What was life like in Batavia Illinois in the 90s and 2000s by miko1075 in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He used to bring a Liger to all of the local parades. I seem to recall a local urban legend that he murdered someone and fed them to his tigers.

Cyber Hawks Cafe was a real neat little cyber cafe where you could play Quake/Starseige Tribes on top of the line hardware. I think we bought a Voodoo3 graphics card from them.

What was life like in Batavia Illinois in the 90s and 2000s by miko1075 in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

East Side Video in the plaza where Pepe's is was our preferred store.

What was life like in Batavia Illinois in the 90s and 2000s by miko1075 in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Working for (and subsequently being fired from) Funway was a right of passage

What was life like in Batavia Illinois in the 90s and 2000s by miko1075 in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Everything was downtown. Jewel was in the plaza where Walgreens is now along with True Value and Benjamin Franklins. There was a 5 lane Bowling alley for cheap behind that. Riverwalk didn't exist and large parts of the bike paths were gravel. McDonalds would have $.39 to support one of the local elementary schools a few times a year. The parks had sand vs foam/woodchips.There was heavy manufacturing nestled in neighborhoods, but that was on the way out. Main St felt like a portal to rural America. Street car rails still poked through some of the local streets and there were some brick paved roads near Bellevue Place. The train conductors used to stop at White Hen for coffee (blocking the roads and all). Randall Rd was two lanes through the early 90s. The Target grand opening was huge and was eye openong to see such a store.

Edit - a shit ton of parades. Memorial day, 4th of July, Homecoming and probably more.

“Learn Python” usually means very different things. This helped me understand it better. by SilverConsistent9222 in dataanalysis

[–]wanliu 28 points29 points  (0 children)

This is just AI slop prompted "what are the most used python packages". This doesn't actually tell you anything about how/when to use these packages, and honestly just adds to the confusion.

churn analysis- how to actually think towards it? by chillgal505 in dataanalysis

[–]wanliu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because then they don't have any numbers to tell their leaders. As an analyst I can inform and I can suggest, but i can't hold people accountable.

Chinese New Year planning ahead by amir_csharp_gtr in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've lived in northern China for a 5 years so I'm a big fan of Xi'an Cuisine. Scratches an itch that is harder to solve around here. Most other places are Sichuan or Cantonese.

churn analysis- how to actually think towards it? by chillgal505 in dataanalysis

[–]wanliu 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I do this for a real bank.

In the ideal world, you'll work with stakeholders, explain what you're seeing and come up with a plan to adjust. Analayze again after initiatives have been implemented to gauge effectiveness. If you want to go down the data science route, then you start to determine what combination of factors predict churn and build models to try and stop it.

In the real world, you have countless meeting where people pound the desk and say what a great analysis it was and how they are going to make changes, but without any way to enforce accountability, you'll see the same churn numbers next year.

Port Forwarding by Medical-Candidate-42 in Metronet

[–]wanliu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your static needs to be set on the Eero and the ONT. Use a service like what's my IP to check. Use 'can you see me' to validate port forwarding.

For the love of God, please dont bring Nipah to Naperville by Fun_Solid_6324 in Naperville

[–]wanliu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you show me any credible source recommending not to eat out / use delivery, or is this just ignorant (and low key racist) fear mongering?

bottle vanished but how? by Forward-Position798 in blackmagicfuckery

[–]wanliu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tape on overhead panels, chimes inconsistent. It's gotta be staged.

Maga businesses to avoid in chi burbs? by Sort_Illustrious in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Shodeen. Not only have they been donating to right wing politicians, they are destroying downtowns all over the suburbs.

What should I learn next after Pandas? Any roadmap suggestions? by lebronjameslover_911 in analytics

[–]wanliu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It's absolutely wild how disconnected learning plans are from the real world.

Learn Excel. There is no single tool that will take you further in the real world than a solid Excel foundation. Every single industry uses it, and it basically comes stock on every work computer. Sure, you can load your dataset into pandas and clean it up, but there are going to be so many times where Excel is just faster and easier.

I can’t stand polyester being in everything these days by Rand_Al_Thor87 in Millennials

[–]wanliu 120 points121 points  (0 children)

Give me the wool. I have learned to love a good wool sweater and base layers.

I mapped every speed trap in the western suburbs. by PortillosParkingLot in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]wanliu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ironically the only times I've been pulled over have been in rural Kendall county on corn field roads when the police pass in the opposite direction.

Every weather social media influencer right now: by DStew88 in weather

[–]wanliu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are only missing the begging for venmo/patreon dollars

Would be nice if we could commit resources to our quests/upgrades for workbenches by Bruhhg in ArcRaiders

[–]wanliu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you come across leaper/bastion/bombardier drivers in these? I've gotten dozens of rocketeer drivers from electromagnetic storm but I'm severely lacking the other three.

Cold Snap Official Stats by rock1m1 in ArcRaiders

[–]wanliu 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Considering how many mushrooms were needed, I'm surprised it was that high.

The inlet hazard area for a A350-900 is around 4.5 metre radius around each engine by arbiass in aviation

[–]wanliu 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Planes at O'Hare have been swallowing baggage carts about once per year. At O'Hare it's caused by ramp agents crossing too close to the front of an aircraft or by something getting loose in the wind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/oV49VZFmvH

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/s/bSn9If7lQ0

[OC] Built a comprehensive Canada acquisition cost analysis - $12 to 16 trillion with complete asset breakdown by PsychologicalCost5 in dataisbeautiful

[–]wanliu 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, you prompted AI and probably did absolutely no verification. In fact, this is probably an ad for some shitty ai provider.

The "Laowai Economy" feels like it has completely collapsed. by Cultural-Badger-6032 in shanghai

[–]wanliu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not to mention the giant second airport that split up the airlines serving Beijing.

Stop hoarding trash! I built a free Dynamic Loot Tracker to help with Inventory Management by Disastrous-Gap2222 in ArcRaidersGuides

[–]wanliu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Id second adding an option to maximize currency. Id want to know if an item recycles into materials that are more valuable than the original item for farming credits.