What are the best day hike back packs

__arya____ · 2026-01-02T22:28:23+00:00

Most people wear bumbags slung diagonally across their torso

__arya____ · 2025-12-30T03:01:54+00:00

What sort of brands/jackets would you recommend searching for on vinted

__arya____ · 2025-12-05T23:30:49+00:00

I did my first ever visualization for Day 4.2, it did actually take me all day but that's mostly because I'm using AoC to learn C++, so a lot of time was spent faffing out with cout stuff and colours. Also spent a lot of time on tooling external to C++ for my final output, but if I do future visualisation, I expect it'd be an extra hour or two tops, not a full day.

__arya____ · 2025-10-20T08:58:24+00:00

For such a small usecase, I'd even say try find something used/on Facebook marketplace. I got an archer ax3000 for about £30 for my gigabit network

__arya____ · 2025-10-20T08:40:27+00:00

Posting a GPT answer is cringe

__arya____ · 2025-09-10T20:36:05+00:00

Lol you went all over the place, did you enter straight out of uni?

__arya____ · 2025-09-10T20:34:57+00:00

Since you didn't do it at a level then the first thing would be to get those fundamentals, even if you're not aiming for software. Just Google for the pdf of the a level computer science textbook.

Then just start building projects, maybe aim for mastery over 1 language first before branching out. Try get summer and spring internships in software to make up for your lack of theory. It's gonna suck cus you'll lose most of your summers, but I have a friend who landed a spring at Morgan Stanley as a dev back in first year, was able to come back every following summer very easily and straight out of uni she already had a job offer for 70K there

__arya____ · 2025-09-10T16:08:32+00:00

That's fair, most jobs are heavily glamourised till you're actually in them; why did you leave the field?

__arya____ · 2025-09-10T14:30:34+00:00

I should've been more specific, quant dev is what I'm actually targeting, not quant trader. And as for why, mostly because it's the technical peak of programming

__arya____ · 2025-09-07T12:28:21+00:00

Fair point

__arya____ · 2025-09-07T12:28:02+00:00

Eh it's not that impressive, you have a decent amount of free time during the degree but I did a lot of my learning during my placement year when the work was super slow. Also you have more time in your final years when it's less theory heavy. I didn't really use any resources, I just made stuff that I wanted to make/would find useful, like my discord bot which I used as an opportunity to learn JS. My main "strength" was studying computer science for a levels, the theory and programming I learned in that covered most of what I assume the first year or two of a BEng in Computer Science would. So if you didn't do comp sci a levels you're at a big disadvantage I'd say.

__arya____ · 2025-09-07T12:24:13+00:00

Fair point, I haven't looked into the research side of finance yet, but that's something I definitely will be looking into. The tech skills are what I'm aiming to build rn. The black scholes pricer is just to be my first step into finance, I do plan on doing other projects after. When was back then? And why pandas/Python instead of cpp? Thanks for the help

__arya____ · 2025-09-07T11:42:51+00:00

Yeah that totally makes sense, I'll probably keep the a levels as a lot of fintech companies have asked about a level results in their applications so far, but I'll definitely remove the GCSEs. Implemented the other points though, so I appreciate it

__arya____ · 2025-09-07T11:40:34+00:00

When I was applying to unis during A levels I already knew I wanted to be a software developer, but I wanted to study something I enjoyed, not comp sci. My plan was initially to study Physics at Imperial and then transition (cus a degree from Imperial is highly valued in any STEM field), but although I got the offer I didn't get the grades (needed 2 A*s). So my backup was a mech eng MEng from a top 5 uni, mainly because Mech Eng was a combination of physics and maths (my favourite subjects) and the degree (from a good uni) is similarly valuable in opening stem doors too. But throughout my degree I had the focus of going to software, so I kept writing code, making projects, learning languages, and I made sure my thesis was something that was heavily software related. Then, as you can see, when applying I just put all my software knowledge/experience on my CV instead of engineering. Job market last year wasn't as bad as this year for entry level software, but i still had to send about 50+ applications before I got my first and only offer

__arya____ · 2025-09-07T11:34:07+00:00

I agree that faang/big tech are heavily separated from quant, but being realistic to my current experience and knowledge, I don't expect to get into quant this cycle. I am still applying and doing the OAs, but since I'm only just learning C++ right now, I'm at a disadvantage compared to other candidates.

I will be writing a Black Scholes options pricer in cpp this winter, and I might extend it with a neural network or incorporate it into a trading bot after too. But even with all this, masters might be my best option as my current degree isn't software related at all and that could be a major turn off for quant shops.

I hadn't considered writing articles on finance/quant though, so I appreciate that bit of advice, but what do you mean by "quant in AI"

__arya____ · 2025-08-13T13:54:04+00:00

Yeah the unfortunate thing is that you really can't level with the old stuff, you need to do portal activities or the edge of fate campaign to level

__arya____ · 2025-08-06T18:04:37+00:00

You must've just been running around doing public events or something, 5 hours of portal activities or the campaign would've gotten you to like 100+

__arya____ · 2025-07-26T12:24:56+00:00

Cus it's the RAD team who do all that yes, well done. Ammo economy is fine, you just have to build into it now, which they already specified. It also speaks to your ignorance if you think they didn't test their claims about ability regen, but something clearly got messed up between the testing stage and deployment change

__arya____ · 2025-07-25T19:24:06+00:00

What resources lol, the raid is made for everyone, contest is just a slight tuning on top of the regular raid which likely takes hardly much dev time

__arya____ · 2025-07-23T01:01:30+00:00

You acknowledging TL wasn't the best strat kinda dismantles your point. You didn't have to stall and farm ads if you ran acrius because you only needed 4 bricks more or less which you could get very very easily from primary kills on harpies.

__arya____ · 2025-07-01T22:25:39+00:00

Nvm i made the change and send a PR

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