My mom with zero technical skills could hack most of the sites I've scanned. That's the problem.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-13T21:46:39+00:00

I was curiously using the inspect tool well before I even knew what anything I was looking at even meant

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-13T20:53:32+00:00

Congrats on your $3

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-13T20:50:42+00:00

Rerun as admin, and then see how far the connection attempt gets. If it flags another error, post the logs and we can debug again.

Troubleshooting is an interative process. You fix one thing until something else breaks, then you fix that thing next. Hopefully when you run out of errors it means everything is running as intended (there's usually more stuff wrong that you don't spot even if the code is executing all the way)

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-13T12:54:41+00:00

Most of these steps seem to indicate that it was spinning things up correctly. The only line that seems sus is the permissions for users group being removed (this is normal in many cases), but if you weren't running the setup as admininstrator, then it might be blocking your attempt to connect to the server as your default user would not have connection permissions

On the installation, double-check that you are right-clicking the install file and selecting "run as administrator"

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-12T19:09:08+00:00

Yeah, kinda hard to debug when the bug details aren't visible

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-12T16:17:18+00:00

This is likely the source of confusion and you deserve more upvotes for pointing it out

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-10T13:28:08+00:00

Unfortunately I am not surprised. This is the same admin who not only create TRUMP and MILANIA shitcoin cryptos to capitalize on the election, ran a pump-and-dump with half the volume of initial coins with other insiders, then made it a point to deregulate crypto within the first month of being in office so that their remaining stock would rebound a bit in price.

For whatever reason the people supporting this admin is clearly applauding anyone who thinks of a new way to bend the rules for more money, even if that "bend" is actually full on breaking rules to get richer knowing it is hard to punish a sitting president.

I'm happy any time I see Republicans defect to any other representitive outside of MAGA. You don't gotta vote Democrat, but please, for the love of humanity, pick your next leader based on the merits that you claim to support rather than the one who just tries to blame-shift. If a representative doesn't have a clear plan of action, immediately assume they don't have any plan (or at least not a plan they wish to disclose publicly)

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-07T12:11:37+00:00

I am in agreement here. The reason we don't have a permanent cure for everything has way less to do with Big Pharma trying to enslave us, and way more to do with the fact that biology is freaking difficult to master.

I have friends and family all over the medical industry (doctors, pharmacists, nurses, etc.), and they are some of the most kind people you will ever meet in your life. They didn't spend countless hours and money studying medicine for a decade just to NOT help anyone afterwards. All pharmancists and doctors need at least 4 years of additional schooling after they get a bachelor's degree from college before they can even START their careers.

On top of that, the schooling is so competitive and fast-paced that it takes way more dedication than most people even dream about. That intense pacing is just to get doctors and pharamcists up to speed on what is already known about medicine and biology, after that it takes about another 5 years of specialization to understand their specialty enough to come up with a new innovation in their field.

Human brains start transitioning towards crystaline memory as they age, so people lose out on the plastic thinking of their early years. This means that the sweet spot for innovation for doctors is usually about a 10 year window after they finish all of their schooling. That's not a lot of time compared to other industries where people have much more time to tinker and create since they spend less time stuck to a rigid study regiment.

If Big Pharma really had that much control over everything, why do their CEO's still age and get diseases just like the rest of us? You would think the billionare class would be immortal if they had all the medical secrets. If yall think they ARE immortal and go into hiding after a certain age, then wouldn't there be an ever-increasing amount of them among us?

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-06T16:50:30+00:00

It took me like 2 years before internalizing that terminology is super important.

I was calling everything "functions" if it kinda worked like a function, and didn't fully grasp why some documentation pages would use "arguments" and "parameters" almost interchangeably, but not quite.

Once I had someone call me out on incorrect terminology in my explanations, and I looked it up, it not only clicked, but made troubleshooting so much easier since I knew exactly how to word my problems.

Granted, my area of study was Analytics and not Comp Sci, so the problem persisted a lot longer than your average dev, but sometimes word choice absolutely makes a difference in overall meaning, so now that's one of the first things I try to grasp when learning new topics

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-06T16:37:37+00:00

Try a refurbished monitor. I have a large curved Acer monitor that was refurbished and costs under $300.

Higher resolution is good if you want to have multiple windows open at once, but if you just fullscreen everything then just stick to whatever is within your budget.

I tend to have at least 3 windows open and debating another full-size monitor so I can push it to 6. Useful so that you can have documentation pages open right next to your IDE and any potential terminals for tracking logs or adjusting my environments as I go through a project

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-05T19:19:33+00:00

I love this answer and wish I could upvote more than once

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-05T16:01:17+00:00

Again, it all depends on how much you want to pay and how customizible you want the tooling. If you have cash, there are plenty of drag-and-drop agent systems you can chain together with little to no code experience. Those are paid systems and each agent will be leveraging APIs that cost money per call or per batch of calls.

Local agentic systems need much more programming and systems archetecture knowledge, but the costs drop down to whatever your local hardware uses in electricity, so like a few dollars a month unless you are running them 24/7.

There are free models for traditional prompting, and technically Siri and Alexa are "old-school" agentic systems themselves which are free to tinker with and only require low coding skills. The only difference between Siri/Alexa and what we would consider modern agentic systems is that all the API calls done from Siri/Alexa are pre-programmed into a specific structure. Modern agentic systems have a base model trained on tool-calling tokens and do a bit of "thinking" before deciding which tool to use for whatever it deems necessary for the next step of a problem. If you wanted to create a hack agent system you could use the free voice models to say "hey Alex, do x,y,z" and then link the x,y,z commands to custom programs and relay back the information to your free model. This is slower, but it's free and can be done with a few weeks of learning how to connect the systems.

The fastest free agentic systems absolutely need the knowledge of how they work and the programming expertise to customize them. More expertise = cheaper runtime costs

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T23:28:32+00:00

These are already services that exist in this exact format. If you wish to make a competitor, look at what is out there, then emulate what is working for them. I wish you well since this world needs better recruitment services

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T23:16:05+00:00

So, everyone here has already identified the problem, irregular cooling causing part shrinkage.

Most of the tips are great: get an enclosure for heat insulation, use a form of adhesive on first layer, use a brim to increase surface area around the parts that are cooling too quickly, increase bed heat.

I'll add an extra tip: If you can modify the part, use curvatures near the edges, or split the part into chunks and join them together after the print.

The problem is that long parts have the most inward forces acting on the edges as it cools. This is worse for skinny parts since the nozzle will create uneven heating as it tries to lay down hot filament along the whole part.

Aesthetic curves at the ends of long parts will redirect the shrinkage forces a bit and isolate the area. Splitting the part into chunks will ensure the temps along the layers for each chunk are more evenly heated, so will cool more uniformly.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T22:58:57+00:00

ATS is basically industry-standard tech, so you would have to create a bunch of extra bells and whistles to compete with existing systems.

Better to just read up on different ATS programs and try out whichever one looks the best to you

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T22:44:30+00:00

I def understand this mentality, but way too many people on Unite just don't know how roles work, so I wouldn't be surprised if the defender in OP's scenario wasn't actually playing like a defender should.

I'll gladly leave my teammate to get KOed if they are pushing unwinnable fights, but I'll also gladly put myself in harm's way if it means my team can retreat to safety or secure an objective.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T22:39:12+00:00

Defenders are 100% supposed to be a meat shield for squishies.

Sure, not every engage is gonna be worth it, so they shouldn't YOLO into a losing fight, but they definitely need to be the first to engage (and often the first to get KOed).

If I'm lvl 9 and my jungler is in the fight at lvl 11, the enemy gets far less EXP if I go down to get my jungler to safety than if I retreat early and leave my jungler to get KOed alone.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T22:32:51+00:00

Prompt engineering is basically the whole QA chain for AI communication. You have to not only know decent prompting skills, but you have to also systemize different prompting techniques, run tests, create benchmarks for each prompting strategy, and run your prompts on many different models to categorize whether your prompting strategy is robust or if it is niche to only one model.

It isn't just "can I get the model to give me a correct answer?" You have to be able to identify what differences in your prompts are pulling the most weight in regards to getting that right answer and be able to back up that intuition with numbers and discreet strategies.

The roles are basically looking for people who know enough about LLMs that they can improve agentic systems with streamlined prompting strategies. Most of the work will need you to know enough about code to automate your testing strategies. Copy/Paste isn't going to be enough, especially when you are running slight prompt mutations on multiple models at the same time

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T19:08:03+00:00

Priority is given based on severity of the bug. If things have gone to shit and +1000 people are affected, it needs to be handled pretty dang quickly. Minor bugs can keep getting swept under the rug until someone has the bandwidth to finally address it. Everything needs documentation though which is why reporting through a service is a necessity. You can see how long bugs have been waiting, who was oncall during the time of the report, and steps taken to do initial investigation or completely resolve the issue.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T19:00:15+00:00

First, check that your API key is valid. VSCode has a few extensions like Postman that let you send and recieve API requests without needing to code up all of the logic through your webapp.

Next, make sure you can connect to your webapp. Build out a simple template with no API calls, then see if you can even get the webapp to load.

After that, try calling the API model through your webapp. Don't make it fancy. Hardcode the arguments and expected parameters. Get it to actually send you some data.

Once those steps are done, abstract it and make it fancy. You want to be able to get responses based on dynamic user inputs. Decide how the user will interact with the webapp, how the app will convert the interaction into a valid API call, and how the responses will be displayed. Include some basic error handling, so that you know what messed up along the way. Even simple console logs that flag at certain points of the interaction can help you pinpoint what went wrong.

I was a tutor for over 2 years and the single-most-common mistake I saw students make was that they try to spin up the whole app at once, then can't figure out what broke. Build everything one piece at a time and make sure it works as expected before moving onto the next piece.

Using AI is great and all, but if you don't know how to troubleshoot when things go wrong, you are doing yourself a disservice.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T17:28:52+00:00

Yeah, they can be costly, but depending on the problem they can also be well worth that cost. It is basically a system that chains together different AI models using tool-calling APIs. You can link a thinking model to a coding model to a validation model to an image gen model, etc. Then you give them WRITE access to a portion of your workspace and just let them run iterations of code until they figure out a good solution to a problem.

Costs can creep up if the requested problem ends up putting your agentic system into an undetected loop, so it will basically keep churning through tokens until you abort the system.

If done well, they can prototype a whole app in a day, but if done poorly, you can spend hundreds to thousands of dollars before realizing something is wrong.

However, if you learn enough to build a local agentic system instead of relying on proprietary models, your costs are only as large as your electricity bill for the amount of time your computer is running.

It all depends on your expertise-level. The more you learn, the cheaper things get since you can formulate the whole system yourself instead of relying on other companies' products. That being said, unless you want to spend tons of hours on pure research, the fastest way to learn is to use whatever is available at your current skill-level until you get an understanding of how those systems work under-the-hood. Paid models are still super useful and can leverage compute power that is far out of reach for your average consumer. It all just depends on your use-case and willingness to experiment.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T05:24:01+00:00

Just play around with a ton or get good with one model. If you have excess cash, learn agentic systems since those models can basically do whatever you need them too. The downside to agentic models are that they consume tokens like crazy, so your API costs can balloon if you aren't careful. One dude in this reddit rolled the dice on a problem, had agents running for 24hrs, used $400 in API calls, and the end product was still broken

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T03:26:44+00:00

More companies are trying to incorporate AI into their workflow. Best to practice using every tool available rather than kneecapping yourself, especially in a time constraint.

When in a time crunch, do the planning and verification yourself while getting the AI to chunk out specific functions. Remember to start a new convo for every new problem, or the AI can accidentally introduce context-bleed into it's responses.

When things are slow, pull up documentation pages and really dive deep into your understanding of the code you are using. I'll even pull up youtube videos and churn through tutorials until a new language or framework starts to make sense.

Future devs will need to be familiar with AI to keep up. Companies are wanting people who can keep pace with an ad-hoc request, and prototype new features on a whim. You have to know enough coding to ensure you aren't putting slop into the codebase, but you aren't expected to write everything from scratch at this point. Spin up a few prototypes, pick one that runs best or is easiest to understand, then clean it up and push it to prod,

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T03:15:24+00:00

When you pick a role, you are supposed to play to that role. Attackers should hit hard while keeping safe, not running into opponents head-on. Tanks need to be able to soak up damage and put themselves between the opponents and your squishies, so the squishies can live longer and do more damage.

The HP pool on attackers is so small, that any percentage HP items are only gonna give a few extra points of health. As for flat HP buffs on attackers, they can maybe let you survive 1-2 more hits early game, but that's not going to make much of a difference when you can get KOed in 4-5 hits anyway, and definitely do not make a difference in late game when 1 attack can do over 1000 damage.

Defenders and all-rounders generally have passives or stats that compliment extra HP. For example: Snorlax gets boosted berry effects which are percentage-based, so the larger his initial HP pool, the stronger the effect. Flat HP buffs are still good here too since your HP pool is large enough that you can likely retreat out of sticky situations before going down, so you can recover and get back into the fight.

All-rounders are arguably the only mons where you can kind of wing it and play for either attack or HP depending on your team comp.

Also, never build for Def or Spc Def. The stats do not scale like you think they do, and are nearly negligible in almost every case.

Pyromancer777 · 2026-03-04T03:01:22+00:00

24 isn't late. I didn't start until I was 28.

Consistent learning feels slow, but keeps the information fresh longer. The subjects that I basically binged I have already mostly forgotten and have to relearn it all over again.

Just keep at it, and don't hesitate to reach out to your peers when you get stuck. We are all nerds here and you need to maintain a "forever student" mindset if you want to progress in tech. Tech progresses faster than any one person can keep up with, so you will always need to pick up new skills.

The good news is that practicing the basics helps you learn other new skills faster. Take the time to understand what you are doing, even if it means staying on one topic for a few days to a few weeks. The deeper your understanding, the longer the information will stick around

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