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by jjmarr 1y ago
Didn't Kevin Spacey directly kill multiple people over the course of House of Cards to suddenly end a plot thread?
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I think there's a database of "known trolls" because I've stopped getting calls after I started consistently wasting their time.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
The challenge is that there's an indeterminable point at which the "cheese" stops being an integral part of the burger. For a "cheeseburger" cheese is obviously integral. For a Big Mac, it's less clear but a &q
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Every fast food place I've been to, a "plain cheeseburger" includes cheese. However, at every high-end burger place I've been to, "plain" does NOT include cheese. So there is a somewhat standard meaning. I have
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by jjmarr 1y ago
It's not abuse to open 500 Chrome tabs if they're work-related and increase my productivity. I am 100x more expensive than the laptop. Anything the laptop can do instead of me is something the laptop should be doing instead of
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Dividends create a taxable event for everyone that owns the stock. Buybacks only create a taxable event for the shareholders that wish to sell. And the share price doesn't slide down because there are now less shares on the open market
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I live in Canada and most skilled developers self-sort into the American market as it's a 2x salary differential. Important roles at multinationals are therefore hired in the USA. Even though all countries are officially "equal&qu
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by jjmarr 1y ago
it's a funny comic but Unicode was created as a "universal standard" for character encoding and has actually been successful at it. Ditto for power adapters. Every laptop now uses USB-C instead of weird barrel plugs.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
They already do for anything not in Western Europe/North America.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
You're assuming it's a binary between coding with or without AI. In my experience, a 10x developer that can code without AI becomes a 100x developer because the menial tasks they'd delegate to less-skilled employees while set
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I don't know how it was when you were applying, but when I applied in 2018 the universities knew your HS and Waterloo was doing adjustments based on your high school. Over the past 7 years other schools have done so as well. Waterloo&#
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by jjmarr 1y ago
> I have no idea what mechanism a faculty member would use to charge a highschool student. But I think that's rather unethical and useless. Finances of labs are such that this money is worthless. The faculty member is keeping the mo
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by jjmarr 1y ago
"I have tried and finished my homework" is correct to my ear (possibly because I'm Canadian), but it means successful completion as opposed to "I have tried to finish my homework" implying I didn't get around t
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Because they already have 2 years of experience due to co-op.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I'm certain by the time your kids are applying for MIT the standards will be much higher and your advice will be less relevant. I know a professor charging high schoolers to be his research assistant, because there's too many pe
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by jjmarr 1y ago
I've made far more connections in the workforce than university.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
IIT is arguably better than a lot of "elite" American universities.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Most university have their own "adjustment factors" for competitive programs, to counteract this.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Assuming you work in tech, that's because the only school that matters is Waterloo and 90+% of Waterloo students move to the USA after grad.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Lmao we still have those exact payphone models in active use at every subway station in Toronto. They're also for social connectivity in that they're maintained for the suicide hotline at this point.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
The most popular activity in GTA V isn't stealing cars. It's getting a 5-star wanted level as a mass shooter. And to this day, military recruiters use the AC130 mission in CoD to convince people to become aerial gunners.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Guarantee we'll be saying this about a disaster caused by AI code: > everyone knows you need to carefully review vibe coded output. This [safety-critical company] hiring zero developers isn't representative of software developm
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by jjmarr 1y ago
>I think part of why this arises is that there's definitely a bit of a psychological hack for humans in particular where if there's a low-probability but extremely high reward outcome, we're deeply entranced by it, and inv
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by jjmarr 1y ago
Probably more. 200 kcal (a shrinkflated bag of chips) is about 232 watt hours. A typical 4o query is 0.3 to 3 watt hours. https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-much-energy-does-chatg...
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by jjmarr 1y ago
In Western tradition, an "empire" is definitionally unassimilated in that there are multiple groups/territories ruled centrally from a metropole. A state would no longer be an empire once it assimilates disparate territorie
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by jjmarr 1y ago
The use of en dashes and short staccato sentences for rhetorical flourishes are a giveaway. AI writes like a LinkedIn post. > Why? Because LLMs don’t just autocomplete. They generate. And in doing so, they challenge our identity, not jus
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by jjmarr 1y ago
"Software engineering" will become vibe fixing. There's many jobs that can be eliminated with software, but haven't because managers don't want to hire SWEs without proven value. I don't think HN realizes how b
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by jjmarr 1y ago
That's every startup founder to an extent. What differentiates a good founder from a bad one is being right.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
There's plenty of mental skill and thought that goes into positioning yourself to move heavy things around without dying. Many of those skills are obsolete when using a forklift.
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by jjmarr 1y ago
The top 3 apps are Kilo Code, Roo Code, and Cline. These are all coding assistants. While they can be turned into waifus they're not intended as such.

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