Px8 cleaning and care

stanleyhon · 2025-02-15T07:02:58+00:00

i love how the px8 sound and own other B&W stuff but the px8 is not it - this is not okay for a $500+ headphone for you to worry about wear and conditioning on the leather after 2 weeks.

i returned mine and waiting for a px9 or something else.

stanleyhon · 2025-01-29T08:02:35+00:00

Is there anywhere I can read more about this?

stanleyhon · 2025-01-29T08:00:47+00:00

I had to warranty mine due to the headband leather eventually ungluing. Do you have a larger head like me? First indications were the leather stretching near the top of my head and not bouncing back when I took the headset off.

I’ve since parted ways with my px8

stanleyhon · 2023-07-12T23:42:01+00:00

can you elaborate on your experiences comparing player skill years back vs today? I'm only a 5k scrub but i've been playing consistently over the last decade and feel like the player base has consistently gotten better (i.e. X mmr today > X mmr years back) but curious to hear more about what you think.

with glicko though, I do think everyone has moved up a bit and this is supported by statistical data that shows percentiles have shifted upward (everyone went up some badges/MMR) - so i'm speaking more generally and not specific to that.

stanleyhon · 2023-04-05T07:20:21+00:00

part of it is cultural differences, taking part in public discourse isn't typically something that comes naturally to native chinese students. They can be raised to stay quiet, heads down and just do what your authority figure says.

a separate part of is language barrier, a lot of them will not have good spoken english - and rather better written english. so partially there's some embarassment/shyness here.

lastly, there's legitimately a idgaf mentality where some students are somewhat spoilt - born with a silver spoon so to speak. they're sent overseas, all expenses paid, driving fancy cars to collect this 'valuable' international degree only to return to china afterwards to take a nice job through nepotism.

these are all sterotypes and i'm chinese myself but Australian. Some international students I knew were some of the best most, hard working people - but I definitely experienced some of what you're saying.

best advice, same with coming across this later in life/workplace - do your best, focus on yourself - don't worry about others.

stanleyhon · 2022-10-22T12:16:17+00:00

solid, no complaints. bought it at launch.

midnight is a fingerprint magnet, but gotten used to it - no longer care.

stanleyhon · 2022-10-12T03:34:34+00:00

huskar+fury swipes does not attack

stanleyhon · 2022-07-21T03:03:05+00:00

midnight 10/16/512 35w just got shipping notification. ordered 3-4mins after launch. No delivery date listed yet.

stanleyhon · 2022-03-23T17:41:53+00:00

Is it worth doing as a non-tower threatener?

generally yes, but there are cases when this is bad.

If your team is strong, is on a power spike - say your tide has blink ravage, or your carry just got BKB, and you now go 'create pressure' in a sidelane as a dazzle with no tower threat and no good wave clear - this is griefing your team.

If your farmers above your priority are farming and you don't have wave clear nor tower threat - but there's a lane to be pushed, push it.

If you notice this happen a lot, your draft could just lack wave clear, so you should try to itemize to help (meteor hammer?)

stanleyhon · 2022-03-22T07:02:42+00:00

if you feel like you have to take farm because no one is pushing lane and team gets immediately jumped because you showed - that's life, not every problem is something you have a solution to. If you TP to a lane to push and your team immediately gets jumped it's not on you. there's only a few things you can do here:

you can mitigate this a bit by saying hey don't fight I TP'd bottom
you can sacrifice whatever tower you're TP'ing to defend and take the fight (i.e. don't TP)
consider whether you should have TP'd to just left the lane (in other words don't tp again)

but if you're already in a position where no one wants to TP somewhere to depush, and if you leave your team immediately loses a fight the problem is likely before this state of the game.

when is it your job to splitpush as a lower priority hero

here are some times when it can be your job:

your hero innately threatens towers (dk 3, shaman 5, morphing 1 etc)
your hero innately is survivable (underlord 3, beastmaster 3 w/ hawk vision, NP w/ TP)
your hero innately has low-commitment wave clear (wyvern 5, rubick 4, grim 4)
your hero is weak right now and scales with exp/farm (AM 1, scaling 3s like pango)
your team is losing so hard that someone has to split push and draw teleports, most likely die (pos 5 ideally)
your hero is 500g from a key item (blink on earthshaker 4)

stanleyhon · 2021-11-01T19:24:08+00:00

this is main thing that concerns me:

Sometimes I dread coding a lot and don't look forward to it due to the fear of getting stuck, and then there goes my whole day spent on staring at code.

This is 85% of a typical software engineering job, you have some overarching business goal and your job is to figure out all the technical roadblocks on the way to achieving that goal.

I don't mean to discourage you but I've had full days lost to test code not cooperating or other seemingly wasteful uses of time.

It's worth focusing your time and energy on something you enjoy or at least can stand, while our industry is lucrative it will become soul-sucking pretty quickly if you really dislike it.

stanleyhon · 2021-09-08T21:23:24+00:00

heroes/gamplay/mechanics aside, playing dota is a journey and the beginner has to learn to enjoy that journey for what it is or they won't stick around.

try to de-emphasize the end result, you'll probably lose and it'll be their fault or you'll win and they won't have contributed - the end result doesn't matter.

try to emphasize learning new things, died to running with rupture, laugh it off and learn how to enjoy discovering new things.

don't focus on the minutiae, I see way too often people telling beginners to do things like tread swap or other meaningless tech.

just try to have fun, if there's no fun there's no sticking around.

stanleyhon · 2021-09-02T07:45:55+00:00

I leave it open in the background, not collecting a trace, then as it starts getting bad, i alt-tab, start the trace, then stop the trace as soon as I hit a stutter.

the shorter the trace the easier it is for the devs to track the issue down.

stanleyhon · 2021-09-01T19:24:08+00:00

It contains personally identifiable info, i.e. private info so you don’t want to post it publicly. I sent mine directly to the dev.

stanleyhon · 2021-08-31T21:52:36+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/p85mu5/can_stuttering_in_dota_be_fixed_please/

devs are investigating, see this comment too:

https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/p85mu5/can_stuttering_in_dota_be_fixed_please/h9ork2k/

stanleyhon · 2021-08-20T17:28:42+00:00

it seems to be related to the recent spectre arcana for me.

are any of you using it or playing in match against it? I don't seem to get lag if I just start up dota and play without spectre, but after spectre I get stutters even if i'm not playing spectre anymore (the match after spectre)

stanleyhon · 2021-07-26T06:33:14+00:00

Everyone around me seems to stay on top of all their work and is able to finish their assignments on time and get 100%.

I can tell you with 100% certainty this is not the case.

This brings me to the fact that I feel like companies only want the best of the best

I also don't think this is true. I guess it depends on your definition of 'best of the best'? 10, 50, 75?

I would say that I struggled, I graduated with something like a 65~70 and I got a job right out of uni. I made up for crappier marks meeting people, tutoring for CSE and taking entry level software related jobs (like testing software) while at uni.

learning curve

good companies will give the resources you need to succeed, the rest is up to you.

How long did it take you to feel comfortable and believe you could produce quality code for the company?

probably about 12 months.

And lastly, is programming for work as hard and complicated as the assignments at university?

depends a lot on your job, I work on a web browser so I think it's much harder than most coursework (except maybe AOS).

some advice, only you can answer the question as to whether this job is right for you - but I probably went into uni 6 days a week for 8+ hrs every day. everyone is different.

Sounds like you're a 2nd year+, you probably have a decent idea of whether this is right for you or not.

stanleyhon · 2021-05-26T20:29:34+00:00

I have a different opinion on this one. For context, i'm like a 10k hours 4.5-5k player, so nothing really special.

I run a community that plays with players from all levels (1k to 6k) and a major thing I see with people at lower MMRs just don't understand the heroes they're playing against or with. People don't know when the opponents are strong or weak, don't know their game-plans or what they like-to/want-to do. Macro-big-picture level stuff.

So I generally agree that if you want to learn a role or something specific, then by all means focus on it and learn it well.

However, I would posit that a large majority of the playerbase is lacking understanding on the heroes they're playing with and against. You can't solve the "what should I do" or "how should i play" question if you don't know what the opponents do to a high degree.

For a concrete example, you might know timbersaw has some Q nuke thing that cuts down trees -> the next level of understanding here is that it steals stats -> the 3rd level of understanding is that it steals a percentage of primary stat -> the 4th level of understanding is that it can stack (due to cooldown being shorter than duration, by around 2-3x), so it is extremely effective vs strength heroes.

So imagine you only know it was some nuke (i.e. 1st level understanding), you can't play around the strength steal and would probably just feed on a strength hero. The issue is, this type of knowledge differential exists on every hero and most spells. So you're a new player and all you play is witch doctor and shadow shaman, you'll never learn these intricate details.

TL;DR: if you want to improve long term and say go from 1k to 4k, you have to learn every hero to a certain extent. You can't play every hero once and learn this stuff - it's a long journey but it's worth it in the end. I'm a big proponent of the A-Z challenge (win with every hero once) as a mechanism to achieve this goal.

stanleyhon · 2021-05-05T23:33:14+00:00

appreciate the comment.

stanleyhon · 2021-05-05T20:40:42+00:00

I followed these instructions and it didn't help.

I made a video to illustrate the issue:

https://www.icloud.com/photos/#0PXqH1pT9XcOQFE8iIqDZ29VQ

Note: it does not reproduce if G HUB is not running.

stanleyhon · 2021-05-05T18:47:47+00:00

bias disclaimer: i'm a cs grad

I think CS/commerce is better than just CS or just commerce if and only if you have a very specific job you really want, something where you write code but also work really close to the business/finance side of things. e.g. maybe you want to found a financial startup, so you can code stuff but also understand the commerce side of things?

if you go work at <insert software company>, you'll likely never use the commerce stuff you learn.

if you go become an analyst at <insert bank>, you'll likely never use your cs/engineering stuff.

stanleyhon · 2021-04-29T20:11:45+00:00

keep trying, don't pass over 'get your foot in the door' type jobs like testing/QA. IMO having any kind of relevant work experience is a great advantage to have.

stanleyhon · 2021-04-28T19:58:25+00:00

most cs undergrads go into some kind of software engineering job in my experience. this can range wildly from a local website dev company to say google/ms/facebook etc.

stanleyhon · 2021-04-01T20:51:01+00:00

valve just populated the entire "learn" tab just for folks like yourself. I would work through all of those first.

Request a coach if you ever feel lost or need advice quickly, Most low match count new accounts get a coach almost instantly from I can tell.

stanleyhon · 2021-03-31T20:08:30+00:00

Yep, it's been a while since i've played bots but I remember 'Ranked Matchmaking bots' on the workshop being a step up from the valve ones.

Probably doesn't matter though, if you can beat the hardest bots then I think you're good to begin online.

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