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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Try to find out as much as you can about what the job/career is actually like, ask people who are in that field, if you can try to get some experience as an intern.

    The worst thing you can do is focus on a major without considering what the actual work will be like once you graduate. Even if you love studying a topic, the actual work may be much less fun in practice.

    Try to get some part-time experience of your own as you can, even at sub-entry level/intern levels it should help you know better what kinds of jobs you would enjoy full time. It’s often hard to envision a job without having some exposure to the field.


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    1 year ago

    Yeah, unfortunately while it’s very simple to set up compressor levels in a DAW or even in feature-rich players like VLC, I haven’t come across any easy way to blanket apply one to your computer’s output without weirdly looping it through something like Ableton.

    It seems like it should be so simple to have in Windows sound settings, but it’s never been an option. Sometimes there’s a toggle for “normalization”, but that gives you no control at all. You at least should be able to set compression ratio, lower threshold (in dB), and upper threshold (in dB).












  • The only issues I have are with the Battlenet launcher, it sometimes crashes during startup when first opening D4 seemingly at random but once the game is running I don’t have any issues. Currently running it on Proton Experimental.

    As far as settings go, at default settings D4 seems to be extremely taxing on the GPU (constant >=97% usage, high temps, crashes regularly after running for a while), although this seems to be common to all systems including PS5/Xbox.

    Locking refresh rate and in-game menu FPS to 50fps keeps the power and GPU usage much lower and I get stable performance with no crashes.


  • Pacers fan here, solid moves so far to get Bruce Brown and flip Duarte for a chance of Obi Toppin developing with more playing time. Both low risk, Bruce being potentially high reward. He should immediately shore up the defense which has been pretty porous at times with the young roster.

    The deal for Brown is better than it looks in terms of avg/year since the Pacers needed to get to the salary floor and it means he will be on a good value one-year contract next year which should be good regardless of if he’s a key part of the team or if they underperform and he needs to be traded to a contender. Reminds me of Myles Turner’s extension, overpay in a year you have extra money to have a bargain payroll later.

    Typical low key moves to try and accumulate incremental value, which is probably the best you can do in a small NBA market, Thunder style. Pacers are the kind of team to never be able to sign any top free agents, so getting Brown was really solid.


  • Play it on the couch sitting next to my wife while we watch tv or movies in the evenings.

    Spending nights sitting at a desktop (or monopolizing the TV) is frequently impractical and honestly unappealing to me, the SD makes it extremely convenient to play whenever.

    The other big appeal is emulation- it wasn’t why I purchased one, but setting up Emudeck and Steam Rom Manager is incredibly convenient and lets you easily run anything up to WiiU/PS3 gen seamlessly from game mode. For that alone I would recommend it, the ease of access and convenience is amazing.