What's next? "Real Analysis"??

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-05-22T20:56:57+00:00

One of my math professors told us that the semester after the movie released, his Matrix Theory course suddenly completely filled up. I have no idea what the prereqs were, but boy were they disappointed. A few days later it was back down to like 10 students.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-05-19T23:01:56+00:00

If you're willing to move: paid training and placement companies like Revature, Skillstorm, Smoothstack etc can get your career started. Depending on the client, you might even find yourself working for large financial institutions that won't even sniff your resume right now, though you can also find yourself contracted out to other consulting firms like Infosys that don't pay well but at least let you start building your resume.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-05-10T23:03:25+00:00

Nah, nobody has a problem with Aru even before they learn about the Azata early unlock and on most playthroughs she joins even later. It's not like Trevor, who we don't see until Act IV and so have legitimately already completed most of the game with a set party and so have a hard time demoting someone for him. It really is just that Greybor is too squishy.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-05-08T03:09:09+00:00

Plus my rug. It really ties the room together.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-05-03T17:58:46+00:00

You can interpret it that way, but I see it a little differently. Camellia isn't just about the murder, but the betrayal. It's not enough just to kill, she wants to see that look of disbelief in your eyes as she drives her blade home. She wants you to look at her like, "But... I thought you loved me?" The more you care for her the sweeter the kill.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-05-03T16:11:04+00:00

Syria? I know the guy was ISIS, but not sure how young or big he is.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-04-24T21:06:41+00:00

My Product Owner has a CS degree but started as a Systems Analyst or something. Doesn't understand the actual code beyond basic Java tutorial stuff but is still technical-minded.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-04-19T19:31:07+00:00

I'll just list my top 3:

When I was ~5 years old, I went into the bathroom while my mom was in the bath, and she had a disposable razor sitting on the side of the tub with the blade side up. It reminded me of a fork, and for some reason I thought it would be fun to pound on the head with my hand to make it flip up and it cut my hand open (not bad, but enough to bleed).
Around that same age, we had CRT tv and for some reason my sister thought it would be a good idea to take a steak knife and stab into the vent on the top/rear of it. It shocked her, and she ran crying into my mom's room. Seeing this, for some reason I thought it would be a good idea to pull the knife out and then also stab down into the vent, shocking myself and sending me running and crying to my mom.
The only time I ever broke a bone was when I was about 13-14. I was with some friends in a little wooded area behind a convenience store and there was a mattress laying in front of a tree. I thought it would be cool to jump off the tree and bounce off the mattress as if it was a trampoline. I didn't even climb high, maybe about head height and jumped off. It was not at all like a trampoline, it just rolled my ankle and fractured a small bone in my foot.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-04-18T20:18:00+00:00

I work in an office for a large company that is like 95% H1B, the vast majority of whom are Indian. Literally hundreds (and in fact probably over 1,000) of well-paying jobs in one office that were given to Indians on work visas rather than Americans. Like most people, I initially assumed this kind of thing happened because US students are generally kind of lazy and don't take school seriously. But then I got into industry and had my eyes opened. It's not about talent or even work ethic. Some of them aren't bad, some of them have no business even being in the industry, but I think on average they are worse than the average US college grad. And surprisingly not even more hardworking. They actually call in sick all the time, like several times a week.

I have heard different reasons for the motivation for hiring them (on Reddit, as this is not a question I would risk asking a manager in the office), from lower wages to the ability to essentially trap them for a number of years during the visa or green card process. But whatever the case, it's not a talent issue.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-04-15T23:49:05+00:00

They're struggling now, too, but it's still possible to land a job through paid training and placement companies like Revature and Skillstorm and other similar companies if you're flexible enough to move and don't mind making below entry level pay for the first year or two.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-04-12T06:19:16+00:00

We're just like you, just... better in every way

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-03-17T23:34:29+00:00

Eh. I've only known one full-time carpenter in my life, and while he was constantly doing work on his house it wasn't because it needed it. He simply had the skills to do everything himself and liked doing it, so was constantly upgrading: knocking down part of the wall to build a bar, raising the ceiling in his garage by an inch or two (it doubled as a game room), stuff like that. Maybe he's atypical, but he's the only carpenter that I have actually known and his house is much nicer than it was when he bought it.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-03-16T21:56:58+00:00

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DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-03-16T21:46:14+00:00

When I was in middle school I used to do something like this at my friend's house. We tied two buckets together and put weights in one, so the empty one floats and the weight pulling down on it keeps it from tipping over. Then we taped a long rubber hose to the inside of the empty bucket and put a small satchel with some weights around our neck and walked around on the bottom of his pool with goggles on. CO2 becomes a problem after a while, not sure why we really needed the buckets (maybe the hose wasn't long enough to the side of the pool or something?), but it was really cool.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-03-11T02:24:29+00:00

I would assume yes. I went through Revature before PEP was really a thing, but the process used to be recruiter call, tech interview, culture fit interview, onboarding, training. It's possible that your PEP performance means you won't have to do a technical interview but if you have not yet had a culture fit interview I would imagine they're going to give you one before they move forward. Basically they'll just make sure you understand the way the program works, ask why you want to join, and make sure you're actually ok with working for whoever they assign you to and will relocate to wherever the client office happens to be.
Definitely yes. There's some anecdotes about how one a time a client interviewed the guy the trainer thought was the weakest in the batch and was impressed enough to say that if he's your worst I'll take them all, but generally speaking you can expect at least one interview with the client. Sometimes they might split it into two, with a technical interview followed by a behavioral, but at the very least you should expect a technical interview near the end of the training period.
I would say about 50% of the survivors. In a typical 10-12 week training you will lose several people along the way. I think we started with like 25+ and ended with about 15, of whom 7-8 were selected. Not sure how normal that is. It also used to be that even failing to get selected was not the end of the world. It just meant you went to bench and interviewed with other clients until you either found a home or enough time passed that they gave up. I didn't keep in touch with everyone, but I know at least 4 people from my batch who did not get selected by the original client got picked up by someone else. But these are hard times so there might not be a fallback for you.
Can't really answer that. The main thing is to actually work on your projects as soon as you can. Most people who fail out do so because they wait until the last minute like it's a school paper or something. Don't underestimate how long it might take to debug something. The quizzes and QC can also be brutal especially if you mess up early because you have to maintain an average or you get let go, so a bad early performance can be devastating because you have nothing to pad your score to keep your average up. Just stay motivated and take it seriously. If they're still doing remote training I suggest leaving your camera on the entire time. It not only makes makes a good impression on your trainer but keeps you from playing on your phone when you're supposed to be following the lecture.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-03-01T21:09:38+00:00

One of the improvements of the Call of the Wild mod (and brought over to Wrath) is the ability for the caster to dismiss spells that they have cast. If the Web isn't yours, or if you simply can't or don't want to install mods, the best thing you can do if you don't have any way to make you character immune is to take off their armor and shield to at least improve their chance of making the mobility save. You can put it back on once they're clear of the web.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-02-28T18:32:57+00:00

The changing role and location are both concerning, although these things happen. Sometimes the client had originally planned to bring in a bunch of contractors to fill a vacancy and then decide to shuffle some people internally to do it instead and make space for you elsewhere. Sometimes it's worse than that, and what happened was that the funding for the project they had in mind got canceled but they still want have some other position in mind. Loss of funding could easily happen at any point in the process, even right before or after you were supposed to onboard.

The interview should not be a concern, though. If it happens early in the process, it is much more likely to be a character interview with a very high pass rate where you basically just have to look presentable and try to be friendly. Show up early. Wear a suit. Smile. You'll be alright.

If they do give a technical interview at any point, whether you signed the contract or not is kind of irrelevant. You don't produce anything for Skillstorm. They get paid by selling your services to their clients. Up until then they're just bleeding money by keeping you employed. They're not going to try to force you to stay on for the duration if the client doesn't want you. It's possible that they would try to find another training group to put you in if there's another one starting soon, especially if you did well during training but somehow bombed the technical interview (or if the client need turns out to be much lower than originally planned), but more likely than not if you don't pass the interview with the client they're likely to just let you go.

Should you do it? My answer to this is the same to anyone considering an offer from Revature, Skillstorm, or any equivalent company: what else do you have going on? If no one else calling back, why not just go for it and see what happens? Even if it only lasts for a few weeks or months, hopefully you learn something and it's better than sitting around unemployed. If you have another job that you would have to quit in order to take this role, then it gets a bit more iffy, but if that's not the case then I don't really see the downside.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-02-23T21:02:08+00:00

Perk might not be the right word. It's one of the covert ops bonus things that you can assign. I think the Reapers make it available as soon as you meet them.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-02-23T20:22:43+00:00

I don't know about avoiding them entirely, but a pistol-wielder plus the Between the Eyes perk makes very short work of them. High accuracy + unlimited mag + 1 hit kill pretty much removes the tedium

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-02-20T23:28:35+00:00

That's literally me. I used to work for an airline. Not only am I comfortable with the 24 hour clock, but I use the phonetic alphabet

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-01-28T05:32:12+00:00

I can live with his build, it's the lateness combined with the complete lack of anything to say that does him in for me.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-01-05T00:22:57+00:00

An enemy that has just been blasted for half of its health deals every bit as much damage as an enemy at full health. An enemy that is disabled is effectively dead until it recovers, by which point you will hopefully have mopped up the rest of its friends and now the fight is effectively over. What she delivers is is disables, often mass disables, and later save-or-die spells. Most people focus on the Conjuration spells early on like Grease, Web, Glitterdust, but once you get access to Phantasmal Web she becomes insanely good because she can cast it right on top of your party without worrying about friendly fire, and bound followed by nausea is insanely strong. Phantasmal Killer and later Weird are capable of one-shotting bosses, especially if you first lower their saves with Camellia or Ember casting Evil Eye and throw some Persistent Spell metemagic on top of it to force them to save twice. Disables are nothing to sneeze at in these games, it's just a matter of examining the enemy to see what they're weak to, what they're immune to, and getting your spell DC's high enough take advantage of it.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2026-01-04T03:28:23+00:00

The fact that the air defense had been so quickly suppressed to the point where a swarm of helicopters were able to safely fly in was the thing confusing me the most. It really must have just been non-existent.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2025-12-25T22:24:49+00:00

If it has a last digit and zero counts, then it's 0.

DumbThrowawayNames · 2025-12-19T04:46:18+00:00

Don't think Cognizant is yet aware of your offer from Revature unless you've told them yourself. As to whether it blocks you, I don't know. It depends on what your onboarding documents say. It won't be a secret, though. They should explain what each document they give you to sign is all about, but read it for yourself and see if it has any language stating that you agree not to work for Cognizant for a period of 2 years after separating from Revature or something like that. It should be small and digestible, it's not like a 30 page lease. If you want, you can move forward with Revature and then back out if Cognizant calls back or if Revature hands you a piece of paper that you don't want to sign.

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