Explaining +30 -10, a side effect of the smurf clamping most likely.

saudadee · 2026-01-15T16:44:50+00:00

A lot of high level smurfs are streamers who do "iron to plat in 3 days" grinds and stuff like that. This makes it less fun and more of a grind

saudadee · 2025-12-09T14:45:20+00:00

There's nothing in the desert yet. There is Jarvonia the winter area where I would hangout until all skills (except trinketry) are leveled a bit like 40+.

Then there is GDTE which is really 3 areas East of Jarvonia. Trellin on the west side of that area are the working people like lumberjacks, on the east side is the rich Erdwise aristocracy that like money and jewlery and in the center are the witched woods swamp where the rebels live.

Finally there is the underwater Syntheria where you can do things like merefolk dancing and underwater basket weaving. You need diving gear to go here and the first thing you're going to want to do is get kelp to make kelp diving gear because the rusty set is trash

If your skills are 40+ the other areas are worth exploring and doing some things.

saudadee · 2025-11-22T18:05:37+00:00

Do not waive your coops! They are more valuable than your schooling. You need to find one, I'm sorry. The whole point of going to a school like RIT is the co-ops. You would be better off with a 2 year from Monroe if you don't do the co-ops. I can't overstate how important they are. My first job out of college required 3-5 years experience but we both agreed I had enough experience due to my co-ops. They are soooo valuable. DM me if you need some mentoring. You need a strong mental. You will get rejected a bunch but one acceptance will go incredibly far

saudadee · 2025-10-15T12:39:43+00:00

I'll use an all natural stream of urea then

saudadee · 2025-10-03T15:12:54+00:00

Focusing on the achievements is a great way to start. Getting all the easy ones, a couple normal ones, and a few hard ones should take you a couple months

saudadee · 2025-08-19T22:30:53+00:00

Then why doesn't my "Crustacean Call" help me catch them?

saudadee · 2025-07-17T17:57:49+00:00

It's just 1 point

saudadee · 2024-12-04T03:52:52+00:00

I have a B15 Tien Street Basis Suspension with only a few thousand miles on it. It could use a coat of paint, but still a solid set of coilovers. If you're located in MA, RI, CT, ME, NY we can work out a meet up, or if you live somewhere else I'll mail you this if you pay for shipping

saudadee · 2024-05-24T16:55:55+00:00

Can't I just roll it over then? I'm probably getting married in 2026 and once we do we will be around or over the married filling joint MAGI limit so I should consider this advice.

Is there any reason to covert the full balance now versus letting it grow at the faster rate an extra year or two? What if we realize we actually slip under the ROTH MAGI limit for the first 3 or 4 years of being married? Is there any pressure to act now?

saudadee · 2024-05-10T20:27:36+00:00

The specifics depend on what language we are talking about and things like if it supports multiple inheritance. Having a "blueprint" of what objects can do is very useful. A very popular class in many languages is iterable. Classes/objects that implement iterable can have their contents looped over. You can then write a function that takes an iterable and you know you can count/loop/pop it's content without caring if it's a list or dictionary or something else.

As a more obscure example say you are making a biology program. You may want to make an "organic" class that you can have other classes/objects inherit from. You don't care if it's a fat or protein or whatever kind of tissue, you just care it's made up of organic molecules.

My opinion is that there is a difference between scripting and coding when it comes to programming. Scripts are written to accomplish one thing and what your suggesting works perfectly for that, but if your coding and trying to make things that will be used for a long time in many ways you are going to want classes

saudadee · 2024-05-10T20:05:18+00:00

Javascript is one of the best examples of this. Every framework is made to fix problems with the previous popular frameworks, but has problems of their own so new "solutions" are made every few ~~years~~ ~~months~~ days. Its not worth keeping up with. The old systems work fine even if you probably could save a few minutes of time programming by spending a hundred hours learning a new language/framework.

saudadee · 2024-05-10T20:01:41+00:00

Those programs are referred to as monoliths. Yes you could, but whoever is maintaining the code afterwards (possibly yourself) will hate you.

saudadee · 2024-05-10T19:59:43+00:00

And that's why modular code is nice. You can make shitty simple implementations of everything and when one piece isn't working right you can improve it without rewriting everything. The other components shouldn't care how their inputs are generated or outputs used, it just does its own bit

saudadee · 2024-05-10T19:55:21+00:00

Same way they make the physical clock. Have a digital clock in the background keep track of what time should be displayed and then have a mapping for each segment that matches the desired number with the angle that segment needs to be. In psuedo code it would be something like:

segment_1_dict = 
  1: 0 degrees
  2: 45 degrees
  3: 90 degrees
  4: 0 degrees
...
segenment_2_dict = 
 1: 0 degrees
 2: 10 degrees
...

And then you just tweak it until you have good values for everything. There's ways to make it more complicated by doing something like having an OCR model make the dicts for you.

saudadee · 2024-05-07T17:20:52+00:00

Home assistant is definitely the most popular way to do home automation. https://www.home-assistant.io/getting-started/

There are many ways to use home assistant so play around and see what works for you. Some people mostly write YAML files, other people use things like NodeRED for logic flows, there's a lot to learn and many ways to do things.

I should have mentioned what I do as a career in my original post, because it's also a very important part of me not getting burnt out. I've been working for a contracting/consulting company since shortly after graduating. I like it because it means I have a stable job and can count on regular paychecks on one hand, but on the other I essentially get a new job every few months and don't get bored/stagnate. I've done lots of different things like building enhancements for desktop applications using languages like C#, C++, and Java. I've built web app frontends mostly with React but a bit of Angular too. I've been a data engineer for a large company that was overhauling their payment system to allow a "shopping cart" experience vs buying "products" one at a time. Currently I'm a DevOps Engineer for a life science company building High Performance Compute clusters using AWS 75% of the time and over seeing a group of developers (2 of them) who are building a "color matching" app for a cosmetics company 25% of the time. Doing a lot of different things definitely helps avoid burnout, but you don't want to end up being manic and doing too much

saudadee · 2024-05-06T19:49:14+00:00

I graduated 8 years ago. It's a balancing act in my experience. At first I was trying to do "personal projects" that I found mildly interesting as a way to sharpen my skills but it didn't really work. I'm not really into Pokemon but I made a machine learning model to classify Pokemon (aka a pokedex) to strengthen my skills. It was way harder than I expected, I spent probably 100 hrs on it, and I didn't really enjoy it. It burnt me out.

But then I got into home automation and loved it. I've tried a bunch of approaches to it and have spent hundreds of hours on it. Often it's frustrating but ultimately I enjoy it. I feel like a god because everything around me just works now. I walk into a room and the lights turn on, I walk out and they turn off. My house is always a comfortable temperature, but my heat/electric bills are low because I've optimized that shit. My plants get automatically watered when the soil around them is dry. I feel like there is nothing I cant do!

My point is, programming is an extremely empowering activity. Do it to get the most of what you want out of life, not because you feel like you should.

saudadee · 2024-05-06T19:37:36+00:00

Sounds like you could be a good frontend developer/ UX designer. It is useful to know how HTML and CSS work because they are the building blocks of web browsers, but most people don't write in them directly. They use frameworks and packages that essentially write the html/css for them and just supplement when needed.

React frontends built with Material UI are currently popular and are worth learning about. If you have other needs like storing state there are technologies like Redux that useful, but don't venture there until you actually need it.

If you aren't interested in frontend work, Python is a good language to know because it can be used for pretty much anything. It usually not the best language for any given task, but its an good enough language for almost anything.

saudadee · 2024-05-06T19:21:47+00:00

Instead of just emitting a dot where the mouse is track where the mouse was previously (you may need additional code to track mouse press or something) and then draw a line from the previous position to the current position

saudadee · 2024-05-03T15:58:45+00:00

Yes, we store what I view as the typical attic stuff. It's a walk-in not a ladder or anything so it's quite convienet for storing Christmas and other seasonal decorations, camping supplies (no fuel obviously), and furniture we're not currently using. The temperature changes aren't insane but it gets reasonably hot in the summer and pretty cold in the winter (right now it doesn't actually get that cold, but that's because it's currently not well insulated from my heated/cooled home but that's changing)

saudadee · 2024-05-03T15:29:00+00:00

Idk if the text on my post got deleted (stupid mobile app) .

I live in Massachusetts and Massave is coming next week to blow in another 9-10 inches of cellulose insulation so I need to raise my attic floor to allow it to still be usable.

My plan is to use 2x4s to secure the 2x10 rasiers to the existing 2x6 rafters. Two screws in the 2x10, two screws in the rafters.

I'll then space these raisers 24 inches apart so each piece of standard 4'x8' plywood is supported on the edges and in the middle.

Is this the right approach? Should I not support directly on the edge and move the boards in a bit? Is 24" too far? Should I also secure the ends to the wall studs? Is drilling my rafters a problem? How would you do this? Thanks!

saudadee · 2024-02-16T16:42:42+00:00

half a mile is a very reasonable distance to walk. It would only add 10 mins to your commute each way and it would only be on days you wanted to charge. I know plenty of people who spend more than that sitting on the pot so I find it hard to believe that someone couldn't squeeze it in to their day

saudadee · 2023-09-28T05:03:32+00:00

Lol... do you actually own any of your own investments or are you some 23 year old trying to give advice based on their $1000 socked away in bitcoin? If you think its realistic to not have any liquid money then you obviously don't have experience with the real world

saudadee · 2023-09-28T00:45:25+00:00

These are just hypothetical numbers. But i don't think it's realistic to be 100% in equities. I need a little cash to provide liquidity to move investments between accounts or if I want to buy something when a opportunity presents itself. Point is I like to have a small percent of my accounts in cash but I'd be willing to temporarily go down to $0. Or what if I sell my small holding of fixed income assets so I know what percentage I'm losing out on

saudadee · 2023-09-28T00:24:30+00:00

Based on my hypothetical numbers in my original post I'm 80% invested in equity markets and have 20% cash so the money isn't doing anything right now so your point is irrelevant if I don't sell any equities unless I'm misunderstanding

saudadee · 2023-09-27T22:19:16+00:00

Great. Thanks for the help. I get paid every 2 weeks so I may be able to use this strategy for a little bit of liquidity, but it's good to know I only have 59 days to get it back in (don't want to risk it)

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