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b4je7d7wb commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch   dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
izzydata · 3 years ago
I have found over the last 5 years that it is impossible for me to take online multiplayer gaming serious in any capacity anymore. Cheating has become so rampant and so ubiquitous that I have no confidence in any online gaming match to be cheater free. If people are cheating then what am I even playing for? It's only fun for me when I know there is some semblance of integrity between the players, but nobody else seems to care. I don't even particularly care about being good or winning. You wouldn't cheat at tic tac toe despite the inherently low stakes of the game so it doesn't seem any different in any other video game.

I also have no trust in any sort of gaming related records of feats of ability. I've been deeply involved with gaming communities in the past where people would show off their world records. I would question such scores only to be flamed and then years later it is discovered they were cheating after all.

Really my only point is that I despise cheaters and any game that isn't single player or only between friends may as well not exist for me anymore.

b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
These cheats Valve banned for only give a small edge. Much less than the variance in skill between players. It's more like turning graphics low for better fps than an aimbot. If you don't care about being good or winning, you can just consider the cheaters to be better skilled players and be unaffected by them.

I enjoy cs go, and I can't recognize a difference with good aim and aimbot. So there is no difference with a cheater or a smurf for me.

b4je7d7wb commented on Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them   fortune.com/2023/02/15/tr... · Posted by u/jwond
gtmitchell · 3 years ago
Because, to first approximation, this is true. Every organization, every person has their own biases and agenda. I'm not sure why Americans believe that objectivity in news reporting is even possible. Other countries don't seem to have as much of an issue with this, since you typically have news sources that are either owned directly by the government or are published by political parties.
b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
This is still very much an issue in many countries with government owned "nonprofit" media. Even in countries with low amount of corruption and high freedom of press.
b4je7d7wb commented on ‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’   twitter.com/jsrailton/sta... · Posted by u/rzk
throwaway13337 · 3 years ago
Isn't this a weakness in all SMS based verification?

If you can reroute SMS auth codes, it's game over.

It's too bad that most 2FA rely on this method (or use it as a fallback).

I don't see how it is directly related to telegram, though.

b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
How can you not see how bad security practise of Telegram is not directly related to Telegram?

Do not let sms 2fa slide for anyone.

b4je7d7wb commented on I've been told (many times) that “the good employees never get laid off”   twitter.com/d_feldman/sta... · Posted by u/mooreds
version_five · 3 years ago
Well yes, performance is always relative to comp. The expectations for someone making 400k per year are higher than for someone making 100k. If you're not living up to the expected value for someone making your comp, you're underperforming.
b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
Fair enough. Maybe that's the reason "good employees" get laid off. They are good from a coworkers perspective, but just not good enough for their pay. (assuming all measurements were meaningful and objective)
b4je7d7wb commented on I've been told (many times) that “the good employees never get laid off”   twitter.com/d_feldman/sta... · Posted by u/mooreds
version_five · 3 years ago
I believe it. Obviously there are exceptions, when a whole function is dropped for example. And the biggest caveat is that "low performer" in the eyes of a company is does not equate to any kind of objective judgement about a person's intelligence or competency, it's heavily situation dependent.

That aside, it's common sense that the people laid off are skewed towards those that the company doesn't want, so people at the bottom of what the company defines as performance. Companies don't just arbitrarily dump those who are making great contribution to what the company considers important, whatever they may tell you

b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
Layoffs are to save money. Many companies will rather layoff 1 person making above market rate than 2 making below market rate. Performance is obviously a factor, but not the only one.

If you have aggressively negotiated your cash compensation very high based on high performance during an economic boom you are at a high risk of getting laid off when the economy turns around. Imagine a graph with performance and compensation as axises, anyone below some slope is a layoff candidate.

b4je7d7wb commented on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry   efinancialcareers.com/new... · Posted by u/mustache_kimono
userbinator · 3 years ago
you're completely misreading it

Re-read your original description again. Nowhere did you say you had to work 16h a day.

b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
It is implied by not allowing to work from home. There wouldn't be a need to work from home if it was a 9-5 job.
b4je7d7wb commented on The future (and the past) of the web is server side rendering   deno.com/blog/the-future-... · Posted by u/lambtron
berkle4455 · 3 years ago
What sort of slow backends do you work with? My PHP htmx application responds in ~30ms including network transmit. Even if you’re across an ocean it’s maybe 300ms.
b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
300ms feedback on user action is unacceptable. But I read another comment saying there can be loading indicators so in that case its fine.
b4je7d7wb commented on Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress   bay12forums.com/smf/index... · Posted by u/sph
izzydata · 3 years ago
What are they going to do next? Perhaps they will start a studio, hire some more people and work on some new endeavors with this money?
b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
I think they will just keep working on df the way they have so far for another 20 years before retiring.
b4je7d7wb commented on We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction   aljazeera.com/opinions/20... · Posted by u/firstSpeaker
mavhc · 3 years ago
Descend into a planet of billions of migrants, mass famine, ultra right wing governments, while the population drops by billions
b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
Oh no, not the right wing governments.
b4je7d7wb commented on Japanese explained to programmers   lajili.com/posts/post-1/... · Posted by u/iraldir
hsn915 · 3 years ago
ChatGPT's response is full of BS.

青い魚 is あおいさかな NOT あおいう お

The middle character has nothing to do with the verb to be; it's an adjective suffix.

青い魚 is literally "blue fish". It's not a full sentence.

b4je7d7wb · 3 years ago
It's so weird. I know Japanese and I know chatGPT mostly confidently wrong. But still I wanted to believe it and give it the benefit of the doubt. I was wondering if fish had another pronounciation in addition to sakana.

u/b4je7d7wb

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