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07:53 Mocky just got back from a hiking trip. catching up on logs
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09:44 BingoBoingo Welcome back
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10:38 Mocky thanks BingoBoingo
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15:03 BingoBoingo And the stolen Iodine-131 has been found https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/aparecieron-en-malvin-las-tarrinas-con-material-radioactivo-robadas--20195271514
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16:13 feedbot http://qntra.net/2019/05/eu-parliament-centrist-pantsuits-lost-ground-brexit-party-takes-uk/ << Qntra -- EU Parliament: "Centrist" Pantsuits Lost Ground, Brexit Party Takes UK
16:25 * mp_en_viaje waves from the lovely transylvanian capitol.
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17:12 mp_en_viaje holy shit the internet is terribru
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17:32 diana_coman mp_en_viaje: lolz, where in ro did you find it?
17:32 feedbot http://ossasepia.com/2019/05/27/euloras-client-core-the-dedicated-requester/ << Ossa Sepia -- Eulora's Client Core: The Dedicated Requester
17:35 diana_coman in other stepping-in-all-the-holes : it seems I found a fail-mode of mp-wp browser interface namely if one pastes the content of a post first and only then (possibly after it rushes to quick save it or whatevers) the title, it fails miserably as it apparently tries to save it with title "" (notwithstanding that no, it should not, there is actually a title to it)
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17:57 mp_en_viaje diana_coman, cluj
17:57 mp_en_viaje speaking of which, if anyone is in the area and wants to meet, speak up, i'll be around for a few days
17:58 mp_en_viaje diana_coman, no, it saves it with a numeric title.
17:58 diana_coman o.O ; I wouldn't have expected lousy net connection in Cluj, huh.
17:58 mp_en_viaje you can edit the slug if you want later
17:58 mp_en_viaje me either, but what can you do.
17:58 diana_coman mp_en_viaje: it keeps failing i.e. saying can't
17:59 mp_en_viaje can't what, save ?
17:59 diana_coman so apparently the numeric title is borked or at least borked on my installation
17:59 diana_coman yes
17:59 mp_en_viaje sounds like borked install. what's preview do ?
17:59 mp_en_viaje doesn't preview, either ?
17:59 diana_coman lemme try to reproduce it and see.
18:00 mp_en_viaje what you describe specifically was debugged ; i suppose entirely possible php/whatever stack versioning shenanigans may have managed to regression it, like that insane case we ran into recently with the comments not working
18:00 mp_en_viaje but in principle should not fail in any combination.
18:03 diana_coman ugh, now ofc can't quite reproduce it i.e. it was something more subtle than what it seemed...
18:03 mp_en_viaje ah
18:03 mp_en_viaje well anyway, regardless of implementation, the design idea there is that article title always has a ready gensym in the shape of the numeric id of the table entry, which is unique and always known and therefore should be the fallback default.
18:05 diana_coman that makes perfect sense and is pretty much what I'd have expected; hence the surprise earlier when it apparently refused the title and insisted it was ""; anyway, if I run into it/something else again I'll document it better on the spot I guess.
18:05 mp_en_viaje yeah
18:07 mp_en_viaje ]there;s also a js autosave if you have js enabled in browser ; these may have interracted weirdly i guess.
18:07 mp_en_viaje js is fucking impossible to debug.
18:07 mp_en_viaje (there's also a js doing wordcount on pressing enter, and a few other sugar cubes like that)
18:08 diana_coman I quite suspect it is the autosave thing because this much I remember that it was after it auto-saved, hence my suspicion at it; but at least atm it the autosave did not fire and tbh I'm not extremely keen on chasing this right now.
18:08 mp_en_viaje myeah.
18:09 mp_en_viaje let's leave a breadcrumb for billymg, too, whynot.
18:11 mp_en_viaje diana_coman, speaking of http://ossasepia.com/2019/05/27/euloras-client-core-the-dedicated-requester/#selection-41.2-41.111 i don't see the wisdom in this position. suppose your client sees a new type of whatever, and manages to get everything but the icon. a) your path would require it to die trying but b) evidently going ahead while using a ~default~ icon until gets a better one is perfectly acceptable.
18:12 mp_en_viaje in limine, an eulora client which plays with 100% default data objects, everyone-is-an-axe-cutting-axes-with-axes-on-axe-planet is a-ok.
18:13 diana_coman nope, there is no such thing as "everything but the icon"
18:13 mp_en_viaje why not ?
18:14 diana_coman because the requester does not request "x and y and z of 187" ; all it requests is "187" and then it simply checks in EuCache: do you now have 187? Now WHAT EuCache has for 187 is not something requester can know in advance
18:14 diana_coman I suspect I'll need to detail the data model too for it all to make sense
18:14 mp_en_viaje sure. now suppose client asks for 185, 186, 187 and 188, and gets them, within an hour.
18:14 mp_en_viaje should game be unplayable for the hour ?
18:15 diana_coman why would the game be unplayable for the hour? for one thing: why would the game be unplayable at all at any moment anyway?
18:15 mp_en_viaje cuz "die trying".
18:15 mp_en_viaje either it dies, or it doesn't die. if it dies, you can't play it. if it doesn't die, it somehow manages to make do w/o the item (ie, uses defaults)
18:15 diana_coman die trying aka after x successive timeouts (timeouts aka NO data received in the whole interval*x )
18:16 mp_en_viaje i do not believe it should die at all.
18:16 mp_en_viaje imo it should try ~once~ per mention.
18:16 mp_en_viaje every time the server mentions an object it doesn't have, it asks for it. that's it.
18:16 diana_coman uhm; on one hand the "does it die or not" is a tiny thing i.e. it is a decision of what-do if not received;
18:17 diana_coman it can pass on to next one, sure
18:17 diana_coman i.e. drop it simply
18:17 mp_en_viaje i'm not even sure it's worth producing the retry mechanism.
18:17 diana_coman not a big issue or change of core there
18:17 mp_en_viaje logically speaking, if it's unimportant it's unimportant ; this is a game world criterion your retry cache can't figure out.
18:17 diana_coman it is not as such a "retry" i.e. the request will not be a new one
18:17 mp_en_viaje ah ?
18:17 diana_coman it will be a different one ANYWAY
18:18 diana_coman because it picks up again whatever it can stuff in the request
18:18 mp_en_viaje how do you mean /
18:18 diana_coman the ~only consideration is perhaps whether to re-include whatever it hasn't yet received or just drop them and if they are demanded again then they'll make it again another time
18:18 diana_coman hm; requester received demands for x and y and z, right?
18:19 diana_coman it keeps them in a queue, those items here are demanded
18:19 mp_en_viaje in the capitalistic perspective : if 100 objects are mentioned 10`000 times and requested 10`000 times, then i'd like the one object mentioned 1`000 times be requested 1`000 times and the object mentioned once be requested once.
18:19 mp_en_viaje this seems the correct capitalistic split of the request pie : by mentions. rather than "everyone gets 100"
18:20 diana_coman something still seems rather mixed in there; let me see if I can untangle it
18:20 mp_en_viaje aite.
18:20 diana_coman what is "mentioned" there? demanded ?
18:21 mp_en_viaje mentioned means the client sees an object it doesn't have in a server communication.
18:21 diana_coman why would it even request it *there*?
18:21 mp_en_viaje ie, if 10 people go on a raid and 5 of them wear armor of the stars, said armor will be mentioned by server 5 times.
18:21 mp_en_viaje well, cuz client may well discover "shit, i never heard of this armor before, wtf is it"
18:21 diana_coman but so what, should that then be requested 5 times ?
18:21 diana_coman yes, but ...once
18:21 mp_en_viaje well presuming it doesn't get it.
18:22 diana_coman uhm
18:22 mp_en_viaje whole discussion is predicated on comms failure, client asks but doesn't for some reason get.
18:23 diana_coman yes but there is no generic client asks as such; from pov of client ALL the asks always get - defaults.
18:23 mp_en_viaje as a fall through you mean ?
18:24 mp_en_viaje let me model an interaction to make sure we're on the same page here.
18:24 diana_coman as a higher-level concern than Requester's ; requester is specifically concerned with trying to get whatever is asked of it *from the server*; it can of course decide on what it requests first for instance (perhaps the item that was demanded of it most times since last request)
18:24 mp_en_viaje so, server tells client at t1 "and then you came upon five persons, a, b, c, d, e, f".
18:24 diana_coman and it can also decide on what to do on timeout e.g. drop that item and if it's important it will be demanded again hence it will make it into another request and if not , no
18:25 diana_coman yes
18:25 mp_en_viaje client notices it doesn't know wtf these are ; so at t2 says "what's an a ?"
18:25 diana_coman so a-f are data and therefore stored in cache as such; there are those things a-f ; nothing more
18:25 mp_en_viaje and at t3 server replies : "a is a so and so and back and forth... and on his chest wears the armor of the stars, and bla bla bla".
18:26 mp_en_viaje at t4 client continues its inquiry, "what's a b ?" ; at t5 client notices it doesnt know wtf such an armor is, so asks sefver "what's an armor of the stars ?"
18:26 mp_en_viaje at t6 server replies : "b is a so and so and back and forth... and on his chest wears the armor of the stars, and bla bla bla".
18:26 mp_en_viaje at t7 client decides "well, wtf, it's an armor, so ima show a wearing default armor, and whatever"
18:27 mp_en_viaje then at t8 client notices AGAIN "hm, i'm using default for this armor of the stars, wtf is it ?" and asks the server again.
18:27 mp_en_viaje but because an item it uses a default for is mentioned again, not because of any retries.
18:28 mp_en_viaje at this juncture, if it finally gets a workable armor of the stars, it dresses both a and b in it ; but if not, whatever.
18:28 mp_en_viaje it doesn't die nor does it retry. just plods along.
18:28 diana_coman myeah, this "asks again" is not "asks the server" but "ask the requester" ; i.e. "client" does not directly talk to the server from anywhere because that is how mess is made
18:28 mp_en_viaje alright.
18:29 mp_en_viaje that part is fine, "client asks server through its dedicated monopoly on askings"
18:30 diana_coman yes; and the requester (this dedicated monopoly on askings) will pack and send specific requests: server, what is an armor of the stars and a sword of the pigs?
18:30 mp_en_viaje okay.
18:30 mp_en_viaje but if it's not happy with theresult, not only does it not die -- it doesn't even retry.
18:32 diana_coman you mean if it timeouts on a request then it lets it just lets it be? it makes it even simpler from my pov, not as if it's an issue but essentially I'm not sure how do you then avoid the case where you play happily offline and ...not notice it?
18:33 diana_coman not notice it until all of a sudden nothing fits
18:34 diana_coman at which point recovery is a bitch way worse than restart; I suppose the point might be "don't die, just make it clear there's nobody answering "
18:35 diana_coman lol, internet a la cluj
18:41 diana_coman anyway, if it shouldn't even retry the correct way to put it is that it doesn't *care* at all about the result; i.e. it sends the request, it goes to sleep for timeout interval and then when it wakes up it simply makes and sends the next request, without any care in the world re anything
18:51 diana_coman while this has the advantage of being very simple indeed, all it does in fact is that it pushes the complexity a bit higher up at the added cost of a lot of waste traffic
18:54 diana_coman if that armor of the stars is requested once then it's wanted *anyway* so what's the point in not tracking it where the request is assembled and instead having it tracked through repeated requests; after all this "oh, still not have it" is anyway still a look "is it in the cache now?" just that it's pushed higher up
18:58 diana_coman basically I don't actually think that "needed 100 times" SHOULD translate into "send 100 requests to the server" ; something is either needed or not; it might be more needed than something else, sure but that's a relative (and changing) ordering of requests at most, not a traffic-generator essentially.
18:59 * diana_coman will go to sleep now, will read any replies/continue in the morning.
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19:46 * asciilifeform back from meat; slowly eats log
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