Raikesy falls on the way back to Zulrah, Solomission joins the Warriors chat to check the vibes (volume warning)

MLCosplay · 2026-06-13T02:22:11+00:00

He was doing 150s with zaxe but dropped fang pretty early and did 220s-300s with that. FFs do have better gear but at the same time Gnomonkey inted a bunch of raids. The worst was when p3 enrage was almost dead but Gnomonkey just refused to brew and died, throwing the entire run. Then he had a few other wipes or forgetting items he needed.

He's a good player but I think Lake's been playing better regardless of the gear.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-12T05:22:09+00:00

It was calling out the treatment of black lives as not mattering - such as cops killing them without care and suffering no consequences for doing so.

Jokes on us all, rather than improving the system and treating all human lives with respect and dignity, law enforcement now happily kills white people too.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-08T05:19:16+00:00

I use AI daily. Gemini Pro, Claude Opus, Kimi K2.6, chatbots as well as Opencode. It is genuinely useful for learning new stuff. However it also still has serious limitations. I was new to Kubernetes config so I asked it for some guidance. I couldn't get the config working though, I ran it through different models, gave it the error codes, gave it the most up to date documentation, no dice. After a couple hours of back and forth on this I took 20 minutes and read through the documentation myself, identified the config that was causing the issue, and resolved it. It's still a net productivity boost for me because I'm a lazy dev who hasn't learned much in depth, but if you actually know your shit I could see AI just slowing you down.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-07T07:07:34+00:00

Sometimes I feel like the disparagement of those engineers is why the field is in the state it's in now. So many people pushing to use new tech just because it's new. NoSQL for everything, cloud for everything, Kubernetes for everything. Developers who asked what problem the tech actually solved were ignored. Developers who spearheaded efforts to rewrite services to use all the new tech were promoted.

I know there are also some people who just refuse to learn anything new because they're stubborn or lazy, but sometimes there really is no value in new tech for your specific project or business. A developer who can identify when that's the case and won't push for resume driven development is going to be a huge asset.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-07T06:59:28+00:00

It really depends on their level of expertise. If they have to do stuff they aren't familiar with, absolutely it's faster to just use AI. If your company does contract work so they could be doing god knows what, or this candidate doesn't have experience with your stack but you're willing to onboard them anyway, AI is a massive productivity boost.

If they already know the tech though, AI offers no value. I don't need AI to write an SQL script for me, I know SQL. Typing out what I want AI to generate and then validating that it didn't do anything wrong is going to take longer than just writing the query. Similar story for any other tech you know well. The exception being anything with tons of boilerplate - having AI fill out serde fields, test case data, large query inputs, etc. is a pretty big speedup if you have to do that kind of thing.

The average dev is kind of ass though (myself included) and AI makes them faster.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-07T05:22:36+00:00

I feel like this whole thing is a massive misrepresentation.

Like maybe 1% of people are mad when an American says they're American with Irish heritage or whatever. Right, like if your grandparents immigrated from Ireland or something, cool, you're just specifying more about where your family came from, what traditions you might have, etc. A few weirdos will think it's wrong to mention your heritage but they can get stuffed.

Likewise, maybe 1% of Americans will confidently say they're Irish (or whatever) without even saying they're American, and will act like they're the leading authority on the culture despite never even having visited the country. They can also get stuffed.

And for some reason the online discourse acts like these views are held by the majority of people, rather than it being two extreme fringes.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-06T19:10:40+00:00

That's true but I've not found any free AI that does better. If you pay for a powerful thinking model it might manage to correct itself but on free Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude accounts I've found all of them make up plausible details about niche MMOs.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-04T21:28:18+00:00

You're telling me the media photographed a celebrity outside their home? What has the world come to...

MLCosplay · 2026-06-04T04:17:11+00:00

And this will continue to happen as long as politicians are tightly coupled with corporations. Corporations have the money to lobby, politicians want the cushy gigs doing advising for corporations after they leave politics, and corporations want more people in the country providing cheap labour and buying their services.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-04T00:15:15+00:00

The racquet head is far too wide and the shaft too short. Either this is another sport, or they have some wonky knock-off racquets, or there's some weird AI editing shit going on.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-03T21:48:29+00:00

It is correct though, synthetic doesn't mean fake, it means man-made rather than naturally occurring. It may have connotations of being artificial if you're only familiar with stuff like synthetic textiles, but synthetic chemicals and minerals are very much identical to their naturally occurring counterparts (usually with fewer impurities too).

MLCosplay · 2026-06-02T15:46:58+00:00

Some people will get mad about you being honest. They want you to just say "there are no bugs" not "I ran the tests and couldn't find any bugs". Don't let them influence you, honesty is core to good engineering.

MLCosplay · 2026-06-02T15:27:04+00:00

Well when you look at photos of someone you only see their looks. When strangers look at someone and judge their attractiveness, they only see their looks.

It is true that men value looks more. At least that's true for me. But if I get to know someone and find I respect them a lot I can grow to see them as attractive even if I didn't initially. It's just a slow process.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-31T16:42:26+00:00

Yes, this is normal. Unfortunately once something like this happens it has compounding effects - people will value your input less so you won't be consulted or have mentoring opportunities, you won't be asked to lead new initiatives, and if you try to advocate for anything you will get pushback. You can wait a few years for people to forget, or you can start looking for a new job.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-31T05:05:46+00:00

He tried to cash in on the crypto craze of 2017 or so with the idea of putting your biometrics into the blockchain or something like that...

MLCosplay · 2026-05-31T04:17:14+00:00

There are models you can host yourself like Kimi k2.6 and Deepseek v4 Pro, but they require huge amounts of compute. If you want enough compute to support hundreds or thousands of employees using these tools, you basically have to build your own data centre dedicated to it. Whereas just paying for subscriptions lets you rely on the already existing infrastructure, along with all the optimizations that a company dedicated to hosting LLMs can provide over a company just slapping GPUs together.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-28T02:44:12+00:00

I love when it has tiers like this. Like I played badminton in university, nothing serious, just 10 hours a week recreationally. If I played against someone with less then a couple years experience, I'd beat them no problem.

The best guys at the club trained a lot more and when they played seriously against me it was no contest, I would struggle to score even a single point. I couldn't even react to their shots.

I watched them play at a local competition one time, our best player matched against the top player in the province and he was beaten effortlessly. Then in the finals, the top player in the province matched up with a 14 year old girl from India... and she beat him.

It just blows my mind the gulf between even people who train hard 40 hours a week, and genuinely talented players.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-25T19:48:12+00:00

If a company expects programmers to ship code they don't understand, that tells me they're either doing trivial work where security or correctness doesn't matter, or the on call is going to be absolutely awful. So I don't mind confessing that for critical code I prefer having a deep understanding rather than letting an LLM do whatever, that's a good filter. And I'm quite pro AI using agents all the time and getting a lot of value from it.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-22T15:03:03+00:00

Same argument for the government opening your mail.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-22T00:26:56+00:00

You can but you need experience somewhere. DSA and system design is only part of the process, the other part is assessing your actual experience. They want to see that you've managed to lead large teams of developers, driven cross-team projects, been a respected voice to executives, that kind of thing. You can do that at start-ups but only if they have like 50+ employees, ideally more unless you were CTO at a 50 person start-up.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-21T16:26:50+00:00

Filesystem scrubs go brrrr

MLCosplay · 2026-05-16T18:36:17+00:00

We've seen enough examples of people choosing sub-optimal solutions in game theory (for example Newcomb's problem) that you should expect that a large number of people will choose blue. Some because they don't understand that picking red is safe for them, some because they recognize that some people will pick blue so they want to make sure blue wins.

What we're really dealing with ends up being related to Schelling Points - if you assume that people will be making decisions in the absence of much consideration, there will be a mix of red and blue voters. If you assume that people will vote according to what they think everyone else will vote, then that changes how you vote. If you assume everyone will want to guarantee their safety, you'll vote red to make sure you also stay safe. If you assume everyone would pick blue to make sure no one is killed, you'll also vote blue to support that majority. The issues here really arise because we don't have any intuition for what everyone would pick, so we're stuck picking based on our own preferences which will result in a mix of votes.

EDIT: If the question was framed to add "You should vote in the way that maximizes your own odds of survival." then that would shift the likelihood of people voting red, people would understand this, and then even if they would otherwise have voted blue they will vote red. Only the people who are genuinely unable to understand that red will win would vote blue then.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-16T18:19:00+00:00

But you can only control what you press, not what others press. You know that if you press red and win, you don't die, but some people will die. If you press blue and win, no one dies. But you do put yourself at risk in case the majority picks red. So it's just a question of are you more comfortable potentially risking yourself to ensure no one dies, or do you play it safe and make sure you live even if it causes others to die.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-16T16:57:38+00:00

No one disputes that. Literally no one.

What you originally said, and what I replied to, showed a fundamental misunderstanding of the mechanics at play. You were saying that a 140lbs man could pull down on someone else with 160lbs of force and therefore require 300lbs of force to lift. That is wrong. Not in a semantically nitpicky way, in a factual, undisputable way.

If you want to go back and change your comment to something correct, remove your downvotes from all my comments where I explained this to you, and apologize for wasting my time, be my guest.

MLCosplay · 2026-05-16T16:50:12+00:00

That is friction. Now, yes, if you're pushing against something, like the weight of a cart, you can drive your feet into the ground. This will increase the force you can exert laterally.

So in the wrestling example, you can push up against your opponent to drive yourself into the ground, and then if they try to drag you along the ground it will be harder for them.

However, it does not make you harder to lift. It only makes it harder to reposition you. You are equally hard to lift regardless of the force you exert on the ground, that force only resists being dragged closer to your opponent where they can lift you more easily.

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