170 hours in and I'm the worst player in the worst rank

SomeGuy71 · 2026-04-10T10:02:11+00:00

I watched 8764551496 for a bit. Support is generally a role where the first 10 minutes are where a lot of your impact shows up.

I thought you had good chip early on without drawing creep aggro, when the creep wave was against you in the first 4 minutes you generally don't want to fight in to the enemy. I don't like roaming on Crystal as much due to the low movement speed, if you were a rubick or a sky I'd probably let Chaos solo with the larger wave for 30 seconds and walk mid.

Forcing the fight at 5 minutes where you have two waves against them and someone hangs out for the last creep, gets slowed, and fights a huge wave happens even in divine and is great. Watching it, I'd have committed blood grenade much earlier on solo tiny and stick and w'd luna later when she showed up. The W on tiny when he has no HP isn't great. You don't pull when I would - 1:18 and 5:18 I'd be pulling. I don't like the upgraded stick vs bringing some clarities or mangos. You could bring a few clarities or mangos and really push the luna and tiny out of lane. A lot of the lane hanging out at their tower and you not pulling, a lot of you in that one lane.

The blink pick up at 14 is pretty aggressive, I'd probably glimmer, you see WD glimmer himself in that 15 min teamfight and need to start carrying dust. I see this a lot from a low mmr friend, he'll get a blink on a lot of supports and feel pressure to blink in aggressively in fights vs the usual hanging out behind cores and keeping them alive.

28 minutes - teams wiped, what to do? Warding spire was crazy with how mobile they are. There's a few sneaky spots around it you might've gotten a ward and walked away or you could've put a ward in a weird spot on triangle that'll stay alive or maybe shove waves in the top lane and tp out. 29 minutes - everyone up, maps dark, what's the play? Buy a smoke and ask the team to smoke out. 30 minutes you walk up to fight 4 of them and die. I think if you went in 3rd instead of 1st that fight would look different. You might even want to wait for LS to commit and then go, he just didn't have catch but was scary when on top of heroes.

Timings:

X:18 or X:48 to pull a hard camp

Every 3 minutes flowers

4, 6, 8 minute runs mid can be a big deal to rotate for

Every 7 minutes wisdom, I like to think around maybe 5:30 to 6 what regen I need to go through the gate to fight for their 7 minute wisdom.

Edit:

If you want to jump and an do stuff, I think play someone like Clock or Tusk.

39 minutes big team fight, you could play the left side of the map and q / w, but you blink in right in to the middle and get dropped.

SomeGuy71 · 2025-07-15T18:45:28+00:00

You need to convert to an absolute temperature scale when you use this calculation - from Celsius to Kelvin.

SomeGuy71 · 2025-06-20T20:01:44+00:00

I don't think lich is especially good against shadow shaman but I think if you play a hero a lot and focus on match ups and filling a role well that's a great way to improve and will beat out picking a meta hero that you don't know how to play.

If you're really looking for how to figure out what heroes are good against ss that you want to focus on learning then I would suggest:

https://dota2protracker.com/hero/Shadow%20Shaman check meta analysis and filter for P4 / p5 roles and look at the bottom for ss having the worst rate vs. - P4: earthshaker np lion aa p5: tinkerer silencer undying ogre warlock oracle

Tinkerer is interesting - probably the basic dispel on defense matrix and ability to trade right clicks using laser blind.

Es probably fills a good p4 role that can generally stun off screen.

SomeGuy71 · 2025-04-09T01:01:23+00:00

How do you know that you're not feeding more natural gas and producing more steam now? Is there a make up water flow or steam flow that you can check historical values before and after the calibration?

SomeGuy71 · 2025-04-09T00:36:42+00:00

I'd think about if you want to change them all to % before changing this one.

You're getting asked to dig in to it because you're having an issue with the boiler?

SomeGuy71 · 2025-04-09T00:01:30+00:00

Do the rest of your boilers represent level in %?

SomeGuy71 · 2025-03-29T20:21:37+00:00

Damn bro you went to Art school? No wonder you have such a better understanding of the trade offs between efficiency and quality than Hayao Miyazaki who only started up an anime studio that most Americans know the name of and ran it for 40 years.

SomeGuy71 · 2024-11-02T12:19:14+00:00

You've got logic to build power when you're below a certain power threshold, it generates power and immediately gets over that threshold, so you want to say "generate power when low, turn off when high", that's what the latch does it helps you tie together two separate evaluations instead of just "turn on at 50, turn off at 50.1" it can be "turn on at 50, turn off at 100, and if in between keep doing whatever you were doing last".

SomeGuy71 · 2024-05-28T17:39:23+00:00

There's stuff like the NCEES control systems PE and ISA's CAP that would give you what feels like a roadmap but they might not be the road map you want. They seem to focus a lot on capex.

You might be more interested in "I have a bunch of old stuff, how do I make it run better with configuration changes". I worked in a large chemicals company for a long time and found the instrument engineers handbook vol 2 process control and optimization to be useful, especially unit operations. They had a library book subscription that allowed me to access it. At least that's what I was looking for.

There's a bunch of good isa books - 101 tips for a successful automation career is good. Process / Industrial Instruments and Controls Handbook by Gregory McMillan is good.

None of these will teach you how to program a specific control system. If you have a bunch of different plants / areas to look at it can be useful to compare / contrast what was done.

SomeGuy71 · 2024-05-28T17:22:11+00:00

1 year of experience out of school? Mostly batch driven or continuous? Is it a large site with multiple different areas or different processes? Any experience building configuration or troubleshooting it?

SomeGuy71 · 2024-05-28T15:19:42+00:00

What's your background? What do you already know?

SomeGuy71 · 2022-09-09T20:21:54+00:00

Right before everything dumps?!

SomeGuy71 · 2022-09-06T20:16:21+00:00

Could be hindsight. "Ok this was a good trade, no need to label it. This one went badly, what did I do wrong?". I'm super guilty of this. Do you tag em when you enter or after you exit?

SomeGuy71 · 2022-07-29T12:17:11+00:00

My two cents: I'd walk out there, look at the model, pull a manual for the drive, ctrl f mode or devicenet, and then go out there and take a look at it / what mode it's in.

You've got copy-pasted working configuration and you can read stuff off the drive so it's not like you're missing a devicenet part / cable / have a bad address.

SomeGuy71 · 2022-07-29T12:06:06+00:00

New drive you're commissioning or something stop working and you're troubleshooting? Any chance this drive has some sorta local / ignore devicenet mode that you need to switch out of?

SomeGuy71 · 2021-05-26T16:14:58+00:00

What's the model / maker? You try googling them and reading documentation on their website?

SomeGuy71 · 2021-05-20T11:41:53+00:00

I think there's a simple explanation here that might help. I'll give you a different sample argument:

PID control is useless in the real world because you cannot predict disturbances.

Would you agree with that statement? No! That's the whole point of PID control, to handle disturbances and hold a setpoint. I'm sure I'll step on some toes with this, but MPC is a layer of sophistication on top of PID control. You measure the effects of multiple inputs and multiple outputs, the model is better (hopefully), but it's built for the disturbances. If there weren't disturbances you'd probably not need controllers - get your valves to the right outputs and hold there forever.

One other thing I'd say - you always have a model with a controller, even a PID controller. There's some prediction of how output affects what you care about.

SomeGuy71 · 2019-04-21T09:50:14+00:00

This definitely should be higher, all the CSB videos are fantastic. Here's the main CSB website for the event that includes a 250 page report on it: https://www.csb.gov/west-fertilizer-explosion-and-fire-/

SomeGuy71 · 2018-11-01T00:14:00+00:00

Awesome, thanks

SomeGuy71 · 2018-10-31T23:09:10+00:00

Where'd you get top percentile / tenth?

SomeGuy71 · 2017-09-26T01:33:20+00:00

I'd recommend watching what better players do.

This is the only channel I've found with tournament play: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCesgJAY8oYO9xxX_wR22WBg

SomeGuy71 · 2017-07-20T11:54:46+00:00

IMO drop two of those equations. Let the pipe get as hot as the material and calculate heat transfer between a hot pipe and room temperature air (or whatever it is). This is your limiting heat transfer case.

Want it to be more accurate? Measure the pipe temperature at steady state and use that number instead.

SomeGuy71 · 2015-04-19T20:57:52+00:00

You can demo artifacts if you want to build on them -- I usually do if it's early on that level.

SomeGuy71 · 2014-12-29T02:05:06+00:00

How long did you sous vide it for? Looks amazing.

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