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daymanstep commented on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?    · Posted by u/tathagatadg
compounding_it · a day ago
The Pythagoras theorem doesn’t change even if you use an LLM. Fundamentals shouldn’t either. Don’t see why schools should see this any differently.
daymanstep · a day ago
I agree. That's why universities should never teach any practical real world programming languages. They should stick to Scheme and MMIX.
daymanstep commented on Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/doener
EdNutting · a day ago
10 years from now, the people that stopped hiring novices and juniors are going to be deeply regretting their past decisions. The people that kept hiring are going to be working with their newly-promoted-to-senior colleagues and be making significantly more progress than those that didn’t keep hiring.
daymanstep · a day ago
Except they won't. They will just hire those new people away from the firms that trained them. That's what happens now and there's no reason why it won't happen in the future.

This is why firms that do actual training have clauses written in the employment contract that says if you receive x months of training from them then you have to work for them for at least y number of years otherwise if you leave then you have to pay them for the cost of training you (which is written as a dollar amount in the contract).

Companies that don't have that kind of clause in the contract are going to get screwed over when their newly trained employees get poached by other firms.

daymanstep commented on $96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor   github.com/novatic14/MANP... · Posted by u/ZacnyLos
tzury · 2 days ago
There are 2 short segments in the video showing the actual performance and thus far it is a complete [1] failure [2].

The guy has a talent, and he put together a nice prototype based on OpenRocket [3], but with all due respect, this is not a rocket, and you are not going to win any war with this toy, even if all your enemy has are rocks thrown at you from pretty much similar distance.

The remix of computer games / Ukraine / Martin Luther King / Vietnam / David Koresh just adding more to the amateur spirit and confusion.

[1] https://youtu.be/DDO2EvXyncE [2] https://youtu.be/DDO2EvXyncE?t=280 [3] https://openrocket.info/

daymanstep · 2 days ago
I'm surprised nobody else has pointed this out. The entire YouTube video has only two short clips of the actual rocket being fired, and in both cases the clips are very short and only show the rocket being fired and then following an erratic flight path, and then get cut before showing the rocket hitting anything.

For all the technical info given in the video, there is a curious lack of any data regarding the actual accuracy of the system. What percentage of rockets tested managed to hit anything and at what range?

daymanstep commented on Fedora 44 on the Raspberry Pi 5   nullr0ute.com/2026/03/fed... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
praseodym · 2 days ago
I’m using an ASUS NUC 14 Essential Kit N355. It’s a bit more expensive than the Pi 5, but also more powerful (8 cores and decent GPU). There is also a more affordable N150 model. And even lower budget are the N150 mini PCs from Chinese manufacturers, but they often mess up things like cooling in a hardware revision (compared to the favorable review that you’d read).

And forgot to mention this before: Intel CPUs with built-in GPUs have very performant and energy efficient hardware video codecs, whereas the Raspberry Pi 5 is limited and lacks software support.

daymanstep · 2 days ago
And what is the idle power draw that you're seeing on the NUC? Out of the box or did you have to mess around with BIOS and powertop?
daymanstep commented on Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft   airbus.com/en/newsroom/pr... · Posted by u/phasnox
fpoling · 2 days ago
FPV drones cannot have powerful GPU yet to enable truly autonomous flight. And the issue is not only weight/energy restrictions, but also cost.
daymanstep · 2 days ago
You don't need a super powerful GPU to do computer vision. There are cheap small devices that can do it.
daymanstep commented on MrBeast Is Getting into Financial Services. Parents Should Pay Attention   nytimes.com/2026/03/03/bu... · Posted by u/sigwinch
phatfish · 13 days ago
I wonder if kids today will look back with nostalgia about all that time they spent watching "Mr Beast" videos where he did some dumb stunt or flashed money around for YouTube views. Will there be a Mr Beast revival in 20 years where a new generation of "content creators" fondly recreate the video where he swam in a swimming pool full of jelly (not sure he did that one yet).
daymanstep · 13 days ago
Mark Rober did that one
daymanstep commented on More cows, more wives   worksinprogress.news/p/mo... · Posted by u/oxw
cornholio · 17 days ago
It's hard to believe such an in depth overview of the anthropology of marriage skips the massive elephant in the room: that polygynous societies were widely found to be in a perpetual state of civil war and seem unable to develop stable, modern institutions. When a substantial part of your young men have no chance of ever buying themselves a wife, the only way they can be recognized and respected as adult men is to join a militia that promises one, or at least gives them guns so they can aquire by force the cows they need.

The corollary for western monogamous society should be clear: traditional marriage is not strictly repressive, it's also a form of egalitarianism and redistribution of social capital.

If we dismantle marriage and let raw pastoralist dynamics run rampant, we might very well see the same hypergamous tendencies and that many of those excluded from the love market take up "other", less peaceful pastimes.

daymanstep · 17 days ago
If that's the case, then how comes China, which has a massive excess of males, hasn't erupted into civil war yet?
daymanstep commented on Linux explores new way of authenticating developers and their code   zdnet.com/article/linux-k... · Posted by u/CrankyBear
daymanstep · 18 days ago
Sorry, but how would this have prevented the xz backdoor? The article seems to be insinuating that it would have, but I don't see how it could.
daymanstep commented on Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid   arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/rbanffy
jmyeet · 20 days ago
Except that slaves also make new slaves that can be sold.

I really dislike this idea that slavery was just a cultural aberration and not economic. For one thing, that lightens the moral stain of slavery adjacent activity, most notably colonialism and the exploitation of the colonies. This never went away. Economic colonialism exists to this day. We just call it “outsourcing”, “offshoring” and “subcontracting”.

daymanstep · 20 days ago
Offshoring generally improves the lives of the people who get the offshored jobs. Usually foreign companies pay more and have better working conditions than the local companies.

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