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Matrix is an unserious project and the client ecosystem is a train wreck. The server ecosystem is not much better. The Element people, who are kind of the default Matrix people bec…

> I suspect this is a staged Zoom call for marketing purposes. How do I know this? Everyone is smiling. Oh come on, everyone is smiling because there's an infant in the leftmost 2n…

I appreciate this but in the context of this discussion when a PhD asks “is it better in industry” they do not mean going to work at a meat packing plant. Your larger point is true…

Oh not to worry, academia innovated on this concept too and for non-US citizens advisors can simultaneously hold both a students F-1 visa and their career future over them. Your po…

It’s not as common but the incentive structures in academia are uniquely enabling to abusers. In industry it’s much easier to leave tyrant bosses. I agree with your points. Many of…

Teaching classes effectively is very hard and very few people can do it. It also doesn’t pay that well and is draining and often times not that rewarding. Universities try to get p…

Not to worry, he also doesn't donate to his university.

2000 or so.

I dunno, 40 years of living in other places, stuff like this only happens in Texas and the South. There are definitely assholes in NY and Boston but they won't get up in my grill f…

I lived in Dallas and it is the only place I've lived where people would scream homophobic slurs at me in the street. I wouldn't say I'd never move back, but the situation would ha…

Sounds like Ravens progressive matricies.

How do you decide which scientists to pay? Pay them all? Then everyone becomes a “scientist” but does no work and draws a free paycheck. Pay the ones that produce good work? What i…

From the letter linked in the article: > In sum, your own oral and written statements to the OIE investigator, the Dean’s Office, and others clearly establish the following: > On M…

> the only thing you can do Don’t have kids.

Smart people get everyone else to bog themselves down with "second-order thinking" perpetually tying themselves in mental knots wondering endlessly "what happens next" and "should …

We could tell my story instead. My uncle was an electrician, I didn't take high school that seriously, so my parents wanted me to apprentice for my uncle. I said no thanks, got a l…

Sort of, but not really. From the original report: > It was the decision to cease the processor operation which finally proved fatal. Restart is not feasible since attitude is too …

> Steering was controlled by the on-board computer, which mistakenly thought the rocket needed a course change because of numbers coming from the inertial guidance system. That dev…

> The author obviusly doesn't realize that the company making the wafers for Raytheon ISN'T ALLOWED TO USE THE CLOUD. This is probably going to change. People like you said the sam…

I was over-simplifying to communicate the repetitive and dull nature of a job I'm very happy to no longer be doing. Really the game was more about "anomaly detection" and the senso…

Two points: first, even if "solid" universities are right to run away from this (and IMO they don't run away from it, they just move the IT program into the business school where y…

This kind of change has also impacted me. It shows up when I'm trying to give students advice about starting their careers, and I realize that the first jobs I had (system administ…

What's hard to get from this is a sense of quality. For one, professionals have a hard time nailing down what a "quality bug" is - if given a few different bugs and told to rank th…

There are cynical and practical reasons to use LaTeX. The cynical: While most conferences in CS advertise both a LaTeX and Word template for submissions, if you submit an article i…