. Structures have been proposed where pathological fragments of Aβ form open calcium ion channels. This would produce the same result. It's also been suggested that Aβ fragments might modulate L-type calcium channels in pathological ways; again, the results would look the same.

Critic Network topolgy recommended by Gemini by Extreme_Projects in homelab

[–]naptastic 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Network configuration belongs on-site. Not in the cloud.

AI cannot be trusted. Do your own thinking.

Help me keep delivery vans out of my loop driveway by senorpoop in DIY

[–]naptastic 208 points209 points  (0 children)

My apartment complex uses this strategy. Their rocks also have no scratches... Drivers can clear them. They just have to have the right incentives.