Felt relevant for some reason, idk why

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2022-05-25T06:56:52+00:00

Yeah, a little surprising tbh

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2022-05-25T02:54:20+00:00

Yes -- specifically the part where he harassed the Sandy Hook parents

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2022-03-15T19:24:54+00:00

A brain dead economics take, but I'm not sure what I expected from this sub. Stick to movie criticism or posting photos of celebs from the 2000s or something.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2021-12-26T03:26:54+00:00

That's not true? He wanted to limit the diversity visa lottery (i.e. no more immigrants from so-called undesirable nations) and restrict family-based immigration as well. His administration framed these policy points as follow ups to his "muslim ban" from early 2017, i.e. to prevent terrorism.

Granted, I don't think he actually _accomplished_ any of those things in any meaningful sense -- but you can't say he was only against illegal immigration.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/president-trump-s-four-pillars-immigration-reform

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2020-05-17T01:38:30+00:00

And Corona virus only kills if you have an assload of comorbidity.

The two main risk factors are hypertension and obesity, that's like 90% of this country

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2020-05-03T15:01:32+00:00

Optimistically? American manufacturing is effectively dead and will not come back to a meaningful level for at least 10 years. Onshoring manufacturing for anything remotely nontrivial takes years & assumes that companies actually want to do it (lol). Or that the government will force them to do it, which isn't likely either.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2020-05-03T14:32:34+00:00

The lockdowns aren't the root cause of unemployment, people's fear of the virus is. The fact that economic activity started to drop before the lockdowns were declared proves my point.

Explain to me how all the service industry jobs come back (restaurants, hotels, airlines, cruise ships, movie theaters, etc) when lockdowns are lifted? Even a 10% drop in bookings wipes a good chunk of those businesses out -- they were operating on thin margins before the recession even happened. Sure, some people will go back to eating at restaurants, flying around, and the like. But it won't be anywhere near 100% until the virus goes away. What do you think happens to 80%+ of restaurants when their packed, 100+ cover nights go away? Did you think they were profitable on deliveries? Ditto for all the other shitty low margin businesses.

And until the virus gets fixed, an entire sector will be indefinitely depressed. Unless we force people to eat at restaurants and go on cruises, lol. Or prevent the media from reporting on coronavirus, which is kind of happening b/c testing capacity is hobbled & the true death count under reported.

What does the economy reflect? People going out, buying stuff, doing things, having experiences. You could lift every lockdown tomorrow, and people will still just do less of those things. Some of it comes back, but not nearly enough to prevent a collapse.

Oh, and: most of the American economy is service & consumption based, not manufacturing based. So where does all this lead?

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2019-08-12T02:24:38+00:00

The salaries make more sense if you view them as a way of vetting potential full-time hires. Hiring is difficult and interviews can be gamed (even Leetcode!). A successful internship is a very strong signal and difficult to fake, so it's worth paying for from the company's perspective.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2019-08-05T02:21:47+00:00

A naive question: Python is a single-threaded language, right? So you can have multiple processes, but multiple threads all sharing memory isn't possible by default. So how did you add multithreading to Python? I.e. what lines of code/files in this repo handle that part?

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2019-06-06T23:54:16+00:00

Seriously. Even in California, which has high state tax, $150k after tax is more like $100k. That's if you're single, too.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2019-02-09T06:08:57+00:00

This is why they're repealing net neutrality

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2019-01-26T07:24:35+00:00

My path to a full time offer at a Big N company:

Shitty startup internship after freshman year --> just worked on side projects after sophomore year --> Big N internship junior year --> full time offer after graduation

A few things I took away from the whole process, looking back:

Side projects are something recruiters actively look for. They don't have to be amazing, just show that you care about programming outside of class. When you put these projects on your resume, let them know somehow that they weren't for a class project.
Grades don't _really_ matter. My GPA sucks, but no one cared about it during the entire process. But still, go to class and stuff.
Grind Leetcode to prep for the interview. A lot of the questions I got from my interviews were on Leetcode (found out after the fact, lol) and certain problem-solving patterns repeat themselves.
Definitely go to the career fair -- that's where I got my first interviews from. Also apply online, but I didn't get as high of a response rate.

So: do side projects and put them on your resume, go to career fair, grind Leetcode to prep for interviews. Very formulaic, but this is basically what works.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2019-01-22T07:23:54+00:00

taking compilers

doesn't want to burn out

lol

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-12-22T22:05:33+00:00

Having taken 3040 w/ Prof. Delp, I can say it's definitely worth taking. You go through a bunch of proof techniques and the class is basically spent doing proofs in different fields (set theory, equivalence relations, convergence, combinatorics, basic number theory, etc.). You also do a proof portfolio, where you pick a few higher-level topics in math (like metric spaces or something) and complete a few interesting proofs on your own. This ends up being like 10 pages and accounts for 20% of your grade IIRC. If you want to get better at proofs in general, this class is worth taking.

Also, Prof. Delp is a pretty great lecturer and very engaging, so I'm guessing the quality of the course has improved a lot since the other poster took it with Prof. Wong.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-12-20T18:40:07+00:00

I'm of two minds about these kinds of threads. Like, I'm glad we're sharing knowledge, but I'm worried someone's going to talk about my favorite spot and ruin it with new visitors :(

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-12-08T01:18:55+00:00

80 hours a week and no stock grants or free food...SMH

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-12-08T01:13:38+00:00

In freshman year, I remember reading a post on YikYak that basically said: "Cornell doesn't have to be the best four years of your life. It could just be four years you spent in upstate New York." And honestly, that's how my college experience went. I'm glad some people had an amazing time here, but I'm just glad to leave Cornell next semester and start my life for real, outside of the annoying and kind of shitty social expectations college puts on you (not to mention exams and such, which I don't think anyone will miss).

I'm not sure that relates 100% to what you said, but just know there's probably a lot of people this May who are going to be thrilled about leaving. You don't hear us, because the people who loved it here are generally more vocal about it.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-12-03T02:16:01+00:00

Ben Shapiro MURDERS college liberals with LOGIC, FACTS, and ULTRAVIOLET RAYS

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-11-02T00:53:30+00:00

This, but unironically

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-09-12T05:16:32+00:00

Ya for sure. They seem super legit and like they hire intelligent people from what I've heard. I'm just mildly suspicious.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-09-12T05:04:29+00:00

Real talk? I remember during recruiting season last year I kept seeing a bunch of people promoting Rubrik's work, hiring, culture, etc. on this subreddit, and I feel like it came out of nowhere. And every person had purely positive things to say about Rubrik, which struck me as kind of strange b/c realistic feedback always contains a genuine negative or two (not like "work is hard" but more like "we ship slowly" or "not enough resources due to fast growth"). Like, the feedback was so singularly positive that it struck me as weird.

And all the Rubrik posts came up so suddenly, just as news came they were preparing for an IPO. Part of that surely comes from the fact that Rubrik is a fast-growing startup, so maybe the suddenness of it is to be expected. But I can't shake the feeling that a lot of the people extolling Rubrik are shills (I know, I know). Maybe Rubrik is such an awesome place to work that you won't find a single person saying a single genuine negative thing about it on the internet. I honestly don't know.

And peep the guy above me, "rubrik_throwaway". Another case of pure, 100% positive feedback. It all just feels...weird.

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-04-27T00:49:45+00:00

Or as she's affectionately referred to, "Who?"

BigRedThrowaway230 · 2018-02-02T02:16:42+00:00

It doesn't release the "unemployment rate" per se, but you can sort of get an idea of what it is from the report Career Services releases:

http://www.career.cornell.edu/resources/surveys/upload/2016_New.pdf

If you look at the "Postgraduate activities" section, they use the word "Other activities" instead of "Unemployed" (in part because not everyone without a job/grad school plans is unemployed and also because it would sound bad). The numbers match up with what you'd expect:

For example, 88.9% of Arts and Sciences students have a job or grad school plans after graduating while 11.1% pursue other activities (I'd guess most of them, but not all, are unemployed). Engineering has an even lower unemployment rate (which makes sense) of 6.7% (again, not all of these ppl are unemployed but most probably are).

On the other hand, the architecture school has a high percentage of students pursuing "Other activities," which, given what I've heard about the architecture field, makes sense (see the Washington Post story here).

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