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Dear Google Chrome, | |
I need a little bit of technical assistance. Before you sigh or roll your eyes, know I have a computer science degree, used to work as a software engineer at Amazon, and have used Linux as my personal desktop operating system for the past 10 years, so I'm pretty tech savvy. Now here's the issue. | |
I want to save a shortcut that goes directly to https://www.facebook.com/events/ on my phone's home screen. With the DuckDuckGo app I can do that no problem. I just go to https://www.facebook.com/events/ , tap the three dots on the top right corner, tap "Add to Home Screen", and I have a shortcut that takes me straight to https://www.facebook.com/events/ on my home screen. That being said, I want that shortcut on my Android phone to use the Google Chrome browser, not the DuckDuckGo browser, but when I tap the three dots on the top right of Google Chrome and try to select "Add to Home Screen", all I see is "Install app". When I tap this, it adds a Facebook shortcut to my home screen, but it goes |
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I'm the author of the prior post at | |
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForeverAlone/comments/1b5sava/reality_some_people_will_never_have_a_partner_no/ | |
and I wanted to get your thumbs up (and maybe some suggested changes from you) before I post the following long post: | |
I wanted to write this article and didn't know where to post it so I'm posting it here. Despite my long struggles, I have had sex with some women in life, and I tried to experiment with a man before, and I noticed a pattern. Men do not need to love someone to fuck them. Gay men on Grindr will post sexy or nude photos of themselves without their faces visible in any of the photos, get matches, and then meet their matches at their residence and have sex with them, absolutely no love required. Women will literally never do that for free. Yes, prostitutes exist, but they will never do it for free. I read what they write on [r/AskAnEscort](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskAnEscort/) and even the total sluts say the actual sex part is their least favorite part o |
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If I'm going to be honest, I think Republicans are crazy/paranoid, often close-minded simpletons who haven't been properly acclimated to the diversity of peoples and communities that exist in this country. If you have a problem with the LGBTQIA+ community, hate Blacks or Hispanics, believe government is more of a problem than a solution, have never traveled overseas, hate women, or don't want to share any of your money even if you have plenty, I'm talking about you. If you can't understand things that are different than you or different than the mainstream (what you consider "normal"), I'm talking about you. If you pull Bible quotes out of context without having actually read the Bible (from the front cover to the back) plus at least one other holy book (in the same manner), I'm talking about you. If you believe all living humans today are survivors of Noah's Ark who are descendents of Adam and Eve and that vaccines contain tracking microchips from Bill Gates, I'm talking about you. If you believe you need mo |
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Just wrote the following letter to Neil deGrasse Tyson via https://neildegrassetyson.com/general-comments/ (This version is better because of edits): | |
Hey Neil, | |
I heard you say online that we've had AI (which currently means the exact same thing to computer people as the phrase "Machine Learning") for many decades. No. The meaning of the term "AI" has changed. It used to mean any program that tries to mimic what a human would do (like a computer that does calculations to determine which move to make in chess). That's not what AI means anymore. Nowadays there is a division between traditional, non-ambiguous, concrete, literal computer code (i.e. "IF this happens THEN do that") and Machine Learning based computer code. When you talk to Apple's Siri and it converts what you just said into typed text, that is Machine Learning, not traditional computer coding. The distinction is that Machine Learning requires massive samples of clean, pre-prepared, usually pre-labeled data that is used to train an algorithm which |
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There are a lot of CS majors who aspire to work for the FAANG/MAMAA companies the same way some high schoolers aspire to get into Ivy League universities. As a former Amazon engineer who worked on the AWS Virtual Private Cloud service back in 2017-2018, let me explain to you what is wrong with that line of thinking. | |
The first thing you need to keep in mind about any real job is that work is normally exploitative, and big tech jobs are no exception. They give great starting salaries compared to other junior developer positions, sure, but there's a catch. They lose money on you during your first year working there with no experience with the expectation that they will make that money back from your labor later on when you know what you're doing there. Big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook often use their own, internal, company-specific tools that aren't used at other companies. For example, Facebook created and uses the Hack programming language that nobody else uses (it started as an offshoot of PHP wit |
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Question: | |
You say you've never had a gf but you refer to Anna as an "ex". How does this work? | |
Answer: | |
I'll answer that with a story. Here it goes. | |
It is the morning after the first time Anna and I had sex. The first thing she asks me in the morning when she wakes up in my college student cooperative house bedroom and looks at me awake, fully naked, is "did we have sex?". I was surprised she didn't remember (she had a traumatic brain injury before so I guess her TBI was the reason). Anyway, we start fooling around in bed, probably going to have sex again, but then the fire alarm rings. There was no fire, my student coop house was just assembling everyone to have a communal breakfast and then have a special chores day. Anyway, we are interrupted, but before we go to breakfast, we are standing up, and she hugs me around the waist and sorta screams "I LOVE YOU!" I lean back, away from her, and go "uhh...". Like okay, thanks mommy (her first name is the same as my mom's name but pronounced slightly differentl |
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This gist is in response to: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/11756hp/i_am_a_bad_software_developer_and_this_is_my_life/ | |
I think some people don't understand what a truly bad software developer is, so I am going to tell my story. I was always good at standardized exams that I studied for. The first time I took the SAT college entrance exam in the US, I scored a perfect 800 on the math and a 720 on the critical reading, for an SAT score of 1520 out of 1600 - a Harvard admissions level SAT score. I graduated with a bachelor's in computer science and was able to pass the coding interviews after studying the book "Cracking The Coding Interview", but despite having done well at interviews, I was always a worthless programmer. My first real job in 2016 was an entry level software engineering position at Amazon, and despite it being entry level, I started out with a 130k base, 20k bonus issued in monthly installments, and some vesting stock on the East coast of the US (I had multiple competing offers a |
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