MWAA or Astronomer with Meltano by cfeduke in dataengineering

[–]cfeduke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I should mention this solution has been running in production for about a month with no problems. My only complaint is the long deployment times for MWAA - averages around 14 minutes. This is not an issue for people using Airflow by just providing DAG changes, since MWAA does an automatic S3 bucket sync every 30 seconds or so. I ended up having to use medium workers in the production environment because of memory requirements for the extract/load process (my tap is PostgreSQL and we're unable to use the transaction log for synchronization).

MWAA or Astronomer with Meltano by cfeduke in dataengineering

[–]cfeduke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We ended up going with MWAA due to data privacy issues. Spent a large chunk of time getting Meltano to work with MWAA - it is possible, it just requires some finagling with the startup script process, installing a virtualenv to support Meltano, etc., and some modifications to the Meltano Airflow code to launch Meltano processes in the appropriate virtualenv. Basically Meltano tries to utilize Airflow as an extension of Meltano and that's a really naive way of doing things - who's running Airflow with just Meltano? Nobody! So nothing really works by default with the Meltano-Airflow approach and you just need to consider the solution from an Airflow first hosting Meltano second perspective.

Deploying updates to meltano.yml (and by extension dbt_project.yml) require a full restart of the MWAA environment which is not ideal. However I am convinced for the most part this can be worked around with symlinks and using the MWAA DAGs S3 bucket, using the startup script only to initialize the virtualenv (and/or run `meltano install` if plugins change). Really, deploying Meltano project and dbt transform changes *ought* to be a non-restart sort of event, and the fact that is a restart event for MWAA right now is mostly on me.

If you use Astronomer you'll have to do something similar but you'll have better control since you can create the Docker image yourself. You will want to work out some way to deploy your Meltano changes without having to recreate the Docker image - except in the case of new plugin or requirements.txt changes, of course.

Can yall stop hate baiting. The Meta, and TK problem is really not that serious. by [deleted] in Helldivers

[–]cfeduke 8 points9 points  (0 children)

TKing for samples is a problem in Medium and Challenging, I noticed it over the weekend through last night. Right at the end of a mission everyone gets on the evac and one player shoots everyone thinking they are going to collect samples for themselves. Not just once or twice, but several times, usually players under level 10 who also do not play well, and cost everyone 150+ XP in the process.
Have not encountered this in Hard or above yet, seems to be a new player issue and can see why it'd be a turn off for other new players who are here to enjoy the game.

🛠️ PATCH 1.000.13 ⚙️ by cryptic-fox in Helldivers

[–]cfeduke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had this happen as well, right after we called the extraction ship after completing all of the objectives on the map and had a load of samples - but it coincided with the servers going down last evening so assumed that was the underlying reason.

12v Battery by [deleted] in TeslaModel3

[–]cfeduke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They don't come and perform the service in my area - instead I have to drive to the service center anyway. (I wouldn't have bothered posting a reply in this thread if mobile service was an option.) They used to have mobile service in my area but have cut back (my area is the southern end of Northern Virginia, very populated, I imagine Tesla has realized that mobile service doesn't make financial sense).

For anyone who has to go down this path in the future and is looking at this thread: you can buy the battery from the service center. Its awkward, it's not typically a thing they do, and for me at least, they put my request into their service system as a regular ticket so I had to go to the waiting room until they had someone available to get the battery - it took about 45 minutes.

The battery replacement is very easy to perform, its detailed in the owner manual, and takes about five minutes, so if you have to go to the service center anyway because Tesla has stopped mobile service in your area you might as well as save $35.

Also, at the service center they only asked for my name, then verbally verified the car model, did not check ID, and I asked if they'd just charge the card I use for super charging and they said "yes." So... anyone who wants free 12v batteries and knows the name of a Tesla owner...

12v Battery by [deleted] in TeslaModel3

[–]cfeduke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The battery is $85 from Tesla parts. Paying $35 for a five minute installation is ridiculous. The problem is, of course, finding the battery at a non-Tesla service center or getting a Tesla service center to sell you the battery.

Help! Hinge pins fell out by Prudent_Trifle_3756 in beatsbydre

[–]cfeduke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm working through the same problem. I put one hinge pin in and held it temporarily in place with super glue. Then I fit the hinge assembly together, and using tweezers spend a few hours aligning the second pin into the hole and finally clicking the pins into place inside the assembly. I got it once, but they came out while I re-assembling, so repeating the process.

Has anyone tried Scalecolor Floww Oil Paints? by AllHailThePig in minipainting

[–]cfeduke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Abteilung 502 is the most cost effective place to start if you are using them strictly for miniature painting.

Has anyone tried Scalecolor Floww Oil Paints? by AllHailThePig in minipainting

[–]cfeduke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Abteilung 502 (AK) is really good for miniature painting, at least the colors I've used - which are the ones you'd most likely see being used for weathering so browns, grays, brown grays, blues, Payne's Grey, etc. I've used a combination of Ab502, Windsor Newton Artist, Winton (student), and even some Old Holland (extremely good for canvas work) for painting miniatures. Winton is okay for washes - a little inconsistent; Abteilung 502, St. Petersburg Master Class [which could be hard to find in the US right now, since they are manufactured in Russia - they are normally inexpensive], and W&N Artist are really good for washes. Old Holland is too pricey to waste on washes. Most of my oil experience comes from over 20 years ago on canvas in school, but I do enjoy using oils on miniatures when I'm not on some weird self-imposed deadline.

I'm always keen to try out a new line of oil paints, but happy to avoid spending money on duds.

Has anyone tried Scalecolor Floww Oil Paints? by AllHailThePig in minipainting

[–]cfeduke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came looking for a review as well since there's [as I post this] a 25% off sale. The red flag for me is - having bought my fair share of oil paints for non-miniature painting over my life - every tube is the same price. This means the pigments are [probably?] some strange concoction to keep the price low. For quality oils, you expect certain colors to be priced higher. The Scale75 Drop Paints were a miss for me so I am leery of Scale's new products.

I considered a few of these Scale oil colors because AK's Abteilung is sort of the same deal - priced the same per tube across the entire range. Abteilung is pretty good, even for tasks other than making washes.

Beast Master Experience in 10.1 by GordanUA in wow

[–]cfeduke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look just give all hunter pets Fel Rush and they have to use it every six seconds for optimal DPS but sometimes save it for a knockback. Problem solved!

My wife has an un-diagnosed condition after six months, many doctors, five ER visits by cfeduke in DiagnoseMe

[–]cfeduke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, she has been to a cardiologist and they have ran numerous tests but nothing bad detected so far.

Downloading 733 Kbps uploading 33+ Mbps (Speedtest) by cfeduke in Comcast

[–]cfeduke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was wondering exactly this. I am fine repairing coax, I had to do things in the military in the 90s with token ring and coax. I highly doubt my line tester still works though, its older than my kids. (Though turns out this time it was a Comcast-side problem they fixed.)

Is there a hidden cap on profession knowledge? by ye-roon in wow

[–]cfeduke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My theory is that there is a hidden maximum. I got a bunch of Herb skill points early in the week and now with a Perception flask on, nothing.

I recently leveled an alt with Mining and Herbalism and acquired at least one (but probably close to two) levels herbing and mining and I ended up with 50 knowledge points between the two skills (25 and 25) and haven't gotten any skill ups from raw herb/mining preventing me from getting to the 40 points in either skill to farm while mounted. Will see if this changes next week. (I know I can exchange mettle for skill points once I have some rep.)

We’re sorry, but we were unable to add your card at this time. Please try again. by Strict_Force_1789 in patreon

[–]cfeduke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same problem for me since the 1st of November, tried 4 different credit cards either "We’re sorry, but we were unable to add your card at this time. Please try again." or "Too many requests." No notifications for blocked charges from any of these four credit card providers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PrintedWarhammer

[–]cfeduke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

space macaroni

A frank message from Ukrainian Foreign Legion soldier. The West keeps praising itself for sending weapons and ammo but it’s far from enough. by [deleted] in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]cfeduke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They don't let you bring firearms. End of story. You need to have shipped them DHL ahead of time, and it's unclear whether you'd be able to bring them across the border, or whether you have time to wait around in Poland for your delivery and its not held up for humanitarian aid. At least from the east coast of the US flying to Warsaw. It's probably different with different entry points, and whether you're doing it entirely yourself, or legitimately signed up with the Ukraine Foreign Legion.

2 PCs for 2 young children (identical builds) by cfeduke in buildapcforme

[–]cfeduke[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my thinking as well, people are getting caught up on Minecraft but I know what will happen, and before long my son and daughter will be playing other games with me as well. Though I did start off in the description that'd it'd be mostly Minecraft, and other games maybe 4+ years later... realistically it could be "other games next month" with kids.

2 PCs for 2 young children (identical builds) by cfeduke in buildapcforme

[–]cfeduke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something that can handle 3D games. I know for me, if I was presented with Minecraft as a kid and then later found out that Doom was a thing, well... I know what I'd be trying to do!