u/Zealousideal-Mouse29

I am guessing that all the providers move you to an expensive month to month plan when your initial contract expires. I noticed my bill has been quite high despite using less than 1000 kwh, so I started looking at prices in the bill.

It seems many providers are offering rates at HALF of what I am paying. I tried to switch by calling one of them and was shocked that they want my SSN, a picture of myself, and a picture of my government ID, to send to third party private company Persona, who has been all over the news about things I won't even get into.

I've been an existing electricity customer for 8 years at this location with my past provider. I understand they want to prevent fraud. I am happy to send them my past bills, bills with my name and address on it, etc. I have an existing ESID as well.

However, I really take issue having to hand over all my sensitive personal data to every company I want to do business with now, who in turn admit they are handing it over to a bunch of private companies to sit in their databases for who knows how long, then immediately be presented with terms and conditions that say they are not liable for nearly anything at all, and a forced arbitration agreement.

I guess I am stuck with this provider forever.... or until laws change protecting our personal information from being traded back and forth to private companies, if that ever happens?

Has anyone changed providers recently to someone accredited by the BBB without having to hand over SSN, government id, and selfy pictures or are we at the point now that we can't even perform basic transactions for essential services anymore without putting our sensitive personal data at risk with no recourse?

Mine did really well this year until about mid July. Usually, they last until mid August, but the rains were frequent in June. Made a video about it, pests and disease, how I cook with them, and saving seeds, if you are interested: https://youtu.be/eesET_ubE8Q?si=kZ6fehf3egDRE3aQ

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I am at high rank killing all the monsters in the game again. I can do HR Jaga, Pukei, Barroth, Jyur, but die to HR Tobi and the HR Anja.

I am wearing all HR pukei armor, all armor maxes with spheres, and using charge blade Elite Commision Axe 1.

I found the two charm boosts to put in my inventory, I am using the boosts from food before I go, and food in the field, I am also jumping on backs and doing the things.

Still a little unclear on how to use meats, pitfall traps, barrels, and how to run monsters into walls.

Any other advise?

Is there a progression you have in mind, like do monster X, get resists to Y, and then do monster Z? Looks like I am resist to water, but suck at thunder which is why Tobi eats my face. If I get the Barroth armor I can do Tobi maybe, and then... welll the armor menu doesn't show you things until you get them I guess.

I am in an argument. The goal was to have a structure with some base members, we can call it a `State node` in State machine, from which the user can add their own custom data on top, without using inheritance or dynamic casts. Would like the collection of different nodes to be stored in a vector in the end.

Obviously, we want to avoid std::vector<SomeType *>

It was suggested I use something like:

class State;
using TransitionHandler = void(*)(State *, const Event &);

template<typename T>
concept StateLike = requires(T s, const Event & e)
{
    { s.onEnter(e) } -> std::same_as<void>;
    { s.onExit(e) }  -> std::same_as<void>;
};

class State final
{
public:
    using StateId = uint32_t;
    StateId id_ = INVALID_ID;
    std::string name_;

    template<typename T>
    requires StateLike<T>
    static State create(std::string name, T & object)
    {
        return State
        {
            name,
            &object,
            [](State * state, const Event & e)
            {
                static_cast<T*>(state->instance_)->onEnter(e);
            },
            [](State * state, const Event & e) 
            {
                static_cast<T*>(state->instance_)->onExit(e);
            }
        };
    }

private:
    static constexpr StateId INVALID_ID = static_cast<StateId>(-1);
    void * instance_;                // user defined state

    State(std::string name, void * instance, TransitionHandler enter, TransitionHandler exit);
};

Now, if I understand things correctly, this will indeed allow the user to provide some custom struct/class as a template param when they create a State object and that State object is going to hold a pointer to it. When it is needed, it is going to call the `enter` and `exit` methods through that static cast.

That should indeed allow us to fill a vector with these State objects and circumvent the need for inheritance, but I wonder if it really performs any better. The collection is in contiguous memory when in the vector, so add, remove, and traversal should be fast. However, all the execution of calls on the State object is going to go through the pointer, which means executing methods on a State will not be part of that performance gain from living in contiguous memory.

Assuming I am always holding on to the current state(s) and that we build the state machine with all its states at startup, what have I really gained? Is there any performance increase at all?

I believe we just replaced the vtable cost with our own pointer, which is pretty much the same?

I was looking at getting a minipc, because they advertise lower power consumption. What I am looking for is something I can run completely isolated from my main computers, to run a small business website I made myself. I'd rather host it on-prem then have an open ended bill for cloud hosting, plus I can tinker with it.

I expect less than a dozen visitors a day and would have a cloudflare tunnel linux docker image running with a small database docker image. I doubt I need much processing at all and can probably get away with a few gigs of ram and no video hardware. I do need a TB of space for images though.

I don't know much about the market, but I imagine buying something off of Amazon comes with no warranty past 30 days. I hear beelink SER line is good, but none of the makers are going to be selling anything other than the most recent CPU and memory configs. I need much less power and don't want to pay $800. I am hoping to get away with 300-400.

Any suggestions on where to look? Anyone running a setup like that?

I am playing the frostbite scenario. I've gotten all the way to the bottom.

&gt;!
>!The forklift won't allow the landing gear to lock on the containers. I assume this is because the safe zone if in effect. I went back up, repaired batteries by the reactor so the button panels came on. I then disabled cooling, raised the arm, and upped the reactor output, which made it blow up. I thought that was supposed to disable all safe zones.!<

>!I went back down, and the safe zone is still in effect by that blast door and the research area, so I still can't use the landing gear on the forklift to attach to the containers.!<

>!I don' see any way into the upper floor of the research area where the restrooms and security sign is, but am not even sure if the scenario is glitched at this point.!<

>!I watched video of others doing the scenario and the safe zone was down at the bottom after the reactor blew and the turrets were attacking them. The turrets don't attack me.!<

>!Am I missing something or is the scenario glitched?!<

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