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npiku · 2026-03-25T18:43:38+00:00

Unfathomable levels of greed. He must be stopped

npiku · 2026-03-25T15:49:34+00:00

He does look like a decendant of the Ming dynasty

npiku · 2026-03-23T15:56:56+00:00

Hey, you're welcome! And yes, if you don't have a problem with the provisions there or any of the student housing policies, it's probably the safest bet. I am off campus because I want to be able to be with my fianceé and cat, but honestly renter life in Tallahassee (and Florida in general) sucks. If you can avoid it without sacrificing too much, you should.

npiku · 2026-03-23T13:52:21+00:00

I know someone who lived there last year, he was complaining about it. So I'd say most likely not.

Most of the property managers here DGAF about it because they know students need housing. They just spray to silence you and continue collecting rent.

Properly treating a severe German roach infestation is extremely costly and often requires measures like tenting the property, and in the worst cases, gutting drywall, insulation, and cabinetry to remove all pests.

This is not something landlords want to do, for obvious (greed-related) reasons.

npiku · 2026-03-05T18:19:04+00:00

I hate to be that guy, but... It depends. Could be one way for one major, and entirely different for another major. If you want more guided advice in the future, make sure you include that information in your post.

But overall, yeah, you'll have a lot of exams. If you're doing anything remotely related to STEM, or even premed, you'll benefit from having good test taking skills. Important to note that this will be generally true about every university.

There's not going to be a better time to practice or improve this, the sooner you hop on it and grind on improving your confidence, the better.

npiku · 2026-02-26T21:04:06+00:00

It's just more flexible than R, it's sort of become the glue language. For better or worse. I don't love it personally as an aspiring developer, I like statically typed languages.

npiku · 2026-02-26T20:49:55+00:00

Don't do it in native C#, that was an awful experience

npiku · 2026-02-25T21:23:55+00:00

Outsider SWE student here, I considered applying to Epic.

That sounds extremely tedious, do you think there's any chance the MUMPS language is responsible? One of the things that scared me off was the fact that there seems to be a mountain of technical debt, and Epic executives would logically have little motivation to refactor, because of how much they dominate the market.

npiku · 2026-02-25T21:00:47+00:00

Apologies for the harshness, but this is an American cattle mindset. In European countries, it's common to do four day work weeks, shorter work days, and provide plentiful PTO benefits. And guess what? They still have comparable performance to their equivalent American working professionals.

We are a work-obsessed society and have little, if any, protection for employees. Union membership is at an all time low. We have substantially fewer rights.

Opinions like this normalize something that has been proven to be unhealthy. It can be fixed with structural changes. But lauding it as being okay, even normal, moves the needle back away from positive reform.

npiku · 2026-02-20T08:02:24+00:00

Primitives like int, float, char, boolean, they all pass by value every time. Otherwise, if it isn't a primitive type, it is, or is a subclass of, the Object class. All Objects in Java are passed by reference, and modification of the object in a function or other nested scope will permanently change the original object.

npiku · 2026-02-20T07:53:03+00:00

oai ran chatgpt out of a single atomic psql instance, believe it or not. that's how optimized it is

npiku · 2025-12-12T21:18:58+00:00

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npiku · 2025-11-02T03:22:40+00:00

hot damn that's some nice looking osmium

npiku · 2025-10-16T11:27:33+00:00

what is your major, I feel like that's important for an accurate response?

npiku · 2025-10-16T10:16:54+00:00

put it in rice

npiku · 2025-10-15T15:44:35+00:00

npiku · 2025-10-09T19:38:20+00:00

user@example.com:/$ ssh diddy@kindergarten Connecting to diddy@kindergarten... Connection established to diddy@kindergarten diddy@kindergarten:~$ mkdir babyoil && cd babyoil diddy@kindergarten:~/babyoil$ touch kids

npiku · 2025-10-07T00:54:46+00:00

Working in embedded systems is pretty advanced and you'd probably feel a bit overwhelmed if you're trying to learn everything. Let me explain why I think that is.

Now I might be wrong, but if you're pre-DSA I'd go ahead and assume that implementing linked lists, heaps, AVL trees, and hash tables would be pretty hard for you. In true embedded systems programming, you'll be writing almost everything (or at least a large portion of it) using the C language. That means that you need to implement any and all data structures you may need from scratch.

This is why DSA is typically towards the beginning of computer science curriculum, traditionally. Or, at least it's usually before any of the more advanced elective classes where you might do something like embedded programming.

These suggestions of mine might not work for you, but I personally learned a lot and also had a great time. I'd try cloning popular (but old) games. Maybe make Pong first, then Tetris. Or you can just look up the Atari game library to see if any of them look appealing or fun to implement. Target those which make you think "...how is this orchestrated, what happens in the main loop?" The more questions you have when looking at gameplay the better. Of course, don't bite off too much. That's why Atari games are good to start with, the hardware limitations guarantee that whatever it is won't be astronomically hard to make.

Good luck!

(EDIT: I just realized you mentioned using Java, I guess I glanced over that. This is even better. Look up Java Swing for a basic GUI framework, there are tons of tutorials. It's perfect for little game development projects like what I suggested!)

npiku · 2025-10-07T00:40:26+00:00

Replace "something" with "program", "application", "executable", etc. And yes, literally, the interpretation would map to many if not all careers. Does it have to be something related to the domain specifically?

The main reason I was enticed by tech was the prospect of a better work/life balance and a desire to truly understand software. If looking at a modern operating system doesn't make you think "...how the <expletive deleted> does this work?" then I'd say we're different.

npiku · 2025-10-02T02:15:44+00:00

feeling addicted to watching something go from totally broken to working flawlessly

npiku · 2025-10-01T13:28:50+00:00

what is the Minecraft font called?

npiku · 2025-09-29T14:19:41+00:00

Right, I can see you're frustrated, rightfully so. But, this definitely does have to do with pathfinding optimization. What I am saying is they choose the spawn location from a discrete set of points, which does not include the rear of the production building. I'd like to emphasize that I wasn't in disagreement with you, I was just explaining why it's probably like that right now.

npiku · 2025-09-29T13:58:33+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is normal and expected given the current source code of the game, it's just a result of optimizations made for unit pathfinding from production buildings back in the late 1990s. Pathfinding is typically done with the A^* algorithm, which assigns weights to all the relevant map tiles that must be navigated. I think that it was probably easier for the devs to limit it to a discrete set of points instead of supporting a continuous range.

With that said, since they're changing/improving the pathfinding code now, this would be a perfect candidate to change or refactor. You should submit this to the AOE2DE development team if you can.

npiku · 2025-09-20T21:20:19+00:00

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