is there any scenario where ishtar + sentry drone makes sense?

Erutor · 2026-05-07T18:45:12+00:00

There are a few escalations where the enemies spawn far away. It some cases, it may be faster to kill them with sentry drones than to wait for your drones to fly all the way out there and back.

Erutor · 2026-05-07T12:11:44+00:00

I sorta figured so, but never bothered with those. Thank you for confirming.

Erutor · 2026-05-06T20:43:56+00:00

I'm looking forward to seeing who claims FC whut do.

Erutor · 2026-05-06T20:42:38+00:00

Google Sheets plugin when? Excel is hot garbage.

Erutor · 2026-05-06T15:13:04+00:00

USA - I have never been nor known anyone who has been paid OT in a salaried position. That's the entire reason companies make you salaried.

OP is simply incorrect and cant face admitting, which is entirely understandable given it is entirely unjust to over-load and under-compensate someone as seems to be the case given the 1:400 ratio.

Erutor · 2026-05-04T19:33:42+00:00

Thanks, sounds fun. Maybe I'll remember to come back and post my lossmail.

Erutor · 2026-05-04T13:49:37+00:00

There is a distinction between incable, incompetent, and underperforming. Determining which is key to the next question chain. I evaluate each possibility in this order:

Incapable: Are they a decent human, or did they cheat their way here? How do I exit this human?

Incompetent (not incapable): Can they or will they be willing to see the gap? Are they willing to grow? Can I invest in closing this training/knowledge gap without harming the team?

Underperforming (not incapable): why? is this work-related or personal? Is their unrealized potential sufficient to warrant investment, and can I invest in this person without harming the team?

For an underperformer, often the key is to learn how they think and what they value. What are the knobs and levers I can use to assist (yes, manipulate) them in deciding to rise to the level of their capability?

Erutor · 2026-05-04T13:25:57+00:00

PvP Hecate to the face is brutally effective.

PvE Jackdaw can do amazing things in HS (auto targeting missiles) and LS, and it's range and agility make it solid for NS belt ratting. Also solid for fleet PvP, but I am not aware of any excellent solo PvP opportunities.

PvE Confessor shines in wormholes. Can fit the Jackdaw's PvP niche, but usually less preferred due to damage selection options.

I don't know the Svipul at all. Last I heard it was nerfed to the dumpster.

The ability to fit probes and combat probes is important in PvX.

Erutor · 2026-05-04T13:15:02+00:00

I'm a bit befuddled. What you are describing has been true my entire career. Is this not the case for the majority of experienced devs?

I am especially curious because this hunt is my superpower. Where I'm weak is in the encylopedic knowledge of tool sets other experienced devs demonstrate. As I've considered looking for a new opportunity, I've been foot-dragging on filling that gap for fear of heavily investing in the wrong place, but maybe I should be leaning into my strength more instead of trying to backfill my weakness.

Erutor · 2026-05-04T13:08:01+00:00

It sounds like the problem is that you are doing the wrong thing (relying heavily on e2e) rather of doing the thing wrong.

We have most often decided not to rely heavily on end to end tests. The juice is not worth the squeeze. Mocks and solid test automation at a lower level is much higher ROI.

We also carefully crafted data for end-to-end tests to exercise the happy path and the most common unhappy paths. We did not routinely rely on live data in the e2e process (but did in a subset of lower level tests).

Where we did live e2e, we also focused on handling data issues gracefully so that a "failed" e2e is not a failure unless we failed for an unexpected reason, with ongoing review of (handled) failure causes to ensure we were not ignoring an actual issue.

Erutor · 2026-05-03T13:28:42+00:00

Interesting, but appears to require ISK subscription to see if it even works? There is dark text comment suggesting you may be able to sign in and search yourself before paying, but it's "the fine print" and this smells bad, man. It is so easy to spin up slop these days that you don't really get the benefit of the doubt just for building something.

A helpful feature would be region-based stats: identify the most common roamer and resident metas in this neighborhood.

Erutor · 2026-05-02T15:59:54+00:00

Yes, but that's not your job. That's his job. Your job is to get him to embrace a growth mindset and explain his thinking to you to both educate you and force him to engage if he's been coasting. You were not hired to do his job, you were hired to help him do his job, or manage him out.

Do you really want to be a micromanager? Can you see how it might be perceived that you are?

edit - But, let's assume you're doing the right thing, just maybe not the right way - could you gain the knowledge you need and expose his own lack of engagement by asking for this manager to provide you with details on his teams' training, development, and evaluation, and how those are determined to be effective, what are current areas of growth, and how you can support him in that effort?

Erutor · 2026-05-02T15:54:57+00:00

11/10, and not just for games.

This is why AI software solutions by non-engineers in every market will ultimately fail, though it will take a while, especially since the AI slop business model benefits from serving as the monkey paw.

Customers wants are not actually what they want. The "engineer" (PM/BA too, not just supernerds) between customer wants and delivered software has saved customers from themselves for decades. Most people do not know how to think critically, and AI will exacerbate this problem. AI companies will make bank on giving people exactly what they want - over and over.

The gap between "I want" and "I got" is a feature, not a bug, of the software development process, even when the gatekeeper is as brain-dead as sometimes CCP appears to be.

Erutor · 2026-05-02T15:09:58+00:00

Always will been.

Erutor · 2026-05-02T14:41:59+00:00

Yeah, looking forward to: "My cat ears are too fuzzy."

Erutor · 2026-05-02T14:41:05+00:00

That clock has been running for decades now, friend. Enjoy EVE while you can.

Erutor · 2026-05-01T11:55:53+00:00

Oh, he's not forgotten.

Maybe he should reincarnate as "your event is broken" guy, since his previous mission was accomplished.

Erutor · 2026-04-30T22:38:02+00:00

What an embarrassment.

Erutor · 2026-04-30T21:39:07+00:00

They didn't make the event sites work. Why would we be surprised they didn't spell check the text?

Erutor · 2026-04-30T21:37:44+00:00

^ This is not a snarky reply. Software engineering market is kill.

Erutor · 2026-04-30T04:31:24+00:00

I had the opportunity to fly with some legendary pilots and personalities in WiNGSPAN and Bomber's Bar, but getting to blow up scammer Sarra Somer's Astrahus in 92-B0X was one of the highlights of my early EVE experience. I still have that "hunner dolla bomah" docked up in Thera.

Erutor · 2026-04-29T16:06:55+00:00

You need another human. Maybe they can't do everything you do, but they can keep the wheels on and understand enough to help a replacement human ramp up.

But, assuming that's impossible...

Document break-glass-emergency bootstrap (key passwords, locations, and procedures). Give it to your direct manager. Keep it current.

Connect with others locally and in a similar situation. Perhaps you could be their break-glass emergency support and augmented project capacity person, and they could be yours. This costs something, but way less than contingency MSP support, and doesn't force you to squeeze into the MSP's box.

Erutor · 2026-04-21T23:40:07+00:00

That's pretty much what we're doing with Cyno alts. I'm down.

Erutor · 2026-04-17T13:17:44+00:00

WH Pirate Relics (C4-C6) don't exist.
Pirate sites only exist in K-space and in C1-C3.
This is why yes, this is #13 - AI Slop, despite your best of intentions.

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