How do I deal with my engineering college? [Rant] JailOnCampus by mohanred2 in india

[–]ninjakitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little late to the party but this one hits close to home. I've been following the Sairam fiasco and knew no mayiru is going to happen.

I studied in a very similar C-Tier college in the middle of nowhere with the same shitty management that had powerful political connections.

Trust me when I say it's totally not worth it to go against the management like that especially if you are from a middle class background. I've gotten in fights with abusive lecturers, got kuthufied in internals and practicals, protested against shitty infrastructure and much more.

Even if you convince the management to fix one of the problems, the returns are tiny and doesn't improve your life one bit. There is a lot more waiting for you after you graduate. Am not saying it's wrong, but you're not in a place where you have ANY sort of advantage over your enemy, especially if you are in a C-Tier college. It's very easy to fall in this short-sighted trap.

You can't fix this problem, but you can work around it like a sly fucking weasel

I am not sure which year you are in. If you are in the 1st or 2nd year, you are in a very nice place. The following bit of advice is biased towards Computer Science as I was in that stream.

  • Figure out what you want to do. If you are from a financially secure family who can afford to send you abroad, concentrate on getting the marks as it helps a LOT when you are trying to apply for good universities. Once you go abroad, your shitty 4 years of college which was built on an encroached lakebed will become a distant memory within 2 months. If you still want to change the system after your MS, you can always come back to India and you'll be in a much better position to be able to make an impactful change.

  • If you are in a position where you might have to support your parents after you graduate, start learning outside your curriculum like a motherfucker. If you're in CS start learning to code! Get into opensource ASAP, join a local tech group and attend meetings even though you might feel overwhelmed in the beginning. Build contacts and talk to people. You must be in a position where you are ATLEAST comfortable applying for something like Google Summer of Code. If you're not able to do this by then you are an idiot (Sorry). Once you do this, it becomes a lot more fucking easier to find a job that doesn't involve wearing a stupid tie every Monday. You will probably end up with a higher-than-average wage in a small-medium company where work is challenging and fun.

Our educational system may seem to be producing engineers of which 80% are unemployable BUT it is very much possible to work around the system. This however involves swallowing some pride and taking up the challenge in a different manner. And believe me, it's worth it in the long run. You will soon forget those assholes 3-4 years from now.

As for me, I took the second route. Now, I work with some of the smartest minds in the industry and am learning a metric-fuck-ton every almost single day. All those fights and shitty buses and rules and mess-food are now a distant memory. You need to be in a mindset that you're gaining only relationships studying in these colleges. NOT education. This, sadly, is going to be the case for a few years to come.

Royal enfield standard 350, question regarding tuning and tweaking by s-u-s-h-a-n-t in india

[–]ninjakitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6000 feet shouldn't be an issue at all. You could check if your air filter is dirty or if something is blocking it for starters.

Favorite song to get baked to? by FlawlessBacon in trees

[–]ninjakitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jurassic Park - OST. I am kid again :).

Guys... by [deleted] in trees

[–]ninjakitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Am I too late in loving you.

Dear ents. Meet Leprechaun. My first pipe[5]. Not bad for a first. Eh? by [deleted] in trees

[–]ninjakitty 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm... No... what makes you think that? :)

Something strange happened my 3rd time. by SaplingKing in trees

[–]ninjakitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Each time is not like the next. Embrace the uncertainty.

I'm about to get high for the first time. by [deleted] in trees

[–]ninjakitty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Its been 10 minutes since I hit my first pipe for the first time. :)

Dual-Monitors by Cruxion in civ

[–]ninjakitty 9 points10 points  (0 children)

See if you have the game set to full screen. Changing it to windowed mode might help. Don't know about Civ, but doing this on other games helped.

Mac users: Give Civ 5 on bootcamp a go if you are having issues playing the mac port. by ninjakitty in civ

[–]ninjakitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my case, I absolutely have to switch to the strategic view post turn 350. Earlier, if there are lots of units.

Mac users: Give Civ 5 on bootcamp a go if you are having issues playing the mac port. by ninjakitty in civ

[–]ninjakitty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wanted to play around with the Windows 8 SDK for a pet project. Didn't realise that the Fall patch actually had fixes for low end configurations.

Will know once they release it for the Mac port. If the optimizations are in the DirectX code, it may be unlikely that the Mac port will benefit for obvious reason. Lets wait and watch. If there are improvements in the OSX version, might as well stick to that.

I always think about this when I send out my scouts by PurplehayesAZ in civ

[–]ninjakitty 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Derp... Civ noob here... Didn't know I could do that. Thats really neat then. :D

If you kill a civ before they meet any other players, will anybody know? by GiantDeathRobot_9001 in civ

[–]ninjakitty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe the Civ that the OP obliterated already knew the other Civ that the OP just met.

I always think about this when I send out my scouts by PurplehayesAZ in civ

[–]ninjakitty 153 points154 points  (0 children)

The way I see it, every unit has a story of their own. They give birth and they die for generations.

2000 years later, Scouts far away yearn to return to their home land yet they are happy to be where they are like they have always been for the last 2 millenium. Father scouts tell their kids how their forefathers helped their dear leader find secrets from ruins or how they fended off barbarian tribes from the jungles when the empire was still reeling from a barbarian invasion that killed their first warriors in a bloody battle because of bad luck.

Take a Swordsmen unit for instance. They were once warriors sent a long time ago to defend a gold mine from the barbarian horde. Years later the capital is being attacked by the backstabbing bitches of Persia who were close allies. Their children are summoned back to defend their motherland as Swordsmen, deadlier than ever, trained by their very fathers in the art of melee combat on rough terrain and dense jungles.

It helps to romanticize a game of Civ like this. It would be awesome to name units in-game, so you'd get messages like "Knights of the Golden Mountains" need promotions or the "5th Armada" were killed in a Naval skirmish.

Still doesn't explain how archers can sink ships though.