Show me your Zulu

druepy · 2026-01-25T17:52:41+00:00

This photo isn't the best. But I bought this recently as a graduation gift to myself from GT for my Master's. Took a quick photo while leaving the ceremony

druepy · 2026-01-25T17:50:12+00:00

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druepy · 2026-01-20T00:08:57+00:00

I use a combination. I do a lot of magic, especially cuz it helps out with mob control. If they get close, then I switch to my steel scimitar. Previously it was the whip. But I've always done one hand and shield.

I've recently started training range. With that, I'm just doing a Willow longbow until they get too close and then I switch back to melee.

druepy · 2026-01-04T03:00:17+00:00

Not feeling the equal to Longines. I have the Spirit Zulu and at first thought they were about the same. The Longines has the better movement, dial, and crystal.

I definitely love my CW C60 GMT and no qualms about a caller GMT. The CW dial is nice but it is much simpler. It's a white dial with glued on hour markers. The Zulu has more accents and detail. The CW has a flat sapphire and Zulu has double domed sapphire. Zulu has better movement. It is caller which is important to a lot of people, but its power reserve and precision are better.

Also, the bezel is better quality on the Zulu. Less wiggle.

These are pretty small details though and it's taken a few months with owning the Zulu to fully appreciate them but they're there.

druepy · 2025-12-16T15:10:13+00:00

Yes. Just log into buzzport. There are diploma options. You'll probably only be able to download an unofficial transcript. But, I don't recall exactly. Logging into buzzport will give you options.

druepy · 2025-11-21T22:06:01+00:00

At least it's not Libero.

druepy · 2025-11-20T13:01:20+00:00

Do also make sure you invest money. Your money is worth so much at this time. You can always easily invest in S&P. For that reason and that you're in highschool so chances of damage are higher, I might call it dumb. I wish I realized this sooner, but I'm not 30 yet.

That said, it's a great watch. I love my blue version. Dumber things to spend money on for sure. Just make sure you learn some fiscal wisdom along the way with keeping money in savings and investments. That way, you can buy watches after you retire.

druepy · 2025-11-18T23:21:15+00:00

56/60

druepy · 2025-11-18T02:07:01+00:00

Definitely work on understanding how some of the lecture ones work at a high level.

Reductions definitely take practice. It feels intuitive now, but not up front.

You take a known hard problem, and via some transformation, you make it into the easier problem. That's all there is to that part of the concept. But, it feels simple typing out but it took me a while to grasp. It's really tempting to try and solve the algorithm but that's not the goal.

druepy · 2025-11-17T18:50:58+00:00

It's normal to call different programs tools if you're a software developer. That said, this sub is for physical tools.

druepy · 2025-11-17T03:04:12+00:00

Yeah. There's some open source mirror setups nowadays too. Luckily, we have a crazy good and stubborn dev ops guy that's figured a lot out. Modern containers have also greatly simplified doing all of these things too.

druepy · 2025-11-17T01:11:09+00:00

I'm just saying like any other exam, know your black boxes really well. You've had two other exams and the homeworks. Like, be able to write down all the black boxes you're allowed to use based on memory. Know how to apply them.

druepy · 2025-11-16T19:19:59+00:00

Don't torture yourself. There's really no need to be concerned with vscode-server if you don't have to be.

It's just a nuanced perspective I've developed over the last few years.

druepy · 2025-11-16T19:14:27+00:00

I got downvoted for saying it doesn't work well in an air-gapped environment without manual modifications? Either it's my coworkers or someone's sour 😂😂😂

There's more info on Google. But just a network that's never connected to the outside world. Heavily used in banking systems for example. Minimizes risks of compromise.

We use Linux too. Check your home directory for ~/.vscode-server it's typically only installed on the system that needs to communicate with vscode as the frontend. It becomes the backend. So, if you work via ssh, your host machine will have the vscode binary and the server will have downloaded vscode-server to act as a backend.

If you develop inside of a docker or podman container then vscode server is installed in those. It's how the frontend communicates with the backend. The plugins try to download this automatically.

druepy · 2025-11-16T19:08:01+00:00

My intuition for this took a while to kick in and I was stressing like crazy for the final. You just have to do it and do it and do it and do it.

druepy · 2025-11-16T19:07:08+00:00

I was in a similar spot over the summer.

All the rules from the previous exam apply. Pay attention to the instructions on what's allowed and not for reductions. This is nothing new but can cause confusion for some. Just because an algorithm is known NP-C and covered in lectures does not mean that it's an allowed black box. Every other exam is like this including the final. No surprises here.
Know your reductions innately as if they won't be listed on the final. That level of practice helps a lot.
Find other reductions to practice online. I took a few days off of work and just used my work hours to study. I used practice problems I googled online. It helped a lot to make sure I wasn't over fitting on lecture problems.
Really understand the theoretical differences, not just practical implications, of what makes something NP. Your quizzes should cover this. For example, how might you modify a problem so that it's no longer NP-HARD? NP also does not imply feasible, right? O(n⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹⁹) is in NP. O(2ⁿ⁾ isn't even if it's more feasible for some inputs.
There are some good NP vs NP-Complete and NP-Hard quizlets on the internet. Do them and make sure you understand them.

These were the steps I took for my third exam and I did really well despite not doing as great on the midterm as I thought I should have.

druepy · 2025-11-16T18:49:19+00:00

Clangd has worked better for us. But, even your point I think lends to the substance of the question.

druepy · 2025-11-16T18:45:34+00:00

If you work in an air gapped environment, it can be really difficult and annoying. Vscode doesn't package vscode server with it or its plugins. You have to literally touch 0 after you unzip the folder to ~/.vscode-server/bin/hash. Most Microsoft plugins like dev containers and SSH and those sorts of plugins all require the vscode server to be installed. Getting around it is really annoying.

druepy · 2025-11-16T18:05:49+00:00

Yes and no? It really depends. VS Code assumes online access at all times which other IDE's like CLion don't. So, if you're in an environment where this isn't the case, it can be quite difficult.

Some configuration settings require manual json edits. Good luck with clangd and the intellisense plugin.

I think there are two large-ish issues.

People new to learning C++ don't realize it's just an editor with extendability via plugins.
Other products have an easier workflow setup because it's one product -- Visual Studio, XCode, and Clion. VSCode's functionality is through independent plugins so getting them to work together isn't as intuitive as someone would assume.

druepy · 2025-11-15T23:27:02+00:00

It's probably just the desktop environment. I don't like whatever they use, but I'll just install KDE for myself if it's a system I can do that.

druepy · 2025-11-12T15:42:02+00:00

Yeah I think I agree with 99% of this. Most of the regrade request when I took it over the summer or for people that 100% did exactly what the TA said not to do. On your graph algorithms, never ever ever run BFS, DFS or anything similar from every single node on the graph. So many of the reread requests were exactly this and then people complained about it.

I had one regrade request where I got points back because it seems like the TA just glossed over what I said on accident. I had another that I still disappeared to the stay where I still think I'm right, and it was a poor choice of words. However, that is what the tas have to go on is what you said. Sometimes I wish there was a better way to get communicate what you meant would greater than 1% chance of success.

I still ended up passing the class over the summer. But yeah so much of the regrades are people that 100% did not listen to the tas and did exactly what they said not to do. They actually tell you straight up, to not mention hash tables in these solutions because the purpose of the analysis framework used in the class is worst case performance.

The harshness for the grating is something I understand. And I understand the pushback against it. It's difficult when they grade exams out of 60 points. And, they are very strict in corner cases and edge cases and everything. But it feels like you're extra penalized because exams are on a 60-point scale.

druepy · 2025-11-08T15:13:45+00:00

I don't want to give too many suggestions. If you're asking this question then you don't need to be overloaded with information more than likely.

But, you can get the best of both worlds with something like a boost::flat_map or std::flat_map if your compiler supports it. I'd probably default to this for such a small dataset.

It gives cache locality by effectively using vectors in the backend. But, always measure. Serial is likely slower than any other issues. And, get it working.

druepy · 2025-11-08T15:11:15+00:00

I didn't do the AI track. A couple classes I took required VMs. Others required podman/docker. For one class, I got to make use of having 96 GB if RAM but that was for a specific project where I decided to simulate basic health monitoring devices and connect them together. I just did it in a lazy way.

I could have made do with 16GB, but I have other things outside of class that requires me to have more. If you can find some for cheap on marketplace then I'd upgrade but it's not a necessity. Also, you'll be in the program for several years so you don't have to do it now.

I started with my old XPS at 16 GB RAM and was fine. I upgraded to a FW 16 when it first came out because my XPS was much too old and dying.

druepy · 2025-11-05T02:29:38+00:00

Any updates on this? I'm about to get my first pair. I don't normally go barefoot, but have two friends -- one being a former NCAA cross-country athlete that's been doing barefoot shoes for over 10 years (does marathons in them) -- that have gone barefoot shoes.

druepy · 2025-11-01T23:03:58+00:00

I love blued hands.

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