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And now we're interrupting our regular programming of business management lecture to talk about how shitty electric cars are and how air pollution from gas and diesel engines is one big lie.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Things I learned on today's lecture:
- Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
Which, in turn, are programmed by?
Ah yes, the singularity is nigh.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
And now we're interrupting our regular programming of business management lecture to talk about how shitty electric cars are and how air pollution from gas and diesel engines is one big lie.
Are you attending .WDWTF-U?
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
That could only be written by someone who doesn't understand what programming or robots are. Programming will be the last job to be automated because once robots can create things smarter than they are, they've achieved true intelligence.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
That could only be written by someone who doesn't understand what programming or robots are.
Welcome to Polish higher education. Best described with this simple regex: "those who can't,? teach".
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
And now we're interrupting our regular programming of business management lecture to talk about how shitty electric cars are and how air pollution from gas and diesel engines is one big lie.
Are you attending .WDWTF-U?
It's definitely not WTF-U, but might be —U.
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Status: Had a great week, including the wonderful phrase “if you guys were in the USA, you'd be a national lab”. It was a good crowd, the kind you get when everyone there is a geek doing something best described as being more than a little bit mad. We're doing this FOR SCIENCE!!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
We're doing this FOR SCIENCE!!
And the people who are still alive.
Still alive.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
That could only be written by someone who doesn't understand what programming or robots are.
Welcome to Polish higher education. Best described with this simple regex: "those who can't,? teach".
Not to start a flamewar, but there's some evidence that it's actually the other way around.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/college-professors-experts-advice.html
Take another example: The Feynman Lectures. They are great if you already know about physics and want to achieve a deeper understanding. For students just starting out? No so ideal.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
That could only be written by someone who doesn't understand what programming or robots are.
Welcome to Polish higher education. Best described with this simple regex: "those who can't,? teach".
Not to start a flamewar, but there's some evidence that it's actually the other way around.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/college-professors-experts-advice.html
These two are independent facts (ie. not mutually exclusive). I'm absolutely sure both are true to some degree. But right now, I'm more pissed at those who can't and teach than the other group.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
And the people who are still alive.
Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye. (Seriously. One of the pieces of equipment we were discussing this week had several 1kW continuous wave lasers involved, aka death rays. They're “fun” — very-expensive-optics-destroying fun — when some idiot gets dirt and moisture into nitrogen feed.)
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TFW you absent-mindedly enter the wrong tram. Even though you're waiting for a bus.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
And the people who are still alive.
Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye. (Seriously. One of the pieces of equipment we were discussing this week had several 1kW continuous wave lasers involved, aka death rays. They're “fun” — very-expensive-optics-destroying fun — when some idiot gets dirt and moisture into nitrogen feed.)
The reflection off a wall from such a laser once gave a friend of mine 3rd degree burns on his arm.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
The reflection off a wall from such a laser once gave a friend of mine 3rd degree burns on his arm.
In this case (as I understand it) the enclosure made the lasers pretty safe, and the enclosure was necessary anyway as it was also a furnace used for 3D printing metal parts for airplane engines.
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@dkf Well, in their cases they were
moronsgeniuses who installed the 1 kW UV laser on a servo arm with several degrees of freedom.And then botched driving the motors properly which lead to a chaotically free-wheeling invisible deathray.
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
And now we're interrupting our regular programming of business management lecture to talk about how shitty electric cars are and how air pollution from gas and diesel engines is one big lie.
Are you attending .WDWTF-U?
"Hey, I don't believe it's a lie, I'm just saying there's nothing wrong with it and we shouldn't spend any resources to avoid it" - the troop
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
That could only be written by someone who doesn't understand what programming or robots are. Programming will be the last job to be automated because once robots can create things smarter than they are, they've achieved true intelligence.
There is a bit of disagreement around the topic. The general model of software engineers is that they are the ones doing all the intelectual work of designing the software, that then gets "built" by low level programmer grunts, similar to architects and construction workers. The alternative hypothesis is that the difference is small or nonexistent, and they're just doing the same thing on different levels.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
The alternative hypothesis is that the difference is small or nonexistent, and they're just doing the same thing on different levels.
What did you think the difference was? It's just that software engineers work at levels where fucking up is more damaging than intro level programmers, and need plenty more experience to be effective because the level of subtlety needed is higher. As is usual for going up seniority levels in a skilled job; it's not any one thing that is easy to pin down that makes the difference, but rather the cumulative lifetime of small fuckups and knowledge of how to recover from them and avoid making them again in the first place.
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Status: It's 9pm and I still haven't received the worksheet from my teacher-in-training I'm supposed to substitute tomorrow for - this is a planned absence, mind, he knew about that for several weeks now.
He told me on Friday that he had prepared the experiment and documented everything.
I mean, I can do a worksheet for the experiment the pupil's are to do without much of a problem - but a) he promised me that he'd send me one and b) it's one of those experiments where you have to do a short trial run for yourself so you don't melt the wires - in this case literally because it's supposed to be about the relation between resistance and diameter/length of a wire.
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@Rhywden Push enough current through to vaporise the wire. The students will remember that!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden Push enough current through to vaporise the wire. The students will remember that!
Yeah, I remember the lab where we explosively vaporized a 10 ohm resistor. And then did a polarized capacitor. So much wasted magic smoke!
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Programming is a temporary job and will be entirely gone in 15 years (replaced by robots).
That could only be written by someone who doesn't understand what programming or robots are.
Welcome to Polish higher education. Best described with this simple regex: "those who can't,? teach".
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/10164/so-i-just-took-a-few-placement-tests-for-my-worthless-computer-science-major
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/14018/from-my-friend-who-works-in-it-at-a-school-here-are-some-screenshots-of-pdfs
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
Take another example: The Feynman Lectures. They are great if you already know about physics and want to achieve a deeper understanding. For students just starting out? No so ideal.
Bad example?
Just because courses are aimed at grad students or whatever more advanced level those were aimed at doesn't make them bad. FWIW I heard that Feynman actually was exceptionally good at explaining things. (Not that I can judge that myself)
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@ben_lubar First thought: 'Boy he has grown up, which of those was Ben?'
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@topspin From what I read, these lectures were actually intended as an intro. But it attracted a following of the more advanced students (and doctors and professors), that's where the fame comes from.
But for the proclaimed target audience they were a bit of a poor fit.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
OTP
A Star to Guide Us spoiler
She ate him and apparently there's enough of his magic in her that his sword thought a place where she was lying for like five minutes max was him.
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Status: Huh, so that's what the ambulance and cops down the street were all about...
Holy fuck. The listed cross-streets are a mere mile away, but then why did the emergency vehicles go into my street?
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Status: My daughter's boyfriend's parents went to Russia a year or so ago, and gave them some chocolate they bought there. I just spent 15 minutes hunt-and-pecking the ingredient list into Google Translate using the on-screen keyboard to find out I can't eat it.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
From what I read, these lectures were actually intended as an intro.
They always seemed to be introductory to me, at least for students of the calibre to be attending the school where he taught.
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Status: Back on the eastern side of the Atlantic. Brain still trying to work out if it should be tired or not.
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Status: can anyone help my bot
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
can anyone help my bot
No, I don't toot.
Not even from your BUTT?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
can anyone help my bot
No, I don't toot.
Not even from your BUTT?
I'm trying to determine the words behind the acronym.
Balanced Under Tail Target?
Bright Undulating Trick Tower?
Blowing Until Tick Tock?
Burnt Until Too Toasty?
Black Unit Tri-Tack?
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Status: There's an assignment due today at midnight, that was assigned two weeks ago. There's a peer review on our speeches, with the responses visible publicly. Each person has to write two reviews, and there's 45 students in the class. I count fifteen posts. Gotta love college.
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@HardwareGeek: you're allergic to plutonium?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: can anyone help my bot
Your bot needs to learn how to talk to CloudFlare better...
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: There's an assignment due today at midnight, that was assigned two weeks ago. There's a peer review on our speeches, with the responses visible publicly. Each person has to write two reviews, and there's 45 students in the class. I count fifteen posts. Gotta love college.
Is the deadline for speeches, or for reviews, or both?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: can anyone help my bot
Your bot needs to learn how to talk to CloudFlare better...
Weird, there are no system log entries between 3 AM and the reboot just now.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: There's an assignment due today at midnight, that was assigned two weeks ago. There's a peer review on our speeches, with the responses visible publicly. Each person has to write two reviews, and there's 45 students in the class. I count fifteen posts. Gotta love college.
Is the deadline for speeches, or for reviews, or both?
For the reviews.
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Status: Forgot my book and switch, so I mused about the global AR cloud I know Microsoft is secretly building, and then got off the train early and walked the rest of the way through wonderfully grey fog.
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@Magus said in The Official Status Thread:
wonderfully grey fog
Atmospheric or mental?
Filed under: Why not both?
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@HardwareGeek Atmospheric; I feel very awake and aware on cold mornings.
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status: you failed!
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@Tsaukpaetra Stop using Linux hardware