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    Just how greedy some professors can be.

    Like the one that had a publishing deal with Pearson. He wrote his own textbook, charged $700 for it, then made you remove parts from the book so it made used copies of the book worthless.

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      I’m very grateful of having a publicly funded university. I pay around 70€ a year for the student union and another around 70€ for student health care. That’s all I pay, includes the school, materials, and free healthcare.

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    Computer science students multiple years into the course think I’m a hacker for using the linux terminal

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      I once showed that trick feature - opening the terminal - to an Apple Genius Bar employee once. His brains almost fell out of his ear he was so surprised.

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      Classmates of mine who moved to Linux in college, 20 years ago, all graduated at least a semester later than I did. To be fair, I got my pirated copy of everything from them.

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        Granted, linux is probably much more user friendly now. Although I still see mysterious errors on boot and cannot boot into newer kernel versions. How peculiar.

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          I’ve used a Linux desktop for 25 years now

          Yeah, it’s gotten a bit easier, just like Windows and Mac.

          Not that much has changed, and frankly, most of basic Linux really isn’t that hard, it’s just getting people off the shitty windows concepts that is the hard part.

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          I am getting into Linux now with Bazzite, but back then, Windows was still okay. Nowadays, Windows is as enshittified as MSN.com was back in the day.

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        What is this even trying to say?

        When we had to team up for lab assignments I was working with a like-minded guy and we did everything Linux when the assignment didn’t specifically specify that we had to use windows. The teacher was constantly updating the wording of his assignments and asked us to put a little bit of windows in there. We were way ahead of the rest of class and had plenty of time left to switch the windows parts in and out like nothing. That was 12 years ago.

        If it was possible on Linux we used Linux, if not then we used windows. We used a very pragmatic approach, but favored Linux where possible.

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    I learned women actually don’t have the same access to higher education as men. That misogyny and rape culture is real and heavily affect people’s lives in present day. And that it’s about isolated incidents with bad apples, but about the structures around bad incidents, and how they systematically facilitate bad situations, don’t help or silence victims.

    I genuinely believed it was safe to give my peers the benefit of the doubt and assume that their ironically bigoted jokes weren’t their actual views. And it was heartbreaking to realize that that is not an assumption you can make. You don’t know people’s values unless they tell you, seriously and genuinely, straight from the heart. You cannot infer values from ironic jokes, and you cannot assume that the nice people around you share your core values, that you’d otherwise take for granted that everyone but lunatics agree with. You don’t know before you ask.

    I learned that humor isn’t always innocent. That not everyone who hears you make an “ironically bigoted” joke laughs because of its absurdity - they laugh because they agree. They think you agree with their bigoted views and values, and your joke further cements their worldview, that everyone thinks like them, everyone else is just too scared to say it openly. That jokes can be used as a weapon to create a culture where i.e. overt “ironic” racism is considered normal, and genuine conversations about real racism is taboo.

    None of this was in the curriculum. It came from experiencing the social setting and viewing the effects of a broken administrative system at an “elite” engineering college.

    I was not a feminist when I walked into my STEM education, and I was when I left.

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    It has been proven that each mathematical reasoning system* either has a statement that cannot be proven true or false, or a statement that can be proven both true or false. In simpler terms, it has been proven that we can’t prove everything.

    Gödels incompleteness theorem if anyone wants to look it up.

    • only holds for reasoning systems that can reason about numbers
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    Whether or not an irregular verb retains its irregularity depends largely on how much it is used in everyday life. If it’s a common word, it’s more likely to stay irregular, because we’re frequently reminded of the “correct” form. If it’s a rare word, the irregularity tends to disappear over time because we simply forget. That’s why “to be” couldn’t be more irregular (it’s used enough to retain its forms) and the past participle of “to prove” is slowly becoming regular “proved” (it’s rare enough to be forgotten).

    yes i like language very much

    Edit: typo

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      It’s also interesting how the past-tense of “to dive” has changed over recent generations. “Dived” is supposed to be standard, yet people turn it into “dove” so frequently, it’s becoming the new normal.

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    One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn’t mathematically rigorous at all.

    Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: “oops divided by zero guess I’ll cancel it out by multiplying by zero” and it works.

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        Some religious people do.

        I was a jehova witness an I believed science class was all wrong and that my job was to just get through it without believing it.

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        Yes. I grew up in the Dutch Bible Belt, with very strict evangelical parents. They sent me to a Christian school that taught a literal interpretation of the Bible. So I was taught at home, in church, and in school that Earth was created about 6000 years ago.

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        Not the person you asked, but it’s commonly taught as science in a lot of Christian themed curriculums, including a lot of homeschool programs. Source: friends who believed it, and seeing the homeschool program of my step-kids. We had to teach facts on the side and introduce them age appropriately to real science.

        “It” being Creationism.
        Here’s something fun to learn more: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum

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    That I am way stupider than I thought I was. No seriously, constantly failing and seeing how little I actually know made me question my life choices.

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    That all the shit I was told about making 60k out of college and doubling it in 4 years, how I would need college to get a cushy desk job, how without college I would never afford a house or a car, that my loans would be paid off in 10 years or forgiven in 20… All of that was a fucking lie.

    Colleges will happily take 80 grand from teenagers and give them absolutely nothing for it.

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    Higher education is a waste of money for the vast majority of degrees, even STEM ones.

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    That I spent years developing proficiency in my language and expanding my vocabulary to get accepted, only to be told to write simplified English in journalism school. Then they doubled down in my business classes to write for a 6th grade education and those who don’t speak natively.

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      Ya I was surprised that that became the style they liked in my university history classes. None of that rhetoric bullshit.

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    That teaching isn’t the point. It’s getting research grants or funding. So much energy was spent on that. Students came 2nd.

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      Students came 2nd.

      Right. Yes. At least second. For sure.

      There’s not like, another kind of research we should save a spot for? No? Okay. 2nd is good.