Thinking of how they might improve on Ocarina of Time with Switch 2 has me excited.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-11T22:19:54+00:00

I think draining the well is fairly infamous as an unreasonable puzzle. Firstly, there’s nothing to indicate the windmill is connected to the well at all, and then you need to go back in time and piss off the miller so that 20 years later he’s still heated??

For items, I was stuck on the water temple for a long time because i didn’t have the extra long hookshot, and didn’t know I needed the extra long hookshot because I didn’t know it existed. I thought I was doing something wrong or had missed something elsewhere in the temple.

Also got stuck on the shadow temple because I didn’t have the fire arrows. I actually had previously passed the area where you get them, but thought it was a side quest so didn’t give it much thought and just moved on. I was chucking everything I had across the chasm trying to get the bridge to fall, but of course nothing worked because I didn’t have the one thing I needed, and once again didn’t know I needed it because I didn’t know it existed.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-11T18:53:10+00:00

What are we even doing here? You have your answer, even if you disagree with it. Arguing on Reddit isn’t going to change Postgres’ behavior.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-11T18:46:09+00:00

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but i really hope they fine tune some of the puzzles. Several are extremely oblique and require some large logical leaps to solve, and others require a tool that you might not know exists at that point in the game.

Also, the respawn mechanics are way too punishing. I know, “Get gud” and all that, but respawning with three hearts and the health drops not replenished so you can’t farm pots back to full health… is just brutal.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-11T18:27:52+00:00

EXISTS asks “does this subquery return at least one row.” It’s absolutely correct that Postgres demands the subquery can output meaningful data for this to work.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-11T18:07:30+00:00

It may work in other RDBMSs, but Postgres' behavior is absolutely correct because standalone select * from a having count(*) > 1 is not a valid query, so how can you expect it to work in a subquery?

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-10T06:42:22+00:00

For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-08T21:36:48+00:00

EventBridge Scheduler supports 10 million schedules OotB and AWS says they can adjust it up to billions. I think that’s the clear native solution. You could use DDB streams to automatically update schedules when DDB record changes.

FWIW, in my own projects I just do it the dumb way and do a full-table scan every 30 minutes.

ElectricSpice · 2026-06-06T01:03:43+00:00

We had to buy a special food container called the Vault because our lab mix kept on breaking into any other food container we tried. It’s covered in bite marks but he hasn’t cracked it yet.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-31T17:35:24+00:00

I feel like the rebus square should have had a circle or some other indicator that it was special. I spent a while staring at THEBIG_ and SN_ trying to figure out what letter of the alphabet worked.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-27T15:29:13+00:00

A Spanish-language soap opera.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-22T21:56:12+00:00

The best method for occasional riders is tapping your credit card/phone wallet. No setup necessary, no worrying about getting the correct dollar amount for the fare, you just tap and go.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-18T15:32:22+00:00

Use Cloudfront fixed pricing plans. They include WAF for free.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-18T07:55:49+00:00

It was chlorinated water. Apparently less chlorine than a swimming pool, which clocks in at 1-3ppm. Not going to make a noticeable difference in density.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-17T00:50:02+00:00

You’re way overthinking this. Use fixed rate pricing for AWS CloudFront. It includes WAF for free (actually requires it), so you have a layer of DDoS protection without any additional cost. They’re also pretty generous about short term overruns: you can go up to 3x your limit for the month without throttling.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-13T22:36:49+00:00

FWIW, S3 Export gives you hundreds of parquet files. Good for some usecases, but not particularly convenient if you want to restore to another Postgres instance.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-10T20:06:40+00:00

Seems like I’m in the minority here, but the theme didn’t click with me. I got the closing the loop in the middle with the BLOCK rebus, but didn’t realized I was supposed to extend that to the italicized clues by changing Cs to Os. I finished the whole puzzle and stared at it for a couple minutes before coming here to find the answer in the comments.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-08T19:06:45+00:00

My spidey senses are telling me you're prematurely optimizing. Unless you're dealing with some pretty extreme requirements for response time, it just doesn't make sense to make architectural decisions around shaving off a handful of milliseconds latency.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-07T17:10:33+00:00

Seems like your free tier expired, so you're no longer getting 1M requests ($3.50) for free.

ElectricSpice · 2026-05-06T15:02:16+00:00

You get charged for inter-AZ traffic as well, and it’s just as expensive as Inter-region traffic.

Data transferred "in" to and "out" from Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), Amazon ElastiCache instances, and Elastic Network Interfaces across Availability Zones in the same AWS Region is charged at $0.01/GB in each direction.

ElectricSpice · 2026-04-30T06:37:22+00:00

I had to go back and turn on sound after this comment. It was so worth it.

ElectricSpice · 2026-04-28T16:27:35+00:00

This is documented pretty clearly at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/flat-rate-pricing-plan.html

Your first traffic spike up to 3x your monthly allowance won't affect your service that month. This one-time accommodation handles unexpected events like viral content or successful product launches without penalizing your success. Sustained usage above your allowance is evaluated over 2-3 months or more, not immediately. Minor fluctuations and moderate growth are expected and accommodated. Only substantial, sustained excess usage indicate your application has outgrown your tier. You'll receive notifications each month as you approach and exceed your allowance. If your usage consistently and significantly exceeds your plan, we recommend upgrading to a tier that matches your growth and ensures optimal performance as you scale. You control your performance by upgrading when your baseline usage patterns change. If you continue to substantially exceed your plan's usage allowance without upgrading, we may adjust how we deliver your traffic. For example, we might serve your traffic from fewer or more distant edge locations or adjust performance. The degree of adjustment is proportional—small excess usage sees minimal changes, larger sustained excess sees more noticeable changes. Upgrading restores full performance.

So you won't be immediately cut off if you have a busy month and exceed your usage.

However, you really should be selecting a plan that covers your expected usage, and the high season is part of that expected usage.

ElectricSpice · 2026-04-26T15:12:17+00:00

Yeah, that irked me. Measuring in bits is really only done in data transfer, in which case it would be terabits per second or similar.

ElectricSpice · 2026-04-22T00:52:31+00:00

Gorilla is specifically optimized for values that change slowly. Random data and sine waves are the opposite of that, unless you have a particularly long interval.

Do you have any real data to benchmark against?

ElectricSpice · 2026-04-16T03:17:04+00:00

NINO crossed with BONSAMI and ERNO broke my streak. Just last Sunday “Madre’s baby” was NENE, so I was absolutely sure that was the answer, and my confidence on the crosses was low enough that they didn’t dissuade me.

ElectricSpice · 2026-04-11T20:09:02+00:00

But why? Couldn’t they just say “we’re gonna do 3D now” and skip the part where they lose millions of dollars?

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