komaromy

Anyone more than ~300 points below the players can only contribute to the discussion in a superficial capacity though

I hear your point, but there's literally a homeless NPC and an NPC suffering from combat PTSD. Another way of looking at it might be that you're empowered to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those people which feels good.

What kind of 5k time did you hit with that training?

Big tech would never ship anything that fast.

Deepness was well worth it.

Wheel of Time, on the other hand, I was very glad to give up on right around the same point as you.

There would have been some students at West Point in 1828 whose families owned slaves. Slavery was only abolished in New York State one year prior to this. "Incessantly racist" is probably underselling it.

That your situation is of a different magnitude (and it sounds terrible; I'm sorry) does not make the relative change in another person's life any easier.

> Name one new product that Facebook built from scratch (did not acquire), launched, and made a sustained success of since their original social network.

Marketplace?

I'd be more open to this if we hadn't already seen wild swings in the crypto market (BTC is down ~50% from its 12-month peak) without much in the way of broader implications.

> I can get hired as a software engineer wherever, but I’m only mediocre at doing the job.

I feel exactly the same.

Mind if I ask how you deal with this?

I recently left software (not sure if temporary or permanent yet) and I'm pursuing tutoring in an unrelated field. So far I'm liking it more because I feel better than mediocre.

> For AWS, it allows them to make hardware investments early on

I can't imagine this deal (signed in April 2021) has that much impact on either AWS's hardware budget or their usage projections.

Are there minors on the top-level Chinese teams?

> aliens being here would imply FTL is possible

Why? There are plenty of stars within a sub-light-speed radius since events that could've announced us to the galaxy: advent of radio, first nuclear tests, etc.

If you read the rest of the sentence GP was correct