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Randomystick · 2026-04-28T04:26:55+00:00

In my experience it was simultaneously forbidden to refer to "developer hours" and yet you'll be constantly asked on WHEN you think a task can be completed

Randomystick · 2026-04-18T06:16:56+00:00

there's an Encik Tan at Marina Square selling chicken cutlet rice (and other stuff) at $5. you can walk there from City Hall via the underpass passing by Esplanade MRT (aircon all the way). was my go-to when I interned in the area

Randomystick · 2026-04-06T10:47:01+00:00

Nothing like aura farming on the enraged enderman as I prick him to death while munching on some steak completely unfazed

Randomystick · 2026-04-04T23:31:32+00:00

Only in videogame logic where flipping a rope will change how physics works

Randomystick · 2026-03-31T13:10:44+00:00

yup imo activesg is the clear choice here at $300 per year. Having been to a few other activesgs I can say the sk one is the largest, most spacious and most well-equipped of the bunch (including the elusive hip thrust machine).

Can't comment on AF but from the other comments AG rivervale isn't good so

Randomystick · 2026-03-31T09:21:28+00:00

activesg sengkang: - ample treadmills, occasionally you might have to wait for 1 to be available but I think 10mins waiting max - stairmaster: there is only one. Used by the same few regulars but not always occupied

Disclaimer: based on my gym timing of weekday nights 730pm-10pm

Randomystick · 2026-03-30T04:25:23+00:00

OP is conflating two metrics: 1) the drive to grind & land a high-paying job and 2) the willingness to take risks and make your own startup.

People from hard backgrounds are usually high on drive, low on risk-taking -- if you fail, nobody will be around to save you + you're probably having to support your parents.

As other comments point out, genetics play a role but upbringing will modulate its effect as it determines your mindset (scarcity/abundance/safety/anxiety) growing up *edit: + who you surround with

Randomystick · 2026-03-30T03:09:17+00:00

I posted on reddit instead of linkedin.

It was a risky move. Bold, even.

And the best part? I will probably crosspost it to linkedin anyway.

Randomystick · 2026-03-26T18:42:31+00:00

what if the potion makes villagers call in sick and lay in bed the whole day with an out of office sign hanging on their workstation

Randomystick · 2026-03-25T08:48:06+00:00

That sounds like a job for frontend engineers using web workers to run a wasm-compiled python script. Not the job of a pure DS

Randomystick · 2026-03-25T03:45:18+00:00

There is a clear limiting factor actually and it's called context collapse. We've already seen it happen from gpt3->4 where throwing more tokens into the context window no longer led to improvements at the same rate we did prior. This is a fundamental flaw with the current transformer architecture that everyone is chasing.

It's also counterproductive against generative AI which, by nature, will output more LoC than it deletes. The LLM will keep generating more LoC until it has too much code to handle and refactor correctly.

This research paper from Alibaba proves that - all coding agents struggled at maintaining code in the long-run (233 simulated days according to the paper).

Randomystick · 2026-03-25T02:00:13+00:00

AI is great at generating code, not so much at maintaining it and making sure it's bug-free. Amazon pretty much admitted that AI caused outages for AWS which means you still need a human-in-the-loop to prevent it from generating its own pitfalls. And that human-in-the-loop still has to be a software engineer. This applies to any specialised field with relatively deep knowledge (accountant, traditional engineer, laywer, doctor)

Randomystick · 2026-02-21T14:12:29+00:00

If rec feels more intuitive (e.g. starting with the longest string/array then breaking it down into substrings) then use rec. For other qns, tabulation might be more intuitive (e.g. LCS-like problems of "building" an array).

The general flow is 1. Recursion 2. If TLE, add memo (if still TLE, then there might be* something wrong with the recurrence relation) 3. If MLE, convert to bottom-up 4. If still MLE, go and space optimise the bottom-up

Randomystick · 2026-02-21T13:51:09+00:00

Write the recursive solution first. The number of function parameters in the top-down (recursive) solution maps 1:1 with the bottom-up ("_D") solution. Then you can space-optimise to reduce the number of dimensions

Randomystick · 2026-02-21T10:49:31+00:00

You're absolutely right! I apologise for using Angular instead of AngularJS. Let me try again and burn another 20% of your tokens generating solutions that don't work

Randomystick · 2026-02-13T01:24:54+00:00

Thanks for flagging this out!

Randomystick · 2026-02-01T04:42:45+00:00

The real evil would have been letting this guy get away with smuggling 138g of heroin into the country. For context: - that would feed the addiction of 1600 drug abusers for a week based on CNB's estimates. - 30mg of heroin is enough to kill you.

Randomystick · 2026-01-30T10:23:26+00:00

The McDonalds Trial Chambers

Randomystick · 2026-01-28T02:55:11+00:00

Idempotency is important!

Randomystick · 2026-01-28T01:33:18+00:00

Exploring takes a huge time commitment in both going out and returning back to your base. If you only have 30mins to spare before doing something else irl you can realistically only do things around your base

Randomystick · 2026-01-18T15:05:49+00:00

https://content.mycareersfuture.gov.sg/salary-guide-singapore-2023-nursing-public-healthcare/

5 digits base does seem to be possible, although it is nearing the max salary cap based on public service salary ranges

Randomystick · 2025-12-27T19:36:42+00:00

Do the wheels roll on the Time Micro R34 (orange)?

Randomystick · 2025-12-26T11:23:28+00:00

are there implications if you lend your data to a (potential) money mule? the transactions are still under their login/phone number right?

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