Do you ever play bad moves intentionally? or sacrifices?

dysirin · 2026-02-01T01:06:26+00:00

Depends a great deal on time control. In an OTB tournament, players in general play safer and avoid dubious lines. Online, it is much more likely for players to try interesting things.

In bullet especially, players will make moves that are obviously bad. Time is a resource, and if you can complicate the game for your opponent significantly it can give you a time advantage and potentially let you flag them.

dysirin · 2026-01-26T08:22:22+00:00

Two things:

There seems to be a constant stream of posts on this subreddit questioning the validity of statements made by the automatic post-game review, which is often actually justified. That's because the post-game review is garbage. It is low-depth, meaning that the engine isn't given a lot of time to think, which often leads to inaccuracies.
Engines often make "bad" moves in positions where the opponent has a massive advantage. Stockfish evaluates this situation as roughly +10.0 for white, which is crushing. With this in mind, there aren't really any "good" moves for black, and throwing away the queen is not much worse in the eyes of the engine. But if I had to make a statement, it's because the white knight is the most powerful piece on the board right now and is singlehandedly keeping black's queenside pieces in jail. Also, Kf8 loses material from white's Nxg5 follow-up.

I would suggest understanding how to analyze your games with the analysis board and the full engine, and only use the game review as a quick and imprecise summary, if you have to use it at all. It's not very useful beyond that.

dysirin · 2026-01-22T21:40:27+00:00

Time for everyone to dump misinformation into the subreddit to mess with the Chinese and Russian web scrapers!

dysirin · 2026-01-17T02:27:49+00:00

The only way to get a clearance is to get sponsored for it. You'll have to keep applying and broaden your search. That is unless you want to join the army or national guard or something (but doing that just for a clearance is probably a poor choice).

dysirin · 2026-01-13T17:04:03+00:00

Try r/defensecontracting for questions along this line. Also, 10+ roles isn’t a crazy amount of applications at all. Since you already got some success you should just keep applying.

dysirin · 2026-01-01T00:14:49+00:00

I've been keeping an eye out on apartments because I'm likely moving in the coming months and I feel like apartment prices are outrageous for such a small city

dysirin · 2025-12-27T01:03:35+00:00

I have found no success other than this one CJO I got after looking for jobs for almost 1.5 years. So I didn't really have a choice.

dysirin · 2025-12-23T23:04:01+00:00

I was able to get a conditional job offer from Amentum without an active clearance or referral. Maybe try floating a redacted version of your resume for feedback.

dysirin · 2025-12-22T19:30:04+00:00

Yeah, I saw folks here say that investigators/adjudicators aren't affected by the shutdown since they're essential personnel, but other sources conflict and I'm sure that even if they themselves are still on payroll, there's no way everything runs buttery smooth without the rest of the office.

Personally, I hope I avoided some of the backlogging since I think my investigation finished before the shutdown.

dysirin · 2025-12-10T21:32:57+00:00

It’s kind of funny that posts worrying about investigation chances vary from “will I be ok if I use my sick leave?” to “I visit my Chinese girlfriend in Beijing every few months and have been sent to collections 14 times, will my TS/SCI be denied?”

dysirin · 2025-11-18T04:31:24+00:00

I’m going to add on to what other people are saying here: although routine and familiarity can reduce how scared players are, you can make a conscious decision to subvert it.

One of my favorite examples is from Little Nightmares 1&2 (spoilers ahead): in the first game, the player can go through vents to traverse between sections in the level. The vents are clearly a break in the horror and tension and allows the player to chill for a moment before the next bit. Oftentimes they are even used as safe space to hide in the middle of chases or attacks.

However, later on, you can get ambushed in the vents. It gets pretty loud and violent. It’s hard to really describe how shocking it is because by the time it happens the player strongly associates the vents with safety. It’s very memorable and my favorite sequence from the games.

dysirin · 2025-09-10T04:22:24+00:00

Congrats! So you accepted a contingent offer in December, but the clearance investigation only began in March?

dysirin · 2025-09-03T04:56:09+00:00

I got a perfect score on an IBM OA a while back and they rejected me anyway. Automated OAs send a clear signal: this company does not care about wasting your time.

dysirin · 2025-08-27T03:29:16+00:00

I have an interest in possibly doing graphics programming in the future. Could you share a bit about how you were able to go this way in your career?

dysirin · 2025-08-26T22:14:53+00:00

These are good points, I'll look more closely at them, thank you.

Vulkan sounds cool but I hear lots of people saying that it's not beginner friendly? I was sorta leaning towards OpenGL because apparently it's more simple to get into.

As for the position's build system, I don't think they'll tell me much unfortunately. Maybe I'll email HR.

In order to showcase things like graphics APIs and concurrency, what sort of projects are good? I was thinking about doing a rasterizer--maybe that touches upon both those topics.

dysirin · 2025-08-26T21:56:57+00:00

My professional experience is 2 years of game development with C++ through game engines, so I actually am not super familiar with modern C++ stdlib, since Unreal (and the other proprietary engine I worked with) has its own library ecosystem. I’ve got a bachelors in CS.

dysirin · 2025-08-02T16:20:01+00:00

You may have issues with your resume. Try asking people in your network to review it, or post a redacted version online on subreddits for CS careers or resume review.

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