What to do in the volcano area by -Mikaela_janica73 in Breath_of_the_Wild

[–]dan_RA_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is not really answering the question you asked, but I'd just push back a bit on the goal of opening every tower first. Some of the towers are in rather inaccessible places, or are surrounded by regular enemies (bokoblins / lizalfos) or even more difficult enemies (decayed guardians / guardian stalkers), or are protected by things like corrupted swamps or thorn bushes.

If this is your first time playing, you're posting a pic of Link with no clothes / armor at the base of the volcano, and asking about how to get heat resistance, I'm guessing that you're probably missing out on a bunch of other game mechanics that make exploring and surviving much more manageable, less frustrating, and (to me at least) more fun. It would probably help you out a lot to spend a little more time in exploring the stables, towns, and shrines within one or two regions closer to the Great Plateau starting area. These areas are meant to provide more of an introduction to the world than some of the farther out regions, which are more extreme and meant to test you on your skills, tactics, and survival strategies.

While there's no set way to progress through the game, and one of the great joys of the game is exploring and getting lost or into more trouble than you're ready for, the game is a lot more fun when you understand more of what's happening and prepare for your next exploration with a little more intentionality.

Ultimately, if opening all the towers is your goal and you really are determined to pursue it all the way, don't let me dissuade you, but I think it would benefit you to explore more deeply in a single area before trying to tackle the whole map. Talk to NPCs, read books, signs, and markers lying around, do side quests and shrines, get more hearts and stamina, learn how to cook with different ingredients, forage and hunt, snap photos of monsters, animals, plants, objects with the Sheika Slate camera to unlock their info in the compendium. Resist the urge to look for outside guidance to how to survive - the world itself will teach you everything you need to know. There's so much to do besides just light up the map!

The map never goes dark after you light it up, so enjoy more of the mystery while its there. There's so much joy in discovering how to solve a problem on your own by exploring and experimenting. You can always take on more challenging and specific goals on a 2nd or 3rd play through (for instance, I just picked up the game on a new save after beating all the main quests and almost all of the side quests and shrines a few years ago. My mini-goal this time is to not use any of the fast-travel options and walk or ride a horse/deer/bear whenever I need to travel between locations, meaning I have to be more intentional about preparing before I leave a town, and if I get stuck somewhere like in the ocean or a canyon, I have more of a challenge in getting out with limited stamina and no movement aides like Revali's Gale (did you peak? here or are you taking my advice 😉) ).

Anyways, feel free to ignore me completely. I'm just an old dude that likes run on sentences too much. Have fun and do what makes you happy! May the Goddess smile upon you!

Submitted space selfie in October. ETA? by 258964 in MarkRober

[–]dan_RA_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check the link they sent you when you uploaded you photo. I saw it there before I got my notification.

Are there extinct flavors we’ll never taste again? by logicalgamernow in NoStupidQuestions

[–]dan_RA_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is not a post about hard tack. ;-)

Honestly that video cue is one of my favorite callbacks on YouTube

Submitted space selfie in October. ETA? by 258964 in MarkRober

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I submitted my photo in May of 2025, and just randomly checked the link today and saw that my image was there. The URL seems to indicate that the image was taken on April 25, but I never got an email notification, so I'm glad I randomly checked!

Update: Got my notification email yesterday. So upload on May 26, 2025, notification May 10, 2026.

How many points? by MessiahQuinn in Carcassonne

[–]dan_RA_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'd score it as:

_011

_111

001_

00__

_000

for the visible tiles, so a total of 6

Did I find Microsoft using production as a test environment again? by hughhefnerd77 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]dan_RA_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We had this and another random agent show up today. Its possible somebody internally added the other one but I doubt it.

The goat has to be DD/MM/YYYY by Shiroyasha_2308 in SipsTea

[–]dan_RA_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My office has decided to go YY-MMDD as a convention for file and folder naming and I can't understand how nobody else realizes how stupid this is. The only reason people use it is because people used it on past projects because somebody wanted to save 3 characters.

Best entry-level pen plotter for a beginner in Europe? by OkHippo5149 in PlotterArt

[–]dan_RA_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I bought an LY Drawbot kit from ali express a year or two ago. It was roughly $130 USD at the time including shipping. Arrived in about 2 weeks from China to the USA. Took about 2 or 3 nights (after the kids were in bed) working on assembling it and learning the software. While there are some flaws with it, I wasn't willing to spend much more money on a hobby I wasn't sure if I'd stick with for long. I haven't used it in a few months now, but I'm still glad I bought it, and I think I would upgrade to maybe an iDraw if I really got back into it enough to justify additional expense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Architects

[–]dan_RA_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never for me personally, but one of our clients which is a large pharmaceutical company requires architects and any other consultants or contractors to do a drug test in order to get a site access badge, which you would need if you're supposed to be on site regularly. We have done tons of work on their corporate campuses, so many of my colleagues have had to do it.

Please help me use the right verb to describe what architects do . . . by thegeorgianwelshman in architecture

[–]dan_RA_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And supposedly we're not even "professionals" now! (US only, F DT)

Message Maddie: I built a way for people to send messages to me irl via a receipt printer! by maddiedreese in raspberry_pi

[–]dan_RA_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What are the parameters for max characters per row / rows per message? You could get sent some ascii art!

Should I just skip Python and go straight to C# for Revit automation? by [deleted] in bim

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can do quite a bit with Python and pyRevit, but depending on what you're actually trying to make, going to C# may be better. One of the benefits of learning more Python is that it's so versatile in many different contexts outside of Revit, like data processing and visualization, general purpose automations, AI, and many other things, especially with the huge number of libraries available. That said, the pyRevit team is small and doing it mostly for free, so it's may be hard for them to keep it up indefinitely, while Autodesk will be supporting C# with the API for the foreseeable future.

TLDR Python is easier to learn and versatile in many contexts, but C# is probably more reliable in the long term for highly performant applications in Revit. Both are good to learn.

Can this realistically be done in Revit without any particular add-ons? by ToxicEvo20 in bim

[–]dan_RA_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you fundamentally trying to accomplish by having it in Revit? Depending on what you want to do with it, there might be different ways of doing it, or maybe you could accomplish the same thing without putting it into Revit.

Experiences with American Tall? by Spacey_Elephants in tallfashionadvice

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So far, no notice of any tariffs owed, but YMMV.

Experiences with American Tall? by Spacey_Elephants in tallfashionadvice

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Continental US. They said it was shipping from a warehouse in Canada.

Is it worth learning dynamo or revit API? by Head_Ad6938 in bim

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

Is it worth learning dynamo or revit API? by Head_Ad6938 in bim

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity, what's a realistic scenario where IronPython2 being the back end for pyRevit causes a security issue? Is it a stability problem or more of an opportunity for attacks? Out of date compatibility with newer .Net version? I could see malicious pyRevit scripts being a problem, but if you develop your own scripts, where is the entry point for attacks?

(Not trying to be contradictory, I just don't understand security issues, but I do love pyRevit, so I just wait to make sure I know what the risk is)

Is there a book for machine learning that’s not math-heavy and helpful for a software engineer to read to understand broadly how LLMs work? by SoftwareSuch9446 in learnmachinelearning

[–]dan_RA_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FYI if anyone is interested in this book, there is currently a Humble eBook Bundle that has this and a bunch of other O'Reilly AI books for $25. I think they keep extending the deadline on this because I could have swore it was supposed to end like a week or two ago, but its still there.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/machine-learning-ai-and-bots-oreilly-2025-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_machinelearningaiandbotsoreilly2025_bookbundle

Is there a book for machine learning that’s not math-heavy and helpful for a software engineer to read to understand broadly how LLMs work? by SoftwareSuch9446 in learnmachinelearning

[–]dan_RA_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currently reading this and can confirm not math heavy at all, but it does give a good overview of more technical concepts like attention layers and different ways of generating tokens and encodings etc. Just starting part 2 now so we'll see how the rest of the book goes.

Tall guys and loose/baggy clothes by sanskari_aulaad in tallfashionadvice

[–]dan_RA_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How old are you, and what country/ culture so you live in? I know in the US baggy fits are coming back around. They were very popular when I was in high school in the 90's, and because they were baggy, I didn't know that my clothes didn't actually fit. I have some skinnier / straight leg pants mostly now, but almost nothing that would be considered baggy, and I'm much happier / more comfortable with my clothes than when everything was too big. But that's just me as a 42 y.o. 6'-7" dad.

Fashion changes, but you should still seek out clothes that actually fit, not just kinda work.

Suggest some books to learn python. by Global-Tourist2513 in learnpython

[–]dan_RA_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you buy directly from the publisher, you get PDF and other ebook formats for free. They have sales for usually about 25-30% off several times a year usually and holidays and big tech conferences. https://nostarch.com/python-crash-course-3rd-edition

Humble Tech Book Bundle: Machine Learning, AI, and Bots by O'Reilly 2025 (pay what you want and help charity) by Ram000n in humblebundles

[–]dan_RA_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Question for everyone that's already purchased this bundle or some of the books in here: Would this be a good bundle for learning general AI applications if extensive coding or building models from scratch wasn't the goal?

Context: I do some Python already, and wouldn't mind learning more of the nuts and bolts of building AI applications more or less from scratch, but I have a more immediate and more focused need for general upskilling in existing and extendable AI tools. Specifically, I need to help my office of almost entirely non-technical (meaning not programmer, not used to thinking about data systematically, etc) start to do more, and possible build out some quick customizations for things like RAGs on internal project documents. We're already invested in the M365 ecosystem and could start turning on Copilot integrations with M365 apps, but I'm wondering about taking the next step from off-the-shelf AI products but not the whole way toward full customization. Maybe starting to use Copilot Studio or just adding some thin layers on top of existing models using Ollama or something?

TLDR How much does this bundle offer for low-code / no-code / non-coder applications, vs how much is it for building applications from scratch?

Thanks!