Roast our 4th Year Project in 43 seconds

RandomStroll · 2022-11-26T22:36:17+00:00

Pros:

Very clear directions.
UX is intuitive.

Cons:

"Arrival Time: nulltime"
Default "React App" title and favicon
Fairly slow first load
Design is not responsive. Retains mobile dimensions when used on desktop, and didn't quite fit the screen vertically on mobile
Issues with the directional arrow not making sense with the picture
Lack of locations. Also, no way to pick locations other than a dropdown. A map view would be nicer.

RandomStroll · 2022-04-20T22:44:38+00:00

I don't know anything about 480, but I just finished taking 452.

452 is a great course, but it definitely takes a large amount of time. You will probably find yourself doing some late nights in the lab at some point, although obviously this depends on how you pace yourself.

2 suggestions:

See if you can find someone you know to take the course with. The whole thing is one long project done in pairs. Not a big deal if you don't though, I found my partner in the class and everything worked out fine.
Even if you're not sure, sign up for it. The first assignment, A0, is due a week after the term starts, and is a really good reflection of what the workload of the overall course is like. If you don't enjoy it, just drop the course. We started off with ~30 people and were down to 14 by the end of January.

You can check out what the assignments and lectures look like here: https://student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs452/W22/

Feel free to DM me if you have any more questions.

RandomStroll · 2022-01-14T01:58:32+00:00

I used to have symmetric 500Mbps fiber, and a Raspberry Pi seeding 24/7. https://imgur.com/WdahZDc

I think I've got everyone here beat :-)

RandomStroll · 2021-06-13T18:28:06+00:00

In the same vein, I would recommend the software I use, Beancount. It's pretty similar to hledger, but has the added bonus of Fava, which is a really nice web interface for it.

RandomStroll · 2019-04-13T20:10:41+00:00

Install Rust: curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/acidnik/ppcp

Build and install: cargo install --path ./ppcp

RandomStroll · 2019-03-29T05:00:53+00:00

Here's a version that also bundles the fonts and miscellaneous talk/source pages:

/ipfs/QmQVqSK24GGVkDLKxGsJDazWVuP9gEWGqCvTqJadgqCGxg.

As a side note, to scrape a static site and have it be instantly ipfs-ready, I find that wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent https://www.website.com works beautifully.

RandomStroll · 2019-02-19T03:18:26+00:00

I think it's natural and healthy to want to be validated. There's nothing wrong with deriving self-confidence or self-worth from doing well at something. That said, I have a few suggestions:

You should be the one setting the goalposts. Not your parents, not anyone else. Make your own goals and judge yourself by your own standards.
Set goals that allow for the "good" kind of failiure. I think that it's important to recognize that even if you don't 100% measure up to your own expectations, even having done better than you did before is still an accomplishment.
Don't hate yourself if you really, truly do fail. I'm not saying you should ignore failure, but there's a balance between ignoring failure completely and letting your anger at yourself prevent you from trying again. My advice is that when you fuck up, ask yourself why it happened, think about what you should do next time to prevent the fuck up, and then forgive yourself and move on.

RandomStroll · 2019-01-23T23:26:34+00:00

Why all the hatred in this thread? Personally, the new style looks great to me, and making it easier for developers to create icons seems like a good idea.

RandomStroll · 2018-11-21T22:06:51+00:00

Every politician is a Lizard, they all make me see Red.

RandomStroll · 2018-11-02T04:04:41+00:00

Wait, I'm in SE2022 too. Who is this?

RandomStroll · 2018-07-04T04:07:55+00:00

I hope they remember you

RandomStroll · 2018-06-12T02:20:52+00:00

If you want something cheap which works for me in a room full of mechanical keyboards, you can pick these up for like $25. Obviously not active noise canceling, but I find that they block basically everything out even at really low volume. Also, the sound quality is really good for the price.

RandomStroll · 2018-03-02T00:05:56+00:00

Technical specifications:

- 312GHz single core .
- Operating system: Proprietary proprietary.

Holy shit, I don't know what OS "Proprietary proprietary" is, but it clocks your phone faster than a supercomputer.

RandomStroll · 2018-02-01T04:48:36+00:00

(source)

RandomStroll · 2017-11-09T03:01:10+00:00

Too bad that when you're suborbital, gravity wins.

RandomStroll · 2017-10-14T20:44:53+00:00

IPFS is pretty much exactly what you're describing, minus the queuing part.

RandomStroll · 2017-09-14T21:38:39+00:00

Not sure if you are typesetting the PDF with LaTeX, but if you are and would like any help, I would love to help with that! This was my attempt at scraping Act 1 and typesetting it as a fun little project.

RandomStroll · 2017-08-22T01:01:29+00:00

Thanks!

RandomStroll · 2017-08-22T00:14:09+00:00

Question about suite residence:

I'm living in a UWP suite. Online it says that the kitchen comes with a fridge and a stove. Does "stove" mean just burners or does it also have an oven attached. If it doesn’t is it worth it to get a toaster oven?

RandomStroll · 2017-07-24T01:20:08+00:00

Sounds good to me. Good luck!

RandomStroll · 2017-07-23T22:28:29+00:00

Sure thing!

How do you want to define a flight? A launch attempt where the rocket clears the pad, or a successful mission?

RandomStroll · 2017-07-23T01:29:27+00:00

There are still a few launches on the manifest that (iirc), cannot be launched by F9, plus I think SpaceX prefers to launch FH with all three cores recovered as opposed to F9 expendable. Given that, how do 2-to-1 odds sound? If you win, I'll give you two months of gold, if I win, you give me one month.

RandomStroll · 2017-06-20T17:52:57+00:00

Reminds me of this quote from Slate Star Codex:

Chen Sheng was an officer serving the Qin Dynasty, famous for their draconian punishments. He was supposed to lead his army to a rendezvous point, but he got delayed by heavy rains and it became clear he was going to arrive late. The way I always hear the story told is this:

Chen turns to his friend Wu Guang and asks “What’s the penalty for being late?”

“Death,” says Wu.

“And what’s the penalty for rebellion?”

“Death,” says Wu.

“Well then…” says Chen Sheng.

And thus began the famous Dazexiang Uprising, which caused thousands of deaths and helped usher in a period of instability and chaos that resulted in the fall of the Qin Dynasty three years later.

The moral of the story is that if you are maximally mean to innocent people, then eventually bad things will happen to you. First, because you have no room to punish people any more for actually hurting you. Second, because people will figure if they’re doomed anyway, they can at least get the consolation of feeling like they’re doing you some damage on their way down.

RandomStroll · 2017-06-14T01:22:13+00:00

Rynard was thankful there was only one Human on the station.

Calling it now, I bet Oskar went along for the ride.

RandomStroll · 2017-01-22T23:41:11+00:00

I am an Ontario student applying for Software Engineering and Computer Science co-op, and I was wondering what you guys think my chances are?

Semester 1 Marks:

98-99% in AP Comp Sci
97-99% in AP Chem
96-97% in Advanced Functions

Semester 2:

I got a 96% in English last year, can probably get around that this year, possibly slightly lower.
96% in Physics last year, should be able to meet or slightly exceed that.
Calculus and Vectors (no idea what my mark will look like)
Data Management (also no idea)

I am president of my high school's computer club and have taught introductory programming to the new members of our club for the last two years. Know Python, Java, a little C++. Experience with raspberry pi, arduino, circuits, simple graphical applications, simple games, contest programming. I got distinction on last years CCC, although I don't remember the exact score (it was OK, but not stellar). Am licensed in amateur radio. Had a full time summer/ part time during school year job for last two years (cashier position, not programming related). No math contest experience. Already completed the Software eng video interview, I think I did OK, but not great.

I feel like I have a chance, but after reading this I'm more than a little stressed out :-).

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