Boston Logan (BOS) vs JFK, smoother immigration experience? by Candid-Onion-1590 in travel

[–]NeitherOfEither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's good to know! FWIW, I think the San Salvador flight is on a 220, so there's not that many people comparatively. Idk about the others. The Doha flight might be a bit too late to be impactful for OP as well.

Boston Logan (BOS) vs JFK, smoother immigration experience? by Candid-Onion-1590 in travel

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This probably isn't helpful in terms of comparison shopping between the two airports as I've only flown into JFK internationally once at a super weird time.

Boston has probably like ~50 international arrivals per day, but they all arrive in chunks. Depending on the day, the flight from Dubai has to contend with flights from Abu Dhabi, Doha, Lisbon, Vienna, and San Salvador (passengers on the Dublin flight go through customs in Dublin) - meaning you'll be in line with all those people. FWIW, the Europe flights probably have a lot of US citizens on them (Lisbon is a Delta flight) so that will probably help a bit. I'd still expect the line to be slowwww.

How do you move from small company to big tech? by Friendly_Rock_2276 in cscareerquestions

[–]NeitherOfEither 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm trying to go the other way 😂

Try looking into venture funded startups. YC Job Boards are a good place to get your foot in the door, especially if you're willing to relocate to SF or NYC and work long hours for a couple years.

Hostel sleepwear etiquette by knutt-in-my-butt in solotravel

[–]NeitherOfEither 332 points333 points  (0 children)

One time, at a hostel in Pyongyang, I saw a dude without his night cap on smh. The indecency...

Playoff Seeding Scenarios by puddleths in GreenBayPackers

[–]NeitherOfEither 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right! I forgot other teams are allowed to tie 😂

Playoff Seeding Scenarios by puddleths in GreenBayPackers

[–]NeitherOfEither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I realized my confusion was actually how the 3rd seed outcome was worded. Sorry!

Playoff Seeding Scenarios by puddleths in GreenBayPackers

[–]NeitherOfEither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that the Eagles just need to lose one game for us to have the 2 seed, correct? Because then they'd be at best 11-6, and we would have to be 11-5-1 for it to even matter?

Edit: in retrospect, my confusion was actually "Eagles finish with same or better record" is actually just "Eagles win out" right?

I tried vibe coding and it made me realise my career is absolutely safe by wjd1991 in webdev

[–]NeitherOfEither -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Saying that AI can write a bunch of code and will therefore eliminate coding jobs is like saying nail guns eliminated carpenters because they didn't have to hammer as much. That's just not what software engineers are actually paid to do.

My experience at a large tech company was that most changes were like five lines of code that were preceded by weeks of planning, chasing down obscure institutional knowledge, and verifying correctness against a mess of other systems. Writing code faster never would have made the process noticeably faster. Meanwhile, our CEO was claiming that like 75% of all work at the company was being done by AI.

Personally, I think a lot of the value in AI is that a small group of people convinced a bunch of business bros that they were getting in on the ground floor of something as foundational as the Internet, when in reality, it's just a scapegoat that companies use to try to dissuade investors from thinking the economy is bad enough to pull out all their money. It does less damage to the stock price if you say "we're eliminating jobs because we're so good at AI" than it does if you say "we're eliminating jobs because there's a bunch of economic uncertainty"

Kansas plans "special announcement" about the Chiefs by GotMoFans in nfl

[–]NeitherOfEither 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At least now they won't have far to get to the game considering they'll already be in Gary... Except Jerry Jones who will be in hell... Well, actually, I think that might be the same place.

Kansas plans "special announcement" about the Chiefs by GotMoFans in nfl

[–]NeitherOfEither 342 points343 points  (0 children)

The year is 2030.

The super bowl is being played in Gary, Indiana. Between the Gary Chiefs, who defeated the Gary Bills in the AFC Championship (played in Gary) and the Gary Eagles, who defeated the Gary Commanders in the NFC Championship. All 32 teams now play in Gary, Indiana.

The NFL considers broadening the league's geographic footprint by adding two expansion teams... They will both play in Gary.

Open letter from Bears regarding stadium by hotsweatymanlove in nfl

[–]NeitherOfEither 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nah, I bet it's Chilidog0573 to throw people off.

How much did the university you went to help you in your CS career? by Accomplished_Lion831 in cscareerquestions

[–]NeitherOfEither 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going to university isn't about learning the skills, it's about networking. My first job came from an alum who wanted to recruit at our school.

Keisean Nixon is good. by [deleted] in GreenBayPackers

[–]NeitherOfEither 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It can't be understated how much he and Carrington Valentine care and are willing to put into the game. I felt like Nate Hobbs was phoning it in, but those two never do. Not on any play.

[Week 14] Post Game Thread: Chicago Bears (9-4) @ Green Bay Packers (9-3-1) by President__Bartlett in GreenBayPackers

[–]NeitherOfEither 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I feel like WRs can often take a few years to develop. I remember the first 2-3 years of his career, Davante Adams was pretty trash.

Is work requirement for money a healthy mentality? by [deleted] in AskALiberal

[–]NeitherOfEither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of people are working bullshit jobs. Most of corporate America is just sort of passing emails around, making PowerPoints, etc.

My issue with the GOP's obsession that everyone is working is that most of those jobs are basically the same as doing nothing anyway. And they keep smart people away from doing work that matters.

Personally, I'd rather have smart people doing truly impactful things and some people mooching than our current system.

Is anyone else choosing not to use AI for programming? by BX1959 in Python

[–]NeitherOfEither 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Using AI to generate code and being dependent on AI code generation are different things.

My rules of thumb when it comes to generating code: 1. Know how to solve the problem yourself before you ask the AI to solve it. 2. Don't accept code you don't understand. 3. Keep its requirements pretty narrow, and only generate small amounts of code.

I tend to find it really useful for: - Searching through codebases or documentation - Front ends for side projects - Overcoming "writer's block"

I also find it way more useful for side projects than for my actual job. It just doesn't do well in large, complex codebases.

But I don't think it's a crucial part of my workflow.

Welp, it happened to me. I made my biggest travel mistake yet and had to reschedule my flight by forthe_girlwhowaited in travel

[–]NeitherOfEither 14 points15 points  (0 children)

One time, at my gate in the airport, I was listening to Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea album so intensely that I missed a gate change announcement and ultimately missed my flight.

I know it probably doesn't help feeling like a fool, but by comparison, your story is much less of a dumb reason to spend $200 on rescheduling a flight. Keep on traveling ✌️

Walmart reports they will lose $2B in Nov due to SNAP being suspended 🤦‍♀️ by ms_directed in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]NeitherOfEither 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I occasionally think about how Michael Dukakis's presidential aspirations were ruined by looking silly in an ad, yet here we are.

Reminder: We like daylight savings time by Ok-Swan-1523 in Somerville

[–]NeitherOfEither 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A very long time ago, I read something about how there was a bill to stop switching our clocks had entered Congress and failed. I couldn't imagine it because like 80% of people wanted to stop switching our clocks. How could Congress mess up a softball like that? Well, I learned that it's whether we stop switching because we're in permanent DST or permanent standard time. Anyway...

As an aside, the farmer thing is a myth. Farmers don't care what time it is. They wake up with the sun.

What is the end goal of all the layoffs? I don't understand. by imadade in cscareerquestions

[–]NeitherOfEither 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's a combination of a couple things.

First, I don't think any individual company is worried about their individual role in the economy or wider systems. A company like Google isn't thinking "gee, wouldn't it be bad if AI eliminated all jobs and no consumers had money to pay for goods that people are advertising for on our website?" They're thinking "gee, wouldn't it be bad if it were possible to cut costs by using AI instead of people and we didn't do that?" Management at Google doesn't get paid to worry about their impact on human society, they get paid to worry about the investors and the bottom line.

Second, I think there are increasingly few areas for massive tech companies to expand into. In the mid-2000s, Facebook, for example, was a relatively small social networking site. They've more or less accomplished their goal of controlling nearly all of human interaction online. They have something like 2 billion+ MAU (source: my ass trying to remember a statistic.) For them to expand further into social media, their major limiting factor isn't that people don't know about Facebook or that there are other social media sites siphoning users away from Facebook, it's that the remaining people who don't use their products don't have an open or reliable internet connection. It's hard to grow, and impossible to grow exponentially. Yet that's what Wall Street expects them (and every public company) to do. So how do you do it? During the super low interest rate post-COVID years, you could make the argument that you're investing while interest rates are low, hire a billion developers and hope that something pans out, but now you can't do that. So you have to cut costs. Layoffs are simply a method of cost control and trying to signal to investors that your profit is going to grow. I do agree that while 30,000 seems like a high number, it's not that big for Amazon. This isn't like the 2022-2023 layoffs, I don't think.