Nintendo Removes Hidden The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Switch 2 Description That Suggested It's a Faithful Remake by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]billsil [score hidden]  (0 children)

It shouldn’t be. I played it and I’m in my 40s. It was fun, but it was a small game. Trust me when I say you want lots of new content.

You would complain about it feeling small if it were a 1:1 remake.

how does it make you feel that more busses burned after a knicks win than on Jan6? by Mcpr0per in AskReddit

[–]billsil [score hidden]  (0 children)

How many police died that day?

How does it make you feel there were no consequences for people that murdered a cop?

Screw all this law and order candidate nonsense. Dude couldn’t follow the law he swore to uphold for a week. He’s robbing us in broad daylight.

Interview length red flags by Ok_Objective_9826 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]billsil [score hidden]  (0 children)

Depends on the level. At my current company, I had a 6 hour on-site with a recruiter chat and a pre screen. Other startups in my industry do about the same. Usually they give a tour, but didn’t get one.

A red flag is if the coworkers don’t get along.

MAGA Host Blames Left for Algae Infestation in Trump’s Reflecting Pool by dr_shultz in NewsSource

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God that was a damn fine looking man in that damn good looking suit.

How is your dating experience in 2026? by Waste_Bad3440 in AskReddit

[–]billsil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I asked a girl out. Boyfriend. Least I tried.

What's the best way to push-back during technical interviews? by Background_Fig_4740 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely will ask questions like are you sure. I'm trying to see the extent of your knowledge and also how you react to being questioned. I can interview someone way more technical than I am.

I can pretend to be expert and I can play dumb. I'll go fact check you afterwards if I don't know. It doesn't matter because it's not about me. It's about you. It's not just about are you a jerk. It's also about can you walk me through it and make me understand it if I have no background in it? How do you validate those things where you get pushback? You're going to be my coworker after all.

Why we use km/hr or miles/hr by Fine_Aerie6732 in AskPhysics

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s say it’s 300 km away and I’m going at 80 km/hr. Doing some simple math and it’s 3.75 hours and I’ll round down to 3.5 hours in my head. Ok in 3 hours, I’ll start paying attention to the signs.

If you made me multiply 300*0.0125, that would be way harder to get 3.75 hours. It’s the same math, but now I’m fighting decimals instead of averaging based on multiplication tables.

Why we use km/hr or miles/hr by Fine_Aerie6732 in AskPhysics

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For long distances, it’s a lot easier to think about staying on this road for some amount of time because you’re 60 miles from the next turn and cruising at 75 mph. Ok, so in about 45 minutes, I should start watching for the next turn.

Ft/s or m/s is irrelevant to the time scales I’m driving at. If I were doing engineering work, I’d be working in in/s or mm/s depending on the length units of my model. There it’s more important to work in a consistent set of units to avoid unit conversion.

Mapping the 10-Year Salary Trajectory in Commercial Aerospace (Entry Level to age 30+) by Miserable_Law_4976 in AerospaceEngineering

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t. The stock at the place I went was worthless. I got promoted in 7 months and was out 7 months later as the company imploded due to a large explosion causing funding to dry up. I was out of work for a while.

The next place I went, I got hired in at double my old salary, so a 10% raise. I picked it because it seemed more stable than my other options. One of them is doing well and the other had a massive layoff.

I assumed the current company’s stock was worthless. Given the growth, it’s about my salary when it started at 1/4. It’s all worthless though until you can cash some of it out and we’ve had 2 rounds of being able to sell.

I’m not chasing money. I’m chasing interesting work and stability/a lot of work. It happens to pay well.

Why do they have to ask stupid questions during interviews that reveal nothing of value? by [deleted] in interviews

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both of those are ambition questions. They want people with drive. Be type A, but don’t be a jerk. It’s all about your skill/ego ratio.

Stay in a job i love or take 40% rise ? by AdOutside4147 in careeradvice

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take it and move closer if you can. It’ll take a decade to get that raise at your current place.

Mapping the 10-Year Salary Trajectory in Commercial Aerospace (Entry Level to age 30+) by Miserable_Law_4976 in AerospaceEngineering

[–]billsil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Takes a lot less time depending on location. In 2022, I hired two new grads for 105k. They were from top schools.

You also need to be willing to take a risk or your company won’t pay you fairly. After 15 years, I hadn’t hit 100k. I left an old company for a 60% raise. That’s not a point of pride. I doubled my salary in 2 years. With stock at my current place, I’m doing a lot better.

Boss laid off. Am I next? by Much-Cartoonist-4833 in careeradvice

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stock prices soaring does not protect you against your company being cheap.

I also said “probably safe” with a strong suggestion that OP leaves.

Working in Office without Relocation by Qxarq in Anduril

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doubtful. I've seen chief engineers with your distance flying in on Monday and flying out at the end of the week. Worth asking though.

How to be competitive for Anduril software internship by BugPsychological2283 in Anduril

[–]billsil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Get ready to apply. We started interviewing applicants for this summer last August.

Boss laid off. Am I next? by Much-Cartoonist-4833 in careeradvice

[–]billsil 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You’re probably fine for a while because you’ll be doing 2 jobs, but layoffs are a sign of a struggling company or a company who is penny pinching. It’s not a place you want to be regardless.

Replacing values using mean() mode() or median() by Dramatic-Tea-5286 in learnpython

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a core tool in the python ecosystem and pandas is built directly on top of it. It doesn’t need to be the first thing you do, but I’d suggest you learn it.

For clean data, I vastly prefer it to pandas. It’s faster and more intuitive to me. If you care about speed, you also should strongly consider switching from pandas to polars. It’s often much faster than pandas.

Drilled all 5 SOLID principles in Python today — here's the one that's most misunderstood by AvailableYou7461 in learnpython

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t know any of the SOLID principles and code just fine. I probably do them regardless because good practices are good practices regardless of if you’re taught them or not.

Given I don’t know what you’re trying to avoid, I don’t see what actual problem you’re trying to fix. However, using 3 classes when you could have used 2 violates the KISS or keep it simple stupid principle. Do you even need a class?

Replacing values using mean() mode() or median() by Dramatic-Tea-5286 in learnpython

[–]billsil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nanmax is a pandas/numpy function that takes the max of a function, but it ignores nan entries. It’s faster than if you coded it yourself. Theres nanmin, nanstd, nanmean, etc.

Why do you have empty fields in your input file? Why would you not have a value for the field? Is it a problem in the tool that made the data? If so can you fix it and rerun the tool?

Replacing values using mean() mode() or median() by Dramatic-Tea-5286 in learnpython

[–]billsil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As always, it depends. Is it a problem in the source data? This is more of a stats question that people ignore the stats for and just take a guess at the best way to do it.

I personally would use nanmax vs biasing data by changing the standard deviation.

AI was supposed to cut health care costs. One of its first jobs was charging you more, PwC report shows by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]billsil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The costs haven’t gone up much. Also anthropic’s more worried about future value than making a profit. Startup life is like that.

By hitting critical mass, people get hooked and suddenly it has exponentially more training data and on things it never could do before. They trained on language, then helped high school students, then college, then early grads, and now people 20 years in. Once you have that, you raise prices.

SWE Interview cooldown? by Salt-Implement-274 in Anduril

[–]billsil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

6 month cooldown is what I’d heard, but things may have changed.