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Cake day: March 23rd, 2020

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  • I think you could probably do it - You live in a country with good internet, good access to technology, etc.

    If you can afford to go to school, I would recommend doing that. If you can’t, try out Android app development: It’s not easy, but if you put in a lot of work for a year or two, you can make pretty good money (once you start making a few apps, you’ll be able to get 100k IDR/hour). Start with this tutorial installing Android Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10IvxreBoIA

    If you can get Android Studio installed, let me know, I’ll find a good tutorial to help you write your first basic app.



  • Back when I was a wee bit Java noob, I was trying to write a RuneScape bot to play Soul Wars. I had a basic recursive pathfinding algo for figuring out how to walk around the map, but it blew out of memory very quickly (each tile has 4 options, do that recursively, etc). So I added caching. Anyways, I never cleared the caching. So after 20 minutes of running the script, you had like 2GB of allocated RAM calculating the best path from any 2 tiles in the minigame.

    Great times. No amount of language safety features would have saved me from that stupidity.