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Xeronate

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    Comment #49140098

    I think AI is better at coding than most other disciplines.

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    Comment #48995189

    also ex big tech taking prereqs in prep for accelerated 12 month BSN at st marys. time to oversaturate again! i guess inevitable at the end of the day when everyone just wants a hi…

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    Comment #48953003

    reddit does okay from a profit standpoint. reddit does terribly from a bot or even a good community standpoint.

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    Comment #48952998

    im sorry but maybe connecting to irc is a bit of a filter on the users they expect. especially with ai it should be almost no effort.

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    Comment #48390056

    It was the same thing with javascript/typescript and python. Sometimes you just have to let people think what they want.

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    Comment #48070935

    LMS doesn't improve teaching or learning. They are administrative overhead.

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    Comment #48060286

    Maintaining an LMS doesn't seem like a good use of time. You should almost always outsource pieces that aren't your core business.

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    Comment #48044689

    When I started spending 40-60 hours a week programming and wanted to spend my remaining time doing other things.

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    Comment #47176421

    I think your final sentence is more accurate than your churn argument. AI doesn't double output, but actually writing the code is only a small part of the job.

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    Comment #47176410

    I understand the vision, but how does this work on a global scale. e.g. American employees refuse to build this, but China's don't. Edit: I originally ended with "What would have h…

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    Comment #47085288

    Purely anecdotal, but my friend's dad was a professor at well respected university in California doing Cancer research and recently moved to China even though he didn't want to bec…

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    Comment #46438134

    Agree to disagree. He's setting up the argument that Z is strictly better than X.

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    Comment #46438105

    Admittedly I haven't used C# in a few years, but to my knowledge it is much more ergonomic than java and personally it's my preferred language. Only thing stopping me from using it…

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    Comment #46361629

    I worked for a publicly traded corporate elearning company that was written this way. Mainly sprocs with a light mapping framework. I agree this is better as long as you keep the s…

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    Comment #46155000

    Regarding your concerns about tutor emulation, your argument seems to be students use chatbots as a way to cheat rather than as a tutor. My pushback is its very easy to tell a chat…

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    Comment #46141372

    Is it true that it's bad for learning new skills? My gut tells me it's useful as long as I don't use it to cheat the learning process and I mainly use it for things like follow up …

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    Comment #42772476

    Agree but at the same time talking about leaving the rat race and glorifying the simple life is old hat for anyone over the age of 25. It gets annoying reading trite advice written…

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    Comment #42739370

    and no chinese nationals work in the US. oh wait yes they do. and in my experience the majority plan to return to china after making enough money.

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    Comment #42701744

    I read the main problem with hiring chip factory workers in Arizona was the factory just didnt pay enough for the long hours demanded. I looked up the median salary and its only 50…

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    Comment #42628410

    1g of sugar per serving is hardly anything. You are weakening your argument by being hyperbolic.

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    Comment #41962256

    Being productive doesn’t consume my entire life but if i’m going to do two things that feel the same I may as well do the one that has other substantial benefits to myself and othe…

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    Comment #41956961

    The article mentions one of the main appeals of factorio is you get to think like a programmer without bosses/overhead from actual work but it’s always been hard to get into games …

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    Comment #41560276

    not sure how it is with mandatory 5x a week in office. i had a good relationship with my manager (aka a lot of trust) and he basically let me do whatever i wanted (aka didnt care i…

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    Comment #41559821

    when i was there and it was 3 days a week on call definitely wasn’t exempt