crimsonpoodle

24 M at a 3‑way fork for my life:

 ① Seattle/Portland SWE job, 

 ② unfunded CS PhD (live with in‑laws),

 ③ $90 k Columbia BME master’s. 

Which of these should I do?

Stats:

Me: 

24 M, fresh BS CS (+ physics minor, 4.45 GPA, undergraduate research internships, swift student challenge winner, US citizen)

Spouse: 

27 M, tech lead remote, $210 k comp, recession resistant job, very smart. But is not yet a citizen, temporary protective status from Syria, been in US since he was 13, scary times but ignoring it. 

Current debt: 60 k @ 14 % (2k / mo) (Consolidated credit card debt)

Accepted programs: 

• PhD CS @ UCCS  (3-4yrs, 20k per year est)

• MS Bio Medical Engineering @ Columbia (18 mo, $90 k tuition) (Have two weeks to accept/decline)

We like the PNW, the humidity and rain, and culture have been so nice(at ABnB right now). I could maybe get a tech job at about 100k, but slightly concerned with this economy, love research, my dream job would be R&D engineering job in the long term, but often requires masters/PhD. 

Or maybe I pay money and network with rich people and create a start up at Columbia, or maybe I should start working now in case my spouse gets deported and we need to do something(sorta in denial about this option for now).

Or maybe we live in big house with my spouses parents (adoptive US citizens) in the country, like we have for 5 years now, but the 40 minute commute for UCCS PhD and isolation in Colorado Springs is something my partner, and to some extent I, want to leave. (Very loving and supportive, very grateful for them but we want to be adults and decide things like what’s for dinner for ourselves). 

Or maybe I’m young and dumb and lack perspective and we should stay there until we pay down debt, but maybe moving is the jolt we need to start budgeting properly.

(Consolidated credit card debt is going down from 80k, just that partner used to have slightly excessive lifestyle, and has paid my way through college)

What do I do with my life?

So many choices right now, and they feel so final, difficulty sleeping for the past few nights.

Thank you for all your thoughts ahead of time!

Hi all, 

I'm working on my personal website, my first forway into javascript and web development.

I wanted to create a flip dot style display which has since morphed into more of a CRT look. 

You can take a look here if you like:  https://343f-66-113-2-158.ngrok-free.app/main.html

However, I've recently, when sending it to a friend, we found it only seems to work with any performance on Safari, sometimes in fact failing entirely on Chrome and Firefox.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how I might change my design to migigate this or whether there is some way to give myself more resources on firefox and chrome.

A cursary look into fixing this seems to suggest I should use RequestAnimationFrame, however, this drawing of all elements smoothly at once, while efficent, destroyes the organic effect that the timeouts gave both on the individual dot level and when refreshing line by line.

My general design is outlined here: 

I'm using HTML5 canvas; each dot is a class which redraws its section of the canvas with a 50-300 ms delay to emulate the per dot lag of a given hinge on a flip dot display. The display class again using setTimeOut(), schedules each line of the display, consisting of dots, to update at a slight offset so that you can see the display refresh from left to right. Then the rest of the program modifies the "next frame" array with text or images which I wish to be displayed. 

Thank you!

I’m working through the vulkan tutorial and came across GLFW_TRUE and GLFW_FALSE. I presume there’s a good reason but in looking at the docs it’s just defining 1 and 0, so I’m sorta at a loss as to why some libraries do this (especially in cpp?).

Tangentially related is having things like vk_result which is a struct that stores an enum full of integer codes.

Wouldn’t it be easier to replace these variables with raw int codes or in the case of GLFW just 1 and 0?

Coming mostly from C, and having my caps lock bound to escape for vim, the amount of all caps variables is arduous for my admittedly short fingers.

Anyway hopefully one of you knows why libraries do this thanks!