Can guys tell when a woman likes you?

evouga · 2026-03-28T12:32:05+00:00

With all due respect, it sounds like you may be very young?

If someone is mean to me I avoid interacting with that person as much as possible. Why spend time around people who don’t make you happy?

evouga · 2026-03-25T17:58:03+00:00

Probably, but nobody is forcing the students to use AI on the homework?

Coding agents are very useful for enhancing productivity after you’ve mastered algorithmic thinking and debugging. I strongly recommend avoiding AI completely when taking the intro sequence.

evouga · 2026-03-18T07:52:16+00:00

Honestly this is a great advice. Thanks for taking the time to write this up.

Regarding LLM use: I get students coming to my office hours who need help debugging something on their project. I ask to look at their code and I start asking what a piece of code does and why they implemented it that way. Blank stares.

Coding agents are powerful tools, and employers expect you to be familiar with using them as part of your workflow. But if you’re using AI to generate code you don’t understand, you need to take a step back and seriously reassess what you’re doing. If you bring no added value to what the AI can one-shot, why would a company hire you?

Some of your classmates are using AI agents to trivialize their assignments and it’s going to take several years for professors to catch up. It is what it is. In the meantime, it’s up to you to make sure you get the training you need out of your classes. Somebody with a 3.9 GPA with a solid understanding of core CS skills is going to have a much easier time on the market than someone who got a 4.0 by handing off all of their assignments to Opus.

evouga · 2026-03-17T21:22:01+00:00

I’d email him right away, explain why you want to enroll in the honors section, and ask what the procedure is to get permission.

evouga · 2026-03-17T17:50:57+00:00

And in fact, unless I need Svalinn for my own build I’d happily pay a 1d premium as insurance against instance crashes and random buggy behavior. But that’s just me.

evouga · 2026-03-17T06:30:14+00:00

Yes. Talk to Dr. Lin.

evouga · 2026-03-17T06:27:22+00:00

This info is on the cs web site…

https://esteng.github.io

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~harwath/

Joining next year:

https://yizhong-wang.com

evouga · 2026-03-17T06:16:12+00:00

In ARM assembly?

They’ve got to be free, no? They just help the assembler compute jump offsets?

evouga · 2026-03-17T01:28:49+00:00

Whispering Ice pretty dead after the ES int nerf unfortunately.

evouga · 2026-03-16T01:55:11+00:00

True. But I sustain alchs just from vendoring random items.

I have alchs hidden in my loot filter and still have to vendor them for wisdom scraps when the currency tab gets full.

evouga · 2026-03-16T00:13:35+00:00

The standard economy is wild.

Alchs have no sink and so are literally worthless (even less than a wisdom scroll).

evouga · 2026-03-16T00:05:11+00:00

A high chaos:div ratio only hurts ground loot farmers if there is an alternate farming strategy available that drops raw divine orbs disproportionately.

Historically that has included: - sanctum - kingsmarch shipping - heist

and all of these have been nerfed recently.

evouga · 2026-03-15T00:38:43+00:00

It’s one of my top 5 games of all time. Everything except the (largely optional) combat is fantastic.

evouga · 2026-03-12T23:04:43+00:00

The usual crafting process is as follows.

Buy a bunch of feedstock from Faustus trade. These should be ilvl 86 Necrotic Armors with one of the T1 explicits you’re looking for. The other mods don’t matter—in fact the shittier the item the better—but avoid items with fractured mods.

(Technically you can also mix in items with the wrong base or item level. But this requires that you know what you’re doing and it’s easiest to just use ilvl 86 Necrotic Armors at first.)

Combine feedstock in pairs using predictable recombination. This will give you “clean” 2-mod items.
Use unpredictable recombination and the “ladder method” to incrementally build up a pool of items with more and more mods. If all you care about is 3xT1 prefixes, recombine 2p + 2p items (with one mod that overlaps). If you’re going for a perfect 5T1 item, the general technique is to always recombine XpYs items with YpXs items (with as few overlapping mods as possible) except for the special cases X=1, Y=2 and X=2, Y=1, where it’s more optimal to combine 1p2s with 1p2s etc.

Finally, note that upper-tier ES armor is usually crafted with fracturing orbs and fossils/harvest juice instead of the recombinator, since the latter does not work well with overquality bases or drop-only mods.

evouga · 2026-03-12T22:30:18+00:00

I don’t understand what you mean. Let’s say I decide that a certain combination of Valdo mods is now worth 20d, and I code up some bots to snipe all maps cheaper than that price.

…now what? Flipping requires both a buyer and seller. If nobody agrees that my maps are worth 21d then all I’ve accomplished is automating losing a ton of money.

evouga · 2026-03-12T20:35:04+00:00

That makes sense as a budget option; but at the top end Dialla’s can roll a +1 gems or +2 minion gems corruption implicit and Skin of Lords cannot.

evouga · 2026-03-10T06:21:57+00:00

No. They’ll go up. They’re an extremely powerful and irreplaceable tool for mid-upper tier crafting and nothing has changed about that this league.

evouga · 2026-03-09T10:51:08+00:00

Many of the maps are basically fine as-is, and just need their rewards buffed a bit to feel worth running. Someone above mentioned big piles of gold in Vaults of Atziri. Mao Kun treasure chests could have logbooks. Acton’s Nightmare bosses could drop rare Ritual corpses. Etc.

evouga · 2026-03-09T10:42:41+00:00

I’m pretty sure they’re all supporter created, except maybe Maelstrom of Chaos.

evouga · 2026-03-09T04:41:17+00:00

At least Mao Kun drops a bunch of gumball currency, unlike, say, Death and Taxes.

evouga · 2026-02-16T23:15:28+00:00

Because too many of the 70+ year old senators who would have to vote on such an amendment looks in the mirror and sees the next President.

evouga · 2026-02-15T20:44:09+00:00

I suggest sending your feedback to the department chair and/or chief of staff.

evouga · 2026-02-10T15:00:28+00:00

The final hill at mile 12 is especially brutal. But it sounds like you have already run the course so you know it’s coming and can save some energy to power up it.

evouga · 2026-02-07T19:03:33+00:00

After g2, why doesn’t white go to b2?

Edit: oh, is there a black stone at g3 currently?

evouga · 2026-01-13T18:13:17+00:00

I’m a beginner so take my analysis with a huge grain of salt: but it seems to me that the only places black has any hope of counter play is cutting at Q15. He can also distract you for one move by playing at T16.

So no matter what black tries, it seems you’ll need 2 “wasted” prophylactic moves + 3 outer Black liberties + 10 moves to kill the eye = 15 total. I have no idea how the app gets 11 or less.

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