akhilcacharya

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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
You're not wrong! But the classic "get good grades, get good scores, do A, B, C, D" gets you into a school like UNC in state at best. Most people don't have the opportunities to do the sorts of things that get people int
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
From the many folks I know there the arrogance is learned once you join (and exceptionally easy to do so), but it's not a pre-requisite.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I was in-state, where the acceptance rate is around ~50%.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I had pretty good grades but I couldn’t get into any great universities with my stats. Best I could do was UNC-CH. The bifurcation is extremely real in my experience, and I’m not in the charmed class.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Pascals are still the winner in compile time benchmarks!
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
What's your point? Spread the wealth around for the rest of us regardless.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Voice chat is unnecessary to me and many folks, we use Discord or Skype. Local co-op is a thing in Luna, but I'm not sure about online multiplayer. But in GeForce Now I just used Steam and it worked flawlessly.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
He’d be better at it than the last guy, a low bar though.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I've played Alyx three times on two different VR headsets by two manufacturers and this is definitely not true.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
>Nvidia and Luna both took the shortcut of just running a windows VM and running the game as is The customer value add of anything on top of that is proving to be extremely thin. I used Now extensively in 2017, Luna extensively this year
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> Stadia Pro is optional Last time I signed up the Stadia Pro upsell was mandatory (you had to provide a CC). This was annoying because I was interested just in Destiny 2, which is free.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
This, but unironically. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-story-behind-jared-ku... Society will be far better off once Harvard's endowment is taxed and redistributed to oblivion.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
"Everyone"? Isn't that the community college that Jared Kushner went to?
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
The person also thinks the GA runoffs were fraudulent, for the record.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Wait until you find out who was president in 2020!
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
The 2020 election was the most decisive victory of the three and resulted in a failed insurrection so it’s not much of a comparison is it?
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
“Most of the world” called it an attempted coup in an attempt to cancel the votes of 81 million Americans.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
It’s because generational theory is bogus of course!
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
I'm convinced software engineers can be part of either of the 3 ladders, but most are in the upper middle class set.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Even on mine it keeps breaking!
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
You're right, Steve Bannon is the better equivalent Marc Rich, except probably worse.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Maybe he should have just commuted the sentences of offenders like him instead of the likes of Bannon, Levandowski, and Broidy. Makes Marc Rich look tame.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
For the record there are dozens of alt app stores on Android.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Nobody is censoring the government.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Mercer had an extremely impressive resume pre-RenTech. Don’t think Simons would have known he’d finance the far right - Simons himself is a leading progressive donor.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
Appears to be the result of an Area120 incubated project: https://avera.area120.com/
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
> least amount of money for computer parts Didn't this bite them too, via a lack of ECC and associated software development costs? Meanwhile, Amazon used off-the-shelf expensive Sun/HP machines for many tasks.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
We all use automatic standing desks now, fwiw. Allegedly for period the door-style desks were actually more expensive than normal desks but they were kept as a "cultural statement". Don't know how true that is.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
You can literally download Reddit and Twitter archives anytime you want.
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by akhilcacharya 6y ago
DNC emails weren't planning terrorist attacks.

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