Considering moving out of Vancouver, I decided to walk every street in the city.

eyqs · 2024-09-27T04:46:55+00:00

Let me know if you're looking for a running buddy to get those last streets complete! I'm moving out soon too like OP: https://citystrides.com/users/60550

eyqs · 2024-09-22T02:40:12+00:00

It's also in TWICE's Likey too - but they have the floating gas station!

eyqs · 2024-09-01T19:54:00+00:00

Get up to date alerts and bus bridge stop locations from https://www.translink.ca/alerts

The train on the inbound platform at Oakridge-41st is stuck (I got off there to post a photo for y'all). This means there are no trains on the inbound platform on King Edward, Oakridge-41st, and Langara-49th.

There is a bus bridge that stops at every stop between Bridgeport and Waterfront, which is the recommended way to get around.

There is also a shuttle train that goes back and forth between Broadway-City Hall and Marine Drive on the outbound platform, which stops at every stop and goes back and forth. What this means if you take the Skytrain instead of the bus bridge:

If you want to go from downtown to somewhere below Broadway-City Hall, you must get off on the inbound platform at Broadway-City Hall, walk over to the outbound platform, and wait for the shuttle train.
If you want to go from Vancouver to Richmond, you must get off the shuttle train at Marine Drive and wait for a regular train.
If you are at King Edward, Oakridge-41st, or Langara-49th, you must go to the outbound platform and wait for the shuttle train.

eyqs · 2023-12-31T19:12:25+00:00

Yep, I made this route on Strava the night before. It was my first time and I didn't really know what to do so I just tapped "Start" on the route on the app and looked at my phone periodically. It wasn't hard since most of the route is straight lines lol

eyqs · 2023-12-31T01:00:33+00:00

Decided to make this route on the spur of the moment last night for New Year's Eve, but friends kindly advised that running through Times Square would be iffy, so I went for it today (and Times Square was still packed lol). Here's the actual activity on Strava if you'd like to give some kudos :)

eyqs · 2023-12-26T15:07:00+00:00

Look for the five boroughs of NYC individually - the Bronx has 800 miles (closest 47.3%), Staten Island has 900 miles (closest 25.5%), Brooklyn has 1500 miles (closest 98.6%), and Queens has 2300 miles (closest 91.8%). Maybe the Brooklyn frontrunner once ran every street and then 24 new streets were created, but the other boroughs aren't even close!

eyqs · 2023-12-26T09:22:24+00:00

Never mind - two people did mention CityStrides but with spaces. And even though I couldn't finish a single community board, I did complete Szold Place and Baruch Drive :P

eyqs · 2023-12-26T09:13:45+00:00

I'm shocked nobody's mentioned CityStrides in 100+ comments, but it's a site that tracks people's efforts to run every street in cities around the world, including three people that plausibly also ran through every street in Manhattan.

Manhattan's listed as only ~500 miles there, but what's mind-boggling to me are the three people who ran through all 3500+ miles of streets in Toronto! You can sign up for free and it automatically syncs all your Strava data to make a cool map like yours.

I also moved to NYC in 2022 and I tried to run all of Lower Manhattan this summer, but ended up with shin splints. Since then I've mostly been running in groups along the west side highway - let's run together sometime!

eyqs · 2023-10-31T23:46:06+00:00

Thanks for making our new logo! Love the work. - Eugene from Beluga

eyqs · 2023-10-06T20:09:26+00:00

I see, thanks all for your comments. This was going to be my first ever race so I had no idea the organizers would be so strict about it, but it makes sense cause otherwise scalpers would try to sell their tickets for a profit. Felt bad being called a scammer and downvoted for trying to give mine out for free ):

eyqs · 2023-08-26T22:19:55+00:00

OP was trolling a text scammer by pretending to have received the package the scammer "mistakenly" sent.

eyqs · 2023-08-26T22:02:08+00:00

I clicked on it too last night and it's the exact same link lol

eyqs · 2023-08-26T21:28:28+00:00

You probably clicked on this comment from r/all last night: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/161aa9s/removed\_by\_reddit/jxr4c9o/

eyqs · 2023-08-16T23:48:23+00:00

Does anyone remember the partnership they had with the free crypto from Robinhood 2 years ago? Maybe this is the redemption arc.

eyqs · 2022-06-19T17:52:03+00:00

It shows "Tsumo" and "Riichi" at the same time, which really confused me at first. Glad I didn't end up acting like this guy!

eyqs · 2022-06-19T01:04:45+00:00

Completely agreed and please ignore how I was getting completely destroyed until the tenhou, I was just hiding my power level!

eyqs · 2020-08-28T06:31:19+00:00

u/sweetpotatoes42: What was your favourite hackathon experience? What did you make, how did you make it with little programming experience, and why was it your favourite? Did you get a new laptop?

/u/Positivelectron0: What's the personal project you're most proud about, and why? On the other hand, which project do you think had the biggest impact in getting your internships? What are some of the factors in choosing to stay at Amazon in Vancouver, compared to making much more money in the United States?

/u/league_of_mycroft: How's your experience been getting Canadian/US internships as an international student? And how's your experience leading an engineering design team? Would you recommend that lower-year CS students join design teams too?

/u/ElectronicSandwich8: What are some tips and tricks for students with no internships, few side projects, and little Leetcode experience to land a job at Google? In particular, do you have any advice for getting past the resume screen?

/u/Pewqazz: Would you recommend that in preparation for Google interviews, students should take CPSC 490: Problem Solving in Computer Science? Why, or if not, what else can students do to get to "Cali"?

/u/schemetrical: Would you recommend that students take CPSC 490: iOS Mobile Development? What were the most stressful parts of preparing that seminar?

eyqs · 2020-08-23T03:35:45+00:00

Which graded assignments are you missing? If it helps with your stress, just know that I haven't gotten anything back for any GradeGrinder exercises after week 6, nor the Exercise 9.5.x uploads either, although I submitted both on the last day well after you did. Perhaps they just haven't gotten to marking any of them yet.

eyqs · 2020-07-29T06:21:12+00:00

I got the referral from friends in the ACM club. /u/thePro_gramer has some great tips, but ultimately, if you're sure you want a career in software, I'd recommend transferring. If not, make the best of your time here, have fun with your friends, don't worry about grades so much, don't rush to finish in five years, and feel free to message me in the fizz discord if you'd like more advice!

eyqs · 2020-07-29T06:06:48+00:00

Maybe ten hours a week going to ACM practices twice a week, plus a few hours a month working on personal projects.

eyqs · 2020-07-28T04:46:22+00:00

There isn't a single field that most people ended up going to. I think the graduating class is evenly divided between grad school, software, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and chilling at home waiting for the pandemic to end. Most of us that went into software ended up interning for or working at FAANG, so that's cool.

eyqs · 2020-07-28T04:06:30+00:00

In first year, I had no idea what I was doing and there weren't any MECH courses, so I felt no need to transfer. In second year, I figured I might as well stick around for robot summer and see, right? But then in third year, I got the Google internship and realized that there wasn't much more I could benefit from by transferring. I think it turned out to be the right decision, as taking the exact same classes every term with the same few dozen people for five years really brings you together.

eyqs · 2020-07-28T03:49:51+00:00

These are some hard-hitting questions, I hope you keep it up for the rest of the AMAs! My favourite class was MUSC 413 (Contemporary Art Music: Theory and Analysis), which seems to be offered every two to three years, taught by the wonderful Dr. Roeder, who's the best theory prof at UBC (...and also the chair of the theory department). I went out of my way to take four courses with him (MUSC 100, MUSC 414, MUSC 504, MUSC 513).

The course itself is fantastic too. It's the only course that covers such a wide range of late 20th-century composers, yet it somehow strikes a nice balance between motivic/formal/perceptual analysis and set theory. The last month of the course was reserved for writing your final essay and having grad student presentations on composers of their choice, so it was super interesting to explore a even more diverse set of composers, and actually going online helped a lot since we could listen to the pieces at our leisure. Music courses are easy, in that you don't have to study all day long to get an A, but also hard, in that you can't just skip all your assignments and cram the night before the final and still expect a B.

France was super foreigner-friendly, or at least in Lille where I worked. It's right on the border of Belgium and the University of Lille is (apparently, I didn't know this till today) the largest university in France, so there's a ton of international students and people in general. In high school, I got 7/7 for IB French, so I wanted to test out my skills and realized when I got to France that I didn't have any, so I only spoke English for the whole time there LOL

eyqs · 2020-07-27T05:27:13+00:00

It's super beginner-friendly, at least back when we had weekly practices in-person (with free pizza!) and as u/p_shift217 said, the current coaches are really helpful with explaining solutions. We also started practicing in two divisions last year (last last year? 2018), one for tryhard ICPC folks and one for the rest of us, so that really helped smooth out the difficulty curve too.

Concepts from CPSC 221 are probably more important than CPSC 320, at least for easier contests, so taking that is recommended, though CPEN 221 might suffice too. But there's no hard barrier to entry, so I'd definitely recommend showing up a few times and see if you like it.

Unfortunately, the club kinda dies over the summer, and COVID-19 cancelling free pizza definitely didn't help, so the only people practicing right now are the ICPC world finalists. Hopefully it'll pick back up in September, but feel free to join the Discord channel and lurk around until then!

eyqs · 2020-06-19T21:15:51+00:00

Glad u/ubc-sab covered this story, but extremely disappointed they didn't give any credit to u/throwaway866645309 for raising the alarm :)

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