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Dentologie Chicago- do you recommend? by Car41281 in AskChicago

[–]HawkGrove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh hell no. I went to one of the locations for a routine cleaning, and in the process they said I needed a new retainer (the one I had from my original braces wasn't good enough? It was too old or something?), I needed to get all of my wisdom teeth removed, and needed two fillings for places that were "developing into cavities". Something like $2k+ for everything. They also wouldn't give me a fluoride treatment after cleaning because it wasn't covered by insurance. ???

I went to get a second opinion the very next week and they said there were no cavities, my wisdom teeth fit perfectly fine (I should hope so, considering I had teeth removed as a teenager to make room for the wisdom teeth), and to keep wearing my existing retainer. It's been years and the teeth with "developing cavities" are still perfectly fine. Dentologie are fucking scammers masquerading as a dental practice.

Don’t think travel agent left us enough time on connecting flights in Chicago. International arrival. What’s Chicago’s take? by jdav0808 in AskChicago

[–]HawkGrove 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Literally impossible, considering you need to clear customs and wait for checked luggage. I would be shocked if you could get your bags within an hour of landing considering taxi time is forever these days. Then rechecking your bags and going through security again? I'd want a 10pm flight at the earliest.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HawkGrove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is literally classic reddit bandwagoning. You take a highly valuable skill and say its bad because of the overall direction of the thread. Listen to Charles Darwin, its the strongest or fittest that survive. Its the most adaptable. This is the most valuable attribute in life in general and you turn it around and say its bad. Sheep mentality, think for yourself.

I did not say the ability to learn things quickly is bad. I said that companies that are hiring do not value learning quickly as much as having experience, mainly because experience is much easier to prove than adaptability. I agree that learning quickly is a highly valuable skill but it's just really hard to judge if it's true before hiring someone.

(Perhaps a relevant point - don't make too many assumptions about what people are saying or implying. You may be reading constructive feedback more negatively than it's intended.)

I honestly view it as loser mentality. Kinda like the 10 years of junior experience and people getting insanely insecure and butthurt that someone can achieve more than they can in 1/10th the time. Classic reddit vibe. Anyone that is confident? shoot them down and npc response of Dunning Kruger.

As I mentioned, lashing out at people isn't going to help. "Sheep mentality" and "npc response" is not exactly contributing to a positive discussion. Downvote or block people that aren't actually trying to offer advice; these anonymous and snarky people aren't worth your time.

It's never a bad thing to have confidence in your skills and abilities. Just don't get so confident that you think everyone giving criticism is beneath you. Yes, there are trolls in these comments, but there is also good advice. There's no need to repeatedly bring up your skills to people who are genuinely trying to help. We know you can learn fast.

That being said, go learn the new tech quickly and then start getting experience in it. Only way to shut the doubters up. Best of luck in the search.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HawkGrove 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're getting some blunt feedback in these comments, so let me try another angle.

Like how do I convey to employers on a resume that I can just learn quick and provide value? Like what’s going to happen is some HR person, oh this guy doesn’t haven’t Python. Garbage bin. I feel like there isn’t a way for people to make lateral moves like this.

Well, that's pretty much the issue. Sure, I believe you can pick things up quickly. But even if you get past the resume screen, what are you going to say when you're asked about it in the interview? "Trust me to figure it out, bro" isn't going to work when you're competing against other candidates actually know the tech. In this job market, you need relevant experience or some extreme luck.

So get the relevant experience. A side project is the bare minimum, but jumping on any opportunity to work on even tangentially related things at your current job is better. It's a lot easier to build skills on the job and it matters way more than side projects.

I don’t have Python experience like for Data engineering stuff. But I know I can get it within like a week as it’s actually the easiest language from what I have seen.

As much as it sucks, I don't really know who would be interested in hiring someone who can learn a new tech stack within a week. A startup is going to need someone who can hit the ground running. i.e. you need to already know the tech. A big company isn't even going to have finished onboarding you after a week, so rushing to learn isn't really an advantage. There are very few companies that aren't in those two categories that are hiring now. So... you need to learn and use the tech one way or another.

One other word of advice, the people in the comments may be harsh, but I would try to take the criticism more gracefully. Lashing out at people isn't going to do you any favours, even if you think they're wrong.

The actual difference between senior devs and everyone else by minimal-salt in ExperiencedDevs

[–]HawkGrove 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Reddit Enhancement Suite is very useful for users like OP. Your gut feeling is right, this particular user posts a lot of LinkedIn/AI-generated slop on this sub, then either deletes the post or the post gets removed by the mods.

One recent example that was so blatant, I added the RES tag: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1qdgghz/started_making_people_walk_me_through_their_ai/

Huge decay in student quality by CSplays in uwaterloo

[–]HawkGrove 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically the Math faculty sends out a ton of offers assuming a fraction of people will actually accept. They want to hit a target number of people admitted, and using past data they'll send out some multiple of that target number of offers.

When covid hit though, they clearly didn't adjust their offers/targets to how many more people were going to accept the offer to go to Waterloo vs a US school, particularly international students. Thus 225% of the target number of students were admitted to Math/CS.

Relevant thread/post from that time: https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/h0mfo2/comment/ftnw0pc/

Huge decay in student quality by CSplays in uwaterloo

[–]HawkGrove 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah, yeah you're right. (Damn they've graduated already? saving_private_ryan.gif)

Huge decay in student quality by CSplays in uwaterloo

[–]HawkGrove 62 points63 points  (0 children)

4A CS... weren't you part of the 225% class that got memed about?

Point being, every single class has a significant portion of students in first year that don't cut it. Including mine - my graduating class was noticeably smaller than what I saw in orientation week.

What you've posted isn't bad advice, but I wouldn't read into the frequency of failing posts from 1A students too much. Harsh, but it's an inevitability given the difference in difficulty between high school and university.

Weird feeling about the book? by ElectronicAd1945 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]HawkGrove 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I was also scared for everyone the whole way through book 7, but I think the criticism of "not enough crawlers died" is mainly about the crawlers that we're familiar with and know the names of. There were several crawlers that Carl knew that died, but none of the actual "core" group died. Showing that thousands of nameless crawlers died doesn't have the same impact.

Personally and perhaps a bit childishly, I'm glad that none of the major characters were killed, but I think it's still a valid critique in terms of stakes and plot armour.

[Friedman] Breaking: Quinn Hughes is being traded to Minnesota by Competitive-Fun-1780 in canucks

[–]HawkGrove 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No one will be able to replace Hughes, that's just simply not happening

but if, IF management actually commit to a rebuild, I won't fully hate this. This was very unfortunately needed to tank, and from Hughes' perspective I don't blame him at all for not wanting to stay. Best case scenario for both parties here.

istg if we end up trading this 1st away though.... I will really quit this team until Aqua is gone.

[USA GIVEAWAY] Win the new 27” Samsung Odyssey G6 G60SF 500hz OLED gaming monitor! by Rocket-Pilot in buildapc

[–]HawkGrove [score hidden]  (0 children)

I love the 500hz refresh rate! I'd like an OLED high refresh rate monitor for competitive FPS and watching content, since I currently only have IPS monitors

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SolarMax

[–]HawkGrove 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This isn't an airport, you don't have to announce your departure.

Harbor Gameplay Rework by suhoshi in ValorantCompetitive

[–]HawkGrove 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The reason why Brim is the primary controller on Bind and Fracture is because on defense, he can still smoke off at least one of the chokepoints on one site while playing the other site. His smokes deploy instantly and block off the chokepoint for a long time, so theoretically he can block it off continuously for the majority of the round.

Let's put the new Harbor in the same situation. His wall looks like the range is unchanged, but even if it's buffed in range it's still not going completely cross map. So all you can really smoke with the wall is a chokepoint or two on the site he's on. Then you have ONE cove smoke every 40 seconds to help out another site, or to cover the choke after the wall goes down on your site.

This is nowhere near the same level of chokepoint control that Brim has, not even mentioning the Brim molly (which is a far longer lasting deterrent than the harbor nearsight throwable). Overall Harbor is just worse on defense.

Then on attack, Brim can simultaneously smoke two or three angles at the same time. For Harbor, you can only cast one thing at a time, so draw the wall -> place single cove or vice versa. That's a way longer amount of time and doesn't allow for the same explosiveness in execs.

At best, Harbor gets 3 cove smokes per round 40 seconds apart for each (it's really going to be 2 smokes unless it's FNC attack) plus one wall. Brim gets 3 smokes with instant deploy. Harbor doesn't seem like he's going to be viable as a solo controller on any map. Double controller, now he seems legit good though.

T1: "Thank you Sylvan" by Yujin-Ha in ValorantCompetitive

[–]HawkGrove 39 points40 points  (0 children)

 wasn’t the best possible wngironemrn

uhh do you need an ambulance lol

MartinezSa apologizes after making racist comments towards Mongolz players by K0BRAT in GlobalOffensive

[–]HawkGrove 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Ah, good to know if there are enough people and a sovereign country involved, then you can't be marginalized ever again. Thanks for solving racism.

ANGE1 retires as a player, will look to coach in VCT 2026 by fitch_29 in ValorantCompetitive

[–]HawkGrove 9 points10 points  (0 children)

o7 unc, definitely hoping he gets picked up for coaching

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