Sunk cost fallacy, plus being told through my entire youth that the only way to get a good job is with an undergrad degree.
Did you get a good job after getting that degree?
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trust_bt_verify commented on Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down apnews.com/article/climat... · Posted by u/geox
> Like making everything so relative
That industries shift affiliation if it brings them money is not "relative", it's just something they show again and again, some more than others. I don't care about US politics right/left but as someone who worked in the oil industry I can guarantee you that the industry will shift its affiliation towards the side that makes it more money. Many industries do this, much of the left leaning tech sector collectively kissed the boot of the Trump administration, shoveled money his way, and clapped on order at his inauguration. It probably wasn't ideological but pragmatic.
> And using Musk is not example of this case because he is not part of oil industry.
And yet he is, as the perfect example of changing affiliation for money. The poster child of the traditionally left EV/green industry slinking away to the famously non-green right. How many examples do you need? Worldwide the oil industry doesn't show a particular preference to the right, it does without exception show preference to the side making them more money.
You are correct. The fossil fuel industry will fund anyone who will take their money and push their greedy agenda. The difference in the republicans are normally the only ones who will stoop that low to sell out future generations for power today. That’s why no one cares about your false equivalency.
I think there's a third explanation, which is that computer science professors are made to teach computer programming courses to students who want to learn computer programming and not computer science. If you're a skilled computer programmer when you enter the course, you're probably already more knowledgeable about computer programming than the computer science people who are supposed to be teaching you.
I'm sure my professors knew their computer science niches just fine, but they knew very little about programming & software engineering. Programming was my main hobby growing up. In high school I was already using Linux, had written dozens of websites for myself and friends, had written a 3D platforming game from scratch, and had made and published several homebrew games for real video game hardware. Having to then spend a semester "learning" C++ and operating system basics, from someone who has spent their whole life in academia and never published any real software, was godawful. They barely knew what they were talking about and made all kinds of beginner mistakes. I definitely knew way more than my professors about the subject I was there to learn, computer programming.
Well you certainly sound _incredibly_ gifted and it’s truly a shame you pushed through a CS degree that was clearly beneath you. Any reason you didn’t change course once you clearly evaluated college was not for you?
trust_bt_verify commented on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician thewalrus.ca/the-death-of... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I agree that Wikipedia wasn't the best source to go for criticism: Wikipedia is very sympathetic to the claims like in the book, so the criticism section is very weak sauce.
It is indeed noble that the authors responded to the criticism, but unlike what Wikipedia seems to imply, they didn't manage to rescue their argument.
See https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/03/th... from another comment.
A blog post referencing another blog post doesn’t seem to rise to the level of total disregard for the original study. But maybe we can try Wikipedia again.
There are a lot of what I would call left leaning news sites that only refer to Krist Noem by that name. Not just social media.
Just do a google search for the phrase and qualify it with news results only. Lots and lots of well known news outlets are using it regularly to refer to her.
I am not saying this is a one-sided thing only on the left. It’s on the other side too. The “ICE Barbie” was the most obvious recent example that I have been seeing.
Care to provide some sources for these wild statements? Got an AP article where they use that as her name? Maybe we just have a different definition of credible news sources.
trust_bt_verify commented on Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin techcrunch.com/2025/06/22... · Posted by u/codexy
It wouldn't make sense for the robotaxis to ever disengage in the same way that you might've seen in FSD videos.
I'm guessing that they just stop if they ever encounter a situation where they don't know what to do.
> they just stop if they ever encounter a situation where they don’t know what to do.
Oh my god that’s terrifying if true. I can think of many situations when driving when slamming on the breaks is the absolute wrong choice. Tesla is pushing this out way before it’s safe enough to operate in public.
It’s not a single party issue. Drawing from the future is how we got into this big of a hole in fiscally and now is being used as an excuse to sell the land to fund the irresponsible spending.
This article details plans pushed specifically by a single party.
> you can always just “jj new” on top of an existing change then squash it down and get automatic rebase past that point
Never used jj, but isn't that just `git commit --amend`? Lets you add/remove/change changes from the previous commit by basically overwritting it with a new changeset+message.
Sounds like it may be closer to ‘git commit —fixup HEAD’ but same idea.
It's more because people especially in the US are so partisan and self-centered right now that anything that even remotely sounds like it doesn't fully match their views leads to brain shutdown and autopilot rage mode.
That's why it takes 3 very clear explanations for you to understand but still not quite (understanding takes effort and brainpower, but anyone can mash the trigger for free). That's why you can start by saying "you are right" and end with "but nobody cares because the 'publicans/libs". And that's why things are going the way they are over there.
The fact you had to stoop to personal attacks tells me you are not that confident in your position. You can downvote with your alt accounts but that doesn’t change the facts here.