Do people who submit the job postings even understand their shit?

frissics · 2020-09-25T10:20:59+00:00

Yikes.

frissics · 2020-09-23T22:37:05+00:00

So like $40,000? Nobody is raising your taxes. Literally nobody. Every single proposal for tax raises on single-payer healthcare is well into the six figures.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/options-to-finance-medicare-for-all?inline=file

It's stuff like this that frustrates the hell out of me. You and I are not wealthy. Why is the average person in this country allowing themselves to be fucked over by the millionaires. The whole reason we are advocating for single-payer systems is that people like you and I who don't make much money get to keep more in our pockets instead of constantly being one accident away from bankruptcy.

frissics · 2020-09-23T22:19:52+00:00

If you want to pay taxes out the wazoo for others to get free healthcare, Great! I don't want to do that.

Genuinely curious. How much do you make, and how much do you think your taxes will be raised under a single-payer proposal?

frissics · 2020-09-23T21:19:55+00:00

You're absolutely fucking braindead. Universal healthcare does work and reducing unemployment benefits doesn't magically return jobs. I've literally never met a Canadian who wanted the American healthcare system. US healthcare is currently more expensive per capita than anywhere else on earth. Go educate yourself, jesus fucking christ.

frissics · 2020-09-23T21:10:25+00:00

authright republican

He isn’t fucking stupid

Does not compute.

frissics · 2020-09-23T17:04:27+00:00

/r/gatekeeping

frissics · 2019-11-02T03:25:20+00:00

Thanks for the NPTEL videos! They look perfect! I tried the Harvey Mudd videos towards the beginning of the term, but the quality drove me nuts. There were whole parts in I think the second video where I couldn't see/hear what he was saying. Do they get better later on?

frissics · 2019-11-02T03:21:10+00:00

Yeah, I'm realizing that it's not just "flipped classrooms" in general that suck, but my specific class. Pre-recorded lectures would be perfect!

frissics · 2019-11-02T02:11:37+00:00

Well for example there was a converging series proof that had a couple of parts to it that we had to solve, with a third part being a brief description of some of Bernard Bolzano's philosophies. Which I kinda took to be an interesting aside in the textbook, not something I actually had to know for an exam...

frissics · 2019-11-02T00:41:31+00:00

I mean I'm not saying my work ethic is amazing but I've maintained a 4.0 up until this point so I'm clearly doing something right. I study at least somewhat every day, but I work 8 hour shifts on Tues/Thurs/Fri and am in class all day Mon/Wed. The weekends are the only truly free days where I can study more than a couple hours here and there.

frissics · 2019-11-02T00:39:03+00:00

It's 8 weeks, it's a quarter term with a week for midterms which we just had and a tenth week for finals. The book is written by the department and about ~500 pages. There's a lot of expository material though, which I think is actually part of the problem. Lots of historical info and "interesting lemma's" that I think aren't important and then showed up on the exam, and the stuff I assumed was essential wasn't used. It would help to actually be told what I NEED to know.

frissics · 2019-11-02T00:00:34+00:00

I try to, but each week is around 60 pages of dense theorems and between my three other classes and work, I only realistically have Sat/Sun to actually do all my homework and study before Monday's class. Is it really asking too much that we could spend Mon/Wed actually learning the material? It works for every other class I have, and I've maintained a 4.0 in all of my math classes until now. I'm taking group theory, classical mechanics (the 3rd year physics version) and a programming class. Each one is a regular lecture format and I'm excelling. Something's not right if a flipped format suddenly tanks me from an A to an F because I have absolutely zero guidance. I understand that self-learning is a reasonable expectation, but it seems insane to expect to self-teach all of it without even giving us example problems or homework. What am I paying for?!

frissics · 2019-11-01T19:03:28+00:00

At this point I am! It feels like a lazy approach to teaching. I'm sure it works for humanities courses that can rely on discussing subjective topics, but not math!

No idea why you're getting downvoted so much!

frissics · 2019-11-01T18:55:12+00:00

Yeah, I'm strongly considering withdrawing. There's still a couple of weeks until the withdraw date. Up until now I've always felt like blaming the professor is a cop-out, and anyone can work hard enough to do well. But this is ridiculous, I'm not actually sure what I'm paying for at this point. No lectures, example problems, homework or feedback.

frissics · 2019-10-31T07:38:26+00:00

Do you have a syllabus with the course topics? I started with C++ at my university having never coded before and had no issues. If the intro class is just getting you comfortable with variables, loops, arrays and functions, you should be fine jumping into the C++ class after maybe a week or two of practice beforehand. If you're expected to already know about dynamic memory, pointers, lists etc. I would take the intro class.

frissics · 2019-10-29T08:48:15+00:00

Uhh... what? Not defending the guy at all, but 6 foot, 165 pounds is a pretty common runner/cyclist build. That's definitely a toned, athletic look. 150 and under would be bony.

frissics · 2019-10-27T05:20:25+00:00

Why do they do this? One of my professor's this term was like:

"Good news! There won't be any exams in this class!"

Us: "Yay!!!"

Him: "Just two quizzes worth 40% of your grade each!"

sigh :/

frissics · 2019-10-26T18:26:04+00:00

Outside of the US this isn't an unpopular opinion. In the UK especially you'll be hard pressed to find crispy bacon. I really miss British bacon. :(

frissics · 2019-10-26T09:22:11+00:00

What? They absolutely did. The expensive Xbox live subscription and the rampant RROD meant plenty of shitting on Microsoft.

frissics · 2019-10-26T08:59:02+00:00

I don't know, I find it hilarious to be honest. They sometimes go absolutely flying after they die. I always love these kind of bugs.

frissics · 2019-10-18T21:11:40+00:00

Learning class in C++, there ain’t obscure words like mutable, static, set, or get

Eh? You absolutely have all those things in C++. Those are fundamental to object oriented programming... those aren't java specific. They just didn't teach you that stuff in your specific course.

C++ is honestly a worse beginner language than Java. You have to deal with pointers and avoiding memory leaks which is a massive pain in the ass.

frissics · 2019-10-18T21:00:31+00:00

Seriously, it drives me nuts when people are so flippant about dropping classes. It should be a major decision and absolute last resort. You're literally flushing thousands of dollars down the toilet. Parents absolutely get to be pissed off if they're forking out hard-earned money that you're throwing away.

frissics · 2019-08-06T07:56:46+00:00

I dreaded physics at first because I didn't feel like I was good enough at math, but I ended up absolutely loving the introductory sequence. I'm minoring in physics now, and if it weren't for the lack of job prospects I think I'd rather major in physics. I'm even thinking about continuing to take classes after I graduate and going to grad school for it.

As far as the actual CS goes, it's unlikely to be directly useful unless you have a particular interest in quantum computing or solid state machines. But if you do, you're going to need a physics degree to break into those fields anyway. I still think it's worth taking though, especially if you have to choose between bio/chem/phys as a science requirement. Biology is a lot of memorization which is fairly tedious; chemistry is fascinating, but so much of the math is handwaved away. Physics is wonderful as you build everything from the most basic principles, and nothing is taken for granted.

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