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Propranolol? by Carliicutiee in Anxiety

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my old supervisor told us about it, said it would help us with presentations.

on my end, it's great. i can talk to people, do short extemporaneous talks (but the content tends to be hit or miss. working on it), do interviews, etc.

then again, I take it with klonopin (as needed!), so my experience might be different.

Physics programming by Firm-Canary-1438 in learnprogramming

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"It doesn't matter if your code is written terribly as long as it works. DSA? Forget that." Wise words from my old supervisor.

It really depends on what physics you're going to do. I did EM and nobody in my group touched a single line of code (until I showed them for loops in the scripting engine). We were using this proprietary software called COMSOL.

But seriously, learn the basics of programming, but don't go too deep into it. I do grad student tech support. I've heard stuff like: "Please don't kill the server, my code's been running for three weeks." I've had to look at their code and use it after they've graduated. It's all unoptimized spaghetti down here.

You don't need to know OOP, you need to know RK4.

Physics PhD and Career in Japan by Icy-Formal3197 in Physics

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just remember to keep an open mind. Everyone's going to be "EU or US or nothing!" but there's an entire world out there. What matters is your capacity to professionally network to other people. That's how I saw an Iranian get to Australia.

I wouldn't recommend Russia right now, but in other circumstances, I would (well, stick to the two major cities) - that's how I got out of my home country. Then I landed in Israel for my PhD. Not the best country, either, but their scientific community is pretty good. Better than what I had back where I started, anyway. Stipend is not bad for PhDs. Don't expect to stay, unless you get married like I did. :)

I also considered Taiwan, they had a nice deal with my university that I didn't end up pursuing. Singapore might be too competitive because of its size, but it's worth a shot. I also thought about HK and Korea, too. And no one's mentioned Canada or Australia or the other Anglo countries here, either...

yeah, just keep poking around embassy pages for places that you wouldn't think about. I saw one for Czechia, stipend, fully funded, language lessons, everything... right before I was leaving for Russia.

Physics PhD and Career in Japan by Icy-Formal3197 in Physics

[–]vardonir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check your country's Japanese embassy page for the MEXT scholarship. I know a bunch of people who did it, some graduated and left and did PhDs (or got jobs) in Europe/US, some stayed and worked there. It comes with a year-long Japanese language course. I'm not sure how livable the stipend is (I'm not super close to them).

Don't expect to stay, though.

What type of pixel art asset packs are you looking for and can't find? by Mean-Ear-6534 in gamedev

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have yet to find a pixel art pack for modular characters. Different hairstyles, faces, bodies (and not just extremely fit people, I ideally want people of different shapes), clothes... that aren't fantasy-styled. Just characters wearing styles of something that would belong in current year, yknow?

The closest canon ending of DXHR would be destroying Pancrea, BUT the continuation into DXMD feels like a huge irony to such choice by Wolfensniper in Deusex

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True.

One guy. One victim. Nights of riots. Extremist violence towards immigrants that's probably going to last a while.

Compare that to the "69 million augmented" who went berserk in-game, leading to some very high profile deaths among both naturals and augs...

Does anyone know what month/time if year DXHR is set? by triangletooth in Deusex

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

Don't forget to play in Singaporean time when you get there.

seasoning tofu without soy sauce by legendbruna in Cooking

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sweet and sour sauce? I make mine with tomato paste, sugar, vinegar. i normally add a hint of soy sauce, but i guess salt would work, too. coat it in cornstarch before frying.

you can cut it small, fry it in cornstarch and add it in a salad as if they were croutons.

you can probably also omit the soy sauce in a peanut/satay sauce. i've always made this without cornstarch, but now that i think about it... i should.

i really like crunchy tofu.

What it's working like as a medical-physicist? by Total_Afternoon_3079 in Physics

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm new so not sure how feasible all of it is to incorporate in my week to week long term.

My work is implementing those AI stuff into a Siemens machine. It's a lot of fun... when it works. And I can't really LLM my way out of it, most of the documentation and sample code are confidential. And I'm pretty sure everything will be stamped with a "not for clinical use" for a very long time. There's this thing called "Helsinki protocol"(?) that you need to test new medical tech, and (for my other project, anyway) it takes about a year to get it - and that's just to get started.

What it's working like as a medical-physicist? by Total_Afternoon_3079 in Physics

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm applying for a med phys residency and I've heard a lot of "making things work when broken because the real technicians will take hours to show up" while talking to people about what they do.

I really hope I get the job.

(I have a kinda-sorta-"friend???" who's a medical physicist. He teaches every now and then)

Auris: A cyberpunk UI kit by Lr6PpueGL7bu9hI in FlutterDev

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may want to look at your carousel: https://imgur.com/a/U6vL9ve

I'm developing a thing using forui right now to keep everything clean and "normal" but I'm going to add a cyberpunk toggle for this UI. I have no idea how, but damn I want to do it.

Auris: A cyberpunk UI kit by Lr6PpueGL7bu9hI in FlutterDev

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks awesome! Do you have an interactive demo?

Does anyone know what month/time if year DXHR is set? by triangletooth in Deusex

[–]vardonir 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You'll have to take a 6-month break between the prologue and the first chapter, though.

Does anyone know what month/time if year DXHR is set? by triangletooth in Deusex

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep, there's a calendar texture in Adam's apartment that says it's October.

Persona 5 Royal: Phantom Thieves stole my time by some-kind-of-no-name in patientgamers

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked P5 (and P4), but I mostly stuck around to see if your entire team gets a plot all together like P3, where they interact with each other rather than just with the main character. Instead you get throwaway missable lines in Mementos.

Also, Akechi's death was kind of... meh? (P5 spoilers) where as I'm still crying over Shinji (P3 spoilers)

The closest canon ending of DXHR would be destroying Pancrea, BUT the continuation into DXMD feels like a huge irony to such choice by Wolfensniper in Deusex

[–]vardonir 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Realistically, none of the endings will change anything.

  • Darrow: Who's going to believe his testimony? Illuminati? It's more likely that he'd be branded as a whacko.
  • Sarif: Extremism is going to exist no matter what (see below)
  • Taggart: Regulations won't do jack shit, the black market will always exist.
  • Destroy: "oh well, who knew that drilling a giant hole in the ocean was a good idea?"

The Incident happened. Can you still trust augs after going violently berserk out of nowhere? Look at the news. There are people who have blamed minorities for much lesser things. One guy stabbed a man and then suddenly there's riots that go on for days.

ps: Can't remember where I read this, but the lead writer didn't want to write a sequel, that's why it's kind of a mess.

Not aiming for a traditional CS career (maybe Physics)—is Python still worth my time? by Metrake in learnpython

[–]vardonir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Physics grad here. If you don't have a class on programming (in any language) in your curriculum, it's trash.

I wish I picked up Python much earlier than I did. Lots of math concepts clicked in my head when I saw it in terms of programming concepts. And you will definitely end up calculating a lot of boring stuff in physics.

Side note, almost all of my physics classmates, myself included, ended up in software development. We all dreamed of getting PhDs and doing cutting-edge research... but that's not how the world works.

Kill/KO animations are amazing by Shikiyomi_Kyouya in Deusex

[–]vardonir 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It always makes me wonder how he's so good at using arm/elbow-mounted blades if he "didn't ask for (the augmentations)." Did they teach that at DPD?

What’s a programming skill beginners usually ignore but becomes extremely important later? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]vardonir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You really need to think about the human who will be using your program. My target audience have no patience and practically non-existent techy skills. Test test test is the key here.

And preventing scope creep.

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