> you wouldn't expect someone who's an assistant manager at McDonald's to finish their law degree and start a new job as senior partner at the law firm
I think the metaphor's a little off (I have programming experience, and what'd be more apt is a McDonald's corporate ops manager moving into in-house legal after getting law degree + passing the bar), but I get what you meant!
If you were in a similar position, how would you build a portfolio that shows you have programming skills, and aren't just good at prompting?
You might see it that way, but employers won't. You can't skip the line because you think you're good enough to, almost every junior engineer thinks the same way.
There's so much more to programming that just being able to write code without relying on AI. Otherwise boot camps would have been more effective.
Until you have years under your belt of dedicated building, you're not a senior engineer
Hey, thanks for the context in this thread; I've been working on a project in I7 because I love the form factor of parser &choice-based IF. I'm looking to release the project like a webcomic, with monthly/quarterly chapters, but the backwards compatibility issue in I7 has been a blocker.
In your indie VN dev group, are there any devs working on cross-platform, parser & choice-based VNs (ie I can read a work on mobile as choice-based, but if I want to continue that same save on my computer/ enter commands, I can do that)?
We use Unity so it's cross-platform, including mobile. But we never implemented a server for cloud saves, so you need to sync the saves using other tools
10 years ago, Google promised certain college alumni high storage limits forever. In the past 4 months, Google decreased the storage limits two times, and told users to reduce their GDrive use or have their emails deleted
Didn’t consider the AGI race would lead to the loss of digital archives owned by the few companies that could afford to keep those archives up for free
Put differently:
“What has COBOL done for me lately? Can’t we just cut out all COBOL code, and replace it today to save money on paying COBOL cowboys?”
Would be tough to ask donors to give an extra 100mm back, or ask politicians to sell assets during a recession-recovery, during election season for a president (who may have also been a recipient?).
Biggest losers here are the creditors of FTX, BlockFi, and other US persons who need the estate to get back as much money as they can.
Seems like donations are still a lite-immunity pass (he’s still going to jail, but not longer). Also might protect the parents from criminal liability (not civil), which gives credence to a number of ‘political immunity’ conspiracies
In this context it means:
-system is built with bearer-style assets in mind to handle liquidations without having a 'negative' balance (so instead of a margin call, onus is on the user to track prices and refill liquidity, otherwise the system liquidates the position to pay back the other market participants involved)
- Anyone can put money in this
- the smart contracts use other automated markets like AMMs (think of it like a two-way vending machine between Twix and M&M's, where one can set the price between two assets based on how many units of Twix and M&M's they put in initially, and people can trade into and out of them by putting one in, and getting the other. The people who put in both provide liquidity, and they get a portion of the trading fees.
These two-way vending machines are set up so that if someone puts a ratio of Twix/M&M's in their vending machine that doesn't match the market price, someone can just arbitrage that out so that the price matches the market. It's like finding the cheapest place to get food
Stablecoins are basically on-chain gift cards, with each token priced at about a dollar. Some (USDC, PAX, etc) have businesses you can directly redeem the stablecoins in order to get $1 sent to a bank account, and others (DAI, FRAX, UST) have more complex mechanisms to stay at or ~$1.
If you're using a chain that isn't BTC (technically you can use USDT on Omni but almost no one uses it for this), you can probably send the person a stablecoin that is priced at $1 USD.
And yes, people in Nigeria and other EMs do this every day, either for remittances, FX trading, or other reasons (reasons can be legal or illegal, i'm not supporting harm or illegal use cases but at some point we gotta recognize the 'freest' countries either still support race-based class discrimination or legalized slavery, so it's insufficient for the purposes of good faith discourse to throw pseudo mic drop rebuttals that assert legal institutions are infallible).
EDIT: and to pre-empt the "what if the stablecoin goes up to $2 or down to $0.50???" questions:
- Centralized stablecoins like USDC, PAX, etc have licensed businesses that use actual banks to store the reserves, so if anyone wants to sell me their USDC for $0.75, please do and jog on
- Decentralized stablecoins like DAI have more complex checks nad balances, and with those, unless you're a market maker or doing something that requires a non-top 3 decentralized stablecoin, it's often better to go with the ones that have been audited and/or battle tested, provided it suits your use case.
