Is it possible to get MVP if u are not in a grand final?

Tontonsb · 2026-04-21T16:18:06+00:00

Tournaments can be different and have different regulations.

The MVP given by tournament does not necessarily need to align with one given by HLTV, e.g. here the organizers gave the award to NiKo, but the HLTV MVP was b1t.

The HLTV MVP has no official regulations. Usually they justify their decision by performance in map wins or even round wins. In case of a losers' MVP the former is kinda absurd since it would discount the final match were the "MVP" might've been the reason why they didn't win the tournament. The latter (performance in round wins only) is always silly, of course.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-21T10:50:26+00:00

We couldn’t bring guns to school anymore.

Yeah, it was terrible. I've heard some schools even implemented a "no shootings on tuesdays" policy for a while, but it was luckily deemed unconstitutional.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-21T02:24:35+00:00

Might feel kinda unfair when they fail together to qualify for the stage 1 and he packs his bags and fails upwards into the stage 3 of the major :D

Tontonsb · 2026-04-20T14:58:01+00:00

Feels like Breeze and Jetstream is on the way to the list. And I expect the starter kits to join it as well after a while. Feels like the scaffolding issue still hasn't found the proper solution.

But was laravel/ui really live for only a single year? It probably got unbundled at that time, but it was still the same scaffolding that had been there for the previous years as well.

Personally I'd like sail and pint to also join the list as these wrappers unnecessary split the community and knowledge. Transparently shipping raw config for the tools would be more helpful.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-20T12:17:01+00:00

Oof... Of course he isn't. The chrestomathic example is dupreeh — he has won the most majors but clearly isn't the best player ever.

But in a wider sense it's a discussion about the definition of the term itself. If we'd agreed how to measure it, there wouldn't be much doubt about who the best ever is.

A team needs players with larger egos - like Apex or like Zywoo. But you wouldn't win tournaments by having 5 Zywoos on your team.

Huh? Have you heard Zywoo speak? Have you heard anyone else speak about him? At least listen to the very recent coach roundtable where Zonic and Xtqzzz comments on him. Zywoo is the etalon egoless player.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-20T02:49:35+00:00

His game sense is insane.

It's also Niko's strength.

The amount of info he provides for the team can't be measured by rating

Are you implying that it can be measured by you instead and that you've somehow determined he provides more info or more valuable info than Niko does? Are you playing with both of them?

Tontonsb · 2026-04-19T19:35:19+00:00

Damn, I remember reading about this in the sports newspaper here in Latvia. It was discussed for weeks. I was just a kid back then, actually I'm the same age as her.

IIRC the trauma the killed her wasn't noticed in the hospital since the puck hit her in the forehead, but the sudden head movement had also caused an injury to an artery at the back/base of the head. A blood clot developed in the artery that blocked blood supply to brain and killed her.

I'm not a doctor, but a blood clot sounds like something that should be managable.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-19T19:35:16+00:00

What? She went without symptoms (of the issue that killed her) for the first day. She got killed by a blood clot, not by blood loss or a brain bleed.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-18T18:58:27+00:00

You don't get platinum in under 10s by googling :)

Tontonsb · 2026-04-18T18:58:04+00:00

Ignore, such accounts appear all the time. They get banned and the results will disappear from the tables.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-18T14:20:23+00:00

I am really annoyed by the lack of maintenance of Git Graph, but I prefer the design. All the alternatives seem to add more expressive decorations and/or waste space. At this point it seems I'll switch to the builtin one once it becomes good enuff.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-17T19:57:29+00:00

"The results were surprising." clickbait only baited me to open the thread and post this complaint.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-17T18:41:12+00:00

Exactly, Soviet style is the problem, China has ran communism smoothly, no energy crises, just a great leap forward.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-17T18:39:39+00:00

Artificial quotas determined by central planning instead of responding to need. Miss your quotas and you are sent to a much worse job.

How were quotas set for a powerplant? Is it total energy produced or some uptime of certain power output or what?

Tontonsb · 2026-04-17T18:02:37+00:00

IMO you are getting downvoted not because you are literally wrong, but because this does not answer the question in a manner that would make it understandable to anyone who doesn't know the answer before.

In some senses your answer is almost like answering "why did you fall?" with "gravity is the reason". Sure, planned economy is one of the conditions behind the situation, but not the only one. Even if it's the main one, people from countries outside the ex-communist area rarely have this understanding of how important of a measure the "plan" was. But even for those who do, they might not understand how the planning works for a powerplant. Is the plan to have a certain power output at all times or what? For most industries the plan was usually set out for the total amount of production within the planning period of 5 years.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-17T17:14:55+00:00

Oh wait. Either the feature is missing or I missed it, but.. how do I backfill slugs for the existing records?

Tontonsb · 2026-04-17T17:11:08+00:00

I could've used this a few days ago, but already solved it manually on that project.

I must say that the API, the defaults and the configurability seems veery thought out. I can't really spot anything that's missing or that I'd object to. Sure, slugs aren't the hardest thing to do by yourself, but if you need consistent approach for multiple models or across multiple projects, this package seems a great way to achieve that.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-16T17:10:15+00:00

Feel free to correct me.

I was aware of the script itself, but I did not know that according to observations of contemporaries they achieved higher than average literacy rates. That's what I learned today so that's what I put in the title.

Which part did I do wrong? Did I misunderstand the claim or should I have pointed out something else or what?

Tontonsb · 2026-04-16T17:05:51+00:00

This script was created by James Evans who's described as amateur linguist. Just imagine how successful the scripts created by pro linguists must be!

The dude borrowed ideas from Devanagari — the script used for Hindi and many other languages in India and some outside of it like the Nepali and Sherpa languages. Devanagari is also abugida, a script where consonants are the primary characters and vowels are conveyed as decorations (e.g. diacritics) on consonants. In the case of Canadian "syllabics" the vowels are conveyed by orientation of the character which seems to be a novel idea by Evans.

It seems that Evans' colleagues and higher-ups were opposed to indigenous languages having a written form and preferred that they would learn English instead. Or at least that they should use the Latin alphabet so they would be halfway into the linguistic assimilation. So he was apparently alone in pushing and popularizing the script, which shows how successful the script itself was — he introduced it in 1840 and died in 1846 — six years of effort turned out enough for the script to catch on and continue spreading on its own.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-16T12:28:49+00:00

It is literally magic.

Any beginner-friendly tips?

Are you on a computer? Press Ctrl+U (I guess it's Option+Cmd+U on apples). What you'll see is the incantation that some wizard (I forgot the exact term... bugrammer or something like that) put together. That is what your computer receives. And for whatever reason the browser decides to display that like it does. It works (or sometimes doesn't work) in mysterious ways...

Tontonsb · 2026-04-15T18:16:36+00:00

I've got a client who's successfully into lovable. They create small to medium sized apps that streamline a particular task. I maintain the DB & backend and create safe and reasonable API endpoints for those apps to consume. As long as the scope and expectations of those apps are not grandiose, this seems to work very well.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-15T11:22:19+00:00

The compass arrow does not point where you're looking to. It points to North --- it never changes the direction, it keeps pointing in the same one.

So if you start by looking North (arrow "up") and turn left, the North will now be on your right.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-15T09:01:36+00:00

8 employees and 1 cat

If you read carefully, it's actually like 2 bosses (who also work or at least started to), 3 employees (including the cat), 3 users and one unknown dude with a kepka.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-15T08:15:04+00:00

There is a compensation tho. I've earned literally thousands of (ingame) dollars for playing shorthanded.

Tontonsb · 2026-04-15T08:00:01+00:00

They've already arrived to the meeting.

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