nekomusumeninaritai

@nekomusumeninaritai@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I use xe/xem or they/them pronouns ATM.

I wanna be a cat girl! Or a cat enby perhaps. Nyan.

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Advice?

Hi, I’m not sure if this is the right community to ask this, but I got yelled at by my mom today for not having a job and I thought it might be worthwhile asking what sort of strategy I should pursue from a community of people with skills I would like to develop. I graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from...

nekomusumeninaritai,

Thank you for the quick advice. I remember seeing something similar to the two years you’d mentioned when I was applying. The MS route scares me a bit because the CS degree itself is a second bachelors and I could imagine rationalizing pursuing more education because I’m scared of how the workforce would treat me. But I remember meeting a few people doing a Masters program for that reason, so could see taking that path if necessary.

nekomusumeninaritai,

Thank you so much for replying and I’m grateful for your insight. In regards to your first point, it is interesting that it is not completely required to be an active contributor to get your foot in the door. I do think it would help with the substantive issue of being a bit rusty at coding and my confidence (as well as being a good thing to do), but it is good to know that there are differing opinions in industry about that.

I had the same impression as you in regards to the helpfulness of a degree. I had wondered how much I missed out by not going to a flagship state university or a well regarded private school, so knowing that some people view good grades at a mid-tier university as qualifying is helpful. It is also helpful to know that while not ideal, mediocre is at least acceptable in the beginning. I probably have been letting tropes about “genius tech founder” influence my perception of necessary qualifications. Even though intellectually I know that both not everyone is incredibly technically competent and that the trope is usually hype to attract VC funding.

Also, that roadmaps.sh site looks really helpful in that it shows the concrete skills necessary. Thanks!

nekomusumeninaritai,

I completely agree with you about motivation in isolation. I’ve been doing a bit more this past week, but I need to keep pushing myself to stay focused on the same project after a day or so. It was easier in college because I had more external motivation. I did have the idea recently that I could learn a bit of graphics and get a bit more motivation out of what I code. I’ll probably stick with that for a couple of months because it is a fairly versatile skill to know how to tell the GPU to do things. Additionally, thank you for letting me know about the Out in Tech group. It sounds like it would be helpful.

nekomusumeninaritai, (edited )

I’d imagine you want something defined recursively like multiplication

  • ( 0x = 0 )
  • ( xy = x(y-1)+ x ) ( y > 0 ).

So it needs to be

  • ( x^0 = c ) (c is some constant)
  • ( x^y = xx^{y-1} ) (( y > 0 ) (to see why, replace multiplication with exponentiation and addition with multiplication). So what could ( c ) be? Well, the recursive exponentiation definition we want refers to ( x^0 ) in ( x^1 ). ( x^1 ) must be ( x ) by the thing we wish to capture in the formalism (multiplication repeated a single time). So the proposed formalism has ( x = x^1 = xx^0 = xc ). So ( cx = x ) hence ( c = 1 ), the multiplicative identity. Anything else would leave exponentiation to a zeroth power undefined, require a special case for a zeroth power and make the base definition that of ( x^1 ), or violate the intuition that exponentiation is repeated multiplication.

On an unrelated note, it’d be nice if Lemmy had Mathjax. I just wrote all this on mobile with that assumption, and I’m not rewriting now that I know better.

nekomusumeninaritai,

I would’ve appreciated a trigger warning on the post since it uses a slur, but wow, it is amusing (I’m sure it’ll be less amusing once I experience more overt transphobia).

nekomusumeninaritai,

They just said :wq in school, so thanks for the tip. Hard to believe it saves even when the file hasn’t been changed if you use :wq. What is the use case for that? If the file gets changed in another program and you want to revert?? Edit: Just saw the comment about the modification times being updated.

nekomusumeninaritai,

You must know my parents 😅

nekomusumeninaritai,

Whoops, looks like someone forgot to make the base juice class abstract…

nekomusumeninaritai,

Financially, preorders without a “preorder bonus” are a zero interest loan to the developer. Preorders with the “preorder bonus” are a loan with the bonus as interest. Even if the game were guaranteed to be good, you could most likely be doing something better with the money until it comes out. Since the game is not guaranteed to be good, it is a risky loan as well. Without any of the protections you get when you make an actual loan.

nekomusumeninaritai,

That’s certainly true. I’d still say that for the online stores, for which that policy applies, there isn’t a lot of upside to preordering. Because the purchase is digital, you will always be able to get a copy on release day (unless the publisher artificially limits how many games it will sell, but I’ve never heard of a publisher doing this).

nekomusumeninaritai, (edited )

This should work with some caveats.

  1. Tbis probably won’t work on WSL (Linux needs direct access to your hardware).
  2. For DVDs, you need to be sure libdvdcss is installed for this to work correctly
  • You probably already have this on your system if you have successfully watched a dvd in Linux.
  1. You may need to replace /dev/cdrom with the name of the device file corresponding to your drive.
  1. This creates an exact copy of the disk, including the unallocated space. You would probably want to follow the guide wiki.archlinux.org/title/Optical_disc_drive#Creat…
  • (@BustedPancake’s use of mkisofs does the same thing because they copy the files on the disk rather than the whole disk. But you don’t need makemkv. You should be able to use any method of copying the files and Linux should use libdvdcss to decrypt them.).

“deep magic”Linux trys to treat devices like files. If you ran xxd /dev/cdrom, you would see every bit on the disk (not just those of the files, but those in the free space as well) in order from the first to the last (converted to base-16 in what is called a hexdump). Not that you need to see this, but your video player does. The “DRM cracking” is actually a feature of libdvdcss that makes it possible for the system to treat the disk this way. dd is just a general copying command and if Stack Exchange is to be believed, it isn’t necessarily the best option (unix.stackexchange.com/…/dd-vs-cat-is-dd-still-re…). But it probably is necessary for the linked guide to work because it has dd truncate the file.

edit: caveats is note spalled caceats

edit: file → files on the disk

nekomusumeninaritai,

That was the joke

nekomusumeninaritai,

Don’t worry. It was a bit ambiguous 👍

nekomusumeninaritai,

Trivial exercise.

spider in the middle of a webObtained at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_classic_circular_form_spider%27s_web.jpg under license CC-BY-SA 4.0 International by wikimedia user Stephencdickson ∎

nekomusumeninaritai,

Just change all the boxes so they all read “Chat GPT-4.”

nekomusumeninaritai,

So amazing, but also so frustrating watching a stick figure guy get better than me in math in 15 minutes

[Feature Request] Left and Right Votes

Everyone on the internet nowadays has up/downvotes. But this seems a bit one-dimensional to me. What about left/right votes. That way if something is leftwing and seems bad I can give it a left vote and a down vote without people thinking I’m right wing. If it works, maybe you could even add in and out votes for if something...

nekomusumeninaritai,

You'd have to be a bit loopy to accuse yourself 😉

nekomusumeninaritai,

Ooh, cool.

{X|X∉X}∈{X|X∉X}⇐⇒{X|X∉X}∉{X|X∉X} (1)

{X|X∉X}∈{X|X∉X}∧¬{X|X∉X}∈{X|X∉X} (2)

Thence G(me) (2,explosion)

where G(x): x has 1,000,000 bars of gold

Thanks for the gold

nekomusumeninaritai,

It's how isoforms functions with different signatures evolve. As long as it isn't harmful it tends to stick around. Then the different code may develop adaptations which fit it into a niche if it is a selective advantage for the organism code base.

Extended Pascal's Wager

Decision matrix for options “believe in god” and “don't believe in god” and outcomes “god exists” and “god doesn't exist” with equal probability, and with finite values in every cell except for the cell corresponding to the option “believe in god” and the outcome “god exists.” An additional column shows...

nekomusumeninaritai,

It's complete bullshit. But the way it is bullshit is interesting. I had a response to it initially that was along the lines of well, there are lots of different gods, so why should you trust any of them. But if there is a very small chance of an infinite reward, that is still an infinite expected value. So shouldn't you just flip a coin and choose one? A more sophisticated response is to say well, how do you know there isn't a god of athiests that will reward athiests infinitely. If you accept Pascal's Wager, then even if I grant you that the “god of athiests” a billion times less likely, you still can't choose between it and the other gods because the expected value of any choice is infinite. So I can believe whatever I want to do and have the same expected reward. And if you don't accept Pascal's wager, then don't talk to me until you have another reason to believe in your story. So you win either way by logic. And to paraphrase Lewis Carrol's Achilles, “Then Logic would take them by the throat, and force them to concede the point! …Logic would tell them, “You can't help yourself.”” 😁

Catgirls, smash the stack (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/tS7Spht2uZ.pngAccessibility text :Pictured is a slide from a presentation at a hacker conference with a bullet point reading “We can smash the stack” highlighted and the presenter wearing cat ears and holding a plushie fox. Added to the screenshot of the presentation is the...

nekomusumeninaritai,

She seemed pretty cool. I can’t tell if the gender envy or the competence envy (for lack of a better word) was strongest

nekomusumeninaritai,

This is exactly why I feel nervous asking questions online. I feel like a lot of the time the answer is so obvious that a bot could answer it with very little context and then I'll look silly.

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