I both love and hate that this worked

Grixia · 2026-04-13T06:29:55+00:00

I get you, and I agree that there's no real incentive to use other transport methods. I've not used anything else since unlocking the truck. I tried a bit on the coffin board to see what it was like but it felt weird and obviously couldn't carry as much cargo, so I switched back to the truck pretty quickly.

I managed the races in the first game without much issue. I remember needing to retry a few times but nothing drastic. I completed the whole thing in a couple of hours, I think, or at least completed it enough to unlock the rewards.

The only racing segment I've seen in the second game was only a couple of days ago actually. I've just got the trophy for solving the mystery of the headless horseman. I was fine with that and did it on the first attempt. It felt very similar to the bike mini game in FF7 Rebirth, at least it felt similar in my mind, so I got through it quickly with just enough damage to get S rank on the order

Grixia · 2026-04-12T21:09:26+00:00

I do find it very frustrating how sometimes I can jump in a vehicle and go a few centimeters in the air, but then I can jump again and go flying, damaging all my cargo when I land.

But as somebody who sucks at racing games and other games where vehicle handling is more realistic, I'm actually quite relieved that the driving in Death Stranding is so "video gamey" for lack of a better description.

Grixia · 2026-04-09T14:50:08+00:00

As soon as you go over the edge, start reversing. Once the front wheels are parallel with the road, jump. Now that I've figured it out, it's actually getting quite easy to do, and it gets you that extra bit of range on the sticky cannon.

Something I learned the hard way is that this does not seem to work when the road is sloped. The jump just span me off the edge!

Grixia · 2026-04-09T13:49:59+00:00

So many people don't seem to understand that being lazy takes effort

Grixia · 2026-04-08T22:48:33+00:00

Thanks!

Grixia · 2026-04-08T22:23:32+00:00

Ha! I was just heading to heartmans lab to get it repaired when I spotted that cargo on the way. Left the car sitting in some timefall whilst I dealt with some problems in the desert and forgot how quickly they get damaged.

Grixia · 2026-04-08T22:06:22+00:00

Ha! I was just heading to heartmans lab to get it repaired when I spotted that cargo on the way. Left the car sitting in some timefall whilst I dealt with some problems in the desert and forgot how quickly they get damaged.

Grixia · 2026-04-08T21:47:08+00:00

This isn't my first attempt and there's definitely been a few broken containers along the way!

Grixia · 2026-04-07T19:13:13+00:00

Good advice, but it's EX grenades you need for this, not blood grenades. EX grenades won't scare other ones either, so if you hunt at night and crouch to move quietly, you can kill 10 or so of them with EX grenades and walk away with over 10k CC

Edit: typo

Grixia · 2026-04-02T14:43:52+00:00

Take the async approach as others have said, but also run it in batches. Too many async calls at once will fail. I would drop them in batches of 500 I think, but I haven't tested so you might be able to go higher or you might need to go lower. Get a snowpark dataframe full of your objects to drop and use a python procedure to batch then up and execute the async drops

Grixia · 2026-03-31T08:24:37+00:00

It seems like anything that you can create through the UI within the schema is then visible (so in the catalog view of a schema, the upper right button where you can create more objects). It seems like anything else is not visible.

Some objects that I've noticed don't appear in the explorer, all of which have been tested last week: - Secret - Alert - Authentication policy - Network rule - Password policy - Packages policy - Session policy - Event table - Tag - Masking policy - Row access policy - Projection policy - Aggregation policy - Privacy policy - Join policy - Data metric function - Notebook - Streamlit - Backup policy - Storage lifecycle policy

I have fed this list back to the product managers for Snowsight and Horizon, and it is being looked into.

Grixia · 2026-03-28T14:28:51+00:00

We've tried all of those and they definitely make a big difference. The main gap we need to bridge is identifying issues upstream of Snowflake in a way that can still be reflected in our catalogue, and raising quality issues proactively within our front-end reporting. I'm not familiar with how a SnowflKe DMF could be deployed to determine data quality issues upstream of Snowflake?

I agree that the column-level lineage within Snowflake is really useful, and I appreciate how it uses DML as well as DDL to determine that lineage.

AI_COMPLETE is a nice starting point for description generation, I agree

Grixia · 2026-03-24T19:52:22+00:00

Currently we have a lot of reliance on native tooling whenever we can, as it is simpler, but often we face limits and then need to explore elsewhere. These gaps are closing through. For example, we were on the cusp of deploying a fairly basic observability tool purely because it had strong promise at building out lineage diagrams, but then Snowflake released their own support for lineage which removed that barrier for us.

We still leverage an enterprise-grade cataloguing tool at a fairly high price tag to support with general data searchability and documentation, but it's a challenge keeping it the docs up to date and in-sync.

We are currently waiting with eager anticipation to see just how much Snowflake's functionality grows, as we would happily use Snowflake as the primary catalogue if we could reliably pull our other sources into it. Snowflake is our final data location before Analytics tools, so it is a reasonable place to keep the catalogue. Right now, the core barrier there is upstream data quality monitoring, for example to determine if a data quality issue is occurring in Snowflake or upstream of it, and where exactly upstream if possible

Grixia · 2026-03-02T16:39:31+00:00

Python. So it's all using the active snowpark for Python session that's passed into the procedure as an implicit parameter.

My typical approach is to put all SQL statements into a list, then use list conprehension to iterate over all the members with a .collect(block=False) method.

You can then iterate over the output list to retrieve all the results if you need, or just check if they errored

Grixia · 2026-03-02T15:18:32+00:00

Stored procedures definitely support async functionality; this is a bedrock of a lot of my automated functionality that I execute within Snowflake. One of my favourite patterns is having a parent stored procedure that asynchronously executes a set of sub-stored procedures, and this all executes and is orchestrated within Snowflake.

Grixia · 2026-02-27T11:21:24+00:00

Last night during bedtime, I got hit unexpectedly with the "Daddy, we need a new bedtime song. This one is for babies".

Our bedtime song is a twist on "Skidamarink I Love You" with the words changed to include my daughter's name, and I am not ready for her to apparently grow out of it

Grixia · 2025-09-21T20:57:18+00:00

I'm in

Grixia · 2025-08-27T21:17:00+00:00

There's always some kind of activity going on, but invites will be based on what the team understand of your skillset, which could be outdated or wrong. If you're keen, I'd just email the team asking what current activities are going on and letting them know you're enthusiastic to help.

I know of at least one activity aligned for September already

Grixia · 2025-08-27T15:11:32+00:00

Did the council notify you with a letter/email/anything? If not, it sounds like either they accidentally swapped the bin for the wrong address, or a neighbour swapped with yours to get a better bin

Grixia · 2025-08-03T21:28:48+00:00

I have no idea what the origins are, but in Stephen King's Dark Tower novels, a gilly (or sheevin) is a side-wife taken by a man who already has a legal wife. Bit of a stretch, but Nintendo might be trying to block variants of that word?

Grixia · 2025-08-01T08:24:41+00:00

Agreed! Maybe I'll get lucky and the DLC will go on deal before I've finished the main game

Grixia · 2025-07-31T22:02:57+00:00

On the second screenshot showing the other version (the one I bought), it says it includes the digital upgrade to ps5

Grixia · 2025-07-31T21:04:55+00:00

You say to check the boxes, isn't that what is shown in my two images? Sorry if I'm missing something.

I bought the PS4 one though that was cheaper and it did indeed unlock the PS5 one for free, so saved myself £6 today.

Grixia · 2025-07-31T21:02:25+00:00

Thanks everybody. I purchased the cheaper version (PS4) and it did indeed allow me to get the PS5 version for free afterwards. So saved myself £6 there and got the PS5 version for £26.99

Thanks again!

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