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I just started a Substack! You can subscribe to it here lexzan.substack.com/?r=litt3&utm_c…

I just published The Market Is the Message: How AI Trading Bots May Be Coordinating Without Anyone Telling Them To medium.com/p/the-market-i…

@elonmusk you still betting against hydrogen or is something in the works?

Discover the future of coding in my new book 'AI Assisted Programming: A Practical Guide'! Explore how AI and humans team up in programming, transforming how we code. Get ready for a blend of imagination and practical skills. #CodingRevolution #ChatGPT #AIAssistedProgramming

@h7une @playrust meant to say bow, not crossbow :D

@h7une @playrust I decided to remake this mod now, a bit more different, where that the next tier is unlocked only when the "best" item for the current tier has been owned by majority of the players online. e.g. tier 1 is unlocked when most players have had a crossbow. tier 2, revolver. etc.

There's a lot of talk right now about the current state of @playrust but I feel like most don't focus on the actual important topics. For me, it's progression. Interaction between players. Cheaters. Oct 2014: Early Experimental, the game became Rust as we know it, and starts with the old BP system with fragments and random researches. July 2016: XP system with linear progression, forced everyone to be in the same tier at the same time. November 2016: Component system, no blueprints - you can craft anything as long as you had the stuff for it October 2017: Introduction of workbenches, scrap and blueprints. May 2018: Safezones, outpost introduced. For 5 years now, there have been no fundamental changes to the progression in @playrust. The meta is very solved now and abused by everyone, you never have to leave your base or walk, no incentive to explore and interact, scrap buys everything in safe zone, farming is faster than ever, and there is no risk even in raids with the siege MLRS meta. More and more cool updates get added that us youtubers can clickbait and play around for a bit which I appreciate, but it never changes how people play and experience the game. New monuments, even when OP will never incentivize people to explore or innovate when a road or warehouse in high pop is all you need for thousands of scrap per hour. New cool end-game toys that you get AFTER you're already rich will never change the way players progress or change their goals for the wipe. Changes to recoil won't make new players roam more, nor make the game feel refreshing, nor make returning players keep playing when you no longer need to engage with other players. What we need is another drastic change to the progression system. Something that forces all players, new or old to feel like they need to figure stuff out on their own again. Playing Rust now no longer feels like an unpredictable adventure, but rather being on auto pilot while following a guide. A hard reset, to make the playing field even, so even the new player can figure out a unique way to progress by exploring. Making the game fresh for old players that are burnt out. Bringing players out of their base to experiment for themselves. To bring back the fear, competition, risk, exploration and hardcore elements of Rust that we fell in love with. To create a unique story about your character every time you wake up on the beach. Ironically, I remember I was so mad when Rust changed to the XP system, I even made an angry reddit post talking about how Rust is going to lose it's identity, it's gonna kill the game, blah blah. Little did I know back then, we were lucky. It's what kept the game fresh. I had no idea not having ANY changes to progression for years and years would be even worse than having to relearn everything. It's not a coincidence that right after such big changes occur, that's when I experienced my most fondest memories in Rust. And I get it, the game is fully released now, and it's a big risk to change something that works and to take away something that players are used to. But players won't take risks, if the game developer doesn't. Don't get me wrong, I still wake up wanting to play Rust every day regardless, even with 20000 hours played. It will forever be my favourite game, and the greatest game ever created. When there are interactions, in the right server, with the right people, I always have fun no matter what the progression system is, or how I shoot my gun. But it's a gamble to have fun, a gamble that takes a lot of time. When 1000 pop servers feel dead, and everyone abuses every mechanic simply to not lose, when you run into 5 cheaters every time you play (blatant, no idea about closet ones), individual servers banning thousands of cheaters a month, every base is the same meta design, every interaction is the same or non existent, that's when the game becomes unfun for most. Just like many others, I understand I may have a bias due to nostalgia, burnout, or maybe even selfishness to cater to my playstyle. I also believe we have the greatest dev team in gaming, and they work so hard trying to improve this game every single day. So I try to be positive, unbiased and constructive when I criticize the game or an update unlike when I was a kid. But right now, I genuinely think the state of progression, interactions, and the cheating issue is objectively in an unprecedented terrible spot. And something needs to change, fast.

@h7une @playrust So this allows players to still take advantage of skill gaps, by being able to loot tier 3 items and use them, they just cant craft them until that tier is unlocked. The tech tree also can not be unlocked without having the item you are unlocking in your inventory.

@h7une @playrust a year ago I worked on a mod, which, locked crafting tier 1+ items, until a global event unlocked it. That way, players could race to the end of the current tier, but could not craft items from the next tier until it was unlocked. youtube.com/watch?v=4mHWdD…

#chatgpt4 has been noticeably getting stupider over the past few months. My productivity with it for AI assisted programming has fallen greatly. If it continues to trend this way, it will mean the end of AI assisted programming until it is fixed or something better comes along.

Just released "CopyTabs" for #VSCode: Copy all active tabs into AI chat windows or anywhere with one command. Perfect for working with #AI and #GPT models. Check it out: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… #CodingTools

If you're looking for ways to simplify the process, here's a BAT script I wrote for copying all the code from a folder into your paste buffer: gist.github.com/AlexZan/af1373…. Hope it helps! #GPTServiceOutage #DevTools 3/3

Introducing TextChunker! 🚀A simple and secure tool to turn big text into manageable chunks. It's all client-side, so your data stays with you - no transmission, no privacy worries. Perfect for chat GPT. Try it out at textchunker.com. Feedback appreciated! #AItool #GPT3

After working with #chatgpt 4 to code a demo application for the past month or so. Its more clear to me now that I would not hire a prompter to replace an experienced coder, but I would hire an experienced coder that also knows prompting. Things might change with gtp5 though.

@TxrnadoSZN @clipsthatgohard I am under the impression a shockwave is far more destructive in water than in air. It will collapse anything with a lower pressure cavity, destroying the brain/body, even far away.

@clipsthatgohard TBH you’re most likely the safest in the water….

@heydave7 It would need to come with a micro diesel generator or something, or a fold out solar array to gain range while far from any electric chargers

If Tesla released a van I think it would become an instant hit. I can just imagine all the vanlifers who make it their home.

Wow sodium ion batteries already here in vehicles! Specs look great notebookcheck.net/First-electric…

@gordbouch @Roman_Baber Our law supports the long term protest in an area, it's called picketing, under section 2 of peaceful assembly. An occupation by definition is done by a military force. What occupation did you see?

@alexzanderzan @Roman_Baber Well when it becomes an occupation it’s get going or get moved

Non-violent pedestrian protesters can't be deemed to break any law. Protesters who park trucks illegally are likely in contravention of the Highway Traffic Act. Towing their truck plus a municipal infraction are the appropriate penalties. It's the Government who broke the law.

@mbrumlow @CasillasPhoto @cnnbrk Isn't that exactly what actors do when they use guns on set though? Don't they point them at other actors?

Prosecutors drop firearm enhancement charge against Alec Baldwin, reducing potential prison time for the on-set killing of the film's cinematographer cnn.it/3IE8Qjy

@gordbouch @Roman_Baber That's not how protesting and thus democracy work

@Roman_Baber They could have just left when asked.

@ii_analyze @EugestShirley @SethAbramson I like that the your statement and the one you are replying to are not mutually exclusive. I think you are both right. We probably should not be paying as much attention to wealthy people one way or the other.

@EugestShirley @SethAbramson We need to stop shitting on people just because they’re wealthy.