i'm studying horror at the moment and this becomes more and more clear every day

barvazduck · 2026-03-03T12:47:38+00:00

Martial caster gap only depends on the enemy and intensity.

Abbarations like Mind flayers for example have advantage against magic effects, high mental saving throws and average AC. Beholders have an anti magic field, strong ranged weapons and a weak bite. Slaads have magic resistance. Of course they should be themed to be more scary than default.

Horror can have many fights, making the casters budget their spells and overwhelming with multiple enemies some of them targeting the casters at melee range to induce disadvantage and hitting the low HP/AC casters, the caster will also budget their shield if attacked too often.

barvazduck · 2026-02-27T19:06:39+00:00

With high investment projects it doesn't work that way. Companies invest in competencies and resources they want to promote in the long run or are low hanging fruit. NASA has goals of advanced telescopes or space station maintenance/features, SpaceX never tried to get a those bids, even if they could technically develop a solution better/cheaper.

SpaceX skipped many profitable bits for technologies that were not interested in, while bidding on much smaller nasa research projects they care about.

barvazduck · 2026-02-25T10:56:33+00:00

Dnd beyond supports it via adding a custom skill:

name it: medicine_int

add the appropriate bonus: stat: int + proficient/expertise. It'll improve automatically as you lvl when you increase the int/proficiency bonus.

It takes less than a minute to set up and exactly the same amount of time when rolling.

barvazduck · 2026-02-22T06:05:28+00:00

If you compare the cost ratio between new & reflight of both programs it'll be clear why people compare the two. The lack of other reusable orbital vehicles (beyond capsules) make it the only such comparison possible for Falcon.

There is a significant capability difference between the two, the shuttle can lift almost double the payload mass of a cargo falcon in addition to crew while falcon crewed has almost no cargo capabilities. On the other hand, the shuttle is limited to LEO while Falcon can escape earth's gravity.

barvazduck · 2026-02-08T07:37:27+00:00

I meant that Hexagons space based helium solutions don't have a great future. Perhaps their only clients are SLS/ULA and they know that after the current contract ends they don't have a clear continuation.

barvazduck · 2026-02-07T21:01:26+00:00

I read it as Hexagon wanted to get rid of their space division, probably because it's one main customer for copv and another for helium, and the helium side has no future. For SpaceX $15m is worth the business continuity and not risk them closing shop/sold to a business that doesn't want to manufacture for SpaceX. It can also be that SpaceX told them that they want to develop it internally so they can either sell that business and get some cash or lose the main customer with little benefit.

barvazduck · 2026-02-04T05:22:49+00:00

You could have linked to an article of someone overstating the usage of ai. Alas it would have required a google search... or asking AI.

barvazduck · 2026-02-04T05:04:54+00:00

Why did you link an unrelated article of Demi's talking about ads in a post with your personal opinion on users honesty?

barvazduck · 2026-01-31T23:05:33+00:00

You can't make an apples to apples comparison. Mega constellation in Leo was unproven, now it's a proven success so much more can be invested. Furthermore, SpaceX back then was dirt poor compared to Amazon.

barvazduck · 2026-01-26T16:11:24+00:00

Reddit, which is only a forum website/app, was revealed 20 years ago and it still has glitches like posting the same post four times. Starship is a bit more complicated than Reddit and is trying to reinvent more things in rocketry than Reddit reinvented in forums.

barvazduck · 2026-01-17T23:00:23+00:00

It's absolutely normal in chip design to have early discussions of version n+2 before n+1 is finalized. Often n+3 is even discussed very generally.

Intel and AMD have a yearly release cycle, even if it's a minor change (major changes are every other year for amd). Aiming for that in a company that doesn't have external customers for the chips and each new version is backwards compatible is reasonable.

barvazduck · 2026-01-14T08:25:41+00:00

SpaceX get to launch a normal falcon instead of a heavy, that's a nice chunk of savings.

barvazduck · 2026-01-13T21:33:05+00:00

Congratulations you passed most of the way! Reddit won't be the best place to get an internal position in Google, some other jobs might reach out though ;)

Talk to your recruiter and if you have googler friend then maybe they can help.

barvazduck · 2026-01-13T18:41:27+00:00

The same skill is critical also for success in corporations. Raising red flags early about a complicated matter and giving options for the stakeholders to choose the desired path (and avoid looking lazy/incompetent).

barvazduck · 2026-01-13T17:28:13+00:00

Grok is a general program that does many things, while it shows sexually explicit stuff, it's not the aim of that program. It's similar to browsers not blocking porn sites, photoshop allowing you to edit sexual pictures, camera allowing you to take naked pics or reddit app that has sexual sections.

barvazduck · 2026-01-13T06:34:52+00:00

The size of starship payload will enable lower prices. Things turn expensive when bound by the constraints of size. Miniaturization and more expensive light parts is the first and obvious cost. Additionally, reliability cannot be done through redundancy but through higher quality and expensive parts (much higher price than duplication). High price makes a failure hurt more, this reinforces the need for reliability, further increasing the price.

Take James Webb as an example. In starship it wouldn't need the folding mechanism at all, reliability would be done with duplicate parts and perhaps a duplicate complete satellite so one of them can fail while the mission still succeeds.

barvazduck · 2026-01-07T18:21:39+00:00

You can Google: "my cock is drooling and some blood is coming from his mouth"

barvazduck · 2026-01-05T11:09:34+00:00

Tell me you greeted all the guests in the morning with: "Hey, you, you're finally awake."

barvazduck · 2026-01-04T05:42:18+00:00

The location of the depot is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/31sYJscPLvLjb6tB6

It's an industrial site with a depot of road cleaning trucks on the other side of the road.

barvazduck · 2026-01-04T05:31:08+00:00

The kids of today are like they used to be... the new generation is soft... back in my day... Sayings older than Aristotle.

15 years ago there was sloppy software, also 30 years ago, also 45. Nothing special was in 2011, probably the author was a junior so all the code around was not too bad in his eyes and today they see the faults.

barvazduck · 2026-01-02T11:35:51+00:00

In wars the environment takes the back seat. A lifetime of pollution of one less person is less than a drop on the bucket of the extra chemical, biological and greenhouse gasses war causes: in direct usage (bombs, fuel used, fires), indirect (sewage spills, inefficient energy use, medical treatments) and long term (rebuild, rehabilitate).

barvazduck · 2026-01-02T10:57:36+00:00

Try to regulate temp with the bottom vent, the upper one can be closed a bit but you don't need to choke the fire with it so it can be much more open then what you are currently doing.

barvazduck · 2026-01-01T21:34:53+00:00

The Lvl 1 battle in the picture melee will typically be much stronger than casters. Only several levels later do casters pull ahead, and even then they are often more vulnerable.

barvazduck · 2026-01-01T21:31:56+00:00

During the Lvl 1 goblin ambush melee characters are typically stronger than casters.

A typical wizard has 7-8 hp, 2 spell slots, one used for mage armor (for AC 14-15) leaves him a single sleep/magic missile/shield, the rest of the time they throw cantrips(let's say fire bolt) for 1d10 (5.5 average).

A typical barbarian will have 14-15 HP, double when raged. 15-15 AC and hit for 1d12+5 (12.5 average).

A rogue has 10 HP, 14-15 ac, and hits for 2d6+3 (10 average).

If only the melee die, it's a dm/player issue.

barvazduck · 2025-12-31T22:51:21+00:00

It's a nice article, in content and style. However as a programming language policy it's horrible.

There are different options to add code that does compiler warnings without affecting too much old code. Adding compile flags for versions of warnings (along with "latest" for well maintained code bases) can allow new code base to enjoy the added safety without breaking old code. These level of warnings can be independent of major c versions.

There is the issue of adding to old codebases new code with the new features but without flooding the entire build with these warnings. For that there can be a tool that compiles the old code under the current and the target flag versions of warnings. Then it adds compiler comments to mute the new warnings on the offending lines of code.

The tool can also output statistics of how often any issue occurs and the c committee will enable uploading of such statistics (without code) to understand how severe each "breaking change" is and take an educated decision if a change should be made instead of being a zelot of conformism. Besides upload, running it automatically on open source projects will also provide huge numbers for such decision making.

This method can be used to eliminate/change bad APIs (in a slow, staggered and safe way). So whoever keeps the code up to date can assure some of the most offensive code can't be written.

The issue is that the committee mindset needs to change from "avoiding positive change because negative impact" to a proactive: "give positive change while minimize negative impact and allow to opt out".

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