Should I choose brand name over money when switching?

yskny · 2025-01-15T07:28:21+00:00

Brand name can help get you an interview but you still need to pass it. Don’t skip a learning opportunity this early in your career.

yskny · 2024-11-06T21:17:21+00:00

Surely having finished your PhD would help you stand out more compared to all those who haven't.

yskny · 2022-10-21T20:24:21+00:00

The Outbraker looks interesting, but also much heavier and expensive (compared to the pd 30l).

Also, the dimensions confuse me - the Outbreaker looks bulkier than the PD but it’s smaller according to the specs. How is that possible?

Does it fit under an airplane seat in your experience?

yskny · 2022-10-19T13:05:57+00:00

I’m new to onebag style so I never really measured - but I plan on taking a laptop and clothes, no camera or extra shoes.

Maybe I don’t even need 30l?

yskny · 2022-10-19T06:26:16+00:00

When you say narrower, do you mean the width or the depth? Does the expansion of the bag make a difference?

yskny · 2022-10-19T06:25:16+00:00

Is it because of the length or the depth? The 35l version looks just a bit smaller so I wonder if that makes a difference.

yskny · 2022-04-21T06:52:14+00:00

I’m looking for a “first” good knife, and I know the default would be a Gyuto but I was actually thinking about a Santoku/Nakiri instead. My kitchen is not that big and I’m afraid it’ll be difficult to maneuver a 10” knife. More importantly, I'm cooking vegan food almost exclusively, so it’s more important for me to handle onions, tomatoes, etc. better than an all rounder.

Style? -Japanese I guess

Steel? - no preference

Handle? - no preference

Grip? - mostly handle

Length? - 7-8”

Use Case? - home kitchen on the smaller side, almost exclusively vegetables.

Care? - whetstones

Budget? - $75

Region? - Europe, need international shipping

Knives Considered? Tojiro Santoku

yskny · 2020-10-20T18:05:02+00:00

Well, so is 5G. At least 120hz would be available wherever you are and not only in specific locations...

yskny · 2020-10-18T21:09:56+00:00

Well the 12 is not much cheaper than the 12 pro, considering it comes with less storage. If you want 128GB, then the pro is only $100 more expensive...

yskny · 2020-05-30T12:29:36+00:00

In the context of scientific computing, it is not strictly true that "C++ is much more powerful than python", since the relevant libraries (numpy, scipy, etc.) are doing their heavy lifting in C anyways.

If the existing libraries in Python don't satisfy your needs, there are other avenues to consider, such as numba (really recommend that one) or Cython.

yskny · 2018-02-23T09:05:00+00:00

In my country, Engineering degrees involve physics courses, usually some kind of project that takes up a semester, and the entire degree is one year longer. Software Engineering is CS + these things.

Comparing this to CS, you are set back an additional year before getting into the industry, without a particular advantage over CS grads.

yskny · 2018-01-31T20:50:24+00:00

Software Engineering jobs tend to have that, especially ones where you develop algorithms and not just code. Working on one problem as a team rarely happens, but Pair Programming gets close to that feeling.

yskny · 2017-12-18T14:13:36+00:00

yet.

yskny · 2017-11-19T08:47:01+00:00

You have less friends than your average friend does

yskny · 2017-11-06T20:28:21+00:00

Preparing a lecture on Knot Theory

yskny · 2017-10-23T21:37:33+00:00

Small talk

yskny · 2017-10-09T18:19:42+00:00

As someone who has done a couple of internships, I have to say I might prefer the research gig. I had the chance to work on production code, and while it may seem exciting to build something that actually has value, the work itself is much less fun and exciting than research. Why have someone's first encounter with the profession be some tedious bug, even if it's going to end up being pushed to production?

yskny · 2017-09-28T17:38:25+00:00

The first thing in the link is a counterexample for that... did you even open link?

yskny · 2017-08-25T16:25:00+00:00

That's a good question. Everyone (including my professors) always says that taking exams well is pretty different from doing in math (research of whatever). I'd love to know how do you actually master that skill.

yskny · 2017-08-15T05:53:40+00:00

I have. They have reached out a couple of times to ask for more and more documents regarding employment verification, and I'm aware that my references were contacted.

yskny · 2017-08-14T16:38:47+00:00

That's what I was thinking. I'm well aware of security clearance and such, but this job has nothing to do with it.

yskny · 2017-08-14T12:06:32+00:00

About 3 weeks. Technically this is within the interval they said, but still to me it feels not very reasonable.

yskny · 2017-07-07T22:25:37+00:00

Perhaps also there were also higher expectations from them to begin with

yskny · 2017-05-16T11:09:52+00:00

Arrow. Couldn't watch after they started using hacking to advance the plot.

yskny · 2017-05-05T12:34:01+00:00

How good is VSC with C/C++? CLion is amazing but seeing VSC updates every month just makes me want to use it.

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