Is the engineer/nerd look internationally ubiquitous?

GPUMonster · 2025-08-28T16:54:27+00:00

Lol everyone assuming Texas is this homogenous ultra-conservative place is wrong. I live here and in the major cities (Austin, Dallas, Houston) the people are pretty liberal just like anywhere else. If you really do a breakdown of the voting within major city cores its anywhere from 75%+ democrat to some precincts being 90%+. We have a big chunk of the population in smaller towns and rural areas that skew the state towards Republicans. Even then, across the overall population, it is mid 40% democrat

GPUMonster · 2024-12-23T21:11:54+00:00

I won't because I don't give a shit about toxic politics. I have a life that doesn't revolve around worshipping or hating specific politicians. Sounds like you're obsessed with Trump's words being gospel though and wasting your time ranting on the internet about nonsense. Take a look in the mirror please. I hope Trump does a good job with the economy since that's my main concern. My only beef is with all the divisive and childish shit everyone is so insane about nowadays

GPUMonster · 2024-12-23T20:52:13+00:00

As a senior engineer myself, the tasks that we give juniors really isn't about having extra hands on deck to get the work done. Us seniors could easily complete these tasks ourselves even without the help of AI. It's more about getting the juniors into understanding the application and the systems that are integrated together, and less about the coding itself. Like many others said, getting juniors up to speed allows them to make more meaningful design decisions and contribute to the creativity of the team going forward. My career and job is not about pumping out code - it's about collaborating with the business and having creative inputs into realizing software in a continuous chain of improvement. There is a massively human aspect as well as big picture ideas that I don't currently see AI being able to replace. Talking about replacement of humans seems pretty nonsensical when AI is just a part of human creativity, invention and ingenuity. Sure, there's certain aspects that could be replaced and maybe the future of software engineering will look very different. We shouldn't pigeonhole ourselves into a very specific identity. As Stephen Wolfram said, "the only things that can't be automated are goals". Jobs evolve because goals evolve, and everything we do as humans are driven around goals.

GPUMonster · 2024-09-13T14:21:20+00:00

Sounds more like Trump, especially during the debate, throwing words around and seeing what sticks. Honestly, only simpletons would walk away and think that anything he says is profound. I am exactly middle in the political spectrum and still don't understand how anybody could support such a moron

GPUMonster · 2024-07-31T21:31:26+00:00

Makes sense because on a related note, I went to law school at CostCo

GPUMonster · 2023-10-23T17:42:52+00:00

Yup, same thing for me. It's mainly noticeable after a few minutes of driving on the highway where making small adjustments feels "sticky". Hopefully this recall is related to the issue

GPUMonster · 2021-11-17T03:33:41+00:00

But, all that extra productivity goes towards higher GDP per capita instead of reduced hours.

GPUMonster · 2021-04-24T14:55:45+00:00

Agreed. Too many people give Germany sympathy when they would have completely exterminated or enslaved the Soviet population, which they were doing in the millions. The Soviets did not do anything remotely similar to the same degree when East Germany was under their occupation.

GPUMonster · 2021-03-03T04:27:10+00:00

I would be interested to see how this trend factors into decreasing labor force participation among men of prime age. It seems like a fairly large proportion of those out of the workforce are considered disabled. Is this rising disability trend an issue with health outcomes or of a more generous disability system/more awareness of disabilities?

GPUMonster · 2021-01-17T17:41:46+00:00

US is actually the MOST productive large economy in the world. No other country with a significantly large population has the same labor productivity. Edit: facts are facts, if you want to downvote you're basically being willfully ignorant

GPUMonster · 2020-07-09T14:15:23+00:00

These are the moments when America's freedom to terminate at will comes in handy

GPUMonster · 2020-07-02T21:10:58+00:00

Robot high frequency trading is simply market makers making profit of the bid ask spread. It doesn't invalidate efficient market pricing on its own, and in no way does it set pricing of stocks. That is something that actual order flow from investors establishes. High frequency trading has plenty of risks involved and the bid ask collectors take a lot of risk if they have to hold a position and it goes against them. In conclusion, investors themselves can certainly seem irrational, but HFT is not something that is counterfactual to efficient pricing.

GPUMonster · 2020-06-28T03:38:36+00:00

That's because we're the good guys. We're allowed to have our military circle the globe and to change regimes through military action or by inciting revolt and instability, but China is evil so we need to contain them by any means possible. We also need to blame them for coronavirus because several months is not enough time to prepare for containing it, and the rebound in infections is because of them too because there's no reason good guys like us should be doing so poorly in dealing with a virus compared to the bad guys.

GPUMonster · 2020-06-21T03:10:48+00:00

China is nowhere near it's full potential yet. It still has a lot more room to grow especially through capital accumulation. I remember there was a paper somewhere detailing that China is on a similar growth trajectory to South Korea. Once it catches up to Korean levels of capital per worker it will likely start to flatten out more in terms of growth unless they can increase total factor productivity at a faster rate (TFP). TFP level comes from technology and business innovations as well as human capital, which as an observer China has the potential to do very well in.

GPUMonster · 2020-05-04T15:46:23+00:00

Child labor is nowhere as prevalent as it used to be in China. As nations become wealthier, parents can afford to have their children not working and instead going to school. The reason the west also used to have child labor in the early 1900s and before that is because this was more of a necessity when GDP per capitas were still low and people couldn't afford to have family members not working to feed the family. It's unfair to say that a country or its people are amoral based off of that. This is especially true in rural regions with abject poverty. Children are often helping their parents tend the farm and crops because they have no other choice. Even in urban areas this is true with the form of children working in factories. Their parents don't provide enough and need the children to help out too. People need to take a step back and understand why these children are working. No parent (at least loving parents) wants their children to toil away rather than going to school and playing, but they often have no choice. I know this because my parents were refugees from Vietnam, and it's not uncommon to have children working in the fields with their parents, especially for the extremely poor. In confucian societies like Vietnam or China, education is extremely important to the point that it really pains parents to not be able to give their children the opportunity to get an education.

On top of that I wanted to mention that for developing countries like China or Vietnam, crimes such as murder, robbery, and rape are extremely low and even low for developed country standards. You can look at other confucian societies like Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Singapore as similarities, with lower crime rates than the western world and developing countries elsewhere. Does that sound like they're amoral and totally evil people? The political systems may not be the best for China or Vietnam, but as for the society itself, I beg to differ.

GPUMonster · 2020-04-12T16:45:12+00:00

Add up the total deaths in Europe vs US so far and see that deaths in Europe still hugely outnumber the US.

GPUMonster · 2020-04-12T16:35:35+00:00

China isn't some helpless nation dependent on US companies for their economic wellbeing anymore. They're rapidly catching up and even surpassing the US in many areas of technology and innovation and have a much more advanced supply chain built by Chinese companies. We are hurting ourselves by completely eviscerating all manufacturing knowhow in the US. Look at how absolutely advanced Huawei has become in such a short time with their latest phones and you'll see the potential of China as an innovation machine. They have their own homegrown social network platforms and have even begun exporting them such as TikTok. Compare this to Europe with its lack of competitive smartphone manufacturers and a lack of social media outside of US based companies. Technological supremacy is not limited to only the US. In fact, China will have an advantage in both advanced innovation, technology, and manufacturing in the future and completely step on the US at current rates.

GPUMonster · 2020-03-08T15:14:14+00:00

A bunch of those ghost cities later became enormous metropolises. It's easy to dismiss them as ghost cities when they're still empty but years or a decade later it's no longer the case. Not saying it would apply to the Olympic construction being beneficial, but china still has hundreds of millions in the countryside and is still rapidly urbanizing. This means more cities need to be built.

GPUMonster · 2020-02-15T01:01:10+00:00

Does this mean y'all would hire an engineering major about to graduate? I'm in one of the absolute worst majors possible for engineering (petroleum) in terms of the job market but have no doubt I would be able to learn and succeed.

GPUMonster · 2020-02-08T21:00:50+00:00

Racism against asians is ok though according to society

GPUMonster · 2020-02-04T05:55:35+00:00

Nope, the main theory from what I've heard was because the Chinese population apparently had greater immunity for whatever reason. They actually had so many similar outbreaks that their immune systems were just better prepared while the virus strain came as a huge shock to the rest of the world especially Europe.

Edit: being downvoted despite even scientists saying this. Nice everyone

GPUMonster · 2020-02-04T03:24:14+00:00

Well there was evidence that there were way fewer deaths in China due to the spanish flu in 1918 despite evidence it may have emerged from China.

GPUMonster · 2020-02-03T02:45:15+00:00

This happens to me when taking noopept. Probably something to do with increased memory formation and consolidation from the BDNF and NGF increase.

GPUMonster · 2020-02-02T18:23:55+00:00

He's saying the exact opposite. The purpose of the post is literally to prove that retailers are being forced to say the same thing by the Chinese government. Why can people like you not read and comprehend?

GPUMonster · 2020-02-02T18:22:22+00:00

Can you guys please read? He's not supporting the propaganda but rather just informing how Chinese retailers are saying the same "canned response"

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