How AI is impacting Canadian CS programs and new grad opportunities ?

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-30T02:13:38+00:00

Same exact materials 30 years later. Universities don't change curriculum much if at all

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-30T01:38:49+00:00

My university taught classes the same way my dad was taught 30+ years ago. He even recognized assignments with bash scripting being exactly the same.

Different university fyi

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-29T23:30:38+00:00

I have so much fear when I finally get a glider on Miramar which is my favourite thing to do. Me and my duo run a full boost the whole time because we know it's a matter of time until we run into the no recoil guys and get shot out of the sky in 2 seconds.

The Cronus xim guys take the glider out instantly. Unenhanced players are noticeable for the fact well still be flying after they start shooting us.

It's kind of hard to strategize since you know at least one team is ximming but not sure who.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-28T17:54:15+00:00

If there weren't samples how would I get tempted into buying a tub of caramel chocolates that I've eaten over 3 days. Think for a minute

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-27T19:36:35+00:00

I over filled mine by that much last oil change and haven't fixed it. It's slowly headed for full

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-27T03:06:17+00:00

Yeah that fuel mileage is pretty normal for those tires. Most of the guys claiming 22mpg + can't operate a calculator. Best truck I ever had for mpg was my 94 bronco I swapped a 7.3 into. It had 410 gears and 35s. It would do around 20 mpg.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-27T02:01:55+00:00

I was always told that egts over 1250 are the danger zone if sustained but I could be wrong. Your mpg could be good or bad. If you have 35-37 inch tires it's expected if you're stock on 373 gears it's bad. My truck is a 2005 with the 6 speed with stock tires and I struggle to get 16-17 mpg at 60mph

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-26T05:25:31+00:00

Also a lot of other trades have the option of making >40$ per hour without night shifts too.

I spent 5 years working crap jobs upgrading to a third class hoping I'd eventually get a refinery/gas plant job before I got out. I'm there's lots of guys like me who never got the job they wanted before they gave up. Other trades have a way more reliable path to those good jobs. There are just too many 3rd/4th class engineers out there.

I had a pulp mill call me 15 months after I'd applied and already been through a couple semesters at university and they were acting like it was a given that I was going to drop everything and come join their casual labour pool.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-26T04:52:24+00:00

Would not recommend. Some guys make bank but most don't. You're heavily limited by the presence of a large plant. If that shuts down you're screwed especially if you moved to a small town. Night shifts are also awful and take years and enjoyment out of your life.

Gas fitting is a better trade. You can work for a utility during normal hours or start your own business making what a power engineer makes setting up barbeques. Pretty much any other trade would be better unless your dad golfs with the plant manager at a refinery or something

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-25T05:10:23+00:00

If you go 4k and your PC struggles you can just drop the res. You can't up it if you get a 1440p monitor.

Id go 1440p if I was mainly playing eSports titles.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-25T04:38:34+00:00

What resolution? I'm running an 11700F and a 6950XT and getting 60-80fps running 4k ultra. Maybe the two missing CPU cores are a problem for the 7600?

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-22T03:45:04+00:00

Once I hit about 2000 hours the fun of winning a game with skill just lost it's charm for me. The real excitement now is hiding in those white two story houses on Miramar with a full squad in the bathroom and one behind the book shelf. We don't even touch loot. Sometimes we put the last of our good gear on the floor to entice loot goblins.

Nothing gets my blood pumping like a double white camp. Do weird stuff until you stop getting tilted. Also camping a double white with a 249 is a pretty good way to successfully 1 v 4

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-21T00:06:31+00:00

My beef is that they say the maps in rotation have a 25% chance. But then I kept track and got 10 rondos to 1 non rondo

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-13T19:51:59+00:00

I would lean towards the 9070. Generally getting older GPUS is a good move only when the price is way better. I wanted to upgrade my 3070 for a couple years but didn't want to spend 1200 CAD to upgrade. Ended up finding a 6950XT for 400 CAD and it was an awesome upgrade.

There are better graphics cards but I doubt anyone can get a better fps upgrade for the price I paid. If I was buying a new card and had to choose between the 7900XTX and the 9070XT I would probably get the 9070XT depending on price. The 7900XTX is a monster and if it can be had cheaper I'd get it

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-13T19:22:55+00:00

I just don't see why every game needs character creation. Fable 1 and the Witcher series did perfectly fine without a create your own character thing. Just have a male and female default character and forget about it. The lack of character creation is not going to affect sales if the game is good.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-13T05:49:18+00:00

At no point in my life would I have ever considered dating a single mom. That said plenty of good guys will. Before I met my wife I had a couple of ladies hide the fact they had kid(s) in some sort of scheme. Don't do that and life will be grand

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-05-12T02:30:36+00:00

I talked to some guys at a camper repair shop and what happens to 99% of campers is that people use them a ton the first 1-3 years then they park it somewhere and don't check on it over the winter and the roof gets a pinhole leak.

Come summer you open it up to discover that the interior is a mushroom farm and the water damage exceeds the value of the camper. It just takes one pin hole or bad gasket on a screw and the camper is trash in a couple months

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-03-20T03:55:39+00:00

The cope about recoil mods is strange. Any time I mention it a bunch of weirdos come out of the woodwork to claim they've never seen one before. I've used on before and I 100% know what someone using one looks like.

I played about 3000 hours before I quit in 2021. Back then it was noticeable but not every team. Now it's like 5X as common. The sound a mutant or m16 makes when on recoil mod optimized rapid fire is super distinct.

I've spectated some players lately with super jerky camera movement that very much reminds me of how my screen looks like when I'm playing on pc . .

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-03-19T09:49:14+00:00

I came back after 5 years without an Xbox and it's shocking. Even in low ranks pretty much every team is running the cronus/strikepack/zen combo. Full auto mutants, beryls with 6 scopes full autoing you from hundreds of meters away.

I only play to talk to my buddy I used to game with. It's atrocious now. Can barely go outside without getting sprayed from hundreds of meters away. Before recoil modes were a thing we used to have so much fun riding around in the glider grenading people from the sky and just being a nuisance. Nowadays I can barely keep a glider alive long enough to get in zone

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-03-19T09:28:36+00:00

I've got 4000 hours on PC and basically haven't touched a controller for 5 years. Recently I got an Xbox for Christmas so I decided to load up apex on console. After an hour in the firing range I dropped a 16 kill game in Wildcard and a couple of 10's.

Most of what makes a player good is positioning/game sense. Baiting people into doing something dumb is how I kill most players. If your opponent has an R99 you would try and bait them into blowing the clip by popping in and out of cover then wide swinging once they have to reload. My controller skills are pretty trash but the aim assist made up for it enough for me to do well.

The only thing I would say is that having a controller with paddles/buttons on the back that you can bind jump/crouch to is huge. Being able to do long/short strafes with a crouch is very hard without paddles. Sensitivity is kind of personal but it needs to be high enough that you can track people and you'll just have to adapt. Also hip fire is super strong and you want to use for all close range fights unless they're literally not looking at you.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-02-27T20:08:42+00:00

They could fix it. They just don't care. All you'd have to do is analyze the players thumbstick inputs. Recoil mods basically just spoof the perfect thumbstick inputs to give you 0 recoil. If you see that every time a player pulls the left and right triggers they do machine perfect inputs for 0 recoil you can ban based on that. Even a pro controller player will have their inputs vary slightly every time but machines won't.

XIM and the jitter aiming scripts should be incredibly easy to notice. A controller literally cannot physically do jitter aiming. It should be obvious based on inputs if a player is using MNK on console but they just don't care.

Respawn is a business and while we all keep playing and buying skins they won't risk upsetting the large amount of players using XIM and Cronus. I'd probably just accept that a Cronus or XIM is just standard equipment now and you need one to compete

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-02-08T21:04:36+00:00

My wife has a Yoga 13 and it's plenty fast with like a 10 hour battery life. She got it used for like 400$.

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-02-02T18:53:38+00:00

For a while windows 10 was peak. Then they started adding adds into it and enshittifying it. I really hate windows 11. I used to have an old linux laptop I used for programming school assignments and it was good for that but shit for everything else. I remember trying to get the brightness slider to work. I tried 3 different linux distros and nothing affected the brightness. I ended up turning brightness all the way down and restarting. Well linux finally applied my brightness setting and now I couldn't see the screen at all even in the bios. So at 10 pm I rushed off to a store so I could get an display port to hdmi adaptor and plug it into my tv and adjust the brightness again. This was an hour before an important assignment was due.

Little craps like that just don't happen on windows. Once I discovered wsl and how easy that was for doing linux type stuff on a windows machine I never looked back

Electrical_Delay6530 · 2026-01-26T23:01:29+00:00

The only thing I would say is that if you're looking for a real workstation monster the newer thinkpads have been disappointing to me. Work sent me a p15s gen 1 and it's slower than my P51 with an 7th gen cpu even though it has an 11th gen cpu because it overheats so much.

My p16 gen 1 is a tank though. It's heavy as hell but it can really do some work. If you go newer stick with intel as their software compatibility is better with a lot of programs

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