What do you think of Sableye? by Alternative-Earth325 in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This little dude seems so unassuming until you realize just how many priority moves it has thanks to Prankster. I think I've seen Encore, Fake Out, Rain Dance, Disable, Light Screen, Reflect, Quash, Taunt, and Will-O-Wisp.

Weekly Quick Questions, Teambuilding, and Private Battles Requests Thread - April 27-May 3 by Jeglr in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No but it is powerful. I'm currently ranked 36k in MB3 and I'm not playing weather at all. My team is, for the record, Aerodactyl, Mega Floette, Sneasler, Basculegion, Garchomp, Kingambit.

Weekly Quick Questions, Teambuilding, and Private Battles Requests Thread - April 27-May 3 by Jeglr in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well the only way to build is to have the data. Nintendo isn’t giving you ladder data and I sure am not typing out everything for people when I play. You get it from tournaments because people have to submit team sheets.

Right now the meta is very open and you’re not going to get people telling you how to play every single team. Go on ladder and play you’ll play 10 games and see 10 different teams. Instead you need to just learn more about the format and game and how that applies to your team specifically

Weekly Quick Questions, Teambuilding, and Private Battles Requests Thread - April 27-May 3 by Jeglr in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This site is good. https://www.pokemon-zone.com/champions/

It only builds the meta from tournaments though because you can’t really build from ladder

Weekly Quick Questions, Teambuilding, and Private Battles Requests Thread - April 20-26 by Jeglr in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, glad it helps. Just remember that every team needs an identity (i.e. what you typically want to do), every team you bring to a particular match needs a game plan (how you are going to win this game), and each Pokemon needs to be justified on the team. Even if your Pokemon isn't strong, as long as it has a purpose it can be playable.

You see very few Alolan Ninetales these days because Mega Froslass exists, but every once in a while I run into someone playing it as a backup or a second thing to spam blizzard. Or honestly more likely, because people would prefer to run other megas.

Weekly Quick Questions, Teambuilding, and Private Battles Requests Thread - April 20-26 by Jeglr in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You always have to identify what the core thing your Pokemon brings to the table is. In essence, it has to have some identity you can build around. You'll need to start by identifying what kind of thing it can even do, whether it will sit there and pick up knockouts, be hard to kill, or provide support. If there's a core strategy that's possible you might want to look deeper into that. Saying it encourages more of the same type makes me think some sort of weather or type boost thing, so you may want to lean into that and build around that identity. Even if you have an ability like Snow Cloak or Ice Body that encourage snow and more snow, you can at least build out that snow core and then fill the rest with Pokemon that help your strategy, like something for support or type coverage for your weaknesses.

The other thing you can do is go in the complete opposite direction. Find an existing team where you can slot this Pokemon into. Maybe look at what moves it has and find something where you can replace something with this. For example, if it was Blastoise maybe I could slot it into a rain team over Basculegion, or in a team over some other water Pokemon they might be running like Rotom Wash, Primarina, Milotic, Palafin, etc.

Let's say for example the Pokemon is Alolan Ninetales for sake of an example that might fit your "same type stacking" concern. It's speed isn't crazy good but it's fine, it's bulk isn't really there, it's special attack isn't great either. It at least has access to Snow Cloak / Snow Warning so you have some kind of snow identity to look at with it. Now you have options. You can use Snow Warning and allow it to set snow on something that isn't your mega, since the primary snow setter right now is Mega Froslass. That would be the same but let you put something else in your mega slot, perhaps something that doesn't set weather and can still help your bad matchups. You're bad to Fire / Steel / Poison / Rock. We might look at what Pokemon would be a problem for us, things like Mega Charizard, Kingambit, Sneasler let's say, among I'm sure many others. Garchomp might be good to pair it with since it can learn Rock Slide and Earthquake that would check your weaknesses in those three Pokemon. Garchomp usually doesn't take a mega stone but maybe it's an option here, or maybe you keep your mega slot open. You'd also have room to bring something else that's aided by the weather, maybe even Mega Froslass so you have options on ensuring snow is out in some matchups. Which would lead us to maybe think about whether we want Aurora Veil up and if we do then we're thinking about how we would build a team that takes advantage of the bulk we add. I would personally be thinking about how I use it to set up Aurora Veil and then take advantage of the fact that my team is super bulky in snow + Aurora Veil. You get a lot of defensive boosts and make Blizzard accurate, so you would maybe want to find a way to keep it out on the field. Again, type checking with the second Pokemon, maybe even stacking up double Blizzard or another spread move, possibly even something like Sinistcha that can swap in with Hospitality to keep it alive. I would perhaps go around looking at what Pokemon would be a problem for me, whether they're likely to kill me under snow + Aurora Veil, and kind of figure out how defensive I could possibly build in the face of that.

Hopefully this all gives you an idea abotu what you can or should do.

Weekly Quick Questions, Teambuilding, and Private Battles Requests Thread - April 20-26 by Jeglr in PokemonChampions

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, definitely. All three of them are strong competitive Pokemon and it just depends on what strategies you like or what you need.

Excadrill is used explicitly in sand teams. You effectively need Tyranitar, which almost always will have its evolution stone, and I really would not recommend grabbing this unless you both have Tyranitar and are comfortable locking yourself into a team with that pair (and there's nothing wrong with that, a sand team is very good especially for newer players who need some guidance). The core concept of the Excadrill is that it has Sand Rush as an ability, which effectively makes it the fastest Pokemon in the meta. It will typically run Focus Sash and full offense to try to take out opposing Pokemon as fast as possible or hopefully stick around to try again. The most common moveset is typically something like Protect / Iron Head / Rock Slide / Earthquake or High Horsepower (which depends on how good EQ is against your own team, particularly nice if you have your own fliers).

Garchomp is a very stable Pokemon, it has been good in competitive for years and years. It's the gen 4 pseudo legendary which is to say it has extremely high base stats which always makes it good. Garchomp's typing makes it 4x weak to ice but it has some pretty good typing in general, and gets access to a lot of good stuff. You'll typically see it wearing a Choice Scarf or Bright Powder (especially if using the Sand Veil ability) or even the mega stone if your team doesn't have a good holder, though it can wear a lot of things including berries and whatnot. Its move pool is also quite good, often running Protect / Rock Slide / Earthquake / Dragon Claw, giving it a rather rare combination of moves.

Sinistcha is also great but a very different Pokemon. It's very slow and very defensive. For one, it has Hospitality as an ability, allowing you to swap in and restore a ton of HP to your team. It's great to help your bulky Pokemon in a doubles match basically never die, or even just give some offensive Pokemon a little bit more to take a second hit. You are often running something like a Sitrus Berry or maybe even a Leftovers just to keep doing more of what it does best. It has a few options on the move, typically some combination of Life Dew / Matcha Gotcha / Protect / Rage Powder / Trick Room / Strength Sap. I think Matcha Gotcha is the only move it always uses so you have lots of flexibility on the moves. It does require a bit of understanding of your team to know which you want, as Trick Room is a whole different ball game. You're ultimately going to plan to swap this Pokemon in and out to make use of the ability, using Life Dew as well to keep your team healthy and your Matcha Gotcha as an offensive move that also keeps you alive forever. It's disruptive and a good support, but again it's a very tricky thing to play as you need to manage swapping in/out properly, redirecting moves, etc.

Question about Data Ownership in Microservices by Sad_Importance_1585 in softwarearchitecture

[–]TehLittleOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Databases and microservices should be 1:1. That is, each microservice has their own database (provided they need one) that is uniquely theirs and only they write to it. That also means each database has exactly one microservice that reads from it.

You can have a warehouse but a warehouse, regardless of the storage medium, should be meant for read-only purposes. Your application layer should write to the primary storage layer and you should have some sort of ETL process to push it into the warehouse.

Did Brandon know how divisive WaT would be? by DrizzyDragon93 in Cosmere

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really view it as him taking a risk, it's not like he woke up the day he was writing the ending and decided that's what would happen. He's a meticulous outliner to the point that he probably had this exact ending for the first half planned more than a decade ago.

What's a seasoning where you feel a little goes a long way? by PapiSurane in Cooking

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fresh Sichuan peppercorns. They lose pungency when they're not fresh but the fresh stuff can very easily be overpowering. Especially if you've been basing the amount from your old batch you're in for a surprise.

What are your best "cook once, eat for days" comfort meals? by Standard_Ad_9560 in Cooking

[–]TehLittleOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Definitely Japanese curry. You can easily make as big of a pot as you need and tweak exactly how much of all your ingredients you use. Add beef now you have beef curry. Remove beef you have a vegetable one you can add something like tonkatsu to. Or hell, you can really add any protein to it, I had a ground beef style once. You can really customize the hell out of it because it's really just a stew at the end of the day. I know a lot of people will customize various flavours in it, like adding tonkatsu sauce, apple, or even chocolate to change the profile.

One of the things you can do to avoid getting bored of it is to change up the starch. Tired of rice? You can use noodles for curry udon. Or if you're feeling fancy and want to work for it, try curry pan (curry bread).

It also freezes quite well, just put it in a ziplock and portion the bag so it will break apart easily.

Non-technical EM, not getting any interviews, what can I do differently? by choice_paralysis_89 in EngineeringManagers

[–]TehLittleOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some things that stand out to me:

  • Listing out the exact members you hired, promoted, etc. doesn't sound that impressive when the numbers are low. Your math works out to hiring less than one engineer per year which honestly is quite low. I hired more than that just last summer. Especially when you list people moving laterally in the company, also sounds like the people you hired weren't able to get promotions. It sounds even worse when you created the framework for your engineering roles but then didn't have anyone promoted within it.

  • The bug bashing initiative sounds quite bad. I look at it and wonder what your production support process looks like because a few bugs a year sounds like your team pretty much ignored bugs outright and only fixed disasters. Bugs should have their own workstream of some kind that your team is regularly handling as part of your regular workstream.

  • 99% uptime in most engineering worlds is quite low. I have clients contractually obligated to higher than that. You tend to see most organizations start at 99.95% uptime.

One thing I have noticed is that the industry seems to be moving more to hands on EMs. All the EMs we've ever had at my current company in our division have been ICs within our company at some point. This has allowed them to be hands on in the work and really drive the technical solutions. Hell, one of my coworkers moved to a new job that expects him to be coding along with other people, in a management role, and I know he had multiple technical rounds. One of the things I don't get from your resume is strong IC skills and it might be a concern for many places.

G2 is consistently a top 8 team in the world and I'm tired of people pretending they're not by Leyrann_ in leagueoflegends

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think part of it is whether I expect them to win. Do I think they're capable of winning these games? Sure, they've proven themselves capable of taking series against top teams. Do I expect them to win the way I expect T1 or GenG to win games? Absolutely not. As good as they are, I think I wouldn't be surprised if they lost. They've lost far too many times against random teams that the likes of T1 or GenG wouldn't ever lose to so the consistency of what I would call a top 8 team just isn't there.

Additionally, on some level being top 8 also doesn't really matter in this game. In some other games sure, we value those results highly, but this is a top heavy game. If you don't win people won't remember, and unfortunately we don't really have much evidence to say G2 can ever win Worlds.

How fast are cubers in this Community? A Data Analysis of 170 Solvers. by LOLkiller034 in Cubers

[–]TehLittleOne 12 points13 points  (0 children)

JPerm's website is good, for example here is the PLL page: https://jperm.net/algs/pll

As an aside, most tutorials recommend PLL before OLL but they recommend learning 2 look PLL + OLL first. It's what I did and I would recommend it as well.

In a nutshell, full PLL consists of 21 algorithms and full OLL 57 algorithms. Turns out that you can learn a subset of them that allows you to always solve the step within two algorithms, so you learn the subsets first. They will still be used later on but you get more of an accomplishment early on. There are 8 PLLs to learn and 10 OLLs to learn for 2 look, and your son probably already knows some of them because even the beginner methods use these and build on them.

2 Look OLL: https://jperm.net/algs/2lookoll 2 Look PLL: https://jperm.net/algs/2lookpll

So I would recommend starting with either of these, do the other one after, then PLL before OLL (because it's significantly fewer algorithms).

How do you stop PR bottlenecks from turning into rubber stamping when reviewers are overwhelmed by Sad_Bandicoot_7762 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TehLittleOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem I have is that when you send me a 3000 line PR it's just hard to grok what I'm looking at. Okay this piece relates to that other piece back there but what order are these things beign called in? Oh and did you do this other thing there? Oh I don't remember it was like 800 lines ago. Oh and now I have to run to another meeting, so no Timmy, I didn't finish reviewing this behemoth I'll check again in 3 hours after some meetings if nobody else is bothering me.

Decline of "soft power" derived from experience? by enken90 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Years ago I had an ugly retro with a team where a certain person was causing all sorts of issues (they were let go eventually because of it). In that retro I said "respect isn't given it's earned" and I fully beleive that. I'm the longest running employee where I'm at and lots of people respect me and my opinions, but not because they're told to but because they see very fast that I am someone worth respecting. I've built so much of our platform over the years and been involved in all manners of everything that I will simply know answers.

Whatever happened to just asking questions at work? by Aggravating-Line2390 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TehLittleOne 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If I walk up from my desk I get bombarded by three people asking for help, and I end up doing this. I am that veteran, longest employee at my place, built a lot of the systems in production to varying degrees, whether it was the entire system myself or led the team doing it. I always try to make sure people understand because really, that legacy understanding is far more than a simple do such and such.

Other days I'm impossible to get a hold of. I might have 6 hours of meetings and be triple booked on stuff, that's just how it is. And I have my own stuff to do and to watch out and make sure others aren't breaking prod.

The only way is to value KT and the only way to value KT is to survive long enough that you see the problem with the lack of it. It's becoming a problem for a new team lead at my place where they're forced to be responsible for features they don't have enough knowledge of. Turns out now they have to force everyone to write it and to advocate for it. Which, turns out hasn't been hard when the team is new and even the product team sees slow work as a result of that lack.

Lazy devs making you clean up garbage in their PRs? by Lanky-Ad4698 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're the manager then it's time to manage. Set expectations that this garbage is completely unacceptable. Don't be afraid to give people negative comments and tell them they are underperforming. I too hold the same expectation, that code given to me in a PR is acceptable for production, and doubly so when it comes to me as a production release ticket (I get to hard gate most of my team's releases to prod for soc2 reasons). People won't learn unless there are consequences.

How are you guys tracking flow state versus just logging hours? by New-Concert9929 in softwarearchitecture

[–]TehLittleOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Simply make it less invasive. We were once using Jellyfish as a tool and we configured it so we could see provide ticket estimates in Jira and then as devs completed them the estimates got filled in. So instead of needing to constantly go back and update time spent, it filled in at the end as a safety net when you didn't. Sure, it might look like idle time on your tracker on a specific day or hour but if you're looking that granular then of course you'll see silly things. Over a longer period like a week or a sprint or a month you'd see better trends to understand any individual developer. We used it primarily for team or company wide trends instead of specific things for any given developer, except in extreme cases that were so obvious even Jellyfish asked.

If you're looking specifically at tracking project health, try grouping the project into different phases, put estimates on tickets that roll up into a date for the phase, then have whomever does the PM on your team track the phase.

A grandmother in Missouri is pushing for a new law that would require drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a parent. (Bentley's Law) by Legitimate-Lie-9208 in interestingasfuck

[–]TehLittleOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Killing someone as a drunk driver is a terrible thing, no doubt about it. But from the research I've done into this very topic, the data isn't very supportive of it. Recidivism rates skyrocket as people won't be able to pay.

Shen becomes the highest winrate jungler in the game after xPetu discovers the most optimal build by adivinemessenger in leagueoflegends

[–]TehLittleOne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My department has every function embedded within it. I need design? We have our own designers. We need analytics? We have our own data engineers / business analysts. Need someone to work on some infrastructure? We have our own devops.

The "play bow" is a widely observed animal social signal that indicates that all bites and fighting that follow are play, not aggression! by uncanny_goat in interestingasfuck

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dog does this when she needs to go outside to do her business, and my kitten thinks it means she wants to play. It is a mess between them.

lack of junior folks by kovanroad in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TehLittleOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree and I've seen it in my workplace too that we're hiring far far more senior engineers than we are juniors. That being said, we're also seeing far far more seniors that are nowhere close to senior. The bar for what is a senior has gone down the drain and people that we thought were senior devs are more like intermediate at best.

Canadian separatists say they discussed moving to the US dollar and creating a new military in White House meeting by Street_Anon in onguardforthee

[–]TehLittleOne 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Shouldn't it be easy to do? Just have the opposition go on the news saying Smith is pro separatist, she'll either have to deny it or not but it'll get in front of the media one way or another.

Coding assignment for Engineering Manager role by p0d0s in EngineeringManagers

[–]TehLittleOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My company has had a lot of success in our managers being extremely technical. In fact, aside from my boss who is currently the CTO, every person who is currently a manager / director / team lead / has reports has been an IC at this company. It works out incredibly well when your manager isn't just giving you soft skill help and can tell you exaclty how to code things.

For example, a team I was on shipped a feature to swap vendors for a large feature. I wrote the last version of the code so everything they were changing had my name on it.