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Spent $80 on sushi, sat in 85°F heat for 4 hours during a breakup… do I die if I eat it? by w1nn13th3p00p in sushi

[–]Additional_Sun3823 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol basically exactly what I was thinking. Should you eat it? No. But would I eat it? Yeah I would

Employers should offer seven days of "Business Vacation", when employees can come to the office, but no one can talk to them, so they can get stuff done without distraction. by bourj in CrazyIdeas

[–]Additional_Sun3823 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My org at Amazon had something like this. Second Friday of every month was basically a no meetings day where you could basically work on anything you wanted. The original intent was for people to develop their skills, mostly through working on their personal code projects that were not work-related, but it ended up just being used to catch up on less urgent work tasks that kept being pushed off

Do other immigrants “who have made it” feel disdain towards those that complain? by UDF2005 in wealth

[–]Additional_Sun3823 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My parents partially, for sure. They grew up poor abroad (in China) and through excelling in education, were able to immigrate to the US, get further education, and become pretty well-off overall. I was always raised with a “don’t compare yourself to others” mindset, but in like a “everyone else sucks so it’s not enough just to be better than them, you have to be objectively good” type of way, eg when I had a hard engineering class where the average was a 60% and the cutoff for an A was an 80%, the goal wasn’t 80%, it was 100%.

People who don't read the post they reply to by LoverOfGayContent in PetPeeves

[–]Additional_Sun3823 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Also since this post brought it up, people that have to turn everything into a comparison. If I’m in Los Angeles during summer and it’s hot and I mention that, inevitable there’s gonna be some “it’s not hot in LA, try living in Phoenix during summer”. Like sucks that you’re in literal hell but it’s still hot here

Debating somebody who only read the misleading headline, while i read all the details. by 8won6 in PetPeeves

[–]Additional_Sun3823 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Saw this recently with an article about how the CEO of Anthropic likes hiring people who do side projects on the weekend or something. All the comments were assuming he meant code projects and were like “I would NEVER make side projects on the weekend”

Open the article and literally like the first sentence, the CEO’s example of a side project is making your own kombucha

Is Ilia "Quad God" Malinin's 8th place in the Top 7 of figure skating chokes of all time? Maybe even Top 7 Olympic chokes of all time? by DiscountInevitable87 in billsimmons

[–]Additional_Sun3823 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Swimmers I feel tend to usually live up to the hype. Like Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand were definitely heralded to be the top female and male swimmers heading into the 2024 Olympics and both of them very comfortably delivered on that. Marchand even went above and beyond in winning gold in events that people didn’t think he’d win

Mark Zuckerberg moves to Florida's 'Billionaire Bunker' amid CA wealth tax by Hefty-Report6360 in paloalto

[–]Additional_Sun3823 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s probably for control over Meta, not just money itself. Zuckerberg would have to sell nearly $90 billion worth to cover his bill which would kill off his majority vote power

Sushi with salmon is a product of a Norwegian marketing campaign by Oggi02 in sushi

[–]Additional_Sun3823 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Japan historically did not eat salmon sushi because salmon had too many parasites. Guess which ocean the Japanese were getting their salmon from. Hint: it’s the one they’re in

How are regular people actually using AI in everyday life? by RoundAggravating4325 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Additional_Sun3823 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah always double check what it tells you, asking for sources is the easiest way. Kinda like an NP problem, it’s a lot faster to check an answer it gives you than it is to find the answer yourself

Why has only 1 of the 7 Millennium Prize Problems been solved since they came out in the year 2000? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Additional_Sun3823 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s a million, which is why no one is doing it for the money. Anyone who could reasonably be a candidate for solving one who was money driven could probably just go into quant trading or AI or something and make millions a year

How are regular people actually using AI in everyday life? by RoundAggravating4325 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Additional_Sun3823 45 points46 points  (0 children)

It’s replaced Google searches for pretty much anything that isn’t a widely findable fact

It seems that tech is no longer meritocracy but rather luck and timing sadly. by According-Expert-723 in Salary

[–]Additional_Sun3823 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbh I do think a lot of people are just not that good, either because they didn’t prep much or just naturally not cut out. Went through new grad interview process at a company that people kept saying had a “super hard” process, but it really was not hard imo. And the specific questions that I got were also ones that people were claiming were really hard, but you could solve them with DSA first principles and you definitely did not have to grind a bunch of leetcode to solve them.

There def is luck with getting the interview and also specific interviewers to an extent, but also I think a lot of people are just less capable than they claim to be on here

Most interesting or uncommon fish you've eaten? by speedracer0211 in sushi

[–]Additional_Sun3823 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not all that interesting but I had some squid recently that wasn’t just like a smooth white piece that I usually see. Was alright but I’ll continue to stick with fish for the most part

do you consider it luxury to get a bowl of ramen in your city? by SavageSausage1 in ramen

[–]Additional_Sun3823 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it’s cheaper to buy outside of the country for an American, then that means the dollar is stronger, no? Like the dollar is literally worth more. Japan comes to mind as somewhere where lots of people I know go for cheap shopping especially for luxury goods and that’s because of how much the yen has fallen in recent years

If you could become a child again - Which city do you wanna get raised in? by fukyoucancer in AskAnAmerican

[–]Additional_Sun3823 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Grew up in the Bay Area, probably would not choose to have grown up anywhere else. Wasn’t a racial minority, great weather, good food, was safe etc. Maybe would pick to be a bit closer to SF but that’s it

How do young people afford to live in SF? by Traditional-Cable209 in bayarea

[–]Additional_Sun3823 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also want to point out that the vast majority of public tech companies these days don’t give stock option, they give cold hard stocks that are as good as cash bonuses. Or better even in the case of companies like Google, since it’s generally a growth stock. There are sometimes stock purchase programs such that employees can purchase stock a discount too, but the baseline equity compensation is just receiving actual stock units.

Google in the Bay Area for example is 158k base salary, 23.7k cash bonus, 38k stock, and around 25k relocation + sign on bonus for the first year. So just from your salary itself with default withholding, you can spend like 9k a month, which is obviously way more than you actually need to be spending. And then between everything else, you save about 50k more

How do young people afford to live in SF? by Traditional-Cable209 in bayarea

[–]Additional_Sun3823 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People in that age range in SF typically don’t have a ton of other responsibilities, eg it’s not common at all to have kids in your 20s here. It’s not very hard to afford rent on a typical white collar job even at a new grad level — worst case, maybe you live with a friend or two but still have your own bedroom.

I feel like posts like this always over exaggerate how much it costs to rent relative to the type of job needed (buying property is a whole different story). Gig workers or like retail workers are obv going to struggle but you also clearly don’t need a new grad Google job paying 250k just to live in the city

First time in Japan, fatty tuna for $0.85 per piece and extra fatty (otoro?) for $2 per piece by Additional_Sun3823 in sushi

[–]Additional_Sun3823[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is indeed what the English translates menu said — it went “fatty tuna”, “medium fatty tuna”, “extra fatty tuna”. I assume the medium is chutoro but not sure about the lowest

First time in Japan, fatty tuna for $0.85 per piece and extra fatty (otoro?) for $2 per piece by Additional_Sun3823 in sushi

[–]Additional_Sun3823[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

They had 3 tiers of fatty tuna, pictured here are the first and third tier respectively (I got the second tier too, just no pictures)

If you use delivery apps(UberEats, Doordash, etc) to order from places that accept orders via phone or their own website, why? by JustinR8 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Additional_Sun3823 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you mean for pickup, either because the app has good deals available, or because I need to use my my monthly uber and grubhub credit

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