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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.Concerning cutbacks, I once worked on a significant project with a satellite developer team from California. After the project, they... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.I once heard that defect we found cost the company $20 to fix. If found in a beta it was $200 to fix. If found by a customer ie many...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.Yes, we had a couple of gifted testers. One coworker was tasked with testing internationalism code before the translators got involved...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.Yes IBM routinely hired summer interns to do product test to answer questions: - does it install on windows, macos and linux - does it...
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jedishrfu reacted to robphy's post in the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone with
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As a PhD student in physics, some of my classmates were pursuing master's degrees in computer science on the side. (I took a C++ course... -
jedishrfu replied to the thread Effects of LLMs on math learning, self taught or otherwise.LLMs are useful tools that can quiz you and prepare you for tests. There is a caveat here. It's assumed that you have some...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Increasing SSD Life.Another thing is to not fill the SSD beyond 85 to 90% capacity. Here's a video from Kingston on SSDs: Here's a Sandisk article on...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.A significant part of my career was in testing, first as a mainframe programmer writing scripts to test new software releases on our...
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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone.Yes, it's sad that this has happened. Looking over my 45 years as a software engineer and having played with AI, I can understand why...
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jedishrfu posted the thread A Crisis for Newly Minted CompSci Majors -- entry level jobs gone in Programming and Computer Science.https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/10/the-computer-science-dream-has-become-a-nightmare The computer science dream has become a nightmare:
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jedishrfu reacted to OmCheeto's post in the thread A Crisis in France -- Bottled water may not be what it's advertised to be with
Wow.
Sorry to laugh, but this strikes me as a very first world problem. It also reminds me of when Nestle tried to get water rights in a tiny... -
jedishrfu reacted to sbrothy's post in the thread Gizmo -- a multi-physics simulation engine with Like.
Looks interesting but the code link doesn't work. :( EDIT: Oh sorry. I pressed the wrong link.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Is AI hype?.Best emperical evidence is that universities are adopting AI tools for faculty, staff snd student use.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread A Crisis in France -- Bottled water may not be what it's advertised to be.It’s the way of industrialization: materials cost peanuts compared to expertise to design, build, test and market the product.
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jedishrfu replied to the thread Is AI hype?.Best in class teams often have bullheadedness issues with superegos, stress from a driven schedule to succeed and other maladies to...