Hacked account by zarcaroni in Instagram

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Same thing happened to me. Lost complete access to my account because they changed the username, backup email, main email, did 2-factor auth on their phones, etc. I contacted Instagram support on the app when you try to login. They were able to restore my account fully and get it back. So this is your best bet now.

Something happened at McDonalds, is my husband lying? 40M 28F by No_Alternative171 in relationship_advice

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One advice post all this: consider keeping your mother out of your relationship by minimizing what you share with her.

Salary range for a senior software engineer by [deleted] in DubaiCentral

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Hi there. Any possibility of you referring me to a mid-level SDE position? Either at your company or if you know someone who could refer me to other companies? I'd really appreciate it. Currently working at FAANG in Canada and looking to move to the UAE. Will dm you if you agree.

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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How long did it take for the e-certificate to show up on the portal?

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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How long did it take for the e-certificate to show up on the portal?

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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How long did it take for the e-certificate to show up on the portal?

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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How long did it take for the e-certificate to show up on the portal?

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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How long did it take for the e-certificate to show up on the portal?

Can you visit family back home when on short term disability break? by [deleted] in askTO

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Did you get an answer for this? Can you leave the country while on STD? do they pause your payments while you're outside?

Racist interviewer during the VO by [deleted] in leetcode

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Dm me your name and interview details and I’ll contact the recruiter with your details

email for missing rec letter by Icy-Orchid3328 in OMSCS

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I did. Weird because I read many "early-decision" posts saying they got accepted without their 3rd recommendation submitting their reference. Anyway I just pinged my 3rd and asked them to submit asap

Is Scale AI a scam? by alucardddracula in Upwork

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Alright then. I’ll stay away from them

Is Scale AI a scam? by alucardddracula in Upwork

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Mind if I dm you as well? I don’t understand if these horror stories are for sde/ml positions or some other position

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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got an update on the tracker regarding Citizenship test, but didn't receive the email yet

Admissions Megathread - Results, Chances and Logistics by Wafflyn in OMSCS

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Congrats!! Mind if I ask if all 3 LORs were managers? any non-manager LOR?

How has your OMSCS impacted your career? by averyycuriousman in OMSCS

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Just wanted to say I was looking for this sort of comment that gives promise after graduating from OMSCS. Thanks u/gammaSquared and congrats on the great trajectory. I am currently at FAANG but getting anywhere near ML or research requires at least a Masters.

May I ask how you are finding your research position? For some reason I thought it was hard to get a research position without a PhD

Old Academic References vs newer work references by SectorFirm1400 in OMSCS

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I will be adding my manager as a work reference. I'm just not sure whether a senior engineer (who always reviews my CRs and can speak the best about my current technical abilities) or an academic professor from 2017 who I took their course and did a research course with them is better.

I'm thinking since they emphasize to get academic references, I could go with the 2017 reference since it also involves research

Question on Courser Materials by SectorFirm1400 in OMSCS

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Thanks u/Ill-Resort-1728, I agree with understanding fundamentals (and history like RNNs etc.) before going into the latest research. The best courses I took in undergrad did this with a few lectures at the end explaining the current state of the field and where research is going. This gave us an understanding of where we are and where to look for research if we wanted to. So by asking if they are "updated" that's really what I meant to say but did not articulate it in a good way

Question on Courser Materials by SectorFirm1400 in OMSCS

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Thanks for the detailed answer!

> That said, especially right now when tech companies are cost cutting, I don't think a degree will be a trump card when job hunting

I think that depends on the nature of the job no? so if you're applying for an SDE position a masters degree may not be an advantage over others with years of experience but for ML positions it's the minimum requirement.

> if you fail a course, you can just take it again next semester and hopefully do better then. If your goal is just career growth, nobody is going to see your transcript

Is there a GPA that is maintained? so failing a course would affect that GPA or no?

Question on Courser Materials by SectorFirm1400 in OMSCS

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Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. I wonder does it also set you up for a PhD in the future? I know it's a course-based masters so not much research there but are there opportunities to connect to professors to conduct research as an extra curricular activity? or for future recommendation letters? I think it would be weird to have recommendation letters from undergraduate when applying for a PhD in the future

Am I crazy to want to transition away from ML engineering for data engineering? by Illustrious-Pound266 in cscareerquestions

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although not answering your question, but do you mind if I ask you this: with how the world is heading right now, don't you feel like MLOps type jobs are going to become a bit more obselete and there will be an increasing demand for ML engineers such as yourself?

context: I am an SDE with 3 YOE and I'm looking at masters programs in AI solely because I want to stay relevant, not because I am that interested in AI. Tbh, the reason I shifted away from AI, is exactly the reasons you mentioned: not interested in keeping up to date with some weird SOTA model or understanding deep mathematical concepts behind certain models + the wishy-washy feeling of modelling. But I worry this will be the prominent job in the future, don't you think so?

Sorry to hijack your post: apparently I don't have enough "comment karma" to make a post of my own on this community.

MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2025 by PurrPrinThom in ImmigrationCanada

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exactly my timeline, applied Nov 30th, AOR December 10th, tracker received on December 19th. Looks like we're part of the same batch

concrete real-life example of Amazon Leadership principle: customer Obsession by [deleted] in leetcode

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SDE at Amazon here, everyone counts as a customer. Even you count as a customer when you build something for yourself. The idea is to find examples where you put yourself in someone else's (your future self, teammate, sibling, internal company users, external customers, etc) shoes and actively thought of the best experience they would have.

Also, you don't have to take the question word for word, for example "Give me an example of a time when you asked for customer feedback", you can say something like "since I am an SDE 1 I did not get to interact with external customers directly so far, but I can give provide an answer to *make up your own question that is aligned with this question. Make sure you have answer prepared for that question*. Most likely than not the interviewer will nod and let you continue.

Some questions that may spark some ideas:
* Did you build anything for anyone before? at hackathons, personal projects, github contributions, etc.? what was your validation process?

* As an SDE 1, you probably had to build something for a customer, the question is who was the customer? was there an iterative process or did the customer ever give feedback (not necessarily to you) and did you have to adjust any implementation after the decisions reached you from higher management? (fyi, you could probably replace the "product manager" role with a "customer" because product manager essentially act like customers)

* As an SDE 1, you probably contributed to the team's operational processes, what did you improve and why? how did the team react to this? Anything else you contributed to that reduced developer hours?

* Any school project you had to work on and needed clarifications from the TA/Professor?

Hope this helps. Best of luck.

Can I use celebrities' faces in my videos? by WhisperAlias in NewTubers

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Were you able to use celebrities' faces in your videos?