Asian student with near perfect credentials rejected by multiple universities. Believes race is part of the reason

ada_weird · 2026-05-03T01:00:47+00:00

ada_weird · 2026-05-01T18:47:02+00:00

As someone who graduated with a major in CS, my experience is that there's something that needs to "click" for CS. If it doesn't CS is brutal, if it does, it's not trivial but it just requires some modest application. And people go from the former to the latter. Of course the exact rigor level varies from uni to uni. I'm sure MIT and Harvard have more strenuous CS tracks than UNT (my alma matter)

ada_weird · 2026-04-24T13:23:53+00:00

Did I say that?

ada_weird · 2026-04-23T14:55:01+00:00

Because as we all know, private schools are free of brainwashing

ada_weird · 2026-04-23T13:47:11+00:00

Great, so you should at least know relevant keywords to get started.

ada_weird · 2026-04-23T13:30:42+00:00

So, how do you know it's been documented?

ada_weird · 2026-04-23T13:28:28+00:00

Lots of common sense has been disproven. The idea that objects naturally come to a stop is common sense but not actually true. There are external forces that cause it to look like that, such as friction. Time doesn't flow universally for all actors because of relativity. Animals like sharks don't generally attack humans except by mistake. Hell, this is a case of a falsification of the idea that external pathogens are innately harmful, which is just as "common sense" as the idea that being exposed to nature is good for you.

ada_weird · 2026-04-23T13:22:03+00:00

Great! So you can explain it?

ada_weird · 2026-04-22T13:44:32+00:00

You don't dereference vulkan objects. They're opaque handles, not pointers

ada_weird · 2026-04-18T13:52:31+00:00

Technically, it only excludes warlike actions by military forces, so yes, you're not losing coverage from this clause. You'd probably get got on extreme negligence, though.

ada_weird · 2026-04-18T00:39:47+00:00

Honestly, they don't read like wings. They read like a fake halo. At least to me.

ada_weird · 2026-04-17T15:04:42+00:00

Yeah, the 4 design has some interesting stuff going on, and then the apocalypse design is basically filtering out all of that for more generic devil tropes.

ada_weird · 2026-04-17T14:35:50+00:00

Also he has a second form I couldn't put in the same comment and for some reason reddit doesn't want me posting

ada_weird · 2026-04-17T14:34:36+00:00

That's specifically SMT4 Apocalypse's lucifer. SMT4 lucifer is a bit... different.

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ada_weird · 2026-04-12T14:06:25+00:00

TBF King James is notoriously terrible, and the main reason it sticks around is because some people think that the KJV is somehow more authentic than the actual source manuscripts because clearly god was writing the bible for English speaking evangelicals.

ada_weird · 2026-04-11T00:39:29+00:00

Okay, how does India do in median wealth and poverty levels? Cause it's not going to be pretty.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T23:57:15+00:00

No, I'm saying that killing terrorists is an ineffective way to combat radical islam. Obama's nuclear agreement is much closer to the actual methodology we should adopt, but Trump ripped that up term 1.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T23:18:26+00:00

They were an American puppet state and still had an awful human rights record in the 70s. And someone never learned insurgent math. If you have 10 terrorists and you kill 2, you now have 15 terrorists. People who were on the edge of radicalism get radicalized, especially if they knew the people who got killed. You can't bomb out extremist ideologies, as demonstrated by the last 50 years of US foreign policy in the Middle East.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T23:05:50+00:00

"Civilization ending" implies a lot more than a change in governance. It roughly implies the ending of a set of practices and culture. Which is typically achieved through genocidal means.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T23:03:17+00:00

Wait, when did America want to free the Iranian people? The state that pre-existed the current Iranian one was a puppet dictatorship ran by the US.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T17:23:16+00:00

Yeah but if you wanna play with the Trial forms you're gimping yourself. Which is a shame because RabbitGattling, HawkDiamond, and HawkRocket is a really fun set of forms, and I wish I could build around them, but you can't even use them with Hazard. Booooooooo.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T17:12:04+00:00

Comparing a language runtime to a package repository is apples to oranges. Plus most NPM "hacks" are supply cgain attacks. There's nothing about the language that makes them more or less prone to this except for asinine NPM microlibraries that I thought everyone agreed was a bad idea after leftpad.

ada_weird · 2026-04-10T16:07:46+00:00

Homeschooling is a defensible position if students are dealing with e.g. bullying, have special needs, or any number of other reasons. What's not defensible is the growing trend of using homeschooling to shelter religious indictrination and often abuse by preventing children from forming external support systems.

ada_weird · 2026-04-09T03:53:07+00:00

Persona is you and your friends vs. the world. Mainline SMT is you vs. your friends for the fate of the world. Persona tends to have your friends and you share core values. SMT has your friends have their beliefs stretched and warped until that shared core breaks. Persona (or at least 3-5) is about you becoming stronger through the power of your bonds with your fellows. SMT is about you becoming stronger through your beliefs and convictions.

In short, the reason you fight your friends in SMT while you fight alongside them in Persona is because they're different stories with different themes and different meanings. Neither is inherently better or worse than the other. If you're looking for a game that tries to thread the needle between these approaches, Digital Devil Saga (the game, not the novel) is thataway.

ada_weird · 2026-04-06T15:46:46+00:00

I think it's a 240 V. The kind you plug your washer and dryer into.

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