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Any non-apple 4k monitor gives me an actual headache using macos because of the scaling. Windows and ubuntu on the other hand work with these monitors since they scale their os differently (I run at 4k at 150% zoom).

The solution is (unfortunately) to spend money on the lg ultrafine 5k or studio display. These have a higher PPI compared to every other monitor on the market. I run my lg ultrafine at native scaling. No more headaches and my productivity using macos 10x'd.

If you own apple devices try Apple News+

Here are the included publications: https://www.apple.com/apple-news/publications/

To connect my windows desktop to lg ultrafine - I use a bidirectional display port to thunderbolt 3 cable (amazon basics)

Here is a solution that avoids the 'noise' university environments create.

Ideally: 1. Attend an in-state university. 2. Look at your school's graduation report, which surveys students by major on their starting salary 3. Choose a program with a high starting salary 4. Take all general education classes online at a community college, starting the summer after high school graduation

This is the most probable way to achieve a high roi on college, for an average american.

“70 percent of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation, and a stunning 90 percent by the third.” -money magazine

Initial Conditions really don't mean much in the long term trend. Short term, sure.

Any book or website recs for c++?

It depends how teachers run their course.

So many teachers transitioned to grading stuff strictly during class hours so they can dip faster than students could

Minimize sugar intake.

Over the previous months of September-December I binged-ate donuts multiple times a week, partly due to lockdown depression. I developed numbness and tingling in my arms & wrists. [I'm young in mid 20s].

Cut sugar since the new year and no more tingling/numbness.

Teachers in my school district in CA work schedules that rotate between 4 hour days & 6 hour days. At most that is 26 hours / week (MWF 6 hrs/day & TR 4 hrs/day). There is also the occasional teacher/department meeting, but the district shortens Wednesdays class schedule for the students & substitutes that time with a teacher on teacher meeting.

In essence, teachers aren't working >30 hr a week. They get 2 weeks winter break, 1 week spring break, ~2.5 month summer, most every Monday holiday off. So they work about 9 months a year.

On top of that, they receive the amazing lifetime CA Pension which is like 90% of your top 5 earning years.

I looked up my teacher's salaries from high school. They make more than my CA public university STEM professors make.

About 5 years into teaching, a high school teacher will make about 60k/year regular + 25k/year in benefits. Tenured will make 120k+ in base and benefits. That is pretty good for an average of 25 hour workweek, 9 months a year.

Nothing stopping them getting another job that works between the hours of 3-10pm during the school year, putting them closer to the hours a GS analyst would work.

I’ve noticed this split in opinion from higher ups who have higher pay and thus have large, finished home offices versus others lower on the totem pole who don’t.

I know lots of 'lower totem pole' employees with a nicer WFH setup than many managers.

From what I've seen, there is a more significant reason higher ups like WFH. PG wrote an essay about the creators schedule versus the managers schedule. A managers schedule (the higher ups) spend their day flip flopping between meetings during each hour increment. Imagine having to walk/transport to a different building on/off campus for a new meeting a many times a day. It can take a lot of valuable time & potentially be exhausting. In WFH, you just click a new link to join a zoom meeting. Much more convenient.

The people doing the low level work such as coding tend to be younger. They are looking to make office connections and define their career path. Working out of an office allows for progression in both.

I use to have the same thought process as you: instantly sold on devices with native hdmi, usb a & usb c. By that metric xps beats macbook.

Recently I tried to convert to a windows laptop from my 16 inch mbp. Upon switching I was constantly annoyed by the fan noise & using my pinkie to press the 'control' key opposed to macbook thumb on 'command' key.

The point is, I realized native port selection was not a metric to consider when purchasing a laptop. I am fine bringing an adapter to the meeting room.

I guess it comes down to what you value. I am just trying to play 'devil's advocate' with my anecdotal experience compared to your experience.

TLDR: For full experience of clubhouse content, 'you had to be there'. No on-demand content.

Hmm didn't work for me. DisplayLink never showed up in system preferences to allow screen recording. Couldn't find any solution online.

Anyone have a fix?

I don't ever remember a girl telling me how dumb she is.

Thats because girls blame it on their *astrological sign*

In all seriousness, I truly believe girls mature way earlier than guys. Just look at insurance rates.

Here is my school's method of administering online exams:

1. Use cell phone logged into Zoom that faces the cross section of my desk and myself

   a. Paper must be visible at all times & professor must be able to read text written on it
   b. Head can not move outside of Zoom's camera frame during the whole testing period
   c. You can not look around, only down at your paper

3. At end of testing period, everyone must show the pages they are about to scan & submit. You have 3 minutes to scan all pages & upload online to class portal.

I don't necessarily have a problem with this methodology to prevent cheating. I do well on these exams.

My problem is that I have friends at other universities whose professors don't Procter their exams. Their university puts in minimal effort to expose cheating (in engineering courses).

When applying to future jobs, I will showcase two worst-case possible outcomes:

    1. "Hiring managers will discount everyone's grades from the covid era because of rampant cheating." This is unfair to me because my university made my testing experience miserable to prevent cheating. Hiring managers won't know which universities/departments took attempts to prevent cheating

    2. "My resume will be tossed because I got a 3.5 gpa while others got a 4.0" The hiring managers won't know the testing procedures each individual went through. So they will just choose a higher gpa (less-risky candidate, in general).

SSRN only let me view the abstract. Here's a link to the pdf that worked for me.

https://alo.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-Statistic...

For context one short seller (Citron Research) published this video explaining their belief that GME is a $20 stock.[1]

The way I see it, Citron believes this fiasco is irrational thought about the future of Gamestop and its value.

I think this is actually about the common retail trader manipulating the 'market manipulators'. In other words, let Citron taste their own medicine.

I think Citron failed to realize in the beginning that they were playing a different game than retail traders. Citron believes this is about value investing. WallStreetBets thinks this is a David vs Goliath situation, regardless of the stock they are fighting over.

[1] https://twitter.com/citronresearch/status/135234404324660838...

When I was young, my family made me put all of my christmas/birthday money into the stock market. Intel was suggested by an adult family member who did not have a tech background. That made up a majority of my portfolio. The rest of my portfolio was allocated to a stock I chose, Apple.

Reason for Apple: At my elementary school, everyone loved using the Power Mac G5's during computer lab. Every kid had/wanted an iPod or iTouch (and eventually iPhone).

Yeah, I noticed the people who went into consulting at my school always posting snapchats of them working well past dinner time and back in the office the following morning at 7 AM.

At least the recruiters you spoke with were upfront about expectations. Do you know if there was WLB as one got into a more senior role and climbed the corporate ladder there?

This past summer I did some contracting work, putting in 80+ hr work weeks, 7 days/week. Management figured I had nothing better to do cause of covid, so they just piled on work. I'm not complaining about the work, it molded me to be a better employee. I was also fairly compensated for my time. But my health was so bad. Blood pressure sky-rocketed, resting heart rate in the 80's as a mid 20's male. Eyes red when I woke up every day. Blurry long distance vision.

Now that I have balance between work/life, I am back to an excellent blood pressure & RHR. Eyes all fine again. I learned an extremely valuable lesson last summer to never forgo life & free-time.

edit: I don't have a problem working more than a 40 hr work week. In fact, my worldview believes it is necessary to work more than the average person. I found out I can stay healthy and happy by taking Friday nights and Saturdays off. I ideally try to work/learn 55-57 hours in a normal week.

A bit off topic but I remember when Intel set up a special career fair presentation for my major.

I forget the specific role the manager was hiring for, but it sounded like a quality/reliability engineer. Basically run a bunch of tests, identify and analyze errors on newly manufactured equipment.

I immediately lost interest when the manager said the role would either work until 9 PM or start the next day at 4 AM due to an important (daily?) 7 AM meeting where the results would be presented. Ontop of that, it was required that you be on call during every weekend and most holidays. You would be required to do this for your first two years as an entry bachelor degree worker. Entering masters level students wouldn't need to be on call.

After that, he mentioned this role would pay ~$65,000 USD. Bonus < $5000. To live in the bay area. Then he bragged to us about the ability to buy intel stock at a 15% discount or something like that.

The manager presented in a room with fully qualified people to work at any FANG/Graphics/Aerospace company.

I sold all my intel stock the next day [late 2019], it made up most of my portfolio at the time. I just did not see how intel would attract talent if it over-worked and under-compensated entry level employees like that. Compared to the FANG employee getting free meals, game rooms, huge salary, etc.

Protip: Copy the link of any blog post written ontop of the medium platform and send it to yourself as a dm over twitter.

Unlimited access to articles & acts as a nice repo of the things you read.

This works because twitter owns medium and uses a special link shortener afaik. I'm guessing there is also a 3rd party website that will do this for you.

Exactly, thank you for this. I should have been more clear. I view this as risk vs reward. I minimize unnecessary interactions so I can for example, go on a date and not be worried.

What I find interesting is that before mainstream dating apps, VCs were worried about churn (if dating apps succeed in their goal, users would delete it and never come back).

Realistically dating apps just need to attract females and provide a safe space for them to meet people online. The males will follow.

Lifetime boost on bumble is $124 last I checked. So if someone only wanted to allocate $100 towards dating apps, bumble would be the best economic decision if their area is active with bumble users they find attractive.

I like the idea of that one time fee compared to the monthly IAP through tinder/hinge.

However I can’t provide any anecdotes on the paid stuff, I prefer not to spend money on those things.

Ya I feel like it was until recently that dating apps attracted normal people. Now references to ‘swiping right’ are common in pop songs.

I know many girls that will share their dating app experiences with their parents, which I find odd.

Yeah the two things I liked about using hinge: 1. You can comment&like a pic/prompt that the other person will see 2. Girls can 'invite you' to initiate the conversation

Ultimately the types of girls to use bumble in my college, home town, and when traveling aligned with the types of girls I like. I know hinge is super popular in major cities like LA/NYC. But in the suburbs of SoCal 90%ish of hinge girls seemed socially awkward and I did not find their pics/writing prompts attractive.

Yeah girls do tend to drop 'hi! :)' on bumble. You just have to be clever when responding to it. I treat it as she is signaling me to make the 'opening move' which sets the tone of the whole conversation.

You can always unmatch (on any dating app) if the conversation stales. At least bumble unmatches if the guy does not respond to the girl in 24 hours.

Bumble has been great to use as a college student, especially during covid.

I know a lot of you are married so let me put this out here: I (and most young people) will not put their romantic life on pause cause of a virus. Every dating app got an influx of people due to bordem from lockdowns.

I'm biased towards (investing in) bumble because it has anecdotally acted as the best dating 'middleman' compared to tinder/hinge. I've had only great experiences taking bumble girls on dates.

Compared to tinder, bumble has more serious people looking to date. The system is set up so girls message first and matches will expire after 24 hr. When a girl messages you first, she is already more invested in getting to you know than when a guy using a cheesy pickup line on tinder.

I've always loved the philosophy bumble took to the dating scene compared to the apps part of $MTCH.

Sine this is a competition, does someone mind explaining the reason for people to publicly post notebooks in the "Notebooks" section?

Seems counter-intuitive to provide competitors with free information, unless you are trying to throw them off.

If you currently have an intel based mbp, choose the m1 mba if you think the m1 might replace the mbp in the future (i.e. same performance in more portable form factor)

Otherwise get the ipad with keyboard & pencil if it's just a 'supplement'. Pencil provides a whole new layer of input possibilities. If you read a lot of PDF documents, ipad is also really nice.

Very cool concept, would not mind this becoming a real thing in the future!

Off topic, but does anyone know what vscode theme this story user has? https://imgur.com/xZC2beh

I like the ideas mentioned, here is another point you may want to consider:

How do you compose your text messages? Are you always the person sending multi-lined or even paragraph responses? Try fitting your message in one to two lines while keeping the general meaning.

Example: "Hey, what did you do at the beach today? I heard the weather was nice." ----->>> "Hey how was the beach"

The second response cut out unnecessary details and flows more naturally. I get better conversations with people following this method.

Without seeing a writing sample, it is hard to gauge how you express your ideas. Maybe you try to 'connect the dots' too much and over-explain things. Remember, you are writing to professionals. You are not training monkeys on how to do a job.

Watch this video: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_is_killing_la...