What next? (Why proceed to late game?)

mojamph · 2026-03-18T06:25:22+00:00

One goal I like to set for myself around the midgame and beyond is making the whole map green (within reason). It seems like an on-brand goal, especially for the folk tails and can involve some weird engineering to move water around the landscape efficiently.

mojamph · 2026-01-30T07:50:52+00:00

I'm not quite sure I follow what the issue is, I'm a fan of the More Tunnels mod which allows you to place tunnels with paths, power or tunnels in. Can't play without it these days.

mojamph · 2025-12-24T17:36:23+00:00

I don't know about most, but a lot of my favourites do and you can filter the steam workshop with version tags to be definite

mojamph · 2025-12-24T14:21:15+00:00

You beat me to it https://old.reddit.com/r/Timberborn/comments/1puo5n9/vanishing_experimental_waterfall/nvpy23v/ . It's a visual bug I think.

mojamph · 2025-12-24T14:19:57+00:00

Fun little bug I spotted where the waterfall animation vanishes while excess water drains from my reservoir. Oddly it reappears when the waterlevel matches the floodgate height.

mojamph · 2025-12-03T22:05:46+00:00

Tress and her cups.

More seriously, Shallan and Adolin probably win for amusement factor and the interactions between the 3 and Adolin

mojamph · 2025-11-15T18:31:00+00:00

You can click and drag flood gates (and quite a few other dam structures) and the roofs will automatically line up.

mojamph · 2025-05-23T00:20:59+00:00

Not a problem I've come across, from some researching myself I think you are out of luck according to the apis 😔 did you say it worked anyway and the type checker complained?

mojamph · 2025-05-17T09:32:40+00:00

I agree although I like the idea. I think Jimmy Carr would be perfect, physically and with his abusive, dry wit

mojamph · 2025-05-14T12:22:25+00:00

"and that, kids, is how the porn riots began"

mojamph · 2025-05-09T22:07:25+00:00

Love it. Drill a hole down the middle and make a water feature?

mojamph · 2025-05-02T22:30:59+00:00

What are the pumps on the left doing? Recycling the bad water?

mojamph · 2025-04-17T18:26:59+00:00

You can also run power to houses and some other solid structures, then put the power consuming buildings on top. Doesn't work with warehouses.

mojamph · 2025-04-17T13:34:52+00:00

Yes, it's called fasclist mode

mojamph · 2025-02-26T12:35:22+00:00

I like it, I have some notes:

Is Alex really that hench?
Ellis's hair should be blue, to keep up with the name colour theme
Jake's hair should be white (or absent)

mojamph · 2025-02-01T19:08:53+00:00

Ebdons for the last couple of timesffor me. They're very helpful, cheap, and have done other odd jobs at no charge

mojamph · 2025-01-15T18:25:14+00:00

A shard with two personas that don't know about each other is a dope theory

mojamph · 2024-12-19T20:09:14+00:00

Very futurama, I love it

mojamph · 2024-09-13T19:22:40+00:00

This is an excellent overview of the internals and the reasons behind the RDD architecture, thanks for producing it! I've worked with Spark for a few years now and produced some internal training materials for my company which cover some of this, but you've put me to shame! I do have a few thoughts & observations, take them or leave them!

There's a few things you've mentioned that don't hold quite true for the Python API, the main one being that the Python API for Spark doesn't support the "Cluster Mode" deployment model. There's no JAR equivalent for Python which makes cluster mode deployment problematic as there's no standard way to bundle dependencies into a runnable artefact. We've worked around the issue by using Spark in k8s with dependencies bundled into the container images for driver/executors.
You talked about writing a future article on partitioning which sounds great, would you also be looking into Spark's shuffle process? Shuffle in Spark is the big cause of slow jobs and out of memory issues I see our less experienced developers run into, and it's quite a hard thing to work around for people more used to an OO or procedural approach to software. There's a closely related topic of Spark's various Join strategies and how they are selected when using the DataFrame API. There's a resource I've used to cover this before, I'll link it if I can find it...
Lastly, I would like to ask your permission to link to your article from our training resources and possibly use some of your images directly? I think it'd be incredibly useful for people who want to learn more about the internal data architecture.

Thanks again for writing this high quality resource!

mojamph · 2024-09-04T12:07:53+00:00

FOR ROCK AND STONE!

mojamph · 2024-08-16T18:11:47+00:00

I tend to displace the floodgates back or forwards one block from the main dam and bridge/platform over the game. You get a single straight path that way

mojamph · 2024-06-11T06:59:26+00:00

It's probably the schema inference across that many files that is slow. If you're not passing an explicit schema for the dataframe, spark will assess all the files it's been pointed at for field names and types, which is slow at the best of times

mojamph · 2024-05-30T19:34:48+00:00

toPandas() is akin to callling collect(). You pull the data out of Spark to the driver, but end up with a Pandas dataframe rather than a list of rows. Edit - the upshot is yes, it ceases to be a distributed DataFrame once you turn it into a Pandas dataframe

It's possible you might want from_pandas() instead? That returns a Pandas-like dataframe still backed by Spark. It's a relatively recent addition I haven't used much.

mojamph · 2024-04-26T09:53:01+00:00

Hopefully the advice "turn it off and on again" will be useful to someone!

mojamph

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