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Hi everyone,
I'm a Software Engineer with good experience, mostly focused on backend development with DevOps knowledge and a strong architectural background. I worked mainly in Java and Kotlin but I played also with others languages.
In your opinion, what would make sense to study to stay aligned with the evolution of the industry? Do you think studying Machine Learning, which is a completely different field, is worth the effort? Or maybe it would be better to focus on leveraging third-party AI services to enhance our projects?
My goal is to learn something interesting while at the same time not falling out of the market and risking having difficulties finding a new job if needed.
Please consider I don't have a lot of AI knowledge. I only used a couple of times OpenAI Apis for implementing some simple feature.
I found recently Harvard CS50AI but I'm not sure if I will jump in a field which is too distant from mine and if it worth the effort if I won't transition to ML Engineering. Or maybe I'm wrong and it could be helpful also in my daily work.
Could you please help me? As you see I'm quite confused :)
Thanks a lot!

Yesterday, I bought. Didn't do as well as I could have because it was before opening and took 5 hours to get back to the buy in. Then I added 40% more. 5k total. But, today, I added the last 5k. I'm all in, nothing more to rob Peter to pay Paul with. REALLY hoping that the last few days of projections and trajectory enthusiasm makes a HUGE difference and that the previous profit winners don't sell YET! We, those of us who just came to the party, need everyone before us to continue to hold the line and make that difference, which was the main goal.... hold, hold, hold.... TO THE MOON. Right?
I can't offer more, so, hoping with tightened grip, that this goes further than it did and has.

My husband is condescending, arrogant, invasive, a contrarian and a bully. I asked for a divorce last year and instead we go to marriage counseling. I was asked to alert him every time he says or does any of the above because he claims not to realize when he is doing it. He constantly makes fun of me or puts me down in public. Many of my friends have shown concern over this behavior. Alerting him of each offense does nothing as he seems not to learn from me pointing his behavior out. Yesterday he was describing his mother and called her a sociopath. I told him that every single thing he said about his mother is exactly as I would describe him. I asked him of he would think I thought he was a sociopath as well. He got offended and called me an AH. Then, I met a client at a social event and as we were discussing our business, my husband told my client that I had not read about their project yet. I looked at him with downright disdain. This morning, he played the victim when I told him he embarrassed me and told me it was my fault for not telling him that he wasn't supposed to say that, and for not pausing my conversation to point out he had done something wrong. Am I TAH for refusing to be my husband's keeper? Should I be?

I want make a custom front panel for my h5 elite as my school project, and I wanted to know what the measurements of the front panel is, because I'm going to 3d print it. Would it be possible if someone could tell me the thickness the length and the with of the frontpannel and what I would need to buy or print for it to hold?
https://preview.redd.it/729u0l9n8t0d1.png?width=509&format=png&auto=webp&s=519b3e3b9ecd4075ea91aaa39e7befc7eb013b4c
I will do something like that but with two spinning 'fans' not three
I had the idea from this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHRPS41m8eU&t=891s

So for context, I did a project for a teacher. This teacher likes to joke and sometimes the teacher makes fun of us and we make fun of the teacher. So for my project I drew a picture of him. I drew him with a big head and called him smart and he is semi bald by choice and the class calls him bald but he jokes about it and says he is not bald so I drew tiny hair lines and just called him not balled in the picture.
He definitely find it funny and wouldn’t really care. I’m pretty sure it’s not even a sin and probably not mortal but I just wanna make sure.

tldr; I know I can probably finish WGU in less than a year based on the CLEP and Sofia exams and if my university's and associates credits will transfer, but would WGU be helpful for someone like me whos just starting their career, because it seems like the vast majority of people enrolled are already knees deep in their career and are just doing WGU in order to move up to a new position.
My main concern is how helpful would WGU be (like their career services and student support) if I'm applying to entry level tech jobs just starting my career, or would I be better off finding a different way to get into tech like continuing to make personal coding projects to maybe make a business out of them/applying to WITCH company contractors like Accenture? (problem with WITCH companies is they also require a bachelors degree now)
It seems like having a bachelors degree is a bare minimum to be taken seriously by employers nowadays and projects are just for talking points in interviews to keep the conversation with the interviewer going for more than 10 minutes
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I'm in a tough spot. My current school I'm attending is called Grand Valley State University but I'm not having a good time because of their traditional 4 month semester like you have to be on pace with everyone else, I rather just get assignments done quicker or if I want to slow down and truly understand the material but if you were to do that at my school they would imply you're being inconsiderate and rude...
I just don't fit in with their traditional teaching model, I excelled at online learning but it seems like my local schools in general are doing away with online based learning and going back to a sit in a classroom setting because they're apparently paranoid with rampant cheating with ChatGPT and stuff so much that they're making everyone required to be in class and do everything on paper now. The only strength my school really has for me is the local connection to internships, that's pretty much it... All my friends graduated in 2021 so the socialization attraction of college left 3 years ago
I'm a non traditional student, meaning I'm not my state university's usual student who just graduated high school and are under 24, I been out of college since 2021 I just recently came back last year. The school is a 50 minute daily drive which is horrible, they do not offer convenient online classes, it's your typical brick and mortar sit in a classroom and listen to the lecture type school which has never worked out for me since like middle school. Then there are those professors who do flipped-classrooms where the professor does not teach, you and your classmates are teaching each other which is a horrible experience like how do you expect students to teach people stuff you don't know about
My school also does not offer semester-round for certain classes, so theres certain mandatory classes you have to take but it's only offered once a year so if you miss out on that class or if it becomes full and no one drops so you can't enroll, you'll have no way to take those classes, better luck next year. My school does not allow CLEP exams or competency exams to test out of classes either, their whole model is old school
This caused my graduation timeline to actually be late 2026 or ealy 2027 and there's no way in hell I want to wait that long, I rather graduate as soon as possible and get to the money now instead of having to wait like almost 4 years.
I graduated from an online community college with an associates in business technology management in 2021 but there's a problem with my state university, I have 82 credits and they classified me as a Junior but I'm basically a freshman because all of those credits are free electives, my credits basically weren't accepted because they're from out of state even though they're all business/CS related. I couldn't find a course transfer equivelancy page on WGU's website to show what specific classes will transfer from certain universities, does anyone have information about what credits can transfer without having to call WGU? (I don't want to get spam called by them)
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Hi. I'm a backend software engineer that is getting into entrepreneurship and I recently met and became founders with a designer and another engineer (frontend). We are trying to validate our idea with potential investors/early users and one of the tasks I've been taking is figuring out how much traffic/users our current MVP can handle, so we can have an estimate of how much to charge users and come up with sensible projections and such.
We came up with measuring what would it take to handle 1k, 100k and 1kk users, with what we built so far.
Our stack for the moment (internal MVP) is just a single EC2 with a domain pointing to it, and then internally i'm using nginx as a reverse proxy to point to the nodejs app. We also have an RDS for the database and we are using S3 to store user generated content. The network is a VPC with a CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16, two public subnets in different availability zones, and internet gateway associated with the VPC alongside a route table associated with the VPC and subnets and finally a security group allowing inbound and outbound traffic on the usual routes (443, 80 and 22)
The way i'm trying to load test the backend is by spinning up another ec2 in the same subnet, and using K6 with a "generic" flow of going through all API endpoints we expect an usual user to use within the app, and my original plan was to take note on CPU/RAM usage of both the EC2's and the RDS to see what was the breaking point, as i was increasing the virtual users in k6. However i noticed that increasing the backend EC2 size, the load generator EC2 was receiving EOF errors at nearly the same amount of VUs (around 400-600). I even tried getting the best EC2 class that had a similar name to the one we were using (we are using t2.micro for the MVP, i tried changing it to t2.xlarge).
Monitoring the RAM/CPU usage, except for the t2.micro, all the other classes were performing fine at the times the load generator ec2 started getting errors. Same for RDS. I tried looking at the application logs to see any obvious errors but i couldn't find logic errors anywhere (like db connection failing or things like that). This leaves me to believe the bottlenet is network related. Would that be a correct assumption?
Is there rate limiting on how much traffic a single EC2 can take from the network? Am I overlooking something at my approach? Does my plan make sense? I want to be able to tell what we'll need to handle 1kk users, for example, so I can make a sensible plan on scaling up when the time comes.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes, english is not my first language and if you've read this far, thanks for your time!

Hi. I'm a backend software engineer that is getting into entrepreneurship and I recently met and became founders with a designer and another engineer (frontend). We are trying to validate our idea with potential investors/early users and one of the tasks I've been taking is figuring out how much traffic/users our current MVP can handle, so we can have an estimate of how much to charge users and come up with sensible projections and such.
We came up with measuring what would it take to handle 1k, 100k and 1kk users, with what we built so far.
Our stack for the moment (internal MVP) is just a single EC2 with a domain pointing to it, and then internally i'm using nginx as a reverse proxy to point to the nodejs app. We also have an RDS for the database and we are using S3 to store user generated content. The network is a VPC with a CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16, two public subnets in different availability zones, and internet gateway associated with the VPC alongside a route table associated with the VPC and subnets and finally a security group allowing inbound and outbound traffic on the usual routes (443, 80 and 22)
The way i'm trying to load test the backend is by spinning up another ec2 in the same subnet, and using K6 with a "generic" flow of going through all API endpoints we expect an usual user to use within the app, and my original plan was to take note on CPU/RAM usage of both the EC2's and the RDS to see what was the breaking point, as i was increasing the virtual users in k6. However i noticed that increasing the backend EC2 size, the load generator EC2 was receiving EOF errors at nearly the same amount of VUs (around 400-600). I even tried getting the best EC2 class that had a similar name to the one we were using (we are using t2.micro for the MVP, i tried changing it to t2.xlarge).
Monitoring the RAM/CPU usage, except for the t2.micro, all the other classes were performing fine at the times the load generator ec2 started getting errors. Same for RDS. I tried looking at the application logs to see any obvious errors but i couldn't find logic errors anywhere (like db connection failing or things like that). This leaves me to believe the bottlenet is network related. Would that be a correct assumption?
Is there rate limiting on how much traffic a single EC2 can take from the network? Am I overlooking something at my approach? Does my plan make sense? I want to be able to tell what we'll need to handle 1kk users, for example, so I can make a sensible plan on scaling up when the time comes.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes, english is not my first language and if you've read this far, thanks for your time!

Hi. I'm a backend software engineer that is getting into entrepreneurship and I recently met and became founders with a designer and another engineer (frontend). We are trying to validate our idea with potential investors/early users and one of the tasks I've been taking is figuring out how much traffic/users our current MVP can handle, so we can have an estimate of how much to charge users and come up with sensible projections and such.
We came up with measuring what would it take to handle 1k, 100k and 1kk users, with what we built so far.
Our stack for the moment (internal MVP) is just a single EC2 with a domain pointing to it, and then internally i'm using nginx as a reverse proxy to point to the nodejs app. We also have an RDS for the database and we are using S3 to store user generated content. The network is a VPC with a CIDR block of 10.0.0.0/16, two public subnets in different availability zones, and internet gateway associated with the VPC alongside a route table associated with the VPC and subnets and finally a security group allowing inbound and outbound traffic on the usual routes (443, 80 and 22)
The way i'm trying to load test the backend is by spinning up another ec2 in the same subnet, and using K6 with a "generic" flow of going through all API endpoints we expect an usual user to use within the app, and my original plan was to take note on CPU/RAM usage of both the EC2's and the RDS to see what was the breaking point, as i was increasing the virtual users in k6. However i noticed that increasing the backend EC2 size, the load generator EC2 was receiving EOF errors at nearly the same amount of VUs (around 400-600). I even tried getting the best EC2 class that had a similar name to the one we were using (we are using t2.micro for the MVP, i tried changing it to t2.xlarge).
Monitoring the RAM/CPU usage, except for the t2.micro, all the other classes were performing fine at the times the load generator ec2 started getting errors. Same for RDS. I tried looking at the application logs to see any obvious errors but i couldn't find logic errors anywhere (like db connection failing or things like that). This leaves me to believe the bottlenet is network related. Would that be a correct assumption?
Is there rate limiting on how much traffic a single EC2 can take from the network? Am I overlooking something at my approach? Does my plan make sense? I want to be able to tell what we'll need to handle 1kk users, for example, so I can make a sensible plan on scaling up when the time comes.
Sorry for any grammar mistakes, english is not my first language and if you've read this far, thanks for your time!

Hello udiomusic
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There's been a lot of discussion about Udio's limitations, but I wanted to highlight its incredible potential. Udio can do much more than just music – it can even produce professional-quality narration!
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As a 24-year-old student dealing with severe depression and Lyme disease, completing my creative projects has been a significant challenge. However, Udio has been a game-changer for me.
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With the help of Udio, GPT-4, and Midjourney, I spent around 200 hours creating my first Gothic Alternative Metal album. Inspired by Lovecraftian themes and games like Darkest Dungeon, this project allowed me to bring my creative visions to life. Udio not only helped me compose and produce music despite my lack of formal training, but I also discovered it excels in narration, delivering a style reminiscent of Darkest Dungeon.
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I’m incredibly grateful for these advancements in AI that make achieving what once seemed impossible, possible. Udio, in particular, has been instrumental in helping me realize my musical ambitions.
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I’d love to hear about your experiences with Udio. How has it impacted your creative projects? What features or improvements would you like to see in the future?
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Best,
AscendedPigeon
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[Personally recommended topics to search]

• Project Astra
• Starline

[Highlights]

1. Gemini is now supporting 2M tokens

• 2. Project Astra (cell phone real-time multimodal assistant)
• 3. Gemini Flash (cheaper and faster multimodal 1M)
• 4. Veo (video creation)
• 5. 6th generation TPU (Trillium)
• 6. PaliGemma
• 7. Gemma 2
• 8. NotebookLM (aka. Tailwind)
• 9. MusicFX, VideoFX

[Personal Thoughts]

1. Google mentioned "Gemini" more often than "AI" this time.(Sundar Pichai mentioned AI 121 times.)
2. Google is focusing on integrating Gemini Multimodality across all areas, covering both recognition and generation of video, audio, and text.
3. Increasing Gemini's token size seems aimed at detailed personalized info and integrated services. This was clear in Project Astra with real-time Gemini Pro integration and Context Caching, which saves costs and speeds up processing. - Comparing Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT: - Both have significant multimodal achievements. OpenAI leads in generative capabilities, while Google excels in token range. OpenAI has better API integration, but Google is superior in on-device integration. - OpenAI's massive model has high reasoning abilities, but Google's strategy includes:

3-1. On-device capabilities (Nano in Android OS, circle image search on Samsung phones, PaliGemma). Google’s mobile OS and partnerships give it an edge.
3-2. Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Email, Photos). Examples include organizing receipts in Drive and Sheets or Google Photos creating albums based on specific moments, showing the large model’s business applications.
3-3. As a search engine company, Google is developing technology to verify data with search engine data to prevent hallucinations, giving it a competitive edge.

1. The realtime capability of the multimodal model was surprising. I used the Project Astra demo; multimodal audio recognition was accurate and real-time, with seamless interrupt handling. The process wasn’t in sync but handled with low latency, showing significant improvements in usability for voice interfaces and multimodal models.
   
2. The main takeaway from this I/O was that multimodal models can be responsive enough for actual products and are currently available.
   
3. Examples were provided of how Gemini can integrate into Chrome, Search, Android Mobile, and Google Workspace to enhance user convenience. ("Here's an example" was a common phrase.) Integrating these elements with multimodal capabilities could significantly change everyday life. I have a Gemini Office Hour with a Googler tomorrow, full of questions about Gemini’s multimodal latency. Until 2 PM during this event, I didn't hear keywords like TensorFlow/Jax, and there was little talk about the Cloud. Vertex AI was mentioned occasionally with Gemini, and the rest was about TPU 6th generation.
   
4. The core question was whether multimodal models could positively impact our lives. Even now, there are no significant use cases beyond chatbots. Who will make this a reality? This has been my interest, and at this I/O, I saw numerous examples. If Google had integrated chat and document apps, we’d spend most of our time with Gemini. For code, it seems to be entering with Project IDX, sharing portions of the IDE.
   

Hi! I just read GTD and I have started to implement the system. But once you start to implement it, it’s not as easy as it looks in the book 🤣 I'm facing some challenges so I think I will be asking some questions here in the following days. But for the moment, to maintain the topic clear, I don’t know what to do with continuous actions.
With continuous actions I mean those actions that don’t just start and finish, that are just meant to be done regularly, kind of like a habit. Or also the actions that are going to be repeated a lot for a certain time. Some examples on which I have found this problem.
I’m taking a medicine and I have to take it let’s say 3 times a day, for 1 month. Where would this fit? Just like a one big action? Or each time I have to take it would be an action?
I also like to take part in different monthly challenges. Usually to make one same action every day. I see that the challenge can fit easily in the project list, but which would be the action exactly?
And for example, I have made a calendar list for people birthdays, and now I have the “project” to add all the birthdays of people I know. But it’s not something I want to do now, it’s more like a thing that I want to be doing constantly for the rest of my life (as I know more people for example). Would this be a “project” and if so which would be the next action exactly? Or it would fit in another place?
For the moment, I have made a “context” list called constant actions. But I’m seeing that it’s something that it's going to be quite common and I don’t think it’s ever mentioned in the book.
Another example would be training, but for that I see that a verification system can work right. But not for the other ones.
Sorry for the long post, I wanted to make it as clear as possible. I’d like to know how do you manage this kind of situations. Thanks in advance for the help!

Good day everyone. I have been a real estate developer for the past decade based in NY, and recently decided to step into the software side. We are developing a software product that will make your work more efficient, and reduce time on some commonly tedious tasks. I am looking to speak to architects, engineers, or developers that design projects in 3D, and are based in the USA preferably, but open to outside if you are interested.
I have just a couple simple questions to ask, and in exchange for your time and generosity, I will add you to the list for beta access once we release the software. Thanks in advance.

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Reddit Account: FromTheInkpot
Discord Tag: jayonline
Name and House: Tessario of Lys
Age: 28
Cultural Group: Valyrian
Appearance: Taller than the average man, with slender and effeminate features. His skin is pale, his hair consists of curled white locks and his eyes are a vivid lilac. He favours black leathers with silver accents, and often adds coloured silks as sashes, belts, or capes. On the middle finger of his left hand he wears a signet ring of black steel and gold, used to seal letters from the Pearl Bank.
Trait: Marketer
Skill(s): Avaricious (e), Merchantman (e), Broker
Talent(s): Linguistics, Arithmetic, Reading People
Negative Trait(s): Sociopath (non-mechanical)
Starting Title(s): Keyholder of the Pearl Bank, Heir to the blood of Altaerys (secret)
Starting Location: Opening Event
Alternate Characters: N/A
Bio:
Born in the year 4BC, Tessario was the son of a Lyseni courtesan and a nobleman of the Old Blood who had left for the Black Walls of Volantis before he even knew of the child.
Growing up in Lys, Tessario was raised by his mother in a small manse where she would teach him lessons learnt from the courts of the free city.
Since his mother first spoke to him tales of Valyria and dragon riders, Tessario was enthralled.
His bloodline was of the forty families, from one of the few dragonlords on Lys during the 'Night of Tears', when the dragonlords had been poisoned and their dragons slain by their very hosts - the magisters. That the dragon rider had been his ancestor was his family's deepest secret and one that could have seen them killed in generations past.
The knowledge that the dragon riders of old were his very ancestors was almost too much for the young boy to keep secret. Especially now, when dragons had waged conquest on Westeros' shores so recently. But while the Targaryen's were said to wed brother to sister to keep their bond with the dragons strong, his family had not had a dragon rider in five generations. Since then his family's bloodline - the house of Altaerys, thought lost in the Doom of Valyria and the Century of Blood since, had become clouded with the Old Blood of Volantis during their occupation of Lys. And before that, diluted among the courts of Lys the Lovely, where none truly knew or at least none spoke of how much dragon blood they had. It was clear most of Lys had some. The features of silver-blond or white hair and the eyes of pale blue or shades of purple were all too common. The city was truly Valyrian. Who knew how many dragonlords' legacies his blood carried now?
Tessario, with his pure Valyrian blood and features to match, had the fiery will of his ancestors but an uncommonly pragmatic mind. As he grew, so did his keen mind, picking up his numbers and letters faster than other boys his age.
Raised in the turbulence of a city still reeling from the uprising against Volantis, Tessario learnt how violent people could be at a young age. Surrounded by the cruelties of slavery, he grew up numbed to the hardships of others.
By nine name-days he would begin visiting the Temple of Trade where he and other boys would talk with the magisters and tradesmen who congregated there. From among these wealthy and noble men of the city, he and a lucky few others, would gain apprenticeships; a position that was highly coveted in the city of Lys, where trade was considered a profession more honorable than arms.
Tessario shadowed his sponsor for three years, learning the inner workings of trade negotiations, currency exchange, and contract creation. He met several other apprentices who like him hungered for more, as well as making friends among the less prominent families of Lys all too keen to climb the social ladder. So, when his apprenticeship was over they formed a merchantile group of ambitious youths. Tessario and the others began with insurance cons and profitable arbitrage that filled their pockets and funded bigger schemes.
The war in the Stepstones came as a wondrous opportunity for the newly founded group. The members invested heavily, with some overseeing the battles themselves. Luckily the Lysene forces met up with not only those of Tyrosh, but also ships from Dorne and the Stormlands. Tessario wore armour for the first time as he sailed sellswords to the fighting, though did no more than watch in actuality. War made them rich and for the first time in his life Tessario knew what it was to wield true power. The power to make others die for your ends.
The pirate threat crumbled easily, but the true prizes were had after the fighting. Contracts for trade opened up and new ports to invest in saw the merchantile group grow faster than ever before. They hired lingering hedge knights and sellswords to protect their assets and even convinced some of the former pirate vessels to become corsairs under them.
As the Stepstones begin to flourish, the group started to look further afield for other trade routes. In 18AC, just as Dorne began to invest heavily in Sunstone, Tessario sailed to Driftmark as one of three emissaries of their group tasked with finding new avenues for profit. It was while on this mission that Tessario first met Valarr Velaryon, Lord of the Tides. Seeking a base of operations outside of Lys, Tessario negotiated plans for a bank to be built in Spicetown, profiting from the flow of trade.
Tessario broached the concept to the group telling them of the pearls found by fishermen in the pools of the island's coves and a contract for the Pearl Bank was drawn up. Tessario, as one of the two-and-twenty key holders, was now responsible for much.
Construction began in late 19AC with a main building that was reinforced with strong stone and deep vaults. Pearl farms under the control of the bank were also created, with construction of the entire project finishing before the end of 24AC. During this time the bank engaged in numerous amounts of trade, amassing a full vault, as well as funding loans to the many growing businesses of Spicetown, merchants of the free cities, and other Houses of Westeros. This includes House Massey of Stonedance, House Celtigar of Claw Isle, and many other minor houses.
Timeline:

• 4BC - Tessario is born in a Lysene manse.
• 6AC - Begins a trade apprenticeship for three years.
• 9AC - Forms a merchantile group in Lys.
• 12AC - Funds the war in the Stepstones.
• 13AC - War in the Stepstones ends.
• 18AC - Visits Driftmark as an emissary, meeting Valarr Velaryon.
• 19AC - The Pearl Bank begins construction.
• 24AC - Construction is completed.
• 25AC - Current day.

Family tree:
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AC
Name and House: Somovo Saan
Age: 21
Cultural Group: Valyrian
Appearance: Piercing blue eyes shine out from dark features. Somovo has a lean build and freckled face from years of sailing the Narrow and Summer Seas. Her skin is dark and her hair falls in long brown curls down past her shoulders, the occasional braid holding beads of copper. She often wears loose shirts and wide breeches that allow her skin to breathe the salty air of the sea, while sticking to practical leather boots for moving about the deck.
She has a slender black cat named Sȳndor 'shadow' that lives on deck and prowls the bank offices while on shore.
Trait: Reaver
Skill(s): Raider, Fence, Tactician
Talent(s): Winning at Tiles, Tying knots, Swimming
Negative Trait(s): N/A
Starting Title(s): Captain of the Spice Runner
Starting Location: Opening Event
Alternate Characters: N/A
Timeline:

• 4AC - Somovo Saan is born in Lys.
• 9AC - Somovo's father, Sarthos Saan, takes her on her first voyage to Tyrosh.
• 12AC - Her father leaves to fight for the pirates in the Stepstones war.
• 13AC - After the pirates defeat in the Steptones, her father is hired by a group of merchants from Lys. Somovo meets Tessario, one of the groups founders.
• 18AC - Meets the sellsail Captain Laurei of Myr who becomes an inspiration for her to become a Captain of her own ship.
• 19AC - When the Pearl Bank begins construction on Driftmark, Somovo is on deck with her father and they patrol the Narrow Sea together, guarding trading vessels and seeking opportunities for their new employer.
• 21AC - Somovo is given command of her own ship and crew, becoming Captain of The Spice Runner, named after Spicetown.
• 22AC - Her father's ship is lost at sea during a storm near Volantis. The corsairs previously under Sarthos turn to her for leadership by virtue of her blood.
• 24AC - Construction of The Pearl Bank is completed on Driftmark.
• 25AC - Current day.

NPCs
Morio (30) - Cutthroat
Every man of ambition needs a ruthless and silent right hand.
Ser Thomas Storm (27) - Warrior
Knighted by Ser Edwell Celtigar in the Stepstones and knowing he would gain no further gold or glory, he joined the merchantile group from Lys to train their retainers and act as Captain of the Guard to Tessario.
Since then he notably won the joust at the Tourney at Aegon's Rest in 21AC.

is colt steele web dev course is enough to get a job or make good projects? if not what should i supplement with that?and those who have completed it what would be the best way to do it so that i gain maximum outcome.?

Hey Everyone! I've been asked to crochet a Harry Potter scarf by a friend but I'm still quite new to crochet (especially wearables) so not sure of a few things. The scarf itself is quite basic, its just blocking colours which I'm fine with, but I've still had a look for some free patterns.
The patterns I've found all seem to say use Medium Worsted / Aran Yarn with a 5mm hook - will this be OK? Most other scarf patterns I've seen called for Chunky / Bulky (I assume so it works up faster?).
I've only really used Acrylic Yarn so far - would Wool, an Acrylic + Wool Mix, or something else be better for a scarf project?
They've also asked if I can embellish their initials into the scarf - this seems straight forward enough using pattern creators (like Stitch Fiddle) to figure out where to do the colour changes but it's not something I've ever done before. The scarf patterns I've found use DC stitches rather than SC (I assume to make it loosehave a better drape?) - will this mess up the initials or make it look wrong/weird? Would I have to do C2C to make this work?
Sorry for all the questions - any advice / guidance is greatly appreciated! Thank you!!

Ok, I don't have enough time to fully talk about this, but I just had an idea about Caine's origin, which I will entirely hold onto until proven otherwise. But, so that I don't forget about it, I'm posting it on here.
So, I ultimately think that, when we do see Caine's origin, it will be a direct modern parallel to the Cain and Abel story, as I feel like that in of itself could have so much potential - with Caine and his brother "Abil" being the owners and faces of a company who, in the 90s, decides to create a revolutionary form of digital reality that would become the Circus as we know it.
Caine would be in charge if growing and programming it like a farmer growing his crops, meanwhile Abil would be in charge of leading the company like a shepard leading a flock. However, as a result of this arrangement, Abil would receive much of the praise and credit from the board of directors.
So, out of jealousy and for not being given any of the credit, Caine would confront Abil and ultimately kill him after a dispute. However, in an attempt to cover it up, the Board of Directors would forcibly trap Caine inside of his own creation, then shutting down the project and, from then on, using the Amazing Digital Circus as a place where they'd trap unsavory employees or people against the company, meanwhile Caine and Abil were declared as accidental deaths with their younger brother Seth later being appointed as the new face of the company by the board, much like how Seth in Abrahamic Faith was suspected of being sent by God as a replacement for Abel.
(For those who don't know, in Abrahamic faith, Seth is the third son of Adam and Eve and was suspected by Eve as being a replacement for Abel sent by God)
It'd make sense for Pomni to have been part of the company at some point, given her reaction to seeing the desk with a computer while running through where the exit door lead. Also, given Caine's expertise in programming and power within the realm, it would make sense if he atleast lead in creating it. Plus, in the pilot, at one point we see the company logo for "C & A", which could very well stand for Caine and Abel (or Abil), which could hint at not just Abel's existence but also that Caine could have at one point been in charge of the company that created the Digital Circus. This would also help explain Cain's fixation of being seen like a ringmastegod (I mean, he literally constructed a world where he's worshipped in episode 2), him trying to compensate for how little praise he was given before killing Abil and being trapped in the Digital Circus.
But tell me, what are your thoughts?
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As someone who is a big fan of Indie animation and indie games, I would love to see more of that in Fortnite! We got Guild Guy, and goat simulator. Both collabs being enjoyable. But imagine the Star Wars event we just got, but with Five Nights At Freddys, and have it happen at the start of October, that way it can transition perfectly into Fortnightmares! Or imagine The Amazing Digital Circus! The Amazing Digital Circus has grown so much in popularity, to the point that it has lots of merchandise, a pop up store in Japan (which has a huge statue of Pomni), and I hear that you can start to find it’s merch in Hot Topics now! Having a collab like that would not just be fun, but also refreshing! It’s a collab that’s very different and can bring interesting content to the game! Also, there are plenty of indie horror games out there that would also work for Fortnightmares! Like Bendy, and Poppy Playtime! There’s many of Indie projects out there than the ones I just listed off, and they would make for such fun additions to the game.
Feel free to leave a comment on what indie projects you all would love to see in the game!