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Man I miss it like crazy and I frequently think about the lost connection to friends who still play.

I’ve got too many things to do to get back in, but it kind of stops me from gaming at all because part of the allure is being really invested and really GOOD. There’s the UI investment, the research, and just the casual play and chat time… I miss it all.

The guild I was in really kicked off at Cataclysm and we were alliance first for heroic end game (server second) for like 3 xpacs. I quit wow 4 times before it stuck. I started in vanilla in 2005 in college and played until… 2014? Pretty sure my main (and I had 3 characters) had about 370 days in /played.

It lives on a pedestal of gaming and I basically have to leave it sitting there until my family is grown, playing a casual chess game or two instead.

TL;DR: When it comes to games I’ve got no chill now. Even with casual chess I pay for lessons.

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As an aside, it’s wild to me how many people ITT didnt even raid at all, it’s like 1/3+ of the game! That’s carving some space for PvP, which was also hella fun back when PvP servers and griefing and casual raids of enemy towns was a thing.

It’s possible.

I’m more likely to say anyone who writes others off as bad people from a 1 dimensional, 3rd party anecdote is not an exemplar of “good people”. But that’s just me.

We also did a record amount of candy this year. Nice weather for it.

Edit: I would say we did between 350 and 400 pieces, 2 per kid. My neighborhood started at 5 ish and I turned out the lights at 8.

The older I get, the more I’m sure it’s healing/regeneration. Wolverine didn’t have a sore back after digging an afternoon in the yard or sleeping without a pillow between his knees.

Yeah it’s a tough switch. It’s a lot like getting out of a relationship that you know isn’t gonna work, but every time you go to end it you think “hey it isn’t that bad right NOW is it?” and put it off.

A clean break would be faster and easier for everybody involved.

Now you DO stand to accrue some extra skills by spending some time with a foot in both workflows. It makes you have to learn some weird shit. But in the long run idk if that actually helps more than it hurts.

I took a long time to make the switch lol.

Chess puzzles. Sometimes informational YouTube. There’s not usually that much time though.

Nyuma nyohma nyohmaye

Ridiculous negotiator to be sure.

My last project is using machine learning to sort data for a company and the flow kinda goes like this:

1. Use the advanced tab in the browser on the UI search pagr for the company to expose the API query for the data I want to have
2. Write some shell script to programmatically call the API for the data I want.
3. Realize that there’s actually a limit to how much data the API can return BUT the metadata says how much there is beyond the limit.
4. Write some script to paginate (scrape over) all that data and save as a JSON file
5. Realize my JSON is badly formatted and some queries are empty, so do some error checking and massage to make it work right.
6. Create a python script to ingest the parts of the saved data I want and write it to a SQLite database. This takes ongoing refinement.
7. Do some sql to count how many entries I got in the time period I was getting data for, and compare to a tool the company has to aggregate said data. It was close enough.
8. Go learn about Jaccard similarity and locality sensitive hashing. Use this to write a script to deduplicate the database so I don’t have a zillion repeated entries. Also python, but it starts with some cursor stuff and sql.
9. Do the actual project which is trying to get some reinforcement learning to label the data automagically. This means I also have to write some methods to get particular mixes of the data I’ve already collected. For example I want my mix to have 50 percent red balls, 20 percent green balls and 30 percent blue balls. How do you pick the right number of balls from the total set? It’s not hard but it takes some thinking.
10. Wrap this thing up in a script that will do some load balancing on a machine with lots of gpus and CPUs so I don’t hog the entire server rack. Submit it and let it cook.
11. Write it again so I can wrap options around it and optimize hyperparameters.
12. Start working up the results to show improvement overall. If it’s better than what the company already has…
13. Time to fire up the old git repo and make sure the commits are clean. Add readme and make files (bc I prefer to deploy with make) and put it in the hands of another engineer who will roll it out for that company.

Idk it’s not a super sophisticated problem but it has a lot of moving parts and you have to kind of tackle them in order. Mostly it’s “hey here’s an obstacle to the end goal, how do I fix it on my own in a smart way?”

Then do it.

Cooking and getting riled up by tankies I guess.

Banning people for downvoting carnivore**

Makes sense. I have you tagged as “veggie person”.

US omnivore.

Most fruit stays on the counter in the fruit bowl (except berries, I want more than a day to eat them), bread, and all unprocessed veg (besides lettuce, again I find it goes bad fast) stays out.

Anything that I have prepared and cooked goes in the fridge when we are done eating it or when it’s approaching room temperature. Sometimes a little warmer if I’m impatient. If we had a pot luck / carry in food sometimes sets out a couple hours NBD, still fridge after.

Red meat gets salted or seasoned and sits out to approx room temp before cooking if I think about it. I don’t do that from frozen (I use sous vide for that defrost), with very large cuts (rib roast for example) or with chicken because I have never noticed it cook unevenly.

The only food that ever really sits out on the counter after preparation is rice or baked goodies (banana bread, cookies, etc.). Anything that sits out overnight is now trash except pizza if it was a late night snack. Anything out is quite rare anyway since we usually clean the kitchen before bed.

Edit: Eggs of course in the fridge, they are washed. Butter also fridge, I know it can stay out but I usually like it harder, we aren’t spreading it that often compared to measuring.

General rule: If the store I bought it from was refrigerating it, so am I.

First thing? Definitely google what it is and why I have one.

And if you can’t figure out how to rebase, I definitely don’t want you solving your own merge commit!

No merges allowed. Rebase only.

Sounds like agreement and resolution are required pre merge conflict resolve.

people who say “I feel normal” do it because saying it is part of that script of life you’re talking about, not because they believe it deep down.

Basically internal life of almost any person other than yourself is impossible to know.

1. People do X for Y reason not for actual belief in X!
2. But it’s impossible to know people!

These opinions do not reconcile. Either you “know” people (probably because you project your beliefs onto them), or it’s impossible to really know what is in other people for sure and this is all your brand of certified speculation.

I’m gonna say I bet there are people who say they feel normal and actually believe it, rather than buying whatever this is.

10k feet up? Normal 5k feet up? Pretty normal 1k feet? I stick out 100 feet? I’m my own crew yo

Kill your lawn! Be a vegan. The devil is a landlord!