depletedgherkin

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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   I would say two other big factors are easier access to junk food, as well as more people adopting a sedentary lifestyle. To the second point, a lot of people from my culture still eat the same portions of food that their ancestors did, whil
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   >Any video that is 9 to 11 minutes long, I automatically skip because that's the sweetspot length for maximizing ad revenue. I think that may be outdated? 10 minutes was the sweet spot for ad revenue a few years ago, but I think aro
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   It's a pleasant tangy taste that's pretty nice if you grew up eating it. Chocolate from other places sometimes feels like it's missing something...
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   I'm in Gen Z and I think I got it. The Tootsie pop commercial with the owl used to play all the time on Canadian TV.
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   I think this website is the main place keeping the term "pwned" alive haha. It's pretty much died out among Gen Z
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   I feel like changes in culture are a bigger factor than economic reasons. Around the world it's normally the poorer, not richer, countries that have more kids on average, so I don't think finances are the main story here. A lot of
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   I also wonder what widely accepted mathematical conjectures were later proven to be wrong (for example, a hypothetical answer would be if it was proved that P = NP, since most computer scientists today believe that P =/= NP).
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   For CS, CMU has a similar reputation to MIT and CalTech, even though it doesn't have as much name-brand recognition among the general public.
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   by depletedgherkin 3y ago

   "Guns aren't lawful", after reading that line I thought she might be British, but it looks like she's American. Were gun laws stricter back then or something?
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    by depletedgherkin 3y ago

    Bit of an aside, but I wonder if the rise of LLMs will lead to new programming languages being much slower to be adopted. Like you said, you might have given up on F# without ChatGPT assistance, and the main way ChatGPT is able to help with
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    by depletedgherkin 3y ago

    As a recent university graduate, yes you're exactly right. I know plenty of people who'd skip class in order to grind Leetcode or job interview prep or whatever. It did make it so CS students in general were less passionate about