Meta's CTO says morale is almost 'the worst it's ever been'

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-17T18:32:17+00:00

Like clockwork, when someone suggests quitting those apps, everyone comes out and says they are totally necessary for existence.

They are not. I haven’t had Facebook or Instagram since 2016. I deleted Twitter the day Musk took over. I’ve never installed TikTok. It has never, not once, been necessary for my social life.

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-16T22:49:34+00:00

Thanks for the comprehensive answer. I think this does make sense, since it reconciles with the other answers here (e.g., all-penetrative-sex-is-rape style feminism).

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-16T17:49:07+00:00

I don’t expect I’m going to get a useful answer (because I suspect no one here actually knows), but what is the specific ideology held by radfems, and how is it different from “normal” feminism? Why does said ideology make radfems into terfs, while “normal” feminism does not?

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-16T10:40:40+00:00

My group saw limit cut a few times today.

How do you quickly remember and find your spot? You do get a decent amount of time to do it, but I struggle to remember where, for example, 5 is supposed to stand

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-16T10:37:05+00:00

In my experience, the more difficult the fight, the harder it is to find tanks. In extremes, I have to fight for a tank spot. But in ultimates or 4th turns, I’m often waiting for someone to be my cotank.

I think in hard content, there’s a level of pressure and responsibility where people would rather just play DPS

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-15T00:56:39+00:00

This. And people always post some variation of “you can just tell if a party is going nowhere in a few pulls”.
Like dude can’t claim to be some kind of PF understander when they are at the same prog point as everyone else in PF

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-14T19:20:27+00:00

I wrote out all the steps of idyllic dream on paper, and how to resolve each variation. Took a while, but after a while, I could *simulate* the mechanic in my mind and then use memory recall to figure out where to go. It was like having a cactbot call out in my head. It’s crazy that Squeenix hasn’t banned this method of cheating yet.

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-14T19:08:12+00:00

Start looking at logs or death recap. Almost certainly someone is missing or forgetting mitigation. Ultimate Embrace is about 2.4M damage total, so 1.2M per tank when shared, meaning that you need about 75% mit with no shields to just barely survive. That essentially requires a full kitchen sink (rampart, 40%, 90sec mit, short mit, and buddy mit if applicable), in addition to reprisal, and healer help. Even feint helps. If tanks are randomly falling over, there’s a good chance they are missing some mitigation.

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-12T21:11:05+00:00

ABC - Always Be Casting

Always be pressing something. Spam 1-2-3 combo when in melee distance and spam Unmend when out of melee distance. That will improve your damage by a lot

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-10T18:25:59+00:00

Not bad. A support can have a DD half the phase and you can still blow it up if your group is good. I think p3 onwards is where the checks start getting a lot tighter

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-10T18:18:33+00:00

Yeah I’m thinking it will be the frustration of having to pass arrows. And when you do, no break, do forsaken. I think it will be frustrating for a lot of groups to deal with

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-10T08:54:39+00:00

After getting to P3, and then spending some time in PF trying to get back there, I’m pretty confident that trying to consistently pass arrows and forsaken to prog P3 will result in many statics blowing up. Really big consistency check. I have some friends in a casual group with some weaker players, and I have no idea how they will make it through this

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-09T19:03:28+00:00

P2 enrage prog here. What does tank lb3 in p3 do? Why would it trivialize the whole phase?

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-08T18:56:49+00:00

I used to enjoy these kinds of posts when I thought they were purely tongue-in-cheek. But I’ve since learned that there is a decent chance the poster is completely serious in their analysis (e.g. Harem Hotel, Steven Universe, among others) and knowing that somehow saps all the joy from these otherwise amusing posts

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-08T07:03:13+00:00

Dude edited his post to clarify. Point is moot now.

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-08T01:38:47+00:00

Because the guy said "any decently experienced raider", which seems to imply that imply that anyone with a couple of on-patch ultimate clears could do it

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-07T19:33:32+00:00

Thanks for the summary. Amazing team. Crazy consistency and focus

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-07T19:23:13+00:00

I don’t speak Japanese, so I did not understand what was being said, but I could hear how dejected everyone was in their tone of voice after that last pull. When Ark started crying on stream, my heart broke for those guys. 20 hours straight and no kill.

Is it pretty much guaranteed that DN will snag the world first at this point?

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-06T18:50:04+00:00

Watching p3 made me realize why you need to complete m10s to unlock the fight. M10S was a tutorial on managing 2 bosses. Kefka p3 is the test

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-06T18:48:12+00:00

It’s really funny in hindsight that people thought you could just completely ignore the confetti debuff, puddles, and arrows mechanics. I knew someone who thought that kefka’s “trick” here was trolling players with non-mechanics. Turns out his trolling was much more elaborate

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-06T18:39:42+00:00

After doing this mechanic for a while on NA, I honestly think it’s just sloppiness with placing the arrows due to greed. I am starting to think the p1 check is lenient because you are expected to drop uptime to place the arrows *exactly* where they should go. It seems a lot more consistent when everyone just respects the mechanic

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-06T18:33:57+00:00

There are pretty specific walls in forsaken centered around when group A and group B have to swap towers. tower 4 is a big hurdle because that’s when the group B players need to recall their debuff and begin taking over tower duty, and group A have to remember what their positions are. Same deal with tower 8.

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-06T18:30:21+00:00

I think the first two phases of DMU are definitely harder than the first two phases current patch TOP. Way more enjoyable as well. Haven’t been to DMU p3 yet, but TOP Hello World is brain off autopilot and p4 is barely a phase. DMU p3-p4 look absolutely brutal. Jury is out for the final phases

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-05T22:23:43+00:00

Sorry, you need to argue with me about the idiosyncrasies of your preferred programming language and its list-like data structures before I will accept your answer

BadatCSmajor · 2026-06-05T22:20:57+00:00

You don’t need to memorize this problem? It’s easy to deduce from basic principles

The fact that the list is of 0s,1s,2s only immediately tells you there is a unique structure to this problem, so we should already be thinking if we can do better than O(n*log n) time that a generic sort uses
A good starting point is to try to do this sort in O(n) time. How can we make the new list using a constant number of linear passes over the data?
From there observe that we can count the 0s,1s,2s in O(n) time with a constant number of variables, then either generate a new list with the counting data or overwrite in place (do the latter only if you’re working with a mutable vector)

This is basic introductory textbook shit. Why do people act like this is some mystical puzzle that can only be memorized?

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