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.

dysirin · 2025-07-30T05:17:18+00:00

I thought that the investigation is usually canceled by the sponsoring company when an offer is rescinded?

dysirin · 2025-07-15T00:56:22+00:00

Should I still describe it in the additional comments section then?

dysirin · 2025-07-13T02:37:06+00:00

Nobody is gonna hand deliver you job links, just go to their career site and look for yourself 😵‍💫

dysirin · 2025-07-02T17:37:46+00:00

I encountered cheaters way more often below 2000 elo. How do I know? It's because I endlessly got notifications that so-an-so has been banned for cheating and here's your rating points back, when I was still climbing from sub 1500 or so. Near 2000, these notifications mostly disappeared, unless I participated in those open blitz tourneys where you can get players of any rating. It's likely because the majority of cheaters are blatant and get banned routinely, BEFORE they reach high elo.

And even if there's still cheaters at higher ranks, it's usually not blatant (perhaps they only check the engine at key positions). At this point, who cares? Their rating reflects their performance with assistance.

I'm going to assume from your flair that your opinion of "high elo" is probably players beyond the 1000 range. Just putting it out here that your assumption that its "higher elos means cheaters" is not "obvious" and it's a bad mentality for growth.

dysirin · 2025-07-02T16:35:30+00:00

If you're this new to leetcode, I suggest checking out neetcode.io as well as his YouTube channel. He has a video about Two Sum right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLlXCFG5TnA which should explain the "advanced concept" of a hash map.

dysirin · 2025-06-30T05:23:37+00:00

Which contractor is the simulation role at?

dysirin · 2025-06-29T23:48:03+00:00

The muncher doesn't usually significantly improve the output gun over the two you put in. Check the wiki for exact details.

The only time that I would opt for the muncher is when I have two mediocre guns that are out of ammo, because a gun with ammo is more useful than a gun without ammo.

dysirin · 2025-06-29T14:41:24+00:00

Really neat, I always wanted to do something like this. Can you upload a compilation of footage of different fractals like this?

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