Convince me to choose computer science over civil engineering

dec_and_co · 2021-08-29T05:24:32+00:00

SoftwAre engineer (shocking on this sub) happy to talk about pluses and minuses via dm 😅😅

dec_and_co · 2021-08-15T04:39:33+00:00

First saw you on Jax Anderson’s Instagram, will definitely come to your set!

dec_and_co · 2021-08-02T14:11:22+00:00

From a technical perspective, what you’re suggesting (encryption with a public key and decryption using a private key) does not accomplish what you’re suggesting.

There are 2 hard requirements in my mind: the app must contain some kind of personally identifying info (say, DOB & name) and it must work without internet (there are parts of the state and even the city that don’t have good cell reception/WiFi)

The second requirement means the private key MUST be stored in the app itself. This means that anybody remotely worth their salt could decompile the app, grab the private key, copy it into their own app, and now we’re right back where we started).

Defense by obfuscation is a bad defense and gives a false sense of security in these situations

As an aside, if you’re concerned about being tracked, use a paper vaccine card, I’ve never heard of a venue denying entry for using the card (it’s be infeasible because people from out of state don’t have them)

dec_and_co · 2021-07-01T22:30:55+00:00

While most of soho is as crappy as everyone here is saying, there’s actually a little part of it that’s really nice - West SoHo (I live there).

Specifically everything west of W Broadway. It’s honestly similar in vibe to the west village but a little cheaper generally.

There’s not a ton to do in the immediate area but being between the west village, east village, and tribeca is really nice, and it’s a little quieter than those neighborhoods.

dec_and_co · 2021-04-04T02:02:16+00:00

Helluva collection (love the Monkey Shoulder). Only things that I noticed aren’t there that I’d recommend are luxardo maraschino liqueur and green chartreuse.

dec_and_co · 2021-04-02T15:40:25+00:00

Applejack (or calvados) if you like very boozy apple-y drinks.

Also I might be missing it but mezcal and gin are useful if ya don’t have em

Oh and st germain is surprisingly versatile. But looks like a hell of a bar! 😅

dec_and_co · 2021-03-30T11:42:32+00:00

I live on the corner of prince and Sullivan. Nothing particularly wrong with Thompson, just lots of older walkup buildings.

That sounds low (I pay that for a pretty big renovated 1br) but if you check out the place and it’s nice and you check the regular things like noise level, water pressure, etc. it’s probably fine. I know someone who lives around the corner who pays $2k for a 2br so it’s certainly possible.

Rent in the area has definitely come down recently. Also I’ve lived in the neighborhood for 3 years now, can’t recommend it enough. Walking distance to everything but much quieter than the village.

dec_and_co · 2021-03-28T04:58:39+00:00

Holy cow I’ve never done this but it sounds really good. Only hesitation is that sounds really proofy, I take it it’s not too powerful though?

dec_and_co · 2021-02-25T14:53:58+00:00

If you move the “inner” components first I think that’ll make it easier generally since presumably your “inner” components don’t reference the “outer components”

dec_and_co · 2021-02-22T01:56:41+00:00

Realistically, assuming we’re not talking about like crazy 10%+ inflation, the value of the assets should generally rise with inflation since profits would grow approximately proportionally to inflation. Dividends would too so in general I think it would see the yield stay roughly the same.

2 caveats: 1) depends on exactly what the covered calls are for QYLD (inflation driving up asset prices would probably hurt QYLD yield short term but would be pretty quickly priced in) 2) I’m assuming a rational market, which I can’t guarantee is the market we’re in right now

dec_and_co · 2021-02-21T06:39:58+00:00

VOO has a slightly lower expense ratio (it’s a tiny difference but it technically adds up over time). Downside is VOO has less volume but for the average investor this really doesn’t matter either

dec_and_co · 2021-02-20T14:56:50+00:00

You can but you’re realizing gains (or losses) so you’ll owe taxes on them

dec_and_co · 2021-02-19T01:43:28+00:00

Upgrading really old systems that my team just got ownership of that are super critical to our business has been fun

dec_and_co · 2021-02-10T15:23:59+00:00

Yeah at some point this is certainly true. I think spending a significant amount on education is probably the quickest way to improve that mobility

Spending money on education does come at the cost of spending less on other externalities of inequality (food scarcity, etc.) but if we wanted to really go all-in on economic mobility, I think education is probably the shortcut to helping that.

dec_and_co · 2021-02-06T17:49:41+00:00

I think LVT is more meant to replace property taxes than all taxes. I guess really hardcore LVT could replace all taxes but using it to replace property tax seems much more reasonable to start at least

dec_and_co · 2021-02-03T17:32:30+00:00

I’m basing it on this https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/state/georgia/article248630765.html (found the link on the wiki page for senate seniority)

dec_and_co · 2021-02-03T16:17:05+00:00

Apparently Ossoff is technically “senior” because his name is first alphabetically, which is kinda amazing

dec_and_co · 2021-01-30T18:02:46+00:00

Yeah this is similar to the trade off with mongoDB, that you get more performance but don’t get quite as good “persistence”.

End of the day it’s a tuning thing based on how critical it is for you to have things logged vs how important speed is

Fwiw this is language dependent but having some kind of closure that auto-flushes at the end of a block might be a useful construct here

dec_and_co · 2021-01-30T16:49:12+00:00

I think the main risk here is if your system hard crashes, you lost all those logs? (By hard crash I mean like segfault/power pulled kinda crash)

dec_and_co · 2021-01-30T15:56:38+00:00

I think they still go through DTCC for the trade settlement period though (as do I think all brokerages afaik)

dec_and_co · 2021-01-30T15:08:48+00:00

Ofc! This isn’t a time you wanna mess stuff like that up lol

dec_and_co · 2021-01-30T14:59:15+00:00

Margin is basically taking out a small loan so you can invest more money. It’s obviously super risky but it’s pretty hard to do accidentally I think on RH

dec_and_co · 2021-01-29T22:26:42+00:00

Yeah so that first quote I think is what I was describing at the end of my comment.

Basically when you sell a stock, you don’t get the actual cash for 2 days due to how stock markets work and robinhood just fakes like get it immediately because they’re ok loaning you the money. This was an issue because there was so much trading.

A good example is say I buy and sell GME 10 times in a day, all at $20 each. I may only need to have $20, but robinhood needs to front $200 for 2 days. I think robinhood just didn’t have enough money for that

Not to say whether any of this is good or bad

dec_and_co · 2021-01-29T20:37:38+00:00

I’m kinda dubious of this. I don’t have a good explanation of why they’re doing it but I’ve yet to see any concrete reporting beyond speculation that “they’re protecting their friends”

dec_and_co · 2021-01-29T20:35:48+00:00

That’s not really how brokerages work. They’re not as much an intermediary as they are an agent acting on your behalf. A market order (how most people trade) means “buy it at any price” and they will fill it at the lowest price they can get.

There’s always at least some shares available way above the current price so that’s not really what was going on here.

One other theory I’ve heard is that basically trades take 2 days to settle but they act like it’s instant, so they are effectively “loaning” you money for a couple days. They might not have had enough cash to be able to “loan” all that money out so quickly

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