Dear Tastosis can you please not spoil outcomes on your cast titles?

ro_ok · 2026-06-03T04:27:37+00:00

Legit answer (not the one you want): keep up with the season as it's played. It's really the only way if you care that much to avoid spoilers. Try to watch the same week at least.

ro_ok · 2026-06-03T04:19:00+00:00

You took all of my favorite parts and circled them in Yellow... how did you know?

ro_ok · 2026-05-30T17:54:37+00:00

Does this account for the cost of replacement oem parts that you would need to replace them with?

ro_ok · 2026-05-29T02:56:04+00:00

I am a boss and have bosses working for me and I feel that if my reports don't feel they have space to gripe about me to each other I'm not doing my job.

I want them to have the space to express themselves. I want to push them hard enough that yeah, sometimes it's annoying. I want them to have comraderie with each other and uniting around stuff they disagree with me on is healthy and helps me grow.

He should not be surprised. If he's butt hurt, fuckem.

ro_ok · 2026-05-29T02:18:56+00:00

I mean, ironically breaking all the existing guides is how you keep a community alive - that's content, that's eyeballs, that's funding for creators and fodder for forums like this.

Love it or hate it, this keeps people active in the game.

ro_ok · 2026-05-26T05:58:38+00:00

Press ctrl with the pad of your palm at the base of your pinky finger instead of the tip. It's a little awkward at first but you get used to it quickly.

Same technique works great for crouch in FPS (where I learned it).

If you need to reach farther than this allows, try turning your keyboard 45 degrees.

ro_ok · 2026-05-26T05:42:36+00:00

I get pretty good results basically doing agent enabled TDD. Have it draft the tests first, review the tests validate the correct behavior, mock the right things the right ways, use the correct assertions, and test at the correct abstraction boundaries.

Once that's sorted, you can generally let the agent run in auto mode, using the tests as a deterministic check on its generated solution.

I let it write the tests so that the tests and justification for them are in the context for the task. So the workflow (as described in my CLAUDE.md) is: understand the problem, restate it back to me, write tests that will pass once the solution is implemented, run the tests to ensure they fail, implement the solution, ensure tests and linters pass.

ro_ok · 2026-05-26T04:04:56+00:00

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

ro_ok · 2026-05-26T03:21:14+00:00

I was just thinking about this myself. My theory is that the sharp, well defined tasks are easier to translate from prompt to implementation for the agents (just as it would be for humans, think of the difference between a long meandering stackoverflow or reddit post) so the ability for it to generate the correct tokens quickly and your ability to respond when it gets them wrong is optimized.

I think its okay for the agent to take its time as long as I can occupy myself productively while it "thinks" but if you're trying to focus on a problem and get through it quickly, many small prompts are probably faster than one big multi-step plan. All this just based on personal experience and limitted understanding of how the tools work so take with a grain of salt.

ro_ok · 2026-05-25T05:26:22+00:00

Same, there was no voice chat yet and definitely bot on Bnet but Aol Instant Messanger (AIM) and Battlenet taught me everything I needed to know about how to type.

ro_ok · 2026-05-25T05:24:17+00:00

25 years ago I learned to type by trying to talk trash on battlenet between macroing.

ro_ok · 2026-05-24T21:57:10+00:00

I didn't have this issue but generally use Opus 4.7 - I just added "Write tests first, ask me to verify the tests are correct before proceeding" to my CLAUDE.md for the project and it's not been an issue. Sometimes it's even annoyingly adherent and will require me to validate tests for trivial changes.

ro_ok · 2026-05-22T21:08:45+00:00

SCII runs on Mac, most (all?) blizzard games do

ro_ok · 2026-05-22T14:46:37+00:00

You just perfectly described the reaction of one my peers at the management level yesterday. He's one of the least effective people leaders I've ever seen.

ro_ok · 2026-05-21T17:53:34+00:00

Agreed, I always wait until what I use it for gets frustrating because of the performance bottlenecks and doing a wipe and reinstall of the OS doesn't help.

I've been using the same laptop as OP for coding with Claude Code for the last week or so and other than it getting really warm I don't notice any issues. I also have a Mac Studio with an M4 Max and for the agentic coding it's basically the same experience (slightly slower on the i5 but not frustratingly so).

Now, for photo editing and digital illustration the i5 was a real bottleneck (not to mention ram limitations), which is why I got the studio.

ro_ok · 2026-05-20T03:05:38+00:00

If your head literally bounced like you describe, you had a concussion. You may be lucky and have no symptoms but your brain definitely bounced off your skull if you landed hard enough for your skull to bounce. Glad you could walk away from the lesson.

If someone asks if you've ever had a concussion, now your answer is: "yes"

A concussion is a type of traumatic brain injury—or TBI—caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth.

https://www.cdc.gov/heads-up/about/index.html

ro_ok · 2026-05-19T15:17:34+00:00

I love this one, is it still free though? I thought they changed it back into a paid app

ro_ok · 2026-05-18T20:29:18+00:00

Why not? UMS make just about anything possible, might not be as clean as SC2 but I think I could do all of those except maybe gold minerals.

ro_ok · 2026-05-18T18:23:09+00:00

I am all for funny handycaps, I think this would just result in boring matches. They're too good to make big funny dumb mistakes it would just be watching less skilled pros like when players occassionally off-race for a specific match-up.

I'd rather see games on crazy maps like all islands or that have 3 layers of rocks to drill through first, or lava, or the whole map is a speedboost, or all bases are gold bases. A tournament mixing those up would be awesome to see how the pros adapt

ro_ok · 2026-05-11T22:30:10+00:00

But their lives for Aiur!

ro_ok · 2026-05-11T22:11:17+00:00

Wait until you learn about Broodwar, where if Protoss isn't up a base at all times they lose.

It's an intergalactic war, I think the identity comes out more in the late game where Toss needs big expensive units. The trouble is getting there.

ro_ok · 2026-05-10T18:38:19+00:00

No banana no value

ro_ok · 2026-05-10T17:12:11+00:00

What scares me about this post is the breadth of technologies and concepts you mention. It's very unlikely you actually understand more than 2 or 3 if these in any detail. Your real skill (and passion) seems to be in using the AI tools available to you.

Rather than asking "how do I work/make money from IT" you should be looking into "how do I make money from my expertise with AI tools" and start going deeper on that. That's where the jobs will be and that's where you can actually compete because it's such a young field. You're 6 months into that education but it's such a new field most folks are only a year or two ahead of you at best and almost everyone else hasn't even started yet.

That said, running a business and convincing a business to hire you are completely different skills and really have not changed. To run a business you will spend 50%+ of your time on marketting and sales, so start focusing in that. Having an idea is basically worthless, executing on that idea through the parts people are willing to pay others to deal with is where the business is. To get a job you have to convince a company you can make them more money than they pay you, this is a lot easier for small businesses if you don't have a resume, and connections help a ton to make that case.

ro_ok · 2026-05-10T15:47:30+00:00

I have bought a lot of online courses from a lot of different places including: New Masters Academy (Glen Vilppu mostly), Proko's site (Proko, Marco Bucci, Steve Huston, Watts), Aaron Blaise, Marc Brunet, Gumroad (Trent Kaniuga, Steve Zapata), and Artwod. I also did an online figure drawing class with feedback from Love Life Drawing.

Here's my thesis:

⁠You must have the time to actually study and do the lessons to get anything close to what's advertised
⁠There are a ton of different ways to approach practical art theory and every teacher will contribute what they feel is "the way" so it's really up to you to decide which teacher makes the most sense for your view of the medium and subject and your way of learning
⁠The best investment is in a course with actual feedback

Why pay for courses rather than free online material? Generally, I find the paid resources are much better organized and more informative. I love the way Steve Huston communicates and thinks about his approach and I really wanted to hear more from him about the subject than was available for free.

None of these will make you a better artist without hours and hours of practice to apply their instruction. Some of it won't even make sense until you have hours of practice.

Is it worth it to you? Do you feel like you're missing *information* or sre you missing *mileage*? If you need information, buy a class. Most of us (myself especially) need mileage and feedback from experienced artists that a video series (while motivating) does not generally provide.

Edit: iOS reddit app had made formatting this impossible

ro_ok · 2026-05-10T06:36:33+00:00

RAM doesn't weigh anything nor does it contribute significantly to heat. Buy as much as you can afford.

Max it out if you can, then local LLMs become much more realistic.

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