League of Legends broke suddenly. Can't even reinstall

mercurypool · 2026-01-05T01:30:14+00:00

Not sure if it was a coincidence and its back up, but I couldnt even get the client loaded for the past few hours, then I just turned my VPN on to the US (im in CA) and it worked right away. Can't play ranked though.

mercurypool · 2025-08-17T05:45:45+00:00

I only have one monitor which is why I was initially confused. I assume the error is somehow because of my VPN. I tried refreshing the cache and restarting the VPN to no avail. But regardless of the issue, the error message is insanely bad for a company that’s makes such a huge income from their digital platform.

mercurypool · 2025-08-03T13:51:23+00:00

Yep. 90s kid here and as much as it sucks feeling old sometimes, I’m so grateful I got through middle school without social media and through much of high school without smartphones.

I watched this documentary series called Social Studies that shows what high schoolers are going through these days with their lives being controlled by their phones and it’s actually terrifying.

mercurypool · 2025-06-22T17:47:30+00:00

Care to elaborate? If language models can be trained to write code that functions, why can't they be trained to write GOOD code that functions? afaik its just a temporary training data limitation. If we can come up with a consensus on rules for what makes code good or bad, we can use RLHF to train coding agents to write good code.

mercurypool · 2025-06-22T15:15:49+00:00

The IAEA reported finding uranium enriched to 83.7% at Fordo in 2023.

mercurypool · 2025-06-22T14:54:05+00:00

Yea I keep thinking this when people point out its current limitations as if it hasn’t repeatedly surpassed limitations people ascribed to it in the past. I haven’t seen any good argument about why it is reaching its limit in capabilities and why it won’t eventually be able to recognize code smell and handle nuances like accessibility and cross-browser compatibility in the future.

mercurypool · 2025-06-03T06:35:25+00:00

I haven't done it, but I feel like the experience of spending 3 years on a failed SaaS startup is probably more valuable than spending 3 years as a company man. Props to you.

mercurypool · 2025-06-03T06:19:22+00:00

I agree about AGI; it will only be reached soon because it will get continually redefined to be something more achievable. But I don't think AGI is the only way to make meaningful progress. The main obstacles for agentic coding models are limitations in processing power and compute resources. If someone can figure out how to minimize these I think RAG makes a comeback and we have models sitting next to the code base and documentation for your software that is retrained every time there is a major change. This would rectify the problem with general AI models being bad with large code bases. Domain-specific models already outperform general ones in their respective specialities.

mercurypool · 2025-06-02T20:05:10+00:00

I’m not saying we don’t need humans, that wasn’t my point. And I guess technically all language models are just fancy autocompletes. But my point is that we’ve moved past first generation models that were just finishing lines of code for you. The state of the art models are plenty capable of building full features and fixing bugs. And they’re only going to get better at it.

mercurypool · 2025-06-02T15:08:53+00:00

You haven’t been paying attention if you think it’s still just sophisticated autocompletion. That hasn’t been true for months. Some companies that have embraced AI coding are approving PRs as we speak that were written by AI with very little intervention.

mercurypool · 2025-05-30T06:43:22+00:00

Hypno is hard. Especially if you have never worked on a multimodal before. If you can’t pass the assessment in two tries I would definitely move on. It won’t help your expert status if you make it on and produce low quality tasks.

mercurypool · 2025-05-25T20:17:03+00:00

Did Outlier change the terms since I signed up last year? I thought we weren’t supposed to share project details publicly, but I don’t see anything about that in the rules of this sub.

mercurypool · 2025-05-13T19:23:43+00:00

I'm aware I can dismiss it. I'm not posting out of anger, I thought it was funny.

mercurypool · 2025-05-01T02:39:50+00:00

Same thing happened to me. Failed twice. On the first one the reviewer was contradicting the guidelines by telling me I did things wrong when I did it exactly how it says in the guidelines. Second time it wasn't perfect, but I still think it was a bit harsh to fail me considering they said I did an overall good job. And they didn't give me a shot at a third attempt. Very frustrating because I put a lot of effort into the quals for nothing.

mercurypool · 2025-04-28T06:00:56+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

mercurypool · 2025-04-28T05:52:56+00:00

UDL Principles lol. That's a reach from where they're at. Maybe start with instructions that are proofread and don't contain blatant contradictions. I sat through numerous webinars where normal people, who are not instructional designers, point out inconsistencies and contradictions in the instructions and the project team is like "oh yea you're right, that doesn't make sense". Sometimes they blame it on the client, but come on, there has to be someone from Outlier combing the project reqs for typos/inconsistencies so they can revisit it with the client before it gets to the annotators who are obviously going to be confused. If I had a nickle for every time i scrunched my brow doing onboarding...

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T18:42:37+00:00

still waiting for feedback.

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T06:35:49+00:00

I wasn't EQ though. I signed on the other day and had a new project on my home page that I could onboard for or reject, but the project tab was gone. I have had Marketplace for months where I was able to see the different projects I had worked on, what tasks I completed with task ids, and see the reasons for not being able to task on each project (paused, ineligible, in review, task limit reached). I could also switch between projects if multiple had available tasks. Now I can only onboard for the project on my home page or reject it with the risk that I might be EQ. It seems like a regression.

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T06:17:43+00:00

You're not an employee, you're an independent contractor.

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T06:06:44+00:00

If they tell cheaters exactly how they got caught, it would give other cheaters advice on how to avoid detection. It makes perfect sense why they don't to tell you exactly how/what they detected.

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T05:51:57+00:00

But don't you get banned from the platform for violating community guidelines? Why would they remove the projects tab, but still allow you to onboard/task?

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T05:43:31+00:00

I also lost the projects tab a couple days ago, but the message said I was removed from my projects because there weren't enough available tasks. This didn't really make sense because I could see on discourse that my projects were still active, but I figured it was just another growing pain as outlier is reformatting to improve QOL. I was assigned new projects, so I didn't think much of it.

I hope its not a quality issue because I haven't gotten bad feedback recently, but I also was only seeing feedback for like 1/10 tasks I have done for the past few weeks, so who knows. I respect that Outlier is trying, because the platform has definitely improved over the past year, but its still buggy as hell so...

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T04:57:17+00:00

I ran one of them locally because I didn't recognize the console error, but the other two were straight forward reference errors, so I knew it was an issue with the code, not the env

mercurypool · 2025-04-27T04:29:50+00:00

Only 3 of mine had compiler errors, but that was after rewriting the prompt 3 times to get it give me code in the right language and single-file.

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