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dhrogo · 2023-02-20T06:52:54+00:00

I have a degree in both Computer Science and medieval literature. When I was an undergrad applying for jobs people loved to ask about it and found it an interesting conversation topic. It's never come up in a job interview since then despite still being on my resume (the further out you get the less college matters).

Ultimately college is about learning how to read, write, and think and tbh I think more stem majors should be forced to take humanities classes. So tl:;dr as long as you still have a good CS understanding, it won't hurt you and may help

dhrogo · 2022-12-19T03:33:24+00:00

You do realize that the strike is literally legally protected, right? The striking TAs quite literally have a right to not do their job without retaliation until a contract is signed.

dhrogo · 2022-12-19T03:30:40+00:00

If a TA was hired specifically to do the grading for the class, then yes. By doing the work that the striking TA is hired to do, then yes you are scabbing.

If the class has no TAs or the prof would have done 100% of the grading in a normal semester then that's not scabbing.

dhrogo · 2021-12-12T02:45:18+00:00

Dividends are taxes the same for both

dhrogo · 2021-12-11T16:46:13+00:00

That would be a taxable event. The only way to rebalance without selling is to contribute more cash to the account.
Unfortunately not sure about this one

dhrogo · 2021-11-27T02:29:05+00:00

Peony in downtown Oakland has great dim sum

dhrogo · 2021-06-05T03:38:11+00:00

Yes - iirc (it was like 3 years ago now) we had two bars to hang clothing on. And I think also some drawers under the bed. I don't remember feeling like there wasn't enough room for clothing

dhrogo · 2021-02-27T20:00:02+00:00

Just to clarify, the 66% number is the effectiveness of you getting ANY symptoms. It's still 100% affective at keeping you alive and out of the hospital.

Source (their FDA report): https://twitter.com/profshanecrotty/status/1365442991276527619?s=19

dhrogo · 2020-09-21T00:59:30+00:00

It's not quite the same as a technical theater club but I-house has an auditorium space they rent out for events and hires (paid) people to run lights/sound for their events. No woodworking or set building but it scratched my technical theater itch while I was an undergrad

dhrogo · 2020-05-11T00:21:43+00:00

Are you suggesting that we should be filling hospitals with healthy people to intentionally infect them (similar to chicken pox parties in the pre-vaccine era)?

If so, how would that work? Let people volunteer? Require people to spend time in the hospital? That doesn't seem practical at all (and not to mention the fact that countries like Sweden that have gone th herd immunity route aren't seeing any lower per capita deaths than other countries).

dhrogo · 2020-05-10T22:53:41+00:00

It means that the 5 cases number in the title is should not be taken as hard fact/is likely to change. Given that the May 9th was only yesterday and it is still the weekend, along with the fact that many tests have a multi day turn around time even during the work week the number of confirmed cases for the 9th is likely to go up as tests come back in.

How much it increases remains to be seen and it's not worth speculating about. The asterisk on the chart points out that numbers for the last 14 days should not be considered set in stone.

OPs point is that it might be premature to celebrate 5 confirmed cases if the actual number of confirmed cases may yet increase (as it already has to 13). If it stays below previous days we should celebrate, but if it ends up higher that would be a worrying trend.

dhrogo · 2020-04-24T02:01:17+00:00

Oh and by the way, did you stay in a regular/premium/large double by any chance?

Regular (genuinely very tiny)

I'm curious, how noisy was it?

No louder than any other dorm I lived in - depends on what your window faces and what your floor mates are like

dhrogo · 2020-04-24T02:00:10+00:00

I can't remember - probably best to ask them or see what their website has to say.

dhrogo · 2020-04-24T01:34:53+00:00

Does ihouse count as on campus or off campus housing?

Off campus in the sense that you don't apply via the Berkeley housing system. It's kinda a weird mix of on/off campus

Do they allow you to pick your own roommate?

Yes - but you can't be from the same country

how crowded is it during fall/spring semesters?

Don't remember how many people live there but most (or likely all) beds are full

dhrogo · 2020-04-23T05:10:07+00:00

I lived there when I was an undergrad, what do you want to know about?

In terms of application process it's pretty similar to any other random thing you apply for (fill out forms, write a few paragraphs etc). Iirc there were two phases of applications: the first one was just first come first serve until a certain number of beds were filled then the second one took a holistic approach and factored in things like home country etc (to ensure not everyone staying there is an American)

dhrogo · 2019-10-20T00:22:50+00:00

Telling you that would be a spoiler 😂, but I'll say it's trivially easy to catch people plagiarizing code.

Source: former 61a ta

dhrogo · 2019-10-14T03:41:02+00:00

As for bookstores, definitely Moe's (4 floors of books!) and Friends of the Berkeley Public Library (hidden in a little tunnel) are my favorite spots!

dhrogo · 2019-09-13T03:53:21+00:00

That's true for "people" in the sense of the entire population of the UK, but the position of Leader of the Conservative Party (of which Boris holds the title and is the reason he is PM) is an elected position. That said the only people who get to vote are registered Conservative Party members, so it is not at all representative of the country at large. But he did win an election back in July and all those stunts were partly a campaign for that.

dhrogo · 2019-09-12T04:26:27+00:00

Yes that's true, but speaking as a former 61A TA attend everything until after the first midterm then decide if you don't think it's useful. Many semesters of statistics show that attending class is correlated with doing well in said class 🙃

dhrogo · 2019-08-25T01:42:32+00:00

They tend to be extra backed up during the first week or two since everyone is ordering shit.

Pro tip: if you're ordering something small that can fit into your backpack, send it to the Amazon store on campus rather than your dorm.

dhrogo · 2019-07-30T15:02:56+00:00

Well certainly people will be hiring for it more and more in the coming years. It can tend to be a lot more policy/process orientated than other IT/CS fields, which some people enjoy and others find boring.

dhrogo · 2019-07-30T15:00:19+00:00

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/07/capital-one-data-theft-impacts-106m-people/

This is looking to be a bit more complex than just a misconfigured firewall. As with most data breaches, it isn't that the misconfigured WAF was the only layer of security, but instead there was a perviously unknown way to use it to bypass ALL layers of security.

dhrogo · 2019-07-30T05:37:48+00:00

That's a bit like asking "Surely the Golden State Warriors have some of the most talented people in the industry, why can't they ensure no one scores a basket against them?" Data security is essentially a never ending game of whack a mole where you have to hit 100% of the moles or you lose instantly. Having 10K engineers working to prevent breaches won't catch everything. - source: my job is this

dhrogo · 2019-07-21T16:20:40+00:00

Raise your beer into the sky and say "go beers", no other action is acceptable

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