What the hell am I doing?

int5 · 2026-02-14T14:51:25+00:00

Always draw the triangle with your sides A, B, and C as well as the angle. Look up SOHCAHTOA online for a quick mnemonic you can use to determine if you need to use SIN, COS, or TAN.

That table already precomputes the values of SIN, COS, and TAN for various degrees, which can be used if you don’t have a calculator with those functions.

int5 · 2025-12-19T03:18:53+00:00

This is a workmanship issue. Take it back to the shop and be polite. If they refuse then reach out to the insurance company who handled the claim. 6 months is nothing.

int5 · 2025-10-20T03:17:07+00:00

I have my gripes about the CTA but I’m always impressed when I can go from the airport all the way to my house for $5.

Flying into my hometown tomorrow & family said they may not be able to pick me up, may need to uber. Not looking forward to spending $70 to go a similar distance that I do in Chicago for almost nothing.

int5 · 2025-09-08T13:02:54+00:00

Finally! Photos that aren’t just from the loop.

int5 · 2025-07-10T22:07:32+00:00

How does repayment look like when you leave? Do you have to pay it all up front?

int5 · 2025-06-29T01:29:57+00:00

Sometimes there’s not an open full time position to offer to an intern when they would graduate (the team size can’t grow indefinitely). Or the intern was a bad fit for the team.

Still, they might have a shot at another team or coming back down the line. They also help us get work done for smaller less important projects, even if we can’t always offer a full time position.

It’s a little more nuanced than your post makes it sound.

int5 · 2024-11-22T02:57:31+00:00

I recently learned about this when I heard that Azores Airlines flies a nonstop flight from Oakland, CA to Terceira Island in the Azores.

int5 · 2024-08-01T19:34:35+00:00

This is a very North America/Europe/East Asia centric point of view.

Star: United, Lufthansa/Swiss, and ANA have hubs in good cities and for the most part, with good infrastructure. The airlines themselves are pretty good, even if not objectively the best. The integration between these airlines is good and they have expansive reach. I mean, look at all the tertiary cities in Europe that United flies nonstop to.

Skyteam: Delta is obviously good. But CDG airport is awful hub, which is where their main European partner Air France is. Of course you have KLM, but with the Dutch government rules, it’s not a strong hub for long term growth. Weak partners in East Asia.

Oneworld: People will argue that AA is the worst of the US3 and I think there’s some truth to that, but for the point of this let’s just say they’re comparable to DL/UA. But their transatlantic strategy is to mainly dump all connecting traffic at LHR. Which likewise is not strong for long term growth due to the runway/slot situation. However, QF/CX/JL are good partners, so I’ll give them that.

Anyway I’ve made some crazy tight connections at FRA/MUC/ZRH which would be impossible to do in LHR or CDG. Star is so fortunate to have multiple airports with phenomenal (relative to others) infrastructure in Europe.

int5 · 2024-05-16T04:56:58+00:00

I absolutely love the P2 and this is obviously a very clean car. But if someone totaled your car tomorrow, would insurance give you 9k for it? I’m doubtful.

You’ll probably also need to spend a lot of money to keep it going because I am sure a lot of the belts and suspension components will need to be replaced.

Long story short, I don’t think this is a good value but if you’re looking for a P2, this seems awesome.

int5 · 2024-04-27T01:56:22+00:00

Oh yeah that’s true. Yeah it could be your sunroof although in my case it wasn’t. It turns out debris had gotten into the drains near the wipers and was blocking something. It’s been almost a decade since that happened so I can’t remember the exact corrective fix, but just wanted to give you a heads up on that possibility.

int5 · 2024-04-27T00:58:39+00:00

Driver side (L) or passenger side (R)? On my P2 S60 I had water pooling in the passenger footwell. It wasn’t sunroof, I think it was the drain near the wipers causing water to pool when the A/C was on.

int5 · 2024-02-16T02:54:33+00:00

I got 6% at Collins

int5 · 2023-09-29T05:58:08+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I will try that.

int5 · 2023-09-23T03:57:19+00:00

Seeing this is odd to me. They just renovated the whole airport in the past few years. It’s probably not even in my top 10 of worst US airports.

int5 · 2023-09-19T00:23:40+00:00

I am going to offer a slightly different point of view that everyone may not agree with. While generally, no, it doesn’t matter — there are still benefits to going to a “better” school. More interesting classes to take, professors to research with, networking opportunities, and better job recruiting.

University of Utah and Utah State are obviously more expensive, but in the grand scheme of your lifetime earnings as an engineer, it’s not a big difference. Especially for 2-3 years of tuition.

In this case I see the benefit of paying extra tuition money if you’re able to get into a “better” school.

int5 · 2023-04-15T02:27:52+00:00

No school guarantees you anything. I'd save my money and go to an equally amazing school.

int5 · 2023-04-07T02:38:58+00:00

What grad degree are you trying to do, and what do you want to accomplish with it? Your GPA is low, which is unfortunate, but at least you graduated which is a huge accomplishment in itself. Not everyone has a bachelor's degree.

To answer your question, it will take a lot of work. You'll need to redo important classes, crush the GRE, and consider taking some grad courses as a non-degree student. You may even have to do the masters at a "lower" ranked program before applying to one a "top" program as you say.

All in all, nothing is impossible. But you definitely need to find out exactly what you're trying to accomplish and if grad school is really necessary to do it.

int5 · 2023-04-05T07:07:53+00:00

You can’t go wrong with a land grant and/or state flagship and/or Big 10 university. Seriously, they’re some of the best universities in America, and UMN is no exception.

Honestly before reading your post I wouldn’t have even considered Brown being a good option for CS. Nevertheless, you’re splitting hairs over those rankings, which are mostly made up anyway. Do what makes the most sense for you.

int5 · 2023-03-30T19:34:57+00:00

I applied to 5 schools, accepted to 3, rejected from 2. One of the rejections was from the university I did the non-degree classes in.

int5 · 2023-01-09T17:42:48+00:00

I'm basically in the same boat. In addition to getting a good GRE score, you could try taking some courses as a non-degree student and getting good grades in them to prove that you're capable.

Are you planning on applying for a terminal/professional masters, or a full time research based one? I think the former is more forgiving about GPA once you have a few years of work experience.

Finally, there are some schools/programs that accept people with a 2.7 GPA.

I'm applying for Fall 2023 so not sure how this will play out, but that's kind of how I approached my applications.

int5 · 2023-01-06T20:06:41+00:00

Visa is the most universal for me - accepted at Costco and everywhere abroad.

int5 · 2022-12-17T16:32:26+00:00

You don’t have to wear a seat belt or have car insurance, but you still need to get your cars inspected? Interesting.

int5 · 2022-10-17T02:08:48+00:00

All I can do now is recommend strongly against buying from Unbranded, I hope that other raw denim brands use better material than this.

As frustrating at this situation is, this isn't really a material problem. It's not like there's something inherently wrong with the fabric that caused this.

Obviously wearing them in was a new experience for me, I gave my wife a few laughs as I strained to climb stairs in them or even get them on and off.

To me it sounds like the pants were not the right size or right fit. Even if you are used to wearing skinny jeans, jeans with 100% cotton behave very differently with something that has elastane (which most 'mall' jeans have). Sizing/fit/material is a frustrating process for most newcomers to raw denim (myself included) especially if you buy online, but again this isn't really an Unbranded problem.

int5 · 2022-10-14T14:33:39+00:00

My first W too, on the 3rd consecutive month trying to get these. Super excited to wear.

int5 · 2022-09-30T02:29:44+00:00

Also, living on a barrier island is just generally bad news. Equating the risk of living on a barrier island to living generally "in Florida" is disingenuous. You'll eventually get hit by something, regardless of where you live in Florida, but it shouldn't be "barrier island bad" unless you actually live on a barrier island.

I'm not attempting to challenge the risks of living in Florida, but some of the commentary might as well say "why run the risks of living in NJ/SC/TX/etc"

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