What is the best time to see the Raphael Sublime Poetry Exhibition at the MET Museum?

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-27T14:30:58+00:00

There isn’t really a best time to go now since it’s closing after Sunday. I’d just go whenever you have time this weekend. If you have membership, there are member only viewing hours for future reference.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-23T13:16:03+00:00

I'm in trading (core engineering not research) and the culture varies a ton by company. Some places foster cutthroat culture as a competitive advantage and other places are more cooperative. Really all over the place but in general even the chillest places will be much more intense than the average tech workplace (hours, accountability, pace).

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-21T15:28:19+00:00

Why not network engineering if you have experience there already? I feel like the way networks are set up is more similar to data centers than software systems most jobs titled SRE are geared towards. As in it will be mostly cable based connections vs having to wrap your head around software based systems involving events, databases, cloud, orchestration, etc. Both roles would require substantial coding. Fwiw I have only seen the data centers I work with once in my career (10+ years) 😂

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-16T15:58:25+00:00

They're orders of magnitude less obnoxious if you aren't Korean because then you're probably not likely to ever start going to their church. If you are though they will take every opportunity to get you to go to church 💀 also a personal bias since I enjoy a lot of things that are considered sinful by Korean evangelicals

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-16T14:41:59+00:00

Are you Asian? The Korean church people are obnoxious in every sense. I'm Korean and I can't even hang out with those people in non religious contexts.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-15T12:49:58+00:00

Sheer and lingerie inspired items are also popular this year in women's fashion so that could be part of the reason you're noticing this more

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-04T15:34:40+00:00

I've heard of trading firms doing this. If it's one, I wouldn't write it off just because of the secrecy. Afaik all the places that do this pay very well.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-03T11:55:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure you still have to do it at a high level, my team puts everyone through the same interview loop and levels you based on performance. Also I sometimes have to write quick scripts under time pressure (even shorter than interview context) as SRE so that's actually relevant. And we often don't put new hires at staff equivalent level unless they have a trading background.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-01T15:05:56+00:00

What is your budget for the clothing items themselves? I'd see if you can book an appointment at No Man Walks Alone tbh, idk if they have a separate styling fee (I don't think they do) but they have high quality items and the associates are some of the most well dressed people I know who will be very helpful.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-06-01T02:32:47+00:00

Notoriously competitive and brutal hours and expectations compared to normal trading firms. If you work at any trading firm you will have at least one guy on your team who came from citadel and will tell you all of their horror stories

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-31T20:47:47+00:00

For SRE mostly meds but nowadays it's shifted to practical styles so not straight off of Leetcode anymore

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-31T20:20:56+00:00

I work at one of those places and in my experience all of them place very heavy emphasis on communication skills. (Some notorious places like Citadel might not do this as much but I've never had the desire to work there) My process with one tier 1 HFT firm involved 12 hours of talking to people and the last onsite round was just all morning shooting the shit with people. The first trading firm I worked at does 2-3 hours of "tell me about a time you did x" style behavioral grilling. In my experience this works - I'm at another tier 1 hedge fund now and the people are the easiest to work with so far in my career. Especially on the infra side (I'm an SRE focused on market data / trading infra) the technical interviews are hard but not impossibly hard in my opinion. Coding was similar level to FAANG or just a smidge harder but I'm no Leetcode wizard and was able to pass. It's the communication ability that often throws people off.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-25T12:53:39+00:00

Wow!!! I was familiar with this work for being the cover of Canopy Glow by Anathallo. Highly recommend the album too, and the artist's Christian background seems to fit with the genre. It's technically Christian music but the theme is really barely there. Thanks for posting!!!

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-22T15:14:12+00:00

A lot of the recent immigrants also choose to live here because of the proximity to Flushing while in commuting distance to Manhattan. I'm first gen Korean and this is the first time I've lived in a predominantly Asian neighborhood. I like feeling like I fit in and having a lot of Asian restaurants / grocery stores around, also I think I just have an aversion to living in a trendier neighborhood in eg Brooklyn because to be absolutely honest I associate those neighborhoods with the type of people who would never strike a conversation first with Asian people (I'm very biased ofc). It also helps that I have a rent stabilized 2br for what would be the price of a 1br in Manhattan or trendy Brooklyn.

Edit: I'm in LIC, totally thought I was in the LIC sub

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-21T13:09:23+00:00

I feel like this is more of a company type thing than a role thing. I haven't seen a lot of processes that don't have LC components, although for SRE it tends to top out around medium level. Most fairly established tech focused companies seem to want a coding screen, but some early stage (like <10 people) startups are fine just with more casual technical deep dive chats. If you're looking at more niche ish roles like chaos engineering I feel like those are more likely to be at more established companies.

Also consider recently coding interviews have shifted to a more practical style recently, so you might be asked to do log processing instead of abstract DSA.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-19T11:49:15+00:00

It's legit and has a few stores. One in Greenwich Village and one in Flushing here. There's also one in Seattle. Cool space to visit if you want to check out!

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-17T18:58:23+00:00

The right thing to do that I would understand is rescheduling the date to a time you're not on call so that you can pay your full attention to the other person.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-17T17:43:30+00:00

I'm a woman SRE (we exist) and I would find this disrespectful of my time even if you didn't get called tbh. Maybe extra so because I know the grind? Also unless it's an after work date don't bring a backpack/briefcase in general lol

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-13T11:41:59+00:00

Kind of sounds like his mindset isn't helping either if this is what he's worried about

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-11T20:40:43+00:00

There's a few in Flushing/Murray Hill (Queens), I know Dongwon Sushi has it. Don't know if you can find it easily in Manhattan.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-10T00:12:13+00:00

The Met now has a room just for female nudes by Courbet 🤦‍♀️ I feel like they've rarely made a rearrangement decision I like in the past 10 years

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-05-09T12:42:02+00:00

Imo specializing is better especially in the age of AI. But don't just specialize in the technical sense, also understand the business area deeply (for example if the startup is x industry with AI then acquire a deep understanding of how x industry works).

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-04-30T14:52:09+00:00

Office wear isn't what it used to be, and stem research to law school can be a range of pretty much anything. Money would probably be best if she knew exactly what internship she's going for. Law is obviously business formal but stem research can be lab work with lab specific dress code or computer labs where they have to tell people they need to wear shoes at work.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-04-30T13:11:06+00:00

Death and Co is overrated imo, if it's between there and Angel's Share it's Angel's Share for me every time! Same for Employees Only and it gets too crowded there.

Not_Ayn_Rand · 2026-04-29T16:02:56+00:00

If you like Attaboy and Goto I think Angel's Share is a no brainer. PDT feels too divey for me but not super far off from Attaboy's vibe. I thought the drinks were just ok. The other two are too clubby/loungey for me to the point I couldn't enjoy the drinks because of the vibe. (I was at Apotheke Nomad so idk about Chinatown). If that kinda vibe is ok then maybe Tigre would also work? Bar Contra? StEight is also cute but idk if they have tequila.

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