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I hope at least the homework is good prep for the exams, otherwise if its grade value is marginal there's little point from the PoV of a student that just needs to pass the class to take it seriously

Yet empirically it does

You aren't getting to the exam stage without that degree though

Outlook is now basically an Electron app, they've deprecated the old desktop Outlook in favor of a port of the web app to desktop, so it's basically just Excel remaining.

It was all legal before China went and did retroactive legal changes

Wish I knew. I was at the same place at you at that age and it's basically destroyed me, 32 now and no better off

Like the other reply says, Linux already won on the server level where all the hype was 25 years ago. Now it's different but there's a lot of excitement still thaks to Valve's efforts to make gaming viable on Linux and to make ARM/x86 porting easier. Plus there's been a new wave of new users lately thanks to influencers recommending Linux in the wake of Windows 11's horribleness.

These skills are also useful for reproducible computational research

I disagree, AAA games started nosediving with the seventh generation 20 years ago and only recently have they started to tentatively show signs of recovery.

Same here. I'd love to get a full time coding job even if it meant a pay cut on hourly terms, but everything in my area pays much, much less and also I have a hard time even getting interviews. Guess I'll try to apply to this kind of role but full time, I think Amazon, Mistral and xAI are hiring.

"Deported" now seems to be an euphemism for being sent to a concentration camp in a random third world country, so I guess they have to use different language for actual deportations.

I generallu find it easier to get engagement in bluesky and fedi than x/twitter. I guess in X if you're not paying for the bluecheck you're soft shadow banned.

I wish Firefox OS had succeeded, my first ever app was for it, it was all so much simpler and so much more free than the locked down systems of both major mobile OSes.

So? There is zero reason for Trump and the GOP not to do this, it has worked great to keep the leaders of those countries in power. It frankly surprises me previous presidents had not been as shameless at using their power like this. Unless you believe operating like this what makes Russia or North Korea poorer than the USA, which I think is very dubious.

I agree, It think Spain adopted the Euro too soon and we'd have weathered the GFC better if we still had control of our monetary policy at the time. And we didn't grow as much as we could have in the preceding boom phase.

It still does require a purchase, though now all expansions except the latest one are included in the base game and you can purchase the expansion with the base game at little markup over the expansion itself so the base game might as well be free.

I believe it's game "whales" who spend thousands on in game purchases.

You can't play Phantasy Star Online for the GameCube anymore.

I think there's some too down agenda to force people into bilingualism, big tech doesn't like how the internet of the 00s and 10s made many people polyglots that look behind their borders' information and media markets.

Tulsi is a competent mole, she knows better than to be this obvious.

I remember all type on /vp/ for HGSS, board was basically created to contain it because it was taking over other video game boards. Fun times, sad to see the fate of the site.

He's a total legend, yet apparently he's never met Bill Gates in person from what he said in an interview in the Dave's Garage YouTube channel a few years ago. You'd think that someone who's been that prominent for so long in the company would have been invited to a company dinner where he was present or something.

The Blackwall lol

I realized this in school but it was beaten out of me because making a wrong guess in the process was unacceptable.

Safety concerns are, as predicted by cypherpunks,being used to censor the internet and crack down on all independent platforms that dare operate outside big tech.

I do data annotation to train LLMs on coding tasks.

They used to work better in the 00s/early 10s before API changes to Linux desktop environments. It's why most Linux theming sites seem to be stuck in that era.

It's funny the bubble seems popping because the tech can be made better or cheaper instead due to loss of enthusiasm for the tech itself. AI is here to stay I suppose then.

It's not that easy to get a work permit in the US unless you're truly exceptional or marry an American.

Not that I disagree that Brexit was an awful idea, but this was a problem even before Brexit. The reach of European companies just isn't what it used to be in the face of American and Chinese giants, and the EU is failing to be a truly single market where companies can grow to that scale.