I hate you. Wait no I don’t 😂

I’m unsure if it’s different here outside the States. I’ve been using Indeed and its local variants where I at least get someone on the phone regularly. But on LinkedIn, it’s like all my applications fall into a void. Even recruiters who cold-contact me on there with an offer seem to ghost me immediately. It doesn’t help that it’s the only site where salaries aren’t posted, which is kind of a big deal considering how little some companies want to pay for junior and mid-level devs.

But tbh, sometimes I feel like companies exploit the application process to get people’s info to input into a marketing database. I once got on a call with someone asking me for my height and weight. Like, what does my body size have to do with the job where I sit at a computer all day? Maybe I’m wrong but those kinds of details can only be used for discrimination or to kidnap me, right? Even my friend was weirded out by that one when I asked him if that had ever happened to him over the years and he said no.

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I’ve yet to find any sort of success from using LinkedIn to find job opportunities. Of all the job hunting sites out there, I find it the least helpful, often giving preference to employers rather than candidates in the hiring process. It sucks ass.

I knew someone who got caught up in their pyramid marketing scheme. The prizes were some low quality shit. The watch they won got badly scratched and the wristband’s pin fell off the same day from regular use. It was pretty funny watching it disintegrate in real time.

Me, a normie: Nerdy noisemakers

It doesn’t have to be free but come on.

I beg to differ! My degree was free for all intents and purposes, and no, it didn’t take away from the challenge or the quality of education. I cried blood tears in order to graduate but it was worth it.

Jenny is a legend. Her content is awesome.

Biden was cracking some good jokes, too. “Want my autograph?” “Hell no” 🤣

Yeah, I think there was something like that floating around. I imagine it’s costly, though, but it’d be nice to have.

I like the concept and I have it installed, but I don’t contribute to it because I find it challenging to think of better titles. It’s not easy like with Sponsorblock that I regularly submit to. For example, sometimes I need to watch most of the video first to be accurate, and by then I’ve already moved on to the next video. Other times it’s simply hard for me to condense the content of the video accurately into so many characters when the original title is way off.

I do like the way it makes all the titles lowercase, though. I find that changes the tone of the video feed quite a bit.

He wore it better 💅

I don’t think earbuds make up a significant percentage of the patch to be here virtue signaling and shaming people for what they were encouraged to do by corporate greed. Your source says the great majority of the patch comes from agriculture and fishing.

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-> Snipe the sneaky page-breaking fucker in the pervious page
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-> Profit

Maybe OP is fluent and I’ll give the benefit of the doubt but I’ve also seen many developers specifically from India use Grammarly or ChatGPT to correct their writing. Idk, it’s something to consider.

I don’t mind someone doing whatever on their phone out of sight. But this shit drives me insane. You won’t watch that damn video ever again in your life, stop ruining it for everyone else!

I’ve returned to Minecraft because I found a great multiplayer survival server called Vanilly.

Jack Dorsey left the board, so I’m ok with that. Good for them!

I quickly learned how ChatGPT works so I’m aware of its limitations. And since I’m talking about university students, I’m fairly sure those smart cookies can figure it out themselves. The thing is, studying the biological sciences requires you to understand other subjects you haven’t learned yet, and having someone explain how that fits into the overall picture puts you way ahead of the curve because you start integrating knowledge earlier. You only get that from retrospection once you’ve passed all your classes and have a panoramic view of the field, which, in my opinion, is too late for excellent grades. This is why I think having parents with degrees in a related field or personal tutors gives an incredibly unfair advantage to anyone in college. That’s what ChatGPT gives you for free. Your parents and the tutors will also make mistakes, but that doesn’t take away the value which is also true for the AIs.

And regarding the output that appears correct, some tools help mitigate that. I’ve used the Consensus plugin to some degree and think it’s fairly accurate for resolving some questions based on research. What’s more useful is that it’ll cite the paper directly so you can learn more instead of relying on ChatGPT alone. It’s a great tool I wish I had that would’ve saved me so much time to focus on other more important things instead of going down the list of fruitless search results with a million tabs open.

One thing I will agree with you is probably learning how to use Google Scholar and Google Books and pirating books using the library to find the exact information as it appears in the textbooks to answer homework questions which I did meticulously down to the paragraph. But only I did that. Everybody else copied their homework, so at least in my university it was a personal choice how far you wanted to take those skills. So now instead of your peers giving you the answers, it’s ChatGPT. So my question is, are we really losing anything?

Overall I think other skills need honing today, particularly verifying information, together with critical thinking which is always relevant. And the former is only hard because it’s tedious work, honestly.

If I had access to ChatGPT during my college years and it helped me parse things I didn’t fully understand from the texts or provided much-needed context for what I was studying, I would’ve done much better having integrated my learning. That’s one of the areas where ChatGPT shines. I only got there on my way out. But math problems? Ugh.