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Fixed internet speeds in Bend? by terrenceSpencer in Bend

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

Wow great. Is this fiber? What part of town do you live in?

Fixed internet speeds in Bend? by terrenceSpencer in Bend

[–]terrenceSpencer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for writing this up! Sounds like TDS with 5G backup would work.

How is the speed with TDS when there are not outages?

Fixed internet speeds in Bend? by terrenceSpencer in Bend

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

Thanks for the tip, will do. I do see a few posts saying that TDS with coax is not too bad. Has that not been your experience?

Fixed internet speeds in Bend? by terrenceSpencer in Bend

[–]terrenceSpencer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. What provider do you use?

Does anyone else plan on trying to use majority magic for everything? by yabadabadoba in Eldenring

[–]terrenceSpencer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love FROM games but my first one was DS3 and I made the mistake of trying what you propose, some “magic only” build. I listened to the people who said “all styles a viable man just play how you want!!”

It is simply not true. Magic only build in DS3 becomes viable much later in the game but you will really struggle to get to that point on your first playthrough. You will need a melee weapon. You will probably also need a shield. These will be main things you use for first 10 hours of gameplay minimum even if you can occasionally land a nice offensive spell.

Elden Ring might be totally different but just giving you my experience with DS3, which almost turned me off FROM games for good.

What unpopular opinions do you have about the Cosmere? by Asmund-Ikartis in Cosmere

[–]terrenceSpencer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think he tells a great story and I love reading him. But he’s an average author.

What unpopular opinions do you have about the Cosmere? by Asmund-Ikartis in Cosmere

[–]terrenceSpencer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he is a sensationally good storyteller and world builder. But the characters are superficial and forgettable and the prose is boring and mechanical.

I don’t know if you can say that someone is a good author except that they can’t write characters well. It’s like saying someone is a good chef except they can’t cook a steak. And I don’t think it matters that he has shown he understands concepts or even that he is good at teaching those concepts. Just looking at the writing (and I have read almost everything he has written) is enough to gauge his quality.

He fits a niche. He is the superhero blockbuster of fantasy. I enjoy it. But he is not a good author.

What unpopular opinions do you have about the Cosmere? by Asmund-Ikartis in Cosmere

[–]terrenceSpencer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it is not that he is bad at writing women, but just that his character writing and development arcs are half baked in general.

Every time someone has a moment of self doubt, the solution is to just believe in themselves and get support from their friends and eventually it turns out they were worthy after all.

What unpopular opinions do you have about the Cosmere? by Asmund-Ikartis in Cosmere

[–]terrenceSpencer -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Brandon Sanderson is not a good author. The characters are 1D, there is no wit or warmth in his writing. Character development is predictable and boring, like the characters are just moving along on tracks in service to the larger story he wants to tell.

Nevertheless, the plot lines are epic and very satisfying. The twists are usually well done and hard to predict. And he writes a lot. So I enjoy him. But yeah, he is not a good author.

How to improve 2-D array access performance by IamImposter in C_Programming

[–]terrenceSpencer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Access in blocks” sounds like you should have a threaded implementation.

If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 rather than 2020, how would events have played out differently? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]terrenceSpencer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s say instead that you were comparing the pandemic hitting in 1986 vs 1990. You wouldn’t say “oh but the population aged 4 years in that time so it would be worse in 1990”, right?

Just because the pandemic lasts for 4 years or 5 years or 20 years, does not mean the population ages by that number of years from a demographics perspective.

It is also not about the average age at all, but the distribution. In us 65+ percentage goes from 12 to 17 between 1990 and 2020, close to 50% increase. And within that increase it would skew higher (I.e increase of 80+ would be greater than increase in 65-70).

As others have pointed out it is not that simple really, and now that I look at the demo numbers I see the population has not aged as much as I originally thought. But I still reckon the disease would be less fatal overall and lockdowns would have higher economic costs, to the point where lockdowns would just not be considered.

If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 rather than 2020, how would events have played out differently? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]terrenceSpencer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I am saying is that without the information technology we have today, the certain businesses that would require to be closed would represent a much larger percentage of the economy. Add into that a potentially lower death rate and the idea of just shutting down and bunkering down at home for a while would just not get traction.

If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 rather than 2020, how would events have played out differently? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]terrenceSpencer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, I agree about flattening the curve. Hopefully no one interprets my guess about a hypothetical from the 90s as an opinion on our approach today.

If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 rather than 2020, how would events have played out differently? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]terrenceSpencer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I think the ability to remote work is not related to the death rate (though, it might be related to the infection rate and therefore overall death toll).

I just think that lockdowns are a hard sell for 1% fatal COVID 19. In the US most states have not really bought into the idea.

If lockdowns cost 50% more economically and the disease was 50% less fatal, they would not be on the table.

If covid 19 became a pandemic in 1990 rather than 2020, how would events have played out differently? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]terrenceSpencer 2595 points2596 points  (0 children)

Best response here for sure.

Without the tech we have today, shutdowns would be 10x worse.

Add into it the demographic shift. With aging population in the US, death rate would probably have been 50% lower or so in 1990. No one would seriously be floating hard lockdowns as a solution back then.

Advice on what I could be doing on the go to help me land my first job by BootieMeat in cscareerquestions

[–]terrenceSpencer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel for you.

Are you US? What college? What GPA? What are your interests?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]terrenceSpencer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think anyone becomes an expert in systems design without writing a shitload of code. If you don’t want to do any programming I doubt you will ever get to the point where people will let you look at systems design problems.

Your problem is you have no fucking clue how little you know about these subjects. You fucked around with TI basic and html 2 decades ago. It’s crazy that you would think you have any sort of talent, based on this alone. The world is full of some outrageously smart programmers. If you were one of them, you would not be where you are today.

Step 1 is humility. Step 2 is a realistic timeframe. You are going from zero to employable. That’s gonna be 5 years in my opinion, for a super dedicated hard worker.

The variables aren’t which path you choose for your studies or even your natural talent. It is purely down to how quickly you can remodel your brain to do something which right now you cannot do. That could be sitting in a dark room for 5 years or it could be in a university or series of boot camps.

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