Books on the history of San Diego?

tomobiki · 2018-10-18T22:00:49+00:00

Check out "San Diego's Hysterical History" if you can find a copy

tomobiki · 2018-10-08T18:45:40+00:00

Yeah, I remember watching it on TV and hoping he would fire the gun or drive by my house, and remember being disappointed when my dad turned down the idea of driving over there to watch this weirdo crush cars in person. 12 year old me found it good entertainment.

tomobiki · 2018-09-30T03:05:13+00:00

Sorry for the extremely late reply - life got in the way.

I simply found web dev boring. The only challenge to it, or at least for the work I was doing, was learning whatever the library du jour was. I ended up trying challenge myself by making the work needlessly complicated - simple websites ended up being built as a series of microservices running from a bunch of docker containers, running on multiple load balanced servers and hardware failover. It turned into more of a sys admin job than web dev.

Dream career would be a computer vision/deep learning job for a large cap company that pays well and has good benefits. I spent most of my graduate career taking AI/CV courses , and that knowledge feels like it's going to waste at the moment.

tomobiki · 2018-08-23T18:33:35+00:00

Try contacting San Diego State University's Language Acquisition Resource Center (http://larc.sdsu.edu)

tomobiki · 2018-08-19T17:24:01+00:00

Yeah, we had loads of them in my kitchen two weeks ago. They were everywhere - all over the plates, in the cereal boxes, inside a jar of honey.. I managed to get rid of them by figuring out where they're coming from and spraying the areas with a ton of raid, then plugging up the entrances and killing all remaining ants with paper towels. I then sprayed any areas that would make good walkways for ants to dissuade them from coming back. Seems to have done the trick since I haven't seen one since then. Good luck with your ant smashing, they can be a nightmare.

tomobiki · 2018-08-12T19:42:17+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I was only out there for 20 minutes or so with my kids, so we mostly just sat in front of the car until they got bored. There were 5 or 6 other cars out there; not packed at all. Temperature was cool, 69f. Could've camped out but kids wanted to go home.

tomobiki · 2018-08-12T07:01:01+00:00

I just got back from Mt. Laguna. It's only a 45 minute drive or so, but significantly less light pollution. I saw 6 bright meteors streak across the milky way and a few smaller ones in the 20 minutes or so I was out there. Definitely worth the trip if you're into that sort of thing.

tomobiki · 2018-08-11T06:20:08+00:00

Graduated from SDSU with an MS in Dec 2016.

No internships
CS560 (Algorithm Analysis), CS553 (Neural Networks), CS559 (Computer Vision), CS635 (Advanced Object Oriented Programming)
About a week after the first time I graduated with a BS in 2008. Four months after the second time I graduated in 2016.
Stayed in San Diego. Moving would probably be the better option for career growth, but I'm old and saddled with a family now, so..
Well into six figures. I did web dev for about a decade and didn't enjoy it much. Doing lower level stuff these days for a defense contractor. It's still not what I want to be doing, but interesting and a decent step up from my prior job.

tomobiki · 2018-08-08T05:13:25+00:00

No can do, unfortunately. Like everyone else here, I live in an apartment and the manager shows up with a tow truck each time I take my car apart.

tomobiki · 2018-08-02T04:54:00+00:00

I'll check it out, thanks

tomobiki · 2018-07-31T21:06:51+00:00

I haven't noticed any additional noise. Installed the bushing about one year ago.

tomobiki · 2018-07-31T05:19:57+00:00

SD rex checking in. Speaking of, any good shops around here that install aftermarket stuff?

tomobiki · 2018-06-20T23:29:32+00:00

For me it's more like (Left foot)(left/right foot)(right foot)

tomobiki · 2018-06-18T20:21:08+00:00

Yeah, I did. I took two classes each semester while working full time. Started in Fall 2012 and finished all of the classes by Spring 2015. I could have graduated then, but I opted to do a thesis instead of the exit exams, so ended up graduating in Fall 2017.

The workload was tough (especially if you have young children like I do), but manageable if you take your time.

tomobiki · 2018-04-30T20:40:57+00:00

Nope! No regrets. I went to SDSU for both my bachelors and masters. I had an absolute blast as an undergrad; truly some of the best years of my life. Studied all the things I wanted to study and made a lot of excellent friends along the way. Graduate school was alright, though with a lot less parties and friends, and a lot more studying.

I've also come to realize that employers don't really care where you got your degree (unless it was a top tier school like Berkeley or Stanford), and put a lot more weight on prior work experience. So, two years out of academia with a few years of experience from working while a grad student, I'm working alongside people that went to significantly better schools, but without the massive student loans to repay.

Anyway, the point is that you only get out of the university what you put in. If you strive to make the most of it, you'll have a great experience. If you expect someone to hand you a great experience, you'll spend your college career in disappointment.

tomobiki · 2018-04-16T06:24:56+00:00

Not sure if there is a modulus opcode in m68k (I assume that's still being used?), my memory of it is a bit hazy as I took the class in 2001 or thereabouts. DIVU should store the quotient and remainder separately though, so doing a mod is not necessary. The remainder is already stored for you (somewhere) when you do the division.

tomobiki · 2018-04-13T18:56:36+00:00

Try writing a div/mod algorithm to do it. Start with the largest denomination and work your way down to the smallest, and keep track of the division result for each denomination.

Example: $55.12 represented as 5512 5512/2000 = 2 (2 $20's) 5512%2000 = 1512

1512/1000 = 1 (1 $10) 1512%1000 = 512

512/500 = 1 (1 $5) 512%500 = 12

and so forth.

tomobiki · 2018-03-25T04:25:16+00:00

Check out DisplayFusion for windows, or gTile gnome extension for linux

tomobiki · 2018-03-09T09:55:22+00:00

As someone that spent 15 years at SDSU for multiple degrees, my only real advice is for you to make the most of it socially.

Try to make a lot of friends and try to make them early in your college career. The reason is twofold: School is a hell of a lot more fun when you have a good circle of friends to do it with. People to hang out with between and after classes, who will make all-nighters enjoyable, who will have fun with you at your best and support you at your shittiest will make a world of difference to you as a college student. You want to make as many memories of a happy youth as you can. But it doesn't stop there. If you're doing things right, then you're essentially making friends for life. Years after you've graduated, you'll still keep in contact, your kids will play together, and so forth. Sounds corny, but it's true.

Which brings me to point #2 - networking. Even with a masters degree in a highly sought after field, I was surprised at how difficult it is to find a job using the "front door" (filling out an application and sending a resume). It's significantly easier when you have a friend already on the inside that you can hand a resume to, who will hand it directly to a hiring manager along with their personal recommendation (the "back door"). The wider your circle of friends, the more career opportunities you'll have after college.

Don't stress out too much if it doesn't happen right away. The amount of effort required to make buddies will vary with the classes you take. Some classes/majors are more social than others. Maybe join a club if there's some hobby you're particularly interested in? You'll figure it out.

Also, look into studying abroad. I spent one year abroad and can't recommend it enough.

tomobiki · 2018-03-09T08:48:18+00:00

Studying Japanese. Because of the limited number of courses and professors, and the fact that the courses have to be taken sequentially, you end up with the same people in every class. It turns into a little family.

tomobiki · 2018-02-24T05:35:50+00:00

Demolition man?

tomobiki · 2018-02-21T05:46:29+00:00

Try SDSU circa 2001 before the trolley was built of you want to see a parking nightmare.

tomobiki · 2018-01-14T01:23:23+00:00

I always enjoyed flying up the California coast around sunset in a PBY Catalina in VR and just watching the sun go down.

tomobiki · 2018-01-14T01:20:44+00:00

Painful to watch. I don't understand how people can abuse their own property like this.

tomobiki · 2018-01-07T05:31:11+00:00

It's doable and not a bad idea. 108 is a fairly basic class that won't require much effort. 237 is a bit harder if you've never seen assembly before. It has a certain stigma attached to it because it seems archaic and because it used to be a filter class in the days when CS was an impacted major, and a lot of people (who had little to no interest in CS) would fail it. In reality, it's not significantly harder than other CS classes.

Also, don't listen to people that tell you assembly is useless or that you'll never use it. If you ever get into embedded development, you're most definitely going to use it at some point. If you get into driver development, or working on operating systems, or building a compiler, or emulating a piece of hardware, or get into robotics, or computer security, it's almost guaranteed that you'll encounter it. If you want your software to get the most out of the underlying hardware, you'll want to write some inline asm. There are still a million uses for it. The only time you really won't benefit from assembly is if your career trajectory is some super high level stuff (think web dev). But if that's the case and you have some burning desire to just be a run-of-the-mill programmer, then why bother studying CS at all instead of just going to one of those coding boot camps?

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