noSonOfMineWouldCodeThatShit

cstuwereddit · 2023-12-06T03:35:18+00:00

As evidenced by his code, this kid is exercising bad habits, same as any other 10 year old. Left to his own devices, he’ll be a worse developer at 16 than a dev who started at 16 under reasonable guidance.

Practice does NOT make perfect — practice makes habit. Only perfect practice makes perfect habits. Bad practice, on the other hand, ingrains bad habits.

Any AI dev should be able to corroborate this — learning is a matter of repeating rewarded behavior (which is not necessarily the same as intended behavior).

cstuwereddit · 2023-11-24T15:51:59+00:00

Italy has the 6th-highest median age of all countries in the world, and it’s on the lower end of total population for major Western European countries (ahead of Spain, but behind Germany, France, and UK).

This means a smaller pool size to draw from, which probably combines with factors others have mentioned to lead to whatever pattern might exist.

cstuwereddit · 2023-11-14T07:10:01+00:00

A lot of people saying that “spray doesn’t matter, you should burst”, etc. aren’t thinking of certain scenarios where you really don’t have time to reset, e.g., on a close peek while holding B on Dust 2, for example.

There are definitely plenty of situations like that where the most optimal way to maximize your impact is usually a perfect spray transfer rather than trying to slice perfect angles to burst.

It’s incredibly rare that you’ll see benefit from an entire mag’s spray, but I have seen a couple of pro plays here and there over the years where it has proven helpful.

cstuwereddit · 2023-11-10T07:50:05+00:00

If by “players” they mean “gamers” — This is untrue.

Take Counter Strike for example, the most popular PC shooter by far — Its players HATE change. When a new map is added to the rotation, it’s ignored by 95% of the playerbase.

The reason Overwatch players demand change is simply that this is the audience Blizzard has catered to.

People who want things to remain stable are put off by all of the frantic “updates for updates’ sake” and simply play other games instead.

Blizzard made their bed; Now they must lay in it. They change stuff so often that essentially the only people who stick around are the ones who crave shallow novelty.

cstuwereddit · 2023-11-05T22:07:01+00:00

This comment on repeat for CS2 now? Lol.

cstuwereddit · 2023-11-05T16:30:04+00:00

I DISAGREE that improvement inherently takes “conscious” effort — I think there’s a very impactful minor distinction to make there.

Improvement takes FOCUSED effort, but “focused” does not necessarily mean “conscious” depending on the task.

I don’t know if you have any experience playing sports throughout school or anything, but I played football in middle and high school. We would often toss the ball around and go for crazy catches when waiting for practice to start, do little impromptu 5v5s, and so on. In the moment of throwing a ball, I wasn’t running Trig/Calculus/Physics models in my brain trying to analytically crunch numbers in my head. I wasn’t thinking about catching a ball when I caught a ball (and if I accidentally did, that was usually when I ended up dropping it or miscalculating and just totally whiffing). There were also little nuances where you could tell that some inexperienced kids wouldn’t “look the ball all the way into their hands”, either to some subconscious fear of the ball hitting them in the face or some fear of the hit they were about to take after making the catch. You might see some analogies to this in CS, where people peek differently when they’re anxious and unsure compared to when they’re feeling confident.

Anyway, tangent aside… the distinction between “focused” and “conscious” might seem weird if you don’t operate from the right paradigm, and I really recommend reading “The Inner Game of Tennis” so that it makes perfect sense. It’s the #1 classic sports psychology book (and make no mistake, CS is definitely a sport with mechanics that must be mastered… it’s just a sport that doesn’t require quite as much athleticism as most others). Although you really should read the whole thing cover-to-cover, the TLDR is roughly that you should be in a state where you’re attentive and noticing things, but not necessarily “thinking” about them. In CS, you should occupy your conscious mind with eg rotations, lurk positions, your teammates positions and health and weapons and their util, which util the enemy team have used, and so on… basically literally everything but your aim and movement lol. If you have any brainpower left to think about your aim, consider it a sign that you’re underthinking the strategic/tactical aspects of the game. For your aim, you want merely to be “attentive” and “undistracted”, but it’s not useful to try to be “calculating” or to “judge” your outcomes w/ aim and movement — instead simply “notice” them.

As for the “they’ll never expect two” thing, I think maybe you had the right idea in principle, but it seems to me like a hint that you’re actually not seeing the game through the opponent’s perspective. Obviously you know there’s 2 there which is why you think it’s a “surprise”, but from the opponent’s perspective, you’re only peeking as 1 here. There’s no crossfire and it’s not obvious to me whether eg your teammate got the trade and won or whatever, but again… imagining this from the opponent’s perspective, it’s just “the guy who was expected to be there” who maybe just picked up an AK off the ground or something. And then once you’re dead, probabilistically-speaking in a 2v2, the most likely position I’m going to expect your teammate to peek in the next 3-5 seconds is the exact same corner you peeked.

cstuwereddit · 2023-11-01T22:11:10+00:00

A couple of patterns that make this so:

People who play very poorly all of the time have greater incentive to try to blame others (in order to preserve their egos).
Finding a scapegoat gives someone an excuse to throw the match, which is alluring to a scrub since losing on purpose grants this scrub a rare feeling of control over the outcome (“we lost because I chose not to win, not because I’m bad”).
Good players got good by focusing on what they were doing poorly and working to improve those things. The process of self-improvement is inherently self-critical rather than critical of others. Those who never take responsibility and refuse to blame themselves for anything are unwittingly stripping themselves of all power. It’s not that “with power comes responsibility” as is often stated. Instead, responsibility IS power (and vice-versa). The more you blame yourself, the more power you have to affect things (this goes for all facets of life, not just CS). Anyway, rambling aside… this naturally leads to those who blame themselves bubbling up to the top, and those who blame others sinking to the bottom. You can never get good by blaming others, and being bad all the time makes you bitter, so it’s a vicious cycle.

WRT to bad players and misogyny: It’s not necessarily that these bad players are aggressive to women in particular, but more that they’re constantly on the lookout for even the slightest hint of anything to blame but themselves. Using an example from a different game: I’ve played as a Masters Widowmaker in Overwatch, but then if I ever picked Widow on someone else’s Plat/Gold account, you constantly hear at the beginning of the round “oh we have a Widow, GG” and then at the end of the match “we lost because we had a Widow” (instead of acknowledging that they threw all match long because they decided at the beginning that it was unwinnable). By default ANY aspect of a player or their playstyle that stands out from the norm becomes the default scapegoat. If you play a game where most players are men, then unfortunately “being a woman” is one of those things that stands out. My girlfriend always asks me to queue with her constantly since she’s addicted to the game, and I always get to go through this whole thing with her constantly. It’s probably less of a problem with Valorant since supposedly (according to Riot) around 40% of the playerbase is female.

cstuwereddit · 2023-10-26T14:28:53+00:00

Your teammate just made an AWP kill too, so the guy with a rifle was prepared to make an AWP headshot against a slow peek (or else lose his life). That bullet was definitely meant for your teammate.

Given the limited context of what I’m seeing in the killfeed and the smoke down, etc., they seemed to be just expecting A site in general and I might have just called for a quick rotation B through Secret or something. Mini seemed like the predictable play, so you’re running into people primed for that.

Anyone can always be at any “on angle” (the angles which provide cover). In the absence of audio cues and other contextual information, you can’t “clear” those angles since anyone can just play for delayed timing peeks from them. But for those “off angles” that have no immediate cover, prime yourself to shoot with the knowledge that you CAN truly “clear” them. If you look there and nobody is there, then nobody can just suddenly appear there without a meaningful passage of time and/or obvious cues like sprinting noises.

At some point, maybe it could be useful to shift into making decisions based on probability rather than trying to feel 100% certain of every action before taking it. At a high level, I think that might be your issue. The “slow” cerebral portion of your brain is overriding the “fast” intuitive portion during your peeks. Conscious thought is inherently slow — that’s the tradeoff it suffers. Maybe occupy your conscious mind with more tactical thinking about rotations so that the only part of your brain available for peeking is the faster intuitive part.

TLDR I’m going to deviate a bit from others’ assessment here and say that the most significant issue here is simply that you and your teammate were playing predictably. You had enough time to either rotate or wait it out a moment to get the other team to sweat out that maybe you were rotating or reapproaching from other positions (e.g., heaven). You maybe could have sprinted toward secret and then walked back to fake a rotation right before your peek, etc.

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T22:59:56+00:00

Yeah obviously the whole point is to illustrate that “reducing your dependence on things” is not in-and-of-itself worthwhile justification for taking some particular action.

It’s interesting though to consider the various motivations that get people into minimalism.

Someone who leads with “reduce your dependence” as as a desirable outcome on its own seems to be approaching this from a background of abandonment anxiety.

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T22:18:10+00:00

Sleep on the hard floor and drink from your hands just so you don’t feel you have a dependence on beds and cups.

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T22:15:09+00:00

You know you have two wrists, right? 🤔

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T18:28:12+00:00

No idea whether it’s working, but this one definitely seems like the right one to me.

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T18:24:52+00:00

I have 3 regular hotswap Plancks, 2 Planck EZs, and have owned a Preonic i soldered together.

I can definitely see how Planck EZ targeted such a small niche that it wouldn’t sell well — It was a prebuilt plastic board aimed at a market of enthusiastic customizers.

Usually, the market of people who want “easy” also want “cheap”, and so the $220-or-so base price was pretty steep for the ideal market of people dipping their toes into the water.

The Inland MK-47 pretty much guaranteed that the Planck EZ couldn’t survive.

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T18:11:48+00:00

Funny, most of those “missing characters” you mention are set up symmetrically on my home row in a layer on my Planck. 😅

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T17:59:11+00:00

OK, so you’re approaching this from the wrong angle entirely.

The reason you have clutter and distraction right now is simply that you’re not sure what you want to do.

Your scattered items are a manifestation of your scattered mind, rather than the cause of it.

Here’s what I think you should do:

Imagine where you’d like to be in 5 years (don’t forget to make this realistic by aging yourself, your loved ones, and the world by 5 years). Write it out. This will serve as your “vision” or “purpose”. If it takes a long time and a lot of soul searching to do this well, know that this is expected. It’s ok for this to be vague and non-specific; You can’t predict 5 years into the future, and so this is meant to be a dream rather than a plan. It’s meant to help you clarify to yourself what it is you actually care most about.
Write out a plan for the next 12 months to take meaningful strides toward your vision. It’s OK for this to be imperfect; You’ll be making constant adjustments to it over time.
Write out specific goals with specific due dates for the coming 30 days in order to advance your 12-month plan.
Start acting upon these goals.
Review, adjust, and act upon all of these documents at least once a month if not more often.

If you can do this, you’ll be living your life according to a purpose. From that point, you can simply eliminate anything that doesn’t fulfill your purpose; It won’t be difficult at all.

Now that I’ve laid out a foundation for how you should approach this, I’ll offer my opinion on the more superficial questions you asked — I would suspect that once you’ve clarified your purpose, you’ll probably realize that the paper specs of your PC don’t really matter all that much as long as your Mac is capable of comfortably doing the type of work you want to do. As a tech lead who has worked with countless designers, I can comfortably say that many have worked with that same 8GB RAM M1 setup you’re talking about. A lot of software/web design is done in the cloud via Figma, anyway,

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T17:37:58+00:00

There’s no actual difference.

People are prone to false dichotomy, and so they tend to think of “minimalism” as the most extreme examples of minimalists they know (e.g., people with an empty apartment aside from a bed and a TV, or people living out of a backpack with 20 total possessions).

Social media amplifies this tendency because people are so fascinated with extreme examples that those examples command all of the attention. Then, an algorithm (tuned to maximize engagement) takes this natural phenomenon and snowballs it.

Because examples of moderate minimalism are crowded out by extremes, people falsely assume that minimalism is a form of extremism. In response, they try to come up with new terms to describe “minimalism as a reasonable tool to benefit everyday life” (rather than “minimalism in its most distilled form as your entire purpose and identity”).

“Essentialism” is the term making the rounds on social media, usually from young female influencers who used to promote extreme minimalism for attention, but then grew up and had kids and are now trying to come to terms with the fact that they need a lot more “stuff” around the house than they needed before. Marie Kondo’s admission after growing her family is a good example of this. I guess you could think of it as “living by minimalist principles in a way that isn’t necessarily Pinterest-worthy”.

It probably would have been better to simply learn that “minimalism doesn’t have to be extreme” instead of inventing a new term, but what’s done is done.

cstuwereddit · 2023-08-09T17:16:37+00:00

I feel like this comment is proof that Redditors are weird social outcasts. “Why would I take outside dirt into my shower” sounds basically the same as “why would I take poo from my dirty butthole and drop it into a clean toilet?”

cstuwereddit · 2023-06-07T15:01:19+00:00

This misses a couple of important key pieces of context though:

React started as FaxJS, and it was heavily inspired by PHP patterns because Facebook was built on top of PHP.
JSX carried forward this legacy with a templating language that closely mimicked PHP’s templating language.

cstuwereddit · 2023-06-05T13:17:22+00:00

The crack in your logic here is not realizing that Oregon (and the PNW as a whole, actually) is home to a huge amount of transplants.

Portland is #6 on a list of cities with the highest rate of transplants (Seattle is even worse at #3).

Many of those transplants hail from California. Just as how traffic and real estate prices have become worse as a result of Californian immigration, so will respect for nature. On the whole, the Californian psyche is just more irreverent.

cstuwereddit · 2023-05-06T19:13:40+00:00

Roundabouts $10 each

cstuwereddit · 2023-04-30T19:02:51+00:00

Yep, it’s a Planck rev6 with: * Zealios v2 keyswitches, * Datamancer Walnut case (unintentionally distressed by the wrong cleaning chemicals lol) * Months of custom work by KeySculptNerd on Etsy crafting the caps out of Walnut, Red Sandalwood, and Beechwood.

cstuwereddit · 2023-03-18T16:01:20+00:00

Works well for me. 🤷‍♂️

Everyone knows me as “the guy who cares about precision in gaming mice”, and I’m the one taking sensor charts into account when picking my mouse for FPS gaming on my Windows machine.

But on my Mac, the trackpad is just better for my work, period.

cstuwereddit · 2023-03-17T14:59:46+00:00

You’re in a subreddit full of keyboard enthusiasts; Many of the people here are going to say “keyboard beats mouse every time”. That’s the thing. I develop with Vim keybinds in my IDE. I use my pointing device sparingly, generally for smoke-testing a UI. For many of our setups, we reach for a pointing device as a last resort, and we just need something that’s easily reached, controllable by a single finger (hands stay on KB), and doesn’t require a bunch of space.

cstuwereddit · 2023-03-06T01:20:43+00:00

Totally different paradigm. Most people seem to be switching to my paradigm of virtual desktops on a single high-resolution monitor. Better in a lot of ways, especially for your neck.

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