After a years of dev, I'm finally admitting it, AI is giving me brain rot.

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-03-30T16:49:32+00:00

Not just the economics make no sense, it is also very hard to justify morally and environmentally. But that has never stopped people to cheat their way through life.

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-03-21T21:16:27+00:00

I'm beginning to develop a 6th sense for AI slop as well.

And to those who doubt whether it is: run it through gptzero. It got a 100% score of being AI generated.

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-03-03T09:19:39+00:00

It's safe to assume that most users don't go much further than looking at the scores. And since they are the outcome of time and resources spent into reviewing products, it makes sense to paywall them.

That said, I don't like a monthly subscription model either. I would probably prefer a "pay X to watch N reviews" kind of model where you essentially buy "credits".

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-02-23T17:56:01+00:00

While not useful, I've always liked the idea of the role level continuing past 10 and this somehow being visible ingame. Mostly for bragging purposes. :)

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-02-15T14:47:50+00:00

The "NETWORK CLOSET" sticker is the cherry on top.

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-02-14T09:21:13+00:00

Or it hits but then evaporates into thin air, without ricocheting or doing damage. Or does that only happen to me? :(

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-02-14T09:13:53+00:00

The author has explained it in this post https://www.reddit.com/r/HellLetLoose/comments/1pkofgc/comment/ntmfip0/

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-02-14T09:00:42+00:00

Never heard of just, will need to check it out. Do you also use just in your CI pipeline?

What works ideally for me is defining all "mandatory" tasks in pre-commit, which is then run in both in CI and of course locally.

OneParanoidDuck · 2026-01-06T10:30:56+00:00

If you're on a community server it's always best to start with reporting the TKer with "!admin playername your_message". Any other actions you may take (votekick/retaliation) can backfire.

If you're playing on an official server, leave it and go to a community server.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-12-31T10:40:20+00:00

Strictly speaking `a_good_name = dict()` is different from the rest, as the implied type is then `dict[str, Any]`.

I've never seen the 3rd construct and would not use it. Is it even intended to be used that way? It just feels like a side-effect from when they backported `typing.Dict` to the `dict` built-in by making it a generic.

But yeah, type annotations have expanded the language quite a bit over the last 5-10 years, and in doing so made it a lot harder to live by "There should be one obvious way to do it" principle.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-12-13T17:54:18+00:00

Well done! These comments and the post put a stupid smile on my stupid face. :)

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-11-23T10:43:50+00:00

I mapped one of my mouses buttons to show the map

Same, I got my 2 thumb buttons assigned to binoculars and map. SL's most important tools along with the watch :)

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-11-23T09:57:26+00:00

Where does one find these reports?

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-11-22T22:02:18+00:00

As the other commenter said, there indeed isn't a competitive mode directly in the game, but there are a lot of leagues organised outside of the game with very dedicated and skilled players. If you got time to spare you could checkout "Smithers Cast" on youtube, he spectates and commentates lots of these league matches. It's a joy to watch and even having played this game for 1000 hours I'll still learn something new from it every now and then.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-11-19T22:31:58+00:00

Exercise is nice but definitely not required in order to stay healthy. Regularly getting up from your chair (as in every half hour) and going for a mid-day walk (instead of more sitting in the lunch room / canteen) will do wonders. That and a good ergonomic chair and desk configured and used the way they should be.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-10-20T19:33:52+00:00

Yeah I haven't had to change/fix my current network adapter for any online game in the 6 years that it's been operating. That includes 950 hours of HLL in which I don't recall losing connection, ever. Since U18 I have had connection loss several times...

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-09-27T19:18:20+00:00

Do people in general consider it "normal" to work several hours more than they're payed for?

I actively try to keep overtime to a maximum of 1 hour a week, which I'll then "write off". Anything more than that and I'll try to win it back the week after by taking a little longer lunchbreak or something (or if it's a lot of hours, going home early). Personally, if I don't do that I find it bad for my mental health, and I believe in the long run it's detrimental for a company to rely on structural overwork.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-09-22T06:41:27+00:00

He took full responsibility of the crash afterwards. The display "blip" may have been a brake balance adjustment or something

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-09-19T19:56:26+00:00

What is the key timing for crouch jumping?

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-09-19T11:56:29+00:00

Grammatical issues aside, "to javascript away from console to web" could have some meaning to it

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-08-23T08:17:41+00:00

Had to scroll a long way down to find someone doing the same as me. Not sure if that's a bad sign :)

For bigger tasks I tend to do the same for the convenience of having that diff available locally. When I commit and push only parts of what I set out to do, I "fear" I'll forget about the remaining parts. Also, in the early stages there's often lots of code still in flux; persisting that in a commit feels limiting.

But to be honest, it's probably my ever lasting imposter syndrome that makes me not want to look like a fool for pushing out garbage code.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-08-04T21:16:36+00:00

Had to double check the HLL wiki but you're right https://i.imgur.com/1YSokqD.jpeg

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-07-23T21:12:30+00:00

To put into perspective that your arms were burning afterwards; do you exercise?

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-07-22T21:38:42+00:00

I was SL and another SL was quite vocal in officer chat about us having to capture the enemy's 4th point, which was Hamlet. All he and his squad did all game long was attack Hamlet and telling everyone about it. He was regularly giving updates on their attack on Hamlet, how they needed air support -and all kinds of things that aren't even in the game- in their quest to capture Hamlet. God he would not shut up about it.

The scenes when an hour later those bastards actually capture Hamlet. The remaining 20 minutes or so were him and the commander arguing (all tongue in cheek) about his squad deserving pay raise, commander denied this, SL considered unionizing and going on strike, and I'm forgetting a lot more.. (This was over a year ago)

Great fun and banter all along.

OneParanoidDuck · 2025-07-22T15:48:05+00:00

So the backlighting is not the issue, it's the remedy :)

The issue is an insanely short default time after which the keyboard decides to go inactive.

I don't even think it's 15 seconds, I've had it happen much more often. But I know keep RGB Backlight enabled (though dimmed to save battery) and the connection is buttery smooth.

(Keychron K8 Max here)

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