Goosee

Any non-apple 4k monitor gives me an actual headache using macos because of the scaling. Windows and ubuntu on the other hand work with these monitors since they scale their os differently (I run at 4k at 150% zoom).

The solution is (unfortunately) to spend money on the lg ultrafine 5k or studio display. These have a higher PPI compared to every other monitor on the market. I run my lg ultrafine at native scaling. No more headaches and my productivity using macos 10x'd.

Goosee

4년 전discuss

If you own apple devices try Apple News+

Here are the included publications: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/

Goosee

4년 전discuss

To connect my windows desktop to lg ultrafine - I use a bidirectional display port to thunderbolt 3 cable (amazon basics)

Goosee

5년 전discuss

Here is a solution that avoids the 'noise' university environments create.

Ideally: 1. Attend an in-state university. 2. Look at your school's graduation report, which surveys students by major on their starting salary 3. Choose a program with a high starting salary 4. Take all general education classes online at a community college, starting the summer after high school graduation

This is the most probable way to achieve a high roi on college, for an average american.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

“70 percent of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90 percent by the third.” -money magazine

Initial Conditions really don't mean much in the long term trend. Short term, sure.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

Any book or website recs for c++?

Goosee

5년 전discuss

It depends how teachers run their course.

So many teachers transitioned to grading stuff strictly during class hours so they can dip faster than students could

Goosee

5년 전discuss

Minimize sugar intake.

Over the previous months of September-December I binged-ate donuts multiple times a week, partly due to lockdown depression. I developed numbness and tingling in my arms & wrists. [I'm young in mid 20s].

Cut sugar since the new year and no more tingling/numbness.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

Teachers in my school district in CA work schedules that rotate between 4 hour days & 6 hour days. At most that is 26 hours / week (MWF 6 hrs/day & TR 4 hrs/day). There is also the occasional teacher/department meeting, but the district shortens Wednesdays class schedule for the students & substitutes that time with a teacher on teacher meeting.

In essence, teachers aren't working >30 hr a week. They get 2 weeks winter break, 1 week spring break, ~2.5 month summer, most every Monday holiday off. So they work about 9 months a year.

On top of that, they receive the amazing lifetime CA Pension which is like 90% of your top 5 earning years.

I looked up my teacher's salaries from high school. They make more than my CA public university STEM professors make.

About 5 years into teaching, a high school teacher will make about 60k/year regular + 25k/year in benefits. Tenured will make 120k+ in base and benefits. That is pretty good for an average of 25 hour workweek, 9 months a year.

Nothing stopping them getting another job that works between the hours of 3-10pm during the school year, putting them closer to the hours a GS analyst would work.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

>I’ve noticed this split in opinion from higher ups who have higher pay and thus have large, finished home offices versus others lower on the totem pole who don’t.

I know lots of 'lower totem pole' employees with a nicer WFH setup than many managers.

From what I've seen, there is a more significant reason higher ups like WFH. PG wrote an essay about the creators schedule versus the managers schedule. A managers schedule (the higher ups) spend their day flip flopping between meetings during each hour increment. Imagine having to walk/transport to a different building on/off campus for a new meeting a many times a day. It can take a lot of valuable time & potentially be exhausting. In WFH, you just click a new link to join a zoom meeting. Much more convenient.

The people doing the low level work such as coding tend to be younger. They are looking to make office connections and define their career path. Working out of an office allows for progression in both.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

I use to have the same thought process as you: instantly sold on devices with native hdmi, usb a & usb c. By that metric xps beats macbook.

Recently I tried to convert to a windows laptop from my 16 inch mbp. Upon switching I was constantly annoyed by the fan noise & using my pinkie to press the 'control' key opposed to macbook thumb on 'command' key.

The point is, I realized native port selection was not a metric to consider when purchasing a laptop. I am fine bringing an adapter to the meeting room.

I guess it comes down to what you value. I am just trying to play 'devil's advocate' with my anecdotal experience compared to your experience.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

TLDR: For full experience of clubhouse content, 'you had to be there'. No on-demand content.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

Hmm didn't work for me. DisplayLink never showed up in system preferences to allow screen recording. Couldn't find any solution online.

Anyone have a fix?

Goosee

5년 전discuss

> I don't ever remember a girl telling me how dumb she is.

Thats because girls blame it on their *astrological sign*

In all seriousness, I truly believe girls mature way earlier than guys. Just look at insurance rates.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

Here is my school's method of administering online exams:

1. Use cell phone logged into Zoom that faces the cross section of my desk and myself

   a. Paper must be visible at all times & professor must be able to read text written on it
   b. Head can not move outside of Zoom's camera frame during the whole testing period
   c. You can not look around, only down at your paper

2. The professor will email everyone in that Zoom an exam made for that section of the class (so people in an earlier exam can't send it to others). You have 3 minutes to print it & move your computer out of the workspace. I have gotten 'harder' versions of exams before, compared to the other section taking the same course.

3. At end of testing period, everyone must show the pages they are about to scan & submit. You have 3 minutes to scan all pages & upload online to class portal.

I don't necessarily have a problem with this methodology to prevent cheating. I do well on these exams.

My problem is that I have friends at other universities whose professors don't Procter their exams. Their university puts in minimal effort to expose cheating (in engineering courses).

When applying to future jobs, I will showcase two worst-case possible outcomes:

    1. "Hiring managers will discount everyone's grades from the covid era because of rampant cheating." This is unfair to me because my university made my testing experience miserable to prevent cheating. Hiring managers won't know which universities/departments took attempts to prevent cheating

    2. "My resume will be tossed because I got a 3.5 gpa while others got a 4.0" The hiring managers won't know the testing procedures each individual went through. So they will just choose a higher gpa (less-risky candidate, in general).

I'm doing alright in this online environment. Just trying to explain to others how it can be quite unfair.

Goosee

5년 전discuss

SSRN only let me view the abstract. Here's a link to the pdf that worked for me.

https://alo.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Statistic...

Goosee

6년 전discuss

For context one short seller (Citron Research) published this video explaining their belief that GME is a $20 stock.[1]

The way I see it, Citron believes this fiasco is irrational thought about the future of Gamestop and its value.

I think this is actually about the common retail trader manipulating the 'market manipulators'. In other words, let Citron taste their own medicine.

I think Citron failed to realize in the beginning that they were playing a different game than retail traders. Citron believes this is about value investing. WallStreetBets thinks this is a David vs Goliath situation, regardless of the stock they are fighting over.

[1] https://twitter.com/citronresearch/status/135234404324660838...

Goosee

6년 전discuss

When I was young, my family made me put all of my christmas/birthday money into the stock market. Intel was suggested by an adult family member who did not have a tech background. That made up a majority of my portfolio. The rest of my portfolio was allocated to a stock I chose, Apple.

Reason for Apple: At my elementary school, everyone loved using the Power Mac G5's during computer lab. Every kid had/wanted an iPod or iTouch (and eventually iPhone).

Goosee

6년 전discuss

Yeah, I noticed the people who went into consulting at my school always posting snapchats of them working well past dinner time and back in the office the following morning at 7 AM.

At least the recruiters you spoke with were upfront about expectations. Do you know if there was WLB as one got into a more senior role and climbed the corporate ladder there?

This past summer I did some contracting work, putting in 80+ hr work weeks, 7 days/week. Management figured I had nothing better to do cause of covid, so they just piled on work. I'm not complaining about the work, it molded me to be a better employee. I was also fairly compensated for my time. But my health was so bad. Blood pressure sky-rocketed, resting heart rate in the 80's as a mid 20's male. Eyes red when I woke up every day. Blurry long distance vision.

Now that I have balance between work/life, I am back to an excellent blood pressure & RHR. Eyes all fine again. I learned an extremely valuable lesson last summer to never forgo life & free-time.

edit: I don't have a problem working more than a 40 hr work week. In fact, my worldview believes it is necessary to work more than the average person. I found out I can stay healthy and happy by taking Friday nights and Saturdays off. I ideally try to work/learn 55-57 hours in a normal week.

Goosee

6년 전discuss

A bit off topic but I remember when Intel set up a special career fair presentation for my major.

I forget the specific role the manager was hiring for, but it sounded like a quality/reliability engineer. Basically run a bunch of tests, identify and analyze errors on newly manufactured equipment.

I immediately lost interest when the manager said the role would either work until 9 PM or start the next day at 4 AM due to an important (daily?) 7 AM meeting where the results would be presented. Ontop of that, it was required that you be on call during every weekend and most holidays. You would be required to do this for your first two years as an entry bachelor degree worker. Entering masters level students wouldn't need to be on call.

After that, he mentioned this role would pay ~$65,000 USD. Bonus < $5000. To live in the bay area. Then he bragged to us about the ability to buy intel stock at a 15% discount or something like that.

The manager presented in a room with fully qualified people to work at any FANG/Graphics/Aerospace company.

I sold all my intel stock the next day [late 2019], it made up most of my portfolio at the time. I just did not see how intel would attract talent if it over-worked and under-compensated entry level employees like that. Compared to the FANG employee getting free meals, game rooms, huge salary, etc.

Submissions

Game Porting Toolkit

Stray Squirrel Shuts Down Nasdaq System (1987)

Tesla Model X Plaid

Adobe Fresco: Draw and Paint on the iPad

Fired from Facebook for having a technical YouTube channel [video]

Self-Control Relies on Glucose as a Limited Energy Source (2007)

comments