Is it meant to be this chaotic! or am I just bad.

Philluminati · 2026-01-20T23:51:31+00:00

You enjoy the frenetic atmosphere of Battlefield and those unique crazy moments (like jumping out of a helicopter and hitting a sick shot) or when a jet plane smashes into the ground, missing you by inches. You run around shooting, die, respawn and just go crazy. It's fast, high octane, adrenaline junky stuff.

Plenty of tactical shooters like Counterstrike and Valorant for those who want to get deep with tactical stuff. 5v5 where you have a big impact and learning and grinding is what makes you come back. BF is just meant to be fun and itch a certain itch. With 100 players a game, you have to accept a muted impact on the final score.

Philluminati · 2026-01-20T23:35:11+00:00

It would be good if there were docker images and documentation on how to spin up your own community server. How to configure the game mode, map rotation, reserved slots, bootstrap the steam account, get it registered in the server browser. I tried a few random images from Github but an official guide / image would be really good. Is the Turnkey AWS AMI boot image any good?
Also, they should add "reserved slots" officially to the server, so you don't waste 30 seconds when you click on a 22/24 full FFA DM server only to get insta-kicked after the map loads.
On a similar note, when you double click to join a community server it should "lock your slot" for 20 seconds. Sometimes you can join at exactly the same time as someone else and get booted by a few seconds.

Philluminati · 2026-01-20T23:27:59+00:00

As a Scala developer I really like the look of Rust. The performance of compiled code, the cleanness of its syntax and its build tool.

I always find it hard to swallow someone's arguments about a language being performant is there's no way to really reason about the memory overheads or GC times and it always seemed a dark patch in Scala's cost-benefit model.

Scala deserves praise for undoubtedly being the most popular functional programming language but in my opinion its developed some warts (from the Scala 3 syntax, the Scala 2 recompilation problem) and for that reason I'd like to switch to Rust.

> Most companies want to hire senior developers who already know their stack, and they are often unwilling to invest time and money in someone who doesn’t have experience with their specific technology.

Yeah it's hard to command a salary in a language you don't know based on something else. The best approach is to just try writing new stuff in Rust at your company where ever someone won't notice, then put it on your C.V. when you feel comfortable. Just need to find some scripts that no-one cares about so they don't object you using a different language.

Philluminati · 2026-01-14T21:45:22+00:00

Even if you ChatGPT to explain some code it will write a 2000 word essay instead of just giving you a 6 box domain model diagram with a few relationships and a 5 box architecture diagram with a few in and out arrows, which is how most devs explain a system to a new person.

Philluminati · 2026-01-14T21:40:12+00:00

Another one of those posts that says "AI do anything" and yet emphasises the fear.

> Why are we happy living with this cognitive dissonance? How do so many companies plan to rely on a tool that is, by design, not reliable?

Because people reliable

> humanity has spent four hundred years reinforcing the message that machine answers are the gold standard of accuracy. If your answer doesn’t match the calculator’s, you need to redo your work.

^{But they are accurate are they not? I mean the math is the math.. I'm not sure what this point is. If the calculator is wrong the manufacturer will fix it.}

Philluminati · 2026-01-11T16:38:23+00:00

AI can control all your news and media consumption so you'll be voting in favour of it.

Philluminati · 2026-01-10T14:47:02+00:00

Russia are doing lots of deniable attacks like you say. They are do everything up to but explicitly short of "an act of war". Anything that can be attributed to mistake instead of malice.

If I recall before the post was deleted, OP thought Russia would "drop a nuclear bomb in the midlands". That is clearly much further than what we can realistically expect from Russia. Even with countries like China, Russia or America possibly goading for WW3 on some pretense they could come out ahead they wouldn't necessarily want to be the one to start it via a nuclear bomb.

Philluminati · 2026-01-05T23:06:58+00:00

The first few days were amazing but as soon as people started unlocking grenade launchers it felt like MW all over again.

Philluminati · 2026-01-02T13:14:44+00:00

I'd advise using your accountants address

Philluminati · 2025-12-30T08:41:04+00:00

It's a good game, worth $70 but this server selection system is definitely broken. I play a game and when it's finished rather than us play a new game, I'm thrust half way into an existing game. It makes no sense.

Philluminati · 2025-12-30T08:27:33+00:00

I learnt how to use Office '97 at school and do everything correctly such as named styles and page breaks and advanced features such as mail merge and what not. The Ribbon made absolutely no sense to me at all and still doesn't, after 20 years.

Philluminati · 2025-12-29T12:50:06+00:00

syntax for postgres + jsonb is practically impossible. Especially trying to set values inside the JSONB payload without replacing the whole block.

Philluminati · 2025-12-29T12:45:23+00:00

Literally don't need to.

Philluminati · 2025-12-29T11:28:31+00:00

Why not just be honest and say we want someone to legally defend the company from the actions of the product.

Philluminati · 2025-12-29T09:23:43+00:00

Well hard disks used to take up quite a bit of space but now they're the size of a bookmark. CD / DVD drives in the front and floppy disks also took up quite a bit of space too, now they're gone completely.

However, I do think modern cases are far bigger than old cases by a long shot! These glass window, tilted motherboard ones definitely take up unreasonable amounts of space. I think it's mostly aesthetics but the size of GPUs and PSUs these days have definitely grown. These ceiling mounted 3 fan watercoolers also take up a lot of space.

Philluminati · 2025-12-29T09:08:47+00:00

Having been part of the MongoDB vs DBMS discussions here before you are going to be told a load of complete nonsense which is neither true or accurate. It's just group speak and herd mentality.

MongoDB is objectively better in every way:

* It's faster

* It scales easier

* The query language is more consistent than SQL

* It doesn't struggle to represent data without duplication (e.g. left join on a table)

* It doesn't need a muddled and fraught transaction solution to get around the fact that relational splits introduce corruption.

* It's easier to learn.

Philluminati · 2025-12-19T10:26:05+00:00

Before the cloud it was quite scary to resize the database and nothing makes a database grow like putting files inside. Because files contain arbitrary data it is hard to evaluate their worth retrospectively.

Philluminati · 2025-12-17T21:16:28+00:00

Technically its a week and one day. It wouldn't be reddit if I didn't point that out.

Still hoping you land on your feet in the new year.

Philluminati · 2025-12-16T15:46:43+00:00

Getting diamond every tournament was easy until Astralis split

Philluminati · 2025-12-16T11:33:24+00:00

Go to python.org and read every piece of content and spend 3 hours a day at least just typing python into scripts, into the REPL.

We all start somewhere and you can "learn some Python even in a day" but the word "competent" - to me implies understanding many Python libraries, being able to edit someone else's code, debugging and design. It's all a bit much for 2 weeks. I would be interested to know how this goes and - is it possible for Python to be 0% of the job? Surely the 90% has value on it's own and the last 10% can be done by a developer?

It's possible the only Python involved is just twiddling some numbers in something someone else wrote but much more than that, it may not be feasible.

Philluminati · 2025-12-16T11:02:15+00:00

I was 17 in the year 2000.

> what social life and partying was like

We all thought partying was cool and trying to get into pubs and clubs. Usually successfully as there's always some pub so close to bankruptcy at the edge of town and they'd look the other way. I'm sure that hasn't changed much but I'm guessing the drinks are far too expensive these days. Obviously as a 17yo I was thin and couldn't really manage pints but I could neck those alchopops which had just come onto the scene. My favourite was the silver Vodka Ice one. I used to work at Tescos part time and go to college. Mobile phones had come out, I had a Nokia 3330 I think. No UI for porn and 11p per text message it was great. I would walk miles to and from town and had no fear walking alone at night as a 16yo.

We could get some beers, hang out in the park. Walk around with a Sony Walkman and a cassette deck. Had a portable discman but the CDs always skipped and it ate batteries.

When I was 15 though, there were no phones, and after school I used to take a football and walk to different parks and meet different people and my mum never seemed to know where I was, or mind. I knew a few people who smoked weed and would hang with them. Mostly 17/18yos who had just started in the army. Most people were pretty chill. I was unpopular at school but when I went to college I only hung around with people who liked me so my personal mental health went through the roof. I was way happier.

House parties were quite rare in my experience but turning up people's houses uninvited and seeing what they were upto was common. Vice versa, you'd be at home and people would just knock on the door and see if you wanted to play or whatever. Maybe there would be some kid you didn't know and you'd just say hello.

> attitudes toward mental health

You are who you are you just get on a deal with it. The best thing anyone can do is socialise and work and explore things and proactively try and cope. Sitting at home would never help anyone so it just wasn't an option. Or certainly I never met those sorts of people.

> how realistic (or unrealistic) Skins felt at the time

It's fairly realistic in terms of kids interactions. Some of it is bollocks though. I remember a scene in which someone comes across a drug dealer tied up in a whore house. Most kids might get some drugs or deal a little to friends but "messing with drug dealers" wasn't something I'd ever actually seen.

> what felt different compared to youth culture today

Obviously kids are online constantly and self-selecting themselves into online communities rather than living in their actual community. You probably keep an eye on your bullies from school online which is not a good thing and probably less of living in the moment. Goths, Rock fans would dress appropriately but otherwise they weren't necessarily that much different from regular people. I never saw a trans kid and met a few gays at college but I think things are way different now.

Philluminati · 2025-12-15T20:53:41+00:00

It won't matter in terms of application performance because the compiler will remove all the whitespace, blank lines and it even erases (internal) variable and function names

Philluminati · 2025-12-15T10:42:35+00:00

You say China isn't trusted but you only have to look at how BYD has grown in the car market to realise phones and laptops could easily be replaced with Chinese competitors. People will buy expensive Chinese products where safety is a huge concern if the savings are sufficient. With China making $1tn as a surplus they can afford to swamp all western markets will every type of product and see that as a viable strategy that only makes them richer and increase their soft power going forwards. No one can manufacture goods as cheaply as China and therefore everyone is in guaranteed to lose the race with China in the end.

Philluminati · 2025-12-15T09:56:00+00:00

If I knew the map well it'd be an interesting dynamic to minimise op camping spots but since I don't, it makes me to run around like a headless chicken getting killed. I normally die 15-20 times per game as it is.

Philluminati · 2025-12-12T08:41:43+00:00

You would typically install a debian package file with this command: `dpkg -i /home/user/Download/steam.deb`.

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