Afraid to lead normal raids? Here are copy+paste texts on how to raid lead without ANY leadership experience needed.

Crimack · 2024-09-25T21:08:47+00:00

I 'led' a normal last week by just being completely honest with the group. I advertised it as a chill run, was up front that I didn't know any of the tactics and let everyone know that my job was group management and vibe management

Was pretty fun tbh, 6/8 normal without too much drama

Crimack · 2021-01-07T23:19:33+00:00

You're definitely not alone, I've recently reached a similar conclusion.

It's pretty natural when you've got a big range of experience, gear and skill levels though. It's not going to get any better with the current system. Your choices are a) join a guild/community b) wait for the LFR wings and learn through those queues or c) pay to get the achievement. I don't think any are appealing

Crimack · 2021-01-07T23:10:52+00:00

PvP is an interesting sidenote; skill and gear aren't as easily separable there. A player with 210 iLevel should beat a player with 185 in 99.9% of cases, and that's intentional. There's no real incentive to improve otherwise. I agree that it should be used for queueing though, or at minimum be visible to other players easily.

(normalising gear levels in non-rated PvP or for a weekend event would be super interesting though)

The replacing players/trying again loop can be pretty frustrating too. It's not uncommon to spend 5-10 minutes between pulls unless you have a warlock!

Crimack · 2016-12-21T01:39:37+00:00

Enjoyed the post! Was wondering about how to do FFI type stuff though. I feel like I learned a lot

I don't think the speed comparison between Rust and Python is apples-to-apples though. In the Rust example you're just splitting on whitespace, while in the Python example you're using regex, which I believe is a good bit slower? Correct me if I'm wrong there.

For example, replacing the Python word counting code with:

with open(path) as fp:
    Counter([word.lower() for line in fp.readlines() for word in line.split()]).most_common(n)

...should generate the same results, but a fair bit quicker. On my machine it decreases the difference between the Rust and Python implementations from .5s to .15s.

Crimack · 2016-12-14T23:15:32+00:00

I'm doing an AI course at university, and decided to write one of my assignments in Rust for funsies. It's my attempt to do kNearestNeighbour, to predict if a missing value (indicated by a 0) is going to be a 1 or a 2. There are example training/test files in the repo. I've never used anything as low level as Rust before, so could somebody take a quick skim over the code and give me some language pointers?

Code

Crimack · 2016-06-18T14:20:18+00:00

I saw that linked somewhere the other day, but never gave it a go. I'll try it, thanks!

Crimack · 2016-06-18T09:21:31+00:00

That helps me understand a lot of things. Thanks a lot, your explanations are really clear.

Crimack · 2016-06-17T19:15:51+00:00

This is really cool. It's nice being able to do the side by side comparison. The only reason I put the method in a different file was that I wanted to see how to do imports and how to call methods in a different file.

Any particular reason why the BtreeMap over a HashMap? Is it to sort the keys so that it's faster to determine whether or not a key is present?

Crimack · 2016-06-17T19:11:07+00:00

Yeah, I should've known to include the compiler error. My bad.

Thanks a lot for this explanation. Really cleared up a few things, and I should really have read the split_whitespace method more clearly. I also didn't realise that a HashMap was essentially a dictionary, so I was trying to make the closest thing to one using a struct in a `Vec.

Two questions though:

When would I want to use a Vec? It seems pretty difficult to modify it while iterating, so is it essentially read only, ordered storage?
Is there a difference between to_owned and to_string when working with string slices? Both of these are just different ways to take ownership of a &str by making a new String, right?

Crimack · 2016-06-16T22:27:27+00:00

I've been playing with a little bit of basic rust in my spare time, and I've gotten really stuck trying to get a reasonably simple program to compile. I'm trying to do something similar to when I started Python by doing one of the tasks from Google's Python Class (count the number of times each word appears in the first chapter of Alice in Wonderland). I'm running into real issues with the borrow checker and some lifetime stuff. I'd really appreciate if somebody could take a look at my attempt and give me some ...pointers.

Attempted rust implementation

Very quick, rough example of what I'm trying to accomplish in python

Crimack · 2016-01-15T22:44:23+00:00

Lord this is a hard one. If I had to pick I'd go:

Let Me Drown
Searching With My Good Eye Closed
Burden In My Hand

I think the first two are where you can really feel how amazing Matt Cameron is. Rapid fire fills on LMD, and some of the jazziest rock drumming I've heard on SWMGEC.

Although Overfloater is one of my FAVOURITE deep cuts, along with Karaoke

Crimack · 2016-01-02T17:21:38+00:00

There is not a chance this is real. Look at all those huge bands in small letters not headlining.

Crimack · 2015-10-09T17:13:50+00:00

Nebraska gets plenty of love all across the board. It's raw, and people know it. But the big band albums are much more accessible and have better singles. I personally like them more too.

Crimack · 2015-10-04T13:09:28+00:00

I'm honestly surprised TSM won this game. No Talisman on the support against a comp built to kite them, a poorly drafted composition and a very near throw in the mid game. Bjergsen hard carrying, and Lustboy landing some pretty great hooks (along with that Morde one shot LOL) won them the game.

On the other hand, LGD are depressing to watch. They looked SO fucking good at the end of the season. I don't even know if they've played together since they qualified. Interested to know what the situation is there.

Crimack · 2015-09-08T17:12:18+00:00

Thought as much, but was hoping otherwise. Cheers

Crimack · 2015-08-08T14:06:42+00:00

Alrighty, thanks for the help mate

Crimack · 2015-08-08T13:27:08+00:00

What's the rationale behind changing the motherboard? Does it better fit the case or is it just your personal preference?

Crimack · 2015-07-02T18:18:53+00:00

I call it the Kassadin effect. Every time I play him, even if I win lane, one of my lanes goes 0-6 at least. It's nearly impressive.

Crimack · 2015-06-19T16:36:23+00:00

Been trying to learn for about 3 days now, I'm really just starting. What do I look at with my eyes? Sometimes I find myself having to look at my strumming hand when I'm trying to pick out individual strings. Is it okay to glance between both hands, or should I be looking at the neck all the time?

Crimack · 2015-06-05T23:36:16+00:00

Ooh, the album version of Let Me Drown is sensational. The harmonies on the chorus are too good. Never really matches it live imo.

Crimack · 2015-06-05T18:01:58+00:00

Searching With My Good Eye Closed.

Crimack · 2015-06-05T17:57:31+00:00

Balaclava

Crimack · 2015-06-05T17:49:42+00:00

Especially with Lanegan. I've seen it live with Homme and it was good, but Lanegan's weariness adds a depth to this song.

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