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awild··on Is Elden Ring that hard? Well, it depends what you mean by “hard”
There's no animation cancelling at all and the animation queue can sometimes be obnoxiously long. But that's part of the point. Most Button presses you have to commit to, requiring you to be more aware of exactly what your enemies are doing.
awild··on Is Elden Ring that hard? Well, it depends what you mean by “hard”
Sibling already said this, but you can go through most bosses with an easier time without getting extremely good at it. I've played through all 3 dks games and am not exactly good at them (ironically they are by far my favourite games), but in those games you had less opportunity to use adjuncts like summons or spells.

You might feel bad about using other means than pure combat skills (I certainly do) but the devs put those things in for a reason.

awild··on Is Elden Ring that hard? Well, it depends what you mean by “hard”
You can summon npcs and basically pokemom to most fights in elden ring. Using magic or toxic based builds also simplifies many bosses. You can also go around exploring a lot of the World slap some dungeon bosses and beh happy. It doesn't implement an obvious easy mode but it's there.
awild··on Incident report: Spotify outage on March 8
The android app of apple music is terrible though. I've tried using it for a month but had constant trouble with it getting stuck loading searches or artists. I've switched to tidal a few days ago, and that seems to have odd issues with buffering (despite having stable 6MB/s downloads with steam).
awild··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
Just a heads up, pandas to Csv is laughably slow. You're literally better off converting the pandas df to arrow and then serialise to Csv with arrow, though the format is quite limited with arrow.
awild··on The hardest program I've ever written (2015)
From experience I can tell that one can get used to other people's styles and just work with that oneself. Unifying among an enforced style and sticking to it really reduces the amount of unnecessary discussions.

I genuinely feel that focusing a lot on the detriment of someone else's or an established code style is a sign of a lack of team work.

awild··on Show HN: Miniboss, versatile local container management with Python
I'll second the use of immutable data structures. Had to do some real nasty work of debugging last week because someone accidentally mutated a configuration object causing persistence issues much deeper in the stack. Would've been impossible with frozendicts.
awild··on Hidetaka Miyazaki sees death as a feature, not a bug
Hades really scratched that itch for me. It's very easy to get going and have fun, but requires investment to completely finish it.

I'm pretty terrible at most games so it took me quite a while to actually finish a whole run, but it was a lot of fun once I did.

awild··on How much do founders pay themselves? A European data set
Put a demo up on itch.io and post them into indie gaming communities.

Errant signal or suoerbunnyhop sometimes check out their mailbox for cool games.

awild··on J. Kenji López-Alt says you’re cooking just fine
This list is pretty good, though I've found Alex to be quite grating and very low on the information side of things for a long time(that noodle tier list was an absurd waste of time). Still sometimes entertaining to watch and I just yesterday cooked the carbonara he outlined in his last video.

There is also "My name is andong" who is really good imho. Informative and fun, more trying to showcase new things or in different lights.

There's also Chef John who is one of the OG food tubers. His narration style is a 1:1 template for how Joshua weissman talks in a lot of his recipes. He's mostly on the recipe side less on information but still enjoyable.

awild··on Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)
Yeah, beer prices in Germany are absurdly low. Unfortunately that also means that it's quite hard for smaller breweries to compete. The Franken region (densest brewery region) is seeing the slow death of the family brewery because the clientele is not up for even small price hikes. Even the deposit on the crates is an actual consideration for these brewers as people won't buy their beer at full price 10€ (they will get the money back on return of the crate) instead they usually require just a 3€ deposit. This means that the brewery is staking out 6-7€ per crate sold in hopes it returns functional.

If you're ever in Bavaria again, you should make a visit to Bamberg. It has an incredibly rich culture around beer. They are famous for smoked beer, though its just two breweries of about 20 making it. The others all have absurdly high quality beer at fair prices all with a certain amount of personality.

awild··on Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)
> If it's just homebrewing / for personal, family / friends consumption, how would they even find out? A lot of laws are only there to enforce if they actually uncover a big operation.

True and that's kind of the joke. They aren't even allowed to do visitations without evidence of malpractice. But the laws surrounding it are even stranger: The beer produced should only be consumed at home, any outside consumption would require taxation, therefore homebrew competitions ask you to tax your submissions. They've actually went to homebrew competitions and busted people on the grounds of 10€ pP at most (But remember if I self report/pay it would only be a few ct - so even less). Homebrew meetups have never had problems before.

The background of the law (at least in folk telling) is that the big guys were worried about malt-extract making homebrewing so easy as to make commercial brewing superfluous.

awild··on Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)
In germany beer homebrewing is limited at 200L/year (approx 50gallons, which is a respectable but not huge amount if you have friends). Anything above you have to pay taxes on. Those taxes however are pretty minor for a typical 20L batch, and customs are only allowed to investigate a case if they suspect a big enough discrepancy (I think 10€). So there's a group of petty homebrewers who don't make use of their free 200L, but instead opt to report every single batch, only paying 0.01€. The intention is to waste time and annoy as many customs employees as possible to create friction and lobby against restrictions on homebrewing.
awild··on Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)
GP was being facetious. The cartridges are a known way to get high of nitrous oxide. e.g.: https://youtu.be/q7Xse0E_SzA?t=440
awild··on A Quick Introduction to R
We've done that but someone used relative includes/require statements and everything broke. It's exceptionally annoying.
awild··on A Quick Introduction to R
Maybe someone can help me with this, how do you integrate r as a cli tool? I'm in a mostly R shop but its integration is so confusing and/or bad with other tools that we usually just rewrite everything in python for integration (which obviously is a huge waste of time). R packages etc have me as an outsider confused,though seem like the obvious choice?
awild··on Tell HN: We have a responsibility to speak out against blockchain technologies
A chair's proof of concept doesn't burn the energy of a small industrialized nation?
awild··on The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
I agree a lot with this. I'm in a lot of niche groups of my hobbies and of those most are really quite trash (usually pedantic ideological battles) even if they claim to be otherwise. There's however one that has such a strong moderation team that it's become a kind of meme, BUT the discussions if they do happen are always strong and factual by a weird mix of industry professionals and hobbyists alike, with a good focus on citation and cross referencing.
awild··on It’s not still the early days of blockchain
General mathematics and computer science don't require burning energy on the scale of nations just to function
awild··on Firefox 96
Have been an active Firefox user for 15+ years and not had much trouble, even running on preview builds.
awild··on How to read research paper, textbook, long text content?
It should not take someone a week to read a research paper. Depending on the paper maybe a day but usually a few hours. Carefully studying it is something else and that might take a week, but not every paper needs that kind of attention and it's a valuable skill to learn skimming and differentiating between un-/valuable and un-/interesting papers.
awild··on Quit Your Job
I mean the site is funded by Thiel, himself raised evangelical (though claiming to have moved beyond it)
awild··on Ask HN: Why don't most CS academics make novel video games?
I did my bachelors on a games focused compsci degree.

There were tons of people from different backgrounds, basically all there for the wrong reasons (artists to learn to program games, programmers how to program and make games etc) it's quite the endeavour to make a good game, the programming is the least of it. On top of that you need to actually be good at game design (which in my experience is the last thing people focus).

awild··on Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?
I've deleted many comments before submission because I decided I wasn't in the mood for a debate on the topics.
awild··on Features of a dream programming language
This isn't about syntactical errors, per se.

One example I can remember was an empty if or for loop body where everything beyond it was raised into its scope.

I'm taking about pycharm formatter specifically here. This does also happen with braces sometimes, but this would've simply been a syntax error in most other languages or just pulled up the single next line not the entire following code.

awild··on Features of a dream programming language
The problem is that when auto formatters completely wreck with the semantics of your code because of a missing or misplaced character. It has actually happened often and drives me nuts every time.

I prefer to write code the way I want/need then apply a formatter to unify my code with that of myself and colleagues.

awild··on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
I had the same experience as you. Thought I was doing something wrong and went with an expensive coated pan. Still lost its nonstick after a year. Have since changed to uncoated pans from tramontina. It took some time understanding temperatures with the pans as sticking and burning both can be avoided, but are much more apparent with these. I actually asked a salesperson to upsell me their expensive coated pans and the amount of work they laid out was basically the same as my uncoated pans, except that mine will not stop working because some proprietary magic dust isn't working anymore
awild··on Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Miller Csv can process json in record format and has a much saner DSL in my experience.

https://github.com/johnkerl/miller

awild··on The big idea around unikernels
> Bare metal isn't the same, and who wants to dedicate a whole machine to one process?

1) I actually do that at work. A few bare metal machines each have to run just one large-ish process. If I had the time I'd really invest in a unikernel type setup just for the simplicity of it.

2) if you're using any cloud hosted vm to run your apps as the post describes you could benefit a lot from a unikernel setup. Haven't used aws et al much the last few years but at my last gig we hosted everything in their own vm,which would've been great to slim down hard.

awild··on Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought
I think you're confusing something here. I'm not claiming we don't need open data nor am I claiming that the non-academic populus would be unable to make interesting observations with open data. I'm saying that of those people that deny scientifically validated claims (like climate change or the efficacy of vaccinations) the majority would not be able to make interesting (and valid) observations, nor would it be in their interest to do so.

I know how to run climate simulations, given a huge dump of climate data I would _not_ be able to draw any new conclusions out of it, I can guarantee that to you.

My point is that this idea that distrust in science stems from a lack of open data is wrong, and instead product of concerted and ongoing effort of propaganda and defunding of academia. Climate change is at this stage more a political problem than it is a scientific one.

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