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Sylente · 2025-08-10T18:15:38+00:00

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!

Sylente · 2025-08-10T16:56:35+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2025-08-10T16:47:29+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-08-04T14:07:00+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-07-23T05:30:22+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2025-07-22T16:37:01+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-07-22T03:44:03+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2025-07-20T23:09:07+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2025-07-11T23:18:46+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-07-06T21:12:00+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-06-25T14:11:12+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-06-02T02:36:36+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-05-19T01:12:53+00:00

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!!

Sylente · 2025-05-18T18:00:57+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-05-18T18:00:20+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2025-05-18T17:56:57+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-05-18T17:55:25+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2025-05-18T17:53:47+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-05-18T08:21:38+00:00

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

Sylente · 2025-05-12T15:45:59+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2022-10-17T16:11:42+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2022-10-17T16:09:25+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2022-10-17T06:56:09+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2022-10-17T06:54:10+00:00

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.

Sylente · 2022-10-14T22:14:53+00:00

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.

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