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actuallyaseal wrote
Reply to comment by lachendekraehe in school is not for learning by MountainMan
I believe that's suppose to be in the school's voice. I read that paragraph closer to this:
Every one of them has problems galore. They don't work right. One of them marked shit as incorrect if you use CTRL+a to select text. Not to mention they perpetuate incorrect information:
"The only programming paradigms are C and Object Oriented. C is an old outdated language, C++ is an "upgrade". Linux is for servers and networking gear, BSD doesn't exist, and Windows is good for everything. "Freeware" is unsafe."
lachendekraehe wrote
Reply to comment by MountainMan in school is not for learning by MountainMan
Then maybe I misinterpreted what you meant? You said "C is an old, outdated language".
MountainMan OP wrote
Reply to comment by lachendekraehe in school is not for learning by MountainMan
Maybe I wrote something weird. I definitely wasn't knocking C. It's one of my top languages, next to Common Lisp and Bash.
lachendekraehe wrote (edited )
Reply to school is not for learning by MountainMan
I agree with everything else you said, but don't knock C. It's an older language for sure, but there's a reason why so much stuff is still written in it, especially stuff that needs super-low latency and/or direct hardware access, like operating systems and drivers. Knowing C can be quite a valuable skill (in both the personal and capitalist sense), even today.
Also, academia can have a hard time catching up in general to current info. Profs often don't bother to update courses very often, so there's some lag between contemporary advances and IT education. This is generally true of any academic subject, not just IT.
C++ is still shit though. There's plenty of other, even other OO languages, which are way better.
MountainMan OP wrote
Reply to comment by EmberGrove in school is not for learning by MountainMan
editing the fabric of reality
EmberGrove wrote (edited )
Reply to school is not for learning by MountainMan
Here is how it should be VS code -> NetBeans -> microsoft word -> kate -> notepad++ -> notepad -> nano -> nvim -> vim -> emacs -> nvi -> vi -> ex -> sed -> em -> ed -> cat + >> -> HES -> TECO -> NLS -> Colossal Typewriter program -> punch cards -> manually editing the wires and stuff -> slide rule calculators -> abacus -> chalk boards -> pen and paper -> stone tablets -> clay tablets -> wood engravings -> cave paintings -> counting fingers -> talking -> thoughts -> urine territory markings -> pheromones -> making trails -> neurons -> eating grass -> filter feeding -> hormones -> osmosis -> dna -> self replicating rna -> amino acids -> chemical reactions -> fission -> fusion -> editing the atoms -> quark by quark -> string by string -> editing the fabric of reality -> the big bang -> the void (incomplete and probably wrong)
edit adding more as I think of it
Fool wrote
Reply to comment by MountainMan in school is not for learning by MountainMan
I actually learn better without other people generally, part of why I couldn't manage school... Online actually works better for me, skip most videos and just focus on labs and tests.
MountainMan OP wrote
Reply to comment by Fool in school is not for learning by MountainMan
I get your point and I agree, I don't know the right word for what I mean.
The way it is, they're quite literally not involved in my learning process. They might say some shit on day 1, but they just point you in the direction of some online "simulator" and probably never speak to you again until a week or two before the course is over.
Fool wrote
Reply to school is not for learning by MountainMan
Teaching is impossible!
Bezotcovschina wrote
Reply to How to Convert 800 Grams to Pounds? by Scottazro
I'm upvoting this spam post because it's weirdly hilarious
asterism wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted34351 in Apparently I've written lots of academic papers by Fool
shhhhh don't tell them that.
Pash wrote
Reply to After pressure from pro-Israel students, Butler abruptly canceled an event featuring Angela Davis by plasticspoon
fuck the Israeli state
existential1 OP wrote
Reply to comment by NeoliberalismKills in Major physics society won't meet in cities with racist policing record by existential1
I was wondering this myself. Wonder what the next performative step is.
NeoliberalismKills wrote
So they're just not meeting in cities anymore?
train wrote
I don't buy some of the more vague assertions in this article that suggest academia is not really responsible for economic inequality.
Academia plays a key role in pushing the idea that society be based on meritocratic principles. Contrary to that meritocratic vission, success in academia as a student or as an educator is greatly determined by your class position. This reflects the contradictions that undergirds modern capitalism particularity in the technology sector.
For example, many genuinely believe Elon Musk became the wealthiest man alive through effort and talent alone. In reality his success is a consequence of his inherited wealth and narcissism. Academia and it's own ties to private enterprise are in part to blame for perpetuating these kinds of mythologies.
Of course, I agree with the article that education and information should be accessible to a broader public. However, contrary to what the article purports that is not what universities are doing. Instead, I see extension campuses handing out meaningless certificates as part of a profit driven learning model. Claiming that such efforts are part of some broader vision to increase access to education is a farce.
Ultimately, I agree you will not improve access by cutting funding to education. However, academia needs radical reform if it's ever to live up to it's own lofty vision of what educational institutions could be.
An_Old_Big_Tree OP wrote
This is priceless! 🤣🤣🤣 Are you kidding me? Marxism is orthodoxy in anglophone human geography, the field the author is based in. Reactionary nonsense in response to the fact that the discipline is slowly starting to pluralize and shift away from Marxism with the infusion of greater appreciation for Indigenous, anti-racist, feminist, anarchist, decolonial, queer, environmentalist, poststructuralist, and situationist geographies.
Simon Springer
ordinaryDrain OP wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted22135 in Textbooks on Library Genesis by ordinaryDrain
Carroll B.W. and Ostile D.A. 2007
ordinaryDrain OP wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted22135 in Textbooks on Library Genesis by ordinaryDrain
intro to modern astrophysics...
MHC wrote
Instead of advanced sitting-down, I need basic exercise!
PerfectSociety wrote
Is there a way to see the titles of those files?
squirrels wrote
Indeed they should be. This will single-handedly be the death blow of graduate education in the United States, which is already on life support. Universities would have to either eliminate graduate tuition (that'll happen when hell freezes over), only admit the independently wealthy, or only admit students from abroad. An insidiously ingenious way of dismantling graduate education.
squirrels OP wrote
Reply to comment by goof_goat in The GOP tax bill could be a disaster for PhD students by squirrels
Yup.
goof_goat wrote
Reply to comment by squirrels in The GOP tax bill could be a disaster for PhD students by squirrels
vox are the type of neoliberal wonks who say 'the house is only 78% on fire & the fire is focused in the center of the house leaving the exits relatively clear' when you say 'the house is on fire'
MountainMan OP wrote
Reply to comment by lachendekraehe in school is not for learning by MountainMan
I meant that's what the school is teaching. That whole list of stuff is opposite of what I think. I like CLI & TUI, C and Common Lisp, plain text webpages, and I hardly ever use a mouse.