futharkshill (u/futharkshill)

futharkshill commented on She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998) generationterrorists.com/... · Posted by u/JAKWAI

futharkshill · 4 years ago

> The Vietnam War ended, astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, communism collapsed and the world entered the computer age.

Americans tend to overestimate the importance of their events to describe the world changing.

futharkshill commented on Portugal announces immediate granting of visas for Ukrainian refugees theportugalnews.com/news/... · Posted by u/belter

qnsi · 4 years ago

Something interesting I guess most people don't know, the pro-ukrainian mobilisations in Poland (I can only speak about Poland) is amazing. My FB wall is full of people providing their apartments for free, giving jobs etc. There is over 100 cars long queue at a border willing to transport Ukrainians escaping war where they want. They can travel by train for free in Poland.

Now not so good tidbit. Just few months ago we had a lot of people lured into Belarus by Lukashenko trying to come to Europe. Poland treated them really really poorly. Catching them after crossing border and pushing them back. The society was split among pro-refugees and anti. The political parties almost all focused on "protecting our border".

I was afraid that this natalist sentiment might repeat, even though Ukrainians are one of the closest people to Poland. I am very happy to note I haven't heard anyone speaking against refugees from Ukraine, not on twitter not on facebook not by far-right parties, altough I am sure some people are silent about their opinions.

futharkshill · 4 years ago

Poland has a collective memory of Russian oppression and aggression

futharkshill commented on The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 devblogs.microsoft.com/ol... · Posted by u/luu

registeredcorn · 4 years ago

Although frustrating and disappointing to hear, that certainly sounds like the perfect sort of opportunity to surreptitiously upload slightly altered versions of the company logo.

Slightly mismatched colors.

Bassic mispelings.

Logo rotated by 4 to 5 degrees.

Overlay a semi-transparent competitor logo for a single frame.

Etc.

futharkshill · 4 years ago

> Overlay a semi-transparent competitor logo for a single frame.

I have to ask: is this serious or not? While extremely funny, are you guys all working for places where this is not potentially billions in damages?

futharkshill commented on Try Clojure – An interactive tutorial in the browser tryclojure.org... · Posted by u/silcoon

eyelidlessness · 4 years ago

My experience with ClojureScript is you absolutely have to know the host environment because you will encounter type errors and the maintainers have negative interest in making them clear to users (as in flatly refused offers to contribute changes to make those errors easier to understand).

futharkshill · 4 years ago

There is nothing worse than library or language maintainers who do not understand that "pure" error messages are absolute hell. If 99.99 % of the time a user should simply write x instead of y, the message should absolutely state that if possible.

futharkshill commented on Who is squatting IPv4 addresses? blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/i... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

futharkshill · 4 years ago

I don't understand why was the next version of IP not just identical to IPv4 but with more bits in address space? Were they trying to do too many things at once in the 90's?

futharkshill commented on The harsh truth of video games programming new.pythonforengineers.co... · Posted by u/shantnutiwari

futharkshill · 4 years ago

> Your boring programmer maintaining a 10 year old Java app written with vanilla Js earns more than most game programmers.

I have a feeling this article is not written by any professional programmer

futharkshill commented on Why won’t anyone teach me math? dailyprincetonian.com/art... · Posted by u/mathgenius

fotbr · 4 years ago

To pick on my favorite example,

Many years ago, my univerity's choice of calculus book also had the solutions to half the problems (evens or odds, doesn't really matter).

Department policy was also one of "we won't provide you the correct answers" even after an assignment had been turned in because the book was used for multiple years. The publisher had a new edition every year, but the university stuck with the same book because it was used for Calculus I, II, and III, which for most students was 3 or 4 semesters between starting I and finishing III, usually due to a scheduling conflict requiring a semester off between them, or because they had to repeat Calc II since the math department's selection of instructors was particularly bad for that course.

Those same (usually bad) instructors were all too happy to follow the department policy and not provide any feedback other than "correct" or "incorrect".

On the other hand, the university book store carried, and put on the shelf right next to the calculus book, the publisher's "teacher's solution guide", in two very reasonably priced volumes, which had the answers for the other half of the problem sets, as well as the step-by-step process for most of them, which was the valuable part, as you could see where you were erring.

Math department policy was that you weren't allowed to have those, either.

You can guess how well that policy was followed.

Those that put the effort in and learned the material did well. Those that just copied from the solutions book and turned it in did not.

futharkshill · 4 years ago

I find it so hard to believe American Universities give out grades based on hand-ins at all. It seems more similar to High School

futharkshill commented on Why won’t anyone teach me math? dailyprincetonian.com/art... · Posted by u/mathgenius

fknorangesite · 4 years ago

> It's possible the author was in a "math for engineers" class

Indeed, she says exactly that:

> MAT 202 is not a course that math majors typically take, but rather for underclassmen who are majoring in engineering or sciences.

futharkshill · 4 years ago

from the coursepage

>Brief Course Description: More abstract than calculus, this course aims to develop basic algebraic tools for work with problems involving many variables. Starting from systems of linear equations and vectors in 2-space and 3-space, this course develops ideas about length, angles and resolving a general vector into useful components, identifying features of linear systems or processes in order to choose a basis that is well-adapted to studying a particular phenomenon and move between different points of view to reveal the essential underlying structure. Companion course to 201 (Multivariable Calculus). Discusses matrices and linear transformations, linear independence and dimension, bases and coordinates, determinants, orthogonal projection, least squares, eigenvalues and their applications to quadratic forms and dynamical systems.

Definitely NOT a math class

futharkshill commented on Why won’t anyone teach me math? dailyprincetonian.com/art... · Posted by u/mathgenius

PuppyTailWags · 4 years ago

Another thing that one might not have considered is the perception of women and math. Of course your daughter might not want to protest against unfair mathematics teaching structures given that her struggle is societally used to represent that all women struggle at math. <relevant xkcd comic here>. I would also hesitate to protest unfair practices in situations where I was a minority because I know anything short of quietly excelling is a negative representation of my entire demographic.

futharkshill · 4 years ago

this is an exceptionally bad take imo and seems extremely degrading towards women

futharkshill commented on Why are semi trucks in the US and Europe so different? (2018) nodum.org/why-semi-trucks... · Posted by u/ushakov

buildsjets · 4 years ago

And that is the difference between a hired employee and an owner-operator.

futharkshill · 4 years ago

Most truckers in Denmark own their own trucks?