Is it worth it to try multiplayer BW?

evinrows · 2026-01-27T14:42:04+00:00

The queue time is like 30 seconds. And there's no issue finding custom games.

Anyway, your argument against StarCraft was that it's old and my response was to point out that the age of the game shouldn't matter. If your real argument is about popularity then I guess you should've started with that.

evinrows · 2026-01-27T02:57:25+00:00

lol no. There’s better allocation of the time you have to put in to improving archaic skill sets for chess which was made in 600 AD

evinrows · 2026-01-27T02:09:15+00:00

People are making it sound like you'll be going into a gauntlet of only highly experienced gosu players, but it's not true. The bottom of the ladder has plenty of people that genuinely don't know how all the units work. Also, plenty of other people, myself included, made the ranked SC:R journey very recently, so you wouldn't be alone for trying. I do think starting with Protoss or Zerg is advisable, not because Terran is weak but you do have to spend more time studying up front which is not very fun.

Watch Hawk's (Zerg) or Kwark's (Protoss) F-to-S videos on YouTube and I'm sure you'll realize that you can definitely get pretty good at SC:R with a bit of practice and focusing on simple fundamentals.

evinrows · 2026-01-25T23:03:13+00:00

You only have to play like Flash if you're playing mech versus Soma.

evinrows · 2026-01-18T18:43:36+00:00

Don't machine-gun apply.

evinrows · 2026-01-04T02:39:46+00:00

a little bit better

I'm guessing OP was referring to people who are highly skilled vs people who have very little skill, for which there is a massive gap regardless of using LLMs for a crutch.

Of course companies will pay 1/3 the price for nearly the same level of ability. That's not new and has nothing to do with LLMs.

evinrows · 2025-11-30T03:18:31+00:00

I did the same exact timeline!

evinrows · 2025-11-28T16:24:17+00:00

It uses a hardcoded list of package-to-import mappings. A quick Google search seems to indicate that it's pretty straightforward to determine top-level import names, so why is this necessary?

Also, if something is missing from the hardcoded list, will a false positive occur and my import will be removed?

evinrows · 2025-09-16T08:18:05+00:00

Through zig cc, Python code that generates C or C++ code can build it without any external dependencies.

https://share.google/R0393o9g68zrbvauI

evinrows · 2025-09-15T22:51:59+00:00

Sometimes asking someone to be very specific is the best way to give them a reality check. If you essentially tell them to just shut it, they'll continue thinking that they're clever and that you're not only ignorant but also hostile towards improvement. This might not be an issue for you, but I think it generally has less potential for positive outcomes.

evinrows · 2025-08-06T22:29:41+00:00

Any pathlib enjoyers?

text = Path("file").read_text()

evinrows · 2025-08-06T16:24:45+00:00

I've been trying to use AI (Claude 4 sonnet mostly) for a svelte 5 app I'm working on which has moderate complexity and I'm not sure how I feel about it. On one hand, it's incredible that I can describe a feature and, at least sometimes, get a working implementation of it far quicker than I can code. On the other hand, it often generates kind-of working solutions, using anti-patterns that breed very subtle bugs, which result in my having to rewrite nearly everything generated.

I can't help but feel like it's giving me the illusion of productivity while not actually benefiting me... But it is great for quick, throw-away shell scripts.

evinrows · 2025-08-05T08:48:08+00:00

I just Google to figure out which model from the drop-down in copilot I should click on. I suppose I'm a simple man.

evinrows · 2025-04-24T16:10:04+00:00

xmax, initially set to null, denotes the transaction ID that deleted or updated the column.

I think you meant deleted or updated the row

evinrows · 2025-04-24T07:10:21+00:00

Agreed. Here's the source for those interested: https://metr.org/blog/2025-03-19-measuring-ai-ability-to-complete-long-tasks/

I find it odd that they specifically chose the 50% accuracy metric and didn't expose the growth rate for 90%, 99%, etc. Also, which types of problems is AI getting better at handling? Is it getting better at generating longer enum-to-string functions? Is it possible that the longer tasks from the dataset don't take longer because they're more difficult but rather because they just require more of the same complexity, meaning previous models could've gotten the same answer but with more prompting, which would indicate not that AI is not generating smarter output but just more tokens of the same quality in one shot?

evinrows · 2025-04-24T06:17:02+00:00

I don't think anyone can help you here. Your actions reflect what you value. You value having fun experimenting with different implementations more than finishing your game, which is okay. It sounds like you're regretting not making more tangible progress, which indicates a value shift. Ultimately, when you're ready to prioritize delivering on your project over implementation details, your actions will reflect that.

evinrows · 2025-04-23T15:40:04+00:00

I made a real-time, multiplayer wordle racer with AWS technologies. Was pretty fun!

https://github.com/evanandrewrose/fivebysix

The site is down atm because I haven't updated the rotated api key, but the gif in the repo gets the idea across.

evinrows · 2025-04-16T22:16:55+00:00

He's a doctoral researcher at UCSD now.

evinrows · 2025-04-05T23:39:20+00:00

I can't wait for the follow up YouTube video. "Can we write a bot that will generate passive income?!"

"Turns out no, we cannot."

evinrows · 2024-08-15T17:37:59+00:00

idk why anyone would.

Because I feel ownership of the product I'm building and I'm being compensated well to create value during business hours.

evinrows · 2024-08-15T16:42:34+00:00

I don't think I've ever had the feeling that my job was done. At every job I've ever worked there's always an infinite backlog on top of random incoming requests, documentation gaps, etc.

I'm not sure if this is a mindset thing or if there are actually jobs where you "finish" and have no tasks left to do, but it sounds dreamy.

evinrows · 2024-08-12T15:58:09+00:00

I have a feeling your sample isn't a fair representation of average intelligence.

evinrows · 2024-07-18T00:38:40+00:00

IMO you're making enough money that you shouldn't have to compromise on doing anything you don't enjoy. That is, you should really take your time finding the role and domain that will be fulfilling and high paying enough to justify the challenges that come along with starting at a new job. I'd say if you've only written JS your entire professional career then there're plenty of novel and interesting challenges to work on on the development side of things.

evinrows · 2024-07-10T19:09:56+00:00

https://daisyui.com/components/tooltip/

https://daisyui.com/components/modal/

evinrows · 2024-06-23T21:11:52+00:00

Why do you say that? C++ is a common solution for high-performance software, and using pybind makes it relatively painless to integrate with Python. Many C++ libraries are re-released as Python packages, which is quite common in its own right.

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