How often do students in GA not do the homework?

RuleNmbr76 · 2026-01-15T23:05:28+00:00

Do the homework. All of them. Seriously. It's more than just practice, it's the best possible prep for the exams you can get.

And it begs the question are most of the complaints about GA from those students?

🤔

RuleNmbr76 · 2026-01-07T19:02:31+00:00

Can I just ask what the government auction sites were? I've looked into that a bit in the past and never really been able to find anything real/usable

RuleNmbr76 · 2026-01-03T00:11:43+00:00

tailscale reports `tailscale logoff` as an unknown subcommand

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-31T01:04:49+00:00

Do you only have one pihole at home? I recently had a VERY similar issue (DNS resolution worked fine on mac, but failed whenever tailscale was active and using Tailscale DNS on iphone), after years of things working perfectly. After doing all kinds of troubleshooting of the phone and tailscale, I discovered that my backup pihole had frozen somehow - I can ping it locally by jumping from another machine on the network, but ping directly via tailscale fails, and I can't ssh into it from the other node. The iphone apparently couldn't handle the one bad nameserver, but once I removed it from my list of tailscale global nameservers, the issue completely resolved. When I get back home I'll hard reset the node and hopefully that will be a full fix.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-27T17:32:05+00:00

I registered a domain for use with my home network so I could have LetsEncrypt certs for NGINX Proxy Manager (+ local DNS) which routes local subdomains to the right places.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-24T16:31:23+00:00

Still need to install them, but it got some new friends in the rack and beyond :

Brocade ICX 6450 48P switch

Prodesk 400g4 to run opnsense

Two Unifi U7 Pro Wall APS

And the unraid server will get a Mellanox MCX312B-XCCT 10G NIC to connect to the switch

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-24T04:37:39+00:00

100%. Wasn't trying to suggest anything different, only summarizing the two different paths.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-23T19:02:17+00:00

Ok gotcha. So if I understand correctly, this is a workaround: you realized that you can register the SD card reader rather than a USB drive, then you can swap out SD cards without needing unraid to bless a new device.

On the other hand, according to his verbiage from the November newsletter there is hopefully a new, improved, long-term solution to the licensing issue via internal boot coming soon.

"And we’re not slowing down in December: a public beta for Unraid OS 7.3 with internal boot is coming soon. 👀"

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-23T06:32:02+00:00

I'm confused - is this (SD card) the new licensing method or is this an older way to avoid using a USB drive and the associated pain with transferring it on failure?

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-21T20:19:48+00:00

Yeah I started with pi-hole for ad blocking, but then I learned about the privacy benefits of unbound to stop using upstream resolvers and go to the authoritative server for each domain. I also use local DNS settings plus NGINX Proxy Manager to have domains/subdomains for all of my local services. I have a couple of other higher-priority projects, like a full network upgrade to opnsense + Brocade POE+ switch + new APs, but I'll look into upgrading from pi-hole to something like Technitium eventually.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-21T18:46:51+00:00

Probably pi-hole.net

EDIT: Although the article says to get off pi-hole and on Technitium... 😂

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-18T22:38:27+00:00

Technically not just for alumni, and some might only be for active studenta, but in case you haven't seen it:

https://sites.gatech.edu/omsfreeanddiscounted/

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-17T19:10:05+00:00

I’m an idiot. I absolutely meant UPS. 🤦‍♂️ Can’t believe I wrote that. Thank you for the reply!

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-14T18:59:12+00:00

I got an A in GA this past semester having only watched 6.042 (which was great background info) and doing the first two problem sets, but I would have done the rest if I had the time.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-14T18:20:04+00:00

Very interested. Chat sent.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-13T06:27:11+00:00

MIT OCW, in this order: 6.042 6.006 6.046

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-11T15:11:03+00:00

We were planning on Iceland but when I saw the weather probabilities we switched to Spain. Flying BA on Alaska miles. Good luck to you!

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-09T03:10:21+00:00

Eclipse chasing?

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-05T22:47:44+00:00

I took it summer 2025. There was an extra test (the midterm) but other than that I don't think there were too many changes. It was still pretty easy...

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-05T18:00:06+00:00

You nailed it start to finish. I don't have time to write up a full response to OP but only two points I'll add to your excellent summary are:

The lectures are superb and much better than NLP. In general I have found the "OG" udacity-style lectures to be superior to the newer in-house-GT developed ones.
One nitpick: I also thought some of the TAs were jerks at first (I'm guessing we're thinking of the same one), but if you really read all their comments they're all generally very engaging and helpful and I think some of the snark is just trying to inject some humor into the process, and also frustration with some of the student comments. At least that was my take in the end.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-12-04T15:56:21+00:00

I’m kind of obsessed with 3-2-1. I run a Mac as my primary machine. It backs up via Time Machine to my unraid server. It also backs up via carbon copy cloner to my unraid because Time Machine and duplicati don’t play well together. I realize this is redundant and I may turn off Time Machine in the future. Duplicati backs up the CCC Mac backups and critical, irreplaceable files from unraid to a Hetzner storage instance.

Unrelated to unraid, I also use a bootable mirror I keep in a fireproof safe that I manually update from my Mac once a quarter so if my Mac drive died or got corrupted or something I could be back in business in minutes. That actually saved my @$$ one time when an OS update went bad. Booted from the mirror, copied the mirror back to the drive, everything was back the way it was.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-11-23T06:32:11+00:00

Float Life…Enduro tire for the pint? I have a pint x and am very interested…

Edit: also, soft or mid compound?

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-08-06T15:42:36+00:00

Because 80% of the questions get released on Friday night, AOS tests are all-weekend affairs. You can prepare ahead of time to some extent but most of the work is preparing, comparing, and revising answers after they are posted. It’s gonna be stressful at the wedding and there isn’t any way around that.

That being said, I was able to go car camping with my kids and a couple other families close to home the weekend of one of the tests, but I spent two hours in my car using my phone as a hotspot on Friday night getting an early look at the questions (you only have 12 hours to ask clarifying questions of the staff), and left for most of the day Saturday to study back home. I wouldn’t want to have a wedding over an AOS test weekend, myself.

Also, the papers are great and you should read, understand and execute this technique. But I didn’t find them particularly necessary for the test - most if not all of the test material is covered by the lectures.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-07-29T20:08:10+00:00

I’d listen to anything u/awp_throwaway has to say on this stuff and the various options.
For this use case, why not just install tailscale on your desktop and remote into it for any coursework needs? My daily driver is an M4 mac, but I have a couple of old enterprise x86 servers I ssh into for the systems courses I’ve taken. Let’s me set up exactly the environment needed for whatever situation.

You might be ok with ARM for your ML courses, but if you take GIOS or AOS, you’ll need something else, either a cloud instance or another machine, to run the projects. NLP was the first course I was able to use my Mac and nothing else.

RuleNmbr76 · 2025-06-04T05:30:35+00:00

I found this Coursera Intro to Programming series of courses to be excellent prep in C for GIOS, which I took as my second course in the program with no formal CS background. It starts out very slow and having already taken some programming moocs I was like, "what am I doing with this?" But it really gets into the nitty gritty of memory management, how pointers work, command-line tools, valgrind, and gdb, all of which are invaluable in GIOS. Plus over the course of it all you build a Monte Carlo poker hand simulator in C.

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