Git LFS is 50k loc, this is 891 loc. There are other differences, but that is the main one.
I don't want a sophisticated backup system. I want one so simple that it disappears into the background.
I want to never fear data loss or my ability to restore with broken tools and a new computer while floating on a raft down a river during a thunder storm. This is what we train for.
the solution is obvious. stop grading the result, and start grading the process.
if you can one-shot an answer to some problem, the problem is not interesting.
the result is necessary, but not sufficient. how did you get there? how did you iterate? what were the twists and turns? what was the pacing? what was the vibe?
no matter if with encyclopedia, google, or ai, the medium is the message. the medium is you interacting with the tools at your disposal.
record that as a video with obs, and submit it along with the result.
for high stakes environments, add facecam and other information sources.
reviewers are scrubbing through video in an editor. evaluating the journey, not the destination.
finally upgraded to aws go sdk v2. took a week, and required reviewing 20k lines of code. i'm on aws to avoid this type of thing, but it was fun anyway.
i removed the shift key from my keyboard years ago. there's no going back.
solos doesn't solve cheating, but it removes the team dynamics and social meta games that team modes bring. like wondering whether your teammates are cheating, or failing to compete because you can't find a good team.
obviously cheating is cool. we all love to code, to build, and to hack. there should be a place to cheat, even in pvp games.
there should be a league with open cheating. cheaters need a place to game too!
there should be a league with moderate anticheat, like what you see in games today. it kind of works, and stops all but the most motivated cheaters.
there should be a league where cheating is impossible. where one doesn't have to doubt, ever, whether they died to a cheater or a god. this is where kernel level anticheat is not enough, and solos only should be required.
cheating is about validating inputs and outputs. valid screen displaying into human eyes. valid output out of human hands to mouse and keyboard.
if we take a step back, this is very achievable. it's not like doping in the olympics, we don't need bloodwork. we just need a little more information than we get from anticheats today.