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#209, #StandUpLocust, #MurphysFerry, Surah Yunus 10:71
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Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
2d ago
For some people the fun comes from directly exploring the game itself. Why bother learning the internal knowledge of the game when you can apply your external knowledge to hack the game and become God? I’ve met people who first learned to program by implementing techniques like DLL hooking, memory inspection, process injection, etc., who basically threw their hands up and said “F this shit…,” and went to directly write to the memory address of a particular subroutine in the game; looking for ways to bypass the controls that limit your ability to easily level up and do whatever you want.
Gamification is a hard thing to get right. But the principle at play has already been known for a long time. AP chemistry in high school wouldn’t have been so hard for some people if you taught kids using black powder explosives and chemicals with energetic properties, as an example. Young boys love letting off fireworks and things that go boom boom.
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2d ago
I was always a turtling / defensive player by default, especially in the FMP maps that made it easy to macro. In all my private matches we’d orchestrate, my peers hated playing my ass because they said I played “boring.” Well yeah… When you play competitive, you play to win. If you’re looking for something casual, stick to playing in public channels with randos.
Back when we played the private ladders like Vile Gaming Tour (VGT) and StarCraftDream (SCD), things were serious and we all wanted to see the “best” players in bo3’s, bo5’s or bo7’s who could put on a fascinating show, along with all the shittalking that ensured from everyone complaining that “so-and-so plays like a faggot!,” and calling each other noobs’s and retards. I swear it was the teenage immaturity that kept the game alive longer than it otherwise would have, but it was great.
Tretiak
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2d ago
You and I could probably discuss this for days. My friends and I were huge into SC1 and Battle.net back in the day.
Raynor always served his role well as the go-between of sorts between the different races as well as the Terran factions. The campaign story was a lot more extensive than a lot of the competitive players originally realized, and in multiplayer especially, SC1 reproved its replay value for years and years up until SC2 came out (which I was disappointed by, even in the SK professional circuit; and I used to watch Tasteless and Artosis commentary in the Code S bracket a lot).
After the first chapter of SC2, I let the story drop off for me after that, not being too satisfied with the direction of things they went. That said, did they ever finish the chapter or cliffhanger with Lieutenant Duran and his experiments he was conducting across the stars?
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2d ago
I’m the kind of guy that absolutely loathes customer front facing work, but I do it quite a lot, both with staff and everyone else; and they all tell me I do pretty well even though I don’t particularly enjoy it. My personality has always been more of the inward, thoughtful, mad scientist up in the high tower of the castle, thinking up crazy ideas. But the anxiety of dealing with people on the ground is almost always worse than the reality of it, and it’s a product of overthinking. The only way I’ve found to get out of that mode of thought is simply by doing the work, and you can see how out of register your anxiety is what the work that stands before you.
Tretiak
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2d ago
These are all things that generalize to every industry and typically fall under the rubric of “networking.” One of the most important lessons I give to those who ask me around the time they hit the labor force is “work has the exact same politics as high school.” You’ve got your kiss asses. You’ve got your dick riders. You’ve got the lazy people. And then you’ve got those who actually do the work. Figuring out a way to ingratiate yourself with whatever the in-group is, is part of the game you play in any workplace situation, and it requires you to be observant.
Be careful when it comes to being indispensable. People will inevitably take the work you do for granted in you let them and if you draw attention to yourself and become pigeonholed as “that guy,” you can turn the things that make you into a good worker into a liability that gets you into trouble.
Tretiak
If you know you know, if you don’t you don’t.
2d ago
Don’t underestimate the importance of soft skills and “reading the room,” still. I’ve seen competent people get passed on all the time, and usually by the idiots supervising the interns. That said, IT and infosec really is a “team sport” with a lot of interdependencies between its members.
“Standing out” is also more than simply “knowing the answer” to certain things. Having an approach that’s otherwise “custom” to who you are is something that adds great flair to your professionalism, because lots of other people beside you will have the same standard knowledge base that you do. We’ve all gone through the same courses and same certs. There’s great importance in differentiating yourself.
No, it’s regular. I can’t drink diet anything. I desire intense flavor in food and drinks. I kill on average between 4-10 bottles of regular soda a day at work, and then continue drinking cans of it outside of work, and then milk usually during dinner time and dessert.
My weight hovers between 160lbs and 170lb. I’ve eaten so much I’ve gone over 170 very slightly and then the next morning I go right back down to 165 or so; and I’m a tall man. It just felt like my metabolism would instantly crush it. But the weight doesn’t stay no matter how hard I try to gain it. I can’t stay feeling full longer than 15-30 minutes at a time usually before I feel hungry again.
Some things I just can’t eat because like I’ve said, I’ll feel anemic and fatigued the whole day. Salads are one of them. I hate salads. If I’d already eaten the meat and potatoes and everything else out of the fridge, I remember I’d go into the cupboards, dig out an unopened container of chocolate frosting, scoop all of it into a bowl, put it in the microwave and eat all of it with a spoon. Yeah, empty calories but gave me a momentary energy boost.
When my mother would go grocery shopping for our family as kids, she’d do regular grocery shopping for all of us, and then she’d do grocery shopping just for me, so we always spent more than the average family. My friends always said I had the diet of a 10 year old kid. A lot of times though I skip out on meals here and there just to stay more in line with everyone else but I’m starving inside when I do that.
… that is primarily because it’s dense in calories and humans evolved in often starving conditions. In a world of plentiful food and sedentary lifestyle we just aren’t designed for abundant sugary drinks.
My father made this point to me once. He argued back in hunter-gatherer times nature would select ‘against’ people like me from existing because I’d be the guy who ends up killing the whole tribe by starving them of all their food to satisfy my own hunger and would wind up being exiled to die in isolation. And if I survived that I’d probably end up getting killed from raiding all the neighboring tribes for their food. Thats why there isn’t many people like us. But every now and then I suppose nature as a hiccup from its evolutionary past.
I always try and have our cook at work (bless you Alvin) saturate the bun and chicken in as much butter as possible but it becomes impractical at some point, because the bun then starts breaking apart; crumbling. So he’ll put the rest into a cup that I can dip the burger in. This time though he didn’t overdo buttering the bun too much I think. I added several salt packets to the meat before putting the mayo on, then dip the bun again in butter before I take a bite.
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3d ago
I actually had a routine checkup about 8-9 months ago and all my lab values (including cholesterol) were taken. My doctor said my numbers were literally perfectly at the normal ranges. I’ve never felt unhealthy eating this way but I do feel anemic when I go off of it.
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3d ago
Just a quick snack at the moment. Lots of butter of course!.
That was before the two bags of Doritos I just ate, along with two Mountain Dews; :/.
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5d ago
They’ve got plenty of 5-point intersections where I come from, and I’m nowhere near PA.
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5d ago
The last couple years I’ve delved more into emerging markets to see what the next hot areas are going to be. Malaysia has recently caught my focus for its developing importance as a digital services hub in that particular region. Kuala Lumpur has also become an attractive destination for some people seeking greater financial freedom and investment opportunities.
Oh you’re into credit markets! I’ve studied this stuff pretty extensively and know a couple of people in high finance (one in particular who works the sell side in DCM and has gotten rich via distressed debt investing); and have a few very distant relatives in IB. The industry has changed quite a bit since the early days of the Internet. Derivatives trading in the classical sense is going the way of the dinosaur. People tell me if you’re looking to really “get into it,” beyond the horizon of an ordinary retail investor, what you really want is a job in “structuring.”
Fixed income (i.e. bonds, credits) are several orders of magnitude larger than equities markets. I’m not exactly going to pitch myself as a person chalk full of solid advice on complex investment strategies (disclaimer: I’m not a financial advisor or professional analyst), but I invest myself, and follow that side of the industry pretty closely. I’ve also been studying the equities of energy markets both international and domestic for the last few years, due to climate change trends and have discovered some pretty interesting things.
I can recommend plenty of resources your way, if you’re into that (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9).
AI will never replace this level of art.
Train it on 4Chan datasets. Lol.
Tretiak
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6d ago
Oh that’s fine. I don’t mind it at all. That’s very interesting.
I remember as a teen once during a family gathering, a ton of us were going to sleep in the living room, so close it was nearly shoulder to shoulder from one end to the other; and all over the furniture. We went to sleep to prepare to all go to the ocean the next morning and I remember closing my eyes, blinking only one time (less than a second), and in the next moment, it was morning; light was shining through the blinds and we were beginning to get up. All I remember was looking around confused, wondering where all the time went. But I never said anything to anyone until several years later.
First and only time I had an experience like that, but maybe it’s a psychological hiccup of the underlying sleeping condition.
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6d ago
People have said the same to me before. I’ve learned over years just how to deal with it, but never resolved it in any way to bring it into balance with what might be considered “normal.” I don’t have any problems being productive and don’t function like a zombie without normal sleep.
MCAD deficiency. Essentially it’s a rare disorder that impacts the body’s ability to break down fats but also store them. It also greatly impacts low blood glucose/sugar levels and is a known cause of sudden infant death syndrome when it’s not detected. Mine wasn’t detected until very early adulthood.
Explains the metabolic part. No idea how that ties in with the sleeping part.
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7d ago
My diet isn’t healthy but when my family tried putting me on such a diet as a child, I’d feel anemic and fatigued all the time. When I went back to my normal (and unfortunately unhealthy) eating habits I instantly regained my energy.
And no. I’m not fat at all. I’m taller than average and very slender. I can’t gain weight very well due to a metabolic disorder I have.
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7d ago
Yeah. It’s best to avoid surgery when it’s possible to do so. I’ve only had one surgery in my entire life, but a lot of the time people say after you get one, you’re never the same way again; even after the recovery.
I honestly can’t remember the last time I drank water. I’m a huge milk, apple juice and soda drinker. I can’t drink beverages like Gatorade. I’m a fiend in general for taste and high sugar and salt items.
Whenever I eat at work, I always try to have my hamburger or pizza or whatever it is, drenched in butter all over, or I’ll grab like 29 packets of salt and 5 of ketchup. Just how I’ve always been.
Never even heard of that. No. Never been tested for anything sleep wise. It used to drive my parents crazy. I’m good off 3-4 hours and can stay awake for days with no interventions. I can work for 24-36-48 hours usually with no issues.
Growing up my sibling and I used to share a bedroom and a bunk bed and they’d always get really pissed off that I couldn’t sleep and always called me the energizer bunny. My friends used to make fun of me and compare me to cartoon characters because I never seemed to get tired no matter what we did.
Exhaustion is mostly a mental thing with me, not a physical thing. When I want to go to sleep and the melatonin doesn’t hit right, sometimes I’ll play a very highly rated Chess game (I used to play competitively), and it requires so much mental concentration and effort I can tire myself out much more quickly by comparison rather than say running a mile. My issue is I recover very fast.
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7d ago
But the part that says you're supposed to just give away your stuff if someone tries to take it from you? Well, that part is big theological treatise on why the text doesn't mean what it plainly says.
I get what you’re saying here but it’s quite an overstatement. Religious people tend to give far more away and are much more charitable on average than non-religious people.
You always have to consider the contingent historical circumstances that these nations develop under because revolutions never begin as a clean slate. It happens within a context.
If you take China as a popular example, almost nobody takes into account the fact that China has always had an authoritarian / autocratic streak since its inception. When you combine its unique history with the conditions under Mao Zedong, it doesn’t require a unique ideological causal factor to explain. This is why phrases like “Socialism with Chinese characteristics,” is so well know in area studies of the region. It’s a syncretism between the two and you can’t divorce one from the other. Just like Zen Buddhism with Capitalism in Japan or Confucianism with Korea.
In the west we suppress dissenting voices as well. The spectrum of acceptable opinion within the MSM for instance is extraordinarily narrow. It isn’t narrow because someone throws you in a concentration camp. It’s narrow for other reasons. We don’t call it censorship, we call it “content moderation.” In the same way the term “propaganda” fell out of favor after the Second World War and has since been referred to as the “public relations industry.”
Bruce Schneier has also done an interesting analysis that turns politics into an analysis of information systems and in particular the structure of information flows, which are what’s important to these systems. One thing he notes is that democracies take the form of what he calls “common political knowledge,” and it details the power that transparency of information has. Authoritarian societies take common political knowledge and turn it into “contested political knowledge,” such that institutional divisions become less well understood and rules are often very fuzzy. This has several security benefits that you often see applied in IR studies, that explains why regimes will almost always favor security over prosperity whenever there is a conflict between the two.
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