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Russia Strikes Ukrainian Power Plant After Trump Claims Energy Ceasefire (r/worldnews)

• Somhlth: Assuming the American public gets their collective heads out of their asses, and hands all things Republican the defeat they deserve, it will take decades for the US to regain any kind of respect on the world stage. And it this point, it’s still a toss up about their collective heads.
• wirerc: Trump has disgraced and debased America so thoroughly, pimping it for a tiny hit of diesel fuel that won’t make any difference. It’s equivalent to 2 days of US exports (not even consumption) spread over months. Diesel is up because oil is up, because of his Iran war.
• Otherwise-4PM: Donald meant a ceasefire for Ukraine only, Russia is still allowed to attack.

Trump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’ (r/worldnews)

• x_gesso: The USA is such an embarrassment.
• Nifey-spoony: I like watching Trump destroy himself.
• canigetanorderlyline: Reminder. Donald Trump is a rapist.

Milei’s economic bloodletting: Argentina loses 32,300 companies and 437,000 jobs since his rise to power (r/Economics)

• HesitantInvestor0: No one in their right mind could have thought Argentina could get their inflation rate down from the triple digits without some kind of trade off. Not saying it’s worth it, probably depends person to person. But you don’t get to fix a major problem without affecting something else.
• RudeAndInsensitive: According to the libertarians I talked to on reddit at the time of his rise his policies would take time to bare fruit. You can’t just reshape entrenched economic systems of partisan favors, nepotism and welfare in a year after all. Now those people never had an answer for how long it would take but my speculation is probably one generation minimum. So good luck Argentinians.
• Clear-Role6880: Pre milei - 200% inflation
  
  Post milei - 30% inflation

US consumer sentiment near record low as frustration over economy mounts (r/Economics)

• handsoapdispenser: Consumer sentiment is very strongly tied to politics. Sentiment by party affiliation flipped almost instantly over the last two elections. That’s why it’s called “sentiment”. Actually spending numbers have been pretty steady outside of the pandemic.
• Little-Somewhere6076: > Sentiment deteriorated sharply this month among lower-income consumers and those with smaller stock portfolios, the University of Michigan said ⁠on Friday
  
  There isn’t an even distribution. The headline is misleading
• Whaddduptho: Consumer sentiment isn’t something I care about. We’re at a point where we can check how much is in your bank account, if you carry debt, if you’re delinquent, and we can look at how retail sales are doing, so what is the point?

US threatens to block arms for Ukraine over attacks on Russian refineries (r/UkrainianConflict)

• Vladx35: Every week, Trump proves he’s a bigger piece of shit than everyone had already thought. Quite impressive really.
• Mariopa: Trump does not have good cards anymore. They cut so much support so far and Ukraine has adopted. I wish him to reap what he sowed.
• Lopsided-Buy-3437: “The US does not make contributions to the fund”
  So how exactly do you threaten to revoke arms sales that you don’t finance? All this will do is give European arms makers more clout.
  
  Maybe figure out how to end the mess you started in the Middle East that caused the price spike.

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Will I be in trouble for using AI too much? (Blind)

• h1b&h4.ead (Cyberhaven): Token maxing was 2025
• UaxP22 (Canva): Do you actually read any of the design docs your agents produce and rank? How do you know if the ranking actually reflects quality?
• yacdiz (Microsoft): Pip is coming

Where do all the 40+ yo in big tech go? (Blind)

• unempGimp (ex-Amazon): We get taken out to the back of the office and are shot. Then they tell the young ones that we made so much money that we went to live in a farm upstate, and the new generation continues to grind. It’s the circle jerk of life.
• 2h5bfs4qh (Salesforce): They start families and rotate to retirement castle companies like IBM, Intel, Dell, Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce. Places with good income but better options for work-life balance. Their families become priorities, so they seek an environment that allows that.
• portyug (eBay): Age descriminatiion is rampant in big tech. They want someone who is willing to spend all hours at work. Hard to do that if you have family you love.

Opus 5.5 is fking dumb and it can’t even write a flowchart properly! (Blind)

• downquark (Meta): You are in the control group being routed to Gemini 4.
• ThePMDude (GoFundMe): Yeah not buying that opus and sol 6.1 are as good as the frontier models. Seems like bs.
• GrabThem (Microsoft): Opus is over energetic code monkey
  Gpt is slow staff engineer stuck in analysis paralysis.
  
  You should use them in pair - gpt to analyze, design, review and opus to code, test
  
  In my limited experience with Gemini models, they behave more like GPT models.

Why does having ADHD help in this new AI world ? (Blind)

• ectM68 (Bloomberg): Because AI doesn’t tire of the endless questions and rabbit hole pursuit ADHD individuals engage in, and it offloads much of the cognitive weaknesses of that profile (execution lagging behind the brain’s other abilities).
  
  Furthermore, if autism is in the mix too, which it often is, you have to understand that autistic folks spend an enormous amount of cognitive energy in social interactions because they are computing rather intuiting. And in the end what they’re interested in is the information exchange, not so much the oxytocin sync regular individuals want, which they’re mostly incapable of anyway. So they’d much rather interact with an impersonal AI that has all the upside of information exchange and none of the anxious computational overhead.
• jzkanaksq (Google): ADHD people need physical activity. Sitting at a computer will make ADHD even worse.
• Connect2M3 (Google): i am an adhd person. 10+ yoe and the last year I’ve used ai every single day. Most productive year of my life. Every idea i have comes to life. Working on 5 or 6 projects at the same time. Progress everyday.

End of LC ? (Blind)

• fjru (Google): As an interviewer from Google, I can confirm this is fake news for the company in general. Maybe you had a one-off interviewer.
• OXIy52 (Amazon): Lol, Google will be the last company on earth to move away from DSA-based LeetCode questions. They’ve just added one extra round to their onsite loop, which they’re conducting in person. How do I know? I interviewed with them this week.
• dedreamr (Salesforce): All googlers are basically too much of a code monkey. They have this fake pride of being able to code dmbfk hard coding problems in a hour that the dinosaurs sitting in Google will not allow the leetcode style interviews to cease. It’s like attacking their only “cool” thing

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Earthquakes do not become catastrophic simply because a fault begins to slip. The rupture must keep racing along the fault, releasing stored tectonic stress as seismic waves. Jacek Krywko’s Scientific American article examines new evidence for the underground barriers that can abruptly halt this process—and for the distinctive shock wave created when they do.

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Techmeme surfaced Microsoft’s October 12 announcement, “Microsoft to expand Azure Maia system to multi-gigawatt deployments.” The company plans to make its Maia 300 custom accelerator the primary inference system for Microsoft products and services and begin multi-gigawatt deployments in 2027. Reuters reports that the initial plan could involve more than one million chips.

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India’s economy grew by 7.8% in the three months to June, defying an oil shock, fuel rationing elsewhere in Asia and forecasts of a much weaker result. The figure appears broadly credible: car sales, lending and electricity use all point to genuine expansion. Yet the government’s celebration has provoked suspicion rather than enthusiasm.

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9 dead after shooting in Erie, Pennsylvania, governor says; suspected shooter also dead (r/news)

• AggravatingEar1465: Family annihilation? I guess it’s that time of year. Fuck.
• Fun_Bite_4663: "………Ms. Lott, 52, said she hadn’t slept all night, and that her neighborhood on Saturday was strewed with crime scene tape, and the road remained blocked to traffic.
  
  She said she knew the identities of two women whom she saw were dead in the street, but was uncertain who else had died. “They wouldn’t give any names,” she said of the police. “They just said nobody made it out of the house.”
  
  She said she knew the gunman and his family, but was not close to them. She described a pattern of domestic turmoil that has gone on for years."
  Sounds like domestic violence situation.
  “All I know is they argued a lot,” she said. Sounds like a domestic violence situation.
• nazerall: Ahh, my weekly reminder that I live in America.
  
  /sigh

REUTERS: Erik Prince’s forces suffer battlefield loss in Congo, former UFC fighter among wounded, sources say (r/news)

• DuskOfANewAge: I don’t understand why civilian mercenaries get to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
• dontputthatevilonme: I encourage everyone to read “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”
  
  Eric Prince had deep ties to the Bush admin. They were basically given a blank check to run amok in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chelsea Manning exposed The Nissour Massacre via WikiLeaks and did prison time for it. Blackwater’s rot runs deep.
  
  Fun fact : Eric’s sister is Betsy Devos, the Secretary of Education in Trump’s first admin.
• PHalfpipe: Not long ago I was reading that both the Congolese military and the Rwandan backed groups are both using drones now.
  
  Its amazing how fast that technology is spreading now that its so cheap, and how it allows any peasant with a few hours of training to rinse a Blackwater mercenary with millions in gear and billions in funding and support.

Doctors of Reddit, what are some things you keep to yourself that you wish you could tell people/patients? (r/AskReddit)

• OneShortSleepPast: “You should have worn a seatbelt.”
  
  “You were too drunk to drive.”
  
  “It gets better.”
  
  I can’t tell my patients these things because I’m the pathologist doing their autopsy.
• drunky_crowette: My dad says it’s difficult to listen to people who say they’d “do anything” not to face the consequences of not treating/managing their type 2 diabetes. Like “I told her she needed to change her diet and start exercising for years and now she’s saying she’ll do anything to keep her foot. I told her what to do for years and she still came in drinking a large sweet tea!”
• efox02: As a pediatrician: you need to parent your children. You think they have too much screen time? Take the screen away. Your kid has belly aches? Take the takis away. Your kid won’t eat dinner and just junk? STOP BUYING JUNK.
  
  The number of times a day I have to tell parents it’s OK to tell their kids “no” is mind boggling.

What slang totally gives your age away? (r/AskReddit)

• Generic_Midwesterner: “Cool” has aged remarkably well.
• jarvisesdios: I call basically everyone dude, I’ve called girlfriends dude. I’m a child of the 90s
• EconomistStreet5295: I just swear like a sailor to stay atemporal

What previously common skills have you noticed people seem to be losing? (r/AskReddit)

• Remarkable-Aide5093: Comprehension. I’m not even sure how this was lost so badly. People seem to barely read something, or hear it in passing, then they have the confidence to loudly proclaim the dumbest things to anyone and everyone.
• Hyperion1144: I’ve noticed more and more internet debates that go nowhere because at least one person in the debate can’t actually read with comprehension beyond an elementary school level.
• anarege3t: Simple calculations without a calculator.
  
  Common sense and reasoning.
  
  Proper writing and grammar.
  
  Fixing and maintenance
  
  Common Courtesy.
  
  Attention spans.
  
  Eye contact.

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Girlfriend is nearing H1B Deadline (Blind)

• bonbonB (Apple): You’ll have to marry her
• EfYK67 (Atlassian): Just get a paper marriage. Why complicate things or make more stress for her?
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Congratulations on your upcoming wedding.

Husband left Meta and so happy now (Blind)

• Abcdmicros (ex-Microsoft): I had opportunities to move to Meta and Uber, but I choose Microsoft instead, and even now Microsoft is too fast paced. The reason is , my parents they worked hard to give me the best education and opportunities, but they were never around and my father passed way at 60 without even enjoying his retirement or meeting his grandson. So at the end he lost his business , all these things they don’t matter anymore , what we miss is him not the money. So with the education he gave me I can have a good job 200k+ and enjoy life and be present to my kiddo and wife. Remember time will never comeback , and some people will do anything for money, even sacrifice your mental health to achieve their goals.
• BkVX37 (Celestica): 3.8M is good enough to live a comfortable life and being financially secure.
• prepprep (LinkedIn): You only need money to protect your investments going forward. Let the 3.8 million grow while you and your husband find a low stress job.
  
  In another 4-5 years 3.8 million will grow to 6-7 million which should be enough to retire.

Offer eval for friend: OpenAI or Etched (Blind)

• GcgS40 (Yardi): OpenAI without a doubt. Etched is extremely overhyped right now and there are problems with their chips right now. There are several ai chip startups that will overtake Etched, OpenAI has already cemented itself as one of the best, this isn’t even worth considering.
• missingm (ex-Stripe): Had to go through the same decision + 2 other companies.
  
  Picked openai at the end. Etched has better upside sure but is much more risky, it could just as easily go down. OpenAI will go up and undervalued at their current valuation. At this point a small drop in openai’s valuation could cause negative waves through the market. With etched they can collapse and the market might not budge.
  
  My 2 cents is if your friend wants to take a big bet on becoming worth 9 figures, etched is a good place to be. Otherwise take openai and still end up very wealthy.
• tufdhjfdyd (NVIDIA): 4.8 m at what valuation? Is this rsu or stock options. I wld be very wary of their valuation it keep 2x every month, and the money they hv raised v valuation does not add up.

Googlers don’t know how good they have it (Blind)

• bovr (Google): Everything moves soooo slow
  Working weekends to get pip
  Its completely team dependent
• notG3 (Google): Generic comment about grass being greener on the other side.
• HNIb88 (Apple): Yes most googlers work on avg 10-15 hours/wk and i am so jealous.

Thousand impacted at Amazon layoffs today… (Blind)

• geniusMind (Meta): I wish my ex manager is canned
• ngkY33 (Amazon): i read a comment on reddit a few days back that there would be 2 rounds - October 7th and somehwere near 27th. 7th came true. I think 27th also would.
• IlIIl|lIIl (Roku): Leadership at Amazon

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Find the Smallest Divisor Given a Threshold
• Topics: Array, Binary Search

The problem in plain language

Given a list of positive integers, choose one positive integer divisor. Divide every number by it, round each quotient up, and add the rounded values. The goal is to find the smallest divisor that makes this sum no greater than threshold.

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Techmeme surfaced Ryan Dahl’s October 9 announcement, “Deno is joining Cloudflare.” The entire Deno team is moving to Cloudflare, but this is not a simple promise to fund the JavaScript runtime indefinitely. Deno will receive monthly bug and security releases for one more year, then official development will end. Deno Deploy will operate for six months before shutting down, with paying customers offered help moving to Cloudflare Workers.

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US delegation storms out as Iranian president holds up images of slain children (r/worldnews)

• OlivettiFourtyFour: …the peace talks aren’t going to happen, are they?
• ShotFromGuns: Really looking forward to when a Democratic president gets stuck with this mess and then the Republicans can scream about whatever they have to do to clean it up, in order to get more votes in the next round. (See: the two Santas.)
• spribyl: Why would anyone negotiate with a Man who lies about the weather.

All 32 NATO Members Send Military Representatives to Kyiv in First Such Visit in Eight Years (r/worldnews)

• Waymannj: Russia desperate to claim that it lost the war because of NATO…
• Electronic-Yellow-87: russia has support from iran, north korea and china. Without it the war would ended years ago.
• brambleburry1002: They are trying to upskill and learn from ukraine.

Who is your favorite example of positive masculinity? (r/AskReddit)

• make_me_already: For me, I love how Kurt Russell is the embodiment of “traditional” masculinity, and yet I’ve never heard a bad word about him. He’s proof that even the most stereotypical forms of masculinity don’t have to be toxic.
• PrettyBabbey: My dad. Not famous, never will be.
  Works 50 hours a week, never once raised his voice at my mom in 30 years, cries openly when his kids hurt, coaches little league for kids that aren’t his, and still opens the door for strangers. He taught me being strong isn’t about how loud you are, it’s about how safe people feel around you. I hope I’m half the man he is.
• DaisyWhisper: Gomez Addams. Loves his wife like it’s his full-time job, supports his kids being weird, and has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone.

What are some lesser known cults that are around nowadays? (r/AskReddit)

• mechant_papa: Raëlism. He’s still alive, and still has followers.
  
  He’s French. He claims he has been in contact with aliens and that all life on earth was created by aliens. Every few years he pops up in the news with some story or other.
• bbb26782: My favorite modern cult leader is Romana Didula, the Queen of Canada.
• youcanreachardy: Twelve Tribes are a thing. They have their Yellow Deli restaurants all over the world. Decent food, weird vibe, definitely a cult.

People who rarely catch colds or the flu, what’s your secret? (r/AskReddit)

• crossfitpaleolife: I don’t touch my face. Ever. No matter what. I wash my hands before I touch food to eat it. My hands are never near my face unless they’re clean. And I commute to and from NYC on the train every day. I can go years without getting sick.
• Negative-Project5637: Sauna. Not kidding. It really works.
• pm_nude_neighbor_pic: Sleep, zinc, and isolation.