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raubarno @ raubarno @lemmy.ml
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IT Devs of of Lemmy, How do You Cope with Being Forced to Contribute to 'Social Media Pornshow of the Web'™ or Die?

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  • Comedy is fine :)

    • WTF IS THIS?

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    • What single item improved the quality of your life over you got it? (Buyed it/got as present/made it)

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  • A Linux USB (Linux was not included but it's the key thing)

    • IT Devs of of Lemmy, How do You Cope with Being Forced to Contribute to 'Social Media Pornshow of the Web'™ or Die?

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    1. Yes, but also, I do want to have a job because I want to make a positive impact. It's too easy to become a NEET and be negative at everything.
    2. I understand your concern. Next time, I'll go either no symbols or express my opinion without swearwords (because they are not pleasant, at least for me).

    EDIT: but mainstream web is really that bad.

    • recommended search engine?

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    • What's your houses equivalent of a poop knife.

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  • haha I was thinking about the same :D

    • How to learn math after school?

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  • I'm also half-math and half-IT person. I'd recommend you to start Competitive Programming, try to participate in the contests, solve Codeforces (https://codeforces.com/?locale=en) or Kattis (https://open.kattis.com) tasks, grasp Asymptotic notation, etc.

    Math (and academical) formalism is a thing, Wikipedia also shows it. You just need to get used to it.

    What you will probably learn in the University:

    • Calculus (matrices, limits, derivatives, integrations)
    • Discrete Math (sets, graphs, etc.)
    • Algorithmic complexity and asymptotic notation
    • Probabilities
    • If you're lucky, you'll get Algebraic Structures (a.k.a Group Theory) that teaches the essential foundations of Math.

    I've always been more interested in discrete part of math where real numbers do not exist (only rational numbers do).

    Alternatively, if you're as mad as me, you can try doing side projects, like creating your own Computer Algebra System or Ray tracing algorithm from scratch. It is a good brain exercise.

    Go to your Campus library, look for some books. My University library was a goldmine for me. Take notes. If you have a genius idea, don't hesitate to talk with your lecturers or the Dean, they can offer you scientific work.

    • What's your preferred DE?

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  • I got used to XFCE, but, with my new awesome Tuxedo laptop, I got KDE as a DE for a stock OS, and I could say it feels much more complete. But the performance drops, when opening a terminal, for example.

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  • Engineers are needed in all modern societies, capitalist or socialist.

    Engineering education was really good. I read some Physics and some Math textbooks, and they are amazing. Same goes with Chemistry.

    On the other hand, History education was all about how kings and grand dukes were bad, and how Lenin was great. Same goes with Arts, Literature and Philosophy (I once stumbled upon a book that says how class warfare was among the Greek elite, Plato was bad idealist and Democrites and Aristotle were good because they comply with the Marxist Materialism. And that was in a Math history schoolbook!) Plus a lot of discrimination, children of Party members were given good grades, even if one looks for Japan in the Africa (a real case). Ethnical discrimination (Russian chauvinism) also existed, the idea that "everything was made by Russians" and silencing the other USSR and foreign nations' achievements. We see a war in Ukraine as a continuation of this idea.

    But, going back, yes, people knew knew how electricity, space travel, nuclear power and particle accelerators worked.

    EDIT: mismatched closing delimiter

    • Youtube Anti-AntiAdblocker uBlock Origin Filter

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  • I could only tolerate ElectroBoom-style "This video is sponsored by oscilloscope company" ads.

    • A confused enemy is a vulnerable enemy

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  • Your web browser, Chrome, is not supported!

    Please use Midori to watch The Seven Samurai.

    • What's your houses equivalent of a poop knife.

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  • This one is a real thing and it's pretty convenient.

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  • You're welcome :)

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  • He probably had some practical knowledge when doing this...

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  • Note: the capacitor says: 

     
        
МБГО ¬2
20мкф ±10%
500в 1077
ОТК

    Which means 20 micro-pharads capacity, rated for 500 volts.

    EDIT: no markings on the motor.

    EDIT2: apparently, these capacitors are still being sold.

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  • Well, if it counts, we have a homemade potato grating machine from the Soviet times my grandfather has made because he was a genius and partly because of Soviet Union. It draws a lot of energy, emits a lot of noise (seriously). To turn on, it has two buttons, one for capacitor or something, another for the motor itself and, nowadays, I have no clue which one I should turn on first, left or right... It stands on three legs and weighs around 10 kg (old transformers were heavy). It produces good results, though, despite looking odd.

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  • Haha, I want to see a race condition going on with real matter.

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  • It's more efficient for memory until you start working with different data. Threads also rely on the same syscall on Linux, clone(2), but they don't share the entire context by default, so they're more lightweight. It is recommended to use pthreads(3) API instead of fork(2).