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by beezlebroxxxxxx 10mo ago
This is not hitting the problem. Most students in universities are completely fine with awful grades or expect comical levels of grade inflation. Ask a professor or TA and you'll hear about an insane level of entitlement from students
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 10mo ago
Decision making is really important for people that can play golf well. I've played with a buddy a couple times and every time it's eye opening to see how he is practically playing a different game than me. I'm just trying to
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 10mo ago
Android has frequently been ahead of Apple in terms of features for years at this point. But Apple's overall "ecosystem" is (or was) much more cohesive, so everything felt very Apple, while Android's has (for better or w
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 10mo ago
If you liked Andrei Rublev, you should check out Alexei German's adaptation of the Strugatsky brothers "Hard to Be a God." It's insane, gorgeous, disgusting, teetering on the edge of madness, and monumental. German'
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 10mo ago
I wish cegep, or an interstitial school where you have a year or 2 to just take tons of unrelated courses, was more common. So much focus is put on universities as job training that they lose a part of what historically has long made them s
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 10mo ago
They I understand it: There was a deal to ban TikTok unless ownership changes --- the original intention was no Chinese involvement, but now it seems "ownership change" means the ownership is amicable to the current president. T
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 11mo ago
> a transparent ledger The only useful application of crypto/blockchain tech I've ever seen simply takes advantage of the transparent ledger as a way of tracking receipts. One of the perfect applications is in shipping and logi
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 11mo ago
Yeah, anyone in Canada has seen AI image ads and AI video ads on youtube purporting to feature or include prominent Canadian politicians (current PM and party leaders). Youtube seems to have just wholesale given up on moderating their ad co
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 11mo ago
> You gotta ask yourself whether we really want a society where people have to already know the job before they get their first job. Where everyone is like a doctor: already decided at age 16 that this was the path they wanted to follow,
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 11mo ago
If software engineers want to be referred to as "engineers" then they should actually learn about engineering failures. The industry and educational pipeline (formal and informal) as a whole is far more invested in butterfly chasi
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 11mo ago
The scale of money is crazy in this example, but the same thing happens in the pharmaceutical/bio-tech industry.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
The amount of money in US politics and elections in particular is staggering when you think about it. In 15 weeks Kamala Harris' campaign spent $1.5 billion. That's just insane. Especially when you find out that a lot of that spen
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Well, you hear a lot about how AI will "empower" employees and generate new "insights" based off of data for analysts and execs. In reality, most executives aren't really interested in that. They'd like it for
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Every AI company is probably desperately trying to become the next "ad industry." AI is just another conduit for mass data vacuuming for "targeted" advertisements. Or they're trying to become a defense contractor.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
This is true. Also, over time, well-usable but not exactly the best looking can become the "standard" for good-looking after a while because the design becomes so ubiquitous. You could easily make a beautiful or good looking suite
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
If anything, "yellow journalism" has been the norm. Being a journalist used to be a step above parasite and ambulance chaser in popular opinion. You didn't need a college degree, let alone an Ivy league degree like today, to
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I'm sympathetic to your reasoning, and I actually think your conclusion about how people wfh is probably true (a minority finding it wildly more productive) but the problem I see is that most execs don't understand what a lot of t
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
I work a 2 in 3 out style schedule. During the 3 days I wfh, I get the most work done. I can focus and organize my day around executing a plan. During the 2 days I'm in the office, I can get answers from people much quicker. Some peopl
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Most writers kinda skip chapters. Instead, on early drafts, they focus on scenes, which might be 1:1 with a chapter, but are often 2:1 or even 3:1 with a chapter. The relationship between paragraphs, scenes, and chapters, is one way of thin
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
The ideas in it are fascinating (if also dated). The characters, though, are insanely 1 dimensional. It's very obviously a 1 micron thin story layered over the scaffold of ideas. After looking at it that way, I could get through the
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
As a career, working in aviation is extremely hierachical and seniority based. If you're old, chances are you started making an okay amount of money and now are making absolute bank. Years of collective agreements and contracts have se
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Every flight I have taken in the last 5 years in Canada has been delayed. They simply cannot run any of the routes on time.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
The real curveball is sending smoke signals to request pricing info.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Most, if not all, Canadian admissions are holistic. All the universities are pretty easy to get into as long as you have the grades, especially for undergrad. As a result, for undergrad at least, no one really cares what school you went to.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
Part of the problem is many academic institutions, even prestigious ones, simply don't prioritize teaching. They don't even really prioritize challenging education. They prioritize prestige and opportunity hoarding. The hardest pa
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
It's incredible how little interest these ghouls have in the concept of "public good." Things like the conserving the environment or public health or even something as simple as free tax filing, are just seen as aisles for sc
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
You can use 'circumvent' here, but the meaning is a little odd. That's more like heading from Mars to the Sun and finding a way around the Earth to continue to your destination. Usually, people use 'circumnavigate'
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
There already are debates about "drive by wire" in racing today, I can't imagine how bad it'll be when it's "drive by copilot."
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
One of the best plugins I have in my browser automatically works through those cookie banners to select the least invasive option. The speed and way that it simplifies the process is fantastic.
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by beezlebroxxxxxx 1y ago
It looks like he was using a very long and rather narrow kayak. Those are easier to tip. I once used a friend's friend's sprint kayak. I've never tipped a kayak, but it was very easy to tip the sprint kayak. Any waves and tha

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