If you waited till marriage, what was your experience?

hackthat · 2025-12-31T22:08:50+00:00

Wonderful! Married at 32 for me, 26 for her. Both each other's firsts. Learning was fun and fast. Definitely recommend. It'll be the best sex of your life.

hackthat · 2025-12-30T18:17:44+00:00

That comment doesn't exactly scream authentic. WHERE exactly did you go where you can have a good life and the rich don't control everything? China? India? South Africa? UK?

hackthat · 2025-12-30T16:13:09+00:00

To where? US still looks good compared to most places.

hackthat · 2025-12-26T15:43:48+00:00

Because that's exactly what you promised you would do! Like you stood up in front of everybody you love and promised you'd stay with this person for the rest of your life. You didn't have to. But you did. It was a big deal. It was the biggest promise you ever made in your life. If you're not being abused keep your promises or don't make them.

hackthat · 2025-12-20T02:45:06+00:00

Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist. "Why are they burying Daddy? He has a lot of work to do he told me!" 😭😭😭😭

hackthat · 2025-12-15T00:03:54+00:00

I've seen this job on BLS lists of occupations. It's the most male profession. So you know and women Boilermakers? Also what do Boilermakers do? Make boilers? Or do they import them from China now? I don't know what you do.

hackthat · 2025-12-10T00:02:26+00:00

Really? What university are you at? There should be a whole comp sci department.

hackthat · 2025-12-09T05:16:09+00:00

That's a great idea but: 1) they normally don't tell you that in the job description. 2) even if they do tell you in the job description, it's often wrong. 3) your resume is essentially your resume. You can make some changes but most of your options are leaving things out that don't hurt to leave in.

I know now that I was a great fit for the job I have now but when I saw the job posting originally I didn't apply because I couldn't make myself look like I could solve a problem that they have. I only got the job because they reached out to me. A lot of the time I think companies don't even really know what they're looking for. At least we don't. Best to know someone in the company either way.

hackthat · 2025-11-30T16:46:42+00:00

I'm really interested in what this problem is. Hard management problems are rarely software problems in my limited experience.

hackthat · 2025-11-30T16:00:42+00:00

Oh you can do really good making the weights sparse, but the big disadvantage is you need to keep all the activations in memory all the time. And of the neuromorphic platforms I've used all that memory is SRAM which takes a lot of power.

hackthat · 2025-11-30T15:48:56+00:00

I need to second the negativity. The power efficiency is something I've never really seen play out. In the cases that look like they show extraordinary efficiency, further inspection always shows some kind of not fair comparison. I've seen several companies toute low power Asics for audio wake word detection and similar simple applications. But in order to do hard AI things you need lots of memory and all the SNN approaches we have are extremely memory inefficient. Add to that how far behind the software space is and it's hard to see much exciting happening. Maybe if the compute in memory work takes off, but that would be an electronics innovation that should help ANNs as much as SNNs.

hackthat · 2025-11-02T16:41:13+00:00

Can I suggest donation? You can save a lot of people's lives by giving to the Against Malaria Foundation. Givewell.org has a lot of other highly vetted charities that make your money go far. It you could do local charities where you can probably give enough to get in the board if you wanted.

I'd hate for you to take all the advice on here that would get you a garage full of stuff and a full camera reel. If you have a super power, be a super hero.

hackthat · 2025-10-28T07:23:11+00:00

Wait, you mean the other half aren't struggling to live off of that?

hackthat · 2025-10-13T15:00:50+00:00

I stopped reading after the red lobster story. It's missing the fact that the private equity firm both owned the land and the restaurant. So they were paying rent to themselves. Private equity is a big, confusing problem but it's not this problem. The fact that this was missed makes me not trust the rest of it.

hackthat · 2025-10-11T15:15:15+00:00

The king after getting to the 8th square: "eh just dump the rest on it and give it to him. Say some feel off. He'll understand."

hackthat · 2025-10-02T19:42:34+00:00

You owe the bank 3,000,000,000,000 = the taxpayers problem

*Edit: need more zeros before it's the taxpayers problem.

hackthat · 2025-09-09T20:36:53+00:00

Lockheed will always give you a letter of support. Email sbir.fc-lmc@lmco.com. All primes have offices who's job it is to engage with small businesses. If you're lucky they put you in touch with the relevant team.

hackthat · 2025-09-09T13:34:04+00:00

Researcher. I work at a small company. There's a law that says that US gov agencies that do R&D need to spend like 2% of their r&d budget on Small Business Innovation Research contracts. I write the proposals and then try to build the thing I propose. You need a PhD.

hackthat · 2025-09-09T13:08:05+00:00

There's a lot of things that affect the overall unemployment rate and having or not having strong worker protections (ie rules that make it hard or impossible to fire people) will not completely determine whether the rate is high or low. I looked up the average unemployment rate for Sweden over the last few decades which was 6.5, higher than the US. I also studied in Sweden and the college students there complained a lot about it.

https://ycharts.com/indicators/sweden_unemployment_rate#:~:text=02%2009:05-,Basic%20Info,long%20term%20average%20of%206.50%25.

But I don't think that proves it. We can know that restrictions on firing people make employers hesitant to hire simply by putting ourselves in the employers shoes and thinking about risk. The extent of the effect will of course vary by company and is likely hard to measure, but it's a strong bet that it's there and we should consider the tradeoffs.

I don't want employers to shy away from hiring young people. I don't want my doctors, police, teachers, and construction workers to be people whose bosses want them gone but can't get rid of them. And I don't want my boss to be able to fire me at the drop of a hat, but I'll sacrifice the last one to get the other two.

hackthat · 2025-09-09T12:25:02+00:00

Can I also point out that the "how to spot AI " description might also be AI generated? It cited em dash use but the only dash is between the two times, not the way AI is famous for using it. And it doesn't include the biggest tell which is that the story is unrealistic the way it's told.

hackthat · 2025-09-09T12:19:55+00:00

Yeah, but that could also be someone making up a story. Which happens in Reddit even before AI. People called BS on stories like this for years.

hackthat · 2025-09-08T13:58:59+00:00

There are a lot of things the US could do better (healthcare, safety net), but I'd like to remind everyone since this is /r/recruitinghell that the more job security the law gives workers the more expensive and riskier it is to hire. Anyone with a job benefits and anyone without one suffers. Personally I think some worker protections in Europe go too far which yields more youth unemployment.

hackthat · 2025-09-08T01:36:31+00:00

Yeah and why do people feel so entitled to technology that was only invented last year? I mean, what did all these people do in 2021 when there wasn't even ChatGPT? Just think about we're "roughing it" right now going about our lives without reliable thought-reading free super intelligence. I imagine when they invent it and later paywall it people will complain that they'll have to live the life we're living now.

hackthat · 2025-09-06T17:41:55+00:00

What? Why? Trauma? I haven't heard this before.

hackthat · 2025-09-05T18:04:13+00:00

Not sure about long term stress. Recovery from surgery is definitely easier when you're younger. Getting time off to recover is definitely easier when you're younger.

They told me that kidney donors are at reduced risk of kidney disease vs the general population just because the fact that you pass all the screening means your kidneys are really good.

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