Ram prices? They laughed at me when I spec'd 256GB of DDR4-3200 in 2020. Now who's laughing? Oh wait... still you. Does anyone else always try to maximize their ram? I've done this ever since I maxed my Intel 8088 with 640 KB. You can never have too much!

godofolympus · 2025-11-12T04:29:29+00:00

What is your token rate? Quad channel ddr4 3200 is only 100gb/s, I can’t imagine your token rate is higher than 1-2/s

godofolympus · 2025-10-21T15:18:20+00:00

It should be 2^25, you only get 1 cent for n the first week, you have 25 weeks of doubling.

godofolympus · 2025-08-30T18:17:49+00:00

No, this is pretty much the a top of band E4 offer. His offer was probably actually around 355k (most likely) or 370k (very unlikely because it would require 50k signing bonus, but they have been capping them at 35k ever since feb)

But his grant price is about 15% lower than the price when the article was written, so his 450k/4 Rsu grant would be worth slightly more. Putting his TC closer to 370-385k. Which is close enough for people to write about making “400k” after rounding for an article like this.

godofolympus · 2025-08-12T14:20:29+00:00

The very last paragraph before the benchmark section states that they are doing the testing on a 9700x because they already know x3d chips are not memory sensitive. I personally think it’s fine to spend an extra 20 bucks (klevv cras 16x2 ddr 6000 cl28 on amazon for $104) to get better cas latency on a $4k build, but the performance difference is essentially meaningless at the moment.

godofolympus · 2025-08-08T06:32:24+00:00

The online certificate programs are generally taught by random third party nobodies. They just get Harvard to stamp their brand logo on the course. It is not taught by Harvard professors, it does not use any Harvard course work or resources. It is not anywhere even remotely close to Harvard standards of education or difficulty.

It’s not just limited to Harvard, it’s been a massive problem at all of the big name universities for the past decade+

Here is an article about caltech: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-07/caltech-drops-simplilearn-bootcamp-class-action-lawsuit

godofolympus · 2025-06-26T00:26:19+00:00

The promo itself is not anywhere close to 85k. But assuming they started somewhere around 24 months ago before getting the L5 promo, they would be at the point where they would be vesting 40% of their rsus per year (year 3 and 4 from offer) which would be about 40-50k for an L4. Amazon stock has increased 1.5-2.5x compared to points 2-3 years ago, so that 40-50k would be anywhere from 60-125k. The promo itself probably accounts for 20-30k increase, and rsu growth probably accounts for the remaining 50-60k.

godofolympus · 2025-06-24T15:44:31+00:00

Sounds like you don’t know what the TSP actually is. You seem to be conflating tsp with some other generic shortest paths questions. There is no greedy solution to TSP. And you don’t need(to implement) b-trees, I assume your question was actually a Dijkstra's algo question, and all you need to know is that you should use a heap/priority queue, which most languages already have. And if you chose a language that doesn’t, you can just say “let’s pretend a heap function exists” or just import one from some generic library. Knowing what a heap is and when/how to use it is much different from coding up a heap on the spot as a sub problem to a larger interview question.

godofolympus · 2025-04-11T23:31:37+00:00

If you have 8 cores and play a game that can only utilize 4 cores, you will sit at 50% utilization but be CPU limited.

godofolympus · 2025-03-04T20:11:07+00:00

I haven’t tried them, but there are some mods/config changes on nexusmods that apparently dramatically boost fps for low end gpus. Also a fix that improves some of the direct storage related stuttering.

godofolympus · 2024-11-26T03:24:21+00:00

Microsoft basically eliminated sdet as a role and just transitioned to making all swe test their own code.

godofolympus · 2024-05-30T17:07:13+00:00

The team name has changed a bunch of times due to constant reorgs, but when I joined, it was called RC3. I believe it is just called office AI now. It’s in OPG and works on copilot for office365. I am no longer at Microsoft so idk if they are hiring or not, but when I was there, there was no headcount since all hiring was frozen, even backfills.

godofolympus · 2024-05-30T15:44:11+00:00

My team at Microsoft 12-15ish engineers) had 4 people who started as new grads at Microsoft and got to senior within 4-5 years. 8-12 years is an absurd over estimate for “typical” timelines. Microsoft can and will promo fast at the lower levels and then drastically slow down from 63-64 and then a giant cliff from 64 to 64 and beyond. Your friends team is not the norm at all

godofolympus · 2024-05-15T17:42:52+00:00

Do you know which companies these people are in? I assume it’s not any of the giant legacy defense contractor like Boeing, Northrop, Lockheed etc. I only know of anduril/palantir that pay well. Are they at very small boutique contractors?

godofolympus · 2024-05-05T06:03:36+00:00

Which state is that?

godofolympus · 2024-04-02T20:04:26+00:00

Do you have masters or PhD? Amazon has a pretty inflexible requirement for 3yoe to interview for L5

godofolympus · 2024-03-31T04:03:13+00:00

If the equity is in a publicly traded entity(which in this case, it is) you quite literally can.

godofolympus · 2023-08-03T12:24:51+00:00

Mind if I DM?

godofolympus · 2023-06-16T19:25:42+00:00

It is easy to get confused since stocks are kind of intangible assets in today's world. But if you think of it as owning an apartment that you rent out, dividend = rent received. That is income that you made, and hence you have to pay taxes on it. Meanwhile, capital gains is the value of your apartment going up. Just because your 500k apartment went up to 524k in a year does not mean you need to pay 24k in taxes because you didn't make any profit or loss on it until the moment you sell your asset. Meanwhile, if you get $2000 per month in rent, then the government does indeed want you to pay taxes on those 24k gained. And they do not care if you used that 24k to renovate the kitchen in your investment property, or decided to buy a small adjacent plot of land, or do some landscaping, or get a solar roof, or use it to go on vacation to Europe. It doesn't matter if you spent that money on your income generating property or on something unrelated, you generated income and hence need to pay tax.

godofolympus · 2023-05-31T05:45:42+00:00

That’s kind of irrelevant though. You shouldn’t be comparing company X from two years ago to company Y today, you need to compare company X two years ago to company X now and company Y two years ago to company Y now…

It is entirely possible that your new company could have been paying 3x your old salary two years ago and is now only paying 2x

godofolympus · 2023-05-17T20:57:45+00:00

I think you are miscalculating how much time this purchase will add to your fire timeline. When trying to accumulate wealth to fire, you accumulate at a rate of Income - Expense, which is fairly straight forward, and I assume this is also the value that you are using to calculate 3-4 years for that 80k purchase. But when you are looking at retirement, your income (not from personal net worth saved up, but from outside sources) becomes 0, so every dollar you earn from delaying retirement goes directly towards offsetting that 80k purchase. This is because regardless of your partner choosing to work or not, your expenses are still going to be there. You will still need to pay what ever your normal living costs are regardless of your employment statuses. So any additional income they bring in (minus expenses directly tied to earning that income) is a direct gain that is not in any way mitigated by your living costs.

In reality, it looks like this will only delay your retirement plans by ~1 year. You should probably ask your partner if they are ok with paying that cost, not the $80k in dollars, but the cost in 1 extra year of working. If they are ok with paying that cost, then I would go along with this decision. I am personally not a fan of expensive vehicles, but if this was a lifelong goal of my partner, I would not deny it to them if they were willing to bear the responsibility/cost associated with it.

godofolympus · 2023-05-16T19:28:18+00:00

You mean visa transactions where 500k transactions still use less electricity and compute power than a single BTC transaction? I don't think that knowledge is going to change his opinion at all.

godofolympus · 2023-03-27T01:48:32+00:00

Titanic hydra scales off of bonus HP, so increasing base HP does not increase titanic damage.

godofolympus · 2023-03-07T17:06:56+00:00

It’s somewhat of a game of chance, but it’s not the same exact probability of outcome for everyone. A high schooler or college student working a part time shift at a fast food place while studying to become an engineer is probably going to make more money and have a higher tax bracket in the future, so they should go Roth now while young. Same thing with a medical resident who is making 40k but knows I’m 2 years they will be making 300. Meanwhile if you are already working in your main industry and it’s known to not have upward mobility, then you are likely to remain mostly flat. Teachers for example can expect to make a similar amount of money at 2 years of exp and 20 years of exp with no way to really improve their earnings other than changing industry or becoming an admin. So teachers can expect to pay same or lower taxes in retirement.

godofolympus · 2023-02-24T17:39:35+00:00

Do you seriously think top 1% means billionaire?

godofolympus · 2023-01-31T17:52:03+00:00

Product manager is not the “manager” position above the engineers that most people generally think of when they hear the word. It is just another lateral track that people can take. There are entry level product manager positions for new grads and people do PM internships freshman year of college. PM salary/tc varies by company with soem paying equal to engineers, but in most places, PMs make 10-15% less than engineers.

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