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And how do you think people go from fresh graduates to senior devs?

Again, this ignores the second order effect of entirely gutting the personnel pipeline that is required to create new senior devs... So without a training pipeline to provide exper…

So MIT has been hiring worse professors for the last 20+ years?

Classes in college aren't everything, I found that extracurriculars in college were more important than straight A's. I have only had one company ask for my transcripts and GPA. Ev…

Then I guess you think MIT students don't learn in their first year? And havent learned in over two decades during that first year. I guess we should stop valuing MIT education as …

If it was tracked, graded, and effected your outcomes (salary & prospects)... Id bet you'd say it was less restorative! Like can you honestly say you'd feel rested if you had to we…

Seriously, and how many HNers would cite MIT as one of the best around? Well I learned over a decade ago that they have had Pass/no-credit for the first year implemented for years.…

Honestly, that game with a few changes would be very on the nose today :D

I think this is a great example of the disconnect people have in these types of conversations. You can both become a company that supplies 80% of the world with your type of produc…

Why? So we can have a government sanctioned credit score of sorts?

I think you are focusing on the survivorship bias in role models, as those successful people in your life who you view as role models are more visible to you (the younger person) b…

And that is due to external actors, aka China, not the US and it's policies. We had the ability, technology, and desire to do what China is doing now back in 2006... But instead we…

Ah yes, 20GW of new LNG based power generation is the same as the occasional backyard grill usage, or eating out at restaurants... Very whataboutism

Now with super sized data centers (touted as primarily for 'AI'), you don't even need to choose between privacy violation and environmental destruction!!! So efficient!

My work has multiple systems that require 2fa on a regular basis. It's actually quite annoying, and the alternative options to 2fa don't work for every system.

Well there are a lot of social pressures in the startup/tech world to be go-go-go. It's the pure form of grind culture, coming out of silicon valley over the last few decades.

If you were given something like $10mil, invested in index funds over the last 10 years, in nontax advantaged accounts. And your wife has health issues. No kids. Not to mention, a …

Or they made another LLM 'read' them? > You are an expert in the field of mathematics, with decades of experience. You are a reviewer of proofs, etc etc.etc.

In that case, maybe we should ponder putting 20GW of new fossil fuel power plants online just to power one new AI data center? Or the resources spent on AI, which could have been d…

Assuming it doesn't mirror the dotcom bubble

Problem I have found is the barrier to get past that actually gets younger people to read something. I regularly have grad students at a top tier university just straight up not re…

DSL was my jam back in the day. Even though it was quite large and popular, I almost never see it brought up in these discussions which has always made me think I was dreaming up t…

Man those sea people closing the straight of Ur!

Cool, and it's morally reprehensible to NOT support drastic action to curb the worst effects of climate change, and start trying our very best to prepare our children and grandchil…

Wow. Honestly I wish there was more emphasis on hardware people/startups than software. This is a prime example of why, the amount of time and effort that went into this clearly sh…