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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive-Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As mentioned by others, he "retired" a few months ago, but he's not the only one at fault. Many of the other executives contributed to the terrible decision making that landed the company in its current situation and they need to be cut loose as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you should think a little more about the shareholders and little less about yourself. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real quick question about the "break"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point, that is a valid way to do it sometimes, but it's extremely situational and trying to do that for everything would be absolute nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real quick question about the "break"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand telling you not to use break and continue if the point is to teach you to think about different ways to solve problems, but saying it's because "it makes the code harder to read" is bullshit. Readable code flow is important, but if using those makes your code too hard to read, your problem is most likely that you've just written shitty code.

  To get really into the technical weeds, what break and continue boil down to in the compiled machine code is a non-conditional branch instruction. This is just going to move the execution pointer to a different location in memory. Other keywords, such as if, elif, and else, will compile down to conditional branch instructions. Basically the same thing, but they have the added cost of having to evaluate some data to see if the branch should happen at all. You can achieve the same things with both, but the high level code might need to look different.

  For instance, if you're in a loop, continue will let you skip the rest of the code in the loop to get to the next iteration. Not a huge deal to instead make the entire code block conditional to skip it. However, the break keyword will let you exit the loop at any point, which is more complicated to deal with. You would have to conditionalize your code block and force the looping condition to something that would stop it on the next iteration. If you ask me, that has the potential to be much more complicated than necessary.

  Also, good luck using switch without any breaks, but I'm guessing that's not quite what your teacher had in mind.

  In short, just go with it for now. Be creative and find a way to make it work to your teacher's liking, but always try to be aware of different ways you can accomplish a task. Also, I don't know what language you're using, but if you're in C/C++ or C# and you feel like getting really cheeky, it doesn't sound like she disallowed the use of goto. It's kinda like break with fewer safeguards, so it's super easy to write broken code with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity cuts 265 jobs as part of a company 'reset'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's it exactly. In addition to over-hiring during COVID, the massive spending spree from a ton of over-inflated, short-sighted acquisitions ever since the IPO absolutely demolished the company's budget. Cutting Weta Digital was only the tip of this latest iceberg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What moment from a video game made you cry?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn near everything in Nier Gestalt/Replicant. That game wrecks me every time I play it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lego bridge⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen, I built enough lego bridges back in the day to know I ain't trusting that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse you, but Riccitiello retired. Sure, it was at the last minute with absolutely no transition plan ahead of time, but it was totally voluntary and not at all forced by the board!

  (/s if it wasn't obvious)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨chadigator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When you reach max level, you stop leveling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Late 30s here and I beat that level for the first time very recently. My mind was blown when I learned that was not the final level of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eloink Musk going to town⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody get that poor pig out of there before the car explodes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I don't work with recruitment agencies anymore. Only ever had bad experiences with them earlier in my career, so these days, I apply for positions directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the last 3 months, I've managed to get 2 interviews and the last one ghosted me. It's still pretty bad for some of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The tech jobs market is as strong as it ever was⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds roughly accurate from my standpoint. I would love to stay where I'm at, but I'm being forced out by the upcoming RTO mandate. And on top of that, our brilliant executive team is currently chasing the AI trend, putting a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths here. I think we also still have a hiring freeze mostly in effect except for a very few select positions with the educated guess that another RIF may be coming in the next few months. The whole thing makes me really angry the more I think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recently picked up Chrono Trigger - Amazing Game!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved Xillia! I keep hoping against all odds they'll remaster it for modern platforms like Symphonia or Vesperia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you exposing any ports on your home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I do see a decent amount of activity on it. Full disclaimer, I am not a security expert. I know just enough to be dangerous. But, I see at least a few connection attempts from different IPs about every day. The top 3 countries of origin are China, Russia, and Brazil (based on the reverse DNS, but it's possible some are using VPNs to hide their origin). My impression is they're all bots that just go through a list of IP addresses, attempting to connect to the standard ssh port, then guessing the username and password. What I've found is they usually go through a list of likely ssh ports until one of them connects. Having the default port open to only the honeypot means they usually establish the connection, then leave it at that, so my real ssh port never gets hit. I kinda think of it like scambaiting, where I'm just wasting time they might otherwise spend trying to break into someone else's real ssh server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you exposing any ports on your home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have https open along with a non-standard port for ssh. Just for fun, I have the standard ssh port open, but redirecting to a Raspberry Pi running a honeypot. It's fun to mess with foreign bots trying to access my network.