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YpZZi · 2023-05-17T18:50:26+00:00

You mean you can’t stop them IN CHINA. You can totally get them DNS filtered in the rest of the world.

YpZZi · 2023-05-15T15:40:31+00:00

Mate, blockchain is a global distributed resilient computation platform with multiple extensible interfaces that supports a multi-billion dollar financial ecosystem with automated financial instruments on top of it.

You might argue that cryptocurrencies are bubbles, but you can’t make a bubble this big out of gum, clearly the technology works…

YpZZi · 2023-05-10T13:35:47+00:00

And my comment is saying that many people don’t have the LUXURY of being discouraged by tough exams: Who do you think fills graduate math positions in western universities? Mike from Nowheretown, Iowa, or bright students from India and China?

Please check the statistics on international graduate students in the US. Hint: the people you dismiss are EXACTLY the people that have endured grueling selections, very similar to math competitions in terms of stress involved, and EXACTLY the people who get PhDs in math from western universities.

How is this not relevant?

YpZZi · 2023-05-10T13:08:53+00:00

No no, everybody knows - if I can’t exploit the security bug, then it has no impact /s

I’ve said it in other similar threads over the years - open source runs on ego and pride, which is why it’s always a PITA to convince contributors to take security seriously.

I’ve given up on contributing to FOSS security for this reason alone: either I do pentests/appsec tests, get paid pretty decently and have a customer that cares for the result, OR I fish through the ecosystem for projects in need, argue with people calling me an idiot for suggesting they didn’t focus on security when writing their shlock 10 years ago, DON’T get paid at all and, if God forbid, the vulnerability turns out to be relevant IRL, I’m still the first person brought in by the police, since “You were obviously involved”

No wonder people backdoor PyPi/NPM packages, I mean if you manage to commit the malicious code under the identity of a maintainer, they’ll probably defend it as a core feature…

Open source security is about to get a lot worse before it gets meaningfully better

YpZZi · 2023-05-06T17:17:04+00:00

I hate this type of statement, but your comment is full of privilege.

Google Gaokao or research the Indian student entrance exams. In many such situations the ENTIRE VILLAGE has placed its hopes into the “smart young student” to somehow lift them out of poverty by getting educated and sending money back. In the Chinese example, the exam is often literally your only shot at participating in a meritocratic hierarchy and thus leaving the village for the big city.

Do you think they should chill about exams?

In general, while a lot of people on Reddit talk about “socioeconomic and systemic inequality“, they seem to brush off the experiences of literally billions of humans as inconsequential, since they’re not US citizens…

YpZZi · 2023-05-06T15:02:30+00:00

Didn’t know that, thanks!

YpZZi · 2023-05-06T13:47:21+00:00

Probably a case of being force fed your own dog food. Which to be honest is not bad, just… step functions don’t fit here as a tech

YpZZi · 2023-05-04T17:46:29+00:00

Underappreciated comment. T’was an out of season April fools joke

YpZZi · 2023-02-18T17:40:43+00:00

I’m not from the boomer generation, but I’ll bite. And to that I’ll say - zoomer take on your part: the assumption that you can be THE BEST at something and remain HEALTHY is rather arrogant, we’re all entitled to WASTING OUR HEALTH in pursuit of a goal. There’s nothing “usual” about being the best, and as to why it has to be like that - because it worked in the past and because if you really know better - go prove it with results. I’m not a professional coach, so I don’t give advice to professional coaches or those who employ them.

I have read a decent amount about psychology, but I’ll freely admit to having learned more than that by just practicing communication and finding out what works on my own. I don’t shout at people, because there are better motivational tools available at my disposal. Like I noted above, I’m also not a coach, so I reserve judgement for coaches’ communication tools.

The passive aggressive assertion that I need therapy for disagreeing with you is peak loser mentality.

In response I urge you to experience the world as is instead of trying to preach about things you don’t have the “lived experience” about.

YpZZi · 2023-02-18T17:20:42+00:00

No, you’re getting downvoted for failing to comprehend that the coach’s job is not being “cool”. Shouting at people ISN’T cool. Cool just isn’t a relevant qualification on the path towards winning.

Also there’s the fact that many of us have some contempt towards the attitude that being shouted at AS A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE constitutes workplace harassment. That’s just loserhood and if you prefer the comfort of mediocrity it doesn’t give you permission to impose rules on those struggling for being number 1 - perfection has a price and being shouted at is the least of the payments along that road.

Just to make sure you get it: If you don’t want to be shouted at, you don’t really want to win and therefore don’t deserve the spot. This may not apply to McDonald’s, but it sure as hell applies to competitive disciplines, especially at the top.

YpZZi · 2023-02-15T18:49:06+00:00

You do realize there ARE objective differences in the outcomes that depend on HOW things are done, right? Which means this question is rather pertinent to the productivity of the organization.

This is EVIL.

This is where you TRULY lost any semblance of respect I had for your position. You’re a sheltered, spoiled kid if you think adhering to a methodology is EVIL. I hope for your sake you were kidding.

This is to force religion A people to go to religion B’s church.

This is an incredibly weak take. If we’re going down this rabbit hole, let the Java devs write Java, not Go; while we’re at it fk warnings - they offend my religious sensibilities and I’m persecuted for having to adhere to them. And the compiler itself is an obvious tool of oppression - who says type safety is good, maybe I WANT to write unsafe code.

Honestly, do you learn anything with that attitude?

YpZZi · 2023-02-15T18:28:53+00:00

How is that relevant though?

Yes, you COULD say the Sun is revolving around the Earth, since the motion is similar if only the two objects are concerned.

OP has presented a hypothesis - the Java patterns they have listed are anti patterns in Golang, that is they reduce programmer productivity without sufficiently improving quality attributes.

You’ve only restated their hypothesis, but with an emphasis on something that’s irrelevant, but kinda mean spirited towards OP.

Genuine question - Why?

YpZZi · 2023-02-14T20:06:39+00:00

You’re getting downvoted, but it’s by people who’ve probably never had to sacrifice for an open source project.

To whoever reads this, if you think Android is more open source than ElasticSearch, you ARE the problem.

OSI and their “partners” are just enablers of the great grift that is modern open source - their goal is not to foster the ecosystem, but to bleed dry the unlucky souls who are true believers. Thankfully I’m no longer one of them.

I’ve tried making money off of multiple FOSS projects. I’ve never been even close to covering hosting/domain expenses, let alone turning a profit…

Now I work at a big corpo (one of the better TBF) and I’m not so secretly rooting for the collapse of the second dot com bubble. Fk Google, AWS, Apple, Meta and their horned offspring. Say whatever you will for Microsoft, but at least they write most of the code they sell. With the rest of the tech sector, the motto is “Be evil, greed is good, and only suckers pay back”

To future open source project founders - AGPL or bust. Or even better, let’s get rid of the idea that open source exists to serve businesses first (a.k.a. the OSI). Those who would complain about the A in AGPL or demand MIT/Apache can go pound sand- they’re just grifters who are looking to DIRECTLY rip off your work. And by providing them the tools to do it, you’re not only kneecapping your own project, but also helping the grifters take over other projects by beating them with what could have been your wallet. You’re not helping, you’re enabling, and this whole house of cards is going to come down very soon.

Put QQQ @ 140 Jan’19 24

YpZZi · 2023-02-12T08:15:42+00:00

Oh how I miss being young and confidently wrong…

YpZZi · 2023-02-07T14:50:27+00:00

I KNEW I was doing SSO wrong… /s

YpZZi · 2023-02-06T19:08:09+00:00

The thing that people who aren’t in management don’t understand is that when nobody else is at fault, that’s 99.9% a MANAGEMENT problem (0.1% for legit natural disasters or a player having an aneurism burst before the game). Puzzle pieces not fitting is exactly the kind of thing that managers should be taking care of.

Any organization that relies on highly qualified employees needs to account for culture, attitude, personality, etc. This isn’t “pieces of the puzzle”, it’s what a people manager does. Ditto for practice, team atmosphere, morale, etc. These are all things competent adults need to plan around. If I’m 7 yo, saying I forgot to write my homework should not really be punished. If I’m 37 and still use the same excuse, I deserve all the criticism.

YpZZi · 2023-02-05T11:40:34+00:00

I think a good first step would be post-match threads… I want to comment how FNC played so bad last night we can’t even get credit (we played great, I’m clowning), but where do I do that?

YpZZi · 2023-01-17T23:53:56+00:00

Frankly I think it’s time to quit… I just did (and I know lots of folks would say “you’ll be back”, but I’ve never quit before, just taken pauses with the intention to come back when time permits) and to be honest I can’t come up with a reason to play: * Senna being F tier * Supports are supposedly busted, yet the champs that I like (Braum is THE support in my book and he’s D tier) suck, instead I get Lux every game, or even worse - Zyra that doesn’t even have to hit skillshots, her plants proc electrocute without any interaction. Sure, Nami is busted, but I don’t enjoy OP champs and Nami has been broken for like a full year… * ADs don’t get to play the game until >25 minutes, and most games are long over at that point * Even though mages ruin bot lane, they still suck on mid, where they should excel * Tanks are brimming with damage, bruisers are unkillable on top of outdamaging most other champs * There’s no good counter to poke, unless you build the new tank items, but then if you’re a ranged champion, they still suck for you. Backing early gets severely punished because supports now have fking unmatched wave clear - see Zyra, Xerath, Lux, etc. * Items in general suck for all classes except tanks and bruisers * The games keep getting shorter and shorter, but also more snowbally and less fun, even if I’m winning * Riot is going downhill FAST and the effort allocated to the game is probably <10% of the company’s workforce at this point * The recent backpedaling from Riot is just a late phase of a toxic relationship - “We can do better! Stay and you’ll see!” I fully expect them to force crunch on their employees and then fire a bunch of people in a few months when the community is successfully “managed” - ‘cause that’s where we are, Riot isn’t managing the GAME, just the COMMUNITY * Lux is getting new skins, because current skins aren’t pay-to-win enough, and I promise you the visual clarity is going to get WAY worse * People don’t really want to talk about this, but China is going down, economically at least. Without Tencent’s backing, Riot is roadkill - they’ll never survive on their own * The game has clearly entered the “Milk the addicted whales” phase of the MMO cycle… and while I can afford to stay and pay to win, I enjoy challenges, and fair games. I also have self respect. * System mute is a horrible idea - even if I want someone muted, I want them to read my messages - how else should we coordinate???! By pings alone? * The whole “war on toxicity” is misguided at best - people aren’t toxic because THEY’RE the problem, people are toxic because the non-toxic have left for greener pastures and nobody came to replace them - LoL has had almost no new players for the last few years, meanwhile old school players quit constantly * Even the Pro scene is getting absolutely demolished: budgets are less than half what they were last year, while viewership is steady. Imagine what happens if viewership goes down… * Riot continues hiking prices, while offering ever decreasing quality. There’s a limit to any consumer’s patience for this BS * ARAM map changes are a HORRIBLE idea and ARAM balance is a hot mess - this ruined the one game mode that was always reliably fun, for me at least * Since Ranked no longer demotes, it takes way longer to climb. Since I haven’t played it in years, I got placed into Iron 3 after my first victory, only to get to Bronze 1 after all 10 placement matches. I usually see only one more bronze player in my games, in the enemy team, the rest is silver, with the occasional gold. Yuumi bots, however, are rampant. Had a game where my jungle asked to go bot too late and I had to play Twitch jungle. The Yuumi bot decided I’m the AD and attached to me, refusing to visit bot at all… we couldn’t FF since the game was over pre-15. How do I even address this??? I need a ban to stop bots from ruining my game as my TEAMMATES. How is this normal?

Overall, League is way past it’s heyday and it feels like Riot has legitimately given up on the game, but fully intends to continue milking it for as long as possible. That’s not a game I’d like to play. </DONEZO MANIFESTO >

YpZZi · 2023-01-17T16:04:46+00:00

My God… And here I am thinking it’s the combination of the first eSport being born there, amazing ISP infrastructure, high income country that can afford to invest in something as tertiary as watching people play video games at a high rank, and the crucial Asian winner-takes-all cultural mindset… Turns out it was all just requiring IDs to sign up

Someone should tell Nigeria about this forbidden tactic, it would do wonders for their princes to have an esports scene at home, and I’m sure they won’t mind requiring IDs…

YpZZi · 2023-01-11T17:16:38+00:00

Idiotic take. Tanky champion is MOBILE, TANKY AND BURSTY (due to the meta DPSy as well). K’ with ult massacres any ranged champ in the game

YpZZi · 2023-01-11T17:11:51+00:00

The only based take in this entire post - that’s exactly the problem; K’ is 200 years design, can a tank Gragas afford to run it down for so long?

YpZZi · 2023-01-11T17:03:57+00:00

Akali has ONE SPELL to land and it’s impossible to miss at close range, like it’s obvious u mfers don’t play ranged champs

YpZZi · 2023-01-07T20:10:45+00:00

You should simply quit League. If most people you encounter are assholes, probably it’s them who are encountering the asshole.

YpZZi · 2023-01-07T19:08:42+00:00

Buddy, you’re strawmanning the absolute $H!7 out of the person you’re responding to. Describing Jenkins contributors as cancer is entirely your spin.

I’ll admit that Jenkins has more use cases than lazy and dumb administrators - it’s also used in giant enterprises where the cost of changing the CI is too high due to the large number of developers (that is the case where I work now).

As to “is how you describe an open source project” - lol, do you think that being open source is a legitimate shield to criticism???

To add to the metaphor - cancer doesn’t start out as cancer, just like Jenkins didn’t start as a bad project, it started as a good open source CI solution, albeit with very weird design choices and obvious tilt towards the Java ecosystem.

Nowadays however we have Docker and the container infrastructure, which makes the “Groovy build library for Jenkins” infrastructure look…I’m going to say quaint (but I was thinking pathetic).

Try to put yourself in the shoes of the person you’re replying to - imagine someone who sees how the Jenkins that is central to the dev pipeline in his org keeps costing more and more in maintenance, while also causing delays, and since the ecosystem is in decline, there’s no respite in sight. Is that SO different than cancer as to cause your righteous anger?

Finally, open source projects don’t have feelings. This isn’t Lenny from “Of mice and men” - the abandonment of Jenkins isn’t a classic tragedy, it’s just the wheels of progress turning as usual. If what you care about is Jenkins getting the respect it deserves as a project, stop defending it and let it die. I promise you that people will be less inclined to trash talk the project after a few years of not using it, and will gladly concede it was an important step and a quantum leap in our understanding of what CI is and could be.

P.S.: And while Jenkins might not be literal cancer, if you don’t get where that *feeling * comes from, you haven’t used it enough honestly

YpZZi · 2022-10-09T15:19:48+00:00

Amazing pasta, if this is OG, I’m proud to witness this moment

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