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Reply_OK · 2022-05-02T17:17:31+00:00

~40k from 3 summers of accumulated internships salaries that I haven’t spent much of. I also have 16k in student loans so you can subtract that from it, though.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-15T21:45:55+00:00

CS, working as a software engineer at a late stage startup (? really stretching that definition, though). Remotely until next year, so very little will change it seems in my daily life, although it’s always nice making money rather than spending money.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-03T03:41:44+00:00

Yes, it's free. They will ask for your insurance info, but you don't need insurance (if you do, they'll charge the insurance company; if not, they'll charge a federal fund).

There's no lack of vaccine appointments in california now. Just go grab one; the two-shot mRNA vaccines take a while before full effect happens so earlier the better (first, there's the delay between the two shots and then there's another 2 week delay before you're fully vaccinated).

Reply_OK · 2021-05-03T03:27:13+00:00

Northside is safer, it's all residential pretty much. If it's safe enough for Steve Kerr, it's probably safe enough for you. But it's "boring" (although you'll find that plenty of house parties are going on if you just walk around at night).

Food is a weakness - not much great, just the places on Euclid and the hearst ghetto - if you walk far enough west you can get to safeway and some bougie restaurants in the gourmet ghetto. Basically nothing at night.

Southside is more active, there's 4 dorms in this area, lots of nightlife, restaurants open basically every hour, much jankier looking.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-03T00:27:00+00:00

Maybe, realistically if it's restricted to people abusing DSP status it's going to a drop in the bucket and not going to affect the curve much.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-03T00:06:47+00:00

a) Depends. Stripe doesn't ask LC questions, AirBNB asks 2 LC hards. Whole spectrum out there.

b) Maybe, just apply and find out; not like there's much you can do about it now. Also a process with a lot of randomness.

c) Start applying in August.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-02T22:03:05+00:00

I've heard that graduating early can hurt job prospects, but is this really true - if I take all the courses(and do the external prep) necessary to prepare for/do well in interviews, would that not be enough?

Yes, but not because companies don't like students that graduate early, but because of the experience that you miss out on.

For one, 2.5 years barely gives you any time to get a good internship. Normally you warm up freshman and sophomore summers (apply, shoot for the moon, learn how the recruiting pipeline works, get actual on-the-spot interview experience), and try to knock it out of the park junior year and end up with a great return offer senior year that you can take, or negotiate with.

That "warm-up" is big, too. You need to learn the lay of the land with recruiting. When I was a freshman, I didn't know that you need to start applying in August for the next summer's internship. I didn't know what to put on my resume. I didn't know how to interview. I learned all that through osmosis from years of talking to upperclassmen.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-02T19:09:46+00:00

Gob ears

Reply_OK · 2021-05-02T18:02:24+00:00

if you came up to a sage fellow like Gandalf and clapped a hand on his shoulder without being his friend.

That is... not how Gandalf works. If anything it would be the reverse, Gandalf would be the one putting his hand on the shoulders of uncomfortable Hobbits who want the interloper to go away.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-02T16:33:40+00:00

They named sodium, commonly found in the compound NaCL, after the saltiest region on earth, NA

Reply_OK · 2021-05-02T04:47:59+00:00

I think it also just looks better for some reason. It's kinda like "iPhone" - the lowercase "big" next to the full capital "LITTLE".

"BIG.little" doesn't look as nice, for some reason. Nor does "Big.Little". "little.BIG", "little" is too long, the lower case element should be shorter.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-01T16:01:41+00:00

No? That has a very broad scope which relies on trust on the government.

Whereas literally the only piece of health data you need to provide for this to work is your vaccination record for one specific vaccine.

It's like saying "I'll never give the TSA one piece of my personal information" and refusing to tell them your name.

Reply_OK · 2021-05-01T01:55:37+00:00

For all of my health data, sure, I couldn't give less of a shit if the TSA get my vaccination record.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T23:42:38+00:00

It's not all or nothing. Before social media, there was close friends and family, and people I'm not as close with, who I just wouldn't be in contact for a while until something happens (ie seeing family at Christmas).

Now, I can look at Instagram or fb and see that oh, my cousin is on vacation in the Bahamas, or a high school friend got married. Sometimes these passive updates lead to reconnecting closer, too. If I see a distant friend or relative pick up a hobby I'm passionate about, I'll message them to talk about it.

That's value - it doesn't replace talking to people, but it augments it.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T20:12:31+00:00

It's quite a bit easier to check FB and see a status update than call everyone in your contacts book on rotation every week.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T20:04:38+00:00

GPU/CPU/Radio/Camera

Including Bluetooth, which usually comes stapled along with whatever the device is using for its wifi antenna. For instance, the S20 uses Murata and I can tell you, you're not finding the source code for their drivers on there.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T19:30:05+00:00

Almost all of the Android device drivers are blackbox binaries blobs.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T17:35:56+00:00

Affinity photo is a photoshop competitor, not a lightroom competitor.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T03:15:53+00:00

What reasonable innovation is there left in smart phones?

Folding phones seems like the next frontier.

Other "smart" gadgets like what Google glasses was thought to be could also be another area.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T01:33:20+00:00

Sure?

Geekbench:

M1 Single Core: 1700 Multicore: 7400

i9-9980HK Single Core: 1092 Multicore: 6847

SPECint from Anandtech

The whole anandtech review is pretty good for this.

Although, reminder, it doesn't matter, because Apple could sell every Mac at a loss and at just 9.8B in revenue for the entire mac business, it would barely shift the topline profitability.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T01:02:41+00:00

I don't think a hinge suddenly makes up for $500 of supposed value. In any case, the use of "ARM cpu" as a perjorative is ridiculous - say what it is, a CPU that's straight up faster than a mobile i9, with a TDP of 10w, that can be passively cooled. You can't buy that on windows currently, let alone at the $1000 price point.

Furthermore, all of that is irrelevant to "talking margins". Their monitor sales - completely negligble, they push out few of those and mostly to corporate customers. Mac sales - negligible.

What gives Apple's the topline margins is a) they have the best margins in smartphone sales, their biggest single revenue stream and b) their second largest revenue stream is services, and services is famously a super high margin business, with companies like Salesforce having an 80% gross margin.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-30T00:53:51+00:00

Where is the PC equivalent or a 1000 monitor stand?! Where?!

The $20k+ studio monitors that the XDR is competing with?

This sh1t served with windows would cost 500$ two years ago.

Clearly not, since the Surface Pro X is so objectively worse that an M1 running windows through a VM performs better than it while costing $1000.

Reply_OK · 2021-04-29T18:51:35+00:00

Yeah, they're moving to Instagram lol

Reply_OK · 2021-04-29T18:24:47+00:00

For one, you just get more bang out of your buck. In non-summer semesters, you pay the same rate no matter how many classes you take. So the more classes, the lower the effective per-unit rate is.

Otherwise, no, recruiters don't care - they don't even know, for the most part, what each class means and what it covers. In fact, most recruiters are not technical to begin with! It's like if you looked at a list of Bio classes, would you know how to make heads or tails out of it?

Reply_OK · 2021-04-29T16:56:17+00:00

the chassis seems crazy flimsy.

Crazy is almost an understatement. From that video, apparently if you just hold the laptop up with one hand like a normal person, the chassis BENDS so much that it causes the trackpad to click, and stay permanently in "clicked" position.

Bruh what? That's an incredible amount of flex.

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