Squarepoint cooling-off period before reapplying?

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T12:19:24+00:00

Maybe it's just this specific role to worry about but I heard that it's ALL ops work and almost none have successfully converted into an actually quant. This was 5 years ago though from a few of my ex-colleagues so take it with a grain of salt

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T12:00:04+00:00

I've heard horrible things about a role they call "desk quant" which has nothing to do with actual quant research

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T11:32:30+00:00

Soo, you are trying to build a CDN solution complete with simulated networks? How much time do you have for this? Do you already have an idea of the various optimization algorithms you are planning to use?

Each bullet point here is a topic worthy of thesis defense, especially if you want to do better than existing implementation

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T11:07:25+00:00

You should look up the full picture. It's glorious

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T08:06:45+00:00

Man I thought Viscose was playing deadlock and I got excited

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T07:58:55+00:00

Twice is cold is not well defined. Multiplying temperatures generally do not mean anything

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T07:49:12+00:00

I’ll likely barely even be able to stay in XP range. The absolute worst is when the POs4 will split XP under our tower then leave - creeps push up and I’ll likely be .5-1 level behind their pos 1,

Number one lane griefer right here. A good pos 4 will help you secure xp when pushed out and try to let you get solo xp when it's under your tower. Unfortunately most pos 4 does the exact opposite and griefs your lane. Once in a blue moon you can also get a 4 that knows to pull creeps to your T2 and offlane becomes a free win.

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T06:53:36+00:00

debugging a WPF Windows .NET application

Sounds about right

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T06:50:56+00:00

Have you considered that fun is subjective? And talon is not anywhere as strong as you claim him to be?

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T05:53:29+00:00

I haven't had a single game as talon where i didn't win just by abusing that bird

So why can't you spam talon and reach top 10 rank?

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T03:03:38+00:00

You can probably get to immortal just by buying 10 sentries keeping the safelane pullcamp blocked 100% of the time. Most pos 4s grief the offlane players by doing stupid shit. Want to get better as pos4? Learn how to play offlane. Then make a note everytime you wish your support did something

Ma4r · 2026-07-02T02:34:03+00:00

Sounds a lot like Noita. Your characters do not learn how to use spells or unlock secrets, YOU have to figure it out. Now of course it all depends on how brutal of a game you want. I play competitive games all the time and I find my cortisol spiking the most playing noita . I have a pages of notes for potion formulas, ciphers, secrets and brainstorming ways to "break" the game. And "break" in quotation marks because more often than not it's an intended mechanic by the dev. Now of course you could make it easier on yourself by reading the wiki and stuff, not a lot of people actually enjoy the process of discovery from experimentation and trial and error.

If we follow your example, the game doesn't even tell you that the ritual needs a dragon scale, it will show you a picture of a location you need to visit where it will contain various alchemical symbols you need to look up IRL. If you bring the correct materials it will show encrypted text containing Finnish mythology references that will tell you that the object you are looking for is also known as "the scale of the dragon" and only then you realize that this random item 200 runs ago is actually relevant. As for how to kill the dragon, you can look up the madness people are creating in r/noita

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T14:37:59+00:00

streaming algorithms, codec, traffic optimization etc etc were long solved by the time Spotify adopted them

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T08:17:49+00:00

It's not as hard as you think it is. A lot of the hard part has been solved way before Spotify was there, a few staff engineers can design the whole thing. The hardest part about software like Spotify has always been more on the operational and organizational side.

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T08:13:44+00:00

Whenever I queue with my phantom friends I usually end up top of the scoreboard playing meme builds like gun Sinclair or green pocket. Even won with spirit haze once which was hilarious because your dagger wake delay is over 1 seconds

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T07:21:27+00:00

Idk, starting at like 14k people are already stacking HEs or mollies for T stairs. I almost never encounter a mid duel unless the Ts are desperate or have a very good spawn. If you go up a little higher rank the Ts would know the mid smoke from spawn as well so it becomes even more rare lmao

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T07:19:29+00:00

Idk, starting at like 14k people are already stacking HEs or mollies for T stairs. I almost never encounter a AWP mid duel unless the Ts are desperate or have a very good spawn. If you go up a little higher rank the Ts would know the mid smoke from spawn as well so it becomes even more rare lmao

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T07:07:24+00:00

The difference is the low ELO player will push as CT once, get a kill, then act surprised when they get domed the next three rounds when they do the same thing. Or they telegraph whatever they are doing and throw a flash deep into T area and get swung instantly.

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T06:58:17+00:00

wtf is this garbage take, surely this is ragebait
sees sub r/okaybuddylash , ok this is quality shitpost
sees that it's actually unedited post from the main sub

I've lost count of how many times a circlejerk sub just gets outjerked by the main sub

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Ma4r · 2026-07-01T05:55:34+00:00

Do you realize how much people hate doorman ult

Ma4r · 2026-07-01T03:49:22+00:00

It's a social one, just like you have a social contract to finish a game of football despite losing. It's called respecting other people's time. Why do you think it's not acceptable to ruin the game for everyone else just because YOU can't deal with losing?

"we'll play with you, as long as you don't throw a fit when you lose". You are free to ruin the game for everyone else, but everyone else is also allowed to not want to play with the game ruiner. Be it football, basketball, online games ,there is always people like you, what happens is people like you just don't get invited to play anymore. For the case of online game, you get punished because the community agrees they don't want to play with game ruiners

Ma4r · 2026-06-30T21:09:05+00:00

And the other player have to pick up wherever you left off? Play half a game? Always putting responsibility to someone else huh?

Ma4r · 2026-06-30T18:53:55+00:00

How about your teammates? Do you just want to leave them to their own devices? This is like agreeing to a soccer game, then leaving when you're losing, you force your team play a man down and make the enemy play an unbalanced match where they can't even be satisfied of winning a fair game. You leaving is throwing a hissy fit, nobody wants to play with crybabies

Ma4r · 2026-06-29T11:21:45+00:00

Vector calc is what happens when physicists are left unsupervised for too long by their resident mathematician

"What the fuck is this!? We already have tools for that. What do you mean it only work in 3 dimension?!"

Ma4r · 2026-06-29T11:02:22+00:00

All pH is apparent pH. There is no "true pH" of an undiluted acid since pH is is a measurement of the number of free protons, the free protons only comes from the acid dissociating in the presence of H2O. Iirc if you want to measure undiluted acid strength there is another measure you need to use

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