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Whenever you get recommended a text editor, VIM, emacs, or nano will at least be mentioned once, and yes we are in a brutal war so there will be backlash. That said, We can all agree on one thing, fuck IDEs.

Init users will recommend anything other than systemd, and that is another war in itself.

Distro-hoppers will try and justify themselves changing distros when in reality they fucked a package installation and just want to redo everything. They may also do it to try out a new desktop environment not realizing you can just install the desktop environment in a terminal without going to a new distro.

I’ve always said this, don’t switch to a different flavor of Linux because the developers are starting to use LLMs to code it. I would also say don’t jump into a distro that is completely vibe codes.

Quality Information, contrary to popular belief, is becoming more and more scarce; what you could search early 2000s - 2010s you can’t really do now, there’s advertisements now, there’s LLM prompts at the top result, and you have to dig through pages of search results before finding a golden website. Information is being controlled and funneled by google and there is a price associated with that (your data).

I think if a linux distro regulates its AI usage (IE not entirely vibecoded and pushed to the repository ) I don’t see a reason to be switching distros. Again the primary reason why developers are using LLMs to code has to do with the clusterfuck that is of attaining information.

Going from arithmetic to multivariable calculus in the span of two years. It has always been a surreal achievement for me because the more that I reminisce it, I find it really isn’t a lot of math to begin with and my entire scale (what i considered advanced level math) is now broken.

Calculus 1, I thought was the benchmark that once passed you are in A-level math. Oh boy was I wrong, calculus 1 is like the baby step for any STEM major, then you do calculus 2, and then for EEs you do calculus 3. Then after that there’s diff eq, linear algebra, stats, and finally signals congrats you have finished the math for the EE major. now its time to apply it in your other EE courses.

The fact there was more math required for the EE degree starting with calculus 2, then there was the prerequisites for calculus shows how much fucking math we actually know. The “advanced math” title is so far skewed to the left by the illitiracy rate that calculus is considered advanced math, I wouldn’t even say calculus 3 is advanced level math.

Its not just the exit nodes, you also need to control the entrance nodes to pinpoint people in the network.

That is an expensive arrangement which I doubt the CIA or defense industry would put money towards to surveil people going through the network.

Same here, I started with hyprland and every time I go back to KDE or gnome, I feel like I’ve went back 10 years. I use the base sway package in the fedora spin, and after customizing keybinds it works great.

I assume when you say “low-level” its < 1 microcurie. Thats asking for radiation poisoning otherwise (unless you are taking extreme precautions)

I ask this because uranium sources i use in lab are around the 1 microcurie to 10 microcurie range that i know you can get without a license.

Hmm, never imagined myself being against that claim.

Some people say ignorance is bliss, I would say it isn’t. For example, by learning engineering it made me loose my jewish faith… and I’m not complaining against it.

what’s worse then knowing everything, being manipulated. for the first 18 years of my life, I’ve been manipulated to believe in something I never understood why. it was my hell.

So yea I’ll take learning analysis, probability, ODEs, fourier series/transforms, any motherfucking day over being manipulated.

I can’t see how you could major in mechanical or electrical engineering online. There are projects, there are labs that you have to do, and that happens by coming in-person and working together as a team.

You’d miss out on so much by doing it online and I’m not sure how the curriculum is formatted

Because data is never free. Google, duckduckgo, kagi, they all cost money one way or another whether that be a subscription service or by forcing websites to be shit so your only option is using their LLMs. Yes the reason why the internet has gone to shit is because of LLMs

I’ve went through hundreds of search results on duckduckgo, even when I make it intentionally broad and genetic that wikipedia would cover it, it still doesn’t come as the first search result. Search engines have gone to shit because LLMs make the most money in terms of data surveillance. Meaning (take for example google) they have a profile of you, they have queries to train, they have data that can be sold to advertisers. The only reason LLMs are being pushed so much isn’t because its intelligent, it’s because it makes the most money.

There is a “search engine” that hasn’t gone to shit, and that’s called marginalia search, It’s not exactly a search engine where you can type a url and it will bring you to a page, Instead it compliments your general search engine as a research aid and you can find some golden sites.

I’ve personally used it for data sheets on IC electronics and their implementations. Unfortunately I’ve found it insufferably difficult on duckduckgo (like multiple pages deep for a datasheet, something that should pop up on the first page), and I don’t trust the output of LLMs (large lying models).

So yea, hopefully this helps.

I was in your same boat a few months back, I stopped at fedora.

However, if I didn’t depend on glibc I would totally use alpine Linux.

ok, so i get how for current moving in the direction of the cathode of a diode it goes into that depletion zone where it’s nonconducting, hence the open circuit.

but for current flowing in the direction of the anode terminal how does it pass through the diode?

I don’t know why but “drawer” was a word that was difficult for me to pronounce. In specific the ‘aw’ sometimes I say it as dr-awe-re other times i pronounce it as d-roar I don’t know why it’s strange to prononounce.

not to mention the “human made” elements only last for a few days. einsteinium lasts around 23 days!

no.

the reason why planets are formed (ideally) as a sphere is because gravity forms it into that. The sphere is a product of gravity not vise versa because each little mass of substance generates it’s own radial attractive gravitational field.

even if you formed it into a disc, it would be formed back into a sphere.

depends on how motivated you are: the fact that you are going to university compared to a bootcamp, you’re already at an advantage. since universities have career events. if you go to career events, connect with recruiters or engineers, you’re guaranteed an interview spot, so long as you maintain a good educational background for the first few years of employment. Do you know how many CS majors have the same skills if not more than you? Too many to count. The difference is you have friends.

one other note that is completely unrelated, I will mention CS is similar to a lot of other sciences. It’s broad in scope until maybe third or fourth year where you actually apply your knowledge to build (for example) an OS. I’m doing my third year in EE, the things I’ve learned the projects that I’ve done, brought me to a threshold where if I truly wanted to I could build my own assembly language in system verilog for my basys3 FPGA board.

my point is, by the end of your program, you will see it’s all EECE and I will say “it always has been” [insert astronaught meme]. Both are excellent programs, just keep your mind open to options if you think CS is to broad like how physics for me was to broad.

I have several CS majors in my electronics and circuits class because they enjoy working with microcontrollers, IC circuits, and embedded systems over X86 programming. The only things that’s stopping them from switching to EECE is their scholarships, which has only been approved for the CS program. With EECE you have an idea of what you want to do instead of just becoming a “software developer” or “web developer”. Whether that be the processing of rf signals for telecommunications, or using FPGA’s to capture collision events of particles inside a particle accelerator, you have the knowledge and practical experience with said knowledge to apply it to the problem at hand.

so Boron, Boron, no such element for ‘A’, Nitrogen, no such element for ‘M’

Techtronix. they were the primary oscilloscope maker in late 1900s, that was until oscilloscopes could be designed and manufactured in China for a few hundred bucks.

nowadays they seem to still pursue high end oscilloscopes, where they focus on increasing the sampling rate from 500 MHz (with cheaper oscillioscopes) to 200 GHz.

I still don’t know how they’re still in business. The entire model seems unsustainable to me given that one of those oscilloscopes go on upwards $200,000.

“who may not be quite as stubborn as I am” that is the most Linus torvalds thing to say. good to see his passive agressive nature being put in a press release.

it’s not managing, as you seem to imply, it’s just hosting.

Arch hosts the AUR repository, the maintenance of the packages is on the developers who developed the package.

If someone sneaks in spyware or malware inside the makepkg, that isn’t arch’s fault, that’s the maintainers fault of the makepkg.

more importantly, they don’t recommend that users use the AUR repository (that isn’t to say they are opposed to it). Some advice they have given is to review what the dependencies are before executing the package with an AUR helper or manually.

Just to make a point, there is a surplus of these non officially supported (from OS developers) repositories, such as the terra repository for fedora. It has the same vulnerability as AUR, and yet that is targeted for new users.

Much like how fedora doesn’t officially support Terra, arch doesn’t support AUR. There is a reason why it’s called AUR (arch user repository) over ASR (arch supported repository). AUR entails that it is not supported by arch.