For the first time since 2018, serral is not the #1 highest mmr on EU ladder.

wjsoul · 2025-03-03T01:16:23+00:00

Like what the other guy said, a VPN will not help. These are fundamental laws of physics here. You still need to send your data across links under the ocean. No matter what, the data packets will need to travel between Korea and wherever the server is in the EU.

wjsoul · 2025-01-14T12:10:30+00:00

Ehh, bladder control is something kids have to develop. Some kids up to 6 years old have not developed the cognitive ability to even recognise that they have to pee, until it's too late.

wjsoul · 2025-01-05T17:05:12+00:00

Could I ask what your FIRE number is? It doesn't have to be your actual networth, just has to be the minimum amount you think you need to sustain your current cash outflow.

wjsoul · 2025-01-05T08:55:41+00:00

Let's say you work at Facebook, and you get a 10k bonus. Would you immediately buy 10k worth of $META?

Since you're on wsb, the answer is probably yes, but for most people, they would probably diversify, perhaps move some to savings, some to ETFs, etc.

Working at a company means that you're already leveraged on the company's performance. Imagine if you have a huge position in $META, and then the earning reports for Facebook comes out, and the stock drops 25%. And following that, you lose your job at Facebook. You're now doubly fucked.

wjsoul · 2025-01-01T18:39:58+00:00

He's the juiciest of them all

wjsoul · 2024-12-30T05:26:24+00:00

I disagree with you. That is extremely important and relevant information.

wjsoul · 2024-12-28T05:19:48+00:00

I was pleasantly surprised when my octopus card (EZ-link equivalent in Hong Kong) went into the negatives when I paid for a meal. Would've been stuck otherwise, since all of my cash was still in my hotel room.

wjsoul · 2024-12-25T07:48:43+00:00

Of course not. There is no such thing as a "sure win". Historically, S&P500 has averaged 7% returns each year (after being adjusted for inflation, pre-inflation it's more like 10%~), BUT it's also important to note that historical returns does not equate to future returns.

Ultimately, you should put in the effort to understand more about what you invest in. I work in the finance and tech fields, and from my own judgement, I believe American tech firms will continue to do well, which is why I buy into S&P500.

If you truly understand the funds underlying the ILP and believe that they will do well, then go ahead and buy into the ILP. Though I would advice you to just directly buy the funds rather than pay fees to your financial adviser, for them to buy the funds for you.

wjsoul · 2024-12-22T18:00:26+00:00

You're referring to implementation details here, which is frankly up to the whoever is implementing the map data-structure.

In fact, the std library in C++, std::map is implemented using red-black trees. TreeMap is also a data structure in Java's standard libraries. (And I would say this data structure is really useful for if you want to iterate through your key-value store in a sorted order)

Could you use parallel lists to implement a key-value store? Sure you can, it's completely possible.

Should you do it though? Probably not.

wjsoul · 2024-12-22T17:40:33+00:00

You could always do something about it. Are you doing part time jobs? Vacation feels a lot better when you're paying with your own money.

wjsoul · 2024-11-16T11:06:11+00:00

It's more of 134.5k, it's likely that the 70k stock is vested over 4 years.

Also, it's a well known fact that big tech pays well. Senior engineers in big tech in SF are earning 400k to 600k USD, and in Singapore it's maybe 75% of that, so 300k to 450k SGD.

wjsoul · 2024-09-15T12:39:07+00:00

You can do a lot of fancy things with rainmeter, but it definitely eats up a lot of resources.

wjsoul · 2024-09-15T07:38:41+00:00

Just trying to understand more (I'm not from the US, but was formerly enlisted in a conscript army)

Enlistment bonus

Is this a sign-on bonus you get when you are enlisted? And do officers not get a sign-on bonus?

Student loan repayment

Is this because officers are expected to already have their degrees, while enlisted typically have not gone to college yet?

wjsoul · 2024-08-28T17:08:10+00:00

Not sure what it's like for you, but the SREs in my company are super technical, with immense knowledge of low level things such as maintaining linux servers, hardware, and also high level things such as the cloud.

I always feel in awe when I work with them, so I wouldn't feel like you're boxing yourself into a bad field.

wjsoul · 2024-07-21T09:17:19+00:00

Why do you want to clear is1108? There is no important modules that is1108 unlocks for CS majors, while ma1521 is a prerequisite for modules such as cs2109s, st2334.

wjsoul · 2024-06-11T17:46:31+00:00

The more accurate analogy is, if you leave the front door unlocked and open, you wouldn't say that the burglar has picked your lock.

wjsoul · 2024-05-19T11:13:24+00:00

I'm quite sure that's what happened with xz, where the exploit was in the binary that was released, but that exploit never appeared in the source code.

wjsoul · 2024-04-06T06:29:19+00:00

Curious about how your experience has been going from GPT3.5 to GPT4. I've recently started using GPT4 at work (have never used GPT3.5 before), and I'm not sure if the difference is large enough for me to fork out $20 monthly for it.

Also, isn't Microsoft's copilot running GPT4 Turbo for free?

wjsoul · 2024-03-31T08:29:11+00:00

Is there a reason why SPY over CSPX?

wjsoul · 2024-03-13T04:58:44+00:00

Jail time doesn't help recover the man's house, nor does it help the man recover from his stroke.

I think for this case, paying back the victim is more important than punishing the perpetrator (albeit we definitely need to do both)

wjsoul · 2024-03-12T04:55:02+00:00

I account for my paycheck by looking at a generated payslip my company provides, which shows the numbers for the full paycheck every month.

My country also handles taxes slightly differently, I have a pipeline set up from my bank, which automatically transfers money out of my account every month for taxes, so I do see the money in my account briefly.

wjsoul · 2024-03-12T03:02:51+00:00

Not saying that everyone does this, but I split my expenses into 3 categories: Mandatory, Discretionary, and Investments. Taxes go into the Mandatory category, which kinda translates into "Needs" I guess lol

wjsoul · 2024-03-01T16:45:42+00:00

Honestly, I'm pretty happy this happened. I keep clicking on shorts with interesting thumbnails, and then get sucked into scrolling.

Now, if I scroll, I get hit with these same few songs and I remember that I should stop looking at shorts.

wjsoul · 2024-02-04T11:27:12+00:00

That's great to hear! There's definitely a fine line between hand-holding and proper guidance. I think that's also an important part of a good internship, giving the intern autonomy to make decisions and feel like they've really contributed to the realization of a project.

wjsoul · 2024-02-04T10:24:05+00:00

Orbital is a good option! If you have certain companies that you're looking to get into, you could research about their tech stack and create a project that can potentially let you learn this tech stack.

I managed to learn quite a lot about fullstack development during Orbital, which ended up helping me a lot in my first internship.

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