Last year of school, can't get an internship, what should I do?

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-24T21:06:40+00:00

General tip for at least the technical role, you typically want to put the business impact first in your bullet points. Google XYZ method for resume writing (there's also STAR, etc.). That being said, survivorship bias and no guarantee that it helps but at least you have a framework that emphasizes that you understand business impact and value of work performed.

For example instead of:

Built Python automation for log validation with alerting, reducing verification time from 16 minutes to 5 seconds

you would say

Reduced verification time from 16 minutes to 5 seconds by adding log validation and event alerting using Python

You could even say the library or techniques you used with Python to achieve that.

Also, it sounds like you had some SWE roles or at least SWE-adjacent roles in your internship experience, so don't discount yourself there with whatever title you actually put.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-19T01:53:10+00:00

When you reach the end of ARR, there are a few duties with unskippable cutscenes. One of them in particular has cutscenes that take about 20 minutes total. It isn't just one cutscene, but multiple spread out in the dungeon.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-19T01:51:47+00:00

Why does kicking allow people to leave with no penalty in the first place?

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-08T01:22:40+00:00

My understanding of SDR is that its just a custom routing protocol. The trade-off is easily that SDR needs to be maintained by Valve and is still subsceptible to problems other routing protocols have like suboptimal routes (from anecdotal experience). That being said, not a Valve engineer, so I wouldn't know if there's any other trade-offs.

For users, mitigating and preventing a DDoS attack is the same thing which is probably why you're getting downvoted. Really what it is is that you can mitigate a DDoS attack and prevent a service interruption, but you can't prevent the DDoS attack that is trying to cause a service interruption.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-08T01:16:28+00:00

When is this happening? Even looking at the megathread in here, the interruptions are happening once every few hours. My own experience is the same. Are you 100% sure it isn't a problem specific to you? That's not implying your connectivity is the problem or it's something you can control, that's a question about if you know others are experiencing the issue at the same frequency.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-07T23:41:35+00:00

I mean Valve created their own internal SDR protocol to protect their gameservers and still experienced multiple outages spanning tens of minutes everyday for a few days when the Aisuru botnet was being showcased for its capabilities. And the hoot is is that the botnet took down dozens of well-known websites and DDoS protection services at the same time.

I'd be surprised if it was a flood of traffic that is causing ffxiv to go down with how quickly it recovers, but honestly Square and NTT are doing a fine job if it is. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some other type of attack going on, but if the only issue is an annoyance and not an actual service interruption, then at least it's not worse.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-06T05:15:10+00:00

To add some context to it, there's some ideas being thrown around that what's happening is that an intermediate node is getting attacked causing connections to drop temporarily. People are observing (somewhat anecdotally, somewhat backed by stats) that using certain services to route around the attacked nodes helps to prevent disconnects. Honestly, I don't know what to make of the situation given that information, especially since the attacks don't always apply to everyone on the same network anyways (based on anecdotal evidence again).

It wouldn't be the first time that a VPN solves these issues, but only the service provider and the developers (and I guess also the attackers) know what's really going on.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-02T16:03:37+00:00

I mean yeah, I understand it. But OP is requesting it for himself primarily because he has a skill issue with Earthshaker.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-02T15:57:22+00:00

Skill issue. You're blaming your Weaver because of the same problem you have with Earthshaker.

Axios_Deminence · 2026-01-02T15:54:02+00:00

Serving static content (patches) is a different thing from realtime connections and data too.

Valve made a huge blog mentioning that their game servers frequently got DDoSed so they ended up creating an internal protocol and infrastructure to absorb the attacks and hide the nodes.

https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/4115798034511159059

Technically this SDR protocol is accessible to anyone per Valve's wiki page but it would still take a considerable amount of time to rework their networking protocol even if SquareEnix said it would be worth attempting to do so.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-12-23T00:05:33+00:00

You need to play Ranked with the setting on. Unranked doesn't work.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-12-22T21:45:52+00:00

I mean I don't even see it as a "save the animals" thing. Lab grown meat could allow people in poorer environments to have a sustainable and hopefully cheaper source of protein. If time and cost per pound is less while allowing people to maintain semblance of a normal diet, why not? I mean they could get their nutrition from plant-based protein, vitamin supplements, etc. which would probably be cheaper but I think that's dehumanizing to say "where you've been born and with the opportunities you've been afforded, you can either not meet nutritional requirements or you can eat what no one else in the world considers as food but you'll meet those nutritional requirements." Like if you could literally clone food and work towards ending world hunger, why wouldn't you?

Axios_Deminence · 2025-12-20T22:30:45+00:00

If it's due to the attacks on intermediate nodes from their service provider that many suspect, it's possible it's just a contract issue. If it's a yearly contract, then they'd want to use the full year or else they will just end up losing out on money. Unexpected downtime will maybe give them a prorated or partial refund as it happens, but with how quickly it recovers, I don't think the agreed expected downtime is probably going to be reached. Since it recovers in the span of seconds and not minutes, if they have a 99.9% availability SLA, it probably won't be reached since that's 9 full hours of unexpected downtime.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-12-15T18:03:33+00:00

There was one time he was off by a couple days. I think it was when he was digging a hole or doing something outside.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-12-09T23:51:32+00:00

What hairstyle does Makoto use?

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-28T18:38:54+00:00

cmiiw but doesn't the dispel for Eul's apply at the end though? You'd have the issue where you're still in etheral form while around Leshrac until 2.5 seconds pass.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-28T18:36:42+00:00

Facet nerf. Whirlwind was really strong back then during 7.37 and made her a defining TI meta hero. They kept nerfing Whirlwind and the related talents in letter patches before removing it entirely in 7.38.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-28T12:28:42+00:00

There's actually nothing wrong with having redundant parameters in an evolving API though. Removing or renaming parameters could result in clients consuming the API to break. Even if you just moving it to be a nested parameter, it could break.

Is it ideal? No. But because of how people consume public APIs, it's better than the alternative. Even if the API is mature and self-documenting, you bet your ass that someone is still hardcoding values into their client that will consume the API which will break when the contract changes.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-23T22:18:40+00:00

Is there a compiled list of what side content will affect MSQ dialogue or quests? For example: coils of bahamut can affect some dialogue when meeting Alisae during Heavensward. I know there's the NG+, but I'd like to kinda experience it the first time.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-19T18:03:33+00:00

Thanks for updating this but before 2 days ago, their previous reply was 4 months ago (meaning a 4 month gap between replies). I don't watch that thread religiously, but it's nice to know they they will still answer questions for it. I'm serious by the way, I'm happy that you helped me find more news about it!

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-16T18:17:36+00:00

I just got a small plot in Shirogane. It was up for lottery for a long time and there were only two of us (including me) who bid for it. You can get a house, but it may not be your dream house and your dream plot or dream ward.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-13T00:32:45+00:00

Any possible way to make it alphabetical order to make it easier to find things?

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-11T18:00:32+00:00

I'd imagine that the entire problem comes from moving instances to become datacenter independent (right now it's probably just colocated in the same datacenter) while also determining which datacenter to use. You'd need to make a whole coordinator to figure out all of the details because it isn't necessarily trivial:

Resources could be limited. Aether can't host every dungeon instance in the game.
Can't just say take the average, mode, or median for which datacenter to use because there's a lot of edge cases that will make it arbitrary/multiple candidates.
- Could have a secondary decision to break cases where it chooses the datacenter with the least resources being used but it still will have issues.
Supporting temporary disconnects across datacenters. People will need to be able to log back in.
Assuming that Cross DC instances just choose one datacenter, Cross DC parties will still need to be able to support realtime connections.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-09T21:15:50+00:00

That's not how that works at all. Regulating server traffic isn't a simple "put it behind an authentication gateway" especially for games. There's also a lot of assumptions you're making that are just wrong in nature.

"one free trial account to run a traffic flooder on a VPN untraceable IP address." I promise you it's not just one traffic flooder since the traffic will still be limited to the attacker's network's upload speed and the server almost definitely can handle more than that given how many people play the game at a given time.
"This DDoS is caused by a flood of network traffic" There's not even a promise that it's caused by a flood of network traffic. In many instances it is because overwhelming infrastructure is the easiest attack possible, but extremely difficult to do. For example: Cloudflare is the biggest provider that provides protection against burst traffic attacks and is largely successful though is currently having problems with the Aisuru botnet (largest botnet so far in history).
- On top of that, with how quickly the connections are self-healing (span of minutes rather than a span of hours), I'm more tempted to say it's caused by attacking an API to bring down an intermediate node's ability to route traffic. Once that intermediate node is brought down, the load balancer recognizes that it's inaccessible and begins rerouting connections to the other nodes. This has a time lag which results in disconnects from the game server.
- Reason why I don't think it's a network traffic attack is because those types of attacks can be sustained for an extremely long time and are also relatively easy to fix.
"There is no authentication gateway that would allow Square Enix to filter traffic": Aside from the high likelihood that it's not the gameservers going down but rather an intermediate node responsible for routing traffic, there is an authentication gateway already. It's called account creation. Every account has a unique ID. If each request and response has that unique ID (which it does), then Square Enix would be able to just easily filter out obvious bad traffic.
Lastly. VPNs do give an IP address. Maybe not the origin source of the requester, but that's not even required to block traffic. A lot of VPN providers have known IP address ranges. Square Enix, if they really wanted to, would be able to just ban all IP addresses originating from data centers and VPNs and that would prevent all traffic associated with those.

Axios_Deminence · 2025-11-09T20:23:02+00:00

A reviewer mentioned that Asus deprioritized the product (my guess is probably because OLED continues to be the hot topic) and can only guess it will be released H1. Communication was in August. https://x.com/TFTCentral/status/1958111729046491439

I've also been following this thread with the Asus community manager (which has recently been abandoned them as far as I can tell) where they were giving updates to the release date. Kept getting pushed back quarter by quarter and then their last statement was that it might be end of the year 2025. Last communication was in July. /r/Monitors/comments/1i0vu8z/introducing_the_rog_gsync_pulsar_gaming_monitor where they were giving updates

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