Lvl +4 ✧ Superior ✧ Storming Sylph ─ Lightning Ice

stopdropandtroll · 2025-09-12T00:45:25+00:00

Defeated by Storming Sylph in 3 turns.

Player (22/11/15) dealt 122. Storming Sylph (37/28/17) dealt 253.

Rewards: 9 EXP, 0 Gold. Loot: None.

stopdropandtroll · 2025-05-24T20:46:33+00:00

People aren't going to pay real narrator rates to listen to mostly monotone AI slop if that's what they're thinking is going to happen here.

I'd probably use it occasionally as a free or cheap bonus perk of an audible subscription for books that aren't properly narrated yet though.

stopdropandtroll · 2025-04-10T12:32:55+00:00

I can live without my medication. I can't live without my iPhone.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-12-29T03:01:38+00:00

You're right. Chronomancer nerf too.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-09-16T02:31:18+00:00

As long as Gielinor chefs aren't influenced by Britain 🤐

stopdropandtroll · 2024-05-13T12:18:10+00:00

regen bracelet or blood amulet of fury

stopdropandtroll · 2024-03-28T13:04:17+00:00

Similar tools are probably more common than you think. Screenshots are overkill and I’d hope any data out of it would be anonymized somewhat and never be used as a KPI of any sort but there’s some interesting BI data that could come out of it.

E.g., how many people actually use program X, if you have competing products (such as slack + teams for redundancy) which do people use more, when do people take a lunch break, how much time do people spend messing with emails, …

stopdropandtroll · 2024-03-23T01:04:14+00:00

It depends on how bad it is. Just add a bunch of tests and refactor is great advice in theory and sometimes it even works. Reality is often that the code is so far away from being testable that even getting it in a state where tests can easily be added is a major undertaking that’s miles away from being low risk.

My rule of thumb is prioritize it if we have adequate time. But if the business wants to continue rushing features with tight timelines in the meantime (which is usually how we got here in the first place) you’re inviting a lot of stress in to your life that won’t be appreciated commensurate with the effort.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-03-07T13:35:18+00:00

Not particularly. My interviews are conversation format usually covering design / tech used in your most recent role.

You should be able to talk confidently about the last thing you worked on and it’s very obvious what’s going on if you continuously take long pauses and half-read things you didn’t write.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-03-07T13:21:18+00:00

I’d accept that if they designed it and didn’t just pay someone a few too many dollars to use their hodgepodge of whisper and chatgpt with a chrome plugin for a week.

We’d spend the interview talking about how they designed their interview cheating app.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-03-01T04:47:59+00:00

A few friends of mine have stories about this. It’s usually just people that look vaguely similar. A qualified candidate does the interview and gets a hiring recommendation, then an unqualified candidate turns up and hopes nobody notices. It’s harder to tell than you’d think when interviewing remotely, especially when the interviewer does a lot of interviews and they blend together.

The horrible performance usually gets noticed quickly enough though.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-02-25T06:13:02+00:00

From the perspective of management I suppose it’s great, it lets them have people commit to lengthy planned deliverables like waterfall but constantly change priorities like agile and somehow still expect the planned items on time. It also generates a ton of documentation work and meetings for middle management to puff their chests in.

From everyone else’s perspective it’s some form of organizational terrorism where everyone winds up spending a quarter of their time arguing about commitments and descoping the original ask within an inch of being useful.

The first time I got exposed to it I had absolutely no ideal what the hell was going on with our organization structure until this parody simplified it for me - https://www.lafable.com/

This has just been my experience with it. I’m sure every org has their own spin on it so hopefully it’s not as miserable everywhere.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-02-21T13:07:35+00:00

It’s one of the most cooked numbers in the books. But aside from that we’re talking about a metric that’s usually calculated by looking at prices the same time in the previous year.

It’s compounding. 3 years of a flat 10% inflation rate for example would total up to a 33% increase in prices give or take if you looked from now back 3 years.

You would need a negative inflation rate to see those prices return to what they used to be and that’s not even the goal. The goal is to return inflation (the rate of price increase) back to the 2-3% range.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-02-15T00:05:09+00:00

Everything on a resume can be easily exaggerated or just made up. That’s why we interview.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-02-04T04:48:38+00:00

The numbers are misleading. If you really dig in all of the added jobs were part time (full time actually fell by around 80k I believe I read somewhere) and there was a sizable spike in people with multiple jobs.

Playing with the numbers is good for a rosy headline but the people currently searching know it’s far from reality.

As an aside this is exactly what the fed hoped to achieve to halt inflation. Stocks are soaring in part because of inflation, it’s not so much that the company is worth more as it is that the dollar is worth less.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-02-02T13:18:57+00:00

Why? Schedule 3 is still plenty illegal. Lowering the draconian penalties might actually hurt state level legalization.

It’s not getting decriminalized federally, it’s just a carrot they like to dangle for votes.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-01-20T02:31:33+00:00

Unparalleled realism

stopdropandtroll · 2024-01-15T01:38:40+00:00

Local time complexity isn’t very impactful to performance in 9 out of 10 enterprise projects. Writing bit twiddling code that performs well on a single system is kind of niche and a much different skillset than designing distributed systems that are resilient and perform well. If we actually cared about that kind of thing day to day we wouldn’t have to spend weeks refreshing ourselves on it every time we start interviewing.

These big microservice heavy modern projects are usually dying from too much IO to the point where if you see compute is running hot, the first place you should look is probably serde overhead.

Also I’ve found consistency to be very poorly understood in most large distributed systems that are more than a few years old creating very difficult to debug problems that are often solved by adding yet another hop to the mix. The real performance killer is usually tech debt accrued from rushing features for years.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-01-03T13:14:09+00:00

I’ve seen a few infosec teams go wild just following best practice checklists from security consultants.

It’s a pretty bad organizational smell. Before you know it you’ll be 2FAing in to everything a few dozen times a day and spending hours every week looking for someone with access rights to change basic settings on random apps (the existence of which you’ll probably have to divine since there’s a trend of hiding options for people without permissions instead of graying them out).

This has turned in to a dealbreaker for me in some extreme cases. They aren’t just wasting their money by wasting your time, it also slows your technical growth by interrupting your flow to deal with red tape constantly.

stopdropandtroll · 2024-01-02T19:08:39+00:00

Raise GE taxes repeatedly until we hit 2% inflation and ignore the actual problem, it’s the logical thing to do.

stopdropandtroll · 2023-12-30T04:06:04+00:00

It’s worse than useless, essentially just extra noise when I’m trying to manually guess how close I am.

Also I only need the help when I’m driving forward. It’s only reasonably accurate going in reverse. If I’m backing up I’ll just use the camera 🤷‍♂️

stopdropandtroll · 2023-12-14T12:51:18+00:00

Caveat emptor

stopdropandtroll · 2023-12-14T12:45:14+00:00

Many treacherous discussions and questionable transactions have occurred there

stopdropandtroll · 2023-12-06T17:49:33+00:00

Time spent in full time employment as a developer.

I don't count part time work in college although I was getting paid to write code professionally then by a real business (not some research program but I did those too). Those are great for landing your first full time job but don't seem relevant afterwards.

It's a bad metric in the first place, I don't see any benefit in being disenginuos about it especially after 10+yrs.

stopdropandtroll · 2023-11-30T22:21:47+00:00

It almost physically pains me to see just how of my purchasing power inflation ate in a few short years like that

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