cwagner @ cwagner @beehaw.org

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Another suggestions: I like Semafor.com for their newsletters (that I subscribe to as RSS via Kill the Newsletter, also selfhostable) because they give this high level executive overview instead, usually with a tiny bit of humor inserted in their image-tag line. It’s mostly not too US centric (and obviously their Africa newsletter is not at all). You don’t usually get bogged down in stuff, while still being able to keep up with what is happening.

Using anti-competitive tatic to try to eliminate a competitor is literally malicious.

To be fair, it sounds less like eliminating, and more like "carving out a niche", with the competitor being the dominant one. Doesn’t make it great, but at least a bit better ;)

Not quite my music, but a cool voice indeed. If you don’t know her, also check German/American Doro (ex-Warlock, probably the first female-fronted metal band): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7kIxo8-ucf8 This reminded me a bit of her, probably because of the power of her voice even though it does sound different.

Yep — that is what I mean by documents, and it’s what I meant all along. The beauty of documents is how simple and flexible they are. Here’s a URL (or path), and here’s the contents of that URL. Done.

But that content is meaningless, because you just saved an arbitrary data structure. It’s not as if you can do anything with those postgres files. Or those possibly multi GB MSSQL .mdf, .ldf, .ndf documents. That’s data (a word that’s imo far clearer than document) stored in a very specific way that you need to know the exact structure of to make any sense of. It’s not usable directly in any way. Not "Done."

No, because you can’t store “literally anything” in a Postgres database.

Yes you can. You can either add space for what you need to store, or you can, again, store e.g. a JSON blob.

if you put an index on this column, inserts will be too slow, if you don’t have an index on that column selects will be too slow

Or don’t, and it will only be as slow ass a NoSQL Database …

A document is always more work in the short term

It’s the opposite, a document db is far easier in the short term, that’s why everyone jumped on them before seeing the limitations.

Yeah, a relational DB is harder because you have to have a good design, that allows you to do what you actually want to do. And if you none of your devs are good at SQL, then probably a document db is better. And yes, sometimes, you need nothing but a document DB. But I still heavily disagree that most of the time you want one.

That’s exactly the kind of thing I imagined. In camo, with green and black face paint.

I think so. Assuming the number-estimates in the horrible-headline-article are right, they’d stop paying artists for songs played for less than about 17 times a month.

Ditto :) Recently (with the sale to Songtradr) downloaded my whole collection as flac for proper archival :)

It’s more the "paramilitary-trained" tax collectors I find a bit hilarious ;)

Sidenote in case any of the mods read this:

Kenyan businesses are dropping the world’s favorite mobile money service

Is the original headline, now what I’d have posted is "Kenyan businesses are dropping mobile money service M-Pesa", possibly with "because of increased tax-enforcement", the latter is probably too much editorializing, but the former makes it less clickbait-y and more informational. What kind of editing of original headlines is preferred?

I’m 99% certain this is wrong

? This is how Postgres stores data, as documents, on the local filesystem:

Those are not documents for a definition of document that works with the rest of your comment. If by document you mean "any kind of data structure", then yes, those are documents. But then the term becomes meaningless, as literally anything is a document.

Yep… it’s pretty easy to write a query on a moderately large database that returns 1kb of data and takes five minutes to execute. You won’t have that issue if your 1kb is a simple file on disk. It’ll read in a millisecond.

Sure, but then finding that document takes 5 minutes because you need to read a few million files first.

You should send that information to the non-native English speaker that wrote the blog. Might as well go ahead and gather all the other typos he did.

and it’s even how relational databases work under the hood. They generally persist data on the filesystem as documents.

I’m 99% certain this is wrong, which leads to a lot of your follow-up being wrong. Persisting data as documents would be atrocious for performance.

I also disagree with the quoted part of the article.

And for your case, sure, you could save it as document, maybe improve performance of a very light operation by 2X, just to have far worse performance for querying that data.

edit: And in case you don’t mind the extra storage, and don’t care about correctness guarantees, you can just have a table that has all the metadata, but then have the comment also as a JSON blob which every modern db supports.

I agree, it’s even what I mostly use the ORM for, writing is so easy that way and results in far more succinct code.

I’d actually say most data is suited for relational DBs, and that was pretty much what people realized after a few years of the NOSQL hypetrain.

It was painful ;) TB actually started as a mod, that was later with permission taken by Owlcat and improved for the enhanced edition. During the development, there was almost an even split between devs preferring TB and RTwP, and RTwP barely won. So with the mod having laid some groundwork and it being extremely popular, it was easier to pitch the addition.

And yeah, I’m an old school RPG fan, I love TB. I actually stopped playing RPGs just before RTwP became popular with the Infinity Engine games, and only returned to them with NWN2.

decided to start with Kingmaker

Yeah, it was a good idea, as usual, for the reasons you mentioned. I just wanted to shill the successor a bit just so you won’t skip it because some things with PF:KM irked you ;)

(I’m playing on the recommended difficulty for someone new to the Pathfinder system)

You are smarter than 90% of people playing the game ;) It’s crazy, their games have super detailed difficulty settings, and presets with explanations. And yet people go, play on the brutal because they like Dark Souls and then complain it’s too hard. It’s like there’s some mental health pandemic with gamers. /rant

but you can pretty comfortably win against

Besides the difficulty, TB vs RTwP also influence this. I play on Core (actual setting in WotR, requires manual changes for KM, essentially as close to tabletop as possible; then some mods to bring it even closer to TT), but a lot of fights I could not do with RTwP, but they become far easier once I play the game in the way the system was designed.

Hey Google, use a picture of someone defending someone from someone angry ;)

Ohhh, one of my favorite all-time games, only surpassed by the successor.

So first off: Wrath of the Righteous is far more approachable. Better tooltips, better tutorial (including a dynamic one that pops up when relevant), better interface. Just in case you feel like more pathfinder. Note that the powerlevel is far higher in WotR because of mythic powers.

Right after the short tutorial, I went to pick up some berries in a spider-infested cave, which wasn’t too bad, just that the spiders have poison that reduce your stats. I

Fun story: This encounter was heavily nerfed (twice actually, once shortly after release, and then overhauled a few months later). It used to be mandatory and much more brutal :D It literally made some people stop playing :D

Consumable items to remove them exist, but for some reason, drinking a potion can fail. I guess your character just spills everything over the floor.

Hah :D So essentially the potion is a spell in a bottle. Wait, not essentially. That’s what it is. It has a caster level that depends on the creator of the potion. So with that caster level when drinking it, the spell casts Remove Curse against the DC of the curse. And that is what can fail.

After those two experiences, like an hour into the prologue or act 1, I was ready to get fucked at every turn

Sounds like you didn’t encounter the overleveled undead random encounter on the western side ;) Owlcat generally overhauled quite a lot of the encounters to remove difficulty spikes.

My only other gripe with the game is the Kingdom Management.

That is a very common complaint. I liked it, and the time pressure it added. Though only for the first few hundreds of hours (1283h played in total, and without beta testing), later I did what you did.

Went back to wishlist it. I played the demo, but it was pretty buggy. The "Very positive" is encouraging.

I’m a bit in a not-yet-released slump. "Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous" gets a new DLC in late November, so not playing that until then. The same company releases their new game "Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader" in December, so I’m not playing the Beta until then. "Vagrus - The Riven Realm" gets a new DLC some time this year, so also waiting there. "Colony Ship" gets out of EA and releases November 9, so obviously not playing EA either.

I had enough of BG3 for now (finished it only twice, it’s not as captivating as the Pathfinder games) and will only eventually replay it with one of those "make it like actual D&D5" modpacks. Regarding D&D5, I should some time check if there are updated fan campaigns for Solasta that use the higher DLC level cap :D

I did plan to replay Wasteland 2, but that will take quite some time, and as I mentioned, upcoming releases.

So after telling you what I have not been playing, what I currently do play is alternate between my typical fallback games: Stellaris (a game I never once finished despite 1080h of time played) and Civ V with the amazing and mandatory Vox Populi mod.