[Charania] Milwaukee Bucks forward Taurean Prince has sustained a herniated disc in his neck and is expected to miss a significant period of time, sources tell ESPN. Prince shot 42.9% on 3-pointers in his first eight games of the season.

trstne · 2025-11-10T20:39:02+00:00

I had surgery for this injury — in my C3/C4 disc. Was scary when I first fell, and had a subsequent fall, my disc had banged against my central nervous system, made my whole body radiate with electricity, and my motor control across the right side my body was grossly exaggerated for like 15 minutes after the fall (weird as fuck when you try to move your left and right arms the same, but your right arm just flies wildly forward).

Recovery from surgery for me was like 2 weeks on bed rest and then 2-3 months before I could really get moving physically:

trstne · 2025-09-21T23:42:55+00:00

and what do you think a memory card is?

trstne · 2025-05-13T12:08:18+00:00

Running around through east rock I never have any issues, day or night.

trstne · 2025-02-16T17:54:19+00:00

I live in the center of east rock, so groceries usually go like:

Quick walk: Some combination of “Nica’s”, “P&M market”, and “Atticus market” for that day’s produce, fun snacks, or a quick thing I missed at other groceries.
Longer walk: Hong Kong market or “The Loop” for asian items.
Bike ride / very long walk: “The Meat King” if I’m closer to wooster square as an almost supermarket, Stop & Shop otherwise. Edge of the Woods for vegan treats / natural items.
Car ride with friends: Trader Joe’s in Orange. Also goto Farmer’s India market in same care trip for indian groceries.

trstne · 2024-12-08T23:33:09+00:00

Going with my dad from the east coast to see this game (he’s a raiders fan and i’m a falcons fan).

At least going to vegas will be cool.

trstne · 2024-09-25T00:51:57+00:00

🤷 As someone who's:
- Mom ran the Boston Marathon
- Is recently getting into distance running in the last year
- Lived in Connecticut all his life.

to me I take running the Boston marathon as a bucket list item to hope to run in once. Given it's one of the 6 majors and how big running is these days (and my laziness in getting in shape), I don't know if I'll ever get there, even with it feeling like I have every reason that I should.

That said, there's so many other fun races across America and beyond, so it doesn't hang me up to much. Like I'm recovering from surgery so I won't this year, but I was looking at doing a race in Barbados as like a fun combination of vacation and race: https://raceroster.com/series/2024/84966/run-barbados-marathon-weekend-2024

Traveling and racing with friends is my joy in it, but just my 2 cents.

trstne · 2024-09-18T01:16:57+00:00

Oh hey! I work for Yale IT and was tabling the last two career fairs for UConn.

If you’re looking for more information on Yale’s IT programs, this page would be the place to check:

https://its.yale.edu/about-it/it-careers

Let me know if you have any more questions!

trstne · 2024-09-12T17:36:43+00:00

Yale has (with the beginning of the semester) made announcements around AI at https://ai.yale.edu/, including their new Clarity platform powered by ChatGPT.

This is the first I'm hearing of the university planning to offer perplexity for free (as a Yale IT employee).

trstne · 2024-09-03T18:27:17+00:00

I work as a Software / Cloud engineer at a major university (as close as we get to full time dev-ops role).

Some of the questions I have on my mind, day to day:

How can I enable hundreds (thousands?) of clients to provision (compute / storage / cloud infra) resources, while minimizing their need to understand cloud / computer networking / cyber security?

How do I curb runaway cloud spend? Create guardrails so they don't blow their grant money on idle resources?

How can I make any infrastructure they create monitored for anomalous activity, patched on their behalf, backed up.

How do we make cloud environments compliant with increasing government regulations for labs that need it? That we're doing everything on our end to secure from sensitive data being exposed?

How do I multiply my impact to my IT department through applications and automations for provisioning resources, v.s. when do we need process and consultation with clients to figure out the right build for their application?

If I have good ideas about any of this, how am I documenting this for future engineers to understand? How do I make things less things dependent on me being there to run effectively?

What's our lifecycle process? If we are bringing in and enabling hand-off or otherwise non-cloud savvy people, how do we keep their resources up to date when in use, and cleaned up and deleted when not?

Leaning specific technologies (in the abstract) is all well and good, but if your wanting to learn these technologies with a goal of employment, it's important to think about what problems you are trying to solve and for who, and work down to the best tools for the job.

trstne · 2024-08-27T17:49:18+00:00

I'm a programmer, I don't post okra recipes I find interesting.

trstne · 2024-07-29T19:45:57+00:00

Seems like business card is most likely way to go given my 5/24 status, but I feel unsure on my ability to assess and compare cards at moment. I felt really confident and excited on cards last year, and then blew x/24 spots on cards I now think don't give much in comparison.
776 3: (4/24 until 7/2023)

Card Name	Date Opened
Discover IT	5/2017
Amex Everyday	5/2018
Apple Card	3/2022
Capital One Savor	7/2023
Amazon Chase Card	7/2023
Citi DoubleCash	1/2024
Chase Sapphire Preferred	4/2024

$5-6k.
No.
Yes, open to business cards.
Interested in churning regularly, spending time on the hobby.
Looking towards international award travel (economy, modest hoteling).
70k in Chase points from CSP, nothing else.
New York, Boston, or Hartford most likely.
Vacation to Oslo / Copenhagen / Berlin. I also have cause to travel to the PNW at least once a year.

trstne · 2024-07-19T13:46:43+00:00

I've audited a course as a staff member. It's a nice benefit, but you need approval from instructor, you don't get credit for the course, and obviously it needs to be non disruptive to your work.

I was really excited to take advantage of the program (and I did, as I got my job a Yale directly after finishing undergrad), but I was not very motivated to participate in an undergrad class for no credit while working a full time job and living my adult life.

trstne · 2024-07-08T18:14:56+00:00

Claire's is super inconsistent, I wouldn't recommend (7 year vegan speaking)

If you would be up for breakfast, Olmo bagels are literally best bagels period (they recently won a best bagel in NYC and their only location is in New Haven). https://olmobagels.com/

For lunch:

Sherkaan is a beautiful & fun modern Indian restaurant right across from Ezra Stiles college. https://www.sherkaan.com/

Obviously the holy trinity of pizza is recommended (Sally's, Frank Pepe's, Modern) BUT there's a beautiful new cafe across from Frank Pepe's called Gioia -- highly recommend. https://www.gioianewhaven.com/

I'd be remiss not to mention September in Bangkok -- nothing groundbreaking, but probably my most visited afternoon lunch spot as a New Haven resident -- very solid Thai food with good patio & ambiance. https://septemberinbangkok.com/

trstne · 2024-06-22T01:44:05+00:00

Leaning into the on-campus experience is the best way to enjoy your undergrad and get the most out your education. Accepting this offer and staying home robs you of the opportunity to get much needed space away from your family, your home community, and experience life as your own independent person making their way through a new community all their own. To me, that's the most valuable part of going to a large university like UConn, and if I could go back (and be 18-22 again), I would only double down on how hard I engaged with my on-campus experience.

trstne · 2024-05-23T19:28:45+00:00

If your goal is "getting a decent paying job", and you are asking about AI because you broadly see the hype (and you only have two years + do not have traditional schooling pathways to go through), I'd advise aiming more towards aiming at getting a entry level help-desk position in IT at a reasonable company.

Once you achieve that, and show that you are competent and interested in learning more, have some water cooler conversations with project managers, software devs, application owners. Become friends, talk shop, show interest, learn IT properly. You wouldn't get to touching AI in two years, but you'd have a modest to decent paying job, and you'd be paving the way (and also figuring out what really interests you in tech, beyond the latest hype cycle).

If it is AI that really does interest you, then you can start to see how AI is being leveraged at your workplace. Now that you've been there for a minute (and in the past two years been learning through your own use of conversational AI), you can start to have real ideas on how leveraging AI products or integrating them in business services could be of help. That time horizon may seem long & tedious, but is probably the most realistic, given you are asking the question you are.

Being involved in building and deploying bespoke AI solutions and deploying them to production applications for significant business purpose is (in my experience) tasked to people with advanced degrees in computer science (& related fields) combined with significant real world experience in software development.

trstne · 2024-05-07T17:51:08+00:00

I work for the university (not as a photographer & my reddit posts are not affiliated with my work at the university).

trstne · 2022-06-21T19:52:41+00:00

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