u/Birdwithabowtie

I just updated my MTG price guessing game!

Here's the game: https://mtg-over-under.vercel.app/

For those who don't know, MTG Over Under is a comparison game where players attempt to guess which of two cards is more expensive. If they guess right they continue, and if they guess wrong they have to try again.

Last week I posted this game and got a lot of players, but I also got a lot of feedback. A lot of players were trying as hard as possible to get the highest score, but others were just looking to have fun and the difficulty was throwing them off, so I decided to help them!

Now players have the ability to choose the minimum price difference between two cards, so that they don't have to deal with extremely close ties. (not, your score will not appear on the leaderboard if the price difference is above 0).

Have fun, and let me know if you have any feedback, I've been continuously updating the game and will continue to do so in the future!

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u/Birdwithabowtie — 2 hours ago

Wanting to do hardware oriented work, worried I'm too deep into software.

Hey y'all! I'm currently a rising sophomore in college, and I've pretty much spent the last year focusing solely on software work (fullstack and ai to be specific), but I decided to do a small little project using an ardiuno and I absolutely loved it. Creating that small project was more fun than anything I've ever done in fullstack engineering and ai engineering, but I'm worried that it's too late for me to pivot.

My entire resume is software related projects, heck I even have a small startup that focuses on software, and I'm worried that if I decide to swap to firmware/low level work/robotics, I'll be way behind all of my peers and it'll hurt me in the long term. What should I do?

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u/Birdwithabowtie — 5 hours ago

I just finished my first year of computer science and so far I've really enjoyed the work I've done so far. I've put a lot of time into some full-stack and machine learning projects, but I've just recently started to experiment with hardware and an esp kit and I'm also really liking that, but I'm not so sure how to approach the near future.

There's two things I'm mainly afraid of: 1. I'm worried that a lot of the fun parts of SWE will be automated away making the field more of a draining experience than a fun one and 2. that if I don't pick a area of focus within the next couple of months I'll be left behind and will really struggle to catch up with my peers. If you were in my shoes, how would you approach being unable to pick a niche of CS?

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u/Birdwithabowtie — 11 days ago
▲ 17 r/NEU

Not one, but TWO of my classes this semester straight up didn't return grades. I thought I had an A locked down for first year writing with Matthew Noonan, and I randomely get an A-. Same thing with my linear algebra proffessor, who I thought would give me an A until I found out that he actually gave me a B+ (he handed back tests in class but I never got my 3rd test or final back, and ever test he gave back I got a 94+). Also the syllabus for my linear algebra class said 15% of our grade would be quizzes, but not once did we actually take any, so I'm fucking baffled right now.

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u/Birdwithabowtie — 16 days ago

I currently attend a 4 year university, and I ended up getting 2 B+'s this semester, dropping my overall gpa down to a 3.72. I'm pretty devestated as I thought my grade was fine in both classes, but both refused to post grades at any point during my time in the class, so I didn't know if I was doing good or bad until the final grade was posted.

If I did my math correctly, if I get all A's next semester I should be able to get a 3.8 gpa before I send out applications next year. How badly will this impact me when I apply to transfer next year?

(I should also note that one of these classes was high level theory class graded on a curve, so only 20 of the 80 students ended up with an A/A-)

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u/Birdwithabowtie — 16 days ago