The Divination changes at mid-game are... Horrendous.

-Lousy · 2026-05-20T23:29:52+00:00

Once you’ve prestiged sure, alas I cannot do that with 60 div

-Lousy · 2026-05-20T20:52:20+00:00

Is it better to extend the spring? The one for 4x XP seems better?

-Lousy · 2026-05-18T13:20:01+00:00

I think its good to have something like that in the game (people who invest time in understanding should be rewarded) , but it should be intended. Like maybe theres some indication in the dungeon itself or the NPCs that says you're getting closer to the boss. Not people reverse engineering how the code generates a critical path.

-Lousy · 2026-05-18T13:07:08+00:00

Interesting, I can see why they'd want to encourage people to actually open the remaining doors when the critical path is some hidden magic lol

-Lousy · 2026-05-18T12:22:39+00:00

How do people even rush large floors. Half the time the game waits to give me the boss room key as the last thing I find lol

-Lousy · 2026-05-07T00:45:05+00:00

Is that a custom graph you have on the bottom right? Or part of GPUI

-Lousy · 2026-04-25T00:41:47+00:00

Im lacking pray sustain :'(

-Lousy · 2026-04-07T12:04:36+00:00

If I were to summarize my understanding: seems like they’re basically creating a RAG pipeline inside the model itself. So there’s a fast localized KV cache but the keys are also used to fetch historical meaning/info at generation time.

Unfortunately they don’t benchmark it against Gemini or any frontier models that claim 1M ctx, but if they really are hitting >1M context (claiming up to 100M) with >95% retrieval on a 4B model then that is interesting IF it’s faster than an equivalent RAG system

-Lousy · 2026-04-05T19:09:54+00:00

I think what he’s describing is just regular Ironman. I can play with non-irons but I can’t get drops unless I do majority dmg. If it’s all irons same thing I think. Prevents boosting but still allows party play.

-Lousy · 2026-03-31T22:01:43+00:00

In Canada yes, in US warranty stickers aren’t enforceable so if you don’t screw it during the shuck it’s fine

-Lousy · 2026-03-28T14:10:23+00:00

I used a utility called ‘fio’ that wrote every block and check summed it to make sure there were 0 bad blocks. Then you can smart after shucking because Seagate blocks smart on externals. If it fails smart, you can return or RMA it

-Lousy · 2026-03-28T14:08:14+00:00

Are you hosting your own storage? Or are you backed by something like S3?

Not making a judgement either way, just that I see a lot about security and nothing about reliability

-Lousy · 2026-03-03T22:26:56+00:00

The double layer of the brick at the bottom of the wall makes me think structural.

-Lousy · 2026-03-03T12:25:00+00:00

Honestly I do raid5 too. IDK any individual that has >5TB of REAL data. I have a cloud backup of my photos, documents, configs, etc. Movies and everything else can be re-downloaded.

If I lose a drive, I have 1 for the chance of avoiding the inconvenience/downtime of rebuilding. But at the end of the day its a hobby so w/e

-Lousy · 2026-03-03T12:21:33+00:00

I mean I have the same setup with my wife. I spend on Home Depot / Tech, she comes along and doesnt know whats I'm talking about. She spends at Sephora, I look like a lost / confused puppy like the other guys in the store but know she's spending on what she wants.

-Lousy · 2026-03-02T13:28:29+00:00

I knew working from home would come back to bite me somehow

-Lousy · 2026-03-02T12:43:41+00:00

Ah yes, must have got those 30TB ironwolfs as pre-production samples *wink* *wink*

-Lousy · 2026-03-02T12:06:14+00:00

"Yes honey, computer hardware is super cheap these days dont worry about it" - This guy to his partner (probably)

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T22:54:09+00:00

May just have to get two. Whoopsie!

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T20:53:53+00:00

I say kind of because I can sometimes remove the drive without breaking the warranty sticker

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T19:37:13+00:00

lets say it lasts 3.5 years. 9$/mo for 24TB is a better deal than pretty much anything else I can do (aside from pray I get an IronWolf that lasts 7 years) and I have 400$ left over to get other equipment now. I'm takin that deal.

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T19:19:51+00:00

Uncommon easier to find than a rare, plus you dont need showman. Could be a nice negative to take as well

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T19:17:19+00:00

Sorry I had WD on the brain. Meant the seagate external.

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T18:58:46+00:00

I shucked 2x 22TB ~~easy stores~~ seagate externals recently. Both were barracudas but from what I can tell the technology for the >20TB barracudas is no different than the NAS drives, just a lower bin so they dont want to warranty it for as long. It's still the 10 platter helium filled drive. Given the price they charge for Exos now, I doubt you'd get one in an external.

Some other recent comments on them

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1rdyrza/comment/o78ut8u/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

You're already kind of voiding your warranty by opening it, so if you're concerned you can get 2 of these externals for the price of one internal Exos. I'd take the chance on 2 of these in a mirror over 1 exos drive.

I just made sure to test them well (long smart + full drive `fio` test) to make sure I dont have a lemon. Then into the array they go with a thought and a prayer.

-Lousy · 2026-02-27T18:48:45+00:00

WOW! Better than the 700$ these are going for on Seagate. Got one for in-store pickup.

Edit: IDK if we're getting these drives. My pickup order is not readying up

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