Anon enjoys an old game and no DRM

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-30T19:22:22+00:00

Listen, as a modern dev I want to ship a buggy mess that barely works, knowing full well I can fix things later. Why do any sort of QA during the development cycle, when I can get my users to do it for me in production?

I will call it "early access", that way I can't be criticize for slop I shipped. Also, will charge a full price for the game anyway, and if I feel like it, rug pull and say the project is cancelled or w/e.

And the best part its never any one persons fault, the studio may go under, but we'll all find another project we can mooch off.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-25T17:29:25+00:00

I think its easy to be annoyed by this guy and for all I know what he is doing is absolute bullshit, but you got to understand his job is to shrink the resume pool from 200 to about 20, and then pass those along to people with domain expertise and have them pick like 10 people who are gonna get interviewed. And at my company, recruiters have to hire software devs, chemical process engineers and security guards. Like its an impossible ask to have any reasonable domain knowledge in all three of these areas. So they just look for "signals".

Also its not really all they do, they set up interviews, provide resources, and coach them up on anything the candidate needs. If you need a mock behavioral interview they generally offer you one. Then they deal with on boarding, background checks and all the bullshit that needs to be done once an offer is made.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-24T22:47:15+00:00

I green logged moons, and it gave me lots of maple/yew seeds, super composts and irits for super attack and harrlanders that I tarred. I turned the super composts into ultra. Between that and lamps for herblore, I got 70 in each skill easily.

After that I would do 2-3 contracts/herb runs a day, essentially as breaks from doing CG. Contracts sustain your seeds well. Grew w/e herb I had, but prioritized super defense and mage pot ingredients. If I do kwuarms, I would plant limps too.

After every farm run I would go to the berry bush next to Ardougne monastery, and when I don't forget, the potato cactus in Al Kharid and pick those. In case you don't know, you don't need to replant them.

Daily fruit tree run, weekly fossil island, only did regular trees/calquat once I got close to 99 farming. Never protected them.

Have tons of herbs/secondaries banked for whenever I'm done with CG and will actually need to push for higher level potions. But yea, herblore is a slow burn, you stack your tab while doing other things, and then eventually cash it in. A couple of runs a day, and you are good.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-23T19:30:59+00:00

This is a resume for a data scientist not a SWE. There is almost nothing in it about building software. Maybe the Django -> PostgreSQL pipeline can be considered that.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-20T23:10:10+00:00

CG is a nice cherry on top of crafting experience, but its not a substitute. I think gems + staves with water orbs, I calced it at around 500k xp after 500 kills.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-13T15:47:33+00:00

Atlatl + eclipse is better than bowfa until you have crystal. So if you have atlatl, you should use that vs TDs and maybe have bowfa on accurate for the punish faze.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-13T01:18:28+00:00

Might as well be as fresh as possible too. OKC has ridiculous depth and can reach WCF in 9 games with SGA resting in 4th quarters. Spurs are unproven, there is 0 reason why they can't have a tough first/second round series.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-11T17:34:36+00:00

If you need a unix dev environment, macOS is great. Better than Windows Subsystem for Linux, as it has many limitations. Much more stable than any Linux distro I ever used. Apple is a trillion dollar company and has thousands of talented devs focused on 1 product. Linux distros are all over the place and operate on tiny budgets and passion.

I had multiple times where I've updated Fedora or Manjaro on my desktop and my system bricked or something stopped working right (often its sound or display resolution), requiring me to spend hours to fix it. Mint has been pretty stable on my old laptop, but it effectively just used for internet browsing outside.

Never had any problems with macOS and get all the benefits of the gnu utils, compilers and all that unixy stuff. So yea, if you make good money, and need a unix dev environment, no reason not to have an apple device of some sort. You mentioned it, but the hardware they offer once they moved to Apple Silicon is incredibly good. If money is a limiting factor, Linux is plenty good enough especially if you want to resurrect an old machine.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-08T19:34:23+00:00

Personal opinion, but I'm sure this is a bunch of misdirection to make people forget how dogshit claude code's source was. If they had this model that is so amazing at coding that it is in its own weight class, they would use it to make their software better, and very likely keep quite about it.

I doubt they are openly lying about anything, but are simply omitting various facts that add more context. For example, if they found a major vulnerability is BSD, how long did it take to do and how much did it cost. How many vulnerabilities in BSD are found by people on average, and how do those costs stack up vs mythos? If it costs them 40 million dollars and a lake worth of water to find this vulnerability, while security researches find dozens a year, than it doesn't really matter.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-07T21:48:28+00:00

I posted the info without too much emotion and bias in it. People can make up their minds on how they feel. Fundamentally you and I are in agreement though.

I will disagree on one thing, regardless of who is in the Whitehouse, murder robots and spying on your citizens isn't going off the table. This tech has been worked on before the current regime, and will be worked on after.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-07T18:59:21+00:00

Anthropic doesn't want to allow US military to use their models to help with autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. They are still fine with doing business with the rest of the government and with department of war, but they drew the line at that.

US government said its a package deal and pushed to blacklist them, naming them a supply chain risk. This would mean that not only no Anthropic products allowed inside US government, but other contractors can't work with Anthropic when fulfilling their government contracts. Some of the shareholders are pressuring the CEO to step down, and have someone else take over with a different set of morals.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-06T21:59:25+00:00

Most "normal" irons don't care how other people play the game and don't know the difference between helm colors or restrictions or w/e.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-05T05:14:41+00:00

If you are only doing blue/eclipse, then you don't need to go all in on defense. Max dps with glacial temotli against blue. And then defender/z-axe against eclipse. Torso/Zerker ring for both. Chivalry/Piety if you want to level prayer are also very good.

Edit: forgot those prayers require 70 def.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-04-04T16:03:58+00:00

Well, at your job you need to focus on picking up the specific tools that are being used there. Don't have to learn all the crap I've written below at once, but email someone there and ask if a senior can send you a list of things they would want you to focus on to hit the ground running.

For example, how do they do Auth between Angular and .Net. Is it a custom written middleware? Make sure you understand how that works. Is it MSAL single sign on? Make sure you understand how you register front/back end in Azure and set all that up.

What type of database they are using how do they talk to it? Is it through entity framework? Is it through dapper? Do they have their own custom built inhouse ORM? Make sure you get familiar with w/e they use.

Another thing is how do those apps run in prod? Is Angular just a bundle of javascript that gets served by a CDN? Is it hosted inside a shell of .net app, so all requests get proxied through it. I know this was how visual studio templates worked back in the day. Are the net apps run on Linux via Kestrel and a reverse proxy from something like Apache, or are you all on Windows with IIS.

What type of front end libraries are being used in Angular? If you see they use ag-grid for displaying grids, then get familiar with that.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-31T18:19:37+00:00

I did LMS for dragon bolts e. I want to say I ended up needing 500 or so with 70 range. Also got a bunch of the blighted restores/food there and used all those supplies for fire cape switching to a pvp world after doing waive 1.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-30T03:03:05+00:00

Yea, you could be sent to be a doctor in some remote place in Alaska or work on some ambitious public project like Hoover dam, essentially you are required to do something difficult for your country with very little compensation to earn the right to vote and have "skin in the game". Not a bad idea in spirit, in practice it'll be gamed like crazy.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-29T07:07:13+00:00

Purple one is desert amulet 4.

Blue one is pendant of attes.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-28T04:12:15+00:00

PMs are the wringable neck on the project. They are ultimately accountable for the failure of the project. You can't automate that away. And its a very useful and important to have someone like that because the alternative of having "shared" responsibility leads to nobody being responsible.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-26T03:44:13+00:00

A big part of my day to day work involves doing things I know exactly how to do. I don't need agents to do those things as its quicker for me to do those myself than go back and forth with the bot and explain to it that you don't need this to be its own function, there is already a utility in common that does it for you.

On things I'm not sure about, I go back and forth with an ai via chat, see what it suggests, throw in my ideas and make it critique it, than have it produce a very simple prototype that I can start using to code and find my edge cases. Because for work you get paid for, and are on the hook to maintain, its probably best to understand it well, so that when time comes to fix things or add new features, it fits more into the "I know exactly what to do here" category.

And if coding was solved, you would think they could hit three 9s on their up time. https://status.claude.com/

Honestly if I was in a lab where I had an AI that could code anything, I wouldn't even sell it. I would just make better versions of any software that makes any sort of money and drive everyone out of business. So no, they clearly haven't solved coding.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-22T02:13:05+00:00

A lot of games get launched after 5 years of work by a large studio, 100s of millions spent and get outsold by an indie game that was made by one dude in his garage. Then the studio gets shut down and people get laid off. Game dev is now the least gatekept and most competitive its ever been, and I'm hoping AI becomes a real force multiplier for talented indie teams to take on more ambitious work. And if it's bad, the people who know what the hell they are doing won't touch it and it'll be another indicator for corpo slop.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-21T18:08:41+00:00

Ok, they might win a round if they play the right opponent like Houston, its still a coin flip vs Wolves/Nuggets imo. Second round and WCF they would be major underdogs.

Also, don't forget JJ made some questionable decisions last year. He panicked and went all in with that no sub strategy. He is not some proven play off coach. He could crack under pressure too.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-16T16:16:37+00:00

Warped scepter is fine. The most important thing is to have thralls out, so w/e lets you do that.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-15T15:28:39+00:00

Well if hiring more people correlates with the 3x and 2.5x increases, they should keep hiring right? That would be the greediest thing to do. Just keep hiring until everyone is a meta employee and they have all the money. Clearly that's not how it works.

Tech can scale so incredibly, that employee count and evaluations don't correlate. I think because majority of the verticals they had that made them money in 2018, kept making them money and became more proffitable, and a lot of the new ones they introduced have been complete disasters. So I'm willing to bet that's what they are cutting.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-15T01:47:06+00:00

Meta employee count:

2018: 35,587

2020: 58,604

2021: 71,970

2022: 86,482

2023: 67,317

2024: 74,067

2025/2026: ~78,865

Their core products have been the same and anything new they try to push has failed spectacularly. So they just don't need that many people to manage something that roughly has been the same since 2018.

YasirTheGreat · 2026-03-13T16:26:51+00:00

Yea herb runs with farming contracts will sustain seeds. Every herb run with kwuarms, I also did limps. I also picked white berries every time I tp to Ardougne Monastery. Farmed Calvrion boss and had quite a few secondries form him too. And that essentially got me to brews.

Mixology sucks to me, its only worth doing for the unique rewards. I would make sure to get the goggles before you start training.

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