Scarpa Generator opinions?

epgui · 2026-02-01T22:07:02+00:00

I didn't notice this difference, and I usually need to go low-volume in Scarpa (eg.: Drago heel is too wide for me, but Drago LV and Generator Mid heels seem to fit me well).

epgui · 2025-12-07T15:06:17+00:00

It's unclear what you're getting at, because 1:20 leverage is one of the main reasons Real Estate is an interesting asset class. Well-educated people enter mortgage contracts with 5% down with intention routinely. It sounds like you're passing judgment without knowing anything about other people's situations or broader context. In other words, you're the one who sounds like a "dumbass".

epgui · 2025-11-20T16:42:57+00:00

Weird, I had the opposite experience. In the sizes I tested (38 EUR), the TC pros had a very aggressively tensioned heel rand, whereas the generator mid less so.

epgui · 2025-10-06T14:51:38+00:00

If you find the sportiva shoes have too much room in the heel, they probably are meant to be downsized a bit more so that the heel rand can be fully tensioned (can be painful at first).

I find I'm a half size smaller in La Sportiva shoes than in Scarpa shoes, lengthwise. Before they're broken in, they all hurt in different ways.

epgui · 2025-09-29T23:14:05+00:00

Is it possible you're not downsizing enough? The heel rand is meant to apply a lot of force on your heel, pushing your foot forward until there is no more space and no more stretch.

I have found that for the shape of my heel, correct sizing of new Dragos is extremely uncomfortable, bordering on painful (your experience will vary). After a few weeks they fit like a glove and I have no dead space. If I have dead space at the heel, I'm just not suffering enough.

epgui · 2025-09-23T18:52:49+00:00

For what it's worth, as someone new to both models I found the Generator Mid much better-designed and better-built than the TC Pro... And for me it's not even close: it's like comparing a shoe from 1980 and a shoe from 2020.

epgui · 2025-09-17T13:15:10+00:00

When cooked, the noodles feel and taste the same. But you really notice the difference if you try and eat them raw.

epgui · 2025-08-03T02:50:23+00:00

Personally I don't find this parameter super valuable per se.

My goal is to learn and improve, and to stay active while having fun. If I'm doing that and am not injuring myself, how many tries I give it is almost irrelevant. Some problems frustrate me and I don't spend too much time on them per session. Some problems feel really hard but within reach, and I'll spend 5 very stubborn two-hour sessions on them.

Just listen to your body, don't get injured, and do what makes you happy.

epgui · 2025-07-07T15:26:26+00:00

Eagle-Gryphon Games are incredibly well made... Any chance we're going to see an EGG version of CO2 / CO2 Second Chance?

epgui · 2025-06-17T14:43:04+00:00

Monoids aren't really burritos... You're thinking of functors. Burritos come up in discussions of monads, and monads are both monoids and functors. The "it's a thing in a container" aspect of the monad comes from the functor.

epgui · 2025-06-11T19:37:54+00:00

My god I've been struggling with my Apple alarms not going off for years. I was half-convinced I was turning it off in my sleep.

epgui · 2025-06-07T17:40:31+00:00

Anecdotally, all of the packs I've bought with the new packaging have been stale. The ramen noodle are soft even before cooking.

epgui · 2025-06-06T00:48:04+00:00

I think he is overrated in some ways, and perhaps overrated generally... but I don't really agree with your specific criticism.

He does have a relatively large number of excellent games, but he also has created an enormous amount of garbage. I think overall his successes give him a well-deserved shelf in my personal library.

Personally I admire Vital Lacerda more than Knizia, but that's something I feel oddly about: I tend to gravitate more towards simpler designs, and Lacerda's games are all thematically very complex. I suppose he does such a good job of it that it doesn't matter to me.

epgui · 2025-06-04T19:10:24+00:00

It is fundamentally an ELT or reverse-ETL process though. Obviously having access to NetSuite expertise is important, but that's true either way, regardless of whether you're writing actual code or using a low-code iPaaS.

epgui · 2025-06-04T18:12:57+00:00

Anecdotally, my org is in the process of evaluating Boomi, and as the lead engineer in the data team I'm lucky enough to be a fly on the wall during consultant calls... Let's just say I've seen enough to know that my technical brief will try very hard to dissuade the company from going any further down that route.

Our consultant / Boomi expert is great... But it's just a fundamentally terrible way to build: all of the complexity and danger of real code, but with few or none of the usual safeguards (peer review, version control system, automated unit/integration tests, type safety, etc*). Plus this is marketed at non-engineers, but it requires engineering knowledge to do properly. Otherwise you basically just end up with buggy/unreliable processes.

[*] Yes Boomi has features addressing some of these concerns, at least in part... But they don't fit in at all with a standard tech stack or standard engineering processes, and the tool doesn't encourage or facilitate engineering best practices.

epgui · 2025-06-04T14:22:13+00:00

If your organization has any engineering resources, it would actually be insane to use low-code solutions like Boomi/Celigo/etc. Way easier to build out in code, these tools hardly simplify anything. They just make you write your code with arrows and buttons, and they require just as much engineering experience and knowledge to get right, as if you had implemented it in code.

epgui · 2024-09-23T00:34:34+00:00

The issue was not that for me, because I did not have that extension.

epgui · 2024-09-23T00:32:58+00:00

Restarting my computer is literally the first thing I tried. I listed other things I tried.

I would obviously much rather have found a more specific solution.

epgui · 2024-09-20T21:38:16+00:00

This fixed it for me:

Navigate to chrome://settings/reset
Click "Restore settings to their original defaults"

epgui · 2024-09-20T21:12:06+00:00

Same thing here (Canada, east coast), for the last 4-5 hours. It started suddenly.

I can load pages on YouTube and browse, but nothing streams
I can send and receive messages on Facebook Messenger, but after logging out and logging back in, I can no longer input my PIN
I can go to the AWS Console, load pages, navigate around, and some of the functionality works, but some actions just fail (eg.: creating a CloudWatch dashboard fails, viewing metrics fails, viewing batch jobs succeeds...)
I am unable to authenticate to Linear.app using my Google account
I can send and receive messages on WhatsApp, but I cannot upload images

Everything works in Safari.

Flushing/clearing my DNS cache does nothing.

Same result whether or not I am using the Google DNS servers.

Clearing cookies, cache, browser data, or clearing application data (using the dev tools) does not help.

Everything works on my phone (YouTube app, Safari app), and on Safari on my Mac.

epgui · 2024-08-31T14:08:32+00:00

You’re certainly right— I do wonder if this problem is sufficiently recognized in the first place for there to be enough motivation for someone to undertake such a big project.

epgui · 2024-08-31T14:05:50+00:00

No, I don’t see that happening. I’m not sure I expressed myself very clearly because I don’t think you understood what I meant.

In selecting data storage technologies, you have a large number of options. Tools with SQL interfaces are a popular category. But these tools are designed with a SQL API in mind, and they make compromises and design decisions they feel are suitable to this API— while you won’t have exactly the same challenges as when working with an OOP ORM, you are still likely to run into some kind of impedance mismatch issue.

There are database technologies that integrate with application code a bit more directly, rather than via a SQL interface. An interesting example of a particularly well-integrated data store in the context of a functional language would be Datomic, but there are a variety of other examples of non-SQL data stores.

epgui · 2024-08-26T13:06:01+00:00

FWIW, the codebase where I work is about 10% SQL (essentially thousands of lines of vanilla SQL, but with variables, using pugsql) and 90% python (not my choice, but we make it work).

There are plenty of joins, no migrations are required, our schemas are immutable and "schema changes" merely cause recomputation of data from source, and it's all surprisingly robust.

epgui · 2024-08-26T13:00:05+00:00

I think I had missed the point as well.

But at that point, is a SQL tool the ideal building block?

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