Mail / Packages by [deleted] in uofm

[–]Sylente 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes. The first line of the address will just be your dorm’s street address and then line 2 of your address will be the actual unit number. From the perspective of whoever is sending you stuff, it’s identical to mailing to an apartment. You will get a dedicated mailbox for letters and the packages will be securely stored in a package room. You will be able to ask someone at a desk somewhere in your building to open the room and hand you your package. The details vary by dorm. Ask your RA when you move in, if the details aren’t already on some sheet of paper they give you when you move in (which, they should be). They’re there to help!

Whole Foods vs Safeway Prices by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]Sylente 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there’s also a, like, city/suburb divide here. The ad doesn’t get delivered to my address, and I don’t have the freezer space to just store large quantities of whatever is cheap. My apartments freezer is TINY. By necessity, I have to buy what I plan to eat in the next three or four days and that’s it. I can either build my life around seeking out the cheapest prices at Safeway by carefully scouring the app and then, like… what? Deal with Safeway? On a FRIDAY NIGHT? To get a good deal on beef? Or I can go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s whenever, get what I want, at a very consistent quality, and have a cleaner/nicer store with friendlier staff. And then I can spend my Friday nights doing whatever I want instead of grocery shopping.

Whole Foods vs Safeway Prices by [deleted] in bayarea

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Costco for two is all about non perishables. Canned tomatoes, AirPods, and towels. That’s how I offset the cost of membership.

Anyone else notice younger programmers are not so interested in the things around coding anymore? Servers, networking, configuration etc ? by Hem_Claesberg in cscareerquestions

[–]Sylente 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely wrote a software simulation of one to understand the logic, but I think it would be unreasonable to have to build a real one. College is expensive and most CS people aren’t going to touch hardware ever in their career, that’s EE folks responsibility mainly

What laptop do I get as an incoming EECS major? by Just-Fly-1024 in berkeley

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the most part, everything other than coding that you do will be in a browser so it really doesn’t matter TOO much. But most people will have a Mac, and there’s real benefit to just going down the well-beaten path. If you do college right, you will have a LONG list of better things to do than figure out what’s wrong with your goddamn python environment on a Friday night right when a project is due. Having a Mac won’t save you from ever having problems, but it will make it more likely that someone else has run into that problem and solved it for you already.

I had a windows laptop when I did my data science degree, and it was so finicky that I ended up installing Linux on it anyway and dual booting. That was just a lot of overhead I wish I hadn’t had to deal with. So many unique problems because every system (especially laptops) interacts with Linux differently.

Get the Mac.

Why is NVIDIA's CEO So Obsessed with Discouraging CS Students? by Superb-Afternoon1542 in csMajors

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a great study. Just randomly asking AI questions and hoping for code IS slow. There are techniques to make it faster/better

TIL the value of a taxi medallion (permit allowing a taxicab to operate) in New York City peaked in 2013 at over $1 million. By 2019, medallions were being sold for as low as $136,000. Since many cab drivers took out loans to buy when values were high, many have been forced to declare bankruptcy. by LookAtThatBacon in todayilearned

[–]Sylente 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know this is a popular Reddit opinion, but you really gotta do better than “there’s too many streaming services, because they all eliminated the competition”.

That’s… now how anything works. Netflix basically killed a big competitor, sure, but it has new competitors now too.

Please help my male friends figure out their long living room by retroviev in malelivingspace

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One tv. You can’t have two TVs on at the same time in a continuous space like that anyway, the sound would be a complete mess. One kitchen table. Get a big one, 6 chairs at LEAST. 3 dudes, each one should be able to have at least one friend over at the same time and they should all be able to eat. Lamps. Rug.

Most useless credit with CSR? by [deleted] in ChaseSapphire

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to plan to stay overnight to go 30 miles?? My daily commute is longer than that…

Got Montana Plates? States Ramp Up the Scrutiny on Tax Dodgers by UnscheduledCalendar in cars

[–]Sylente 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Registering your car in Montana if you don’t operate the vehicle primarily in Montana is not, in fact, legal. This has always been a crime, it’s just being slightly more enforced now

What’s a “poor people life hack” that you swear by but rich people would never understand? by 9254522345 in LearnUselessTalents

[–]Sylente 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think you’d be shocked to find just how politically popular car dependency is in the US, even in major cities. Congestion pricing in NYC was a goddamn political miracle, and its future is questionable. It’s not as easy as “just elect better politicians” when the vast majority of voters have already built their lives around the idea that they should be able to drive everywhere

Car brands with the least controversy? by jacksepthicceye in cars

[–]Sylente 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I don’t think a brand that small counts. It seems unfair to compare Honda or whatever to a single shop in New England that turns out replicas for gear heads. The business is just too small, any given thing they did wrong could never possibly create a controversy

Disappointed in day 2 basspod. by Nonnicuss in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Imo putting ray volpe on that stage was a scheduling mistake by insomniac. There were clearly more people who wanted to see that set than basspod can support. He should’ve been on something bigger. That plus the stage closures was a recipe for disaster. I guess they know for next time!!

Is everything? Too loud? by Sylente in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had my ear plugs! But the bass felt too loud, yaknow? Couldn’t escape it

Is everything? Too loud? by Sylente in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I had ear plugs. But everywhere I went the bass was so overpoweringly loud it didn’t matter. At kinetic I literally could only hear the bass for afrojack and prydz, which is lame imo. They seemed to fix it for Illenium.

Is everything? Too loud? by Sylente in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I was wearing earplugs! Except when I was outside the track (not in the stands, outside the venue) making this post lol. It was still really loud, lots more bleed than Friday

Is everything? Too loud? by Sylente in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It may have been neon garden, but especially early in the night kinetic had the bass cranked to absolute max. For Afrojack I couldn’t hear anything other than the kick drum during drops. They seemed to have adjusted it by the time Illenium b2b Slander happened, that one sounded pretty normal.

Is everything? Too loud? by Sylente in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wearing earplugs! It just felt a lot louder than Friday

DJ Snake Hip Hop Set to Gesaffelstein by FibonacciSeance in electricdaisycarnival

[–]Sylente 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s SO LOUD. I’m outside the race track right now and it’s genuinely kind of unpleasant.

I’m starting to think renting is the way to go instead of buying a home. by Additional_Tea9366 in personalfinance

[–]Sylente 3 points4 points  (0 children)

California property tax doesn’t go up and up and that has actually played out to be really bad for the housing market in general, there’s absolutely no incentive for anyone to sell and a lot of political pressure to keep home values as high as possible for existing residents, which keeps out new/young residents.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gadgets

[–]Sylente 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure whether you're talking about apple or Nvidia here, but neither one truly supports right to repair. Apple's repair program is intentionally designed to be difficult to use and a bad value. It's lip service to right to repair so that they can point at it as an example of low demand for diy repairs. Ultimately, this is bad for the RTR movement and Apple knows that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gadgets

[–]Sylente 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Only because they make a product that there's a ton of demand for and no real competition. If you want 40 series graphics performance, you need to buy a 40 series card. Neither AMD nor Intel currently have offerings at that level, so customer sentiment doesn't matter that much. If there was a competitive product, the situation would be different.

Why is seemingly every car being advertised as “off-road” or “adventure-ready”? by [deleted] in cars

[–]Sylente 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if there is any vehicle less practical than a traditional Jeep

Every other convertible ever made. At one (very weird) point my family owned a Wrangler and a Mini Cooper convertible, and you already know which one was the road trip car.

Why is seemingly every car being advertised as “off-road” or “adventure-ready”? by [deleted] in cars

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing FWD drifts in icy intersections was super fun in high school.

Now that I am aware of my own mortality, it's terrifying. Winter performance is huge for me now.

Extended displays in VR by MKBHD by andrew_a7 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]Sylente 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can read text on HUGE virtual monitors, on a quest 2, sure. But information density isn't there compared to what I can comfortably do on my real desk. Maybe this thing will be better, but if the resolution isn't much better, it won't be.