Everyone I work with who uses LLMs more than a little bit hasn’t gotten better at coding. They’ve just made bad code faster, with even less understanding.
It’s something like a catch-22. The people smart enough to use them effectively don’t need to. The people who aren’t smart enough will misuse them.
I feel like anti vaxxers in position of authority should be criminally liable. That’s a lot of sickened people for nothing.
True. Having some reasonable photos and sending a good first message helps with that. Ask your friends of your desired gender to look at your profile. (If you have no such friends, maybe work on that, too.)
Some people just write “hey” and that’s a really poor strategy. Write something that plays off their profile.
Also don’t spend too long chatting on the app. Initial exchange, like 1-3 more volleys, clear any deal breakers, ask them out. You want to get in person so all the normal human things like body language work for you, and the siren song of new matches is somewhat muted.
I guess I’m an elder millennial now. Got the greying hair and all.
I had pretty good success on the dating apps without paying. Location is a big factor. But also, as the saying goes, “the bar for men is in hell”. I think just having a reasonable conversation and caring about her put me a tier above the average.
Of course, the apps are profit seeking machines that don’t especially want you to be happy. They can work, but they’re not trying to.
I’m pretty sure the apps algorithm didn’t think I’d click with my partner. It feels very much “pretty close”, like they wanted me to have a few dates and move on. But to everyone’s surprise we really got on, despite things that superficially looked incompatible.
Prices are up. Wages are not. Video games are luxury.
We’re being fucked by the stupid rich.
Maybe they should instead build technology that people want and that solves their needs.
They should have had cross play with windows from the start. Fuck Microsoft.
I would recommend the invite tracking. Keep track of who invites bad actors, even higher order. If your friend’s friends suck, that should reflect a little on you. If no one has vouched for you, then you’re less trusted.
but take any increased productivity for themselves
Many people seem confused and this.
Worker makes charts and reports. Owner sells for profit. Worker suddenly is making double the charts. Owner makes double the profit. Worker… ???
Just like… What do they expect to happen.
I leave my PR in draft until the checks pass. I don’t want anyone reviewing it when it’s broken.
I hate teams so much. Some of my friends have never used anything else and they’re like “I don’t understand what’s so bad about it”
It’s like trying to explain to someone who lived their whole life in a sewer what fresh air is.
The other day I saw some dude throw his cigarette on the ground before getting on line in front me to get carded to enter a bar. For a long moment I considered picking it up and going “hey, you dropped this” and handing it back to him.
But I didn’t, because there’s no way that ends happily.
But man, fuck people who litter.
I have a recurring fantasy of a honey pot for this sort of thing. You advertise like an exclusive doodad that no reasonable person would buy. Maybe extra-large cars. Maybe horse armor. Could be anything. Everyone who goes to buy one goes straight to therapy, and they don’t leave until they’re no longer a fucking moron. Kind of like The Good Place.
I think it was Diablo 3 (not a game I recommend) that had like “5% more damage” and “5% more fire damage” as buffs, but due to esoteric maths, the latter was significantly more impactful on the damage equation. Not a fan of that kind of secret maths in games.
Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.
Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.
They don’t understand that most of the time isn’t going into typing code into the computer. It’s figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It’s pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user’s name is null?) or dealing with it when they don’t like your decision (eg: you didn’t say what to do when I don’t have their name, so the email just says “hey”. I really don’t think this is a crisis)
I sometimes think about how things are so bad in part because there are so many people making unnecessary bad decisions. Like, just don’t buy the horse armor. Do something else.
But there are so many idiots that bad things remain profitable
I don’t think the graphics are a big part of the problem. It’s more the math.
Pillars of Eternity, for example, has it so every point of Might above 10 is 3% more damage. This is a little hard to reason about - my sword says it does 17-24 damage. So if I have 15 might, that’s 15% more damage , so the sword is now… 19-27? I had to use a calculator because I’m kind of bad at math. If I take one more point of might, my max damage becomes…28? Does it round?
This is not very quick and easy.
Now imagine instead of every point of might was just +2 damage. Or +5 damage. Much easier to reason about. If you want might to matter more for some weapons, slap a double might bonus on them. You might (pun intended) just need to scale the rest of the system around this new range of values.
I accidentally swerved a little from “impactful stats only” to “easily understood stats”, but they’re kind of related.
Some people are phenomenally bad typists. Even some people who use a computer all day
I think if I was making a game I would really strive to make it so every upgrade is meaningful and easily noticed.
I liked pillars of eternity, but I didn’t like trying to think about if 3% more damage was even going to survive rounding.
I’m a professional software engineer. You seem to have drawn at least one nonsense conclusion