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uodlcd | [Assembly] Can someone explain why the instruction AL := AL * 5 stores the hexadecimal of 750 in the AH register instead of 1250? | It's been a while since I dabbled in assembly, but...this presentation looks wrong. Setting AL to anything would not change the contents of AH. Trying to understand 5\*AL then 3\*250, those are different things. If 3\*250 is correct then AL <- 0xEE is correct, the 0x200 is lost because AL is 8 bits. It would not carry into AH unless you were doing arithmetic on [E]AX. | 60 | AskComputerScience |
uodlcd | [Assembly] Can someone explain why the instruction AL := AL * 5 stores the hexadecimal of 750 in the AH register instead of 1250? | It's pseudocode, so it's hard to know exactly what they intend it to do. The 8-bit x86 MUL instruction multiples AL by another byte value, and the result goes in the 16-bit AX. So the pseudo-code as written does not directly correspond to real x86 instructions.
My guess is they meant to say AX := 5 \* AL. Or it's a trick question, and you have to know that AH gets modified by an x86 multiply. In either case, the answer is wrong, and the result should be 07FE02EE.
The other possibility is the pseudocode is supposed to be some higher level language, and they mean for the high byte of the multiplication to be thrown away. And then the result should be 07FE2FEE.
In either case is their answer incorrect. | 50 | AskComputerScience |
uodugr | Do lead devs and hiring managers really care about a Github page with tons of commits? It seems that a lot of job postings I see they're more interested in specific knowledge of frameworks, libraries, and their specific stack, personally, I think this is a mistake but this is what I've seen. Does a good Github page make up for a bad tech assessment, break in employment, or portfolio site? | GitHubs and websites are great supplements but don’t make up the meat of what you should be bringing to a job. Your experience in the tech stack they use is probably weighed more heavily than any of those other things. | 50 | ITCareerQuestions |
uodvvi | how many of you consider yourselves conservative/right leaning and aren't religious? | Compared to the average reddit poster, I'd probably considered conservative. I consider myself independent left leaning, but I absolutely despise both parties even if I typically agree with one more often than the other | 970 | AskAnAmerican |
uodvvi | how many of you consider yourselves conservative/right leaning and aren't religious? | I'm the inverse. Religious but not right wing. | 420 | AskAnAmerican |
uodvvi | how many of you consider yourselves conservative/right leaning and aren't religious? | Also right leaning/registered Republican and not religious. Was raised Christian though, and that's probably why I'm not religious anymore.
Being forced to go to church kinda turned me off from it. | 320 | AskAnAmerican |
uoe13j | I guess this is just me wanting to vent. I had a good opportunity with a company that pays really well, and they wanted me to do a small coding challenge to test my skills before proceeding. Knowing this is unfortunately the norm, I reluctantly agreed and decided to take it, which they said would take me on average about 1.5 hours.
Since this is a web-based company, I was thinking, oh, they probably want me to do some sort of PHP MVC thing. Nope. The test was for me to figure out some incredibly difficult mathematic algorithm, which was basically writing a function to figure out the amount of all possible solutions that you can get when adding any number of numbers in an array together to equal the total amount. For example, if you have the number 4 and pass in the numbers 1 and 2, you should get 3 total sums.
Berate me if you want, but I could not figure this out, and they told me I could not use StackOverflow or any possible helpful links either. I personally do not see the real-world value of knowing this type of function at all, and I have never needed to run across something like that ever. Usually for something that heavily involved in an algorithm, I've been given the algorithm beforehand by someone much better at math than me, and I just convert it into a function. So, I just feel like I wasn't even given the opportunity to even show the work I can do with a lot of experience in their stack, just because I wasn't given a true aptitude test.
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TLDR: I feel cheated out of a job because a pre-screen test was heavily algorithm/math based instead of being based off of the work the company actually does. | >Usually for something that heavily involved in an algorithm, I've been given the algorithm beforehand by someone much better at math than me, and I just convert it into a function. So, I just feel like I wasn't even given the opportunity to even show the work I can do with a lot of experience in their stack, just because I wasn't given a true aptitude test.
You're not going to like this answer but you need to hear it in order to improve: you weren't cheated out of anything. They wanted to see how you solve problems that aren't immediately obvious to answer and you weren't able to. That *is* something you'll be expected to do on the job.
When I give coding assessments sometimes more I'm interested in how a candidate approaches solving a problem than their answer. If they asked questions, talked through their reasoning, wrote pseudocode first, etc.
I've hired people who didn't pass all the coding exercises because they were able to show how well they work with unknowns and under pressure. I'm not just interested in what you know how to do, I'm interested in how you would perform on my team. Knowing a framework or a stack is a given for most developers. | 60 | AskProgramming |
uoe13j | I guess this is just me wanting to vent. I had a good opportunity with a company that pays really well, and they wanted me to do a small coding challenge to test my skills before proceeding. Knowing this is unfortunately the norm, I reluctantly agreed and decided to take it, which they said would take me on average about 1.5 hours.
Since this is a web-based company, I was thinking, oh, they probably want me to do some sort of PHP MVC thing. Nope. The test was for me to figure out some incredibly difficult mathematic algorithm, which was basically writing a function to figure out the amount of all possible solutions that you can get when adding any number of numbers in an array together to equal the total amount. For example, if you have the number 4 and pass in the numbers 1 and 2, you should get 3 total sums.
Berate me if you want, but I could not figure this out, and they told me I could not use StackOverflow or any possible helpful links either. I personally do not see the real-world value of knowing this type of function at all, and I have never needed to run across something like that ever. Usually for something that heavily involved in an algorithm, I've been given the algorithm beforehand by someone much better at math than me, and I just convert it into a function. So, I just feel like I wasn't even given the opportunity to even show the work I can do with a lot of experience in their stack, just because I wasn't given a true aptitude test.
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TLDR: I feel cheated out of a job because a pre-screen test was heavily algorithm/math based instead of being based off of the work the company actually does. | > Usually for something that heavily involved in an algorithm, I've been given the algorithm beforehand
That's all well and good unless you happen to be applying to be the guy that gives other people the algorithm. | 30 | AskProgramming |
uoe2et | I recently got an offer at FAANG 1 and then a recruiter at FAANG 2 (which I'm more interested in working for) reached out to me. I told the F2 recruiter about my F1 offer deadline (was like two weeks away at this point) and he said he would jump me straight to the onsite. Passed it and received the verbal offer at F2, but with the caveat they want me to have 6 more months of industry experience before moving onto team matching. Then after team matching I would receive the official offer letter. So essentially asking me to work at F1 for 6 months then leave. Is this normal? Definitely excited about both opportunities, especially the second, but find what they're asking of me pretty strange. If anyone has advice for how to deal with this situation it would be greatly appreciated. This will be my first role in the industry and could use some advice for how to proceed.
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Edit: Should have clarified earlier but I have no industry experience, not even internships | You sure they’re not telling you to reapply in 6 months? Cuz this is some dumb shit. | 7,080 | CSCareerQuestions |
uoe2et | I recently got an offer at FAANG 1 and then a recruiter at FAANG 2 (which I'm more interested in working for) reached out to me. I told the F2 recruiter about my F1 offer deadline (was like two weeks away at this point) and he said he would jump me straight to the onsite. Passed it and received the verbal offer at F2, but with the caveat they want me to have 6 more months of industry experience before moving onto team matching. Then after team matching I would receive the official offer letter. So essentially asking me to work at F1 for 6 months then leave. Is this normal? Definitely excited about both opportunities, especially the second, but find what they're asking of me pretty strange. If anyone has advice for how to deal with this situation it would be greatly appreciated. This will be my first role in the industry and could use some advice for how to proceed.
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Edit: Should have clarified earlier but I have no industry experience, not even internships | You don't have an offer from F2.
If F1 is an acceptable offer, take it (and tell F2 you're taking it as a permanent thing, not for their six month drill). You may end up liking it. If you end up not liking it, you'll re-evaluate it and maybe consider F2. I say maybe because their behavior is very strange indeed. A large company would have zero problems w/ keeping you for those six month, if they are interested. Maybe at a lower level to be reconsidered after that time. Telling somebody to go somewhere else for six months is unheard of. But equally unheard of for a recruiter not being able to say "the team was not convinced so we're not able to extend you an offer at this time" so meh. | 2,970 | CSCareerQuestions |
uoe2et | I recently got an offer at FAANG 1 and then a recruiter at FAANG 2 (which I'm more interested in working for) reached out to me. I told the F2 recruiter about my F1 offer deadline (was like two weeks away at this point) and he said he would jump me straight to the onsite. Passed it and received the verbal offer at F2, but with the caveat they want me to have 6 more months of industry experience before moving onto team matching. Then after team matching I would receive the official offer letter. So essentially asking me to work at F1 for 6 months then leave. Is this normal? Definitely excited about both opportunities, especially the second, but find what they're asking of me pretty strange. If anyone has advice for how to deal with this situation it would be greatly appreciated. This will be my first role in the industry and could use some advice for how to proceed.
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Edit: Should have clarified earlier but I have no industry experience, not even internships | I’ve never heard that before. Are you working now?
I wouldn’t place much value on a verbal offer that’s 6 months away, when we don’t know what the economy will be like then.
Seems like you really only have one option. Tell FAANG 2 that it’s now or never. If they give you a written offer you’ll accept it. Otherwise you’ll take FAANG 1’s offer and reevaluate in 6 months. | 1,190 | CSCareerQuestions |
uoe8cz | So this is kinda a gross and gruesome question, but it has been bugging me for a while.
When we die, we decompose. This is because we are basically eaten by microorganisms, bugs, and scavengers. Like if you died on Mars, you wouldn't decompose because they don't have those organisms there.
So, how do thee decomposes "know" when to start decomposing you? Cause like, as far as I am aware, my eye doesn't feel like it's rotting.
The answer I came up with is that the decomposers don't "know". They constantly are eating away at us, but we just regenerate/heal at a faster rate. When we die we stop healing and therefore we decompose.
If that's the case, are we constantly rotting from the moment of birth, slowly being eaten away and decomposed our entire lives? Yikes if so but i am not really sure how it could be another way. What are your thoughts? Am I on the right track? | Your own initial answer is mostly correct. Organisms involved in decomposition don’t “know” anything and are opportunists. But they aren’t simply “eating away at us” all the time. We (and most organisms that decomposers eat) have active systems that prevent them from starting that process in the first place. Barriers such as skin keep them out initially. Any “holes” we have are usually areas that can slough off mucous or are semi inhospitable to them. Finally, immune systems internally will keep them at bay. But at an organisms death, these systems stop working and the decomposers now are simply able to have unimpeded access. | 50 | AskScience |
uoe8eo | Let's say I have a dirty glass and a clean reservoir of water with a tap. I want to rinse my glass with it. What is the minimum flow rate to make sure no bacteria can make it back into the clean supply? | Typical pathogenic bacteria have motility velocity in the 10-50μM/sec range. So any flowing tap would be far too fast for bacteria to ever swim up the stream.
The main concern would be contaminating the faucet and having biofilm growth and having water with no residual free chlorine.
ELI5: much, much more common for a dirty faucet to contaminate water/glass. | 100 | AskScience |
uoeddc | I work in a factory and we have an in house developed software system for managing our quality testing data. It recently was changed to prompt entry of the testers initials for each box filled and I'm not high up enough to argue that it's too frustrating to be practical.
I can suggest a better system to replace it though, and the only one I've pitched that's gained any traction is having a webcam set up at each station and something like a QR code on each testers helmet with a unique ID that's scanned while they are in front of the computer and logs who entered the test automatically.
on a scale of "easy to implement" to "totally insane", how crazy an ask is this?
I'd also love to hear any ideas to improve this or make it easier to implement. | You might want to look into RFID cards or phone verification. There are companies that specialize in security authentication for everything from doors to elevators to vehicles. I don't have any experience actually working hands-on with implementing these technologies but I have used them in the past. I looked online and found this company but you need to get the prices quoted. https://www.getkisi.com/ | 40 | AskProgramming |
uoeddc | I work in a factory and we have an in house developed software system for managing our quality testing data. It recently was changed to prompt entry of the testers initials for each box filled and I'm not high up enough to argue that it's too frustrating to be practical.
I can suggest a better system to replace it though, and the only one I've pitched that's gained any traction is having a webcam set up at each station and something like a QR code on each testers helmet with a unique ID that's scanned while they are in front of the computer and logs who entered the test automatically.
on a scale of "easy to implement" to "totally insane", how crazy an ask is this?
I'd also love to hear any ideas to improve this or make it easier to implement. | > on a scale of "easy to implement" to "totally insane", how crazy an ask is this?
I'd say the real question is, are you trying to solve a *technical* problem or a *human compliance* problem? If your quality testers (!) aren't able to reliably fill-in their initials into a box, how can you expect them to wear a correctly marked helmet and show it to the camera?
The technical side is easy though. Look at the OpenCV project for general computer vision stuff, and QR decoders on github for the code scanning specifics. | 30 | AskProgramming |
uoej0z | Hello everyone! So I’m currently in the process of getting my bachelors degree. Well, I haven’t started yet. Currently waiting for fall semester to start. Now this is where I need some help with everyone already in the IT field. I had the choice of getting my bachelors in Management Information Systems OR Computer Networks and Cybersecurity. I honestly have no professional IT experience other than building my own PCs for fun and use. I currently run my own business, so I do like the business side also. The one thing I am noticing though is that ALL jobs are asking for RIDICULOUS experience. In either IS or cybersecurity. Everyone wants 5+ years experience or sometimes even more. Makes me feel like it would be impossible to land a job in either lol. What’s everyone’s experience? What field of IT are you in and how did you get in? Any advice or tips in getting in the field?
Thanks for any advice. I hope to learn and hopefully figure out which direction I want to go in. | Currently just graduated with my Bachelors in Information Systems and CyberSecurity lol.
In short, it does not matter. No hiring manager is going to look at your degree and hire or not hire you based off of your major. As long as it's tech related, you're set.
You can decide to be a software dev with a cyber security degree or be a network engineer with an Infosys degree.
Do whatever interests you. If you end up going for your Master's, that is when you then may need to be specific about your major; as the degree is likely for promotional purposes. | 50 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoej0z | Hello everyone! So I’m currently in the process of getting my bachelors degree. Well, I haven’t started yet. Currently waiting for fall semester to start. Now this is where I need some help with everyone already in the IT field. I had the choice of getting my bachelors in Management Information Systems OR Computer Networks and Cybersecurity. I honestly have no professional IT experience other than building my own PCs for fun and use. I currently run my own business, so I do like the business side also. The one thing I am noticing though is that ALL jobs are asking for RIDICULOUS experience. In either IS or cybersecurity. Everyone wants 5+ years experience or sometimes even more. Makes me feel like it would be impossible to land a job in either lol. What’s everyone’s experience? What field of IT are you in and how did you get in? Any advice or tips in getting in the field?
Thanks for any advice. I hope to learn and hopefully figure out which direction I want to go in. | You can easily be hired into the federal workforce fresh out of college. Information Security and Cybersecurity are much needed in the federal govt. Personally, I'd choose Cybersecurity.
Go to [USAJobs.gov](https://USAJobs.gov) and search for 2210. It's the Federal job code for all disciplines of Information Technology Specialist no matter if it's Customer Support, Software Support, Cybersecurity, Cloud, etc. You'll want to look for "Recent grad" or "Pathways" postings. | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoek5z | Context:
I’m currently a Sophomore in college studying for Computer Science with an emphasis on Cybersecurity. As far as job experience , I have worked at a grocery store for a little while and am hoping to gain work experience in IT.
I’ve been applying for IT support/Help desk positions on Indeed and haven’t had much success. I assume the issue is my resume and unrelated work experience in the field. To remedy this and gain knowledge in IT, I figured earning either the A+ or Network+ certification would be the best place to start.
My question is, without having much experience in IT at the moment but still wanting to land a decent job, which cert would it be wise to start with?
Any advice would really help, thanks :) | If you’re a CS major, there’s no real reason to pay for and take the A+ exam. I’m sure you know what WiFi and RAM are. You can just brush up on any concepts you’re unfamiliar with online for free.
Networking is its own beast and if you’re interested, try for something like the CCNA. Networking is meaty and there’s great resources online like Professor Messer (he covers Network+) and I’m sure you can take a Networking class in your school curriculum too. | 50 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoek6l | I am a 3x survivor of suicide. AMA | Congratulations.
r/FailedSuccessfully | 310 | AMA |
uoek6l | I am a 3x survivor of suicide. AMA | i’m also a 3 time survivor, i pray for you <3 our minds our complex and scary chambers of emotion | 260 | AMA |
uoek6l | I am a 3x survivor of suicide. AMA | Have you beaten those thoughts/feeling better? | 180 | AMA |
uoelkj | So, I grew up in a very Czech area of Nebraska. Most people would say they were "Bohemian" as Bohemia is part of the Czech Republic, or Bohunk. However, I was told by many that Bohunk was more or less an offensive term for someone from Eastern Europe. So has anyone else heard this term, and if so do you think its offensive. Honestly, I grew up with the word and while it wasn't common, I never found it offensive. It just seemed kind of old timey, as I first heard it in Willa Cather novels (for those who don't know, she's probably the most notable writer from Nebraska, and grew up in a rural town called Red Cloud, which has a lot of Czechs and a lot of her novels deal with immigrant life, and while I'm sure there are issues, its interesting that a white lady born in Virginia wrote compassionately about such immigrants at a time when they were sometimes not kindly treated) and sometimes I still say it to describe myself as I'm half "bohunk" and half German. | I would have thought bohunk was a weird variant on podunk lol | 430 | AskAnAmerican |
uoelkj | So, I grew up in a very Czech area of Nebraska. Most people would say they were "Bohemian" as Bohemia is part of the Czech Republic, or Bohunk. However, I was told by many that Bohunk was more or less an offensive term for someone from Eastern Europe. So has anyone else heard this term, and if so do you think its offensive. Honestly, I grew up with the word and while it wasn't common, I never found it offensive. It just seemed kind of old timey, as I first heard it in Willa Cather novels (for those who don't know, she's probably the most notable writer from Nebraska, and grew up in a rural town called Red Cloud, which has a lot of Czechs and a lot of her novels deal with immigrant life, and while I'm sure there are issues, its interesting that a white lady born in Virginia wrote compassionately about such immigrants at a time when they were sometimes not kindly treated) and sometimes I still say it to describe myself as I'm half "bohunk" and half German. | I’ve never heard that word. | 240 | AskAnAmerican |
uoelkj | So, I grew up in a very Czech area of Nebraska. Most people would say they were "Bohemian" as Bohemia is part of the Czech Republic, or Bohunk. However, I was told by many that Bohunk was more or less an offensive term for someone from Eastern Europe. So has anyone else heard this term, and if so do you think its offensive. Honestly, I grew up with the word and while it wasn't common, I never found it offensive. It just seemed kind of old timey, as I first heard it in Willa Cather novels (for those who don't know, she's probably the most notable writer from Nebraska, and grew up in a rural town called Red Cloud, which has a lot of Czechs and a lot of her novels deal with immigrant life, and while I'm sure there are issues, its interesting that a white lady born in Virginia wrote compassionately about such immigrants at a time when they were sometimes not kindly treated) and sometimes I still say it to describe myself as I'm half "bohunk" and half German. | I remember it as like... An 80s word that they only ever used in some movies (actually the only one i can think of is Adventures in Babysitting) and no one ever really said it.
But it meant like "meathead", muscley guy maybe a bit dumb?
Nothing about it meant a specific ancestry. | 110 | AskAnAmerican |
uof2ld | Hello, lately i was wondering what's the future of our DBA friends.
I see a lot of db offers in the cloud and the world is heading always more to everything as a service on cloud. Without the need of setting up your own db (and some companies even today don't have anyone competent in db... like i have to set up it here lol) what kind of job path will those guys take?
Maybe something in the data/machine learning field? Mixing data knowledge with python magics?
Will they be required for a period as ''experts'' (?) of cloud migrations? (but i bet it will be really few spots)
Let me know your impressions! | There is still need for DBA in the cloud. Configuration/integration/table maintenance/security/yelling at people to write better queries to keep credit burn to minimum is all there…just sprinkled with learning cloud platforms… | 100 | ITCareerQuestions |
uof2ld | Hello, lately i was wondering what's the future of our DBA friends.
I see a lot of db offers in the cloud and the world is heading always more to everything as a service on cloud. Without the need of setting up your own db (and some companies even today don't have anyone competent in db... like i have to set up it here lol) what kind of job path will those guys take?
Maybe something in the data/machine learning field? Mixing data knowledge with python magics?
Will they be required for a period as ''experts'' (?) of cloud migrations? (but i bet it will be really few spots)
Let me know your impressions! | Not all databases are moving to the cloud. We have data centers that host petabytes of data. Those are not going anywhere. The cost to move and keep those things in the cloud is astronomical and makes no sense to touch them. | 40 | ITCareerQuestions |
uof2xr | If you’re exposed to poison, you’re poisoned. If you’re exposed to venom, you are _________??? | Fucked | 4,630 | ask |
uof2xr | If you’re exposed to poison, you’re poisoned. If you’re exposed to venom, you are _________??? | Envenomed. | 2,160 | ask |
uof2xr | If you’re exposed to poison, you’re poisoned. If you’re exposed to venom, you are _________??? | now in the marvel universe | 1,240 | ask |
uofokm | I’m a city boy, born and raised. But, lately, prices have become too high here. I have seen some small towns that are affordable and would reasonably fit my lifestyle. What was the biggest adjustment? | I'd argue moving to a smaller town or city isn't exactly living the rural lifestyle. If you're living "in town" , you still can live somewhat an urban lifestyle. A town as small as 2,000 may have a full grocery store, a few restaurants, at least one bar. You'll have some level of urban amenities, just less of them.
That's different than living in the sticks where there's nothing around except maybe a Dollar General. | 260 | AskAnAmerican |
uofokm | I’m a city boy, born and raised. But, lately, prices have become too high here. I have seen some small towns that are affordable and would reasonably fit my lifestyle. What was the biggest adjustment? | Yes, about a year and a half ago.
The biggest adjustment has been getting used to not having access to, well, everything. Stores have limited selection. Want a new kitchen faucet? The hardware store has 3 to choose from.
It was a move I wanted to make, I don’t miss living in the city at all. I get into the Detroit metro about once a month, I can get my fix over a weekend then return to the woods. | 220 | AskAnAmerican |
uofokm | I’m a city boy, born and raised. But, lately, prices have become too high here. I have seen some small towns that are affordable and would reasonably fit my lifestyle. What was the biggest adjustment? | City to small town to rural farm country and back to city.
There's less to go to and it's further away the more rural you get. Jobs are harder to find because there are fewer of them. Less places open 24 hours. Things tend to look and be less modern. Cell signal and Internet isn't as good, but it's a lot better than it used to be in many places. You may have to pay for trash pickup separately rather than as part of your water bill. Possibly on septic rather than city sewer. Maybe well water rather than from a reservoir. Generally fewer city services, sometimes including emergency services. It can be a much longer ride to a hospital or even doctor. More and larger animals out and about. The night sky looks more pretty. Less traffic, unless it's harvest season and you're sharing the road with farm equipment. Generally less code enforcement about what you do with your house and yard. | 140 | AskAnAmerican |
uog1qr | What do American people think on who actually defeated Nazi Germany, America or the Soviets? | Does it have to be an either/or? Seems like that would produce useless and oversimplified answers that devolve into uneducated chest-beating. | 1,540 | AskAnAmerican |
uog1qr | What do American people think on who actually defeated Nazi Germany, America or the Soviets? | "WWII was won with British intelligence, American steel and Russian blood" | 1,430 | AskAnAmerican |
uog1qr | What do American people think on who actually defeated Nazi Germany, America or the Soviets? | The US, UK, USSR all made huge contributions. The soviets wouldn't have won on their own. Neither would anyone else. | 400 | AskAnAmerican |
uog1ug | For example when I burn anything like paper, it gets reduced to ashes. I want to know how this process works. Where all the missing mass go? Smoke? Where the black color came from? Also I wonder why this process can't be reversed easily. When I soak clothes with water, I can get it dry again after a while. But if I burn clothes, it will be near impossible for it to return to its original form. | Burning is a chemical reaction.
Going from wet to dry is just a phase change.
They’re not really comparable at all.
The chemical reaction of burning changes the matter being burnt on a molecular level. It turns that matter into something chemically different.
Common by products of burnin carbon-rich materials are gaseous carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. The solid matter gets rearranged into a different compound that is also in a different phase of matter.
If you take one log of wood and burn it, you’re actually subdividing into several different byproducts, some solid, some gas, and any liquid present boils off. In the end every atom still exists, they’ve just been dramatically spread out in the surrounding area. | 60 | AskScience |
uog1ug | For example when I burn anything like paper, it gets reduced to ashes. I want to know how this process works. Where all the missing mass go? Smoke? Where the black color came from? Also I wonder why this process can't be reversed easily. When I soak clothes with water, I can get it dry again after a while. But if I burn clothes, it will be near impossible for it to return to its original form. | Don't forget something like steel wool, which is oxidized as it burns and actually gains mass. The oxygen bonds with the iron and if you have it on a scale as it burns you will see the weight go up, albeit slightly. | 30 | AskScience |
uog8c7 | Right how I’ve been stuck on one specific sector of beginners JavaScript on the Odin project, I’m considering supplementing it with FCC, but I see so many negative reviews that’s I’m hesitant to give it a shot. What’s your honest opinion of FCC? | Honest opinion is dont be afraid to give a resource a shot just because it didnt work for someone else. There are so many resources out there, and not everyone learns or likes to learn in the same way....one persons best of all time can be anothers worst experience.
That being said, Im a huge supporter of FCC, cause it was the first thing I came across that actually helped me learn and put me on the track that helped me get to where I am now. The reason I love it, is the same reason some people dont. FCC doesnt hold your hand and do everything for you. Its not like following a tutorial or just plugging in whatever code it tells you to. It gives you a goal problem to solve, and is layed out in a way you have to do read docs and do research so when you complete a task, you actually understand what it is youre doing.
Also, the community is engaging and super welcoming and helpful...I made a goal when I started to give back, because I got so much help along the way. And I felt amazing the first time I was able to help someone else out. Teaching is also a great way to learn, because I would often look things up to get a better understanding while trying to help someone else out with a problem.
Im now coming up on 3 years in the industry, and literally.....everyone who asks about my path gets an earful about FCC, cause it really made a huge impact and means so much to me. And doesnt bother me at all if someone else totally hates it. Thats why there are so many different resources, and also why FCC encourages people to get their hands on other resources too...no one source is going to make everything you need to learn click in place.
So yeah, thats my opinion....give it a try, either you will like it, or you wont. But just cause someone else loves something doesnt mean its your only hope and feel discouraged if youre struggling, and just cause someone else hates it doesnt mean you should feel awkward for thriving. But you wont know unless you try....and I kinda feel like its worth it to at least try. | 3,630 | LearnProgramming |
uog8c7 | Right how I’ve been stuck on one specific sector of beginners JavaScript on the Odin project, I’m considering supplementing it with FCC, but I see so many negative reviews that’s I’m hesitant to give it a shot. What’s your honest opinion of FCC? | I think their Youtube videos are some of the best and really nice for just getting some of the fundamental knowledge and such | 490 | LearnProgramming |
uog8c7 | Right how I’ve been stuck on one specific sector of beginners JavaScript on the Odin project, I’m considering supplementing it with FCC, but I see so many negative reviews that’s I’m hesitant to give it a shot. What’s your honest opinion of FCC? | FCC is awesome and formed the foundation of my js knowledge | 470 | LearnProgramming |
uogcon | Screen auto rotate feature is gone and replaced by a square button that appears in the bottom corner (if the phone senses me turning it) that rotates screen when tapped. Settings to enable/disable screen rotate are completely gone. Anyone know how to fix this or if it's just a poopy update? Thanks |
Swipe down your notification panel and then swipe down again to reveal all quick settings buttons. Auto rotate should be one of those. You should be able to just tap it fully on.
Or you can long-press that button and enable "manual rotate" which is where a rotate button appears and you have to click it manually. That sounds like what you have it set on.
Edit: weirdly, I don't think that same setting appears anywhere in the main phone settings interface, I think it's a "quick" setting that has no "non-quick" alternative. | 30 | AndroidQuestions |
uoghdh | The US will also be hosting the 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup. | Rugby is a very minor sport here. The Olympics are the premier event. | 900 | AskAnAmerican |
uoghdh | The US will also be hosting the 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup. | 2028 Olympics bc I'm a Californian and the 1984 Olympics ran a very slight profit.
I hope we can do that again. | 600 | AskAnAmerican |
uoghdh | The US will also be hosting the 2033 Women's Rugby World Cup. | I'm not looking forward to any of them at all. | 540 | AskAnAmerican |
uogmnd | Hello,
I'm working on a 3D game math library in C++ and I was wondering.... So, I know that you should always prefer multiplication over division because it's a faster operation and I was writing a function to normalize a vector which requires that I divide each component of a 3D vector by the vector's magnitude
Would it be faster in theory to create a float variable and set it equal to 1f / magnitude and then multiply each value by that float which would save on 2 divisions or would the compiler just be able to look ahead and say that it knows it's going to perform 3 divisions with the same value and optimize it anyway? I would imagine the latter depends on the compiler.
I know this is a really simple operation and running it once won't matter in the grand scheme of things but what if the operation were run hundreds of thousands of times, like if for whatever reason, every triangle in a game world needed to get their surface normals normalized. | Measure. Measure, measure, measure!
https://quick-bench.com/ | 200 | cpp_questions |
uogmnd | Hello,
I'm working on a 3D game math library in C++ and I was wondering.... So, I know that you should always prefer multiplication over division because it's a faster operation and I was writing a function to normalize a vector which requires that I divide each component of a 3D vector by the vector's magnitude
Would it be faster in theory to create a float variable and set it equal to 1f / magnitude and then multiply each value by that float which would save on 2 divisions or would the compiler just be able to look ahead and say that it knows it's going to perform 3 divisions with the same value and optimize it anyway? I would imagine the latter depends on the compiler.
I know this is a really simple operation and running it once won't matter in the grand scheme of things but what if the operation were run hundreds of thousands of times, like if for whatever reason, every triangle in a game world needed to get their surface normals normalized. | If you compile with `-ffast-math` (`/FP:fast` on MSVC) then the compiler can ignore strict IEEE fp math compliance and will compile multiple identical divisions to one variable with the reciprocal and then multiple multiplications of this reciprocal. | 100 | cpp_questions |
uogmnd | Hello,
I'm working on a 3D game math library in C++ and I was wondering.... So, I know that you should always prefer multiplication over division because it's a faster operation and I was writing a function to normalize a vector which requires that I divide each component of a 3D vector by the vector's magnitude
Would it be faster in theory to create a float variable and set it equal to 1f / magnitude and then multiply each value by that float which would save on 2 divisions or would the compiler just be able to look ahead and say that it knows it's going to perform 3 divisions with the same value and optimize it anyway? I would imagine the latter depends on the compiler.
I know this is a really simple operation and running it once won't matter in the grand scheme of things but what if the operation were run hundreds of thousands of times, like if for whatever reason, every triangle in a game world needed to get their surface normals normalized. | You could investigate this using [Compiler Explorer](https://godbolt.org/). It would allow you to check a variety of compilers, as well as optimization levels and see what assembly is generated. | 100 | cpp_questions |
uogpq8 | So I am green to IT. I am currently going for a BS in IT and expect to have my degree in a year or so. This is my first IT job, and I have 6 months into it so far, with a few years of retail customer support type of roles before this. Currently, my job is first level Help Desk internally with some elements of tech support, and I wanted to apply to become a technician and do more desktop support. I even picked up my A+ and I'm working on my Net+ to get more credibility. The only issue is my boss still looks at me for how I was on my first 1-2 weeks here. He doesn't trust me to even do this new job and seems to think my skillset is the same as when I first started here. Even though he knows I picked up some certs and I've been trying to upskill during downtime or on my weekends at my home lab. I still have that reputation of being a total noob 6 months later when I've advanced and upskilled a little bit at the very least. I've tried taking on additional responsibilities in my current role and even worked in other departments in IT to learn more about our shop and absorb the policies and standards, but my boss just won't throw me a bone.
I'm being brick-walled and I don't intend on staying here 5+ years just to MAYBE get a chance at growth. Is this normal for IT? For your employer to not realize your growth in your job and not give you opportunities. I really hope I don't need to job hop every year just to get a raise or promotion. | 6 months is not a lot of time. Some companies will work through onboarding during that amount of time. I wouldn’t trust someone who was just hired 6 months ago to be working with critical systems. Certificates are great but they don’t really mean much in a real work environment, they’re more like checkboxes of nice to haves more so than actual proof that you know what you’re doing.
Trust me when I say that you’ll have plenty of time to learn and be so deep underwater from work that you can barely come up for air. Take this time and learn. If you think the pace of your company is too slow, move on and find one that will move faster.
I don’t think you’re being brick-walled. Again, you’ve been there for 6 months, it takes a year or so to actually learn the environment and infrastructure at some companies.
Again, if you’re unhappy with your job just move on. You owe no loyalty to your company and maybe you’ll find a better fit somewhere else but I can bet that most people here will tell you, 6 months isn’t as long as you think it is and honestly unless the company you work for has 3 servers and 10 clients; you’ve not even scratched the surface of actually knowing anything. I’m sure the opportunity to do more will come with time. Again, if you want to be thrown into the frying pan on as soon as possible maybe you need to look elsewhere.
And just to add my own experiences here. When I started at my last job, all I did was reset passwords and add/remove users from security groups for the first six months. A year later I was in charge of project proposals, deployments, and support. I got pretty overwhelmed pretty quickly. Deploying new functionalities in a company with over 1000+ servers and 4000+ users and managing/resolving tickets for those new functionalities was way more than I would’ve liked to do. | 50 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoguaj | Sure, there's a bunch of formal manager docs on this.
But speaking from an intern's perspective, what would you like to see? | Just friendliness and being open to helping out. | 4,700 | CSCareerQuestions |
uoguaj | Sure, there's a bunch of formal manager docs on this.
But speaking from an intern's perspective, what would you like to see? | I’m interning this summer and I’d really hope there is a single person who I have the freedom to ask questions about everything. The technical stuff and general office questions | 2,230 | CSCareerQuestions |
uoguaj | Sure, there's a bunch of formal manager docs on this.
But speaking from an intern's perspective, what would you like to see? | Bro down with them. Kegs, strihp clubbs, 30 raks, best of 69 1v1 flip cup. | 600 | CSCareerQuestions |
uohf96 | Ok, hear me out - I know we're experts in multi-tasking North, South, East, and West but I personally feel like we share way more similarities with Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, etc. than the UK and Germany.
I could go so deep into this, but they both have huge populations like us. Mexico City and Sao Paulo/Rio remind me a lot of our NYC/LA mega cities. etc. | No, we share most with Canada, Australia, NZ more than Europe. Latin America has a different culture altogether, not to say we don't have similarities in other aspects. I'm of Mexican heritage, so that's my pov. | 1,030 | AskAnAmerican |
uohf96 | Ok, hear me out - I know we're experts in multi-tasking North, South, East, and West but I personally feel like we share way more similarities with Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, etc. than the UK and Germany.
I could go so deep into this, but they both have huge populations like us. Mexico City and Sao Paulo/Rio remind me a lot of our NYC/LA mega cities. etc. | I’m gonna need to hear a case better than “we both have big cities” to really consider this. | 990 | AskAnAmerican |
uohf96 | Ok, hear me out - I know we're experts in multi-tasking North, South, East, and West but I personally feel like we share way more similarities with Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, etc. than the UK and Germany.
I could go so deep into this, but they both have huge populations like us. Mexico City and Sao Paulo/Rio remind me a lot of our NYC/LA mega cities. etc. | No, I’ve lived in Mexico for most of my life, travelled to other countries in Latin America and been to Europe many times. The US is much closer to Western Europe in everything than to Latin America. | 700 | AskAnAmerican |
uohhi4 | `for(inti=0;i<n; i++)`
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`}`
`}` | Delete the inner for loop and you have identical code | 80 | cpp_questions |
uohhi4 | `for(inti=0;i<n; i++)`
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uohr1t | It is so strange, because whenever they say that Biden is the 46th president, he really isn't. He is the 45th person to serve that role. If in the future, presidents serving non-consecutive terms becomes common, we could have the 100th president be the 90th person to serve the role or something. I personally think it is quite crazy, and Biden should be POTUS #45.
Edit: I deleted the first post because I wanted to change the sub-text but could not do that. | I’m devastated | 380 | AskAnAmerican |
uohr1t | It is so strange, because whenever they say that Biden is the 46th president, he really isn't. He is the 45th person to serve that role. If in the future, presidents serving non-consecutive terms becomes common, we could have the 100th president be the 90th person to serve the role or something. I personally think it is quite crazy, and Biden should be POTUS #45.
Edit: I deleted the first post because I wanted to change the sub-text but could not do that. | The president is an office, or a role, like in a play. The people vote on who gets to be cast in the role. Super Grover played that role on the 22nd and 24th go around.
But that’s the super technical explanation no one really cares about because office=person is a useful shortcut. It is a none issue unless you are the rare position of having to really care about the details. | 280 | AskAnAmerican |
uohr1t | It is so strange, because whenever they say that Biden is the 46th president, he really isn't. He is the 45th person to serve that role. If in the future, presidents serving non-consecutive terms becomes common, we could have the 100th president be the 90th person to serve the role or something. I personally think it is quite crazy, and Biden should be POTUS #45.
Edit: I deleted the first post because I wanted to change the sub-text but could not do that. | Grover Cleveland spanked me on two non-consecutive occasions | 240 | AskAnAmerican |
uoi0vk | Am I the only one with this mentality?
**note-this post will be void of many specifics to avoid the off chance of being identified**
I’ve been in a couple related IT fields for well over a decade.
I’m an EXTREMELY fast learner and get very good at any job I’m assigned. Many of my document templates have became SOPs. I’m known as the subject matter expert on a few different things and once I became a boss of a small IT team sort of by accident.
That’s not a brag, it is just to preface the fact that I’m probably not a loser by most definitions.
But the point of this post is to ask if I’m the only one who does well in this field but just does not give a damn about it?
At my current job I am the only person in my particular area of IT. I installed a lot of the infrastructure, I’m the only one who maintains it and have all the notes. To top it off, I’m also a single point of failure for that area. So if I go there’s gonna be heartache.
I do answer to a larger team in a different location but can go literal months without having to speak to them.
Please don’t get me wrong, I do not hate my job. The people and the workload (and the pay) are amazing. But some times my leads and supervisors talk to me like the job is my life. They ask me industry related questions. And I believe they think I’m more than one person from the many hats I wear. But deep down, I do not care about any of it. When someone tries to get me to do something by dropping a VIP name it makes me sick. There’s zero organizational pride in me. And I have a huge amount of imposter syndrome even though literally everyone praises my abilities on a daily basis.
My literal only motivation is not being fired. I’ve always sorta been like that. Even in school I was a good student and never got in trouble only because I didn’t want others mad at me. But if you asked me about any subject (except history and some science) I’d tell you I do not care and they bore me.
And the same goes with IT work. It comes a little bit natural to me so I don’t struggle all that often. But if I never logged onto a box or CLI again I wouldn’t miss one second of it.
I hope Ive described this well enough to maybe see if anyone relates. It just seems to be getting worse as I get older. The good news is the telework hybrid schedule sorta numbs the boredom and burnout but even that’s coming to an end soon. | So funny to hear this after seeing so many people working so hard to get into IT just to make more money. I just got into so I hope I enjoy like I think I will. | 80 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoi0vk | Am I the only one with this mentality?
**note-this post will be void of many specifics to avoid the off chance of being identified**
I’ve been in a couple related IT fields for well over a decade.
I’m an EXTREMELY fast learner and get very good at any job I’m assigned. Many of my document templates have became SOPs. I’m known as the subject matter expert on a few different things and once I became a boss of a small IT team sort of by accident.
That’s not a brag, it is just to preface the fact that I’m probably not a loser by most definitions.
But the point of this post is to ask if I’m the only one who does well in this field but just does not give a damn about it?
At my current job I am the only person in my particular area of IT. I installed a lot of the infrastructure, I’m the only one who maintains it and have all the notes. To top it off, I’m also a single point of failure for that area. So if I go there’s gonna be heartache.
I do answer to a larger team in a different location but can go literal months without having to speak to them.
Please don’t get me wrong, I do not hate my job. The people and the workload (and the pay) are amazing. But some times my leads and supervisors talk to me like the job is my life. They ask me industry related questions. And I believe they think I’m more than one person from the many hats I wear. But deep down, I do not care about any of it. When someone tries to get me to do something by dropping a VIP name it makes me sick. There’s zero organizational pride in me. And I have a huge amount of imposter syndrome even though literally everyone praises my abilities on a daily basis.
My literal only motivation is not being fired. I’ve always sorta been like that. Even in school I was a good student and never got in trouble only because I didn’t want others mad at me. But if you asked me about any subject (except history and some science) I’d tell you I do not care and they bore me.
And the same goes with IT work. It comes a little bit natural to me so I don’t struggle all that often. But if I never logged onto a box or CLI again I wouldn’t miss one second of it.
I hope Ive described this well enough to maybe see if anyone relates. It just seems to be getting worse as I get older. The good news is the telework hybrid schedule sorta numbs the boredom and burnout but even that’s coming to an end soon. | So, I generally have a complete lack of care to whatever my company's goals are.
That having been said, my enjoyment of IT stems purely out of the concept of "I want to leave things better than how it was handed to me". I generally enjoy improving the efficiency of an existing system. That could involve engineering new solutions, making existing things work better, automation, etc. This behavior also shows up in hobbies (keeping knives sharp, cleaning off rust) and entertainment (clocked in almost 200 hours in Dyson Sphere Program).
I think I do tend to enjoy coding the most since I generally find that whenever I'm coding the entire day flies right by.
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>My literal only motivation is not being fired.
I personally don't think you need to like or love your job, or even care. Though I think "only not wanting to be fired" tends to be a peg below that. One healthier mentality I've read is "my job pays me but I don't enjoy it. I have hobbies I like and my job pays for my hobbies that I do enjoy, hence I keep working." | 40 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoi0vk | Am I the only one with this mentality?
**note-this post will be void of many specifics to avoid the off chance of being identified**
I’ve been in a couple related IT fields for well over a decade.
I’m an EXTREMELY fast learner and get very good at any job I’m assigned. Many of my document templates have became SOPs. I’m known as the subject matter expert on a few different things and once I became a boss of a small IT team sort of by accident.
That’s not a brag, it is just to preface the fact that I’m probably not a loser by most definitions.
But the point of this post is to ask if I’m the only one who does well in this field but just does not give a damn about it?
At my current job I am the only person in my particular area of IT. I installed a lot of the infrastructure, I’m the only one who maintains it and have all the notes. To top it off, I’m also a single point of failure for that area. So if I go there’s gonna be heartache.
I do answer to a larger team in a different location but can go literal months without having to speak to them.
Please don’t get me wrong, I do not hate my job. The people and the workload (and the pay) are amazing. But some times my leads and supervisors talk to me like the job is my life. They ask me industry related questions. And I believe they think I’m more than one person from the many hats I wear. But deep down, I do not care about any of it. When someone tries to get me to do something by dropping a VIP name it makes me sick. There’s zero organizational pride in me. And I have a huge amount of imposter syndrome even though literally everyone praises my abilities on a daily basis.
My literal only motivation is not being fired. I’ve always sorta been like that. Even in school I was a good student and never got in trouble only because I didn’t want others mad at me. But if you asked me about any subject (except history and some science) I’d tell you I do not care and they bore me.
And the same goes with IT work. It comes a little bit natural to me so I don’t struggle all that often. But if I never logged onto a box or CLI again I wouldn’t miss one second of it.
I hope Ive described this well enough to maybe see if anyone relates. It just seems to be getting worse as I get older. The good news is the telework hybrid schedule sorta numbs the boredom and burnout but even that’s coming to an end soon. | I hear ya. I'm not even in the field yet but its how i feel. I dont like or care about IT but i know the information i need to to do the job and i want to eventually have a job that i can WFH and i'm not an artist or a writer so this is what i'm planning on doing with the rest of my time til i retire. | 40 | ITCareerQuestions |
uoi4tt | Are newer languages like Rust and Go becoming better options for building applications where languages like C and C++ would've typically been used? | go can't be used for the same apps because it's garbage collected. rust is becoming an option. whether it's better or not is a matter of opinion. it's not definitively better. | 60 | AskProgramming |
uoi4tt | Are newer languages like Rust and Go becoming better options for building applications where languages like C and C++ would've typically been used? | Go is in no way an alternative to C, C++ or Rust. It competes in the same space as Java and C#. | 40 | AskProgramming |
uoikgm | My first ever job was at a McDonalds in NJ back in 2012 where I made $7.25. My wage increased to $8.25 the next year as the wage in NJ went up. Now almost 10 years later, I’ve noticed that while many places still have a $7.25 minimum wage, a lot of places that normally pay minimum are now paying more than that even if their state minimum is $7.25. Last year I was on a road trip and stopped at a McDonalds in Kentucky. Even though their state minimum was $7.25, they were advertising outside the building that their restaurant starts off at around $12-$14 if I remember correctly. | Not really. Even McDonald's is paying 14 an hour here in Idaho because absolutely nobody is willing to work for less than that, and there is such a labor shortage that people can be more picky about where they work. | 600 | AskAnAmerican |
uoikgm | My first ever job was at a McDonalds in NJ back in 2012 where I made $7.25. My wage increased to $8.25 the next year as the wage in NJ went up. Now almost 10 years later, I’ve noticed that while many places still have a $7.25 minimum wage, a lot of places that normally pay minimum are now paying more than that even if their state minimum is $7.25. Last year I was on a road trip and stopped at a McDonalds in Kentucky. Even though their state minimum was $7.25, they were advertising outside the building that their restaurant starts off at around $12-$14 if I remember correctly. | Not recently that I've seen, but a couple years ago there were.
I also keep seeing things like "*for select positions and shifts" at the bottom of those $12-14 signs around here, which makes me wonder about the base rate. | 270 | AskAnAmerican |
uoikgm | My first ever job was at a McDonalds in NJ back in 2012 where I made $7.25. My wage increased to $8.25 the next year as the wage in NJ went up. Now almost 10 years later, I’ve noticed that while many places still have a $7.25 minimum wage, a lot of places that normally pay minimum are now paying more than that even if their state minimum is $7.25. Last year I was on a road trip and stopped at a McDonalds in Kentucky. Even though their state minimum was $7.25, they were advertising outside the building that their restaurant starts off at around $12-$14 if I remember correctly. | Yes. Loads of minimum wage jobs in small towns out here working at gas stations and local businesses. | 250 | AskAnAmerican |
uoj2nu | What is something you changed your stance on after learning more about it? | That case where McDonald's had to pay a bunch of money to a woman who spilled hot coffee on herself. | 325,340 | AskReddit |
uoj2nu | What is something you changed your stance on after learning more about it? | Understanding why people shake their baby.
Of course it is absolutely horrible and it seems like it should make sense that nobody should even think about doing it but I have an understanding of how it can happen now.
I had my own daughter 4 years ago and swore up and down that nobody but a monster would shake their child but let me tell you that sleep deprivation is hell and it is terrifying.
When my daughter was a newborn, she was crying very hard one particular night and nothing we did seemed to soothe her crying. My insanely sleep deprived brain started trying to take over and I could feel the urge to shake her.
Luckily, I had just enough cognitive function to recognize that I was in a very vulnerable and bad situation. I set my daughter back down in her crib and walked away for a little while so as to wake myself up some more.
That is the most scared I've ever been of what the human brain is capable of. | 260,220 | AskReddit |
uoj2nu | What is something you changed your stance on after learning more about it? | Bad posture . | 221,450 | AskReddit |
uoj8g9 | It goes without saying that things around the world aren't particularly good right now. I'm really stressed out about climate change and people's rights getting rolled back. How did you manage similar stressors of your time? How did you not give into hopelessness and maintain faith in others? | Gen X here. Zero fucks given after a period of time to save my own sanity. Not that I don’t care about humanity don’t get me wrong. But let me rephrase that. Just do you and try to focus on your little piece of the world and try to do good in your own life. Advocate for change. Do it in silence if you need to. But don’t sacrifice yourself or your own mental health in trying to make it happen. Eventually history repeats itself so this period will be over as well. At the end of the day you can truly say you were not part of the problem but part of the solution. I refuse to believe all of my female ancestors sacrificed themselves for the end result to be this bullshit.
As far as climate change, I think we are fucked for a while. Mother Nature already sought revenge with COVID and wildfires etc. Focus on yourself and what type of energy you are putting into the universe. It will match you eventually. At least, I hope. | 580 | AskOldPeople |
uoj8g9 | It goes without saying that things around the world aren't particularly good right now. I'm really stressed out about climate change and people's rights getting rolled back. How did you manage similar stressors of your time? How did you not give into hopelessness and maintain faith in others? | Near-overwhelming stuff isn't too tough because you can just "deal"--the wars, shortages, inflation, recession, and all that basic stuff is just speedbumps.
What's hard to deal with is the periods of remarkable stupidity. These are the times when what you thought were reasonably sane people, suddenly go insane and believe obvious BS like it's a religion--and usually get into attack mode against anyone who doesn't fall for the same delusions they have.
I can think of 3 of those periods:
* The 'Regan revolution" where a ton of obvious economic and environmental idiocy suddenly became normalized and even revered. Sane people fell for the BS.
* Post 911 when Bush and Co. were shoveling manure at the public to justify a war. About half the country saw through it and protested heavily to try and stop the nonsense but were not successful for reasons too complex to post here.
* And the grandaddy of them all--the incredible insane idiocy of the far right-wing kooks today. They'll believe things that are provably nonsense and fight you to the mattresses just to maintain that delusion. Black is white, up is down, right is wrong.
During those whack-job times, first, remember that nothing lasts forever and history demonstrates that the wackiness ebbs and flows over time: It will reduce and effectively end....eventually. So you turn your life into tunnel-vision mode and focus on the things that directly affect your daily life--Ignore that which is not under you actual control or doesn't effect you now, today. It sucks but as the song from Jackson Browne illustrates, sometimes you need to give your brain a break:
Doctor, my eyes...
---Tell me what is wrong
-----Was I unwise...
--------to leave them open for so long? | 550 | AskOldPeople |
uoj8g9 | It goes without saying that things around the world aren't particularly good right now. I'm really stressed out about climate change and people's rights getting rolled back. How did you manage similar stressors of your time? How did you not give into hopelessness and maintain faith in others? | It's important to take breaks from things over which you have no control.
It's important to take all that emotional fuel and use it for productive solutions.
For every horrible person who makes the news, there are millions doing good instead.
There's a time to do what you can for a cause in the right timing. There's a time to trust those with the passion and actionable opportunities to hold the line.
It's rough having to relive things we settled long ago. As a woman, really rough.
It's rough living in a future over which we had little control.
I was young. They said we had 20 years to fix the climate. Their math was wrong. It hurt the cause. But greater forces had interests to protect. Even with accurate math, it was an uphill battle. It is completely absurd where we are today. And my generation hasn't even really had a chance to run things yet.
I look at it this way. Soak in the beauty while it's still here.
Savor the people who made it to the other side of the pandemic with you.
If it's on your heart and in your skillset, find those making the change and make it alongside them. You cannot solve any of the worlds problems on your own. It takes a global village.
Research the innovations. Get involved when you are able.
Do all he boring things like writing local and national representatives and voting. If you're in a state doing dumb stuff, find the others and get initiates passed. All the boring stuff that takes persistence over time.
Watch cartoons. Get lost in a good book. Meditate. Feet in the grass. Hot baths. Sports, lifting heavy objects. Make sure you allow moments of joy and movement into your day. Hugs if you're a hug person. Go outside right now and gaze the stars or clouds or a tree or flower. | 200 | AskOldPeople |
uojb2u | The last state to join was Hawaii, some 32 years (I can't count today) before I was born.
Puerto Rico comes to mind, after that, maybe Guam? | Most likely it will be Puerto Rico. | 1,280 | AskAnAmerican |
uojb2u | The last state to join was Hawaii, some 32 years (I can't count today) before I was born.
Puerto Rico comes to mind, after that, maybe Guam? | Guam won’t become a state in the near future unfortunately, or any of the other smallest territories such as American Samoa or the Virgin Islands.
The two only feasible options are Puerto Rico and DC. Personally, I think DC will get it first. It has a stronger economy. But, Puerto Rico probably wouldn’t be far behind.
Ultimately, just purely speaking matter of fact, a republican congress would never approve either, as both are very liberal. Democrats would also need a significant majority in both houses to push it through, and even then I’m not sure they would.
Unfortunately, it’s become a very politically motivated issue, like most other things, rather than the will of the people actually living there. | 380 | AskAnAmerican |
uojb2u | The last state to join was Hawaii, some 32 years (I can't count today) before I was born.
Puerto Rico comes to mind, after that, maybe Guam? | I think Puerto Rico will. Guam might, but they'd probably have to reunite with the Northern Mariana Islands first. | 360 | AskAnAmerican |
uojpox | Whenever you want to be immune to a virus, you get a vaccine or you become infected and your immune system fights it off and you become immune. The body can also build up an immunity to venom, but it takes several attempts in order to become capable of taking what would be a lethal dose. Why can’t the body produce antibodies to venom on demand like they do for a virus? | There are obviously fundamental differences between viruses and toxins. A typical virus takes a bit of time and does some damage before the adaptive immune system can get geared up to handle the infection. Whereas venom is just everything all at once and quickly overwhelms our innate defenses.
Like you've mentioned, it can take quite a few treatments before someone is able to handle something like venom because you basically have to trick your immune system to be constantly vigilant to the point of total dose neutralization. That means having enough freely circulating antibodies to bind the venom/toxin molecules.
So for something like snake venom you need both an extended ramp up for protection but also continuation of treatment because the immunity will quickly wane.
An interesting note would be something like a botulism vaccination. We protect our sileage-eating livestock from botulism toxin via a vaccination but we don't give this vaccine to humans because botulism is exceedingly rare and Botox has an incredibly valuable medical usage. We do however have botulism antitoxin made from horse serum for adults and a pool of vaccinated humans providing serum for infants.
Similarly, anthrax vaccination is specifically against a component of the anthrax toxin. | 570 | AskScience |
uojpox | Whenever you want to be immune to a virus, you get a vaccine or you become infected and your immune system fights it off and you become immune. The body can also build up an immunity to venom, but it takes several attempts in order to become capable of taking what would be a lethal dose. Why can’t the body produce antibodies to venom on demand like they do for a virus? | [removed] | 130 | AskScience |
uojpox | Whenever you want to be immune to a virus, you get a vaccine or you become infected and your immune system fights it off and you become immune. The body can also build up an immunity to venom, but it takes several attempts in order to become capable of taking what would be a lethal dose. Why can’t the body produce antibodies to venom on demand like they do for a virus? | 3rd year undergraduate in Human Biology- definitely take what I’m saying with a grain of salt. Or 3.
I think what it comes down to is the difference in mechanisms between venom and viruses. Venom may act as a neurotoxin, preventing the neurons from communicating to/with other neurons and muscular tissue (-> respiratory distress -> death). This aids the animal (snake, spider, whatever) in a fight-or-flight scenario, where the venomous animal would use venom to kill or paralyze the predating animal.
Viruses, although we shouldn’t “anthropomorphize” their intentions for causing infection, use their mechanism of infection to hijack cellular machinery and replicate more of themselves. For survival. Darwin or whatever. However, since viruses like the common flu or COVID, or even HIV are not using an instantly cytotoxic/neurotoxic mechanism, the immune system has an opportunity to recognize it and develop an antibody.
Cut simply, viruses in your body are like ants within your home, and they will grow in numbers until they eat all your food, and you die. But you could buy ant traps, or maybe even a flamethrower and then you have a chance of fighting them first time. Venom is like a Noah’s ark flood to your house, just uprooting it from the ground and you don’t have enough buckets in time. Maybe if you prepared channels in your house for the second time a flood comes, you could have a slightly better chance of survival.
Again, take it with a handful of salt. Maybe even the whole shaker | 80 | AskScience |
uojxeq | [Text of Newton's speech](https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/huey-p-newton-women-s-liberation-and-gay-liberation-movements/) | In 1969, Jean Genet, a French writer, came to the United States to interview Huey Newton and other Panther leaders. Genet, who was gay, was significantly wounded by the homophobic terms that were frequently bandied about by the Panthers. After returning to France, Genet sent Newton a message articulating his distress about the group's use of derogatory and repressive language, equating the use of the f-word to the equally reprehensible n-word.
Genet's message profoundly altered Newton's perceptions of homosexuality and masculinity. In 1970, Newton and the Black Panthers began making overtures to form an alliance with the Gay Liberation movement. The Party's newfound philosophy was grounded in the rationalization that revolutionary people "must gain security in ourselves and therefore have respect and feelings for oppressed people." Newton would go on to write that "we have not said much about homosexuals at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing...\[Homosexuals\] might be the most oppressed people in society." As a means of showing respect to homosexuals, inspired by Genet's comments, and of showing commitment to the cause, Newton concluded that "the terms 'faggot' and 'punk' should be deleted from our vocabulary, and especially we should not attach names normally designed for homosexuals to men who are enemies of the people such as Nixon or Mitchell. Homosexuals are not enemies of the people." In his book, *Black Power*, Jeffrey Ogbar recounts the tale of an openly gay member of the Black Panthers who operated in the Jamaica Queens branch of New York. He was accepted in the Party because "he was truly committed; people knew that." Though committed, some members still used unapproved, offensive language. When confronted by a newer member for his homosexuality "a fistfight broke out between the two. The offending Panther was soundly beaten, and it was the last time that homophobic remarks were made at the office." The defeat of a heterosexual male by a homosexual male effectively ended that thought that homosexuals were unmanly.
The Panthers were the first of any non-gay black organization to support the homosexual cause. The Panthers "connected 9the oppression of homosexuals\] to the plight of black people; and attempted--based on that connection--to build coalitions openly with lesbians and gay men." David Hilliard would go on to say that "\[the Panthers\] were a human rights movement. It had nothing to do with race, as we were trying to move mankind to a higher manifestation, to make this world a better place." As he said he would earlier, Newton had any terms that could be considered derogatory to homosexuals removed from the Panthers' vocabulary, as allies in the struggle all interactions had to remain respectful.
The Black Panthers soon found themselves widely supported in the gay community. At a Panther really at Temple University, participants began chanting "Gay, gay power to the gay, gay people! Power to the People! Black, black power to the black, black people! Gay, gay power to the gay, gay people! Power to the People!" Much like other oppressed people, LGBTQ organizations bean emulating the Panthers; the "newly formed Gay Liberation Front and many feminist groups...all regarded the BPPP as their inspiration and vanguard."
Sources:
Jeffrey Ogbar - *Black Power*
Huey Newton - *Revolutionary Suicide*
Huey Newton - *To Die For the People*
David Hilliard - *Hear Our Roar!* | 620 | AskHistorians |
uok6u1 | My priorities in life were awful when I was younger, when I was ready to get myself on track I spent 3 years caring for loved ones before they passed. I am studying for my A+ now I am focused now and very eager to learn and drive myself forward. But I can't help but be worried that once A+ is done with only a year of work exp that trying to find a job will be very difficult. After A+ is done I'm planning to go to school for an assc degree in IT. Ultimately, I'm worried that it's going to be extremely hard to find a job. I can't leverage any customer focused exp like many suggest. At most I can say I did it for a few months as my job now is in a warehouse, Which I've excelled. Moved into specialist roles, consistently hit my productivity goals. I'm not micro managed like other asscociates because I've learned their systems and know where to direct my attention day by day, conistently commended for my hardwork etc. I plan to leave this job in June after my bonus to go to work somewhere closer and have something that interacts with customers.
Just afraid my lack of work expierence and a massive time of unemployment and no school is going to push me to the discard pile immediately. Should I be this concerned? What would you think if an applicant came across your desk with only 1 year of work exp, student for IT/Cybersec, A+ maybe N+ certs? The past year I've been very focused on moving forward. But I have had alot to catch up on.
Any insight to what I may face will be helpful. Thank you. | You're right in the fact that only a year of job experience at 27 will not look good on a CV - there's no other way to look at it. However I would definitely focus on the experience that you have and outline how you excelled in that job - also can explain to employers if you wish, that you had personal life issues to deal with past few years.
At the end, all it takes is for someone to give you a chance. So get that A+, brush up on your interview skills so that you can present yourself in a positive way with confidence. Don't let the lack of work experience stop you from applying to help desk roles, it's an entry level role after all and you can learn a lot from it, even if the work can be a bit tedious. It's a great starting point! | 40 | ITCareerQuestions |
uol5u7 | The Catholic church claims to know the complete list of all 266 popes who reigned from the 1st to the 21st century, starting with St Peter himself. They also give exact dates for the duration of their papacies for nearly all of them. How credible is this from the perspective of a historian? | [removed] | 8,790 | AskHistorians |
uol5u7 | The Catholic church claims to know the complete list of all 266 popes who reigned from the 1st to the 21st century, starting with St Peter himself. They also give exact dates for the duration of their papacies for nearly all of them. How credible is this from the perspective of a historian? | I addressed this question somewhat in a previous post [here](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gycdd0/are_there_early_bishops_of_rome_whose_pontificate/) , but here is a relevant part to your question:
>Which brings us to Catholic tradition, which attempts to create an unbroken line of Bishops of Rome to give the Pope the apostolic authority that justifies his position in the church today (and the episcopal ecclesiology that the Catholic Church structures itself on). Apostolic authority is essential to the Catholic religion because it gives the Pope authority from Jesus himself, who allegedly installed Peter as the first Bishop of Rome. Contrary to (perhaps) popular belief, the New Testament (or other 1st and 2nd century texts, for that matter) does not explicitly (or, in the mind of many, implicitly) outline this installment. Most sources indicate that Peter visited Rome, but whether he led the church there is matter for much debate (in fact, if his ministry mirrored his peers and we consider the political situation in Rome at the time, he probably did not “settle down” to lead the church in Rome as its bishop). Still, as it is reflected in the Second Vatican Council, it is important for Catholics to see Peter as the “First among the Apostles,” as recognized by Jesus himself, so that the Pope reflects this style of leadership as the First Priest of the Church.
>Immediately after Peter, our sources for apostolic succession get extremely muddy. Forgetting the 3rd-century texts such as the Liberian Catalogue and Liber Pontificalis—2nd century “lists” of the Bishop of Rome are also contradictory and contain numerous anomalies! Some protestant and secular scholars have proposed that the early Church in Rome operated in some sort of “collegiate episcopacy,” a theory obviously inconsistent with Catholic views on succession. Some lists claim Clement as Peter’s successor, while Eusebius tells us of Clement succeeded Linus and Anencletus after Peter’s death. Regardless, many of these very-early “Bishops of Rome” (to whatever extent they were) were well-known figures in early Christianity. While Eusebius didn’t offer references for much of his early list, it is safe to assume that these leaders existed and were influential in the early church in some capacity. Clement, in particular, is famous for the letter commonly attributed to him that failed to make New Testament canon at Nicaea.
>The list of Bishops of Rome that we have today, in their varying forms, mostly consists of historical church leaders who were recognized and their feats recorded by (mostly) Christian historians and church leaders of diverse ethnicities. While biographical details are usually hard to come by for many of these figures, their theological, doctrinal, and canonical contributions in the so-called “Apostolic Age” are documented. Whether or not these leaders functioned in any role recognizable as the one that Pope Francis fills is debatable, if not downright unlikely. Thus, there isn’t much reason to believe that these “popes” didn’t exist, and, as you say, held “some position of authority” within the early church. | 4,010 | AskHistorians |
uol5u7 | The Catholic church claims to know the complete list of all 266 popes who reigned from the 1st to the 21st century, starting with St Peter himself. They also give exact dates for the duration of their papacies for nearly all of them. How credible is this from the perspective of a historian? | I am not a historian, just very interested in the early church period, I hope I don't mistep on the rules it seems you can answer even though you are not a historian, but as long as you provide sources.
The early papacy is murky, specifically because it was an underground organisation that was persecuted and at a certain times they were forced to hand over writings to the Roman authorities, coincidently that is where we get the word traditores or traitors, "those who handed over". The Latin word for traitor was Proditor.
So it gets difficult to even have a lot of writing until the religion is legalized, or there are lulls in persecution.
There are sources for Linus as the succesor for Peter. Linus and the next 4 popes are mentioned in the bible as disciples, Linus specifically in the Second Epistle to Timothy and Paul mentions him keeping him company in Rome.
The first mention preserved is by Irenaeus at 180 AD. He was a Greek Bishop working in what would later become France, he also confirms Anacletus and Clement.
Hegesippus a contemporary of Irenaeus operating in Palestine also confirmed the 3 first popes or bishops of Rome to be more accurate. It should be noted that some later lists, list Cletus instead of Anacletus, some even go more of kilter by listing them as seperate people. However the earliest sources I mentioned have a consensus that goes. Peter - Linus - (Ana) cletus
Things get muddy after Clement in regards to reigns, my personal interpretation is that it coincides with the persecution by Trajan, which would have disrupted a lot of the organisation efforts by the early Christians. The names are similar in Irenaeus and Hegesippus, and their lists go up to Pope Eleutherius.
Then there is an unknown author of the "Poem against Marcion" that has a similar list but uses the names Anacletus and Cletus interchangeably. The Poem is form around 200 AD.
After Pope Victor things really get muddy, and all we really know for sure are names of at least some of the Popes, because the lists we have vary depending on location and time. So much so that we even end up having an anti-pope commemorated as Popes in some Eastern Calendars like the Copts and Armenians.
By the 4th century, things are so muddy, that when the Church is legalized you have several lists going about, and Eusebius is one of the few that tries to source his info instead of just relying on what was handed down orally. He uses Iraneus and Hegesippus, unfortunatley only few fragments of Hegesippus texts have been preserved.
It is only after the Edict of Serdica and the Edit of Milan that you start to have Christians and others seriously ponder the origins of the Church and its history.
The most Reliable efforts are from Eusebius, in his Chronica and his histories.
Then there is the Catalogue of Liberius from the Chronography of 354. Which save for a few errors in assuming Anacletus and Cletus were different people, it lines up Iranaeus and Hegesippus lists. An important note on the Catalogue is that it seems to source its information from two chronicles from the 3rd century, namely Julius Sextus Africanus, and Hippolytus of Rome.
[The Liberian Catalogue list](https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/chronography_of_354_13_bishops_of_rome.htm)
Book "Popes and the Tale of Their Names" by Anura Guruge. for info on Anacletus/Cletus mixup
[synaxarion of the Coptic church with Hippolytus as Pope](https://st-takla.org/books/en/church/synaxarium/06-amsheer/06-amshir-apolidus.html)
[Eusebius Church History (Book V) ](https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/250105.htm)
[Iranaeus Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 3)](https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103303.htm)
[Chronicon remnants](http://www.attalus.org/armenian/Chronicon_of_Hippolytus.pdf)
[Poem against Marcion](https://www.tertullian.org/anf/anf04/anf04-30.htm) | 500 | AskHistorians |
uolcr0 | Often times, being able to buy a house in an expensive area requires more years of saving than usual, which mean home ownership may not happen until later in life. However, if you bought a house in such an area while you were young (i.e. in your 20s or 30s), what allowed you to defy the odds? | [deleted] | 260 | AskAnAmerican |
uolcr0 | Often times, being able to buy a house in an expensive area requires more years of saving than usual, which mean home ownership may not happen until later in life. However, if you bought a house in such an area while you were young (i.e. in your 20s or 30s), what allowed you to defy the odds? | There were many first time home buyers programs that allowed no money down (or 3-5%) and had closing cost assistance. These were prevalent from probably 2012 up until the pandemic and allowed me to get my first house. | 100 | AskAnAmerican |
uolcr0 | Often times, being able to buy a house in an expensive area requires more years of saving than usual, which mean home ownership may not happen until later in life. However, if you bought a house in such an area while you were young (i.e. in your 20s or 30s), what allowed you to defy the odds? | As a twenty something- pretty much none of my friends own their own home. Honestly, to speak candidly, none of us even care to. Gen Z Americans just want to move around and care more about experience imo.
That being said, in my city you can still get a 2-3 bedroom house in a neighborhood that’s decent for around 200k. Often times the mortgage will be cheaper than the average rent in the area. The issue for many working to lower class Americans is saving up the money to be able to afford the down payment.
Edit: first time homeowners loans are also a major benefit. Small down payment around 4%, slightly higher monthly payments. But usually still comparable to an apartment’s rent. | 90 | AskAnAmerican |
uoli0e | The length of a meter is defined by the speed of light, and not the other way around. So where/why specifically did we divide a second by 299,792,458 segments and then measure the distance light traveled in a one of those segments and called it a meter? Where did 299,792,458 come from? | The meter was originally defined as one 40,000,000th of the circumference of the Earth along a great circle through the two poles. Later it was redefined as the length of a canonical yardstick (meterstick?) that was built as close as possible to the original intended length.
In a modern context, none of these definitions are particularly useful. The Earth isn't perfectly spherical, or even a perfect ellipsoid. Nor is it static. Defining a reference ellipsoid (WGS84 for example) requires a circular reference to another unit of length. It's inconvenient to have to physically visit a yardstick for calibration, and despite all efforts to prevent it, such an object changes length with temperature, and may also be damaged over time. None of the historical definitions would work anywhere outside of Earth.
Defining the meter in terms of the speed of light is an effort to make the definition universally applicable, fixed and constant. The number 299,792,458 was chosen so that the 'new' meter would not be very much different from the old one. If you had chosen 300,000,000 then suddenly all rulers in the world, which had been calibrated relative to the yardstick, would be inaccurate at millimeter precision. | 34,540 | AskScience |
uoli0e | The length of a meter is defined by the speed of light, and not the other way around. So where/why specifically did we divide a second by 299,792,458 segments and then measure the distance light traveled in a one of those segments and called it a meter? Where did 299,792,458 come from? | You have received some great answers. The only thing I would like to add is by the time this definition came around, the length desired was already well understood and needed to be maintained. The new definition simply gave a more stable and reproducible answer. That's why the goofy fraction. We didn't want to change the length, just define it better. | 1,600 | AskScience |
uoli0e | The length of a meter is defined by the speed of light, and not the other way around. So where/why specifically did we divide a second by 299,792,458 segments and then measure the distance light traveled in a one of those segments and called it a meter? Where did 299,792,458 come from? | Historically, there were other definitions of the meter than the one we are using now. Using these definitions, the speed of light was measured and the theoretical results of Maxwell and Einstein that the speed of light is an universal constant, were confirmed.
When you define a system of measurement, i.e. units which can be used to measure things, you'd like to go as fundamentally and reliable as possible. Hence, using definitions which do not depend on a particular metre bar or an iridium cylinder, the units are easier to replicate worldwide and standardize.
In the case of the metre, we have a universal constant (the speed of light) relating the units for time and length. If you define one these two, you can relate them to each other by the speed of light without any extra work. So the question is: Which of the two can be defined in a more fundamental way. It turns out that a lot of atoms oscillate very reliably and consistently, which led to the following definiton: "The second is equal to the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the hyperfine levels of the unperturbed ground state of the 133Cs atom."
As all 133Cs atoms are indistinguishable, we have a global definition of the second which works as "just look at the atoms", which is independent of any concrete physical artefacts. This definition is also independent of things like ambient temperature or pressure, as it's referring to a property which works at the atomic level.
TL;DR: Because the speed of light is constant and it's easier to standardize the second than the meter. | 770 | AskScience |
uols8s | I don’t know if there is a lot of ageism in it I don’t look old I look like I’m still in my late 20’s | I just turned 40 and became a Cloud Engineer two weeks ago :) | 890 | ITCareerQuestions |
uols8s | I don’t know if there is a lot of ageism in it I don’t look old I look like I’m still in my late 20’s | Lol no. I thought the same thing at 28 that I was too late in the game. When you get up help desk you're gonna find people in there 50s-60s.
IT isn't some tech bro industry with open floor plans and ping pong tables in the break rooms. Just a normal ass business like every other place. | 870 | ITCareerQuestions |
uols8s | I don’t know if there is a lot of ageism in it I don’t look old I look like I’m still in my late 20’s | I hope not! For my sake :P | 230 | ITCareerQuestions |
uolu1c | what's the dumbest thing you believed as a kid? | My dad told me he had hearing loss and couldn't hear me if I whined because my pitch would get too high. Would completely ignore me until I asked him questions in a normal voice.
Trusted him implicitly until I was 12 and he yelled at my younger brother for whining. | 77,470 | AskReddit |
uolu1c | what's the dumbest thing you believed as a kid? | Don't drink and drive meant all drinks.
My dad was super confused when I told him he wasn't allowed to have any soda until we got home. | 41,500 | AskReddit |
uolu1c | what's the dumbest thing you believed as a kid? | That if it was raining where I was, it was raining everywhere in the world. | 38,920 | AskReddit |
uolvgs | Hey guys. I have always wanted to do something related with computers since I was really young (im 17 btw :)). About a year and a half ago or smth I decided that I want to do programming, more specifically web development or game development. I have done a course on udemy for web development and I know the basics of JS. When I started the course I still didnt know exactly what I wanted to choose further out of these 2 areas. A few months ago I fully decided that I want to do game development and started researching some universities. After finding a few interesting ones I've realised they do a selection process where they give u a theme and some tasks and you have to make a game. From what I understand it doesnt have to be the best game but its important that it works and that I comment and document my code and thinking process. Anyway what I would like to know is how do you guys think I should start learning c++ or if you have any tips on game development with c++. If u've reached the end of this long ass post ty for ur time and have a nice day :)) | www.learncpp.com is a great tutorial for learning modern C++.
Use https://en.cppreference.com/w/ as a language reference.
Once you’re comfortable with the language, you can learn about the proper practices using the [C++ Core Guidelines](http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines).
Stay away from sites like GeeksForGeeks, TutorialsPoint, cplusplus.com, and most YouTube tutorials, as they’re notorious for being outdated, having misinformation, and generally being of poor quality. | 430 | cpp_questions |
uolvgs | Hey guys. I have always wanted to do something related with computers since I was really young (im 17 btw :)). About a year and a half ago or smth I decided that I want to do programming, more specifically web development or game development. I have done a course on udemy for web development and I know the basics of JS. When I started the course I still didnt know exactly what I wanted to choose further out of these 2 areas. A few months ago I fully decided that I want to do game development and started researching some universities. After finding a few interesting ones I've realised they do a selection process where they give u a theme and some tasks and you have to make a game. From what I understand it doesnt have to be the best game but its important that it works and that I comment and document my code and thinking process. Anyway what I would like to know is how do you guys think I should start learning c++ or if you have any tips on game development with c++. If u've reached the end of this long ass post ty for ur time and have a nice day :)) | Check out The Cherno on YouTube. Especially for the gaming stuff.
Also, Kate Gregory's talk "don't teach C" is a good one. | 300 | cpp_questions |
uolvgs | Hey guys. I have always wanted to do something related with computers since I was really young (im 17 btw :)). About a year and a half ago or smth I decided that I want to do programming, more specifically web development or game development. I have done a course on udemy for web development and I know the basics of JS. When I started the course I still didnt know exactly what I wanted to choose further out of these 2 areas. A few months ago I fully decided that I want to do game development and started researching some universities. After finding a few interesting ones I've realised they do a selection process where they give u a theme and some tasks and you have to make a game. From what I understand it doesnt have to be the best game but its important that it works and that I comment and document my code and thinking process. Anyway what I would like to know is how do you guys think I should start learning c++ or if you have any tips on game development with c++. If u've reached the end of this long ass post ty for ur time and have a nice day :)) | I don't know where you're from and what kind of universities those are, but I would also be very weary before I pursued a degree in game development, even if I were 100% sure that I wanted to go in that direction.
From all I've read even most (video) game development companies prefer to hire people with CS, Maths, Physics or Electrical engineering degrees over those with game development degrees. And if you want to change your career path later, because you've noticed that game development isn't for you, those degrees will make it even easier for you.
I have a CS degree and we always had the possibility to make games during project works. So maybe ask that question on /r/cscareerquestions or write some e-mails to game development companies, you'd like to work for, if they actually value those degrees.
Anyway I wish you good luck! | 120 | cpp_questions |
uolyzi | Can someone please explain to me why heritage in your ancestry is held in high regard and openly talked about with pride?
Im from Germany and almost nobody cares (besides narrow minded idiots) about that. | God damn fucking *Americans* and their...
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...NOT SIMPLY MATERIALIZING OUT OF THE VOID AND HAVING ANCESTORS AND SHIT. FUCK. | 650 | AskAnAmerican |
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