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by nineplay 1y ago
"How the American engineering degree, sold as a solid ticket to the American dream, has become less solid for recent graduates trying to find that first job." As opposed to what? All the other recent graduates with non-engineerin
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by nineplay 1y ago
One of my background voices is constantly saying "How will you describe your current project in a job interview?". Maybe I add a little spin, maybe I highlight certain aspects, but I always have an idea of how I'd introduce
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by nineplay 1y ago
I find this all-or-nothing attitude extraordinary. Chatbots are the best personal tutors you'll ever find and I tell students so. Do you need to understand Mitosis for Bio 101? Ask your favorite chatbot. Then ask what daughter cells
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by nineplay 1y ago
I'm genuinely curious why my comment made you think I've ever claimed to be not racist, falsely or not.
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by nineplay 1y ago
Recently my daughter and I had to take a Uber home from airport at 11pm. I did not like the driver and I did not like the situation and I seriously was considering exit plans if he started going off the normal route. The next time I had to
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by nineplay 1y ago
I guess they figured out that people could still see <flagged> posts by going to /active. Disgusting.
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by nineplay 1y ago
AI and LLMs are really useful tools and engineers need to stop being all-or-nothing with them. They can't write code, they can't design code, but they can be used to make your code or designs better. Some people are turning up t
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by nineplay 1y ago
> If we adjust the question to "why don't we kill all infants after they're baptized if they will just go to heaven", the answer is because it is expressly forbidden by God in his prohibition on murder. As a parent, I
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by nineplay 1y ago
I was helping my young teen with her English homework recently and I kept thinking that I might given her more feedback a few years ago. "Maybe you could clean up this sentence...". Now I think it's good that the writing l
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by nineplay 1y ago
I could hide my head in the sand and imaging that the 'flaggers' are taking advantage of a loophole in the HN moderating system but I don't believe that anymore. > People comment on flagging only to be ignored by the manag
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by nineplay 1y ago
It is extraordinary to me how easily 'politically incorrect' stories have been suppressed on HN. I've always found this site over the top in its support of free speech. Posters angrily railed against hate speech laws. Any
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by nineplay 1y ago
People finding out and stopping use of your product only happens if people disagree with how you use your product. I guarantee you that a non-zero number of US citizens suspect that the LLMs are infested with liberal lies and are ecstatic
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by nineplay 1y ago
"Best kept secret"? People have been raving about then non-stop since the first great toilet paper shortage.
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by nineplay 1y ago
I largely agree but there is some egalitarianism with 'gifted' tracks in that they can exist poor areas. A friend of mine was the son of migrant workers who went to Stanford. He had the right combo of innate smarts, luck, caring
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by nineplay 1y ago
I think things have changed more recently, but when I was in college it was pretty easy to change from one STEM major to another. I didn't know I liked programing until my first Fortran class.
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by nineplay 1y ago
I have heard complaints that the German system is pretty class-based and forces kids to make big career decisions at a younger age then necessary. The result is that upper class kids stay upper class, working class kids stay working class.
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by nineplay 1y ago
I can't speak for all trades, but in my experience 'owning a company' and 'high quality of life' rarely go hand in hand. Owning a company is hard. It's a 24/7 job where you are managing customers, emplo
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by nineplay 1y ago
It depends on one's outlook. I know people who's attitude is both "boy that was a dumb tattoo to get at 18" and "dumb 18 year old me is still me, and I don't want to remove that tattoo any more that I want to
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by nineplay 1y ago
> What did the US democratic party ever do that was considered too left wing? Jack shit probably but that doesn't mean right-leaning Democrats are going to vote for Bernie Sanders and cross their fingers that none of his proposals g
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by nineplay 1y ago
Sheesh > First, the I-5 route avoids every major population center in the Central Valley, bypassing more than a million people who would be unserved Who the hell is has been clamoring for a faster way to get to Fresno? What a pile of sh
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by nineplay 1y ago
Why?
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by nineplay 1y ago
Yes but they take Southwest Airlines which is already really convenient.
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by nineplay 1y ago
I'm not convinced. The train is not competing with driving to SF, the train is competing with flying to SF. LAX -> SFO is 1.25 hours. There's time to the airport, time to check in, time through security of course, but there&
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by nineplay 1y ago
> stop supporting moderate politicians that appeal to no damn person I think you are right but I think half of democratic voters think the party has gone too left ( abortion, gender politics ) while half thinks it has gone too far right.
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by nineplay 1y ago
> MLK said it best: "the moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice, who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" Are you a moderate who has a bet
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by nineplay 1y ago
I'm surprised you single out Americans who on the whole still a lot more welcoming than a lot more countries in Europe and Asia. The last few months have torn that reputation apart of course, and there is loud group who would happily
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by nineplay 1y ago
I embrace my ability to anthropomorphize LLMs because I'm embracing anything that distinguishes me from LLMs. It is a distinctly living creature ability.
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by nineplay 1y ago
PG is a tech billionaire and I don't trust any of them more than I can throw them. They'll put on a nice "Don't be evil" face and then smash us under their heels.
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by nineplay 1y ago
Sounds like something Neville Chamberlain would have supported. We will at last have peace in our message boards.
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by nineplay 1y ago
Loudly complaining on a closed platform controlled by the unelected darling of the current adminstration is less impressive than he might hope. He has high profile blog that is silent on the current administration but highlights a article

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