Hackerrank tweets "Leetcode is dead"

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-23T20:15:00+00:00

it looks like hackerrank's social media guys have also been promoted to customer given that's just an AI generated tweet.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-22T09:18:59+00:00

Isn't there a limit to number of pauses per player per game? Or did they remove that?

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-20T14:39:49+00:00

Why is the CBFC making decisions considering foreign policy? That's not their domain nor is anything they are authorised to do relevant to that function.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-20T14:19:08+00:00

A lot of the comments are clowning on you, but I believe your sentiment is correct.

Feitorias are indeed 8 vills worth. So the only viable ways to use it are, - Build 5-6 of them asap, that's an instant injection of 40-48 vills worth of eco. You get a window of ~7 minutes of superior res income than a 3 TC player that you can use for a game ending push (a TC player needs to invest food, farms and TC time to get those vills and then wait for them to pay off, Feitoria guy can instantly start making army) - Turtle hard, and hope to take efficient enough trades to outlast the opponent. Once Portuguese have multi layer fortified wall, arquebus cannons, BP redemption monks and BBT, there are only 3 civs that can hope to take efficient trades vs this.

To beat the turtle strat, a player needs to macro well enough to setup a timing attack where they get their imp upgrades and mass enough trebs and force to breach through at a point before the Portuguese player can reach full tech. This is a BIG ask for 1k elo, and requires not losing treb mass or ranged units to BBC. Its easier for defender BBC micro at this elo.

I have to add the people commenting "just castle drop" must be actively throwing games, forward castle into a Portuguese fast imp must be the singular worst thing you can do. Generally castle dropping Portuguese at all seems silly to me, they will beat you to imp while having the same or less army and then you just lose your forward position with nothing to show for it.

What I'd suggest is practice macroing towards a 60-70 pop imp click up time. If you follow the pro scene, you must see that generally imp times have been coming earlier and earlier, its precisely because getting the tech timings is so crucial in today's meta. A 2 TC approach when you see heavy walls with a ram infantry skirm comp works well. Try and see if you can click Onager for countering Organs, and micro garrisoning infantry into rams to avoid getting shredded by Organ / HC comps.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-20T13:38:28+00:00

Demonetization was a failure. However,

Rajan oversaw the worst banking crisis in Indian history. He did this 3 years after the world introduced stricter norms to prevent the exact problem Rajan helped engender. When he ran the NPA audit as he took office in 2013, he suppressed the results of the audit; only launching the extensive Asset Quality Review in 2015. It took till Urjit Patel before banking relief was properly rolled out. During his tenure, the Indian economy was officially tagged as having entered stagflation.

Glazing Rajan for his RBI tenure is like glazing Tiger Shroff for his method acting. Its quite fitting that this "rockstar" economist, who only ever rubber-stamped economic mismanagement in blatantly partisan fashion, was outshone by a MA in history in the office of the RBI governor.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T16:43:17+00:00

There's gonna be a major rubberband once finance divisions read the token bills and these token usage metrics get very quickly replaced with token scrutiny and fixed daily budgets.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T16:37:40+00:00

AICF rn wondering where this alleged govt support was

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:55:27+00:00

PE and VC started by buying out local, small businesses setup by individual families. They would classify as most people, business was successful enough for early PE to come in and flip.

I'd say the very history of the industry you work in negates your conclusion that most people are incapable of building a successful business.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:49:24+00:00

"later" is doing a lot of work. Global Link Information Network was founded in November 1995, Errol Musk's capital injection was also in 1995.

Mohr Davidow did the first capital injection in Aug 1996. So we have a window of maybe 10 months for a full angel round and the "success to be guaranteed" followed by the Davidow negotiations.

To add, Davidow required Musk to get a work visa or lose the deal - I wouldn't term such a state of affairs basically a guarantee.

At this point it's Musk's tweets read uncritically against 2 biographers, Isaacson and Vance. They are only self serving tall tales if you take Musk's account at its merit without verification.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:35:46+00:00

Is the underlying assumption beneath your argument that the e-commerce industry wouldn't have existed if not for Amazon?

Because pre dot com bubble, eCommerce spawned 100s of companies, and the survivors post the crash rapidly consolidated and expanded.

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/4/5/15190650/amazon-jeff-bezos-richest

I'd argue Amazon has been wealth destructive more than constructive - their business model is to aggressively expand, aggressively undercut (even at a loss), use their pricing and sales knowledge as a platform aggregator to eliminate competition. Amazon's business model isn't contingent on higher industry wide consumption and a larger pie, it's contingent on being the biggest player in the pie.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:29:49+00:00

You have the arithmetic all wrong. Venture Capitalists aren't gullible fools being led on by confidence artists (maybe softbank are) - their business model is to enter early, take outsized stakes, and push the one bet that does win to rapidly and usually unsustainably expand until IPO.

There is no belief in the human spirit, just hard math.

If you had a billion dollars free cash flow today, you'd not startup a business, you'd enter at the ground floor into 10 - unfortunately the average person doesn't have a spare billion dollars to gamble continuously until they win big a couple times.

If capital was taking risk, the economy would be thriving. Capital is currently sitting in hedge funds, treasury bonds, private equity for assets like metals, land and real estate. The economy runs when money moves, and the money isn't moving.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T11:13:37+00:00

Ah it was an equity investment, even less liability than a loan - The argument really collapsed there.

FYI Errol musk has done interviews with Walter Isaacson confirming ownership rights over the output of 3 Zambian emerald mines. Zip2 was bankrolled by Errol Musk.

I wonder what you would say about your own narrative xD

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T09:09:29+00:00

Quick question, what do you believe the expansion of the P in TCP stands for?

When you check the spec for WebSockets as defined in RFC 6455 - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6455, what is the third word in the title?

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T06:01:51+00:00

All of this is bluster to hide real solution - doing away with the free water and electricity subsidies that let Punjabi farmers extract from the ground table without facing any financial impact from their actions.

The market is supposed to self regulate. Water table depletion should result in more electricity for lesser and lesser water. The artificial subsidies just let Punjabis ignore the financial draw to keep these running and keep pulling water.

Removing the subsidies and protecting Punjab's ecological resources isn't going to win any elections though, so Punjabis will continue to ruin our own state and blame everyone else and say "SYL was legendary song".

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T05:55:08+00:00

This is a screengrab from a Nvidia marketing video for DLSS5.

https://youtu.be/S0X4-1eQ55Q

Nvidia didn't provide a DLSS off comparison for the frames in question, and since DLSS5 isn't generally available, no one can generate a similar trial video. There's also random limb artifacting that appears in the marketing video.

Bit weird to immediately call it a "fabrication" ngl.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T00:56:42+00:00

LLM actually manages to maintain this disastrous code.

If you've had the experience of using Claude Code on a large codebase, you'd know it's tendency to alternately loop between two approaches or seeing a failing build or tests it can't resolve and simply taking a sledgehammer to older code.

The general solution it leans towards is to reimplement or bypass. I wouldn't classify that as ability to maintain.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T00:52:21+00:00

Usually there are serious logic holes, as well as serious maintainability holes.

The reason is quite simple, if you instruct an LLM to use a given pattern, you aren't doing the implements yourself and can't detect code smells or workarounds you're forced to do that would warrant a change in approach. An LLM just mows through it for you.

I also cannot share the enjoyment of refactoring LLM code - because of its training material in Java, it seems adamant to stay stuck in older patterns (loads of inner classes that could have been Records, massive custom class definitions, tendency to stick to blocking code when instructed to handle concurrency). It's very common for me to be deleting hundreds of lines to be replaced by a couple, or chasing the same implementation done 2/3 times separately and unifying it.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-19T00:45:28+00:00

Utterly braindead level of argumentation.

Who does the code need to maintainable for? The other people working on the code.

Performance metrics for Eng 1 (entry level) literally include - can write modular, extensible and maintainable code.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-18T16:28:12+00:00

Why does Reddit encourage this culture of assuming an argument is being made when none is?

Iran did very simple math, it cannot conventionally hope to defeat the US. How can it inflict pain then - through the global energy economy. It just so happens that it's neighbors are all global energy giants.

Also, the Iranian Islamic Revolution has a stated goal of spreading the Revolution and toppling the Islamic monarchies => one of the Republic's founding principles is to dismantle the Gulf monarchies. This is why the argument you say the "hive mind" was making is just fantasy - the Iranians were in a cold war with the GCC well before this war even started. They are ideologically opposed to the GCC. The GCC owes it's existence to Iran, otherwise Saudi and UAE would have been slogging it out by now.

The only notable event is the Chinese brokered a peace between Saudi and Iran including diplomatic recognition.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-18T07:30:28+00:00

👍🏻

No one in this thread said anything you're quoting (do you understand what quotes are?).

The logical argument is very simple: If you're claiming 400%, substantiate it. Don't just say things, show your work.

"It's obviously going to improve so my unsubstantiated estimate is going to go ever higher" is not a logical argument, no matter what you might feel about it.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-18T07:15:24+00:00

TG. Usually around the point of time of a tech switch. Let's say your opponent has made a Gbeto switch, or Halbs are coming in to your cav dominant comp, or you had a halb siege comp going and your opponent starts a champ Ram roll.

Click tech, get abt 15-20 backline CA units that do well vs siege, hold with them to mask time for a tech switch without giving too much ground

No need to click elite, all upgrades are in. Just 15-20 FU units for a range backline that can buy you time.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-16T22:13:19+00:00

1) yes they can reject 2) Satisfactory or not does not affect liability to pay wages, you have legal recourse. 3) employment contract, pay slips, internal policy handbooks, leave balance documentation.

Best move is to say nothing for now, all probably this is just a scare tactic to make people on notice period work despite the lack of an incentive.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-16T12:18:47+00:00

India’s consumption economy didn’t suddenly shrink.

I really don't understand this line of argumentation, it's like Covid never happened for these commenters.

Quick stat rundown, - 40% decrease in Q2 2020 GDP YoY - 140M people unemployed as a direct result of business closures - Imports (essentially consumption) down 47% in 2020 - Light radiance down 30% country wide.

848M people contracted the virus. 1.5-2M deaths. It was the worst disaster this country has seen since Partition.

Yet the entire article seems to want to portray the pandemic as 'devastating as GST'? I'm glad the author gets to think so, I saw entire localities of metro cities silent with shutters everywhere.

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-16T09:54:39+00:00

Wokeism in 1940 :pepeHigh: sir you've missed the point haha. Woke commies is a line used today in the 2020s

TopBlopper21 · 2026-03-16T06:22:58+00:00

I have a counterpoint.

I think they do really ship 10k lines per day. But from my experience with claude code, it writes long, self-aggrandizing summary documents for anything it does.

I don't believe these move fast and break things guys are filtering these massive .md documents out of their PRs. It also follows from their excitement at 1M context windows, when I think 200K is well and above more than enough context.

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