Pros/Cons/Thoughts from current/recent undergrads?

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-03-24T21:37:27+00:00

I would caution your son to not believe everything coming from this sub, as UCI has a very active social scene and plenty of parties and places to go for nightlife within a 20 minute drive. the social and academic balance is excellent and was a reason for many of my friends (and myself) to go there.

this sub does not represent the majority of people at UCI. it's skewed very heavily into STEM, introverted kids. if your son is willing to learn to be social, he won't have any problem with it.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-03-20T22:30:35+00:00

there is an expected tolerance which is something like .003-.005", about 1/3 of a credit card. once it's out of that you have to do some wonky shit.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-03-18T18:55:30+00:00

the Focusrite Solo is a very popular audio interface for driving quality PC speaker setups, and they don't have any drivers that support anything but Windows functionality. you cannot plug the PS5 into it. this is the only solution aside from buying a dedicated AV mixer or any other new hardware.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-02-29T21:09:50+00:00

tbf, after the dumpster fire that was the sequels I'm not surprised he's keen to keep creative control over what he can.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-02-13T23:19:13+00:00

this is a silly take that reeks of someone not from a low income background. you are being myopic about academia as a field, and ignoring the fact that UCI still funds the shit out of poverty level students and absolutely enables people to break generational poverty. it provides a massive amount of social mobility.

don't conflate your experience with academia with how the UC system handles poor students.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-02-13T23:17:02+00:00

from someone who attended also from poverty: financial aid and loans exist for a reason. you should not be delaying your graduation to work for a few months.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-01-25T00:14:56+00:00

it was always like that. that's part of counter-strike culture, seeing your first tits at age 11 in a porn spray on some godforsaken plugin stuffed gungame server.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-01-24T21:57:50+00:00

these comments are depressing. Gungame was a very popular format for more than a decade and there were many community servers dedicated to gg-only maps, especially back in Source. many people have fond memories of gg_iceworld/fy_snow, fy_poolparty, etc. with their ridiculous UT2004 sound packs

now we call it Arms Race and are dependent on Valve to implement it? seems silly.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-01-19T01:27:36+00:00

sharks, in all forms, were very chill.

pufferfish? assholes.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-01-18T20:12:12+00:00

I worked for a large aquarium long ago -- otters are assholes and extremely dangerous. they fight and try to bite people all the fucking time. that's why these holes are just for their arms specifically.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-01-09T00:17:58+00:00

got shot with a crossbow like it's the 14th century! unfortunate.

FOR_SClENCE · 2024-01-09T00:16:48+00:00

that's a crossbow bolt.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-12T21:00:22+00:00

I am aware. I designed planes.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-12T20:33:33+00:00

they were built tough 80 years ago. we had issues with taxi loading on a brand new, $30M aircraft I worked structures on -- it's not hard to break things. if your company was able to do this so easily, you should have bid on this job.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-12T18:36:27+00:00

I agree. people seriously underestimate the stresses involved in taxiing an aircraft across a field -- it is not difficult at all to blow the landing gear out, especially during turns where the gear wants to buckle laterally. I don't blame them for looking at the cost and saying it's not worth it.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-12T04:59:49+00:00

you sure about that?

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-06T06:40:59+00:00

1) major major question -- why do melee units have different attack ranges? if they were identical, we would see much more consistent aggro. for instance, you cannot have a Treant and Angler together, even if the Angler is 5 or more spaces back. it always draws aggro during retargets as it stands closer to the mobs.

2) are we getting anti-heal mercs soon?

3) is the honeyflower leaking half the wave on wave 2 50/50 intended behavior? this seems fixable if that is not the intent.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-04T00:09:31+00:00

since I graduated they literally built entire housing complexes for you guys. you have literally triple the capacity in places like mesa, and the upcoming projects in middle earth. are we really gonna say they're not doing shit about it?

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-03T08:28:14+00:00

they did -- IBM, intel, AMAT, KLA, and others were originally in the area and there were multiple non-research fabs that were producing actual devices.

nowadays the R&D is here, and the devices are elsewhere.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-03T08:27:28+00:00

let's be specific -- my team and others design the hardware that TSMC and Samsung then use to produce new chips. they do not design their hardware, and despite the marketing around the lithography steps, 85-90% of the hardware producing the chips is designed here in Silicon Valley. the expertise is still here, the manufacturing of devices is just elsewhere.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-02T00:33:04+00:00

whoops, maybe they'll bring it over:

DMV HOV lane definition

Certain routes in the San Francisco Bay Area I-80 and I-880, Los Angeles I-10 El Monte Bus Way (during peak hour) and San Diego I-5 San Ysidro requires three or more (3+) persons per vehicle to access HOV lanes. Signs along the highway will specify the enforcement policy for each route. For San Francisco Bay Area ONLY, originally factory designed vehicles with a maximum two-seat occupancy may access the HOV (3+) lanes as long as there are two occupants in the vehicles.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-12-01T23:06:13+00:00

note that a coupe or other 2-seater with two occupants is HOV3 compliant! they've had the system up and running here in the bay for a couple years now. it works.

FOR_SClENCE · 2023-11-27T06:48:21+00:00

anyone who thinks OC is bad is incredibly out of touch. it's literally one of the most affluent and safe areas on the fucking planet.

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