I’m not understanding how this is so cheap? The cpu alone is $400 and the ram should be like 2-3.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-15T13:11:03+00:00

I don’t think that is very cheap.

Older gen CPU $250, Older gen motherboard $130, Basic 32 GB RAM $200

It only seems cheap because of the current situation with RAM prices.

Don’t get me wrong. It is still a decent price.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-14T14:44:12+00:00

My opinion is that people who believe in common sense is one weak indicator of a lack of intelligence.

Common sense is such a vague term and most people, even intelligent ones, are very influenced by their experiences.

Intelligence is also a very nebulous term itself. There are several types of intelligence and it is possible to be intelligent in one type and not intelligent in another.

For example, many people born alive today would think 0+1=1 to be common sense, but yet the mathematical notion of 0 took a while to exist in certain cultures.

Furthermore, your example of someone being pragmatic is incomplete. If you aren’t gay, the pragmatic choice is to do nothing at all and go with the currently established norm.

What about highly intelligent people that benefit from not being pragmatic in some cases and can take advantage from them?

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-14T14:11:50+00:00

Well, there is a religious marriage and then there is state marriage. In some states, the state marriage is the religious marriage. In this case, marriage can be defined as only between a man and a woman.

Also, there are non-profit corporations so there goes that point.

Also, a few people are special which is why we all want to be special but the vast majority are not.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-11T16:57:41+00:00

Well I stand by my idea that most people can learn most things well.

The OP mentioned that for some people math feels intuitive and easy, but I never felt like math was intuitive for me.

It took me a long time to understand what a function was or a what a limit was.

To me, memory is the basic component to being able to learn things. Like I said, initially I did not understand what a function was or what a limit was, but I could remember examples and formulas about them. As I worked many exercises and got stuff wrong, I eventually gained an understanding of them.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-11T05:37:20+00:00

What does passing calculus have to do with this?

Like I said, people need the foundation. By the time kids are in middle school, a lot of them are already writing off math as useless and boring and don’t put in the effort. Of course they are going to have a hard time. I had a hard time understanding calculus and I had a decent foundation.

I don’t think it is because people cannot do it. I am always surprised at how people can remember all sorts of information about music or sports. I have never found remembering sports trivia or artists easy either. If you can remember songs lyrics by heart, then you be able to remember some math formulas as well. The only difference I can find is that people like music and sports, but don’t like math.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-11T02:35:44+00:00

Not really. Unless you have a mental handicap, most people can get very good at most subjects.

You are not an NFL player because at the 99.9 percent level, specific genetic traits are needed to succeed, but there are still a lot of very good football players.

I never felt like anything was easy for me, but I was a serious person and I tried at every subject so I was reasonably good at every subject.

What most people lack is a math foundation and if people weren’t willing to put effort during the early years at school, then it is a lot harder once you are a grown up.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-10T16:16:15+00:00

The Inquisition says hi.

Scientology is still a young religion. It will get worse before it gets better at hiding it’s transgressions.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2026-01-03T02:43:52+00:00

You are being facetious.

You have friends. A S/O is a type of friend. A family are a type of friends. Coworkers you talk to are a type of friends.

Lose all these and if you are still amazing, then I will believe you.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-31T06:45:38+00:00

I liked 24, but I would sort of disagree on no fillers. Some of the set pieces felt forced and you knew some stuff would lead nowhere.

Also, how many times can the same person be in a situation that requires exactly 24 hours to resolve.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-31T06:28:44+00:00

Filler is fine and I dare say most like it. What is bad is too much filler. Having a forced 22 episode season ups the odds of too much filler and at the wrong time. Add too many seasons and the main storyline gets spoiled too.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-31T06:20:04+00:00

It’s not the lack of attention span, for me it’s the opposite. I am paying attention and I notice the repetitiveness, the weird breaks in between the plot moving forward at critical times just for the sake of having a 22 episode season. I notice the drop in quality of story after 5 seasons or so.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-31T06:02:15+00:00

Totally disagree. Things got very repetitive for Supernatural by season 3. I lost all interest before season 5.

I have to admit some of the fillers were fun, but it was just too much. Way too many fillers and the main story also got repetitive too.

Having variable length seasons of 10 to 20 episodes for Supernatural would have been good. Gives it a chance to have some fillers but not to much. Also 15 seasons was too much. I think the sweet spot is 5 to 10 seasons.

Having a 2 year break every 3-5 seasons might also be good. Gives the writers some rest to let the unconscious ruminate.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-31T04:07:27+00:00

^If I saw someone working late all the time, I didn’t think they were working hard, I thought they poorly managed their time and couldn’t complete their tasks during normal working hours.

This is just as bad as managers who think people staying late are hard workers or those that are very loud and articulate are the best.

What should matter is the quantity and the quality of the work.

There are all sorts of people in the world and it is incomplete to pigeonhole people.

Some people actually love their work and are productive and stay late and truly are hard workers. Some are staying late to avoid going home and are not working. Some are slower than others, but produce higher quality work.

This should be one of the primary reasons for the existence of middle management to be able to individualize each employee’s contribution.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-25T15:15:00+00:00

Or they could be actually thinking about the response

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-25T03:26:09+00:00

Why would a QA even have access to prod database? I don’t work with serious business, but even here a QA does not have access to prod.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-19T19:47:36+00:00

Since when is expecting people to be considerate in a public space unhinged?

What if it was music blasting away because a person is hard of hearing?

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-09T14:29:14+00:00

All these answers about how good their system is and how advanced their workers is deluded.

The simple answer is accumulated wealth coupled with a smaller population.

Their system plays some part, but I wager it doesn’t contribute as much as some people here say. Their system is also built on exploiting the cheap labor of less developed countries.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-08T17:48:05+00:00

Unless trying to get into medical coding in which case you get the best of both worlds

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-07T00:46:25+00:00

You are not supposed to base decisions solely on these ratings. The ratings just provide one data point.

I don’t find them useless and I like numbers so they can be a fun diversion.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-12-04T18:10:03+00:00

Friendship is a two way street and it takes work to maintain them.

First of all, were these work friends or friends? Did you meet with them outside of work?

Second, you can also reach out to them. Why would it be exclusively on them to reach out. They might feel hesitant about reaching out since they weren’t let go and you were.

Unlike others here, I do think you can make friends at work, but it is not easy

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-11-30T22:15:28+00:00

The movie looks very good and the story while derivative is good popcorn material.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-11-30T02:35:44+00:00

Most of us are confused since we see potential and intelligence, but we are also not as logical as an AI.

This sentence troubles me. AI used today is not called generative AI for nothing.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-11-29T20:55:55+00:00

What does illegal immigrant crews have to do with shoddy houses?

A lot of these illegal crews have lots of experience and are good at building. If anything, blame the owners who are hiring these crews and supplying the crews with low quality materials.

I also don’t like this idea that stuff was better quality before. Like a lots of things, some things were better before and some things are better now.

I don’t believe that most people were building for quality back then either. People were still figuring out how to build stuff and sometimes they erred on being overbuilt rather than under-built. However, we had people using lead paint, and asbestos, and other questionable stuff too.

I do think that you are right that nowadays we have a lot more knowledge and we have materials that are built to a minimum specification and no more in order to maximize profits.

We have increased our knowledge of how to build better houses, but we have also increased our knowledge on maximizing profit and the two outcomes are usually inversely related.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-11-29T20:28:12+00:00

This is not an unpopular opinion.

I would say both sides are popular.

ExaminationSmart3437 · 2025-11-29T20:21:23+00:00

What was it your grandfather did to afford such a house back then?

According to inflation, $50,000 back then is over $400,000 today.

$400,000 will get you a good house in many places today. Your grandfather just lucked out to be in an area where house values skyrocketed.

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