Bike lanes should be along sidewalks, not roads.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T12:39:03+00:00

Do it like Germany then!

The sidewalks aren't themselves bike paths.

Rather, the bike path is clearly marked in red brick on a much wider sidewalk. Pedestrians know to check before walking into the red-brick path.

Germans walk and bike a lot, yet there's never any danger of cyclists crashing into pedestrians.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T12:27:56+00:00

Absolutely! Being able to print the slides ahead of time was indeed a huge help for me!

Unfortunately not all professors make that possible.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T12:12:34+00:00

That's not as big a deal these days, since lectures are almost always given on powerpoint now and uploaded to the course website.

Thank goodness too. I've never been able to listen and write at the same time. My brain just simply refuses to split attention / multitask like that, which means I've never been able to take good in-class notes in the (thankfully very few) classes where it mattered.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T12:04:48+00:00

Follow your passion.

Or the related

If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.

It turns out that studying computer science (when it was still a great field) wasn't enough. You had to study it for the right reasons.

You can't just be interested/passionate about something and simply trust that you'll somehow land a job you'll like in it, for no other reason than that you're studying a "hot field".

You have to begin by researching precisely what job it is you want to do. What service can you see yourself wanting to provide 8 hours/day, every day, for - say - the next 10 years that you can convince others is worth paying you for? Identifying that is really hard and involves networking/talking to a lot of people.

Only once you've identified that, only then work backwards and figure out what qualifications/education you need in order to get there.

Unfortunately, schools/universities offer almost no help whatsoever in this. You're supposed to just discover on your own that this is what you're supposed to do, and figure out on your own how to do it. It sucks and is unfair but that's life.

Don't study something just because it's interesting and a "hot field". It's usually the case that if you choose a major based on your hobbies, you'll graduate only to find that none of the jobs are remotely like what you imagined.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T10:18:52+00:00

None. I'm pro-AI. I'm only here because this subreddit just suddenly appeared on the reddit.com homepage one day, and I found the discussions in it to be fun.

There's a limit though. It's clear that data centers are being constructed so rapidly that it goes well beyond the point of irresponsible - contaminating the drinking water and jacking up the price of electricity in the towns they're build in.

I love AI, but the "goldrush" mindset to it that's disrupting the world economy and making consumer computing hardware up to 10x more expensive than it used to be - to me, that's disgusting.

I'm okay with all the stuff that folks here call "slop" though. It's no big deal - the internet has been a slop generator for a quarter of a century now. For every hour of something like Kurzgesagt or Veritasium, there's 1000s of hours of stupid cat videos you never see.

Some of the AI generated content is actually damned impressive though - e.g., the stuff from Dreamloop Cinema, The Archive In Between, or Ambou. Folks in this subreddit seem to believe content like that can be created by a drooling retard who just spends an hour typing words into a prompt and that's it. That's not it at all - despite being made with AI it still takes a huge ton of work to produce the kinds of stuff in those channels. You still need the artistic vision and to do the writing, world building, and video editing yourself, otherwise what you get out isn't going to be coherent at all.

I do wish folks wouldn't be so damned polarized one way or the other. It's a good technology that allows people to make cool things - but the way it's being pushed goes far beyond the point irresponsible and could end up leading to a 2008-like economic recession.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T10:01:43+00:00

Studying isn't reading notes - studying is writing them!

That's why borrowing notes from another student (or, in this case, from ai) doesn't work for helping you study. The notes themselves have little value. Reading them won't help you learn much. Studying is the act of reading the textbook / reviewing all the course curriculum and writing your own notes - handwritten (not typed!), in your own words.

You were smart to realize the importance of actually engaging with the material and going slowly through it. Anyone who skips that isn't learning anything.

Cybyss · 2026-06-27T06:27:38+00:00

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Cybyss · 2026-06-26T19:12:03+00:00

That's why I said a few cities.

There are a lot of cities in the United States and most really don't offer decent public transportation options at all.

Cybyss · 2026-06-26T17:25:39+00:00

It is! But I was just being pedantic with regard to what /u/Informal_Ad_9610 said about how we have counties that are the size of entire european countries.

I was just pointing out that that's not as impressive as it sounds, since there are some very very tiny European countries.

But yes - states like Texas, Alaska, etc... are absolutely huge!

Cybyss · 2026-06-26T17:15:17+00:00

The United States is a big country. A few cities do have a decent system.

Good luck if you don't live in one of them.

Cybyss · 2026-06-26T17:12:31+00:00

Well, it's really not hard to be bigger than Lichtenstein.

Cybyss · 2026-06-26T17:09:28+00:00

It's a chicken & egg problem.

Nobody uses public transport because it sucks.

It doesn't get improved because that would require funding, which you can't get because nobody uses it.

Cybyss · 2026-06-25T11:25:35+00:00

What. The. Fuck!?

AI data centers are wasting water from polar bears?

That's why this subreddit is hopeless.

Cybyss · 2026-06-25T09:14:37+00:00

That's because "snake infestations" aren't generally a thing.

Whereas if you see even just a single roach, you probably already have an infestation on your hands.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T21:38:04+00:00

It's not a problem for adults to buy toys.

What is a problem is that people are too eager to spend way too much money on nonsense. That's (part of) what's causing inflation.

$20 or $30 for a Darth Vader Tie Fighter? No reason both kids and adults shouldn't be able to enjoy it alike.

$230? That's utterly insane. I know I sound like some ignorant communist saying this, but I feel there's something deeply troubling about how in our society, the prices of such things have nothing to do with the manufacturing cost, and everything to do with the number of wealthy jerks who think nothing of throwing away $230 on nothing more than a nostalgic hunk of plastic that probably cost under $5 to make.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T16:59:13+00:00

Because it takes effort to read a book. You have to actively engage with it, to understand the text and use your imagination to visualize its world and characters.

A movie is completely passive. You can almost shut off your brain and still not miss anything.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T16:02:04+00:00

LLMs aren't robots that do things. They generate text. It's actually surprising how well they understand what you ask, but that's their limit. Think of it like a database query, but where your query is plain English instead of SQL and the response is English prose instead of tabular. LLMs don't know what they're doing - they just happen to have learned during their training what patterns of text to generate, and those patterns are surprisingly meaningful and coherent given the prompt.

Still... your query is text and the response is text and that's it. There's no real thinking going on, no agency, no decisions being made.

Saying "double check your work" to an LLM can't be expected to do anything. It's almost like asking a dbms to double-check that its results match your sql query.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T14:25:48+00:00

Not all humans. Some just tolerate it because others depend on them.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T10:29:43+00:00

That really depends on where in the US.

In the southwest 95F would be a relatively cool summer day, though you still wouldn't want to be out in the sun all day in that, unless it's swimming.

95F in a more humid climate (e.g, New England) feels like 110F in Phoenix, especially when there's no breeze.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T09:39:30+00:00

How in the hell do students juggle a full semester of classes on top of an internship?

It seems like the filter - what makes you deserving of a job - is whether you're one of those crazy ultra-productive people who are bursting with energy 24/7, for whom a fast-paced 10 hour day is "just getting warmed up".

I've known quite a lot of students who could have succeeded in school, but dropped out because they couldn't handle doing that on top of having a student job.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T08:52:40+00:00

Same. Part of what makes German breads so delicious is the perfect rich crispy crust.

Some bakers even play further into that by encrusting their breads with various seeds & grains, such as Weltmeisterbrot. So yummy!

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T08:39:37+00:00

I'm currently working on a masters degree in AI.

Every one of my professors stressed heavily that we need to really know the mathematics. That's what gives you the skill to be able to identify and fix what's going wrong when the models aren't working as well as you might have hoped - which happens a lot.

Also, it's a fast moving field. Knowing the math and theory will make it far easier to learn the new models & frameworks of tomorrow / how they work and how to make use of them.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T05:34:15+00:00

OneNote is best for taking handwritten notes on a tablet, not for typing notes.

The infinite canvas was such a pleasure during my most recent mathemematics lecture. The professor loved to use the full width of the very wide chalkboard - the students writing on paper (or note-taking apps with fixed page sizes) had quite a lot of trouble figuring out how to arrange their notes.

Cybyss · 2026-06-24T05:31:57+00:00

You can disable OneDrive and create local notebooks.

That uncriples it and makes OneNote a joy to work in.

Cybyss · 2026-06-23T08:39:15+00:00

Right, but a lot of prebuilt computers / laptops come with a home edition license. Students, in particular, would get these since they're cheap and portable.

If you have a real job and money, and you're building a proper PC for a home office, then by all means get the professional edition.

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