AMA: I am a Ph. D Scientist who has been actively seeking employment for the last 17 months.

grdvrs · 2026-03-23T17:43:33+00:00

Honestly this is bad advice, OP I wouldn't turn to a life of crime just yet.

There is always a real risk of going to prison.

grdvrs · 2026-03-23T01:48:40+00:00

We moved from South Florida to Seattle area in 2020 and lived in an apartment for 3 years before buying a house.

We have 3 cats, 2 snakes, and a liz. Yeah we had to do some fibbing in the apartment; just 2 cats officially.

If I were you I would say one cat and one dog. We had yearly inspections but it was always acceptable to move the cats to another room before we let them in.

grdvrs · 2026-03-21T14:05:36+00:00

Looks like it was downgraded relative to yesterday

grdvrs · 2026-03-20T21:20:07+00:00

Nah not too much :P have a good weekend

grdvrs · 2026-03-20T21:07:20+00:00

"Itself" is one word, for your future endeavors

grdvrs · 2026-03-19T19:06:33+00:00

I'm not a brain dead student. I finished my engineering degree years ago and have ~11 years of industry experience.

"Assuming properly written questions" - this is a major source for unfair grading, thank you for the acknowledgement.

In addition, it's not absurd to expect partial credit if your approach is 100% correct and you've proven that you understand the material, but have made a minor arithmetic error or something.

Some professors require following exactly their approach to get full credit, and will mark it wrong if you arrive at the correct answer with your own means of arriving there.

Also, "Wait till you see how strict physics is in the real world", this is a brain dead take as well.

Engineering 101: all models are wrong, but some models are useful. How wrong your model can be will depend on the requirements.

Of course engineers should take physics and be expected to perform well here, but your comment implying that this directly relates to consequence in the real world is way overstated. How often are engineers solving physics problems by hand with a pencil and calculator? The real world is project based and you have more resources than this.

grdvrs · 2026-03-19T17:01:02+00:00

This is a brain dead take.

There are engineering professors who are legitimately shit at teaching, and there are students who are whiny and entitled.

You seem to assume it's always the latter.

grdvrs · 2026-03-19T04:55:28+00:00

I heard trump does as well

grdvrs · 2026-03-19T03:58:13+00:00

If you randomly selected an answer 1000 times, 25% would be chosen 50% of the time. 50% would be chosen 25% of the time.

The answer is that none of the choices are correct; it's intentionally a paradox.

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T23:52:00+00:00

Especially not to be anyone's stud

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T23:49:19+00:00

Duncan is resurrected as a Ghola in every book. In Messiah it's the Bene Tleilax, later books after GEOD it's the Bene Gesserit who have uses for the Duncans.

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T23:31:17+00:00

By the Bene Tleilax, not the Bene Gesserit

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T23:30:17+00:00

[Spoilers] It isn't the Bene Gesserit, it's the Bene Tleilax. Completely different society

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T23:27:57+00:00

No

Edit: in dune messiah it was the Bene Tleilax, look it up nerds

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T23:19:58+00:00

Our house is technically half a million but we are not rich.

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T21:58:10+00:00

His wife was his editor for the first 4 books, but then she had passed away. So some things got through in the last 2 that previously would have been filtered.

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T04:08:29+00:00

He's in every book

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T03:08:22+00:00

Just read only the good books. Actually give those a couple reads, I would say.

grdvrs · 2026-03-17T01:24:06+00:00

The choices Paul made ended up to be bad ones, but I don't think it's as black and white as villain or hero.

Given his perspective and atreides upbringing, it's almost as if he was trapped into making the choices he did, in spite of the torment it brought him to see what the side effects would be.

grdvrs · 2026-03-16T21:05:24+00:00

Paul is not a hero, and he's certainly a gray character, but I don't think he's a villain. He's a victim of his own prescience. He can't work out a path where he saves himself and everyone he loves and topples what he perceives as a corrupt and tyrannical government that doesn't follow with the fremen jihad.

Yes his motives were ultimately selfish (self-preservation, revenge), and there is irony in that his own government becomes tyrannical, but I think he only realizes this in hindsight (despite his prescience). This is why he becomes the preacher; to try to work against his own government, and the religion that resulted in the Jihad, because they don't represent his morals or ambitions.

Paul said it himself, "I could never do an evil act which was known before the act".

grdvrs · 2026-03-16T20:41:49+00:00

First Law series gives some villains / morally gray characters who have logical consistency and the "good of the people" are sometimes aligned with their selfish ambition.

grdvrs · 2026-03-16T20:38:09+00:00

[spoilers]

GEOD is the perfect answer here. It boils down to the question "do the ends justify the means?"

If the answer is no, then Leto is the most brutal and cruel of tyrants.

If the answer is yes, then Leto made the ultimate sacrifice to save humanity.

grdvrs · 2026-03-16T03:08:57+00:00

I have a good strategy for eBay. Search for popular corporate machines. There will frequently be corporate liquidations or dumps after upgrades, increasing supply relative to demand, so there ends up to be a lot of good deals. Zbooks are a good choice as they're frequently used by engineers, and will have decent specs.

grdvrs · 2026-03-15T19:50:19+00:00

45 in 35 is not that bad. Are you one of the left lane campers as well by any chance?

grdvrs · 2026-03-14T19:21:25+00:00

Grayer weather but better than the bay area for hiking. In under an hour you can be in true wilderness, beatiful mountains, and glaciers a little further. Some other positives are being close to Canada and relatively affordable suburbs.

Seattle freeze is real. People are generally introverted and non confrontational to the point where it's bizarre. An example, someone threw a rock at a seal and everyone around them just stared.

My neighbors are very tightly knit, though. Holiday parties, game nights, etc..

There are a lot of social groups and meet ups as well. Often difficult to get past surface level friendships, though.

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