I work for a FAANG, we did previously exclude recent college grads from universities we considered "top" in the field, although Harvard, Princeton and Yale were not on that list. However that policy was eventually forced out, both because such people didn't want to work for "the man" in a non-executive capacity, and because they were often unwilling to do grunt work. It's possible this was considered a feature of the hiring process, I can't confirm it. I am not going to say what kind of executive tends to favor prestigious schools and people with top marks from prestigious schools, but I am sure everyone can guess.

We ended up doing very well just hiring qualified people with the proper degrees and backgrounds who simply enjoyed what they were doing (which of course, we grind right out of them)

Try the taco bell challenge level, your afternoons and your evenings will be intense.

I don't see a world where AI replaces or diminishes display based devices, what kind of dumbass question is that?

Claude Code uses up tokens like a donkey kong machine

Reasonable people understand that AI is a very powerful tool for a wide number of tasks that will substantially improve personal productivity. Reasonable people also know it's not taking anyone's job any time soon.

Reasonable people are not driving any of the conversations around AI right now.

Of all the kiss-cam memes on the internet, I have not yet seen that one. But the world needs it.

Not excusing them. However, of all the awful things happening in the US state and local governments, this one doesn't really rate. Not many people can 3D print, and even fewer will choose to print guns. If those that want to print guns are mildly determined, they'll be able to get the files to do so. So this is a great evil, but microscopic impact. It needs to be fixed, but not at huge cost. if I had to bargain with the other side, I'd give this up in favor of something more important.

By comparison, allowing billionaires to keep breathing, depriving women of the right to abortion, marginalizing out-groups and merging the church and state are great evils which impact nearly everyone. These are the big ticket items worth betting all the dollars on.

Pretty sure the solution is always that someone, somewhere, will host the files.

The first public jumbotron trouble that I can remember is in Ferris Buellers Day Off.

This is the other part: not all computer science programs are equal. 25 years ago, my university basically created it as a "managing programmers and technologist education" concept, the idea being no one with a college degree was going to do any actual programming in the future. So it was very light on hard technology and very heavy on what was basically MBA prep. If you wanted to do information theory or data science, you were in ECE or a math major. You might touch on all the same concepts as a better program in another university, but you weren't going to be exploring them in depth, or advancing the field.

Other schools had different ideas, and CS was a very strong technical program. You learned to code as a side effect of having to do it so much to support the coursework, which needed programming to explore the concepts.

I hear the culture of fear is very real, and additionally has created a pretty uncooperative, hostile environment as everyone hoards knowledge. How about trimming executive salaries a lot? They're clearly worthless.

Established tradesmen are the worst enemy of new tradesmen. No one with options signs up to be abused.

This is what they're being paid to show.

This was to solve the dietary problem where American's were consuming too much produce and unprocessed food. Now that it's finally too expensive, we'll get back to hot-dogs and bologna as God intended.

I'm still going to cancel my sub for 75% of the year.