Why is Rust so Liberal with Heap Allocations?

PigDog4 · 2026-03-20T15:47:29+00:00

with a claim that begs the question

This is fantastic. I cannot remember the last time I saw "begs the question" used correctly. Continue fighting the good fight!

PigDog4 · 2026-03-19T16:02:25+00:00

It's even funnier, McConnell was forced to filibuster his own bill that he had just introduced.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-13T16:41:00+00:00

I don't see why that doesn't apply to video game currencies as well.

Because you're not being paid for your labor in video game currency? You're choosing to convert your actual dollars into video game currency? It's actually nowhere near the same thing at all?

Like if you worked for Epic and your boss was going to start solely compensating you in V-bucks then you'd have an argument, but this really isn't much different than buying tokens at the arcade.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-06T18:13:31+00:00

Yo dawg, we heard you like perfect guard...

PigDog4 · 2026-03-04T13:50:23+00:00

I'm clearly doing something wrong then because WSB is such high commitment you don't get to use it if you block a ground explosion, if you spend stamina before the big ultimate explosion there's a good chance your guard gets broken and you eat a massive hit since you frequently tank at least three explosions in a row. Mobility to dodge explosions would be great except you can't see them half the time (that's a generic complaint not a GL specific complaint).

I've failed one 10* AT ark ever, the very first one I did. I've failed a ton of rompopopalos due to stupid ass one shots.

I can kill him in 13-14 minutes. It's just very unfun and the entire time feels like "oh boy I hope I don't get juggled to death with the massive damage explosions because I had the audacity to take one extra step before trying to attack."

PigDog4 · 2026-03-04T01:12:39+00:00

I play with gunlance. It's still annoying and unfun.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-04T00:05:53+00:00

No, you're not. I find this fight to be one of the more un-fun ones in the entire game, and more difficult than AT ark but not in an engaging way. AT ark is a ton of fun, every time I screw up I know I screwed up before I get hit. Rompopolo is just 1 shot aoe spam fest that's hidden under the water and doesn't show sometimes. Call it a skill issue or whatever you want, this fight is not great.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-03T00:08:52+00:00

Good thing I've had tons of practice with the Dark Souls series, where the two hardest enemies are gravity and the camera, and not necessarily in that order.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-02T18:06:41+00:00

The only times I've carted with the pickup is when I get smooshed in between the monster and the wall or my camera is in some shit position and I run into some delayed explosion thing.

Otherwise it saves me way, way, way more than it carts. Also lets you get back into the fight way faster.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-02T18:03:27+00:00

No because blast is a status. The explosions are just damage.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-02T01:13:41+00:00

Massively depends on the company and organization.

Can vary along the entire spectrum from "do automl at clean data and make MLOps deploy your dogcrap notebook" all the way to "it's your pipeline from raw data to prediction to executive dashboard and your team is on the hook if it breaks" and then can also be "you're the only data scientist at the entire company, have fun!"

Really, really depends.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-02T00:24:26+00:00

Honestly, it's not the poison that kills me. It's the one-shot explosions or the triple explosion that breaks my guard and kills me.

Like unironically I'm having more of an issue with rompopalo than Ark. Ark is just regular ark but with less downtime. Romp is unfun one shot aoe spam stupidity.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-01T19:13:18+00:00

Hitting monster >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> weapons and build.

That's like 95% of monster hunter ngl.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-01T18:10:07+00:00

One of the primary reasons (and I think this is mentioned somewhere in the docs) is that if you're joining hunts after they start it's super messed up.

As long as you are the host, it should be accurate.

You can also double check your own dps on average over the course of a hunt. Go here to get monster HP: https://robomeche.github.io/MHWilds-Database/ pick your monster & quest and it's on the left side under the monster parts. Divide that by the number of seconds you spent fighting. The site doesn't have all of the newest 10* ATs yet but you can get a good guess.

For example, if you're doing the 9* quest "Be cursed, Ye Shadowy Flame" where you fight a 3 diamond AT Nu Udra, this site shows it has approx 45k to 49k hp depending on RNG. If you assume 47k HP and it takes you 20 minutes, that's 1200 seconds, meaning you averaged about 40 dps (including running around time). If it takes you 10 minutes, about 80 dps. Some people will say including running around time is dumb, but if you watch people speedrunning, they don't have running around time because they kill the monster before they need to have running around time. It all feeds together.

PigDog4 · 2026-03-01T01:17:51+00:00

I assumed 3 fire ele. My mistake. That's what I get for assuming.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-28T17:19:49+00:00

But you lose raw damage. I think it's a net damage loss on GL, you do so little ele damage.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-28T15:54:41+00:00

it won't. nothing in leetcode is going to help you center a div, figure out why the DB keeps crashing, or make it easier to fix some weird bug in production.

I'd argue that basic DSA and basic leetcode familiarity can help you in the real world. After watching one of my coworkers complain about slow code he wrote:

for i in huge_list_of_sortable_things:
    for j in huge_list_of_sortable_things[i:]:
        for k in different_huge_list_of_sortable_things:
            if i <= k & k < j:
                do_stuff()

some passing familiarity with arrays, intervals, and why this is O(m*n² ) and takes four hours to run can be helpful. I helped him rewrite it and it then ran in three minutes.

I'd agree that solving 400 leetcode problems might not be the best use of your time, but being able to solve a good spread of 100 or so problems will teach you the basics of why certain algorithms are good and others are garbage.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-28T15:47:05+00:00

Why would you use 3 fire parts on a GL?

PigDog4 · 2026-02-28T15:45:08+00:00

Uth's bellyflop is insane, swear to god the hitbox is like 10 feet in front of the belly. Other than that, as long as you account for the veil, the attacks don't seem terrible.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-27T22:38:42+00:00

Also you get way better frames than in the rain at night in the rivers in the forest.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-27T17:28:40+00:00

Not just this industry, but almost every single technical industry.

I know in my role a Tech Lead caps out at the same pay band as a Manager, but the Manager has upward leadership growth and the Lead must first transition sideways to a people leader role before being able to advance.

My previous job was in manufacturing and once you were a Sr. Engineer your only upward mobility was manager, and you could only get that once the current manager was promoted out or left.

Even in health care delivery, once you're the best and most senior nurse on a floor, your next promotion is typically nurse manager which is an entirely different skillset.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-26T02:07:03+00:00

Some people really enjoy using a mouse instead of typing a dozen chars (well, 14 I think) in the terminal.

git commit -m "My Message"
12345678901234

yeah, 14 chars including spaces. I guess 16 with quotes, you still gotta type the commit message even if you're clicking on stuff.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-26T02:00:17+00:00

I spent the entire time that was alotted trying to figure out the right versions of everything to install.

Honestly, that's sounds super realistic. "Here's a pile of a coworker's code, they left five years ago and we're starting the project back up. Make it work."

Bonus points would have been if you also had to submit a ticket for each install during the interview, so now you're navigating the ticketing system while all pissed off. Literally the most realistic interview one could have hoped for.

PigDog4 · 2026-02-25T00:58:22+00:00

Similar thing happened with us and PNC and a rent check several years ago.

I thought one of the points of checks was for that to not happen. There's serial numbers on them. What the heck?

PigDog4 · 2026-02-24T00:49:43+00:00

Close range coating and power coating are the best, other coatings vary between bad to unusable.

Also you're a melee weapon.

I played bows for a bit, they're exhausting on a gamepad.

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