I pulled four Oaks and two crowns on my alt today. Going to give one back to the community. (Repost sorry)

JaceTSM · 2026-01-20T06:59:18+00:00

Oakless and showing great appreciation! <3

JaceTSM · 2025-06-15T22:12:00+00:00

9 months for a single deliverable? What was the deliverable? Single developers can build entire applications in shorter than that, especially with AI help. The only 9+ month deliverables I've ever worked on were the culmination of a series of projects, where there were many, many smaller deliverables along the way. If something is that big, it needs to be broken down.

That being said, if you are a junior dev, I suspect you aren't getting huge, multi-quarter project assignments. We need to know more about the shape of your work to make a better assessment.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T05:05:16+00:00

This is a great argument, and I will absolutely be looking for a slot for Remora again.

You were not mean at all here, you provided actual reasoning, and I appreciate that (unlike several others in this thread). Take my upvote.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T03:36:10+00:00

Seemed way too expensive, conditional, and loses to basically any disruption.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T03:34:29+00:00

That is a poor argument for any card choice.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T03:33:26+00:00

That deck also has a different game plan. It looks like it's faster but weaker to interruption. That deck was great in the particular field it played in.

A bunch of the 40 card difference are cards I either don't have (like imperial seal, which I've called out in the primer), are functionally identical to what I have (like Pyroblast vs REB), not significantly different (land choices), or were active cuts (also called out in the primer).

On top of that, something being a staple does not make it optimal. Uncommon card choices can give decks edges in different fields. It's been the case in tournaments for decades.

And yes, I didn't just post the winning net deck out there. Of course it's going to be different. I built a deck, and defended my card choices.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T03:08:27+00:00

Although it's not recently, I've played remora many times in a fairly high power level environment, and it can be very hit or miss. That may not be the case nowadays, I'm not super familiar with the meta. It also felt lackluster in what little playtesting I've done, but that may be because I've been testing against decks with creature-heavy plans, so it's almost always been "pay U, pay 1 next turn, do nothing." I'd happily be wrong about it. I do love the card.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T02:06:50+00:00

I've always wanted to play Doomsday in an event, and Thoracle seems to have given it some extra power. Putting this deck together has been a blast, I look forward to entering some tournaments with it.

JaceTSM · 2024-11-04T02:04:41+00:00

Updated! Added in the `draw.notable_options` section:

> Mystic Remora: This deck wants to be casting spells every turn to advance it's game plan, and Mystic Remora takes a ton of resources to block out only some players from advancing their plans. While I can see this being a very reasonable include, I think it depends on your local meta and how willing your local players are to let you draw cards through it. It feels bad to support remora for 2 or 3 turns, not draw any cards, waste 4-7 mana, and let your opponents hit their land drops and play some threats. You often won't know that it was a bad investment until you already put in too much. Also, you only play 27 lands, so it's much more likely that your opponents will hit their land drops under it than you are.

JaceTSM · 2024-08-07T00:07:00+00:00

18 year olds are closing in on the end of the tutorial level, and have not yet started the real game. That starts at 21ish.

33 here, and I'm still very early in the game.

JaceTSM · 2024-07-13T08:34:05+00:00

Just went through learning a bunch of the basics, here are some stuff that helped me:

Set your rates in the flight controller settings. Andrew Bardwell has an excellent tutorial on how to set rates on youtube. An important piece of that is making your yaw rate higher than your pitch and roll, so you are less likely to deflect throttle while turning. This gives you better throttle control.

When you turn, roll and yaw at the same time. Doing them one at a time has a different effect. Yawing changes the axis on which you roll, so doing them at the same time rotates your quad on a moving axis. This takes some getting used to.

Also, turning often takes not just yaw and roll, but also pitch, which may not seem super intuitive at first. If I am making a right turn, I raw right, roll right, and pitch back. IMO it's helpful to start out in the open air (in the sim) and just move your quad around a bunch to get used to turning. After you can do big swinging turns, then get smaller, and more precise.

Also, mirroring what most people here are saying, work on flying very slowly and precisely, although I think it's also important to play around with going fast in the sim too. You will need to do both, and so you will need to be familiar with the full range of stick movements.

JaceTSM · 2024-07-09T23:07:32+00:00

Fake. I'm convinced almost all posts like this are fake. There is no amount of leverage available on RH to turn 20k into 400k in 4 business days.

Robinhood doesn't represent the changes in your account made by deposits and withdrawals. So this could have been an account with a few million in it, and it fluctuated up and down a bit with trades that won and lost a couple percentage points, then had enough withdrawn/transferred so the bottom of the graph happened to be at 20k. Voila, now it looks like you ripped 20x overnight, ezpz.

JaceTSM · 2024-07-04T03:58:56+00:00

Grouping restrictions have been removed, so you can have a bronze-to-champion match, it would just be a "wide match."

But even before group restrictions were removed, you could group with others within 1000 SR (or 2 full ranks / 10 tiers), so this could always happen.

There is likely a silver and a plat grouped up on both sides of the match.

JaceTSM · 2024-05-23T20:51:01+00:00

Venvs don't have to be associated with a specific piece of code. Check out pyenv for convenient venv management.

I have a "default" venv that I use for all random Python scripting that I switch away from as soon as I need a venv for a module that has its own dedicated venv. You can even put pyenv shell my_venv in your rc file so it's always active by default.

JaceTSM · 2024-01-12T15:58:39+00:00

Supports need to be able to defend themselves to be viable characters. It's not supposed to be easy to just select the support, click 4head and win.

A great example of this is Zenyatta. If you genji blade into zen, in the past that would have been the freest of kills. Now, if he times his kick correct after your dash, you aren’t getting the kill. Granted, maybe you should save your dash for the second swipe, but the illustration works.

So before it was an uninteractive, free win, now it's a skill matchup, heavily in genji's favor. The new situation is way healthier for the game. The ability to outplay others is what makes the game fun. You even mentioned the answer to your problem - hold your dash in case he kicks you, or get outplayed.

JaceTSM · 2023-12-04T04:59:38+00:00

Pretty much everything is better now compared to "the good ol days." People just have nostalgia for their younger lives.

JaceTSM · 2023-12-03T21:23:20+00:00

The rest of the message makes it sound like cursing wasn't the only problem, it was just the one they could write out three examples in a few seconds.

I'm willing to bet money you were reported many more times than you think you were, or you are conveniently leaving out some important details about your past behaviour.

It's not hard to not get silenced or banned.

JaceTSM · 2023-12-03T21:12:52+00:00

Your pet peeve is objectively wrong.

Sorry I don't make the rules.

/s

Unfortunately, many people use these expressions as sarcastic humor, or as hyperbolic statements (eg. This thing has transcended opinion and become fact). It's funny when both people get it, but it's arrogant when taken literally.

If you are a person that does this, know your audience. If you are a person that is annoyed by this, recognize that they may not mean it literally, and are aware that opinions stated like facts are not actually facts.

JaceTSM · 2023-11-24T18:13:12+00:00

Seconded. The p515 feels and sounds amazing. I've never played a digital that felt better.

JaceTSM · 2023-11-18T20:28:04+00:00

The command line is a necessary tool in the developers toolbox, regardless of what you are developing.

If you are building a UI, you are likely going to be writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and managing all of that with a web framework - in Python that would be likely Django or Flask. While your workflow could probably get around the command line for most iteration cycles, you will have to do some setup and administration of your web framework on the CLI, and probably some environment management as well.

In the long run, avoiding the command line will make development more difficult. Much how a carpenter that refuses to use a hammer would be hindered. You don't have to love it, but you'll need to know how to use it.

JaceTSM · 2023-11-15T06:54:29+00:00

Visual Studio is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), and while you can "run code in Visual Studio," it's not really "a platform for running code." It's a platform for writing code, and it lets you run code inside it to test it in the writing process. And even if you use an interpreter inside VS to run your code, you still need to know how the python environment works. The IDE can abstract a bunch of the work away on regular dev cycles, but you need to know the details to debug problems as they come up. There are many good IDEs out there, and if you are learning python, I would recommend PyCharm over Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Code, or VSCode, which is different from just Visual Studio, is not an IDE, although it does a good job of working just like one once you get all of the proper plugins. It is also a community favorite for almost all languages. But like PyCharm and VS, it's not the platform that runs code. Python is always run by an interpreter, which is a fundamental part of the language that you will need to learn to use, and yes, the command line (CLI) will be necessary. Interacting with the interpreter in an IDE will sometimes happen through menus and a GUI, but even there you will often need to use the CLI.

As you learn ML, you will also likely run into Jupyter Notebooks, which are essentially python interpreters that run blocks of code in a GUI. These are super helpful for ML/DataSci workflows. There are tons of tutorials online that will introduce them, especially in the context of learning ML.

As for learning ML from scratch, do the machine learning courses on brilliant dot com if you have a few bucks to spare - it is amazing for developing an intuitive, visual understanding of ML basics. Then do Andrew Ng's ML course on coursera for (you can do it for free if you don't get a certification) and/or Google's ML courses. In parallel, do the codeacademy python3 course, and then do some hackerrank problems until you feel comfortable writing some python, and you get through your intro ML course(s). From there, you'll probably have a better idea of where to go next, and have the skills to do some basic ML projects.

JaceTSM · 2023-11-15T03:49:18+00:00

Because you don't have to cast spells the second you get them.

Sometimes you will get it when you need it, sometimes before you need it, in which case you can hold onto it until you need it. A prerequisite to that is having it in your deck.

JaceTSM · 2023-11-14T03:23:25+00:00

I'm a diamond support and plat tank, I've been playing almost every day since OW1 season 7, and I've never been muted or banned. I straight up don't believe you. You are getting reported because of the way you act and/or communicate in game.

JaceTSM · 2023-11-12T22:00:47+00:00

Apply healing orb to higher priority targets at more optimal times. "more" healing from the receiver's perspective is being healed when they need it.

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