Trillenial @Trillenial@qoto.org

@twdockery that's an actually intelligent answer but there are many pictures they could use to represent Java. I specifically see technical terms printed on a keyboard, I'm more wondering why these pictures exist in the first place.

Dear programmers, if someone asks for help about a paticular language please don't hold it over them. Saying things like:

"Shouldn't you know that?"

Someone could code 6 years in C and have no idea about basic OO principles. If they've done some research and can't make sense of them and then they ask a programming discord, you don't need to shit on them. You can just help them.

TLDR: Shitting on people for not knowing about something you know doesn't make you a better programmer.

Of course there is also the Aristotelian argument of opposites that in which, the beautiful would have 2 opposites. The ugly and the not beautiful, although they're very similar they're not quite the same.

The not beautiful is not necessarily ugly by nature it just does not have any beauty within it. Even more confusingly something ugly can have beauty in it, but in it's totality it would still appear as ugly.

Personally I don't believe anything that has even the smallest bit of beauty should be considered beautiful, it must be beautiful in it's totality. But I do recognise it as a counter argument.

I know this sounds like a "woke"-esc post but hear me out.

There's a growing belief in certain sub-cultures that all people are beautiful. I am aware that the media have a strong grip over beauty standards, calling everyone beautiful, in my opinion only devalues beauty as concept.

In my mind, in order for a quality to exist there must be an antithesis of that quality:

-Tall and short
-Smart and dumb
-Beautiful and ugly

Without light we cannot have darkness and without the ugly we cannot have the beautiful.

@freemo no I didn't but that's actually very cool.

I wonder how I stop page numbering in LaTeX?

\pagenumbering{false}?
\pagenumbering{off}?\pagenumbering{0}?

Nope, it's \pagenumbering{gobble}. Of course.

Once you complete postgraduate education are you a post-postgraduate?

I think it's really disgusting that facebook owns the two largest messaging apps, taking whatever of my data they want from them.

I'd love to be able to use the open-source alternative telegram, but the issue is that literally no-one I know uses them and I don't want to force people to download an app to be able to talk with me.

across*

TLDR - this page is a thought garbage dump

@rojo From my perspective (although I am from the UK) if you're going to pursue a degree Computer Science is definitely up there with the most employable and well paid degrees rn. So it's more of an investment into your future in my opinion at least. I would absolutely reccomend it.

I've recently been reading "The Gay Science" (perhaps a misleadng translation) by Nietsche and I came accross a quote that's a perfect summary for why I made this Mastodon.

Nietsche despite his talent for writing was profoundly embarrassed by it, to quote him "even a parable [of my writing] disgusts me" and he goes on to say

"B: But why, then, do you write? A: Well, my friend, to be quite frank: so far, I have not discovered any other way of getting rid of my thoughts."

Was in Vatican City and couldn't resist. Unfortunately I drew the short straw and had to be Aristotle.

Really interesting to see how much signifcance Campbell assigns to dream analysis in the hero with a thousand faces (because of Jung, Freud) before contemporary psychologicists said it was basically all meaningless.

Wonder what his take would be on it now.

@freemo Oh yeah it's absolutely irrational, but people don't vote on a rational basis unfortunately.

@freemo Yeah I kinda agree, I would still consider myself a capitalist and I absolutely support free education. But now it's paid there's always going to be a feeling of resentment if it's made free from those who have paid/are paying it. I suppose in the grand scheme of things that's very unimportant though.

The sad thing is even after moving in back home and getting a 5 grand scholarship, I'm still going to be paying £4,500 to complete this degree. An extortionate price for many places in Europe.