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up7w72 | What is something you're willing to admit only to a community of total strangers on the internet? | That my friends from highschool are still the closest thing I have to friends even though we talk maximum once or twice a year and they’ve all moved on by now | 164,810 | AskReddit |
up7w72 | What is something you're willing to admit only to a community of total strangers on the internet? | My husband died of lung cancer 9 months ago, he battled very hard and survived for 16 months after being told he had 6. I was so proud of him, he was my rock and my true love.
But, I am not as sad as people assume I should be. A song comes on the radio that he would sing to me, and I will pull over and cry, but I've read other peoples accounts, who have lost their partner around the same time as I did and they are crying every day still.
I never did that, and to be honest, I feel content in my life. I am not ready ro start dating again, I talk about him like he is still here with me. One of my clients who I see twice a week didn't know for about 6 months what had happened for example.
I feel guilty and proud that I am not destroyed by losing my husband, but, fuck, I wish he were here with me. | 115,970 | AskReddit |
up7zb1 | So far I know of 3 Odin Project, Free Code Camp and MDN webdevelopment. But that's that, I was wondering if anyone here know more than those 3? Also how long did it took you to get from where you are right now? | > How long does it usually take to be proficient?
How many meals do I need to make before I can apply for positions as a chef?
There's no hard definition of what it means to be "proficient". Everyone has their own definition, and I don't think it is very useful or important to try and come up with a definition either. Focus on goals and what it'll take to get you there.
> So far I know of 3 Odin Project, Free Code Camp and MDN webdevelopment. But that's that, I was wondering if anyone here know more than those 3?
https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
> Also how long did it took you to get from where you are right now?
At this point, around 20 years I guess? And next year it'll be around 21 years :) | 40 | LearnProgramming |
up7zbj | Asian woman in her early 30s!!! Ask me anything you’ve ever wanted to ask an Asian woman or person but didn’t want to feel judged! | Are you really pixelated down there? | 30 | AMA |
up7zkz | Will I be at a disadvantage when I do job interviews if I don't know c++? Will python, Java,C and SQL alone be enough to get a foot in the door? | Depends. Are you applying to c++ dev jobs? If so it would probably help to know c++. If not- I don't see how it would be relevant. | 60 | CSCareerQuestions |
up7zkz | Will I be at a disadvantage when I do job interviews if I don't know c++? Will python, Java,C and SQL alone be enough to get a foot in the door? | You're getting too fixated on specific languages. Unless the job you are applying for is specifically hiring an expert in a specific language they generally don't care that much what specific language you know. If the job uses C++ you can learn C++ and if it uses C# you can learn C#. For entry-level jobs the expectations are very low. | 50 | CSCareerQuestions |
up7zkz | Will I be at a disadvantage when I do job interviews if I don't know c++? Will python, Java,C and SQL alone be enough to get a foot in the door? | That should be enough. I got a job with less than that. | 40 | CSCareerQuestions |
up82wp | I created a [function](https://paste.pythondiscord.com/yeyusibavu) that reads a specific CSV file. I got points off because because the instructor was not able to enter the path of a CSV file of grade (the CSV file is called grade). What exactly does this mean? And how would I incorporate that into this portion of my code? | What if the file isn't called `grades.csv`, or isn't in the working directory? How is the user able to set that file path without modifying the code?
The instructor means that the user should be capable of specifying that file location when they run your script. | 40 | LearnPython |
up82wp | I created a [function](https://paste.pythondiscord.com/yeyusibavu) that reads a specific CSV file. I got points off because because the instructor was not able to enter the path of a CSV file of grade (the CSV file is called grade). What exactly does this mean? And how would I incorporate that into this portion of my code? | The problem description probably said something like the path to the file must be entered by the user. So you need a line like:
path = input('Enter path to the CSV file: ') | 30 | LearnPython |
up8328 | x = playerStrModifier #modifier is underlined, not working
if playerStr == (1, 3):
playerStrModifier = x = -4
elif playerStr == (4, 5):
playerStrModifier = x = -3
elif playerStr == (6, 7):
playerStrModifier = x = -2
elif playerStr == (8, 9):
playerStrModifier = x = -1
elif playerStr == (10, 11):
playerStrModifier = x = 0
elif playerStr == (12, 13):
playerStrModifier = x = 1
elif playerStr == (14, 15):
playerStrModifier = x = 2
elif playerStr == (16, 17):
playerStrModifier = x = 3
elif playerStr == (18, 19, 20):
playerStrModifier = x = 4
…
print(“STR”, playerSTR, playerStrModifier)
playerStrModifier is underlined and producing errors in the first line
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up85hw | I was going over *STRUCTURE AND INTERPRETATION OF COMPUTER PROGRAMS (SICP)* book and it came off as a surprise to me that LISP is the first language this book introduces. Wikipedia states LISP as a high level programming language younger to FORTRAN by one year. One question that lingered as I went over the book is why not start with C or C++ or python. LISP, being an old programming language, what makes it worth it for the CS newbies? | First of all, the book is older than python and C++.
Second, LISP is an elegant language with a simple and consistent structure, making it well-suited for the given topic. It's easy to create an interpreter for. | 50 | LearnProgramming |
up85pb | As a little programming project I wanted to make a simple password manager, probably in C++ or Python. I want to try and move away from Google knowing all my passwords so I was just going to make a simple CLI interface program that I could search up any website I may have credentials for and then be able to see my username and password. Anyhow, even though I am going to be storing passwords on my own computer, I don't feel safe just saving them in a txt or csv file. What would be the best way to go about storing credentials that would still enable me to access them with said program. I have been programming and studying CS for some years now, I just had no experience in this sort of topic. Thanks! | Honestly, it’s better to use a premade password manager if you are after security, but if it’s for learning, hashing the passwords and storing in a file should be fine. | 80 | LearnProgramming |
up87ww | Hello! I am a Registered Nurse trying to change career to CS. I started doing class in udemy about the java programming masterclass by Tim Buchalka. Am i in the right track? Thankyou in advance. | Good luck to you from another nurse who is switching to programming. :) | 110 | LearnProgramming |
up87ww | Hello! I am a Registered Nurse trying to change career to CS. I started doing class in udemy about the java programming masterclass by Tim Buchalka. Am i in the right track? Thankyou in advance. | Hey! I’m a medical assistant making the switch to programming! I had planned on going for RN until I realized you too have it pretty bad. I’m really new and haven’t done much outside of Freecodecamp and Codecademy but I just want to wish you the best of luck! | 70 | LearnProgramming |
up87ww | Hello! I am a Registered Nurse trying to change career to CS. I started doing class in udemy about the java programming masterclass by Tim Buchalka. Am i in the right track? Thankyou in advance. | Sorry in advance if this is too far outside what you are looking for, but, as someone who regularly hires data experts, the combination of real world health care knowledge and an ability to do data related programming work (data science at the high end or business intelligence extract and analysis work in SQL or Python for more intro work) is absolute gold, it is so hard to find and it’s useful in everything from charities analyzing their impact, to medical researchers running large scale studies, to health insurance software. So my rec would be to focus on data CS skills and market yourself as a health data scientist.
Edited to add: and good luck! | 40 | LearnProgramming |
up88u7 | Hey guys! I have a Bach degree in Finance, but I'd like to get a career in IT. I dont want anything fancy, I'm not going to work for the Big Ns, I just want to work in a position related to networking/IT/Security kind of work. I'm getting the CompTIA stuff so I can have something tech related to put on my resume. I'll probably start work on a degree in IT/CS eventually, but for now, I have what I have.
There seem to be two popular entry level jobs in my area: One is a support job troubleshooting with clients over the Phone. The other is a technician job working in a mom-and-pop that does residential computer repair and offers some IT and networking service to local businesses.
So I have two questions: which of these two jobs will be better for me to learn in, and which would be better on a resume? Those are the two deciding factors for me.
Thanks! | r/ITCareerQuestions | 60 | CSCareerQuestions |
up8c20 | Like online db then offline db in android | There are a lot of ways to tackle this, but the biggest design decision you need to make is figuring out how to deal with conflicts. A conflict happens when the user updates their locally stored data while offline, then comes back online and finds that the online copy has changed in a different way.
There are many ways you might handle this, such as:
* Keep one set of data and use it to overwrite the other copy, losing one set of changes (this should be avoided if at all possible)
* Try to perform a "merging" algorithm on the two copies, for instance by storing your data in a [CRDT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type)
* Maintain logs of the operations performed by the user, and upon reconnection, replay the log on top of the updated state (similar to "git rebase")
* Ask the user what to do
You can implement the sync algorithm from scratch, or you can use tools like [CouchDB](https://couchdb.apache.org/) and [turtleDB](https://turtle-db.github.io/) to help you. | 30 | LearnProgramming |
up8d5c | Like google sheets, multiple people using and editing it at the same time | Probably sockets, threads, synchronized methods, some static datastructure that gets rebroadcast each time it's edited. | 30 | LearnProgramming |
up8i9w | I get how PA catheters can measure RAP, PAP, and PAOP but the text I'm reading says "the lumen near the distal tip measures changes in core temperature, which is essential for measuring cardiac output." My question is how? Thanks in advance! | It's called Theromodilution.
you inject cold saline into the catheter and the catheter has a thermometer to measure how quickly the temperature changes, and then It calculates the CO from the drop in temperature, and subsequent normalization of the temp. | 120 | AskScience |
up8l4c | What type of person angers you the most? | People who try to make other people miserable just because they are miserable. | 3,410 | AskReddit |
up8l4c | What type of person angers you the most? | People who dig their heels in and refuse to admit they fucked up. | 1,660 | AskReddit |
up8l4c | What type of person angers you the most? | A hypocrite. Simple. | 1,360 | AskReddit |
up8lyw | I just got some nice bluetooth headphones for my S10 on the latest Android 12 update and I just discovered that I can't really use them because the volume steps built into Android are so drastic. It goes from way too soft to way too loud instantly in one click, and there's no in between.... WTF!
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Looking around I am not finding a solution. The 'disable absolute volume' option didn't have any effect. Is there seriously no fix for this? It's unbelievably shitty design in an otherwise awesome ecosystem. I can't believe it hasn't been addressed. WTF is the point of these amazing BT codecs when you can't even play music at the right volume??? | S10 as in Samsung S10? Get Sound Assistant from Galaxy App Store. You can change the volume steps there. You can make it like have up to 150 steps. | 130 | AndroidQuestions |
up8o94 | I have tried googling this, literally no where I could see has the answer, they just tell me ways to quench | steel contains carbon which is a much smaller atom than iron, but still too big to fit into the interstitial space in the iron crystal structure, so the carbon concentrates around the grain boundaries, when steel is heated the crystal structure expands allowing the carbon atoms to migrate into the interstitial space, quenching cools it down so fast that the carbon cannot migrate back out and the result is a distorted crystal structure called martensite. the distorted crystal is under tension and results in harder material. steel with very low carbon such as mild steel cannot be hardened by quenching
copper is not affected by quenching, but it is softened ('normalized') by heating. the heat allows the atoms to jiggle around slightly and relieve stresses and distortions in the crystal structure. | 920 | AskScience |
up8o94 | I have tried googling this, literally no where I could see has the answer, they just tell me ways to quench | Steel goes through different crystalline states as it is heated or cooled. Cooling rapidly locks in a crystalline state that is hard, less likely to stretch under load, but also more brittle. Copper doesn’t go though the same type of crystalline changes, so quenching doesn’t harden it the same way. | 100 | AskScience |
up8olo | Hi all,
Alright so basically here's the breakdown.
**role:** Help Desk Analyst I around 45k plus OT
**daily activities so far:** password resets, printer setups, onboarding/offboarding, toning cables/ports, random computer troubleshooting/break-fix, laptop deployments, and dealing with ticketing software
**experience:** a little over 2 years
**degrees:** tech degree in infosys and ba in humanities
**certs:** none atm
**age:** *late* 20s
**other:** still trying to learn and apply scripting in the real word... it's difficult
​
I feel like I'm starting to get trapped into help desk and might even be my own fault. Granted, I got a bit of a late start in the industry, nevertheless I'm moving forward. I still don't really have a good sense or understanding of which direction to branch off in. I was thinking maybe security, but that very well could be the "glamour" or "prestige" behind it talking idk. Boss keeps talking about Net+ but I'm kinda against going down the networking route. I don't plan on taking A+. I've been considering Sec+ or Linux+. I keep coming back to Security, Cloud, and Linux ideas.
Hope this makes sense. Any advice/feedback is much appreciated! | To be in security you will need more experience. I recommend going for your Net+ and Sec+. Then try to get a Jr Sys Admin or Jr Net Engineer role. Or if you're really set on security, being a SOC analyst is a good way to go after having some helpdesk under your belt.
The common misconception is that there are entry level cyber security positions. There are not. Sure Calculus 101 is an entry level calculus course but it is by no means an entry level math course.
You need a somewhat decent foundation in every IT field to be a decent cyber security professional. You don't need to be a skilled programmer or expert network engineer, but you need to have a bit of knowledge in each area.
TLDR: Go for some certs and look for either a SOC Analyst role, or some type of Jr Sys Admin or Jr Net Engineer position. | 80 | ITCareerQuestions |
up8olo | Hi all,
Alright so basically here's the breakdown.
**role:** Help Desk Analyst I around 45k plus OT
**daily activities so far:** password resets, printer setups, onboarding/offboarding, toning cables/ports, random computer troubleshooting/break-fix, laptop deployments, and dealing with ticketing software
**experience:** a little over 2 years
**degrees:** tech degree in infosys and ba in humanities
**certs:** none atm
**age:** *late* 20s
**other:** still trying to learn and apply scripting in the real word... it's difficult
​
I feel like I'm starting to get trapped into help desk and might even be my own fault. Granted, I got a bit of a late start in the industry, nevertheless I'm moving forward. I still don't really have a good sense or understanding of which direction to branch off in. I was thinking maybe security, but that very well could be the "glamour" or "prestige" behind it talking idk. Boss keeps talking about Net+ but I'm kinda against going down the networking route. I don't plan on taking A+. I've been considering Sec+ or Linux+. I keep coming back to Security, Cloud, and Linux ideas.
Hope this makes sense. Any advice/feedback is much appreciated! | Don't you need a solid understanding in networking to get into security? | 30 | ITCareerQuestions |
up8uvm | I have two regular eyes, and my parents and family all have two regular eyes. So when I talk to a person with a fake eye, I don’t know which one to look at. Sometimes I try hard to stare into both eyes, but feel like I make a weird face when doing so. Sometimes I can’t tell, and stare at one eye, only to realize after a few minutes that I’m looking at the fake one (or at least I think it is fake because it doesn’t move). In this situation, it is acceptable? Do I apologize? Is the fake eye person used to it, so I just shift to the real eye without saying anything? Is it as awkward for them as it is for me? | Stare between the eyes. I do the same with people that have lazy eyes. | 180 | NoStupidQuestions |
up8uvm | I have two regular eyes, and my parents and family all have two regular eyes. So when I talk to a person with a fake eye, I don’t know which one to look at. Sometimes I try hard to stare into both eyes, but feel like I make a weird face when doing so. Sometimes I can’t tell, and stare at one eye, only to realize after a few minutes that I’m looking at the fake one (or at least I think it is fake because it doesn’t move). In this situation, it is acceptable? Do I apologize? Is the fake eye person used to it, so I just shift to the real eye without saying anything? Is it as awkward for them as it is for me? | Look at them the same way you would anyone else. | 70 | NoStupidQuestions |
up8uvm | I have two regular eyes, and my parents and family all have two regular eyes. So when I talk to a person with a fake eye, I don’t know which one to look at. Sometimes I try hard to stare into both eyes, but feel like I make a weird face when doing so. Sometimes I can’t tell, and stare at one eye, only to realize after a few minutes that I’m looking at the fake one (or at least I think it is fake because it doesn’t move). In this situation, it is acceptable? Do I apologize? Is the fake eye person used to it, so I just shift to the real eye without saying anything? Is it as awkward for them as it is for me? | Two eyes: Look them in the eyes.
One eye: Look them in the eye.
No eyes: They won't notice. | 60 | NoStupidQuestions |
up92fa | I'm going to graduate but I don't know which backend language should I specialise in?
I would like to know out of the 3 languages, which would pay more on average?
I'm inching towards Java because I realised alot of enterprise uses that
My long term goal is being able to work in finance industry, either in hedge funds or trading houses, as a programmer | You don't "pick" a language to specialize in. That's not how that works. You get a job and then you attain expertise in whatever languages your job uses. The specific language you pick really doesn't matter that much. You just need to retain the ability to learn and you'll be able to pick up any language you need to in the future. | 50 | CSCareerQuestions |
up9il2 | I was offered a job to move on from my SysAdmin role for a remote Security Engineer role. I tried to counter their offer but they would not budge. It's a 14% pay increase for me + remote so come Monday I am going to accept it. I had been working toward Cyber for a few years now and applied to hundreds of jobs and finally got through to one to make the move over from SysAdmin and have it be remote.
The problem I have is I have had a great time at my current company for the last 5 years, I have even tried to step up and take on more Security/Cloud roles but they won't budge. Plus in-office/ hybrid just is not for me, especially after 2 years of remote, then they wanted us back in the office. Feeling stuck as a SysAdmin and having an interest in security is what drove me to work toward a Cyber Full-time Role. I had been working toward it with Certs since 2019(pre-pandemic)
Is it normal that I am worked up about putting in my notice?
Any advice?
I know I will not burn bridges, my managers and most of my co-workers have been great, but the job is just stale for me at the moment and 5 years is a pretty good clip at one place. | It's usually normal to feel anxious about leave something you know and on to something new. I felt like that every time I left an old job. Even if it was a bad job I still felt nervous. Always worried about if I can actually do the work or if it's worst than the place km leaving. So far neither things have been true, but I've heard horror stories. | 910 | ITCareerQuestions |
up9il2 | I was offered a job to move on from my SysAdmin role for a remote Security Engineer role. I tried to counter their offer but they would not budge. It's a 14% pay increase for me + remote so come Monday I am going to accept it. I had been working toward Cyber for a few years now and applied to hundreds of jobs and finally got through to one to make the move over from SysAdmin and have it be remote.
The problem I have is I have had a great time at my current company for the last 5 years, I have even tried to step up and take on more Security/Cloud roles but they won't budge. Plus in-office/ hybrid just is not for me, especially after 2 years of remote, then they wanted us back in the office. Feeling stuck as a SysAdmin and having an interest in security is what drove me to work toward a Cyber Full-time Role. I had been working toward it with Certs since 2019(pre-pandemic)
Is it normal that I am worked up about putting in my notice?
Any advice?
I know I will not burn bridges, my managers and most of my co-workers have been great, but the job is just stale for me at the moment and 5 years is a pretty good clip at one place. | Every time. And it's perfectly fine.
Your old boss will understand. Your old peers will be happy for you.
Your new team will welcome you.
Still scary as hell though. | 380 | ITCareerQuestions |
up9il2 | I was offered a job to move on from my SysAdmin role for a remote Security Engineer role. I tried to counter their offer but they would not budge. It's a 14% pay increase for me + remote so come Monday I am going to accept it. I had been working toward Cyber for a few years now and applied to hundreds of jobs and finally got through to one to make the move over from SysAdmin and have it be remote.
The problem I have is I have had a great time at my current company for the last 5 years, I have even tried to step up and take on more Security/Cloud roles but they won't budge. Plus in-office/ hybrid just is not for me, especially after 2 years of remote, then they wanted us back in the office. Feeling stuck as a SysAdmin and having an interest in security is what drove me to work toward a Cyber Full-time Role. I had been working toward it with Certs since 2019(pre-pandemic)
Is it normal that I am worked up about putting in my notice?
Any advice?
I know I will not burn bridges, my managers and most of my co-workers have been great, but the job is just stale for me at the moment and 5 years is a pretty good clip at one place. | Man I was so nervous just like you going from MSP helldesk to Vulnerability Engineer no idea what I was getting into...
Its 10x easier and everyone says I'm doing a great job even though I maybe do 10 hours of work a week. 15 this week, was the busiest we had haha we joked that Wednesday felt like a real job.
Just role with it, I bet it will be easier than what you were doing ad a sysadmin. | 90 | ITCareerQuestions |
up9vud | Like, what is the point of them and how do they work?
To me, they look similar to modules but are clearly not the same. I found that its some sort of grouping method? so it basically takes a bunch of modules and group them together?
​
How would I go about making a class even? | They're a way of thinking about a problem. Instead of saying I kick the ball, I throw the ball, you think in terms of a ball and what you can do with it: you can kick it, throw it, pick it up, etc.
In other words instead of action/object, your thinking transforms to object/action. The object is primary, and the actions you can perform on it are secondary.
If you think about it, reality is object-oriented. I can wear my watch, set my watch, lose my watch, put my watch in the drawer, etc. I do things with my car. I drive my car, park my car, register my car, lock my car. I do things with my feet. Put shoes on them, walk with them, wash them, etc. My feet have components, like my toes. My toes are objects too. I can wiggle them, count them, stub them (ouch!) The world is made of objects. Objects have properties, components, and actions that can be performed on them. Objects are in fact very natural.
Now this sounds like a lot of abstract philosophy at first, and it's hard to see the point. Then you write a lot of object-oriented code, and one day it seems perfectly obvious and you can't remember a time when it wasn't. It becomes second nature to think about organizing your programs this way. So when you have a project, instead of thinking, "first I do this, then I do that," you think, "I have a cars, and I have feet, and I have watches, and these are their attributes and properties, and these are the things I can do with them."
I don't know any way to ease the process of learning to think in objects. It mostly makes sense only on larger projects where you have a lot of objects and you organize your project in terms of the objects and their behaviors. For short projects as a beginner it's impossible to see the virtue of objects and classes.
One great example of large object-oriented systems is graphic interfaces. You have windows. A window can be resized, moved, activated, put in the background, or dismissed. It can contain the output or input for an application. Windows can contain other windows. In fact graphic interfaces were originally one of the main motivations for developing object-oriented design and coding. But again, these are huge systems, hundreds of thousands or millions of lines of code.
By the way objects are to classes as my cat Felix is to the conceptual category of cats. A class is a general type of thing, but it's not any specific thing. An object is a particular instance of a class. Once again this is straight out of philosophy class, and it takes experience before it makes perfect sense as a way of organizing a project.
Don't know if this is helpful, but if it isn't, and you keep coding, some day you'll see that it was :-) | 90 | LearnPython |
up9vud | Like, what is the point of them and how do they work?
To me, they look similar to modules but are clearly not the same. I found that its some sort of grouping method? so it basically takes a bunch of modules and group them together?
​
How would I go about making a class even? | You are already using classes in python.
When you do:
a = "Hello"
You created an instance of class "str" and initialized it with the value "Hello"
a = str("Hello")
Now you can do operations using that a variable.
print(a.upper())
Without a being a class you'd have to do:
print(str_upper(a))
Which is not such a big issue when the object is a string, but imagine the object being a car with many attributes to it, like color, size, weight, topspeed, fuel_left, max_fuel, acceleration, current_speed, fuel_consumption, etc...
If without classes you'd want to fill the gas tank:
fuel_left = car_fill(fuel_left, 10, max_fuel)
If with classes:
car.fill(10)
because everything is contained in the car object.
Want to go for a drive?
current_speed = accelerate(current_speed, acceleration, topspeed)
fuel_left = max_fuel - fuel_consumption * (current_speed * time_passed)
Instead of:
car.accelerate() | 50 | LearnPython |
up9vud | Like, what is the point of them and how do they work?
To me, they look similar to modules but are clearly not the same. I found that its some sort of grouping method? so it basically takes a bunch of modules and group them together?
​
How would I go about making a class even? | They are similar to modules in that they provide a namespace.
Unlike modules, classes can be instantiated by calling them, which returns an object of that class. The point is that you can instantiate as many objects of the same class as you need to solve your problem.
Classes group data and functions that operate on that data together.
> How would I go about making a class even?
class C:
pass | 30 | LearnPython |
up9wzy | Were draft-dodgers frowned upon in the past? | At the time of the dodging, yes. The Vietnam War saw a bit more acceptance of it, although that was still out of the mainstream. Nowadays, there is a general acceptance of people who dodged the draft in that era, especially given how unpopular that war has become in the American psyche. | 640 | AskAnAmerican |
up9wzy | Were draft-dodgers frowned upon in the past? | Draft dodgers being frowned down upon goes back tens of thousands of years. Hell long before even that.
Ever since the first group of ancient primates got mad at one their own because they didn’t join in on a fight. | 580 | AskAnAmerican |
up9wzy | Were draft-dodgers frowned upon in the past? | Uh yes, Mohammad ali?? | 170 | AskAnAmerican |
up9xki | Hi All,
I'm in my final year of highschool and I'm very interested in going into the computer science industry. Only thing is, finding an opportunity to get into the CS workforce seems basically impossible without College or work experience. For financial and personal reasons I'm trying to avoid College as best I can.
Being 18, I've had no work experience in the CS field and my experience is nothing but what I've learned in my school's CS program (which is frighteningly little)
It's kind of disheartening to see that every single internship posting I've seen thus far expects me to be an undergraduate in a Computer Science program, and every job posting, no matter how awful the wages, still expect me to have a Bachelor's or equivalent work experience.
So my question is: is it even possible? I don't see any real options to be able to enter into the field if my inability to get a job/college means I will never be qualified for anything. | If you have your mind locked on CS, then taking out loans for college actually a good investment. You can minimize loans by going to community college for the first 2 years, which should be cheap enough to pay for if you work part-time during the year. After that, transfer to a state school and continue working to reduce the amount of debt you're accumulating. | 120 | CSCareerQuestions |
up9xki | Hi All,
I'm in my final year of highschool and I'm very interested in going into the computer science industry. Only thing is, finding an opportunity to get into the CS workforce seems basically impossible without College or work experience. For financial and personal reasons I'm trying to avoid College as best I can.
Being 18, I've had no work experience in the CS field and my experience is nothing but what I've learned in my school's CS program (which is frighteningly little)
It's kind of disheartening to see that every single internship posting I've seen thus far expects me to be an undergraduate in a Computer Science program, and every job posting, no matter how awful the wages, still expect me to have a Bachelor's or equivalent work experience.
So my question is: is it even possible? I don't see any real options to be able to enter into the field if my inability to get a job/college means I will never be qualified for anything. | Its possible, but very difficult. I highlight the benefits of college in this post: https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/rxxrhb/do_you_really_need_a_cs_degree/ | 30 | CSCareerQuestions |
up9xki | Hi All,
I'm in my final year of highschool and I'm very interested in going into the computer science industry. Only thing is, finding an opportunity to get into the CS workforce seems basically impossible without College or work experience. For financial and personal reasons I'm trying to avoid College as best I can.
Being 18, I've had no work experience in the CS field and my experience is nothing but what I've learned in my school's CS program (which is frighteningly little)
It's kind of disheartening to see that every single internship posting I've seen thus far expects me to be an undergraduate in a Computer Science program, and every job posting, no matter how awful the wages, still expect me to have a Bachelor's or equivalent work experience.
So my question is: is it even possible? I don't see any real options to be able to enter into the field if my inability to get a job/college means I will never be qualified for anything. | It is possible, but it’s very difficult. To most, very very difficult is the same in effect as impossible.
I’m not sure if your financial reasons are valid if you’ll be making an SDE salary. I paid off my student loans in 2 years. | 30 | CSCareerQuestions |
up9ys3 | How can i use it for example if i want to have a function that returns its value to a global variable? Kind of like to stop a while loop if something is false or to modify a variable to call in another function also? | You need to think of functions as a standalone units of execution.
That accept input using arguments, do something, and give output using return.
For example, check_resources function needs to get as argument not only the "what to check for" but also "where to check it"...
def check_resources(resources ,beverage_check):
To accept/use a returned result you need to assign it to a variable, for example:
def mysum(a,b):
return a+b
x = mysum(5,6)
if you don't do x=, the returned sum (11) goes nowhere, and ignored.
imagine as if the entire function call was replaced by it's returned value.
x = mysum(1,2) + mysum(5,5)
# imagine its replaced by the result from each call.
x = 3 + 10 | 190 | LearnPython |
up9ys3 | How can i use it for example if i want to have a function that returns its value to a global variable? Kind of like to stop a while loop if something is false or to modify a variable to call in another function also? | Return cannot be used to set a global variable. You need an assignment for that, i.e.
global_var = <whatever> | 30 | LearnPython |
up9ys3 | How can i use it for example if i want to have a function that returns its value to a global variable? Kind of like to stop a while loop if something is false or to modify a variable to call in another function also? | I think you're expecting too many difficulties here.
You;ve probably already used some functions - usually at least `input()`, maybe even some mathematical functions like `sin()` from the `math` module.
You have to call a function to get its value. To call a function, you write its name followed immediatelly with `(` and `)` (it there are no parameters).
Example:
answer = input()
If there are some parameters, you have to add them inside the parenthesis:
answer = input("Enter an integer: ")
This function prints a message and waits for a user input. After that, it **returns** the result. Since we want to work with the result further in the code, we have stored it in a variable called `answer`.
So this is how to use (= call) functions.
Now what about our own functions? And that's what you're asking about.
First of all, we have to introduce (define) a function (sorry for such a stupid example):
def multiply(a, b):
result = a * b
return result
Then, we can call the function:
c = multiply(4, 3) # The result 12 will be stored in `c`
Regarding flow - for example in a loop:
a = 2
while True:
b = int(input("Enter an integer: "))
c = multiply(a, b)
print(f"Result: {c}")
This is an example of an infinite loop.
When the code reaches the line `b = ...`, it behaves as usually - first of all, the right side (after `=`) is evaluated. Which means the user is prompted to enter a value... and since the input() function waits for the user, the program waits too.
After the user enters the value, it's returned. And because we want to save it for later use (for later computation), we have stored it in `b`.
Next, the very same happens with our custom function, `multiply()`. The right side of the expression gets evaluated - so our function is called with two parameters, the function executes its code and returns the result to the calling code. This calling code takes the returned value and since we assigned the value to `c`, it's stored in this variable for later use.
The later use happens on the next line where we print the value.
Sorry for a long post. I just want to explain it in detail. If there are further questions or there is something to clarify, don't hesitate to ask. | 30 | LearnPython |
up9zsx | What normal activity gets 100 times creepier if done in the middle of the night? | Digging a hole | 1,210 | AskReddit |
up9zsx | What normal activity gets 100 times creepier if done in the middle of the night? | Kids getting into a school bus. | 710 | AskReddit |
up9zsx | What normal activity gets 100 times creepier if done in the middle of the night? | [There's something about flying a kite at night that's so unwholesome.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1Z-GvyCxT8) | 610 | AskReddit |
upa3jl | Genuine, true love or 5 million dollars? Why? | 5 million dollars. I would never have to work again and could use that to fund all of my hobbies and interests that I truly, genuinely love for the rest of my life. | 27,510 | AskReddit |
upa3jl | Genuine, true love or 5 million dollars? Why? | Could I find true love after I gain the 5 million dollars? | 18,670 | AskReddit |
upa3jl | Genuine, true love or 5 million dollars? Why? | true love because my true love is 5 trillion dollars | 16,130 | AskReddit |
upa598 | Summer is coming & I hate the sunlight. Is it socially acceptable to use an umbrella for protection? | Nah. Parasols exist and thy literally mean " for sun". You could also just wear a Sombrero. | 1,040 | NoStupidQuestions |
upa598 | Summer is coming & I hate the sunlight. Is it socially acceptable to use an umbrella for protection? | Very normal for Asians, on a sunny day you'd see more umbrellas in Asian cities than you would on a rainy day in the US | 560 | NoStupidQuestions |
upa598 | Summer is coming & I hate the sunlight. Is it socially acceptable to use an umbrella for protection? | Nope, not weird. It was quite common when I lived in Japan. I even picked up a small sun umbrella while living there that I continue to use now that I'm in the States again. I'll take weird looks (though I get none) over sunburn and heat exhaustion. | 260 | NoStupidQuestions |
upa5re | Like the discord client for example. Something that can make clean GUIs while still compiling to a native binary. | It really depends on what the application is for. There are so many ways of making GUIs. Discord uses Electron and Javascript and is not compiled.
Microsoft apps could be written in C# using several different options for GUI like WinUi 3 or WPF.
A lot of graphics and game related programs will be written in C++ and use something like ImGui.
Also popular options for C++ are GTK (Firefox is written using this) and Qt (OBS, Telegram and Ableton Live). | 80 | AskProgramming |
upa5re | Like the discord client for example. Something that can make clean GUIs while still compiling to a native binary. | React.js and Electron.js.
JavaScript | 60 | AskProgramming |
upa5re | Like the discord client for example. Something that can make clean GUIs while still compiling to a native binary. | [Tauri is a lightweight alternative to Electron written in Rust.](https://tauri.studio/) | 40 | AskProgramming |
upa671 | New coder here and I’ve chose python as the first language I want to learn. I’ve started doing Angela yus Udemy course, 100 days of code (python).
I aim to finish the content for the day of 100 days (around 1.5-2 hours) then throughout the rest of the day if I get an urge to learn more python I’ll read crash course for awhile.
Is this inefficient practice and I’m better off committing all my time programming into 100 days and then going back and reading crash course after I finish 100 days? | I started with these exact two courses about a month ago.
At first I went through the first 4 or so chapters in Crash Course, then started 100 Days with the thought that maybe I would digest info better in video/lecture form.
I was understanding the information presented by Angela, but I felt I was missing something, especially with functions that accept input. Things weren't coalescing as much as I felt I needed.
I went back and finished Crash Course through chapter 11 and the first project making a space invaders type game, now I am back to 100 days and I am very happy I did it this way. I am on day 26 and have not felt anything presented was out of my realm of understanding yet.
So FWIW I would do at least the first 11 chapters, then move on to 100 Days. That will just help reinforce what you have already touched on in the book as you make more projects with Angela.
After 100 Days I'm going to fly through Automate The Boring Stuff With Python.
Good luck. | 550 | LearnPython |
upa671 | New coder here and I’ve chose python as the first language I want to learn. I’ve started doing Angela yus Udemy course, 100 days of code (python).
I aim to finish the content for the day of 100 days (around 1.5-2 hours) then throughout the rest of the day if I get an urge to learn more python I’ll read crash course for awhile.
Is this inefficient practice and I’m better off committing all my time programming into 100 days and then going back and reading crash course after I finish 100 days? | I don't have any experience with PCC, but for "100 days" I'd like to point out this:
As the "100 days" course moves on, you'll find that you will usually spend (significantly) more than 2 hours per "day" if you do all the code challenges, which you should, even if you're reasonably familiar with the topic at hand. The video content itself is often between 1 and 1.5 hours for one "day".
Now, this just means you spend more time programming and thinking, which is a good thing, but it's easy (from the course's own advertising) to be misled to think that you can finish the entire "100 days" course in 200 hours or so.
Best of luck! | 120 | LearnPython |
upa671 | New coder here and I’ve chose python as the first language I want to learn. I’ve started doing Angela yus Udemy course, 100 days of code (python).
I aim to finish the content for the day of 100 days (around 1.5-2 hours) then throughout the rest of the day if I get an urge to learn more python I’ll read crash course for awhile.
Is this inefficient practice and I’m better off committing all my time programming into 100 days and then going back and reading crash course after I finish 100 days? | 2 hours a day is not that much. You can do one thing in the morning and one in the evening.
It really depends on your other commitments I guess. When going to university full time, it's typical to spend about 6 hours a day in 3 totally unrelated classes. Here you do Python all day.
Definiely more efficient to do both than to call quits after just 2 hours. | 60 | LearnPython |
upably | Hi there and thanks for stopping by! As the title says, I am my former school teacher's 24/7 BDSM slave and I have been for 8 years. I am 26 and male and my owner is 41 and female. I live with my owner and serve 24/7 as well as being naked 24/7 unless otherwise instructed to.
I have such a good life which I am very grateful for but understand it isn't a typical vanilla relationship and so I'm here for you to ask whatever you want about my relationship, role and me personally!
I have very supportive people around me which has allowed me to do what I am doing now and spend as long as I can doing this.
If you don't feel comfortable asking publicly then feel free to pm me and talk there!
If not, have a great day whatever you are doing! Be accepting, respectful and responsible! | Guys this is not real. These kind of posts have been around ever since last summer. The account changes every few weeks, but the post is always this same ama🤦♀️ | 50 | AMA |
upably | Hi there and thanks for stopping by! As the title says, I am my former school teacher's 24/7 BDSM slave and I have been for 8 years. I am 26 and male and my owner is 41 and female. I live with my owner and serve 24/7 as well as being naked 24/7 unless otherwise instructed to.
I have such a good life which I am very grateful for but understand it isn't a typical vanilla relationship and so I'm here for you to ask whatever you want about my relationship, role and me personally!
I have very supportive people around me which has allowed me to do what I am doing now and spend as long as I can doing this.
If you don't feel comfortable asking publicly then feel free to pm me and talk there!
If not, have a great day whatever you are doing! Be accepting, respectful and responsible! | I feel like there's something commendable about giving away full control over oneself. It's scary but brave. I've never experienced this type of relationship but if it makes you happy and no one is being hurt, I'm happy for you.
As far as a question, did it begin while you were her student or after you graduated? Do you think there was any grooming involved? Thanks for sharing | 30 | AMA |
upaei9 | How long would it take you to go from one side of LA to the other? | Well in 40 some years I’ve never heard someone a visitor say “The traffic isn’t as bad as people say it is.” | 220 | AskAnAmerican |
upaei9 | How long would it take you to go from one side of LA to the other? | Depends. LA traffic sucks. San Diego isn't nearly as bad. I grew up in Seattle, and I hate that traffic way more than LA. I think DC traffic is the absolute worst, though. I'd rather sit in LA traffic than DC traffic any day of the week. | 180 | AskAnAmerican |
upaei9 | How long would it take you to go from one side of LA to the other? | Yes it’s pretty bad. It used to take me 35 minutes to drive 5 miles home from work on PCH. | 70 | AskAnAmerican |
upahtn | [NSFW] Mozart wrote "Leck mich im Arsch" ("Lick me in the arse") in 1782. Are there any historical references to eating ass that appear earlier than Mozart's? | The earliest references to anilingus or "ass-licking" that I am currently aware of literally predate Mozart by over two thousand years. Namely, the ancient Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes (lived c. 446 – c. 386 BCE) probably alludes to anilingus in a couple of his surviving comedies.
In his comedy *Ekklesiazousai* or *Assemblywomen*, which was first performed in Athens in around 391 BCE, the main character Praxagora has the following conversation with her husband Blepyros, [in lines 646–648](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0029%3Acard%3D635):
>Πραξάγορα: "πολὺ μέντοι δεινότερον τούτου τοῦ πράγματός ἐστι,"
Βλέπυρος: "τὸ ποῖον;"
Πραξάγορα: "εἴ σε φιλήσειεν Ἀρίστυλλος φάσκων αὑτοῦ πατέρ᾽ εἶναι."
Βλέπυρος: "οἰμώζοι γ᾽ ἂν καὶ κωκύοι."
Πραξάγορα: "σὺ δέ γ᾽ ὄζοις ἂν καλαμίνθης . . ."
This means, in my translation:
>Praxagora: "It would be far worse, though, if there were this occurrence."
Blepyros: "What sort?"
Praxagora: "If Aristyllos were to kiss you, claiming that you are his father."
Blepyros: "If he does, he'll at least wail and shriek!"
Praxagora: "But you at least would smell of calamint."
The last line here is a pun; the word "καλαμίνθη" means "calamint," which is a kind of aromatic flowering plant, but the second part of the word sounds like the word "μίνθος," which means "shit."
In Aristophanes's other comedy *Ploutos* or *Wealth*, which was originally performed in 408 BCE, but only survives in a later revised version that Aristophanes made sometime around 388 BCE, the members of the chorus threaten the enslaved character Karion, telling him, [in lines 313–315](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0039%3Acard%3D309):
>"μινθώσομέν θ᾽ ὥσπερ τράγου
τὴν ῥῖνα: σὺ δ᾽ Ἀρίστυλλος ὑποχάσκων ἐρεῖς,
ἕπεσθε μητρὶ χοῖροι."
Which means, in my own translation:
>"We will smear your nose with shit, just like that of a goat,
and you, a half-gaping Aristyllos, will say:
'Follow your mother, piglets!'"
Once again, the last line here is a pun; the Greek word "χοῖρος" literally means "piglet," but was commonly used in Attic Greek as a vulgar slang word meaning "vulva," roughly equivalent to the English word "pussy."
In both of these passages, the joke is evidently that Aristyllos has some kind of sexual fetish involving feces. Daniel Christopher Walin argues in his 2012 doctoral thesis [*Slaves, Sex, and Transgression in Greek Old Comedy*](https://escholarship.org/content/qt6jg983tp/qt6jg983tp.pdf), on page 100, that Aristophanes is most likely specifically implying that Aristyllos enjoys performing anilingus, although he notes that other commentators "are not generally so specific."
Walin is most likely correct in this interpretation, since the passage in *Wealth* describes Aristyllos as having fecal matter smeared all over his nose and his mouth "half-gaping," which fits very well with the anilingus interpretation. | 12,730 | AskHistorians |
upahtn | [NSFW] Mozart wrote "Leck mich im Arsch" ("Lick me in the arse") in 1782. Are there any historical references to eating ass that appear earlier than Mozart's? | This is a fun one, as some answers have already shown. However, Mozart's song is in specific reference to an event we can more or less confidently date to about 1515, as it was recalled and written in the memoirs of notorious one-armed robber knight Götz von Berlichingen.
Mozart likely heard the story through the popular play about him written by Goethe in 1771. Using Götz as an archetype of liberty in a time of political tyranny, the play was a popular success, and helped to popularize several of Götz’s more colorful moments, such telling Marx Stumpff to lick his ass. The phrase earned immortality as the “Swabian Salute,” and the play Götz von Berlichingen is considered one of the foundational texts of the Sturm and Drang movement in German drama. The movement’s emphasis on freedom, emotion, and human agency was intended as a counterpoint to the increasingly dominant ideology of rationality brought on by the Enlightenment.
Unfortuntely I don't have my copy of the play to hand, but I can give the full scene as presented in Götz' memoirs. This occurred in 1515, when Götz was involved in a feud with the stift - sort of a leased property - of the Bishopric of Mainz. Götz’s feud was triggered by the forceful abduction of at least one of his tenants in order to work land that was claimed to be a part of the Stift of Mainz, by men who lived in the village of Buchen. In seeking recompense for the use of Götz’s tenant, he pursued not only the authorities of Buchen, but also the Bishop of Mainz, the - absentee, in this case - landlord of the Stift. When no agreement could be arranged between Götz and those he deemed responsible for the insult to his tenants, Götz then formally declared a feud by sending the Bishop an *Abklag,* a written, formal opening to the feud.
At one point, Götz had taken one of the men of the bishopric prisoner and held him for ransom in a castle, until a Marx Stumpff, a fellow poor knight, had betrayed the man's whereabouts and facilitated his escape. Götz notes that Stumpff must have *earned his office at Krautheim behind the deal*. He continues:
> Now I was of a mind that I should bless this land further, and try to push my luck, and I wanted a bit of revenge. One night I burned three places: Ballenberg, Oberndorf, and the sheep house at Krautheim, there at the bottom of the hill beneath the castle, so close that you could talk, either up to the castle or down from the walls. I didn’t like to burn things, but I did it this time thinking that Stumpff, the *Amtmann* (a sort of appointed man, a reeve or bailiff), would come to the fire. I waited there for an hour or two, between Krautheim and Neuenstetten, until it grew light, and over the ground lay a light dusting of snow, hoping that I might run into him. Then he called out from above, toward Klepsen, and there I called up to him that he should lick my ass.
So, Götz, having found where Stumpff was now an Amtmann at the castle of Krautheim, decided to try to lure him out by burning several buildings in nearby villages. Stumpff evidently didn't take the bait, but came to the walls in the morning to see what was going on, and had a brief exchange with Götz, who invited him to lick his ass.
Goethe rendered a similar scene, which is likely what Mozart based the song on. All translations of the memoir above are mine. | 3,230 | AskHistorians |
upahtn | [NSFW] Mozart wrote "Leck mich im Arsch" ("Lick me in the arse") in 1782. Are there any historical references to eating ass that appear earlier than Mozart's? | [removed] | 3,190 | AskHistorians |
upaipe | we all know about buddy holly and ritchie valens but we never hear about the big bopper.
how popular was he, and do you think he should be in the rock and roll hall of fame? |
I'm in my 60's and know who Big Bopper is, but only from *Chantilly Lace* and how he died. I couldn't name a single song, otherwise. Or know anything about his contribution to rock and roll. | 50 | AskOldPeople |
upaipe | we all know about buddy holly and ritchie valens but we never hear about the big bopper.
how popular was he, and do you think he should be in the rock and roll hall of fame? | Big Bopper was a one-hit-wonder, right? Chantilly Lace is the only song by him I could name in a thousand years. No, he should not be in the HOF. I'm gonna put myself out there, and say that Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly did not have enough of a catalog to be in the HOF had they not died. But they both had bang-up starts, with great promise. | 30 | AskOldPeople |
upax4l | What's the point of a debate if noone is willing to change their mind? | Public/political debates are not for those participating, but for the ones watching or listening (to either strengthen their beliefs or to change their minds/win them over) | 50 | ask |
upax4l | What's the point of a debate if noone is willing to change their mind? | Even if noone changes their mind at the time, either side might later think about each other's points.
Also, a good debate helps each debater to question and hone their own beliefs. | 30 | ask |
upaz6c | Night owls out there, what keeps you awake at midnight? | Everyone else has fucked off, its nice and quiet, and now its time to do some work. | 880 | AskReddit |
upaz6c | Night owls out there, what keeps you awake at midnight? | I have more energy at night. The sun drains me. | 300 | AskReddit |
upaz6c | Night owls out there, what keeps you awake at midnight? | Usually I'd be up playing video games, but I'm so stressed out about things right now and I feel alone. Just trying to relax and dose off. | 230 | AskReddit |
upb2vc | Hi there. I have a tiny understanding, but since I am protestant, well brought up protestant I know very limited knowledge on how the catholic church works.
I was thinking though, at what point does someone decide " i think I'm going to try become the next pope"? I gather you first have to become catholic, become a priest and then..... well, I'm not sure how you raise in ranks after that, if anyone could roughly explain it.
Also, does someone know theybwant to be the pope before becoming a priest or do they sorta just fall into the role? | You'd become a Priest first. This is more difficult than it sounds. Catholic Priests must have an undergraduate degree, 4 years in a seminary after that, followed by a year as a deacon before they can be ordained. It's a 9 year path that's longer than almost any other profession other than Medical Doctor.
Once a priest, initially they would most likely get rotated around to various parishes, but not belong to any single one. Kind of like a substitute teacher. Eventually they might become the Priest of a particular Parish. The Bishop of the Diocese would decide that.
The first major step up the ranks is to become a Bishop. The Catholic Church typically requires Bishops to have a PhD. A bishop is technically appointed by the Pope, though in reality other Bishops from nearby Diocese's will defacto choose. The Vatican could push back if the qualifications of the individual were weak.
Initially they'd most likely be an Auxiliary Bishop where they aren't in charge of a Diocese, they're more like a Vice Principal. Eventually they'd become the Bishop of a Diocese.
From there they could get promoted to Archbishop which is in charge of an Archdiocese. An Archdiocese is just a really large Diocese.
There isn't a requirement that a Pope must be a Cardinal prior, but traditionally they are. Becoming a Cardinal doesn't remove your previous job title. Let's say you are the Archbishop of Los Angeles and become a Cardinal. You are still the Archbishop of Los Angeles but are now also a Cardinal. The Cardinals elect the Pope, and tend to choose amongst themselves. | 820 | NoStupidQuestions |
upb2vc | Hi there. I have a tiny understanding, but since I am protestant, well brought up protestant I know very limited knowledge on how the catholic church works.
I was thinking though, at what point does someone decide " i think I'm going to try become the next pope"? I gather you first have to become catholic, become a priest and then..... well, I'm not sure how you raise in ranks after that, if anyone could roughly explain it.
Also, does someone know theybwant to be the pope before becoming a priest or do they sorta just fall into the role? | [This](https://youtu.be/kF8I_r9XT7A) 3 minutes video explains it perfectly. | 190 | NoStupidQuestions |
upb2vc | Hi there. I have a tiny understanding, but since I am protestant, well brought up protestant I know very limited knowledge on how the catholic church works.
I was thinking though, at what point does someone decide " i think I'm going to try become the next pope"? I gather you first have to become catholic, become a priest and then..... well, I'm not sure how you raise in ranks after that, if anyone could roughly explain it.
Also, does someone know theybwant to be the pope before becoming a priest or do they sorta just fall into the role? | >well, I'm not sure how you raise in ranks after that, if anyone could roughly explain it
The higher ranks are appointed, similar to what happens in a company. When a higher position needs to be filled someone even higher decides who gets the job from the people one rank lower. And they are supposed to be chosen based on good service and experience.
The pope is elected by the cardinals, and the current pope selects wich bishops become cardinals. So except for the papal election it's a complete top-down process.
>Also, does someone know theybwant to be the pope before becoming a priest or do they sorta just fall into the role?
Would you start as a random clerk in a company with the expectation/plan to become the CEO? Since the individual has no direct control over their own career I don't think anyone plans that many steps ahead. Maybe once you are a bishop you can think about that. | 110 | NoStupidQuestions |
upb55i | Do you ever check the profile of Reddit users you interact with? Why/why not? | Not unless I suspect they are a troll. Then I check just to make sure before I interact with them any more. | 2,360 | AskReddit |
upb55i | Do you ever check the profile of Reddit users you interact with? Why/why not? | Nah. Mostly because I don't really care. | 1,310 | AskReddit |
upb55i | Do you ever check the profile of Reddit users you interact with? Why/why not? | No. I usually don't even check the names. | 860 | AskReddit |
upb6dw | I’m a transgender Republican. AMA. | How do you reconcile a loud percentage of your fellow Republicans not only hate you but would be happy to criminalize your very existence?
Why choose the Republican patu in particular vs independent?
Hi have so many questions... those first though. | 60 | AMA |
upb6dw | I’m a transgender Republican. AMA. | Just wow. The right have passed countless bills that risk the lives of the queer community, not only that but they've now put the lives of pregnant people at risk too with banning abortion. Miscarriages are now a felony in the USA.
I appreciate the left aren't perfect but at least they haven't killed people with their policies.
I've seen you mention how the right have not negatively impacted the queer community as much as the left, so pray tell what policies the left have imposed to give you this opinion. | 60 | AMA |
upb6dw | I’m a transgender Republican. AMA. | Are you aware that a majority of Republicans hate you? | 50 | AMA |
upb6qo | I have a number N which is (10^100)+1
N = 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
I ask python N/2 and what I get is;
5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0
Why am I not getting a number that ends 0.5?
There seems to be a rounding error, this doesn't happen with small numbers. Do I have to handle larger numbers differently? | Floats are not perfectly precise when very large or very small. If you need perfect precision, you should be using integers, or, if that's not an option, the `decimal` module. | 130 | LearnPython |
upb6qo | I have a number N which is (10^100)+1
N = 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001
I ask python N/2 and what I get is;
5000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.0
Why am I not getting a number that ends 0.5?
There seems to be a rounding error, this doesn't happen with small numbers. Do I have to handle larger numbers differently? | Why do you need such large numbers?
I ask because often when people ask such unusual questions it means they are trying to hammer out a complex solution and are missing the easy solution that the rest of use. | 70 | LearnPython |
upb7e5 | How did you know for sure and what were your feelings after realizing this? | I was like 3 or 4. I could already see that taking care of a husband and kids was a shit deal for a woman, so I knew I would never marry or have kids. It's one of my earliest memories. | 70 | AskOldPeople |
upb7e5 | How did you know for sure and what were your feelings after realizing this? | I don't know, I never felt called to have children, and it was a relief to realize I didn't have to just because other young people my age were having them. It worked out great because my marriage was terrible and between our various problems any children would have gotten a chaotic upbringing not conducive to future psychological stability--plus then we divorced and there would have been that complication. I just can't imagine myself with children. It wouldn't have been right, and not having them feels right, as if in the cosmic scheme of things I was not intended to be a parent. | 60 | AskOldPeople |
upb7e5 | How did you know for sure and what were your feelings after realizing this? | Life without kids, by chance or choice, is easier.
One of the most challenging things in life there is, is to raise a child. You don't need to be a parent to know this. Just look around. For example. We're in the middle of an infant formula shortage for one thing. Who saw that coming?
Imagine being a young Mom wanting to feed your child, but going from store to store and finding empty shelves in the formula aisle.
I'm what you call a professional bachelor. I made that choice probably in my 30s and that means I don't have to deal with and have never had to deal with the stressors that a parent does. My life is in fact easier as result.
Easier is not always better, keep that in mind.
Reddit (I've noticed) leans toward an anti-natalist attitude that in more extreme views looks upon children as parasitic, with no intrinsic value. I don't look at it that way at all.
Those who do? Well it's just sad is all I gotta say on that. There are those out there that are sort of like an anti-child Pied Piper extolling the virtues of a child-less life. Personally, I'm not down with that sort of attitude.
My life is easier not having a child. I can say that with certainty, what I cannot say is that it is better. | 60 | AskOldPeople |
upb8n1 | Very confused. | First, you are completely fine being confused about this. The evaluation rules for C expressions are complicated, and this is a great example. Let's look up the rules for this: [https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator\_precedence](https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/operator_precedence)
Oh lord. Okay, so suffix/postfix ++, the first example with the ++ on the right side of ptr, takes precedence over the \*, but the second example is a prefix ++, which has the exact same precedence as \*. Does that matter? Well, to know that, we need to also know that unary prefix operators like \* and ++ (the prefix one) associate right-to-left. Yeah...I think we can agree that feeling confused is pretty reasonable here.
Alright, so knowing the precedence rules now, let's rewrite it with parentheses:
\*ptr++ becomes \*(ptr++). This means "take the pointer ptr, increase its value by one but evaluate the expression as its original value, and then dereference that original pointer value.
\++\*ptr becomes ++(\*ptr). This means "dereference ptr, now take that thing ptr pointed to and increase its value by 1 and return that."
Let's say memory looks like this:
|Memory Address|Value|
|:-|:-|
|0x004|0x100|
|0x008|0x200|
|...||
|0x100|0x256|
|0x104|0x512|
And ptr's value is "0x004" (and we'll say it points to something of size 4).
The first expression increases ptr by 1, so ptr's value becomes 0x008. Then you dereference the original value, 0x004, which is 0x100, so we get the value 0x256. So the expression results in 0x256, and as a side effect ptr is now 0x008.
The second expression goes to the place ptr points to, 0x100, and adds 1 to the value there, which was 256 so becomes 257.
Also, be careful, I've only looked up what will happen, not tried it. Now let's agree to never talk about this again because you agree to use parentheses for things like this. | 210 | LearnProgramming |
upb93l | I know a lot of people on here are totally aware of this, but it just irks me so much. I've been searching for a new job recently, and when I give my TC expectation, a ton of recruiters have positions that meet that. I'll have some that say "we can probably do that" then want me to hop on a call only to tell me what I'm asking for is unreasonable and I'd need 20 years of experience to get close to those numbers. I basically make the same amount I'm asking for already??? Where do these people get off wasting my time trying to tell me I'm worth less than what I'm already getting paid and how I should "value" experiences companies have to offer more than some number? That number controls my livelihood.
Moral of the story... know your worth. Do research on specific company salaries, look at levels.fyi, leverage your current salary, etc. I swear 50% of recruiters are just leeches trying to fill undesirable roles by being condescending and deflating your sense of your own worth. | It's the worst part of salary negotiation. Constantly getting told that I'm too young, too inexperienced, to deserve that kinda salary. That there's other people with twice my skills making half as much.
Ok bud. I don't give a shit. Why don't you interview those people instead? The good thing is that these situations gave me a thicker skin and hardened my confidence over the years. I'm not getting pushed around like in college. | 680 | CSCareerQuestions |
upb93l | I know a lot of people on here are totally aware of this, but it just irks me so much. I've been searching for a new job recently, and when I give my TC expectation, a ton of recruiters have positions that meet that. I'll have some that say "we can probably do that" then want me to hop on a call only to tell me what I'm asking for is unreasonable and I'd need 20 years of experience to get close to those numbers. I basically make the same amount I'm asking for already??? Where do these people get off wasting my time trying to tell me I'm worth less than what I'm already getting paid and how I should "value" experiences companies have to offer more than some number? That number controls my livelihood.
Moral of the story... know your worth. Do research on specific company salaries, look at levels.fyi, leverage your current salary, etc. I swear 50% of recruiters are just leeches trying to fill undesirable roles by being condescending and deflating your sense of your own worth. | Why even talk to a recruiter if they’re not upfront with the range, otherwise we are wasting both each others time | 400 | CSCareerQuestions |
upb93l | I know a lot of people on here are totally aware of this, but it just irks me so much. I've been searching for a new job recently, and when I give my TC expectation, a ton of recruiters have positions that meet that. I'll have some that say "we can probably do that" then want me to hop on a call only to tell me what I'm asking for is unreasonable and I'd need 20 years of experience to get close to those numbers. I basically make the same amount I'm asking for already??? Where do these people get off wasting my time trying to tell me I'm worth less than what I'm already getting paid and how I should "value" experiences companies have to offer more than some number? That number controls my livelihood.
Moral of the story... know your worth. Do research on specific company salaries, look at levels.fyi, leverage your current salary, etc. I swear 50% of recruiters are just leeches trying to fill undesirable roles by being condescending and deflating your sense of your own worth. | One time I told a recruiter I wanted $800k in equity. They said “seems competitive! I’ll talk to my team”
LOL they never replied
6 YOE | 170 | CSCareerQuestions |
upbbc4 | I’m very curious. Working on Wall Street is extremely interesting to me. The prospect of just working like 80 hours per week and absolutely grinding it out seems like a lot of fun. Maybe I’m crazy but it seems like an experience I’d like to have. Are crazy hours expected? | Hedge funds are not financial technology companies. | 640 | CSCareerQuestions |
upbbc4 | I’m very curious. Working on Wall Street is extremely interesting to me. The prospect of just working like 80 hours per week and absolutely grinding it out seems like a lot of fun. Maybe I’m crazy but it seems like an experience I’d like to have. Are crazy hours expected? | Dude, I get that you’re passionate and excited to build a career and work on cool stuff, but please understand this:
Nothing about working 80 hours a week is fun.
You will have major regrets if you place that much focus on your job no matter what field you’re in. Nothing wrong with working hard and putting in some extra time here and there, but there will be serious mental and physical consequences to your health if you consistently work 2x full time, even if you don’t realize it at first. | 400 | CSCareerQuestions |
upbbc4 | I’m very curious. Working on Wall Street is extremely interesting to me. The prospect of just working like 80 hours per week and absolutely grinding it out seems like a lot of fun. Maybe I’m crazy but it seems like an experience I’d like to have. Are crazy hours expected? | No, you don’t work 80 hours per week. Your boss won’t have you do that, people who get hired at trading/quant etc are really smart people that they want to develop into really efficient engineers, not have you burnout and leave in a year.
The work is nice in terms of there’s a lot of theoretical computer science involved but there’s also the issue of the fact that many of the shops are quite old and have old tech, monoliths, and legacy code that they’re not ready/scared to switch away from. | 240 | CSCareerQuestions |
upbfie | I'm still one of those youngsters who thinks life will be so much better when you get money. I know there's a dark side but I don't quite understand it . I guess money doesn't automatically make everything better or great. | Money is great.
Materialism is a trap that will suck the very life out of your soul as you need to work harder and longer to afford the crap you amass, but have less and less time to enjoy.
And for what? Showing up some asshole neighbor you don't give 2 shits about so your ego feels better? Whoopee. It's all bullshit lies made up to get you to buy more crap to keep the charade of our economy chugging along. You become part of the cattle being straight up farmed for cash.
Keep life simple and your expenses low. You can be very comfortable without being ridiculous. Buy experiences instead of stuff. Find a way to make a meaningful life that isn't based on materialism and working yourself to death or it will be spent buying crap trying to fill a hole in your soul, and spending most of your money on conveniences and services trying to regain time and/or sanity.
Lifestyle creep is a thing and it will slowly take over your life if you let it. I'm trying to escape my own self imposed fences and it's difficult as hell despite having minimal debt and a higher than average salary. I wish I had kept it all simple in the first place.
I grew up poor as hell (food stamps, doing homework by lantern because the power was of again, heating bath water on a grill, etc). I thought I'd be happier after acquiring the stuff, but I'm more stressed than ever and don't have time to do anything about. I can barely attend to the needs of my home, my husband, or my children. Life isn't supposed to be like this, and maybe if enough people start opting out of this bullshit, maybe it has a chance for change. | 710 | AskOldPeople |
upbfie | I'm still one of those youngsters who thinks life will be so much better when you get money. I know there's a dark side but I don't quite understand it . I guess money doesn't automatically make everything better or great. | No matter how rich you are, you can’t get back time once it’s gone. It’s free for everyone yet no-one can own it. Only use it. Each passing second is the time that will never get back. You can get more money, but you can never get more time. It is more valuable than money.
You'll be 70 very soon and this will seem very important. | 340 | AskOldPeople |
upbfie | I'm still one of those youngsters who thinks life will be so much better when you get money. I know there's a dark side but I don't quite understand it . I guess money doesn't automatically make everything better or great. | I'll explain the dark side. Yes, money equals increased physical comfort. But the more you get the harder it becomes to justify everyone suffering without it. What most people do is invent reasons to despise everyone suffering, then instead of being an overprivileged asshole they can pretend they are simply getting what they DESERVE and so is everyone else. Our culture has incorporated this bizarre condition so deeply that few of us ever question why we so desperately need someone else to lose so that we can feel like a winner?
What scares me is that so many people are willing to whore their morals out in exactly this fashion. It seems to speak of a serious fault within the human psyche. But then again, considering how many bigots there are across the globe ruled by irrational fears, I don't think we really need further proof that serious faults truly exist.
So ultimately it comes down to the individual. Some of us can drive our neighbors into poverty and still look in the mirror and smile, some of us cannot.
edit: I forgot to mention that the truth of the matter is we are both of these individuals. We define ourselves by how much we sway in one direction or the other. Its like bigotry, we are all bigots to varying degrees we aren't even aware of. If you don't eventually step back and take a look at the scale you'll never know where you land on it and so will remain stuck there. | 130 | AskOldPeople |
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