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Re:What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing by robertlagrant on Saturday October 21, 2023 @03:28PM (#37969817)
> and they were not from some rich family that could have paid their way through schooling

Huh? If they'd got private tutoring, that wouldn't make them understand things any less?

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Re:What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing by harry8 on Saturday October 21, 2023 @05:52PM (#37970811)
The suggestion is that they got there on merit, intelligence, hard work. Not family influence, money, low key corruption in support of the academic career of an idiot.
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Re:What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing by robertlagrant on Monday October 23, 2023 @04:36AM (#37983024)
It just seems like a very low resolution view of the world. Getting through on family influence is vanishingly rare, to my understanding.
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Re:What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing by harry8 on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:55PM (#37993239)
George W. Bush. Hilary Clinton.

Legacy admissions exist.

There are of course a million other ways people fail upwards.

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