> old age and that population is very unlikely to be working counting votes.
Why do you think so? Here, election committees are stereotypically composed of retirees that have nothing better to do...
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Why do you think so? Here, election committees are stereotypically composed of retirees that have nothing better to do...
If I only needed a computer, I would actually have shit ton of space.
Oh yes. Most of my classmates have picked EE over software engineering because they "dislike programming". The fact that EE (and any other engineering field really) is now mostly about programming anyway is lost on them.
People designing EE study programs are usually completely unaware that, well, computers exist. I have literally heard "Want to learn programming? Uh, just spend a weekend playing with Matlab or something and you will be set.".
Shitty academia code strikes again. It's sort of unfortunate that most of academic fields have turned to domain-specific software engineering, which graduates are woefully unprepared to do properly.
For instance, our EE study program does not include even basic computability theory, the formal logic/graph theory was pretty minimal and besides some K-maps also zero boolean function theory.
This compared with the CS program that contains multiple very in-depth courses exactly on those topics which seem pretty critical for formal verification of hardware.
I am fairly sure he passed more than one course with this approach. The blogpost says that he started using LaTeX to take notes during his second semester. The screenshots show introductory complex analysis, which is usually taught somewhat later.
However, later I spoke with some of my classmates and it turned out that this left absolutely zero impression on them and they still believed that "we define i to be sqrt(-1)" high school rubbish...
Not sure it's very effective seeing the 60%+ failure rates in the first year. These people could spend that year doing something they are more suitable for.
To add to the network stack comment - they assign _single_ IPv6 address to your server. Not a /64 block, just a single /128 address. I have no idea what they were thinking.
Holy shit that's a lot of ibuprofen. If you are taking that much every day, you definitely have some more pressing concern than liver toxicity...
In my experience, it's much easier to do with people you have something in common. I didn't even know the names of most of my classmates in high school.
> Will college be the same or different than high school?
The best thing about college was the fact that other people stopped feeling like a bunch of scripted NPCs.
Well blowing stuff up is part of the electronic learning experience isn't it? :)
For me, caffeine is the drug that does not really do anything (higher doses in the 300mg+ range are definitely noticeable, but mostly by the physical side effects). Nicotine chewing gum produces a short-lasting mild stimulation (and I have to take a 4mg one, even though I am a non-smoker).
Cosmic ray showers [1] potentially. My prediction is that there should be "clusters" of bit errors every few minutes or so (given sufficient amount of servers...).
I was talking to a sysadmin at a local company running a few thousand servers about getting their ECC error logs in order to look for these, but scraping them apparently wasn't trivially managable for them.
Wait what? Where do you live that software developers are drug tested?
Rowdy and drunk groups of tourists are the most unsettling thing that I occasionally encounter, so maybe it's better to avoid tourists areas instead?
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index#Global_Peac...