You say that, but you still get the occasional user who raises a stink about it. I ran into somebody 3 or so weeks ago who ranted at me for recommending Linux Mint for basic, non-gaming use cases

Except the payment goes through Google Play, making it trackable

At least in engineering, co-ops get paid. Not on par with full-time employees obviously, but they do get paid

I am going to block this “community” for all of our sakes.

Good riddance

Well shit. Now I feel bad for Lazerpig repeatedly using his picture when making fun of Brexit supporters

Yeah… The wtc was basically supported by a center frame tube support structure tied together with a couple hundred perimeter support beams by giant hat truss.

Do you have a source? Not doubting, just curious to see the schematics myself since I didn’t know it had that kind of structure

The CIA definitely is, with how many military coups they’ve backed against democratic South American countries that were considering universal healthcare

Why are there so many pictures of the specific guy on the bottom used when making fun of the UK? Is he a celebrity or influencer I’m unaware of?

Hyprland started out by being run by a fascist, as explained in the article

In R*'s defense (I know, it makes me feel sick just thinking about it), Florida just passed a bill banning Flock cameras on public roads

I don’t know why his meat would be on the jumbotron.

There’s a lot of secretly gay Republicans

Also, Grindr apparently crashed from too much traffic in Dallas, where the Republican National Convention is this week

100% this

the facilities are not the same

That has very little effect on coursework, since there’s not much lab work in undergrad, at least not enough where variability will significantly affect outcomes

The professors are not the same

Sure, but overall course offerings and structure are standardized and guided by ABET-accreditation, which is required for the vast majority of engineering jobs. Between that and there only being 2-3 worthwhile textbooks for most topics, there’s not that much variability.

Graduate programs are where most engineering schools diverge, since that’s heavily based on funding, reputation, and specialization of professors.

after completing an undergrad degree at MIT or Stanford or similar school, and being disappointed in it?

Pretty weird assumption to make.

No, this is based on years of experience working with other engineers that recieved education from various schools throughout Ohio. There’s no appreciable difference in quality of undergrads between Ohio State, University of Cincinnati, Wright State, University of Toledo, Ohio University, etc. despite having very different reputations and whether they’re private or public schools.

Now if you’re done being wildly confrontational without knowing what you’re talking about, I’m going to move on with my day

Also getting an undergraduate engineering degree at MIT isn’t more impressive than the same for most universities. It’s an undergraduate degree, they’re fairly standardized.

And at least for engineering jobs, only having an undergraduate degree if you went to MIT might bring more questions, like “why didn’t you get into the graduate program with the advantage of already knowing faculty?”

How do them boots taste, peon?

The only thing I think it might be relevant for is coding really

It’s honestly not very good for that either. Any code it generates tends to either just not work or be really inefficient and insecure.

At best, you could use code to give a basic summary on what the code you’re looking at does and us it to spot potential bugs. But you should only treat it as a bug report where it’s a starting point on manually finding a fix. Don’t let an LLM do bugfixes on its own because it’ll most likely make several more bugs in the process

Using violence as a deterrent teaches kids that it’s OK to use violence against others in the future.

Except as others have pointed out, there’s cases where a violent response (or the possibility of one) is necessary. There’s a couple of good adages on the subject:

It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war

A man that is incapable of fighting isn’t peaceful, he’s helpless

And like one of the other responders, I was spanked as a child but that didn’t lead me to resolving problems with violence as an adult.

I never once threatened violence or used any sort of violence against my kids, and they never used violence as they grew up.

Tbh, that sounds more like they were fortunate enough to never be in a situation that required violence

Especially if there’s a clear stating of “if you continue doing [bad behavior] you’re going to be spanked” and the kid keeps doing it.

When I was a kid, I got warnings before getting spanked. If there’s a clear line drawn and you continue crossing it you should get some kind of punishment.

That being said, I view spanking as the nuclear option nowadays. It needs to be a “credible threat” (aka an actual option), but you want to avoid escalating to that point because there’s nothing else to escalate to.

And optimizing for maximum interior space and comfort for aerodynamics

Remember that their generation were the same ones who beat black protestors and spit on drafted Vietnam vets. They’re also going to die off soon and the world will be better without them