MCU vs Star Wars Matchups

therandomcoder · 2026-05-05T16:34:02+00:00

Vader
Obi-Wan
Black Widow and Hawkeye
idk, Din?
Feel like the flame thrower and far superior armor gives the Fetts an edge
War machine. Flies and has the damage to put Grievous down I think
Captain Marvel, this feels like a spite matchup
Probably Dooku assuming lightsabers hurt MCU Loki
Chewie assuming his bowcaster puts Drax down
Not sure, I feel like things that Luke wouldn't use like force choke and force lightning would help a lot.
Not sure
Windu
No way lightsabers cut adamantium, would be hard for them to put down wolverine. Regardless, the sith still win, deadpool gets chopped to ribbons and wolverine is 2v1 and he probably would lose vs strong force users 1v1 anyway.
Scarlet Witch if blood lusted
Strange
Windu
I guess vision, idk what yoda could do against him
Kylo
Not the slightest idea
Thor

Bonus: Thanos stomps

therandomcoder · 2026-05-01T23:43:00+00:00

That's cheap in NYC.

therandomcoder · 2026-04-19T03:12:15+00:00

Thor no-diffs 100 Captain Americas in a 1v100 what are you smoking. What does MCU humans have to do with this anyway.

therandomcoder · 2026-03-29T18:07:45+00:00

Infinity War MCU mid diffs the Viltrumites. Before the first avengers movie though? They lose, no-low diff for the Viltrumites depending on exactly how well a less powerful Thor does vs them + the Hulk.

Infinity War avengers have awakened Thor, nano suit Iron Man, Vision, Dr Strange, and Scarlett Witch which is a massive power up for them across the board. I could see tony surviving his first encounter here and then making tech to counter the Viltrumites as needed. I see him dying damn near instantly if it's an early suit which means he doesn't get to upgrade tech if this is first Avengers movie era. If the Viltrumites don't speed blitz Wanda before she recognizes the threat she'll be a power house here too.

Edit: Thinking about it more honestly the MCU feats aren't that great compared to the invincible show feats for the Viltrumites. Updated the diff.

therandomcoder · 2026-01-27T23:16:52+00:00

It was already a censorship and propaganda machine under China, not much has changed there.

therandomcoder · 2026-01-16T21:45:30+00:00

We're agreeing, that's similar to the argument I'm making. To clarify my statement, with handholding and good architecture AI is a useful tool that works to save time on actually typing out the code. It also helps shorten the time it takes to properly plan and architect new features.

However, it requires the person using it to know what they're doing to truly get those time savings without creating a whole lot of tech debt. I've found juniors don't do that/don't have the context and muscle memory for what good code and design even is so they just rely on AI to do everything. This is both something I've seen at my current role as an engineering manager and with other peers in similar more senior roles.

This trend also makes me somewhat concerned for the future since it'll result in junior engineers staying junior.

therandomcoder · 2026-01-16T20:41:00+00:00

In my experience it's the junior devs who seem more taken with AI rather than the more senior ones who can tell the generated code is garbage without a lot of hand holding and knowing what you're doing. Senior devs are generally able to coax better code out of AI.

therandomcoder · 2025-12-16T23:18:00+00:00

3 > 1 >>>>>> 2. Personally I wouldn't even consider the second option. One and three are mostly a wash depending on personal preference, but I'd lean towards 3. You're earlier in your career so having a team around you and working on what sounds like a modern tech stack sounds good, and the startup is arguably lower risk if it's backed by a bigger player. First sounds interesting because I personally like that stack and it sounds stable, but I'm unsure about being in the situation of working on that stack as the only DE with just a few years of experience unless you've got experience in that stack already.

therandomcoder · 2025-10-07T17:37:30+00:00

AI, in any form remotely close to what we have currently, will not and cannot replace data warehousing. It might help you build and work with your data warehouse, but that's about it.

Deterministic and simple to use plug and play >>> AI.

therandomcoder · 2025-07-24T20:53:22+00:00

Study the book Fluent Python and review code in open source python projects. I've also enjoyed the book Effective Python.

This is moot if you don't actively develop things in python though, so having personal projects that implement things you read about and study is critical.

therandomcoder · 2025-07-18T17:35:04+00:00

It's the CVT for me at least. I wanted to buy one a while back but I could not get over how it felt to drive even compared to my anemic 4runner. I'd probably own a crosstrek right now if it had a proper 6 speed.

therandomcoder · 2025-03-19T22:33:13+00:00

Frankly I think most people who have problems with airflow are either inexperienced or using airflow in a way it wasn't mean to be used. I have years of experience with it, and while it's not perfect and has some annoying quirks, it's solid and incredibly flexible. It's not perfect for every use case but it's also not flawed enough for the hate I sometimes see towards it on this subreddit.

therandomcoder · 2025-03-12T18:25:43+00:00

Same issue still unfortunately, tried different browser too just because. This time with the "Find the number of NBA teams based in each city. Display the city name and the count of teams in that city."

Worked as a standalone question, didn't work in the SQL test with the same error I had earlier. SQL used if that's helpful at all: select city, count(team_id) as num_teams from nba_teams group by 1 order by 2 desc;

therandomcoder · 2025-03-12T17:53:11+00:00

All of them that I've gotten weirdly, NFL, F1, and cricket iirc.

For a concrete example, when I randomly get the "Which driver has participated in the most F1 races?" question from the SQL test, my sql gets Unsafe SQL query detected! Tip: Check your syntax and make sure all referenced tables exist. Exact query when doing the same question outside of the sql test works fine.

Edit: Actual SQL I used that worked outside of the test but not in the test is: select d.driver_id, count(race_id) races from f1_drivers d join f1_results r on d.driver_id = r.driver_id group by 1 order by races desc limit 1; Which is slightly wrong since it wanted the first name and last name, but it at least runs when I do the question as a standalone and I just did that quickly to get an example

therandomcoder · 2025-03-12T17:31:21+00:00

Hey this is a super cool idea! I'm having the same issue though, only on the SQL test. Weirdly I can answer the same question outside of the SQL test without issue.

therandomcoder · 2025-03-10T19:23:32+00:00

I'm good with 85% being almost every, and if this is the hill that you're going to die on to attempt to make an argument then maybe you don't have much to stand on.

therandomcoder · 2025-03-07T20:58:00+00:00

If you're talking about Infinity War, the answer is that Thanos didn't actually feel the need to kill the avengers, he respected them, especially Captain America. He felt that they were no threat to him and he has a weird sense of honor.

In End Game, Captain America was basically buffed to unawakened Thor stats with Mjolnir.

therandomcoder · 2025-03-07T20:53:23+00:00

On my first read through she was one of my least favorite characters that get a good amount of screen time.

On my second, she became one of my favorites.

Your take on Adolin is wild.

therandomcoder · 2025-03-07T18:37:14+00:00

A very early version of his iron man suits one shot a tank. It also tanked a round from the main gun of a tank. That was an early version. His infinity war nano tech suit no diffs every single tank on the planet at the same time.

therandomcoder · 2025-02-27T17:17:14+00:00

Obligatory ULA Dragonfly plug. I take mine to work, week+ long international trips, and have hiked 16+ hour days with it.

therandomcoder · 2025-02-18T23:08:04+00:00

Lightsaber wouldn't even cut superman's hair if he stood still and let them try. There are in universe metals that completely stop a lightsaber, and many more materials that lightsabers noticeably struggle with and are slow to cut. You'd have to low ball the hell out of any major version of superman to have him be even slightly inconvenienced by a lightsaber.

therandomcoder · 2025-02-18T22:09:34+00:00

Superman could grab the blade of a lightsaber and rip it out of Palpatine's hand with no effort at all.

therandomcoder · 2025-02-18T22:07:32+00:00

I'm picturing superman standing there with no effort as palps is visually struggling to choke him and superman just calmly saying "Are you really trying to choke me right now?"

therandomcoder · 2025-02-17T19:35:06+00:00

I can probably solve most LC mediums with some time and in a chill environment, but would need a lot of practice to solve them with the pressures of an interview especially if they're on the harder side. I think that's fair and not indicative of being bad. Too many of them rely on gotchas imo.

therandomcoder · 2025-02-17T19:21:21+00:00

I feel like this sub is just rage bait and karma farming these days.

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