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Random reply: 20 days ago you asked for my ChatGPT custom instructions to be more skeptical. It is :

Use an encouraging tone. Adopt a skeptical, questioning approach. Call me on things which don't seem right. List possible assumptions I'm making if any.

Wow, this was some slick long form sales work. I hope your SaaS goes well. Nice one!

You know how to add logic on the outside of a function, by putting that function into a larger one and calling the function in the middle.

However, how do you inject logic INTO the middle of a function?

Say you have a function which can iterate over any list and given a condition do a filter. How do you inject the condition logic into that filter function?

In the C days you would use a function pointer for this. C++ introduced templating so you could do this regardless of type. Lambdas make the whole process more ergonomic, it's just declaring a one-shot function in place with some convenient syntax.

In rust instead of the full blown

fn filter_condition(val: ValType) -> bool { // logic }

I can declare a function in place with |val|{logic} - the lambda is just syntactic sugar to make your life easier.

Sounds likely it had an opening book dataset. You just needed a weird opening

There is a strategy called alpha beta pruning meaning you can discard a lot of move options quickly based on the results of similar branches. That and caching similar board states means 20x options does not mean 20x CPU time.

I told ChatGPT via my settings that I often make mistakes and to call out my assumptions. So now it

1. Glazes me 2. Lists a variety of assumptions (some can be useful / interesting)

Answers the question

At least this way I don't spend a day pursuing an idea the wrong way because ChatGPT never pointed out something obvious.

That's probably assuming a solar system sized to cover typical summer energy usage. You can simply over-provision solar until you have wasted capacity in summer and little to no storage requirement in winter. Then it's just a tradeoff between battery and solar costs to find the best price point.

Also this calculation probably assumes no baseload power imported from the grid, where means such as wind and tidal power work year-round and help offset the need for batteries.

Perhaps not in a 100% world, though I'll give you the point that they are useful now.

In a 100% renewable world we would not be extracting or refining oil. Natural gas (used by these turbines) is a byproduct of oil drilling. Were we not burning the oil, the natural gas might be too expensive alone.

Also, in a 100% renewable world we would (by definition) have enough generation all the time - (covered by batteries and good baseload sources) that turbine power was no longer required to cover peak loads.

The free market is an analyzable simplification of the real market, however I think the assumptions hold in this case.

If a CEO delivers a certain advantage (a profit multiplier) it's rational that a bidding war will ensue for that CEO until they are paid the entire apparent advantage of their pretense for the company. A similar effect happens for salespeople.

The key difference between free and real markets in this case is information and distortions of lobbying. That plus legal restrictions on the company. The CEO is incentivized to find ways around these issues to maximize their own pay.

They are a bridge between those with money and those with skill. Plus they can aggregate information and act as a repository of knowledge and decision maker for their teams.

These are valuable skills, though perhaps nowhere near as valuable as they end up being in a free market.

It's also a tower that has famously been deliberately un-straightend just enough to remain a tourist attraction while remaining stable.

I'd imagine that as any variable that only has two states.

In English, that's hard, but there are programming languages ... specialized in breaking a complex task down for computers to understand.

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Horizon Zero Dawn (the PlayStation and later steam game where you're an archer in a world of robots)

There are probably a lot of open world RPGs which are all good.

The linked site lists a lot of patterns that any game with an RPG like unlock system or item collection system will contain, like (some) grinding and Endowed value. Personally I feel that this is only a dark pattern when it goes beyond motivation for fun and into "I can't stop playing" addictive qualities.

Sure, but Fortnite's UI is set up to sell to you the whole time. After every match you can see unlocks. Before every match you spend time surrounded by other players with their skins and emotes.

The relationship between EXP and levels in each season only really reward you if you have a battle pass - so the more you play the more the pass seems like an attractive purchase. Once you have the pass, you're then encouraged to play more than you might otherwise want to in order to max out the time-limited rewards.

While true, at least Gabe proved you could make a profit while still remaining non-evil.

I think that's more a situation where publishers demand some form of DRM so steam is trying to provide a default solution that most publishers are happy with.

Sure, but you currently cannot teach AI models to generate novel art in the same way that you can teach a human apprentice.

Also resolution & uniformity

Color makes major compromises physically also, since it seems like the Red, Green and Blue channels are sampling from the same physical location but the actual sensor buckets are offset from each other.

There are ads on the internet? Do you mean in that short window between installing a browser and installing the extensions?

Thread exhaustion attack

1. Start <thread_count> connections to a server

2. Hold connections open

3. Do nothing else

Server

1. Incoming connection. assign a thread.

2. Wait for request <--- Attack causes us to get stuck here

3. Serve request

4. Close connection and thread / return to threadpool

Solution: Use a reverse proxy to handle the incoming connections. Typical reverse proxies such as nginx use event-based polling not a per-connection thread so they are immune to this issue.

Note - Lorazepam is one of those drugs which causes dependance if you use it regularly. If you find you need it often, get a substitute which is safe to use all the time.

Yeah, In application programming over the air is frankly terrifying because when it goes bad it goes really bad.

If you want to stay in the bay area and leverage your experience, perhaps you want to become a technical co-founder for someone?

Otherwise it might make sense to move out of the bay area to where there are lower costs of living and then lower your salary expectations to match.

Bear in mind that being a good corporate drone or middle manager requires different soft skills and attitude than being the CEO of your own company. You have to march to someone else's drum which can be hard.

You need to prove to yourself and others that you can be a regular developer now, you're in a position where you might need to sacrifice salary, job description and/or working conditions to get a foot back on the ladder.

Beyond salary, the culture of working hours in the bay area might be a bad fit for you. If you're looking for a boring (in a good way) salaryman programmer role you might need to see where those sort of companies are centred.

Note, I live and work outside the US so I can't give specific US advice.

I think the scammers created this time pressure by messaging and then suggesting they interview in 30 minutes from now (in real time)

One of frustrating truths about software is that it can be terrible and riddled with bugs but if you just keep patching enough bugs and use it the same way every time it eventually becomes reliable software ... as long as the user never does anything new and no-one pokes the source with a stick.

I much prefer the alternative where it's written in a manner where you can almost prove it's bug free by comprehensively unit testing the parts.

I think old in this sense is "released" rather than "beta" - it takes time to make any software reliable. Many of the examples here further prove that young software is unreliable.

Remember when debuggers were young?

Remember when OSes were young?

Remember when multi-tasking CPUs were young?

Etc...

Or more precisely https://xcancel.com/colin_d_m

This feels like anxiety more so than anything.

When things are hard and you anticipate that you're going to struggle, it's perfectly natural that you're going to develop an anxiety response to those things. It's possible that you will describe the experience through the lens of anxiety even if there is more going on than merely anxiety.

I'm not ASD just sound and light sensitive do to physical damage. Not a single person has bothered me about this even during conversation.

I'm glad that you have found a means to manage your difficulties and it does not cause you social issues. Bear in mind that someone who is very ASD is "manually" managing social situations which come automatically to "the rest of us." The same social disapproval you casually dismiss is likely a cause of anxiety for them.

my kid has autism and anxiety and she has solutions for these problems.

I'm glad that she appears to be high functioning. Even those who are might want to avoid the shop because it's just a challenge they would rather avoid today. But for others I can imagine it being all too much.

Either that or specialization