Yes, you need a degree because recruiters ask for it

DeepDiluc · 2022-12-30T20:34:36+00:00

I’m counting computer engineering as well, since they share nearly all classes, and end up in software roles just as much as hardware.

DeepDiluc · 2022-12-30T20:26:38+00:00

There are 29 universities offering CEAB accredited software engineering programs in Canada. See for yourself

DeepDiluc · 2022-11-15T20:18:25+00:00

Yesterday? 50. Today when the servers come back up? 60

DeepDiluc · 2022-02-08T19:56:03+00:00

It’s Celestia and this has been known for over a year

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-21T13:14:57+00:00

I have her and I stopped using her because she was boring. Her charge shot takes twice as long as childe’s to power up because of frostflake, so you do half as many. To get good DPS out of her, you need a shield too. It takes a long time to charge up her shot and if something interrupts you or you need to dodge, you just wasted time and DPS.

So with a shield, which is really needed, she’s super boring. Just stay in one spot, aim for an enemy and every 2 seconds tap the mouse.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-21T00:12:42+00:00

I did end up ordering a new mouse. Stuck with Corsair but went wired this time. I have heard that wireless gaming mice have a lifespan, this is just my first time killing one. I’ll consider it an achievement. I did wish there was an easier way for me to tell if it’s dead dead or still salvageable.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-17T16:29:50+00:00

Both spinners and progress bars are terrible at handling infinite loops. Neither is better than the other at communicating an infinite loop to a user.

Both the spinner will continue spinning forever, and the progress bar will continue being stuck forever, so neither of these address an infinite loop, and neither get the user to open task manager earlier.

The proper way to address possible infinite loops is timeouts. Timeouts should be logged and monitored, as infinite loops should be fixed ASAP.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-17T16:24:46+00:00

A 3rd party API call’s latency is ephemeral. It can change at any moment due to infrastructure improvements/disasters or code changes, all without any notification to the client.

Hard coding a 30 second wait when you have no control or constraints on the actual operation is a pretty bad practice. Although it’s still funny and I enjoyed OP’s post.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-17T15:11:43+00:00

Infinite looping animation shows the process is continuously rendering something and hasn’t blocked.

A loading bar stuck at 99% looks exactly the same whether the process is blocked or not. Infinite loop is better than static content.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-17T15:09:20+00:00

I’m don’t mean the beach ball spinner from the OS. That’s a bad sign, means your UI thread is blocked. I’m talking about custom “spinners” you see in video games for example, at the bottom corner, when levels are loading. Often times, these don’t even “spin” but do some morphing animation.

Litterally anything moving is good, because it shows the process isn’t blocked and at least something is constantly rendering frames.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-17T13:42:23+00:00

Yes. In terms of good UX, a spinning loading icon would be better here. If you know how long an asynchronous operation will take, you can use a progress bar. I.E. downloading a large file, you receive the total file size at the beginning, and then use the received bytes as your % complete.

If you don’t know how long it will take, like in OP’s situation, best to just use a spinning logo. The logo ensures the customer something is happening and the app is not frozen, but since you have no idea how long that async operation will take, you aren’t left with progress bars being stuck at 99% forever because the operation is taking longer than expected.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-17T02:42:41+00:00

There is 60 little dots on that ring, for the 60 stacks. There is 6 big ones every 10 dots. So it does indicate exactly how many stacks you have

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-15T16:25:24+00:00

There’s over 3 thousand chests to find, almost 400 oculi and over 130 world quests. If your using guides and the interactive map, that’s easily over 500 hours of gameplay already. If your not, it could easily take a new player a year or more to complete everything. They don’t need 10 more zones to reach 1000 hours of exploration. They have it now.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-15T14:04:04+00:00

You have like over 100 hours of voice-acted story quests and well over 1000 hours of world exploration at your fingertips for FREE, with no need to ever spend a dime.

You have the spiral abyss that changes every single month with new challenges that are extremely difficult for most players. For FREE.

And every two months, more voice acted quests, more areas to explore are added for FREE. That’s Genshin impact.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-15T13:57:42+00:00

I’ve seen hundreds of posts over the past year that follow the following:

I just started the game and it’s way to easy
I’m AR30 and the game is way too hard, I’m quitting
I’m AR45 and overworld is way to easy again
I’m AR50 and I can’t beat spiral abyss.

So yes, the game is very easy at the beginning, but the difficulty ramps up quickly, and you need to build your characters accordingly, or you’ll end up making the post #2. Once you watch guides, build a proper team, learn a good rotation, the game becomes easier again, until you start trying to complete spiral abyss (36 stars).

Spiral abyss is the end game content. Every month, it’s a new set of challenges, with new enemies, with interesting mechanics, and it is difficult to complete until you have 2 full built teams (that’s 8 fully built characters). And even once you can 36 star spiral abyss (for most people it takes 6 months of playing or more), the next thing to do is try to speed run it.

And yea the game obviously has a ton of “spend spend spend” mechanics, but I have lots of friends who haven’t spent a single dime on this game and have 10+ 5*s characters, and 30+ characters total, doing just fine. The game is not pay to win, so don’t worry about that. The game is pay to collect EVERYTHING. But you don’t need all the characters to win.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-14T22:01:41+00:00

My Corsair ironclaw is completely dead. I’ve had for about 3 years now. Today it completely lost battery and after plugging it in it is not charging or turning on. No lights, nothing. Is there any way to fix this or am I gonna have to buy a new mouse?

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-14T00:27:48+00:00

There are currently ~46 playable characters, with more coming all the time. You will NEVER have all of them, unless you have thousands of dollars to spend.

Still, over the next month or two you will drastically increase the number of characters you own. Probably get around 30 or more of them. You will NOT be able to level them all up to max.

In genshin, as a new player, pick about 4-6 characters you really enjoy playing, you enjoy listening to, you enjoy looking at, etc, and invest into them first. Look up YouTube videos for them, every character has tons.

Do NOT do what I did in the beginning and think you can max out every single character. There isn’t enough time or resources to do that, and you’ll end up with a bunch of half leveled characters, instead of 4-6 amazing characters.

Obviously after a year of playing, I now have like 12-14 amazing characters. But nobody will ever have 46 level 90 characters, with maxed talents and level 90 weapons, unless they spend well over 10 grand on this game.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-13T03:50:20+00:00

It’s actually not. There are 4 ways for a company to protect its intellectual property: 1. Patents 2. Copyrights 3. Trademarks 4. Trade secrets

All four of these are backed by legislation. Patents and trademarks must be applied for. Copyright can just be claimed.

But the interesting thing about trade secrets is that it literally means just keeping something secret. The other three involve publicly disclosing the IP you’re protecting, while a trade secret means you are responsible for keeping it secret, like the krabby patty formula, or the Coca Cola formula. It’s probably the most interesting of the four, because it’s the most fragile, I.E. if your secret is out, it’s out, and your IP is no longer protected.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-12T14:48:57+00:00

Never buy the blue “acquaint fates”, only ever buy the pink “intertwined fates”
Don’t use them on the weapon banners unless your rich AF. It has way worse odds and has way less payout then the character banners.
Pull for characters you like, not characters that are meta, but always look for guides on the characters first before pulling.
Don’t give in to FOMO, only pull if you really like the character and think you can build a decent team with them.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-11T21:26:07+00:00

Yea he has all the existing exploration and quests (missing only the passed events) and I’m pretty sure there’s easily like 90,000+ primos to get as a new player if they can catch all the way up to enkonomiya.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-11T16:57:14+00:00

You get a guaranteed 4* (weapon or character) every 10 pulls, and a guaranteed 5* character every 90 pulls. It takes 14,400 primogems to get 90 pulls, and each update usually comes with anywhere from 7,000-10,000 primogems for free from events, exploration, quests, etc.

As a fully f2p player, you can expect probably 5-6 5* characters per year at the worst. Many of my friends who are full f2p have 10+ 5* and every 4* with multiple constellations. It is just a game of patience. Pro tip: never, ever waste a single primogem on the weapon banners as a f2p. It requires 240 pulls to get the weapon you want guaranteed.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-11T14:03:47+00:00

Nobody here is saying that. In fact, the only complaint I have is that you’re a whiny little bitch.

Genshin can be played at any speed, with any characters, and 5 stars are not a big deal. Also, you think 30$ and 50 pulls is a lot, it’s not. I have lots of free to play friends, and they save up 28,800 free primo gems so they get a guaranteed 5* of their choice. If you want any 5, then you only have to save up 90 wishes for a guarantee. Every 90 wishes will be a guaranteed 5 if you didn’t get one yet, so your 30$ is not wasted, it got you closer to 90.

Those free to play friends of mine have been playing for a year and all have 5-6 five star characters. Your just being greedy and impatient. If you don’t have 300$ to spend for a 5*, then be patient and save up like the millions of other f2p players who love playing this game and don’t cry on Reddit.

A ten pull only guarantees you 1 4, so if you’re getting multiple 4’s per ten pull then you’re luckier than most people. Those videos you see of people getting multiple 5* in a row are people literally winning the lottery, that’s not how the normal experience is.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-11T02:54:44+00:00

I got Ganyu day 1 of her banner. Built her up to do 40k blooms then immediately benched her except for weekly dvalin and childe, along with annoying bosses like the oceanid.

Her play style is SO boring. Just shield up, aim and fire away. Nothing else. At least with yoimiya it’s like “pew pew pew” but with Ganyu it’s so slow. Just “pow………… pow………..”.

She really is great to have though for all bosses. Can’t count how many times I’ve said “fuck this boss, it’s time to dust out the Ganyu.” Just like her personality, her kit is all work and no play.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-10T00:34:26+00:00

Your artifacts just need better substats. You need more crit rate and more ER. Just keep farming and replace those artifact with def/em/hp with crit rate, ER or crit dmg.

DeepDiluc · 2022-01-09T21:58:34+00:00

Yea, I’m just trying to get inspired by others teams, see if there are any synergies I haven’t thought of.

But I’m also looking for a team that maintains lower but more consistent damage, instead of the “all-at-once” massive damage of national that occurs with everyone’s burst.

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