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by musicale 1y ago
I have heard that in some countries soccer (aka "football") is a big thing for some reason. Also the Olympics seem to be a big thing every four years, particularly in the country where they are being held; Berkeley and Stanford do
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by musicale 1y ago
More like 300 million: > AOL's former chief marketing officer Jan Brandt estimates that the company spent more than $300 million handing out all those free trials. The marketing effort allegedly cornered half of the world's CD
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by musicale 1y ago
Better faculty to student ratio (1:6 vs. 1:19). Closer proximity to actual Santa Clara (Silicon) Valley (and Google, NVIDIA, etc.) More NCAA championships and Olympic medals. Still leading in "big game" football series (though c
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by musicale 1y ago
"Follow the money" is a good point. Universities spend an enormous amount of money, and it's often hard to see what it's actually being used on. Stanford has so many administrative staff that they built a separate campus
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by musicale 1y ago
Interesting point. Elite universities offer a good education, a respected credential, and connections. Stanford is also a startup factory, being (not coincidentally) adjacent to Silicon Valley and containing a business school in addition to
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by musicale 1y ago
Stanford presumably determined that the loss of donation money would be greater than what they would have to spend to cover financial aid without help from Cal Grants.
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by musicale 1y ago
edit/correction: 21% was the original proposal but it was reduced to 8% in the final bill that was passed
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Expanding need-blind isn't the same as overall expansion. Many universities have adopted need-blind admissions (not including donor admits), eliminated or reduced student loans, and/or expanded undergraduate admissions - all effor
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by musicale 1y ago
> commonly held engineering ethics are still compatible with building weapons that directly attack other humans "Once the rockets are up, Who cares where they come down? That's not my department," Says Wernher von Braun.
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> People who design bridges and vehicles have real responsibilities and standards they are held to, yet somehow the software that actually runs these things is exempt. The most impressive accomplishment of the computing industry is avoid
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See also: > We want you to actively contribute to the discussion of ethics and computing (through the comment section or our survey ( https://tinyurl.com/CACM-ethics ) because participation is part of the computing profess
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by musicale 1y ago
> Where are professional associations like the ACM in all of this? https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics However, ACM continues to accept money from companies that routinely and systematically violate this code (for example
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by musicale 1y ago
I wonder who the appropriate musician is for Windows? (Note Windows also has a Posix compatibility layer - WSL1; WSL2 probably qualifies as using Linux, albeit wrapped in a VM.)
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> I'm a little surprised things like tagged memory and CHERI I think we're seeing some improvements in memory safety for C (e.g. -fbounds-safety in clang) and C++ (e.g. -fsanitize=address) as well as adoption of more memory-saf
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by musicale 1y ago
I certainly agree that drivers and portability are Linux's best features (NetBSD scores even better on portability and compatibility.) The point of the comparison was to say that the code and memory size cost of Multics (and its core f
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by musicale 1y ago
"It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to have merit of a particular kind harden into a new social class without room in it for others." https:/&#x
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by musicale 1y ago
> When you prefer legacy students, you perpetuate the kind of discrimination in effect when their parents and grandparents were admitted. Universities will likely claim that legacy and (especially) donor admits bring more money into the
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by musicale 1y ago
Stanford undoubtedly did the math and determined they would lose money overall (gifts are 7% of Stanford's income, tuition and fees 13%). Boo-hoo, rich university loses money. Like the 21% Trump tax on endowment income, etc. Maybe they
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> this can lead to headaches
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by musicale 1y ago
Beware of g(r)eeks bearing gifts.
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by musicale 1y ago
Regulatory entrepreneurship in action. Dodging regulations that apply to competitors is what has allowed (Uber, Airbnb, crypto, AI, etc.) to prosper. (Also paypal when they evaded banking regulations, amazon when they evaded sales tax, ...)
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by musicale 1y ago
What do I dislike about ChatGPT? How about... everything? Let's start with: Lack of permission (or even credit) for its training material. Competing with human creativity and damaging the market for creative output from real humans, in
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> No, it absolutely could not have It could have fairly trivially for the vast majority of use cases (no space between print and parenthesis if you want to call the function) but apparently that would have made some python maintainers un
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Who are the "unfit" students? Why were they admitted and what do you think should happen to them?
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A few multics features that I wish unix/linux had: - ring based security (allows for multilevel containers at user level, among other things) - better permissions by default (mandatory access control, acls, etc.) - finer-grain memory p
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I think there should be a better onramp to EE, as there often is in CS.
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Not sure that >= is going to age well.
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> it's open source so everyone was and is free to take over maintenance Open source implementations are fine, though the "if you don't like it fork/make your own" argument is, typically a way of sidestepping crit
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Java also has a pretty good compatibility story. I still use python for some applications, but it has created a lot of headaches, and also has the problem of being really slow. YMMV, but usually if you were to rewrite your c++ code in pytho
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From my perspective (suffering through the python 3 transition and living with ongoing changes in 3.x), compatibility was - and is - poorly handled. Many things can and should be done to ease the maintenance burden - things like intelligent

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