Ryan M. Patrick

Don't do a Masters unless you have a really good reason. I interview hundreds of mechanical engineering candidates. I can't think of a single candidate where a Masters made their candidacy stronger.

AMAZON $AMZN EMPLOYEES ARE REPORTEDLY GAMING THE COMPANY'S AI USAGE LEADERBOARDS Amazon set weekly AI token usage targets for more than 80% of its developers and tracked usage on internal leaderboards Amazon says the stats are not used in performance evaluations Now some Amazon employees are reportedly using a tool called MeshClaw to automate pointless tasks just to inflate their stats (Source - Financial Times)

My confession: I switched from using Google to Grok about half a year ago and will never look back. It's infinitely superior as a search engine, and there's no sense in pretending otherwise. It's worth every cent I pay for it.* *I don't pay for it, they just gave it to me for free

I GUARANTEE if they would have cast Sydney Sweeney as Helen of Troy and Chris Pratt as Achilles, that movie would have made them 100x more money.

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New: The Loudoun County student who has been videotaping and photographing 40+ students under bathroom stalls as they use the bathroom at school is transgender, multiple sources told me.

If I was Under Secretary of the Navy, this would’ve been in the 2026 shipbuilding plan. This is why I can never be Under Secretary of the Navy. What did I miss?

A MAZ-7310 truck hauling a liquid hydrogen tank, (1960s), Baikonur, Kazakh SSR

Someone should make a video game that is actively harmful, not like its propaganda for dangerous opinions but just simply playing it somehow measurably deteriorates your physical/mental/emotional health like just booting it up and playing for an hour guarantees you ruin your day