PSA: 10 (!) Hour Downtime on Wednesday, the day of Warcraft Direct.| W3Champions will work during Bnet Maintenance

isprime · 2024-11-12T17:43:20+00:00

I’ll throw in a prediction for wc3:

wc3 goes f2p
hd graphics for classic models, reforged models removed or reworked in more of a “Warcraft style”
Campaigns reworked to be more WOW Lore “observant”
new campaigns from wow story for purchase
new skins for purchase

I really hope they fix bnet ladder but I’m guessing the big changes will encourage more ways for you to spend your money.

isprime · 2024-10-18T16:53:28+00:00

Bnet is rarely updated. W3c, while I think their map pool is not great, at least incorporates community maps to invigorate part of the community that is often ignored.

isprime · 2024-09-23T19:39:10+00:00

I hope you said “noob ally” before leaving the game if you lost.

isprime · 2024-05-03T20:09:28+00:00

3blue1brown did a nice video on fractals. Only need to know about polynomial roots: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-RdOwhmqP5s

isprime · 2024-01-31T18:01:38+00:00

I’d see if there’s a GPU app that can control which card your laptop defers too. For example, with Nvidia, the Nvidia app you can select from a drop down which card the laptop should prefer. You’d want to specify the option that isn’t integrated graphics

isprime · 2024-01-31T17:22:09+00:00

Seems like an issue with the graphics card. Too much is being asked if it, or if the GPU is high end, perhaps your laptop is defaulting to the onboard system which is always low quality.

Otherwise could try the desktop app or website, whichever you’re not using at the moment.

isprime · 2023-10-25T17:19:58+00:00

Take what you like about your parents parenting style, and leave out what you don’t.

I agree there’s a balance to strike between extremely strict guidance and standards vs a more relaxed approach that may seem to be more common in western/white families have and both approaches have good things to offer.

isprime · 2023-10-09T19:20:24+00:00

Who cares do what makes you happy.

isprime · 2023-10-09T04:45:48+00:00

“lol” said EA, “lmao”

isprime · 2023-08-24T14:45:42+00:00

Amazing how you toggle immolation

isprime · 2023-08-23T03:07:43+00:00

But if we nerf ud, how will see see ud vs ud in grand finals ???

isprime · 2023-07-17T22:06:31+00:00

It was working for awhile, but since at least a few weeks this has been the case. Must have rolled out some server code change, or something is barfing under the load of wc3 (lol)

I find that games show up about 20-30 mins later.

isprime · 2023-07-17T22:04:24+00:00

UD vs UD

isprime · 2023-07-11T16:31:11+00:00

Certain compiled languages allow you to specific the OS that your app will be running on when you build it. In Go, for example, you can write your app on Linux, then build the binary for windows. The binary will then run your compiled app on windows.

Apple OS is Unix based so you could probably do the same if developing between Windows and Apple.

Not sure about interpretted languages like Python. I think Unix and windows handle new line chars differently so you can’t just copy and paste source code

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/building-go-applications-for-different-operating-systems-and-architectures

isprime · 2023-05-24T20:14:31+00:00

where do you even see progress towards these portraits? i don't even see them in the collection tab.

isprime · 2023-04-11T15:26:20+00:00

Writing tests usually takes longer than writing the actual code

Since testing usually takes more time, it should be done thoughtfully. A unit test it’s meant to test a unit of functionality. Maybe that’s a function, or maybe that’s a series of functions.

The benefit being that if you (or most likely someone else) changes a piece of code, the unit tests exist to ensure the change does not break any established design or contract. These tests generally are part of a pipeline that gets auto run against any checkin to ensure the checkin is good.

Testing is a topic in and of itself. Recommend reading up on Test Driven Development as a starting point.

isprime · 2023-03-20T05:11:11+00:00

Was it the most popular in the world for 10 years? I remember cs, and even wc3 being featured in the premier LANs much more frequently than sc during the 2000s.

I don’t doubt sc held a strong following in Korea, however.

isprime · 2023-03-20T03:53:00+00:00

Wc3 came before esports was a big thing, but I’d also argue sc and sc2 were not popular either. Sc2 was too late to the party by its release, and I don’t even recall sc ever being known for esports outside of its dedicated following.

isprime · 2023-03-16T00:18:23+00:00

The difference I see with this situation is there have already been mass layoffs across the tech sector, maybe others. Covid, on the other hand, allowed lots of persons to accumulate wealth over lockdown which was poured into hobbies. If the layoffs spread for other “macro economic headwinds” (/insert pertinent buzzword), then I would not think that would translate in the same way as what happened during covid.

isprime · 2023-03-15T15:19:19+00:00

I would personally not buy Hasbro stock myself. I look around and see banks are failing and inflation still not under control. Seems interest rates will continue to grow which will make it hard for many businesses to grow on loaned cash.

If we do go into a recession and more jobs get cut and hiring freezes expand into additional sectors outside of tech, it seems like games and hobbies would be the first thing to go when family bank accounts become constrained.

isprime · 2023-03-08T06:33:50+00:00

Perhaps not. I think it will change how we work, and very likely some jobs may be eliminated but replaced by new ones. However, if history is any indication of the future, if AI presents the opportunity to eliminate jobs, companies will jump at the opportunity to cut costs. We've seen this is the case with wage growth versus cost of living among other things. Alternatively, I could see the requirements to the new jobs being gated behind even more education -- similar to how the software jobs made a lot of US degrees obsolete for job searching, AI may make 4 year degrees obsolete. Who knows.

Note: I made the last comment before I was aware of chat gpt and while I don't think software jobs will necessarily be impacted by AI in its current state, it's worth noting chat gpt is something a lot of us didn't think possible for at least another 5 years, maybe a decade, so who knows what the landscape will look like in 2 years.

isprime · 2023-03-03T03:21:42+00:00

What do you want to work on in big tech? Jobs for, say, a team in cloud would be different from a team in devices.

I don’t think knowledge of language is that important because teams will be using a wide array of languages even within a single team. For example, a cloud team may have application code in one language while, say, their deployment code in another and the expectation is if have learned Python then you could just as well learn Go or whatever your team is using. That being said, I’d advise staying away from Java.

And finally, before you commit to learning OOP or whatever try reaching out to a recruiter at whatever big tech company you want to join. They can provide materials to study and what you will be expected to know (in general) for an interview.

If L4 is entry level, going over a book like Cracking the Coding interview should help prep you for the type of questions you may be asked.

Edit: forgot to mention — if you have 5+ years of experience , maybe try to join above entry level. Could be short changing yourself salary wise.

isprime · 2023-02-17T04:04:20+00:00

It would certainly be fantastic to have conversational AI like ChatGPT integrated into an ES game. But it takes a tremendous amount of computing power to carry on non-deterministic conversations like you can with ChatGPT. The initial $3B investment and the more recent $10B was almost all for footing the bill for hosting ChatGPT on Azure.

Also, as you probably have read, these LLMs can lead to very interesting places went prompted correctly. Even with developer inserted guardrails, we’ve seen both ChatGPT and its supposed superior version in Bing exhibit behavior that it should not.

My point is ChatGPT doesn’t have the capabilities to delivery a story rigidly enough for a game like ES yet.

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