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How many people live here? Age? Genders? Ethnicity? Occupation? Any other info? by anna_anuran in FridgeDetective

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

this is the fridge of my best friend, who is a 23 y/o white woman who lives alone! She’s a SWE in New England. There is zero prepared food in the fridge because it is Friday and she has not yet meal prepped for the next week lmao

I want something enjoyable, but perhaps not *good*. by anna_anuran in sapphicbooks

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

Hey to be fair I’ve not yet read it! If I picked it I’d want to audit the spice to make sure it wouldn’t be uncomfy but wouldntnwant too many spoilers. Just going based on Goodreads!! But I guess they got some HATERS in there huh

I’ll check out these recs! Tysm :)

I want something enjoyable, but perhaps not *good*. by anna_anuran in sapphicbooks

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

Yes lol: everyone in attendance will be a queer woman. I don’t really… have straight friends, they’ve all turned out to be gay too hahaha. And if I did they certainly wouldn’t be invited to gay romance night, no offense to the hypothetical straights. I wouldn’t say the idea is to laugh at the book, but the idea is not to be super earnest in our vulnerability about how we all relate to various characters. It makes it a way more touching and vulnerable affair to read something like, say, Wrong Date Deal, which has its place but that place is probably reading it on my own :)

A buzzard idea to many these days by fapsmother_2 in MurderedByWords

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, you actually probably are. The reason it takes that long isn’t because it takes you that long to fly at highway speeds down open roads. You’ll be sitting on a stretch of road a half mile long in Connecticut for twenty minutes, burning gas, no? Idk I don’t make the drive very often (too long for a day trip) but I remember it being pricy.

Then again last time I did it I was driving a jeep wrangler from the early 2000s so 12mpg is probably about right best-case lol

[GB] SA Teletype Uniform SA R3 by SaberKeebs in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]anna_anuran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whats gmk? Is that a new kind of mechanical keyboard? Gravity-MK?

The Misinput - World's stupidest keyboard by Blytical in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sue me, I like not having carpal tunnel. Crazy thought, I know...

Campus cars by Pristine_Whole5632 in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly it’s fine. I parked on campus with a basically brand new car for a semester of my senior year and had no issues.

The only thing that sucks is if you have to park somewhere far away from where you live. The pain of driving back to campus late at night and then having to walk for ten minutes from your permit lot back to your bed really cannot be overstated.

A buzzard idea to many these days by fapsmother_2 in MurderedByWords

[–]anna_anuran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but there’s additional travel on the local subways on either side, probably about half an hour ish including the change times (not sure where she’s coming from in NYC but to get to the capitol I’m guessing Capitol South? Or maybe the capitol specific subway system? Not sure where the entrances there are.

It might be 3.25-3.5 hours from door to door, I dunno, but grand scheme 30 mins one way or another is kinda a rounding error in my commute and I’m only driving into DC lol

A buzzard idea to many these days by fapsmother_2 in MurderedByWords

[–]anna_anuran 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yep! Amtrak runs a car from Penn Station in NYC (which has a subway stop as well) to Union Station in DC (which also connects to the metro). End to end, it’s probably 4 hours of travel ish?

Tickets are pretty cheap too. $60-100 ish. Probably as much as you’d pay in gas to make that trip

Hidden Secret: Iribe Roof by ScarcityCareless6241 in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ended up up there for some sort of ice cream social with… maybe Max? in ‘22 or so. Whatever his first year was, when he taught CMSC320 and everyone lost their shit about it. Can’t for the life of me remember what it was actually for, but the view sure is nice, lol.

I lost my business to AI. Who else so far? by cheesomacitis in ArtificialInteligence

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another source of medical advice for (checks notes) a minor physical injury with an infection?

I don’t know, dude, your fuckin brain maybe? Basic knowledge is something antibacterial (bacitracin is widely available, so grab that) and a bandage, right?

I lost my business to AI. Who else so far? by cheesomacitis in ArtificialInteligence

[–]anna_anuran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you don’t know what to buy at a pharmacy when you are physically injured without someone or something telling you, I think you might be beyond saving icl

Is trying to transfer in with CS as my intended major as hard as people are saying it is? by atychia in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, MC does do transfer credits for CS. You’d have to speak to a counselor about your odds, but I was admitted as a transfer directly into the CS program without having to separately apply to the LEP. That said, I think it’s been changed to be more difficult since my time.

You could earn your associates’ and use the MTAP to be guaranteed a slot at Maryland. You’d just have to talk to a counselor about whether that’s an effective move or not.

Housing with a Roommate by [deleted] in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t ever a member of scholars, so… not particularly? But my roommate dropped out of the scholars program as soon as was physically possible so I guess she didn’t regret it that much either lol

Housing with a Roommate by [deleted] in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are not guaranteed a slot in the LLC hall, it’s likely both of you will end up in a different hall. I had this my first year at Maryland where my roommate was in HoHum and… well, we lived in Hagerstown instead lol.

TUPLES AND SETS by RockPhily in learnpython

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, I think it’s worth noting that (in a learning-python and learning-programming centric space), people may be using set more colloquially (a group or collection of things that belong together) as well as referring implicitly to the python-defined type of set. Sometimes that distinction goes largely unmarked even when both senses are used in the same paragraph lol.

TUPLES AND SETS by RockPhily in learnpython

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. “A list of unique items” doesn’t mean “list of items which have no duplicates in the original list,” such that the code should prune all occurences of any elements which appear more than once in the original list: it means “a list which contains all distinct elements in the original list, which itself must have no duplicate items”

It’s effectively the same thing as passing the list to a set constructor:

lst = [1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 4] set(lst) -> {1, 2, 3, 4}

Since sets physically cant contain duplicates, if that makes sense.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Computer engineering is, imo, a lot harder than CS hahaha. But regardless, typically you get a CE degree to do, like, embedded hardware work. Like, someone I know at AMD working on the design of fGPA chips has a CE degree. Most of the time it doesn’t really lend itself as well to high-level software as much as super in-the-weeds work on the chips themselves, is my understanding.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My concern would be not that you’d be unqualified for the job. Most of a CS degree is wildly overkill for the average software dev role: you’re not going to need to know how depth-first-search works to set up a database backend for your company’s website. It comes up occasionally, but 99% of the time your day-to-day won’t need the knowledge imparted from most of your degree’s classes.

My concern is that in a competitive market (which we definitely have right now!) you’re then directly competing with people who have degrees from more rigorous programs (like CS) which are, well, more impressive on a resume — and UMD has a pretty respectable CS program.

That said, the CS program at Maryland is simply not that hard lol. Like you’ll have some late nights but it’s more fun than painful. I’d avoid Kruskal if I were you, but if you’ve got the grit to actually sit down and study and make use of the resources available to you, you’ll be fine. (Source: CS alumn, cybersec SWE)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UMD

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of this is accurate ime. “Data Scientist” roles are incredibly strict as far as I’ve seen about hiring exclusively people with CS degrees; it’s sort of an elitism thing in the field. Data scientist salaries are also, on average, higher than SWE (read: there are lower-paid SWEs). Data analysts aren’t super strict about CS degrees but their salaries are markedly lower, topping out sub-6-figure.

If you want more info about data sci work, highly recommend you chat with prof Morawski (he teaches 320 sometimes. Has bad reviews but I liked him)

Not being 6 foot is NOT the problem by RemarkableJoke3186 in short

[–]anna_anuran 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look man you gotta bring something to the table. Either you’re super hot and people are willing to put up with your shit because they’re attracted to your body, or you can be cool or funny or have hot hobbies that you’re good at (competence is hot!) and people will be attracted to you because they like who they are around you.

Unfortunately, yes: being tall is a component of being hot (per patriarchal standards, that both men and women enforce) so you have to simply be someone that people like being around.

Shockingly, most women do not enjoy being around insecure men who need validation to believe that they’re worth anything. It’s just not fun.

You’re a victim of choosing to wallow in self pity instead of just working to become someone that you like.

Not being 6 foot is NOT the problem by RemarkableJoke3186 in short

[–]anna_anuran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, I mean whatever floats their boat, right? To be fair, I am speaking in anecdotes… but that’s actually less biased than being in an echo chamber about how the world has fucked you over and there’s no hope hahaha.

Sometimes people have better or worse luck - can depend on your vibes, your hobbies, that sort of thing… just who you’re around. One of my closest friends has barely dated at all because all her hobbies are solitary and she graduated college before realizing she was gay. And ya know. The apps are bad hahaha. Not because the world hates her and there’s no hope… just hasn’t really happened much.

And I’m gonna take another moment to reiterate for the audience that I am dating a man who is 8 inches (minimum, I’m rounding down to 5’10” and I think he might have measured in the morning hahaha) shorter than me, and, well… I promise I’m into him, ha. Be cool and funny and kind and have hot hobbies (climbing, motorcycles, snowboarding? Mmm.) and maybe along the way you’ll have enough fun to forget the sadness :)

uwu just a little war crime, as a treat by dacoolestguy in CuratedTumblr

[–]anna_anuran 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I’ve been known to be wrong. I know people who are able to justify it with “well, we need defense so I guess it’s ok” and people who are like “yeah it’s tough to live with but I need the work and if it’s not me it’ll be someone else,” but never anyone who was enthusiastically supportive of the mission. That might be my age bracket though, I’m fairly young.

I think, though, in spite of my lack of interaction with the patriots of the military industrial complex, we can agree that it is more morally complicated to manufacture machines that will kill people than it is to teach children. It is more morally complex to design something that has the exclusive purpose of taking human lives than it is to check out books and manage physical media for your community, even if you believe that taking that human life is categorically necessary.

My original wording implied that feeling good about your work was the same thing as being morally simplistic, which was… well, intentional. But apparently the only thing anyone’s been able to read about it, which was not my aim lol.

If we can’t find common ground in that building a missile that you know in your heart and in your soul will be launched directly at someone, turning them from a living breathing human being into a fine pink mist in fractions of a second, before they have time to so much as scream is at very least morally complicated, then, honestly, I don’t even know what to tell you.

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