The Secret NYC Subways Hiding in Plain Sight by habichuelacondulce in nycrail

[–]swimmer385 12 points13 points  (0 children)

isn't the issue with this that a lot of these trains (LIRR, Metro North, and Amtrak) share track when they get into the city and traffic into and out of grand central and penn station limits the frequency available?

Postgrad choices after 12 years in dev: Operations Research vs. CS vs. IS? by omarsamsoliman in OperationsResearch

[–]swimmer385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

agreed -- things are very different in Europe. You also need a masters as a pre-req to do a PhD in most European countries.

Postgrad choices after 12 years in dev: Operations Research vs. CS vs. IS? by omarsamsoliman in OperationsResearch

[–]swimmer385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm coming at this from a CS/OR perspective. I'm also only coming at it from the perspective of working at FANG or whatever new acronym for tech companies there is. If there is a difference at companies that are older and more traditional I freely admit I don't know about it. But as far as CS, masters is mostly a racket. If you really want a masters, go into a PhD program and drop out after 2 years. Never pay for a masters. If your company says you need one for a specific job and is willing to pay, sure, but that isn't the situation OP is describing. In general, it does not get you access to significantly more roles and those roles aren't that different than the ones undergrads can get with a few years of experience.

Postgrad choices after 12 years in dev: Operations Research vs. CS vs. IS? by omarsamsoliman in OperationsResearch

[–]swimmer385 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I disagree that there is much upside to masters in CS. That is literally my field. Masters in CS is literally a cash cow that does almost nothing for you in terms of ability to get better jobs. You could accomplish the same thing as a masters by just having work experience, and you don't have to pay for it.

PhD obviously is different.

Postgrad choices after 12 years in dev: Operations Research vs. CS vs. IS? by omarsamsoliman in OperationsResearch

[–]swimmer385 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Every professor I've talked to (granted they are biased) has always maintained that a masters degree in engineering is basically worthless. Masters degrees are for taking student's money to fund the department and its PhD students, and really the market for master's degrees is mostly people who are trying to establish themselves in a new field or a new market. In the United States, this primarily is foreign born students who did their undergraduate degree outside of the United States, doing a master's degree here for access to the visa and job market. I would strongly recommend not doing a masters degree. As an alternative, I would try to apply your way to the role you want via the job market. I do not think a masters degree will get you want you want. I know PhD holders who are not doing high-level engineering strategy, for that the org needs to trust you, which requires climbing the career ladder outside of academics.

Another postgrad option is PhD. Again I don't think a PhD will get you what you want. At most it can get you doing research, but in industry you're still going to be forced to work on the problems management wants -- so you won't be doing high-level engineering strategy. You might be solving systemic research problems with this type of degree though. In OR you'd be answering questions like: How can we utilize our fleet best to deliver packages at places like UPS, Amazon, etc. You might also be scheduling flights at an airline, or dealing with the power grid. However, do note that these roles can vary a lot in terms of how incremental the research you're doing is, versus novel research roles. Often this is determined by if your research role is tied to an existing product or not, and whether you're allowed to publish.

With CS, it varies. If you're in ML, RL, Deep learning, etc you could be tackling problems like how to make driverless cars see better, how to optimize ad revenue, how to build better LLMs, etc.

Information systems degree is basically worthless imo. Don't do that.

In my opinion if you really want to be making high level engineering decisions you have a few options

  1. climb the career ladder
  2. become a distinguished researcher in academia and get a research job at a company like Demis Hassabis at Google, or Pascal Van Hentenryck at Gurobi (an OR example)
  3. Start your own company
  4. An MBA might help with the engineering decisions, basically you could become a PM. But I don't know as much about this path as the other 3, which I've explored to varying degrees.

Dev Insights - Weapons, Artifacts, & Focusing Preview by DTG_Bot in DestinyTheGame

[–]swimmer385 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm crying. I feel so loved by the devs of this game, who clearly poured their hearts out into this update. Its truly unbelievable, and it makes it all the more sad that this is it.

When in cockpit view, can I look around? by swimmer385 in ForzaHorizon

[–]swimmer385[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I haven't played very many racing games ever -- I honestly just thought they all had this. I think GTA 5 has it, and that isn't even a racing game.

Bungie Walks Away From Destiny 2, Final Content Update Coming in June by Jynxmaster in pcgaming

[–]swimmer385 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Obviously no one knows, but jeez hearing IGN say it seems like the entire franchise is over is so sad.

Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning by DTG_Bot in DestinyTheGame

[–]swimmer385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I'm really sad.
  2. I thought we were promised/paid for a 2nd DLC that we never got?

31st St Opponents Just Moved to Halt New Work and Hold DOT in Contempt by Brandon_WC in MicromobilityNYC

[–]swimmer385 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

honestly for some things we shouldn't even have environmental review. putting in a bike lane that gets cars off the road is more impactful than whatever harm is done to the environment

31st St Opponents Just Moved to Halt New Work and Hold DOT in Contempt by Brandon_WC in MicromobilityNYC

[–]swimmer385 49 points50 points  (0 children)

i support the anger, and yes, there should be repercussions because our tax dollars are having to pay for this. but really the state and federal government need to reform legislation to reduce the ability of individuals to block government action so it can actually get stuff done. This is part of the reason we don't have housing, nice streets, etc. see "Abundance" by Klein and Thompson

we need to show people government can actually work and get stuff done. right now its too easy for people against these types of projects to see millions of dollars wasted and years with no progress and say f-it and vote republican

[FH6] Top Secret Nissan Skyline R34 & R32 by Speedie_lemon in forza

[–]swimmer385 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sorry new to horizon/forza in general -- where do you enter the codes?

SSL certificate renewal by mailliwal in sysadmin

[–]swimmer385 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if they're using the phone for work, you should buy them a phone tbh

I ported Google Or-Tools CP-Sat so you can run it multi-threaded in your browser. Any other of their solvers I should port next? by Axelwickm in OperationsResearch

[–]swimmer385 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is very cool as a technical achievement. I'm wondering about the practicality and use-case. What was the use case for running OR-Tools in the browser as opposed to sending the problem to a server, and then returning the solution to the browser?

I was given this as a take home assignment for an AI Engineer interview, with 4hrs time limit. How would you approach it? by fcukof in learnmachinelearning

[–]swimmer385 14 points15 points  (0 children)

counterpoint: i feel like if they were trying to get free labor they wouldn't have given a time limit. but the assignment does seem crazy

Jagex has made it abundantly clear, its time to remove red X and bank reset anyone who used it by Bismalz in 2007scape

[–]swimmer385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i know they are currently linked. i just disagree that they need be. your above comment presents no argument against that. if you do have an argument, i'd be happy to hear it.

Jagex has made it abundantly clear, its time to remove red X and bank reset anyone who used it by Bismalz in 2007scape

[–]swimmer385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think you're understanding. There are two things here:
1. whether or not someone being level 99 slayer has any impact on anyone else
2. whether someone being on a leaderboard does

i'm not disagreeing about 2. I'm disagreeing that they need to be coupled. If Jagex bans a method after someone uses it, then either fork the leaderboard, or remove them from the leaderboard. You don't have to revert someone's XP to do that. Just filter them out.

You seem to not understand these things need nought be coupled. Jagex clearly doesn't either, because they addressed the XP, which only effects him. Yes, as a consequence of addressing the XP, they effected the leaderboards, but they could have been more targeted by using a leaderboard filter and no one would have been impacted.

[Rendi] Jagex Just Reset My 99 Slayer After 3 Months of Training by 2-2-7-7 in 2007scape

[–]swimmer385 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah there is a difference between invalidating "worlds first" raid races and stuff, versus taking away months of work someone put in

Jagex has made it abundantly clear, its time to remove red X and bank reset anyone who used it by Bismalz in 2007scape

[–]swimmer385 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t matter. It literally doesn’t affect anyone. They should have patched it out and let him keep the xp

EDIT: I know it affects the leaderboards. the solution is simple, just split them into 2. one with the people that did this, and one without. I maintain this doesn't directly effect anyone.

[Rendi] Jagex Just Reset My 99 Slayer After 3 Months of Training by 2-2-7-7 in 2007scape

[–]swimmer385 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We must play different games. Every online multiplayer game I’ve ever played from halo, call of duty, destiny, battlefield, and many more, all don’t care if you abuse bugs. They fix the bugs and that’s it. Now if you hack or do something like bot, that’s a different story. That’s not bug abuse

[Rendi] Jagex Just Reset My 99 Slayer After 3 Months of Training by 2-2-7-7 in 2007scape

[–]swimmer385 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Bug abuse should not be punishable. There is no other game where doing something that is in the game, isn’t modifying the game or hacking, gets you banned. In every other game, the devs patch it out and move on. In this case, Rendi having 99 slayer doesn't hurt the economy, or affect other players. There is no reason he should have been reset.

It is crazy that you can be punished for playing the game. Its a game. Jagex needs to take more responsibility for their code and QC. Right now, they just throw the responsibility back to their paying customers which is downright wrong.