BeetleB

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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Varies from place to place. In some countries, the PhD program is fixed at 3 years. You either graduate by then, or you're out (in reality, they give some option for you to pay to continue, but almost no one can afford it). I suspect i
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Not much to expose. Go to any top department in the US, and there will be a handful of them. It's not exactly a secret.
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
A very US-centric perspective. Whereas the folks in Europe do it in 3-4 years, come to the US and do a 2-3 year postdoc (with higher pay than a PhD student), and are ahead of their American peers. Also, depending on where you do it in Europ
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
If you look at most decent engineering universities, are they any different if you restrict to engineering/science departments? I don't have statistics, but when I was in grad school, the mini-institute I was part of (5-6 faculty
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Isn't that what the article is saying? Less research funding == Fewer admissions. > The number of graduate student admissions is directly tied to the amount of external funding. Minor quibble: It's not merely external funding
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> "Medicare Advantage" = HMO. All the usual HMO problems. Not on Medicare, but I switched to an HMO over 10 years ago at work, and have never been happier. There are fantastic and crappy PPOs, and fantastic and crappy HMOs.
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Where in the link does it say they're opting for euthanasia due to long wait times?
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
I suggest you switch to Org mode, then :-)
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Wouldn't the credit go to ... rogue?
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> why does everything feel worse? Not to be that guy, but you own your own feelings, and no one can answer that question. > horrible UIs that won't change UIs have been crap for well over a decade - especially via the browser. I&
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Not the person who said this, but it's easy: Grow up in a country where the government listening in is common (without any transparent due process), and it becomes second nature. And then add to that how easy it is to record phone co
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> defund education, People have already addressed this falsehood. As I hinted at in another comment, more money for education doesn't help if the culture doesn't value it. And largely, US culture does not value a good education
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> They have had good public education for the past decade or two and rank high in international student rankings. I suspect good public education is a symptom, not the cause. The cause likely is valuing a good education. Culture always
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Romania?
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Looking at the 15 richest people in the world, 11 did not get rich that way.
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> flirting with the gals in town and wildlife keep me active. Let me write a memo to myself: Try flirting with wildlife to ensure longevity!
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
In a sense, it's working as intended. If you set zdr to true, you currently can't use DeepSeek v4. However, once other providers offer it (it is an open model, after all), some may allow zdr.
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
40C is not comfortable, but it's pretty normal summer weather in many parts of the world.
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> People from certain countries (particularly India) have to wait 10-15+ years because of abuse of the system. Well, the abuse is mostly happening for the benefit of people from India. But yes, it sucks that the "good" people f
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> I also think that doing layoffs in the US should disqualify you from doing any PERM or sponsoring any visa for 2-3 years. This is a very SW mindset, and makes no sense in other circumstances. If my company canceled a large SW project,
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Is the person behind archive.today the same operator as archive.is?
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> People talked socialized read books. Reading books - perhaps more than they do now, but in the 90's it was already on its way out.
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> I think the only place you have to compromise is work. Or if you have a family. The next time I say "We didn't have (to do) X in my days and things were just fine (or better)", I'll be kicked out of my house. :-)
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> The job is supposed to be treated as an open position and the recruitment is supposed to be done in good faith. So, if a qualified, willing, able, and available U.S. worker applies for a PERM job, the employer either must hire this per
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
> I'm new to my team and the codebase isn't huge, but it's large enough that there are plenty of parts I have little understanding about. When you're new to the codebase, things that take an experienced colleague one
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
First: There's the obvious "If the company is letting me do it, I'll be wasteful." This includes not clearing/compacting the context often. Opus now has a 1M context window, and quality is good to at least 200K. So
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Just recently got my first "modern" car. Man, I hate touch screens. And I hate Android Auto. My previous car had an aftermarket Bluetooth system (radio, etc). It was way , way better than Android Auto or any entertainment syste
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Oh man. I made the mistake of converting my Google Home devices to Gemini. The first problem is that it's just slow. If I want it to turn off some light, it takes a long time before responding. But yeah, the failure to do basic tasks
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
You can't name something OpenGoogle, because the Google name is trademarked. Is Warp trademarked?
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by BeetleB 6mo ago
Definitely disagree about rudeness. Only a trademark violation if a trademark has been registered. IANAL.

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