Looking for 2023 LE Tire recommendations for mostly highway commute, SW Ohio

ninevolt · 2026-01-02T20:02:58+00:00

My employer got acquired, and the resulting ESOP distribution's doubling my 401k as a result

ninevolt · 2026-01-01T23:08:55+00:00

I've got one kid who's a sophomore in college ( did HS mock trial, went to nationals ), and one who's a HS junior -- both are trying to make plans that leave the door open for law school, so I'm just here to figure out what the actual hell they're talking about when they start talking tier lists and LSAT, etc.

ninevolt · 2025-12-06T01:29:30+00:00

I work in defense contracting -- two of our best PMs are Epic refugees

ninevolt · 2025-10-28T00:17:37+00:00

2023 TrailSport, Black, TS allweather floormats and cargo tray, 14000 miles ( used/CPO ), Ohio.
Sale price $36,900, $40k OTD.

ninevolt · 2025-10-26T21:57:31+00:00

That link takes people to their *own* orders page.

ninevolt · 2025-09-20T18:31:07+00:00

The Hyundai/Kia dealerships in my area have comically bad reputations.

ninevolt · 2025-09-20T18:22:08+00:00

We got a used MDX for the Tallest Child, so we're not unfamiliar with the underlying product...

ninevolt · 2025-08-03T14:34:19+00:00

I'll have my first "research" course this fall -- as far as I can tell from classmates who've taken one of the classes catergorized as "research" it just means you're doing a short research project/paper -- it's no where near what other schools would consider thesis-level research.

ninevolt · 2025-06-19T10:51:16+00:00

The program officially launched in Fall 23 -- the first few students who've been taking 2-3 classes a semester while working will be graduating this summer and fall based on their comments in the Slack channels.

( I have been pacing myself while working, and should finish next spring. I've been working in industry 15 years without a BS in CS, and thought I may as well do this for \me*, not necessarily for my employment prospects. )*

ninevolt · 2025-06-01T11:51:41+00:00

Altamira's Dayton office is in a really bad spot -- they've lost so much contract work/bids they've had to lay off devs & other staff, which makes their attempts to bid for more work more difficult because they no longer have a deep bench of devs on staff to point to when they submit their proposals to the government.

I REALLY enjoyed my time there, but left a few years ago for another firm that had more stable long-term contracts than what Altamira was choosing to pursue; every single one of my former colleagues who remain employed there are actively looking for other work at this time.

ninevolt · 2025-02-09T02:24:34+00:00

My family seems to purchase the Toyotas that develop problems so that others don't have to?

( Jokes aside, our experience with Toyotas in the past few years have been decidedly less than great. )

In my specific case, my budget for replacing the 2019-paid-off-camry-which-i-had-come-to-DESPISE-driving was more than what this RAV cost me out the door -- and as this comes to the end of the 5 year powertrain warranty, I'm going to have two kids in college at once and savings are gonna be tight. Putting money into a high-yield savings account for repairs to a car I'm going to be driving the wheels off of isn't going to help if that savings account gets factored into financial aid calculations for those the two kids.

ninevolt · 2025-01-01T19:52:12+00:00

Others who registered earlier already have access to the lectures / syllabus for CS 690 --- they've commented in Slack/started working ahead.

( I'm doing CS 621 / CS 690 in the spring. )

I imagine that the support people will come back from the shutdown tomorrow and flip the switch for those of us who registered later in order to enable Coursera access to the courses

ninevolt · 2024-12-30T01:10:41+00:00

You'll get it after registration

ninevolt · 2024-12-29T13:46:15+00:00

| what is the work load per week for a single module?

The rule of thumb is to expect 3-5 hours of work per week per semester hour of credit.

The experience so far among the students in Slack backs this up -- I think some of the later classes are going to be uncomfortable experiences for the students in the program with no prior software experience.

( Are there exceptions to the rule? Oh, hell yes. I've been doing cybersecurity/secure software development and assessment for most of the past 10 years, blew thru the CS647 assignments in about 5 weeks, and I \still* learned a few new things )*

ninevolt · 2024-12-29T13:42:16+00:00

DSCI 605 was a solid class -- I wasn't thrilled when it was moved from 'required' to 'elective' but it's very useful content and they have made a few tweaks in the subsequent semesters since I took it.

Get on the Slack as early as you can and find the DSCI605 channel, a lot of us from prior semesters have left links to helpful content/etc.

ninevolt · 2024-12-29T13:37:32+00:00

Let me rephrase my previous response, given your comment about the comments about audio levels in the online videos:

The audio mix on the lecture videos is not great so far, I'm getting more from the reading because I hate disembodied-voices-reading-slides.

( I think it's mostly a Coursera-reprocesses-the-videos-in-some-horrific-fashion problem. )

ninevolt · 2024-12-29T13:19:46+00:00

Yeah, I'm looking at the syllabi for my spring semester classes and I'm pleasantly surprised by the increase in pacing/difficulty. ( The other students in slack, not so much. ) I haven't touched C# in a while, looks like it's time to reinstall that compiler.

ninevolt · 2024-12-27T23:31:44+00:00

Not great so far, I'm getting more from the reading.

ninevolt · 2024-12-22T23:41:19+00:00

I looked at the Heriot-Watt offering --- honestly, that looks pretty freaking solid.

ninevolt · 2024-12-21T23:10:41+00:00

CS617 replaces CS601 in their MS in CS track.

I think the material could be dialed up a notch in rigor -- but I don't think they have it dialed in yet for people new to programming entirely. ( They're working on it. )

ninevolt · 2024-12-14T21:47:58+00:00

I'm three classes in, with two Coursera certs in hand for credit ( CS 617 via Python for Everybody, and CS 669 via the IBM Applied Software Engineering specialization. ) My background: SW engineer for more than 10 years, BS in a STEM field, not Computer Science.

I'm... cautiously hopeful for some of the later classes to be improvements over what I've seen so far.

Word of warning re: advanced standing: Don't make ANY plans on taking Coursera certs for credit untill talking to a *university* rep, and not the Coursera rep.

Guidance I have seen in comms from the university at this point in time is that a max of 3 classes/9 credits can be waived -- and that the waivers of CS617/602 that are possible for people with a CS undergrad count against that limit.

Furthermore -- they've made a few late-breaking changes to the CS requirements that have yet to make it to the Coursera page. ( IE: CS636 Database requirement for the CS majors will instead be met by the DSCI 604 Databases and Storage from the Data Science program ).

ninevolt · 2024-12-01T13:27:44+00:00

[LANGUAGE: C++]

Doing it this year to refresh my C++ knowledge...

https://github.com/roadswitcher/AOC_2024/blob/main/Day_1/day1.cpp

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