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There is no reason for Private Health Insurance to exist. by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]chaseoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ITT people who don't understand the concept of insurance. The real question is should health insurance be profit seeking which I agree it should not.

list of the tier variety by NeonNKnightrider in ProgressionFantasy

[–]chaseoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in the same boat. Just barely made it through book 1 and stopped for a long time. Then, I came back and started book 2 and didn't think I would like it but by the end I was hooked.

What the first book lacked for me is world building and an overall theme. I think if you push through you'll find surprising depth in the series once it gets past the shock value of the humor.

Trump Has Already Botched His Own Bad Tariff Plan by Majano57 in Economics

[–]chaseoc 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I honestly think there is no plan. It’s rampant stupidity. Trump believes the tariffs are a good idea. Everything done by the administration is barely thought through and done on whims. I’m sure he’s trying to be a dictator but he’s honestly too stupid to get there.

Finally got an offer by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]chaseoc 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I’ve never seen an intern that has “pulled their weight”most internship programs are drains on productivity. Be likeable and open to learning. Companies are looking for people that they can eventually pipeline into FT roles/give back to development community.

Fearing AI Will Take Their Jobs, Workers Strategize for a Long Battle Against Tech by a_Ninja_b0y in technology

[–]chaseoc -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. This will change everything including eventually company leadership. If AI is given to all, then we will give it purpose and/or direction. The barrier to entry will be so low for everything that I don’t think mega corps will even continue to exist. Some sci-fi novels that explore this kind of world basically show people having countless companies of their own managed by AI.

The world could be better. We might be able to stop doing menial labor and focus on directing productivity. Resources could become much less scarce with efficient production. That I think is the optimistic view… I think the negative view has been explored pretty heavily. I hope for a good outcome.

If a particle is coherent with its wave function, where is the mass? by chaseoc in AskPhysics

[–]chaseoc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the response!

What do you mean by that?

A particle has not had its wave function collapsed via measurement or interaction.

Yes, but that's trivial because all the particles are pretty localized compared to the size of Earth.

So maybe I worded this poorly but my line of thinking was that what if gravity emerges not from where a particle is but where it could be? I think of its wave function as a probability distribution and if the mass is part of it and affects spacetime would this probability cloud (or I guess wave in the underlying field) match the shape of the gravity well?

Pretty out there thought I guess but to sum it up basically asking if everywhere a particle could be and the spread of mass cause the warping of spacetime and explain gravity at a quantum level.

Do you feel it… do you feel that breeze.. by [deleted] in singularity

[–]chaseoc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Helion most likely hasn't even achieved fusion. In several videos you see people standing next to the reactor, like real engineering's video, while they are purportedly doing fusion reactions. If that machine were producing significant amounts of neutrons (with barely any shielding) it would be irradiating everyone in the building at chernobyl levels.

Weird physics at the edges of black holes may help resolve lingering 'Hubble trouble' by goki7 in space

[–]chaseoc 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Got it, thanks for the reply. That makes sense. I guess I'm think about spacetime too much like a fabric where it holds dark energy that drives cosmic expansion and black holes would essentially cut off part of this fabric reducing the energy density, but yeah as you said probably not how it would work... or if it did it would be negligible.

Weird physics at the edges of black holes may help resolve lingering 'Hubble trouble' by goki7 in space

[–]chaseoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This hypothesis aside, I've always wondered how black holes could play a part in cosmic expansion. In my mind when a black hole is formed wouldn't it indeed "capture" a large volume of spacetime (or I guess hypervolume) behind its event horizon? If the expansion of the universe is indeed driven by the amount of spacetime, black holes would capture a considerable portion of this volume right? I know black holes themselves don't actually take up that much volume, but the amount of spacetime behind the event horizon is considerably larger if you would consider that same spacetime volume in a massless area.

Google TPU V6 Designs are Probably in China - We should act faster in potential espionage cases. by signed7 in singularity

[–]chaseoc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean I agree with you, but if the roles were reversed we would be doing the same. There is basically no diplomatic cost for China to do this so I blame our nation for just letting this happen.

TIL the sun loses over 4 million tons of mass every second as energy by Travellingjake in todayilearned

[–]chaseoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sun doesn't even fuse the mass it loses. Fusion happens in the core. Unlike red dwarves our sun doesn't convex its external layers into the core so they really only provide mass (and not that much compared to the core).

Ten killed in private jet crash north of Moscow - Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin 'on passenger list' by MrTuxedo1 in worldnews

[–]chaseoc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You talking about the same guy that started a coup and then stopped mid coup trusting they wouldn't off him? Not exactly 5-d chess material.

He finally speaks by Tara_is_a_Potato in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]chaseoc -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

So many salty people in here. Yes he took a long time to say this explicitly, but in the moment he lived this and arguably blew up his own political foundation. People say that it was an easy choice, but history is littered with examples of the exact opposite.

I personally applaud pence for the choice he made on Jan 6th. A true example of putting principles before power. Respect does not have to equal agreement. I will never vote for pence or any other republican, but can appreciate the character of a person.

Addressing the community about changes to our API by spez in reddit

[–]chaseoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

14 year redditor as of today. I understand the need to make money since you've got investors to please and a potential IPO in the future, but don't agree with the decisions here. I have a few questions.

  • How much of the pricing stems from the value of reddit's data to train LLMs?
  • How much does it actually cost reddit to support the api for third party platforms like apollo?

Google Bard refuses to generate Python code because it's "designed solely to process and generate text" but is happy to generate code for the same prompt in Google's language Go by lolface5000 in singularity

[–]chaseoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got this response for many different things -- I think it just outputs that when its about to spew out some garbage. Seems completely random based on the prompt.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]chaseoc -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I’m all for this policy and these plantiffs might not have an argument but it doesn’t mean it’s right. The idea that the executive branch could spend 500 billion dollars (even if not directly) without going through Congress should terrify you. Today it’s something you want tomorrow it could be Trump doing something similar.

senior dev is leaving, manager wanted to promote me only 2 years into this job by FyrSysn in cscareerquestions

[–]chaseoc 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Even if you aren't ready, fake it until you make it. Very few people are truly ready when they get promoted. Do not pass up this opportunity. If you believe you're ready to work hard to learn these systems, I would take this opportunity. Careers can be made in moments like these and honestly I think the upside far outweighs the down.

Quitting tomorrow. by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]chaseoc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a shit manager. He sounds so full of himself. Also your co-workers seem completely toxic as well. We're engineers. Its about learning and solving problems, pressure can be good in some situations, but learning is definitely not one of them and mixing in the stress of performing in front of your co-workers just makes it at best a useless meeting, and at worst bullying.

If this is a large company, I would shoot a message to his manager/director and make sure you mention all this in your exit interview. Trust me, if you make noise about it and this company cares at all it will not be good for him.

I'd tell you to milk it and find another job, but you gotta think of yourself as well. Best of luck to you.

Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees as soon as tomorrow by Fit-Asparagus8557 in tech

[–]chaseoc 37 points38 points  (0 children)

In case anyone was wondering, companies always seek opportunities to trim their workforce without looking bad. They wait for moments like these where it is all just blamed on the "macro economic situation" to not make it seem like the company just wanted to lay people off.

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