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spent a several months working on their bug bounty program earlier this year while working full time and lost a lot of motivation after a duplicate combined with lower bounty awards and claude safety guards all at the same time

I suspect some people moved there years ago with the lower cost of living little money around the time/since of the four-hour workweek tim ferris movement . Some countries do not allow public criticism, so of course they would make videos of wonderful places to live hoping to scratch income-wise by after some moving there with no backup plan. Just a little critical thinking.

I can understand the just indiehacker and mvp/yolo it, but there is real risk there and I'd question the wisdom of that.

I've been working in a non-tech role the past couple years hoping things would improve. Reading stuff like this, doesn't seem to be happening and makes it difficult to plan long term (but I haven't been actively applying).

I really liked that game, it had a lot of strategy to it and a decent story.

The multiplayer had a common key bug that made it hard on some maps. The atreides airdrones could fly at the edge of the map and not be targeted, and take out the harvester carryalls / and other air units There were claims of a flame tank bug that could target any unit that was mentioned on the forums much much later, but I don't know if the details were ever revealed, I never figured it out so I guess its just theoretical..

2023 had a lot of trouble finding a tech job and even local meetup devs told me of layoffs, got into restaurant work where I had worked several years ago in college, because they remembered me. Mostly physical job, I don't have to work the fryers which in some ways is kind of nice, and it's super low stress, just takes a lot of energy and leaves me drained in most of free time

In my experience It's very hard to get back in once you've been out of tech a while. Not because you can't code, but it becomes harder if not impossible to convince someone you can and current oversupply.

Super interesting. At one point thought control flow guard + DEP/ASLR was suppose to prevent this stuff, guess it can't be prevented nearly completely by now. Sounds like this took a lot of work to figure out, well done.

Any comment on reporting to Microsoft or perhaps motivation for this research?

Problem is lack of money catches up eventually. If you can't figure out some way to get it, and the longer without a job, the harder it is to get one. I think a lot of people struggled because the economy and job numbers. Supply and demand..

I had contract work, then couldn't get a tech job a couple years ago after a lot of applications. Completely broke. Drove down the road and felt kinda foolish seeing people paying less but decent money for non-tech. got fast food / hospitality worker. Low stress, physical work. Can't imagine where I'd be if I didn't.

I kind of get it though, you start doing something else then you don't have much time and energy to improve on what you want to do (such as tech) for a while, a recipe for people to get trapped, unless you can save money and reclaim time somehow to improve, or the supply/demand shifts..

anyone could fail at anything, all I know for certain is the worst thing a person can do is nothing.

The game is riddled with small bugs, like you can knock the phone off the rock in the first level bunker then the cut scene will have him picking it up.

Having the trigens fight the people throughout the game was fun, and stealth aspect as well.

It's funny how the game emphasis seemed to be on the realistic mode, but it's like it was only tested on medium - the trigens would die very quickly and easily on realistic if the guards shot them, if I had to guess probably the bullet damage is turned up on that mode.

I remember there is a bug with the hang glider that if you move down and up you gain momentum

Back in the day far cry 1 was ultra realistic graphics.

The game was fun to play, the most annoying thing is if you throw a rock or grenade where they can see if your stealth meter in instantly goes to zero and they start shooting you.

I played it a lot, hehe.

It's an interesting and legitimate question. But just as it takes business time to pick up on new technologies and adapt, it might take institutions as well. I've seen reddit posts of people getting writing flagged as AI written when it wasn't. The question is, how long until they start embracing it as a tool to use to write with?

Many of the institutions have billions of dollars put back. Harvard for example google tells me 53 billion. So I don't think they are just going to go away, they will adapt somehow.

It has a complex history but a lot of it started with the Prohibition historically, when alcohol sales ended some restaurants started allowing tips and it became more commonplace.

It always seemed to me the basics of a messenger app would be the easy part to be accomplished. It's the marketing that would be hard seeing as there are already existing solutions such as Slack and Discord.

Looks like this was hacked together pretty quickly. This in CPU is exactly what needs optimized to run on more devices, if that's even possible..

I guess it will take hardware and software a while to catch up to compete with ChatGPT..

Do LLMs have a way around the high end GPU requirements, or can CPU code potentially be much more optimized somehow?

This is the only thing I can think of, not everyone will have the latest high end GPUs to run such software..

It can make mistakes and hallucinate. I've found GPT-4 to be slightly better than earlier versions.

Ideally tell it one step at a time you need done, I've found that it struggles with multiple overlapping steps for some things but not others. It can make tic-tac-toe in one prompt in HTML5 and Javascript. But maybe if you ask it to make it rain in the background or something like that in the same prompt it might mess everything up.

I've also found it's good at common problems and sometimes spotting the cause for syntax errors, but less common problems it might not know.

Hope that helps.

It's such an obvious answer perhaps is why nobody has commented it. But depending on the use, you might try web speech API synthesis. For example a Windows user might see a Cortana option whereas a Mac user might see Siri.

Demo Here: https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speak-easy...

Read more here https://github.com/mdn/dom-examples/tree/main/web-speech-api

Counter opinion: You're going to be one of many applicant because everyone else is embracing WFH trend too, so you are competing with everyone, especially with some much experience to show, or a portfolio of trending technologies.

It might be that a dev that has a money cushion and is willing and able to relocate can compete on a level others can't because competition would only be localized.

OP was unemployed a year. Time adds up, that's a lot of money.

Get diet, sleep, and exercise right. If any of these three are off, energy is lower. I wish I could oversell this point a little more, there has been plenty of times over the years I've done something small on days - missed an hours sleep, ate too much, sit around to long without moving -- and my energy level and performance was affected without me realizing it.

I've found the easiest and usually cheapest way to control diet is to cook at home.

Look into the Mediterranean diet, it has consistently come up when researching health. Of course the mere word diet implies temporary, but the right way of eating should perhaps be permanent.

Get a blood test done and have it analysed to determine if anything is off.

Don't get dehydrated and get kidney stones. Drink enough water throughout the day. Sometimes I carry a stainless steel container with me throughout the day so I'm getting enough. Be careful about drinking something else for example two glasses of tea and getting sweaty.

Perhaps find and add some health books to your reading list. One interesting, seemingly irrefutable argument put forth in "The China Study" though the book controversial, was no single ingredient food will give more health as much as focusing on the overall diet for most people. Two good books are "How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease" and "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" are two good ones.

Interesting thoughts..

I'm just not sure if it would make a difference even if it was outlawed.

The algorithms are out there, and it will only be a matter of time until more organizations adopt them to make their own programs. The tech savvy will be able to get and use them eventually. The internet is worldwide and it would be out there somewhere where people could get it.

It will cause problems and disruptions of some kind in various industries. Chat to generated target email will be a problem, with the need for verification and a source.. Eventually generated realistic videos too. I don't know what the solution is. It might be more levels of identity are eventually needed for something like email. We're also in a time people don't trust centralized sources.

I just don't think outlawing it would sufficiently work.

It's definitely not a bunch of humans masquerading as an AI. The response rate and length is too fast for some unique questions I've asked it.

Like try asking three random movie characters to roleplay a meeting, or think of some unique question. Occasionally it's slow, but it has given paragraphs of answers to unique questions in mere seconds, fast enough that a human couldn't produce.

I also don't really see a good motive for such deception.

In my queries ChatGPT has trouble with Pig Latin. Maybe further queries could teach it, but by default it seems a little off.

Not laid off, but webdev I've been applying about a year. About the past 3-4 months have been harder to land interviews than early on, even if I write sample code in company's stack/language and contact them. Have an online portfolio and contract work experience.

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On past who is hiring threads I seen posts throughout the month, but in September it seems it only lasted about the first week before new posts stopped.

Perhaps the posts were restricted to a certain time frame, or coincidence?

The closest I've seen to original flash animation development interface is wick editor https://www.wickeditor.com but it doesn't seem to have a lot of support or be well known. It's probably better for targeting games and animation.

The success of such an idea would depend a lot on location. It makes me think of the old "listener booths" for music that are antiquated now.

Maybe do a cost benefit analysis or try to estimate traffic, just leasing it out might earn more.

Was going through the who is hiring thread then noticed it was down, took a nap than got supper

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Creative problem solver. Willing to learn new things. Coming from a multiplayer .io fullstack game development background.

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This is interesting -- I generally think of memory bugs being harder to exploit because of memory protections (stack canaries, ASLR, etc) and code execution being the goal. A quick read of this article it seems from the nature of crypto it was enough for reward to just crash the network (denial of service).

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My strength is Javascript. Willing to learn new things. Coming from a multiplayer .io fullstack game development background.

Recently completed the #100DaysOfCode challenge, coding a minimum one hour every day tweeting progress. During the challenge two web applications were created, a piano app using React and Next.js, a miniature message board with Vue.js using a REST API. NPM packages, various javascript design patterns.