The "Might and Magic" and "Heroes of Might and Magic" games were a large part of my childhood. Personally, these games are the foundation to my understanding and expectations of anything in the fantasy genre.
I like Warhammer: Total War. However, I prefer the almost textbook archetypes/playable-civs in HOMM(1-3) over the dark and gritty palate of the Warhammer franchise. A new version of HOMM in the total war style would be amazing. Especially, if I had the option to doomstack Gremlins (https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hxKjBeVvro8/hqdefault.jpg).
If you liked HoMM, check out Songs of Conquest[0]. It captures the style and feel very very well, and I like it a lot. I pine for it a lot, as I don't really have much time to play these days.
I love homm so much and still play it from time to time and they are still so damn good. I really love how South Park has always used similar background music to set the mood lol
another one with big nostalgia feels in the same medieval fantasy vein from back then is Lord's of the Realm 2. I still hold a grudge to this day with that cold bitch, The Countess...
Every country. Lack of water in a river is usually correlated to lack of water in the other river close to it (a common cause could be very hot and dry season with no rain for instance)
Which technically should happen as soon as you transfer your floating cryptocurrency into a stablecoin, but I get the feeling that most people don't pay taxes when making that mind off transaction.
It does a good job laying out why TSDBs are used and some of the tricks they leverage to store this type of data. See the requirements for the service layed out in the paper:
• 2 billion unique time series identified by a string key.
• 700 million data points (time stamp and value) added
per minute.
• Store data for 26 hours.
• More than 40,000 queries per second at peak.
• Reads succeed in under one millisecond.
• Support time series with 15 second granularity (4 points
per minute per time series).
• Two in-memory, not co-located replicas (for disaster
recovery capacity).
• Always serve reads even when a single server crashes.
• Ability to quickly scan over all in memory data.
• Support at least 2x growth per year
Lots of organizations want to adopt an SRE/devops model and want a similar system. Also one thing you should know is that trying to accomplish this with traditional DBMS is usually possible but since it is not making specifically optimized trade offs it usually is more expensive and requires a lot of tuning/expertise.
Lots of organizations (even legacy companies) have a massive need for this kind of service. Also there are very cheap options out there than can handle the million metric use case for basically a <100$ a month is infra costs. The use case is definitely there and even if it's possible with traditional DBMS systems, it usually cheaper and more performant to use a dedicated TSDB.
It seems like this is a special case of project management software. If the existing products can't handle incidents then that software should be improved, not new software written. It's the best way to ensure that everybody on the team knows how to use the software when it's most urgently needed.
E.g. would you change your favorite editor to a different one, in case of an incident? Probably not. So why change project management systems?
While you certainly could cobble together incident response workflows in something like Jira, I think it makes more sense to extend the monitoring and paging tooling (in large part due to the reason you mention— familiarity with the tools that you're using as part of that response).
Did we watch a different presentation? ChatOps isn't new. What you're describing is what I would consider an antiquated practice. Nobody wants to go sniffing around a PM tool at 3AM in the morning.
For that figure to be true you would have to ignore the requirement that you maintain awareness and control of the vehicle at all times. Autopilot !== FSD. Your car did not "drive itself," you were in control of the car 100% of the time — at least I hope so...
In terms of workload, there is a huge difference between monitoring a system as opposed to hyper-focus and constant micro-adjustments for hours on end. The car stays in the lane as if on rails, passes other cars and takes exits. It also stops at traffic lights off highway and then continues as it turns green (if following a lead car).
I know what I paid for. And I am getting my money's worth given how much it has kept improving. The new FSD Beta looks even more promising. It's swiftly reaching the point where it is a question of liability and regulatory approval.
I see my FSD as watching a new driver about 18 years old. It's not amazing, it's a bit jerky, but watching an 18 year old drive vs having to drive is still a reduction in mental stress. It makes commutes bearable.
Only 1700 miles here (Portland<->Yellowstone). And straight up: this was the most relaxing and engaging road trip I've driven, anywhere, in any car, since I got my license in 1990. Standing up after a leg driven by the AP is just magic: no stiffness, no soreness. It's no different than if I'd been sitting in an office chair.
No, check that. My office chair frankly isn't as comfortable as the car.
A bit off topic: every car sheets are heavily underrated compared to other chairs. Even cheaper car sheets are very comfortable for various use compared to cheaper chairs. I wish there are more recycling market for car sheets.
I have a Lexus with lane-keeping assist and adaptive cruise, on a 9 hour trip on Canadian highways, I have had to disengage only when I am exiting the highway to make pit stop. Should Lexus market their "Full Self Driving" capability too?
I too use my adaptive cruise control on German Autobahn and barely touch any commands while on it, I'd say it covers 95% of my needs too (it's not Tesla). And I call it as it is, adaptive cruise control, not the FSD
Adaptive cruise control doesn't steer the car. That plus "Lane Keep Assist" is mostly what Tesla "Autopilot" does. "FSD" does a bit more right now but not nearly as much as has been promised.
This[1] part of the video really gives you the confidence to use AP for anything other than adaptive cruise control to you? Stopping a spot before is okay, but the abrupt stop, in the middle of two lanes, understanding the correct traffic light but then still creeping ahead...
Each and every modern car has a driving assistive system. It is vaporware since it is still no autonomous drive as touted for, but simply an assistance to the driver which requires his permanent attention.
I have been much more impressed with HUDs in common cars lately. Now that, although definitely not related to autonomous is a huge help to offset the cognitive load.
I've converted to electric for everything but the the snowblower is the only thing Ive considering switching back to gas.
To be fair my driveway is 100+ feet. I think this unit would be fine for a smaller driveway.