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nowadays all PhD students generally take something called “Responsible Conduct of Research”

I think that is a broad generalization. I never had to take an ethics in research course as a PhD student.

falsifying data, plagiarism, how to ethically work in animal models ... image manipulation.

My take is that this may be a "field"-dependent class. My PhD is in a non-experimental field (math); thus, we cannot have these sorts of issues (minus plagiarism).

A video documenting a food youtuber's experience of getting ransomware, and trying to recover access to their accounts.

TLDW: Know someone at Google, and they can fill out an internal form.

AES256 is still secure, assuming the encryption key has ~256 bits of entropy (32 random bytes). Assuming your master password is reasonably complex, hopefully the encryption key derived from your password has enough entropy.

Despite this, I recommend rotating all passwords (if you don't have the time, prioritize rotating passwords on important accounts / putting MFA on them). For all we know, lastpass might have had a full compromise (i.e. access to unencrypted vaults from malicious source code commits).

@utopcell do you have a reference for incremental FFT? I'm not sure if I understand what your implying.

Given a polynomial f(X), obtaining f's evaluations over the n-th roots of unity takes O(nlogn) using FFT. Are you stating that obtaining g(X) != f(X) evaluations over the n-th roots of unity should take O(n) time assuming some precomputation derived in the FFT for f?

I am in a CS PhD at a top 10 institution, and I've had a great time in my lab. My advisor has a saying "You can never make me do something I'm not interested in!" Thus, I've personally never worked on anything I didn't enjoy. I learned a lot from my lab mates and my advisor.

Of course, I think this is super dependent on the subfield and advisor. Based on our department surveys, ML / AI / Graphics students rated the lowest in satisfaction, happiness, and highest in hours worked per week. While, Theory, HCI, and Systems are overall pretty happy and have regular working hours.

EDIT: In response to other threads, my pay is also very comfortable. I can take vacations, eat out, and afford a nice studio apartment. Free health insurance as well.