19skitsch

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by 19skitsch 27d ago
^ this lol, real world systems are so much more complex and involve much more coordination than a personal pet project. It’s so difficult to figure out the source of a bug in a production system like this.
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by 19skitsch 1mo ago
I mean to be fair it’s a huge production system, there are many moving parts. Having worked on outages before in complex systems it is very difficult to identify root causes under pressure
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by 19skitsch 3mo ago
Making me not wanna eat anything lol… In seriousness does this mean I’m ok to buy the regular broccoli at the store next time?
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by 19skitsch 4mo ago
uh alright buddy
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by 19skitsch 4mo ago
yeah I do feel like the PhD system is not uniform in terms of students’ experiences. some get out quite quickly if their advisor is chill while others are stuck being stack ranked in their labs or doing grunt work. your fate is basically in
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by 19skitsch 4mo ago
yeah it is interesting. when I was at Stanford I was a TA and we just had to leave the room during exams after passing them out and come back at the end to collect the exams. just as I was graduating they started doing the pilot for proctor
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by 19skitsch 5mo ago
Interesting… Feels like a beautifully designed network for a world where operators trust each other more than they actually do
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by 19skitsch 5mo ago
Agree… OP said “not CS” so doesn’t seem surprising. If we’re going by anecdotes, AI classes in the CS dept have risen in popularity in the past few years.