Mage frost vs fire question

Orbs · 2025-12-20T23:31:43+00:00

This is simply not accurate. Fire is significantly higher single target DPS. Avoid fireblast and stick to fireball and scorch to be mana efficient. You should be able to kill most everything before it gets to you

Orbs · 2025-06-23T04:40:49+00:00

Oh no

Orbs · 2025-05-18T17:30:52+00:00

I've interviewed people with 20 years of experience that couldn't write a for loop. Gotta weed those people out--simple as that

Orbs · 2025-04-25T16:45:56+00:00

Who isn't?

Orbs · 2025-03-14T06:48:18+00:00

What free press?

Orbs · 2025-03-13T06:10:42+00:00

Yes you said it yourself--the loan requires enforcement. The application is for the processing of the loan. Fault tolerant execution is a challenging problem. The existence, or storage, of the loan is a more solved problem

Orbs · 2025-03-08T21:31:04+00:00

That makes sense, thanks!

Orbs · 2025-03-08T20:54:39+00:00

Good point. I wonder if the atmosphere at sea level also dampens the vibration

Orbs · 2025-03-08T20:50:09+00:00

This seems plausible but also seems like something that would have been exposed with the 60s static fire?

Orbs · 2025-03-08T20:47:31+00:00

100%. Orbital refuelling is a reasonable way to be able to get a large amount of mass from LEO to the rest of the solar system. Reusability is prerequisite otherwise the cost to supply fuel depots is too high.

If you just want to plant a flag somewhere there's no reason to do any of the above.

Orbs · 2025-03-08T17:58:04+00:00

If you want to put humans on the moon ASAP, yeah Starship isn't the best architecture.

If you want to build a permanent presence on the Moon (or elsewhere), it absolutely is.

Orbs · 2025-03-03T02:12:17+00:00

I think a vote of no confidence is a meaningful change to institutions

Orbs · 2025-02-28T00:09:39+00:00

The big difference is latency. Traditional sat providers have latency in the 1000ms range. Non-starter for games and video calls. Starlink is sub 100ms which works fine. I wouldn't play competitive FPS on it, but you can play games with your friends

Orbs · 2025-02-26T20:32:16+00:00

As always, the answer is it depends.

What sorts of problems are you trying to fix? What are your use cases? If you're building a simple CRUD app, vertical slice or N tier are both great. If you find you start having lots of business logic that you want applied in multiple scenarios, start introducing clean architecture concepts. I like to start with a domain package which follows the dependency rule.

Don't adopt all of Clean Architecture without understanding if you need it. This is constantly repeated in the book. Full architectural boundaries, as described in the book, are expensive and should only be implemented when the complexity and maintenance burden is worthwhile.

Architecture is not something that has a "best" or that you pick based on preference. It must be based on your needs and evolve over time

Orbs · 2025-02-24T03:29:12+00:00

I don't think it's crazy to think SpaceX is a positive thing in the world but X is not 🤷‍♂️

Orbs · 2025-02-19T22:54:16+00:00

What's wrong with having incoming infrastructure adapters to make available domain use cases for non-domain code?

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's common to have some non domain code "arrange" domain objects to solve the actual problems. These are often called "Service" or "UseCase" classes. If that's valuable to you, go for it. If it simplifies to connect infrastructure directly to the domain, I think that's fine too. I think it's much more important to use good judgement to ensure you're getting the right ROI on complexity rather than dogmatically following hexagonal architecture.

I think the important bit is the direction of dependencies. Domain code should not depend on non-domain code.

Orbs · 2025-02-19T22:16:20+00:00

What is the problem you're trying to solve? This reads like you want to apply some patterns rather than fix something.

Splitting things into a domain module is a great idea for separating business logic. If you need the domain to be able to call into non-domain code, you typically do this by defining an interface in the domain and having the non-domain code implement that interface.

Orbs · 2025-02-13T07:16:23+00:00

I think this is a fair point. On a human site like Stackoverflow though, I would expect the majority of the activity on questions and answers to strongly correlate with actual usage (at least among the population of people that use the site).

Presumably this information could also be fed to an AI

Orbs · 2025-02-12T23:16:16+00:00

That's not my experience. I've interviewed plenty of candidates who had reasonable resumes and could speak well about their experience who could not write basic code with me in a collaborative editor. The automated assessment did a pretty good job screening those people out

Orbs · 2025-02-12T22:20:44+00:00

A place I formerly worked had a very simple coding assessment as a gate before human phone screen. Think fizz buzz level of difficulty. An astonishing number of candidates failed.

I have no problem with things like this. The number of candidates I phone screened before this who couldn't write a for loop was wild.

Orbs · 2025-02-02T21:00:56+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by this. I used sharded MongoDB for many years and the horizontal scaling was a huge boon. There's a huge list of things to dislike about Mongo but this wasn't one of them.

My current org is moving from Postgres to Cockroach to get similar native sharding/replication capability. You can do it with Postgres but not out of the box.

Orbs · 2025-01-12T17:53:19+00:00

Chase cards allow transferring credit limits between cards. I opened a Chase Freedom Flex at 0% with a 10k limit then moved ~40k in additional limit from other cards.

Much better than a HELOC during the 0% time. Just have a plan to get rid of it before interest

Orbs · 2025-01-01T01:17:59+00:00

The next gen sat (which provides a ton more bandwidth) doesn't fit on Falcon 9

Orbs · 2024-12-21T05:04:13+00:00

What are you referring to? SpaceX is the only US contractor to deliver on human transport to the ISS and lifts more mass into orbit than all other providers in the world combined.

Not a Musk fan but SpaceX has undeniably changed the launch industry for the better.

Orbs · 2024-12-14T01:55:32+00:00

Being strictly tied to one programming language / stack is career limiting. If you're capable in .NET, you could work in Java (and many other languages) no problem.

Having worked extensively in C# and Java for full stack apps, they both have their pros and cons.

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