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- Comment on School of hard knocks 14 hours ago:
That sucks. Various industries need academic research to function well and innovate, but I guess my country would rather spend all their money on blowing up families in the middle east and let the civilian job market collapse.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 15 hours ago:
I just graduated and they didn’t even teach Git and expected you to do a bunch of your assignments in Java 8 or an old version of C/C++ depending on the professor. Some of it was Windows-centric and others needed to run on a machine that still uses CentOS 7.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 15 hours ago:
Their courses are like 10 years out of date
10 years is a pretty generous estimate
- Comment on School of hard knocks 15 hours ago:
Do you know anything about what the PhD situation is like in other countries?
- Comment on School of hard knocks 15 hours ago:
The best [insert technical skill] person in the world isn’t going to be a good employee if they can’t work in a team, prepare a report, respond appropriately and professionally to emails, document their work, develop/follow SOPs required for project handoff, deliver a presentation, etc.
Degrees don’t require most of those things.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 day ago:
I do have programming skills. Most of the job postings I’ve seen were shitty JavaScript/Dotnet app development or Windows-centric IT slopjobs that pay as much as McDonald’s and is probably getting taken over by AI at this point anyways. For lower-level programming like C++/Rust which is what I’m more interested in, I’ve barely found anything outside of MIC companies and the one that wasn’t was Israeli-based. I do spend most of my free time working on Nix-based projects, so I wonder what’s related to that. I’m also considering a PhD, but I just learned that even the research at my university closest to my interests is heavily tied to military/MIC funding. If it’s actually true that the only organizations that give a shit about quality code are the ones that commit genocides, that would really fucking suck.
- Comment on School of hard knocks 1 day ago:
I just finished my CS Bachelors and overall most of it felt like a massive fucking waste of time, especially since I suck at learning from lectures and also the content was like 15 years out of date. For the few classes that actually seemed worthwhile and interesting, I’m trying to figure out who the fuck is hiring for these skills that’s not military-adjacent.
- Comment on Meanwhile in California 1 week ago:
669 9/10
Noo, so close!
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
However, if you are of the legal age where you are even allowed to hold a job, period, you shouldn’t have to be trained on how to interact with human beings. That training should have happened long before you came to us looking for a job.
The education system doesn’t teach shit on how to interact with human beings though, and even heavily discourages it by making it about individual skill and competing for the highest scores. Then throws them into the real world that functions completely different than what it teaches and floods people with various things that demand attention but giving attention to all at once isn’t possible and a lot of it is bullshit anyways. Everything becoming a suburban hellscape where you need a car and parental consent to do anything and stuff being increasingly age restricted doesn’t help either. Meanwhile everyone still needs a paycheck whether they have those skills or not.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 2 weeks ago:
zoning out and being lost in thought
I started doing this a lot several years ago and I don’t know what the cause is or what can be done about it
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
If it’s just for that, then not really. I actually use Syncthing nowadays but I have Nextcloud running for a web-accessible GUI and file sharing.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
It’s basically Google Drive but self hosted
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
Same here, the software updates situation is so dumb
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 2 weeks ago:
everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7
Wrong, I use it on a Pixel 6 Pro
and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
Also wrong, my nextcloud and headless Debian is running on a Proxmox VM
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 weeks ago:
People used to say animals were not concious.
A lot of religious people still say that.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 month ago:
That sounds like something YouTube would promote
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 2 months ago:
tastes more like hand sanitizer, but I like the taste of hand sanitizer so I’ll drink it, but it’s also too expensive
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 4 months ago:
My university is practically owned by weapons manufacturers which sucks. Idk if that’s the norm or not
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 4 months ago:
I know TI had a history of weapons manufacturing, but haven’t they stopped now?
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 7 months ago:
I just checked Costco and it says the covid vaccine is unavailable
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 7 months ago:
When are we supposed to get the flu/COVID vaccines? Right now?
- Comment on Kirkland strong 7 months ago:
At the Winco bulk section you can get fresh ground peanut butter and it costs less, but I don’t think they have T Shirts
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 7 months ago:
In my experience, even then it’s difficult to talk to people.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 9 months ago:
NYC Democrats are already introducing legislation targeting the protestors
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 9 months ago:
Dallas area feels pretty conservative. People keep voting against the public transit system, one of the suburbs where a lot of businesses are is leading an effort to cut public transit funding across the entirety of Texas, horrible cycling infrastructure even downtown, and one of the first recent Democratic candidates to be publicly anti-trans was from Texas. A lot of the businesses here are financial or military contractors, and not a lot of grassrootsy stuff, feels more corporate.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 9 months ago:
I was on public transit and it was the most packed I have ever seen it
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 10 months ago:
If the 20% they don’t support is the absolute most basic of human rights, then as far as I can tell they support 0% of what I want.
- Comment on Welp. 1 year ago:
I have a friend here in the US who is already planning on leaving the US after undergrad and doing grad school in Europe somewhere
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 year ago:
Fedora Asahi Remix. Considering how the M1 has no official Linux support, it’s impressive that it runs as well as it does, and they have compatibility hacks to run Steam games and get Widevine to work. There’s still a lot of rough edges however, like no microphone (should be coming out soon though) or fingerprint, aarch64 software support is second class and tends to have more frequent bugs (cough Electron cough) that get ignored by package maintainers and some (even FOSS) software isn’t supported, full disk encryption isn’t supported (but there’s blog articles from people who figured out how to set it up), limited distro options, worse power efficiency so gets hot faster (just got a cooling pad to deal with this, get a Pro if you can so you have a fan) and battery life is barely different than what I’ve heard from Framework users so there’s not really much to gain atm. Currently only supports M1 and to a lesser extent M2, and also the fact that you’re dual booting makes the soldered overpriced SSD space even more limiting.
As far as distro support goes, Fedora Workstation is the only distro that has official support. There’s other options with community support but there’s a higher likelihood of stuff being outdated or not packaged (i.e. Arch Linux ARM doesn’t have the same level of community support as normal Arch Linux). I haven’t tried NixOS or Guix System on M1, but I use Nix/Guix on the Fedora install. aarch64 Guix packages keep breaking making it annoying to update and issues tend to be ignored (also certain core packages don’t like the tmpfs 16k page size so you need to make it use /var/tmp instead), aarch64 Nix is better but support is still slow to where Signal is several versions behind and has been broken for weeks despite there being multiple pull requests with fixes, and both Nix/Guix prioritize x86 over aarch64 for builds so it will need to compile a lot of things from source.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 year ago:
Agreed. I got the 16/512 M1 Air for a decent price and run Linux on it, but I’m constantly bottlenecking both the RAM and SSD and it sucks that I can’t upgrade it, will probably get a Framework when it dies