NostraDavid

I just dug a little deeper. Looks like the site is 95% George Whittaker since April 2023, which is a month after GPT-4 was released.

The site literally turned into AI slop since then. Good job, Slashdot. /s

Presuming you can’t get a game on GoG (which is European), check if the game is still from Europe.

Bit of a compromise, but this is for the people who can’t give up on Steam.

FFS, you could just have run gzip on it probably.

Gzip doesn’t reduce your data’s size by 2000x. Of course this could be done by other languages as well, but running gzip on your data doesn’t keep it accessible.

Even turning the data into a Parquet file would’ve been a massive improvement, while keeping it accessible, but it likely would not have been 2000x smaller. 10x, maybe.

edit: zip: about 10x; 7zip about 166x (from ~10GB to 60MB) - still not 2000x

Formatted:

Last Name,First Name,Display Name,Email Address
Aimonetti,Justin,Aimonetti, Justin W.,Justin.W.Aimonetti@doge.eop.gov
Atik,Jacob,Atik, Jacob R.,Jacob.R.Atik@doge.eop.gov
Armstrong,Anthony,Armstrong, Anthony J.,Anthony.J.Armstrong@doge.eop.gov
Balajadia,Jennifer,Balajadia, Jennifer,Jennifer.Balajadia@doge.eop.gov
Beynon,Alexandra,Beynon, Alexandra T.,Alexandra.T.Beynon@doge.eop.gov
Biasini,Riccardo,Biasini, Riccardo N.,Riccardo.N.Biasini@doge.eop.gov
Bobba,Akash,Bobba, Akash N.,Akash.N.Bobba@doge.eop.gov
Boizelle,Ashley,Boizelle, Ashley S.,Ashley.S.Boizelle@doge.eop.gov
Bryant,Emily,Bryant, Emily L.,Emily.L.Bryant@doge.eop.gov
Burnham,James,Burnham, James,James.Burnham@doge.eop.gov
Coristine,Edward,Coristine, Edward H.,Edward.H.Coristine@doge.eop.gov
Davis,Steven,Davis, Steven M.,Steven.M.Davis@doge.eop.gov
Elez,Marko,Elez, Marko,Marko.Elez@doge.eop.gov
Farritor,Luke,Farritor, Luke E.,Luke.E.Farritor@doge.eop.gov
Fox,Joshua,Fox, Joshua,Joshua.Fox@doge.eop.gov
Hanley,Joshua,Hanley, Joshua A.,Joshua.A.Hanley@doge.eop.gov
Holmes,Stephanie,Holmes, Stephanie M.,Stephanie.M.Holmes@doge.eop.gov
Killian,Gautier,Killian, Gautier C.,Gautier.C.Killian@doge.eop.gov
Kmiec,Keenan,Kmiec, Keenan D.,Keenan.D.Kmiec@doge.eop.gov
Lahera,Nicholas,Lahera, Nicholas,Nicholas.Lahera@doge.eop.gov
Lindemann,Kendall,Lindemann, Kendall M.,Kendall.M.Lindemann@doge.eop.gov
Musk,Elon,Musk, Elon R.,em7m@who.eop.gov
Peters,Noah,Peters, Noah,Noah.Peters@doge.eop.gov
Rajpal,Nikhil,Rajpal, Nikhil,Nikhil.Rajpal@doge.eop.gov
Ramada,Adam,Ramada, Adam,Adam.Ramada@doge.eop.gov
Raynor,Austin,Raynor, Austin L.,Austin.L.Raynor@doge.eop.gov
Schutt,Kyle,Schutt, Kyle L.,Kyle.L.Schutt@doge.eop.gov
Shaotran,Ethan,Shaotran, Ethan,Ethan.Shaotran@doge.eop.gov
Smith,Brad,Smith, Brad M.,Brad.M.Smith@doge.eop.gov
Stanley,Christopher,Stanley, Christopher,Christopher.Stanley@doge.eop.gov
Wick,Jordan,Wick, Jordan M.,Jordan.M.Wick@doge.eop.gov
Wiles,Susan,Wiles, Susan S.,Susan.S.Wiles@doge.eop.gov
Young,Christopher,Young, Christopher J.,Christopher.J.Young@doge.eop.gov

Now? That shit has been going on since the 90s. My native population has plateaued since 1990. The only reason the population grew was due to immigrants.

Same goes for America where a LOT of the populations got fewer and fewer kids since the 90s.

In case you want to see some (not all) faces:

http://12ft.io/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/doge-staff-list.html

edit: direct link: https://12ft.io/api/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Finteractive%2F2025%2F02%2F27%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fdoge-staff-list.html

Until you use exit codes, which flips the logic.

Multiple ones.

• Wave Function Collapse for an existing tileset (Warcraft 2) - it’s really hard to figure out how to build the data on whether a tile fits on a certain side of another tile. From the top of my head: Some 180 tiles total * 4 sides to compare * 180 options per side = 129_600 total checks I would need to do, which is just wayyy too much. Need to figure out how to reduce these checks (or automate them using OpenCV or something - not sure yet)
• Comparing dual datasets of people who worked on certain games (the games being all Warcraft games), so I can see who worked on Game A, who on Game B, and who on both. Am currently (manually) cleaning up the data, because Blizzard has been very inconsistent in how they structure their credits. At least WoW had everything available in HTML - having to manually copy over 600+ people would be no fun (per expansion).
• A cryptocoin predictor for my friends and I. One part ingestion from an API into a Postgres DB, one part Streamlit + some stats / data science stuff that I’m very much a beginner in. The platform we’re on doesn’t provide much predictive power. Using the typical Simple Moving Averages and the like simply doesn’t predict clearly enough, IMO.

Oh, and I’m also setting up a private ProxMox server, over at a friends house, and need to connect that to the NAS over at my house, so we can copy over our data for redundancy/backup purposes.

I’m bouncing between these projects.

How is Nifi? I’ve seen it pass by at work, as a generic ingestion application, but for most ingestions we’re using custom-written Python for better flexibility.

I’ve never worked with it, but it looked pretty daunting (as an initial view).

I dont know… This Linux thing is pretty great, IMO.

I get their point, but it feels like it’s more about tech being abused by large corporations, trying to squeeze another cent out of you.

Summary: 3k hours into World of Warcraft, Retail + WotLK private server.

I’ve been playing vidya since… 1992? Classic Monochrome-green machine to play CalGames on.

Ever since then, my limit for a game tended to be about 100 hours. I got 500 hours into Clicker Heroes, sure, but that game was made to be run in the background, so that doesn’t really count.

It was not until I found World of Warcraft where I slowly pumped hour after hour into its massive world. I found it somewhere in 2021 - near the end of BFA. The Shadowlands beta was out, is when I started. OK sure, I played a few hours at a classmate’s house back in 2005, but I don’t feel that counts. Anyway, I found that there was a F2P version where I could freely try out most classes, quite a few races, and a ton of quests.

I’ve walked everywhere (I even tracked where I’ve been in a massive image of the worldmap for about 500 hours-ish?), I walked because the mounts weren’t available for F2P yet, did all the quests I could, tried every race (which includes the starter zones), every class available (had an excel where I planned it all out).

I ended up with 1000 hours. 500 for my main (Human Paladin - been wanting to play that since Warcraft 2), and another 500 spread out over my 40 or so alts. Ever since I’ve been coming back, because with each expansion release, a little bit more content becomes available, so I racked up another 500 hours there.

In the meantime, WotLK Classic was going to release, but my income was still shit, so I found Warmane, a non-Blizzard server. You could level 7x as fast, which I did a few times, simply to learn the difference between “Classic” and “Retail”.

Then it hit me. I want the Loremaster title. That meant doing a little over 3000 quests (about 99.99% of all quests in the game). But 7x made me level too fast. Luckily for me, there was a 0.5x XP option. So that’s how I grinded. I did every starter zone, every regular zone, every dungeon (I was typically the “overgeared” guy of the group, since the rest was rushing through). I had fun!

That grind took me 1000 hours total. Plus another 500 for all the alts before that.

I’m pretty sure I played over 3000 hours total.

Oh, and I ended up getting my Loremaster title, as well as the World Explorer Tabbard (because I’ve been everywhere).

My favourite places to run around was 100% the old world. Black Rock Depths just has an atmosphere that’s completely missing from TBC onwards :(

I’ve been thinking of playing TurtleWoW, but not sure if I can survive the Vanilla client - the WotLK one was already pretty rough 😂