One thing that I find funny is how lazy they are by default. Not just tasks like this where it's grinding for a long time, but coding in general. They love to stub in functionality or leave their future selves "todos" in the code. It's also hard to get them to write long prose. I have a powershell script that documents Azure environments and it uses AI calls to build the narrative parts of the document (the shit no one likes to write). I had to add minimum paragraph and sentence counts to the prompts it uses to keep it from trying to write a few terse sentences each time. And that happened with multiple models during testing.

It might be harder than you would think. For many cars the infotaiment system is a VM running on a hypervisor right next to another VM running a bunch of the car's driving features. Google 'automotive hypervisor' if you want to explore that rabbit hole. That could include the instrument cluster (which are no longer fed directly from the systems they represent but by the car's computer(s)), especially if it's a partially or entirely digital dashboard as well. Killing the hardware those VMs are running on would take them all out. Hell I'd wonder if the car would even start in that condition.

Yea it's stupid. My state rolled them out and I checked since leaving home without my wallet (say working in the yard and want to the store for something) would be my only real use for it, and police can but are not required to accept it in my state. Makes it pretty pointless. Apparently TSA will take it but a) I don't fly a lot, b) I have a passport card I also keep in my wallet so I never bothered to jump through all the real-ID hoops with the DMV, and c) I'm not likely to go to the airport without my wallet. Maybe if I lost my wallet on a trip it would be a nice have but the odds of that are pretty low.

That's a sign you are not actually prepared or maybe not a good fit for a STEM degree.

No they trusted a cloud service to store the only copy of their data. Cloud backups as an offsite are fine, but 1-2-3 FFS. If it's data you want, it should never only exist in one place.

Not really. If you are taking those in your first semester then you definitely had plenty of algebra in HS along with trig (which I'd argue is harder than 1st semester calc). You have a solid math background already. Calc I should be fucking easy. You also probably had physics and chemistry already. If your 1st semester is a calc-based physics (and not a true intro course) then that one can be a bit tough, though mainly from all the equation massaging they love to do. The actual math and concepts are not that difficult though (and, hilariously, not calc based at all). 1st year chemistry is basically a retelling of your HS chem courses with a bit more math, but it's all basic algebra. Concepts are all what you have learned before but with a bit more detail and (hopefully) better labs.

History requires a lot of memorization. Not everyone excels at that. English, which again you've had already, is still a beast of it's own. No one but writers likes writing. Polysci, civics, etc all also have their quirks, especially if you have no interest and didn't so a lot with them in HS.

Fair. But then should the creators be charged for the bandwidth, storage, and encoding their streams use? It cuts both way.

Not that Twitch has much choice here. I guarantee this is being pushed on them from Amazon. I think that is why the Twitch execs are being so blunt with how they are communicating it.

Assuming you were a CS major then that's still 1 major course and a bunch of breadth (unless you were going into computational chemistry or something similar). I feel like anyone coming in to a STEM program who can't handle intro physics, chem, and 1st year calc won't fair any better with that 1 semester as pass-fail anyway. I personally didn't find them challenging at all, but I was a chem major and really didn't have any issues until p-chem, which is the great filter for chemistry students who are serious about being chemists.

If your project can be completed by a for less than $4,000 total, then it's probably something that could be done with a $20/mo Claude subscription.

Ah I remember getting my first paycheck from my first job. What a gut-punch.

First year first semester schedule is going to be 1 or maybe 2 classes in their majors (if they have even picked one yet) and the rest are 101 level breadth requirements anyway so I don't see an issue with it. Plus as incoming freshmen there is usually a lot of other stuff going on so it helps with the adjustment period.

A 24gb card will work for full offload (3090/4090). Looking at the model it should use around 21gb total. Note that is just the model. If you want to use it for coding or something else requiring a very large context then yea, 5090 with 32gb.

Yep, by the end of 2027, if RAM shortages continue, there will only be an estimated 3,000-3,500 internet capable consumer devices still in use.

Just game play. Averages 150-200 people per stream (followers isn't really a huge metric with live streaming)

Actually yes, despite whatever fantasy you are concocting in your own head.