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^ this lol, real world systems are so much more complex and involve much more coordination than a personal pet project. It’s so difficult to figure out the source of a bug in a production system like this.

I mean to be fair it’s a huge production system, there are many moving parts. Having worked on outages before in complex systems it is very difficult to identify root causes under pressure

Making me not wanna eat anything lol…

In seriousness does this mean I’m ok to buy the regular broccoli at the store next time?

uh alright buddy

yeah I do feel like the PhD system is not uniform in terms of students’ experiences. some get out quite quickly if their advisor is chill while others are stuck being stack ranked in their labs or doing grunt work. your fate is basically in the hands of your advisor..

yeah it is interesting. when I was at Stanford I was a TA and we just had to leave the room during exams after passing them out and come back at the end to collect the exams. just as I was graduating they started doing the pilot for proctoring exams and I remember students were really upset about it, though my fellow TAs were mostly in agreement that it was a good idea.

side note is that it’s kind of funny because sometimes the seating would be auditorium style so you could easily see papers in front of you if you were higher up… probably difficult to avoid accidentally glancing at someone else’s paper while taking a break, lol.

Interesting… Feels like a beautifully designed network for a world where operators trust each other more than they actually do

Agree… OP said “not CS” so doesn’t seem surprising. If we’re going by anecdotes, AI classes in the CS dept have risen in popularity in the past few years.