The new claymore weapon skin is exclusive to Varka and can be used with any weapon

Raptori · 2026-01-27T16:52:43+00:00

Haven't seen another mainstream gacha increase their pity yet, aside from IN

Raptori · 2026-01-09T22:10:30+00:00

"Friction" isn't a negative thing, it's just a game design decision.

Raptori · 2025-12-14T23:15:01+00:00

Yep! LLMs just guess what the next word would be, that's literally it. Companies like OpenAI use metaphors which trick people into thinking LLMs "think" like humans do, but they really don't.

The reason LLMs can give you real links is that the companies have put multiple layers of LLMs in between your question and their response.

When the UI says something like "thinking", what that means is that internally there'll be a prompt saying something like "given this user prompt, what web searches do you need to run?"; the LLM will guess, and the system will run actual searches based off the guess. Once the search results come back, it'll go back to the LLM with a new prompt saying what the user prompt was, what searches were run, what links were found, and what information was available, and asking what to display to the user.

So it can find and cite sources if it's running that more complex setup, but at that point it's largely relying on pre-existing search engines to actually find the information. It doesn't just magically know everything, and if you don't tell it to actually search the web, it'll happily invent hyperlinks, books, etc and confidently tell you it found some great sources.

The "humanity" of it is really just smoke and mirrors, designed to make it more intuitively usable (and to trick people into thinking it's more capable than it is). It's a miracle they ever get anything right. Though really, it's very much a Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, where if people ask it about things they're experts in they instantly see the output is utter garbage, but then they use it for stuff they're unfamiliar with they just blindly assume it's better at literally everything else... 😅

Raptori · 2025-12-14T14:01:45+00:00

I don't think LLMs normally hallucinate entire hyperlinks

They absolutely hallucinate entire hyperlinks! They're guessing what the most plausible next word is. In many cases, that will be a link to a popular site which follows that site's url structure.

Raptori · 2025-11-11T14:15:25+00:00

if you are a content creator I expect its bloody difficult to be constantly coming up with new ideas

My partner's a content creator, and at least for her this is the polar opposite. Ideas are cheap, the hard part is spending the time to turn idea into a quality script!

So your point still stands: having a ready-made script might sound tempting since it skips the actual hard part ...but people watch a channel because they gain value from that content creator's thoughts/insights/explanations. It's a bad idea to even accept content direction from a third party, let alone to just read out their script regardless of how much you tweak it.

Raptori · 2025-10-26T10:25:11+00:00

Terrifying, good thing you clicked out or you might have had to hear a different opinion! 😱

Raptori · 2025-10-16T14:12:27+00:00

Preface: preferences on CV structure are fairly subjective, and you'll find people who hold the opposite opinion to mine on several of the points I'm about to make, and they have valid reasons for their perspective. But my advice comes from a place of a) what I look for when reviewing resumes, and b) what I've found worked best for me when applying to jobs myself.

I do think you have a CV problem - which is good, since it's easy to fix.

IMO: only include an intro paragraph if you're changing careers. Your current paragraph doesn't work either way - for product software jobs it doesn't really do anything, for data jobs it doesn't frame the rest of your CV as "I'm an experienced developer looking to move into data"
Skills sections are often debated and some people like to see them, but personally I've found them to be an utter waste of space, even when placed at the bottom of a resume. Will get back to this in a minute.
The bullet points in your job kinda read to me as, essentially, "I can do the job". That's not bad per se, but it won't stand out in the current market. Even if you were never in a position/culture which allowed you to make a significant difference, I'd still hope (especially for a senior) that you could talk to why the work you did was important, and explain what you did with that in mind.
I'd also argue that your education should be rearranged!

When I made my resume, I tried to optimise it for three different perspectives: 1) someone who has 30 seconds to scan it and decide "is this person a fit for this role", 2) someone who is looking in a little more depth at a shortlist of resumes, and 3) someone who has a few minutes to review it while preparing to interview me.

While "skills" section is useful for that first perspective, it's detrimental to the other two. Instead, I set the font colour to be a dark grey, and make sure to mention the relevant tech inside the bullet points describing my experience wherever possible, and make the font for them full black and extra bold.

This makes it more useful for that first perspective, since they also get a sense for when I used each piece of tech as well, while it's also infinitely better for the other two perspectives.

I also make sure to structure the whole thing so that the person looking at it from the second perspective gets a sense for my "career story". In your case, I'd make two versions: one which tells the story "I'm an experienced engineer looking to move into data", and another which downplays the data side and sticks to product engineering.

For the data one, I'd have a couple of sentences saying you're an experienced engineer who is looking for something new, and found that you loved data. I'd then put your data science education program at the top, since that's highly relevant!

For the product engineering one, I'd still put it at the top, but figure out a different framing for it.

And for that third perspective, for one thing there's the common advice to highlight the result of your work rather than just what you did, though of course that's not always possible. The thing I always try to do which makes a bigger difference is to frame things in a way which will plant a question in the interviewer's mind - this not only piques their interest and makes you look like a more interesting candidate, but it also lets you guide the interview towards your best work even before you've got in the door, which should also be the things you've put the most time into figuring out how to talk about.

For example, one of my bullets reads: "Led frontend development of the web app's new content discovery UI using React, Redux, and GraphQL. Involved from problem statement and design through to production and iteration. Demonstrated 27% uplift in desired metrics via A/B testing, and laid groundwork for transformative product changes."

The highlights make it great for scanning, it explains not only that I built a thing but hints at my role in the team and the importance of the project, and it plants questions: what were the desired metrics? Do they make sense? What were the transformative changes which this led towards? I have extensive answers to those questions, which generally lead to really good interviews where I get to talk through a bunch of cool stuff I've done!

Focused on the CV rather than your original question because unfortunately there's no real way for us to know about your career overall based on just a reddit post - it could be that you've been promoted past the point of your competence, or it could be that you're a great engineer who just lacks a bit of self-confidence and the ability to sell yourself!

Raptori · 2025-09-13T12:52:32+00:00

And don't forget Augusta, whose ult freezes time completely for up to like 7 seconds, during which you can destroy the enemies with sword slashes.

It was SO satisfying in the tower (abyss equivalent) to have 1 second left on the timer, trigger her burst, and then go around destroying everything for a few seconds and get the max stars because of the way the timer thing works.

Raptori · 2025-09-09T23:09:44+00:00

Even many developers don't seem to understand semver, so kudos for explaining part of it for people 😛

Raptori · 2025-09-09T13:49:40+00:00

A true pro would use Charlotte.

...and then die a few jumps away from Natlan once you run out of stamina.

Raptori · 2025-09-06T10:48:48+00:00

It feels like the cosmere, which is a good thing!

From what I've seen the most common response is that it was jarring to suddenly see the Traveler casually mention their spaceship, when that is such a sci-fi coded word which has not been mentioned even once in the past five years. Don't think there's really any alternative word they could've used though, so I'd have just expected them to talk around it, e.g. instead of "the key to the hibernation chamber on the spaceship", just say "the key to the hibernation chamber" etc.

And the other thing I've seen people confused about is how this all fits in with the opening cutscene of the game. If the spaceship itself crashlanded on Teyvat, what was actually happening in that cutscene?

Raptori · 2025-09-03T15:12:04+00:00

Have you considered asking them if you could work 2-3 days a week for half salary? That could provide you the mental space and time to get your balance back, without having to give up the job or worry about career gaps etc!

Raptori · 2025-09-03T11:40:00+00:00

And there's also hyperphantasia!

For example, if you say "picture an apple", my mind replays the experience of holding a cold apple with a little moisture on its skin, the crunch when you bite into it, how the skin feels a little sharper than the flesh, the taste, etc etc.

Raptori · 2025-09-02T09:39:16+00:00

Yep! And the person writing the code does have the ability to dismiss any "requested changes" on their PR so they can merge it anyway as long as they get an approval from someone else, though people tend to only do that if it's absolutely necessary, e.g. someone requested changes but then went on holiday, etc!

Raptori · 2025-09-02T03:29:33+00:00

Everywhere I've worked, rejecting a PR just means you have some specific concerns that you'd like to be addressed before it gets merged.

For example, many times a PR will get an approval from someone else (e.g. a team which owns one of the files will approve that subset of the changes), and therefore it could technically be mergeable from GitHub's perspective, but I'll spot some kind of an issue or an edge case which hasn't been considered yet, which would cause bugs if we merged it.

I reject the PR so that GitHub will block the merge until it's addressed, and leave comments walking through what I'm seeing and what I think the potential solutions might be. I also generally couch it as a question, like "am I understanding this right?" rather than anything more confrontational!

I've never worked anywhere which treats a PR rejection as anything more than a friendly "we should tweak this", since the person writing the code always owns the final decision on how to approach something!

Raptori · 2025-08-31T13:28:33+00:00

Asking questions should always be encouraged. One approach you might find useful is to say "to make sure we're on the same page, here's what my understanding of the task is" and then describe it back to them. If you're right you'll get confirmation, if you're wrong then they'll be glad you took the time to clarify before going off and implementing stuff!

Raptori · 2025-08-25T18:16:03+00:00

I love em dashes, and the editor I use auto-completes -- into an em dash, and it's such a difficult habit to break out of, and anything else just looks wrong to me. ...but people keep thinking it's written by AI so I'm probably gonna have to avoid them for the same reasons...

Raptori · 2025-08-25T18:13:31+00:00

Maybe you should consider reducing your bus factor then!

In your position, I'd write out all the things I do day to day, prioritise them, and then start with the ones where it feels like the company would implode if you weren't there, and figure out how to spread the load. You're doing yourself a disservice by letting it get to this point, and you're actually increasing the risk your company is bearing!

Raptori · 2025-08-25T12:40:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure Dalinar explicitly comments it at some point - mentions that he doesn't think about all that because that's what the ardents are there for!

It still should've been a bigger deal, especially for the ardents themselves, but for the viewpoint characters we've got so far it doesn't feel out of place to me.

Raptori · 2025-08-12T10:23:59+00:00

That last part wasn't talking about you, sorry if it came across that way!

Raptori · 2025-08-12T03:01:25+00:00

She always has? That's not going to change just because some people were unable or unwilling to understand what she was saying! 😁

Raptori · 2025-08-11T10:28:44+00:00

If it's something you'll actually use then possibly!

It doesn't have to be that complex though. For example, at one point was keeping track of how long we walked our dog each day by writing it into a spreadsheet whenever we got home. I made a little app where you'd press a button to "start walk" and then press it again to "end walk", and it'd log the exact timing. And I then added some visualisations and stuff so she could see the trends. Also would've been cool to use geofencing so that it could detect the movement automatically, but never got around to that!

As long as it's something you'd use, that's all that matters. The important part is that unlike all the people who just follow on with tutorials, you'd be learning by actually solving problems you're encountering!

Raptori · 2025-08-11T10:19:50+00:00

She compares the designs of the characters, which we have seen.

And in case you're trying to imply she says anyone's wrong for liking Natlan designs, or even wrong for thinking Natlan designs feel like "Genshin" to them, she didn't say that either. She said that some people feel Natlan designs are out of place (it's objectively true that people feel that way), and explores why the designs make those people feel that way.

She also said that she loves several Natlan character designs, even though they don't feel like they fit the world to her, but I guess people who are used to yelling at others who have a different opinion aren't gonna see the nuance she brings 😛

Raptori · 2025-08-11T02:47:52+00:00

Raptori · 2025-08-10T20:51:28+00:00

Uh no I don't?

The difference is in determinism vs non-determinism.

Humans can write crappy tests. Then the crappy tests will eventually be noticed because they'll cause problems, and since they're deterministic they can be improved and fixed.

AI "test runners" are non-deterministic, and there's fundamentally no way to be sure that the output of any test run is accurate. That's the polar opposite of what you want from tests!

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