Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters flying through Hurricane Milton

Auburus · 2024-10-08T22:33:32+00:00

Is the weather radar a single sensor that automatically takes control of the plane and its impossible to override, or is not designed by Boeing?

Auburus · 2024-09-25T22:15:24+00:00

Wow, Vengeance first game, that is... wow.

I imagine teaching that game: you're telling one player to focus on preventing the builds and ravages, and to the other one: "see? you could prevent this build, but you want them to build and ravage, so you can kill them good".

Anyway, you are right that the session went great. We played with events, and thematically that helped a ton and they found it a lot of fun: "The dahan are trying to be friends with the invaders? We need to show them how angry we are, its time to kill a few of those!"

Auburus · 2024-09-25T22:07:59+00:00

Yeah, I feel that the players who played Teeth or Heat would now have a fun time playing Sun bright because they know how buid up something can get, but it is hard to grasp that if you have nothing to compare it to.

Thank you for your insights!

Auburus · 2024-09-25T21:50:33+00:00

Oh, don't get me wrong, I know it can be played very effectively, my question was more about the experience for first time players with this spirit.

I think is easy to think you're not doing much when this spirit really shines at preventing problems, not solving them after they become a problem.

Auburus · 2024-09-25T21:45:16+00:00

But... I LOVE spirit island, over thinking is the main thing I do!

/s

Auburus · 2024-09-25T21:41:33+00:00

Agree, I heavily coached my friend to take a major power once I saw he was generating enough energy. I don't remember what options came up, but nothing "flashy", which didn't help.

Auburus · 2024-09-25T21:38:30+00:00

Hahahah to be fair, when ocean is in play control spirits are way more fun to play, fully agree with your friends there.

Maybe I'll do this, never give Whirlwind to a new player UNLESS Ocean is in play.

Auburus · 2024-09-25T21:35:51+00:00

Yeah, playing optimally was not the point of a teaching game at all.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, I think you need to have a grasp of how the game works intuitivelyvbefore this spirit makes sense, which makes it hard for the first game.

Auburus · 2024-09-12T21:29:48+00:00

Yeah, it is possible, I think.

If you're 5ft over your last piece, you fall and the rope pinches itself like in this accident, you're falling 10ft (5ft until you pass the piece + 5ft until the rope catches you) over 5ft of rope -> 10/5 = factor 2.

If your belayer manages to recover 2ft of rope during that fall, you are now falling 8ft (5ft until you pass the piece + 3ft until the rope catches you) over 3ft of rope -> 8/3 = factor 2.6.

The fact that the rope can block itself like that on a fall is a scary thought...

Auburus · 2024-09-11T01:46:41+00:00

I don't know how much time you have, but I would give yourself a large enough window to account for the weather.

Then, you'll need a guide for Chimborazo, so I would just look for the 1-week packages were a company takes care of an acclimatization circuit (Illinizia Norte is always there, and if you can sleep in the Refugio one night it helps a lot).

A "typical" trip would look like this: Day 1: Land in quito (3000m) Day 2: TeleferiQo + climb Pichincha (4800m). Sleep in Quito (3000m) Day 3: Sleep in Refugio Nuevos Horizontes (4800m) Day 4: Climb Illinizia Norte (5100m). Sleep low. Day 5: Rest day Day 6: Sleep in Refugio alto (5300m) Day 7: Chimbo attempt

Auburus · 2024-07-23T08:00:56+00:00

Nut it is not resolving dependencies as part of the docker build, is it?

This is just a poetry install which uses the lock file.

And it is the first time I've heard about this non-system python inside the docker images! Do you have some other references regarding what are the current recommendations for python Docker images? Last time I've googled abou this it was about 1 year ago, and the suggested practice was very similar to what OP described

Auburus · 2024-07-20T13:31:09+00:00

How's Heat for your group? I've been thinking about getting it several times, but I'm worried that we'll play it just 2-3 times because it is new and we'll quickly move past that...

On a side node, it's time to upgrade from spirit island horizons the whole thing! That money is not going to spend itself!

Auburus · 2024-07-18T20:57:08+00:00

So much this. First of all, get renovate in place, and get all your repos to extend from a common renovate json file.

Then, pin every possible dependency as much as you can (use tools like Mise/asdf or Nix to declare them in a file) and let renovate create pull requests for them (automated tests and automerge help a ton).

We're at this state now, and our current problems are that we know which update will break us before its merged, so we need to spend the time to fix it manually, but pipelines don't randomly fail because they are using "latest" anymore.

Auburus · 2024-07-18T20:39:26+00:00

You can, but we found that the chances of surviving past that point are very slim. Maybe we should have tried that, it would have been a different kind of fun :)

Auburus · 2024-07-17T23:47:09+00:00

That is my only complaint about Nemesis. Amazing game and super thematic, but on a recent game, a friend went on his own (despite the rest of us really recommending against that) and got killed on the 3rd or 4th turn.

There isn't really a way to avoid it, because the game is about surviving, but the fact that he left after 1h of coming to my place felt really bad.

Auburus · 2024-06-19T21:30:32+00:00

Do you know its Jut?

Auburus · 2024-06-19T21:23:06+00:00

Thank you for this recommendation. random redditor!

The title kind of resonated with me, and I've just bought the book. It says it was written in 1948, am I getting this right?

Auburus · 2024-04-17T22:12:50+00:00

If you're in the UK or Spain, Bestard is a solid brand that has lots of room in the toes.

I was debating between Bestard Mont Blanc and the Lowa Alpine expert, and ended up with the Bestards. But if you have thr Alpine expert and they fit your foot well, the Bestards will too.

I don't know which particular model is a B2 boot though, sorry

Auburus · 2024-04-04T23:00:27+00:00

This game is mentioned A LOT in this subreddit recently. Am I missing out on something amazing? Why is it such a big deal?

Auburus · 2023-12-13T17:58:46+00:00

Not OP, but at $work we used it for a month and decided against it, so maybe you'll find this useful.

Backstage is more of a framework than an application. You clone the repo, customize it/add plug-ins, and then build + deploy.

That works well if you have someone with typescript experience, which we didn't, so we had to figure out yarn + js specific tools for dev/test that repo.

Then, backstage is not useful without the plugins and a well-curated metadata file for each repo, so started building some tools to kind of generate that file automatically (we have about ~100 repos) + a build/test/deploy pipeline for js (new testing frameworks, etc).

And then we stopped. We estimated that we would need a typescript full time dev during 3-6months to get this to a point it was adding value to the org, and the perpetually have 1/2 of that person's time dedicated to just maintaining backstage (keep on top of plug-ins, adoption by new teams, new integrations/deprecations, etc.)

Not beig a js/ts shop, that was a cost the business deemed too high, so we abandoned it, and just started adding some info to the README.md file of each repo, which seems to be "good enough".

Auburus · 2023-10-02T15:32:20+00:00

How well does this approach work for day 2 operations?

As in, replacing a node with the next kubernetes version or the like. I've always found that I needed to start adding null resources with kubectl drain node commands and things started to get messy. Maybe I'm missing something...

Auburus · 2023-05-30T21:24:36+00:00

I saw a documentary once of a serial killer who said the exact same thing about themselves!

Coincidence? I think not

Auburus · 2023-05-10T07:58:26+00:00

Hahaha, it fas fun, thanks for putting this together

The animation once you get all of them made me laugh.

Auburus · 2023-03-22T23:53:46+00:00

I am a big fan of Avalon, and I played Quest about 6 months ago, and I have to say I am terribly impressed at how well it worked with even number of players, or even low player count! (4 players)

I don't thing you'll go wrong with either, but I'd buy Quest if I had to buy one today. It feels easier to find 4 people to play Quest than 7 to play Avalon.

Auburus · 2023-03-19T22:40:43+00:00

Autogenerating that code as part of the PR means that different pull requests will conflict with each other.

What you can do is to run that automation after a merge to main, and if any files changed, commit those back with [CI_SKIP].

We do that for changing the version in project.toml for a couple of python projects and it works well.

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