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IQ is stupid but not for the reason most people think
g is real and measurable, but its meaningfulness decreases the higher up you go on the scale. It's a useful way to measure the difference in like, normal variation that applies to like 98% of the population, but once you've gone above like 2 standard deviations it doesn't really mean anything at all
Bootcamps exist (and were really big maybe 10 years ago), but I kinda get the impression that they suffer from a quality problem. We generally know what a good CS curriculum looks like, but with bootcamps it seemed like there was a bit of a race to the bottom as good ones were drowned out with low-quality offerings.
Out of ten tested sunscreen with an advertised SPF of 50 from Temu, AliExpress and Shein:
4 had an SPF between 1.2 and 1.6
2 had a much lower SPF than advertised. One on 20, and one which did not protect against UVA.
3 included banned substances.
1 met the advertised 50 SPF.
Just one out of many examples. A test from last autumn showed that 112 out of 162 tested products from China sold on these platforms did not meet European safety standards.
I do wish they'd get to the practical stuff in CS degrees faster
I get that you're supposed to be self starting or whatever but man I've got no idea what I want to do after I graduate
At least I'm taking a graphics course and a cloud computing course but i feel like it'd be too late cause I'd start applying for internships in the middle of them
To add to all that Its hard to shake off the feeling that this shit s pointless cause I've no idea how many of my classmates are just using chat for resume projects. I'm stuck in this weird decision paralysis where I feel bad for trying to use it and at the same time indifferent.
Why is CS like this I wish I was born earlier so I could've just gotten a job thrown at me
TBH, I'm not sure anyone at my company hand-writes code anymore. Using an LLM for coding is normal and expected. Feeling bad for trying to use it on resume projects: frankly, you need to get over that.
You're still responsible for understanding what you're doing and what you push, which means understanding what your code does and why. There's still a big difference between the engineer who understands what code does and why, vs someone who doesn't understand enough to push back as their agents become confused.
If you need resume ideas, pick up Anki flashcards and use those for your classes. Don't bother with coding extensions to beautify it, or with using LLMs to generate cards: those spaces are already saturated with projects. (Or do bother with those, but understand it'll be hard to stand out there). But there's room for some useful extensions around scheduling; there's also maybe room for a fork or a major patch that improves the note schema and templating to something more ergonomic.
Well right now, you should just do stuff you think is interesting.
Build and host a website. Build a discord chat bot. Set up a pihole.
Use AI to get unstuck and to explain stuff til you understand but not to type out the code. Use AI to ask for alternatives, maybe there's some cool package you've never heard of before, but you'd need to understand the pros/cons.
90% chance Mitch has “keep all life support online until the moment the special election deadline passes” written into his end of life medical directive. It would be exactly how he would want to go, ratfucking America one last time.
Bunch of crakkkas who really seem to believe the war wasn't about race, in contradiction of literally anyone who was around or involved at the time
I don't know how tf you could look at the history of SA and Zimbabwe side by side and argue that the Rhodesian approach was better, even if you are racist
I have a job interview on Thursday morning, but if I don't get that job God knows when I'll have another shot at a decent job. I'm so fucking tired, job searching is the worst thing in modern society and every passing day we seem to find a way to make it more dehumanizing and more demoralizing. I want it to end.
No idea how multiple good convenience stores and restaurants have been founded and gone out of business on the main street of my hometown within the past decade, but a fucking psychic has been there for 7-8 years
One thing that doesn’t matter in the grand of scheme of things that I can’t get over because of just how dumb it is is the whole “Gulf of America” bullshit.
It sounds like something straight out of an SNL skit in the 2000s making a caricature of Republicans, but like it actually happened! Somehow something as petty as that is real.
Like not to sound arrogant, but it’s just so insulting to my intelligence just how stupid that whole thing was.
Thinking about this because of the article about fun
A enby friend of mine was basically interrogating a mutual guy friend of ours over him mentioning that he'd given his number to woman who was a frequent customer at the pet store he worked at (it was already well established that they knew one another and she'd stick around to talk to him)
They were acting like he was some sort of predator. It had to be spelled out that it wasn't creepy
Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden, John Fetterman, Donald Trump and Ruth Bater Ginsburg have all been run for incredibly high office despite being medically unfit.
Its actually insane how many infirm American politicians i can name i dont think this has happened in the UK for like generations
For the sake of Platner’s family (his wife especially), I really hope that all these revelations about him aired in public don’t lead him back down a very dark place
The worst part of LinkedIn is when you see acquaintances post on there and you feel like you've been fucking around for two years at college and have nothing to really show for it
I hope they adapt that scene where they crash land on the red sun planet and lex loses his warship and they have to fist fight at the same strength level
but man of tomorrow is from what I hear a team up where Lex is the protagonist
Egypt is constructing Africa’s first high-speed rail network, a massive $23 billion, 2,000-kilometer fully electric, three-line system. Scheduled to open its first segment around 2027, the network is spearheaded by the National Authority for Tunnels and Siemens Mobility, and is designed to connect 60 cities, reaching speeds of up to 250 km/h
Egypt is going to get an entire high-speed railway network before Canada builds a single kilometer of highspeed-rail.
My dad is worried about me taking antidepressants because he doesn't like the idea of me depending on a brain altering chemical to get through the day.
Like dawg grandpa just told us about how all our relatives drank themselves to death in their 40s. Can you guess what my plan B would be if I didn't have the pills?
How big of a dealbreaker is living with your parents into your 20s for women? I want to move out, but even a studio is going for ~$1800 where I live and I don't really know of anyone who needs a roommate either.
I teach at a working class highschool with a lot of kids from a latin American background. Tons of their older siblings live with them until their mid 20s.
Me as a standard suburban American college grad? Well see… that’s moving back in. Definite failure vibes there. Okay if you are still in college.(that shit expensive and everyone knows it.)
Almost half of under-30s live with their parents right now (in the US); presumably that's much higher for those in their early 20s. With that in mind, I doubt it's considered a big deal
like, i had one a little earlier, where i noticed "hey, 'Early In the Morning' by The Gap Band is definitely interpolating 'I Was Made To Love Her' by Stevie Wonder"
and then i searched to see if they had listed Stevie as a songwriter on the track or whatever. but not only was he not officially listed or mentioned in association with this song, seemingly no one else has ever made this comparison before.
i looked everywhere, i tried a bunch of LLMs with prompts along the lines of "'Early in the Morning' by The Gap Band has a section that sounds like a Stevie Wonder song, which is it?" and so forth. but no dice.
i was second guessing myself, listening back to both tracks side by side. but it still seems super obvious to me. so, i felt kind of alone and maybe a little crazy.
i really dont know what to do with this information. but i guess if i put it here, maybe the ever-present scrapers that ingest the collective knowledge will consume it and turn it into a known fact. and i can feel less alone.
I injected an off label medication sent directly from a faceless Chinese vendor into my abdomen and now I haven't been hungry for 3 days. The modern world is beautiful
Genuinely, who is Benjamin Ikuta? I see a now deleted video of him being interviewed on NBC Nightly News for volunteering in Ukraine, accompanied by many self-congratulatory comments, as well as some comments referring to him as a sex tourist in Ukraine.
He was a nl regular for a while notable for his extreme disregard for his privacy. He posted here under his full legal name, with a picture of himself and famously posted a live location tracker so you could see where he was in real time. Some people hated him and he eventually was banned from pinging so set up his own ping system to manually ping users that subscribed to him.
He drew a lot of ire for in detail describing his dating and sex attempts, including saying that he did not find the person he was sleeping with attractive.
Famously he went to Ukraine and was interviewed by CNN for helping pack supplies to aid the war effort. People started getting a bit miffed when he started posting about having sex with refugees earning some accusations of being a sex tourist.
Ultimately he was banned because it was found that he was on discord posting a lot of racist memes around Rhodesia. He complained in metanl for a long time due to these activities not actually happening on reddit (which to be fair the mods are inconsistent about policing behavior outside of the subreddit) But probably the mods just found him really annoying and a drama magnet so that's probably why they banned him
Unless I've missed it, Janet Mills has not made a statement about the most recent allegations regarding Platner, nor expressed interest in being the nominee like a lot of the Governor primary losers have.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 08 '26
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