#ot2-the-original-pubsta
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@somber belfry that is a way to describe it. In a similar way you could describe deer as:
An animal fed up to be killed and consumed. Sold all around the world
Lol
lmao
this will be a slow ook. We boil the meat on low temperature for several hours along with spices and some vegetables. Then it will be basically like pulled pork in consistency
reduced red wine sauce sounds good
@nova ember Red deer is actually native to sweden, meaning it can survive the winter no problem. The meat we bought was from wild deer. They have been walking around living free in the swedish forest.
With wild meat you don't get the same issues you get from say cattle or pork
made something with a berry+wine reduction recently but forgot what the fuck it was
AH
duck.
Ah, alright. There are different variants and that one isn’t close to as common
You can have farmed deer as well, but again they can survive the climate so there is no need for em to be squeezed into a cramped building like cows for example
The thing about it is that it’s much cheaper to do it like that
farmed deer is usually raised in quite wide pens. Deer behaviour makes it very easy to farm em as well (they are a very stationary species)
No
Why waste money on a building if you don't have to?
should see if i can get some deer here tbh. we've got some wild deer in the area and i know they do culling
you only need fence
deer for christmas would be nice
Deer is a bit gamey
I think you got both red deer and fallow deer in the UK
badum tsch
never had fallow, but red deer is awesome
🤔
I mean, why not just skip eating animals?
something about game and game meat, i think
deer belong to a category of animals called game
people describe food texture as gamey, but game is also hunted animals
in hunting language
yeah, it's a game meat
Because some of us have to vester
just not sure what joke michael was going for or if i missed it
allergic to all the vegetable protein sources
I mean, why not just skip eating animals?
@nova ember That is not how we play this game
I'd love to try hunting
I do however have an environmental goal when I eat meat
i can't eat gluten and while that doesn't mean i have to eat meat it makes things a whole lot easier
eating meat, that is
hunting's alright. i used to pop rabbits with my dad
wild meat is about twice as co2 efficient as vegetable based protein like soy and beans
There are a lot of vegan sources of protein. Lentils, soya, mushrooms (?), peas, beans
It’s not
Yeah, I got something called baljväxtallergi
There are a lot of vegan sources of protein. Lentils, soya, mushrooms (?), peas, beans
@nova ember protein powder
@nova ember That is not how we play this game
@somber belfry that is exactly how we play this game lol
that incorporates essentially all vegetable protein sources
There are different types
sure, those are high protein food stuffs
Yeah, but pea protein powder tastes foul
baljväxtallergi
legume allergy
but do they have the texture or flavour of a good bit of fillet mignon?
bisk, I think there is also an ethical aspect
If vegetables have protein rich sources, then imagine how much protein in an animal that only eats vegetables
yeah, not for me.
I am a science man
¬_¬
same lol
it's like with doing my bit for the environment
sure, i turn my lights off and do recycling
There is also the aspect that forest is being cut down to make room for soy plantations
but car with big engine go vroom and i'm not giving that up
vegetable based diet is far from environmentally friendly
better that industrial meat, sure, but not friendly
There is also the aspect that forest is being cut down to make room for soy plantations
@proven gorge cutting down forests to make room for farm animals
People are cutting down trees to make server farms, so we should all turn off our pcs
I mean, it’s completely reasonable to value the taste. However if it’s one of the main causes of deforestation, co2 emissions and pollution, I think we need to at least consider a diet that relies less on meat. I’m not saying ditch it completely (even though that’s what I’ve done), but at least decrease the consumption of it
or in high mountains
In principal I agree with you vester. however I do not agree that you lump up meat in one single category
there are different kinds of meats that are very different to the environment
cattle co2 emission: 26kg/kg meat
soy: 5kg/kg
moose: 2.6 kg/kg
I eat chicken mostly, which is the least such co2 heavy
There is also the aspect that forest is being cut down to make room for soy plantations
@proven gorge the soy that is being grown in these places is almost exclusively for feeding livestock animals. In fact, if we stopped eating meat and switched to more plant based diets, we could decrease the area needed for growing plants drastically and still feed more than the entire world
With no rain forests being cut down
Based on those numbers I have decreased my industrial meat consumption severely. I mostly eat wild meat nowadays
i don't see why my project isn't being taken seriously though
hang on, let me diagram it
Art man at it again!
bisk diagrams
Non-industrial meat does not require cutting down of forests, yes?
@proven gorge I think we have a very similar view on this fundamentally, but there are a few aspects that we don’t quite view the same
@somber belfry Moose don't require you to cut down forest no
hmmm
hah good one
We could decrease co2 emission in meat eating and humanity by engaging in cannibalism
We could decrease co2 emission in meat eating and humanity by engaging in cannibalism
@small spoke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
This guy was ahead of his time
Didn't Jonathan Swift also say that Mars has 2 moons back in 1726?
That might very well be the case 😄
Truly a man born out of time
I think I read that one
If they have not changed it since I was in gymnasium I think it is part of one of the english courses
english 2 or something like that
It's in Gulliver's travels I think
Yeah, I think that’s where we read it. Or maybe in grade 9
(That’s not the same as grade 9 in most other countries)
I remember it from gymnasium so I assume it was during one of the gymnasium courses
Yeah. We could’ve read it at different times
Galileo also said that Mars has 2 moons because Earth has 1 and Jupiter has 4, therefore it only made rational sense
Fair logic
I think making 14 year olds read why we should make boots out of infants skin would be a bit too much xD
I mean, Jupiter has 53 moons but hey ho
This is concerning
Yeah, I'm not really sure 14 year olds will get satire
about the poor and shit
lol
great idea there bisk xD
Kids are being forced to read Gulliver's travels because it has the propaganda that said that Brutus was one of the most just men in history
What tomfoolery
Thou art the biggest brain in the land
@stable pier Could you please explain how your plan works?
stop cutting down trees to create grazing land for cows
by putting the trees on the cows
it's so simple
Kids are being forced to read Gulliver's travels because it has the propaganda that said that Brutus was one of the most just men in history
@small spoke wasn't Anthony saying that in a satirical/sarcastic manner
I haven't actually read Gulliver's travels
so forgive me if I'm getting the context confused with something else
Brutus appears as a ghost, and I think it's mentioned there
Brutus was manipulated by the others
I think you should hide your ideas and run away, @stable pier
I heard they kill people with genius ideas to ruin the world for a fortune
He knew what he was doing, he had the reasoning that he didn't want another monarch
That backfired wildly
yes,, his love for the country and democracy outweighed his love for his friend
That backfired wildly
haha yes
let it also be mentioned that this was before religion made it illegal to be homosexual

Loving democracy so much that you accidentally create an empire
The game is the game.
Damn it, I lost the game
good show, great character
"so if snotboogey robs every game, why do you let him play?"
"got to man, this is murica."
"Fuck the bosses"
"man you think the man who invented chicken nuggets is rich? nah man. he's still down there inventing shit."
still need to get the gf to watch that
quite the long slog though
urg
"I dun want it", "she's ma queen" intensifies
We wanted it to be one way.... but it's the other way
we thought it be like it do but it don't
That fucking siege battle still infuriates me
who the fuck deploys artillery in the front!?
And who does an unsupported cavalry charge towards the enemy front line?
S8 was just garbage
the final battle can just get in the bin
cleganebowl was a massive disappointment
what final battle?
the one at King's Landing
The one at kings landing? yeah that one sucked
I could have put up with it if circei got a fitting ending, but nope
might as well have dropped a cartoon safe on her
kinda wanted her to go down like that shame nun did
Yeah Jamie was just lame all the way to the end
even if she just got torn about by a dragon or smth idk
Jamie fockin Lanister
Hi i was wondering if I could ask some questions
i just realized how better kitty is than alacritty
sorry this might be the wrong place to ask lol
I'll look for a thing ontopic cus I'm just new to python
yes python iss kewl languag
what are 'these' made of?
dreams
Okay so I haven't had pop in like over a month almost, and we grabbed a couple tonight, and it doesn't taste very good now x.x
I have been drinking soda almost every day and it is just so awful for me lol
Well we normally drink those sparkling water beverages, and water
but I know she wanted a pop so I instinctively grabbed two and its well nasty now
yep, tons of sugar. And it feels bad haha.
Im drinking it right now lol... I need to exercise
The OT title had me rolling 🤣
oh it was diet coke even, and when I drank pop it was normally diet stuff but holy hell I rather drink warm milk
@worthy sparrow What did he ask you to do though?
@worthy sparrow What did he ask you to do though?
@devout loom a discord bot that has 30 puzzel games that you play against an AI using reaction controls
lulw
This is pretty big at least for me
it is
how do you deal with typing nested fuctions?
is it worth doing Callable[[int, str], Callable[str, bool]] or just Callable[[int, str], Any]
I'd go with creating aliases
ah ok
what about subclasses/dataclasses?
@dataclass
class Enemy:
class Rat:
def __init__(self) -> None:
self.sprite = Enemies.rat_passive```
like with this
@sturdy relic sorry to bother, but which plugin did you use for Rich Discord Presence on PyCharm?
i use the more popular one
do you have a link?
i have a screenshot if you hold on for a moment
sure
it is already saved
what happens when you run the program?
let me try
are you sure you have closed all the parentheses?
I can't verify the ones on int(input())
lol, it's okay
happens to everyone
Fun Fact: When you read this you will start to manually breathe.
@normal quartz ugh
At least you’re doing the same
i am hitting my teeth too
At least you’re doing the same
now it's time for you to become hyper aware of your tongue
Bite it
oh no.
you will like your tongue?
yeah
:bigbrain:
tongues are rad
tongues are red
tongue control
also why is the tongue a flower
@normal quartz that's none of your biskness
hmmm.....
my sister can do that while i cant and she has teased me ever since she found that out
i only realised i could do it when a friend showed me
Yeah, i can do it too
i only realised i could do it when a friend showed me
Another thing I realised this way was that I have Hitchhiker's thumb
ahhh, hypermobility
yep
i have a bit of that
pretty nifty thing to have
means you've got more elastin iirc
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/463035241142026251/748945466242367549/index.jpg
here's a pic I sent here a while back
which means your skin stays tighter for longer
Dude what
means you've got more elastin iirc
@stable pier yeah, including my heart's valve or some shit
How is that even possible
you're more likely to experience early onset arthritis
👀
That’s like bending it -90 degrees
when i broke my right hand thumb i went to doctor's like
"i can't move my thumb in its full range of movement!"
But that’s just insanely flexible. I’ve seen flexible, but not that flexible
"what are you talking about? this is the normal range."
hahaha
i mean i still need it
hmm, true
but i can't do all the neat shit i used to be able to do
like carry lots of stuff in my hands
do your thumbs bend the other way too? like mine
not as extreme as yours, no
okay
not as extreme as yours, no
@stable pier his thumb isn’t even a thumb
😔
Oh
let me delete that
@thorn dragon https://dateparser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is interesting
What the fuck happened to that poor thumb????
o
is there a program that mixes python code, adds junk code, and renames variables to gibberish to make it harder for people to read it?
its bisk. I feel like I dont see a lot of people i used to see in here. I notice when old names drop in lately.
I suppose it happens
bisk is always with us
yes.
wtf, why is manjaro installing hp device manager, when I don't have an hp printer, and never installed the package with my knowledge
isn't it just bundled with the printer package?
i dunno lol
well this is odd, the desktop settings wallpaper menu is blank and I can't change my wallpaper now
funny how a simple reboot fixes the most random things
yes
I tried formatting a usb pen drive in 5 separate ways
and removing it and putting it back in fixed it
@severe socket Please don't post random memes here
???
they were refering to the image you posted, its not allowed on the server
is there a program that mixes python code, adds junk code, and renames variables to gibberish to make it harder for people to read it?
@jovial island you mean obfuscate python code?
i think pyarmor does that
*@nova embers paradise
Hey, shush
I’ve just been distracted from sleep these last few days
I usually have good sleep routines @primal comet
Any chance someone could take a look at a Java issue I'm having?
@haughty citrus , saw you said you could help in the other chat
i could try to help
so basically I am trying to access this BarChart.java to plot my data and I just cannot figure out how
sorry i do not know 😦
i am in a computer science course and haven't gotten to guis yet
I just don't know how to call the function because it's in a separate java file
I also have no idea how to do GUI stuff 😛
thanks for looking though!
i tried it out, did not like it xD
I've made a few things with PySimpleGUI which I'd definitely recommend for simple programs but haven't messed with any GUI stuff for java
What the fuck happened to that poor thumb????
😳 👉 👈

There are kids being born to parents that were not around when Shrek came out in 2001. Holy crap I feel so old
vester is asleep rn (or rather, he BETTER be)
I mean..you could go fly and see?
welp, time to cross the atlantic.
I still stick by my idea of spam calling him
If you go across the atlantic, take me with you lol
@keen burrow yes
👀
lol
luul
I think this clearly shows the fact that an Akarys is tiny
@nova ember do u use adobe photoshop for editing pics?
Nope
ohhh
he does vector designing
.>
what's that
Photoshop is for raster (mostly) and illustrator is for vector design. I mostly do vector design.
Though I don't use illustrator. I use Affinity Designer
i see
doesnt vest means vest?
Yeah
Vector graphics are computer graphics images that are defined in terms of points on a Cartesian plane, which are connected by lines and curves to form polygons and other shapes.
```OOOOH
vest
@tranquil ridge u talking aboutT-Shirt?
no, the thing we wear inside tshirts
You're talking about vests?
i don't wear anything inside t-shirts
Ah, I thought you meant "vest", not "vest"
Silly of you that you didn't just say "vest" first instead of misleading me with "vest" @tranquil ridge
that's very confusing. it's like saying
🦺
this
That’s the kotlin version of @nova ember 🦺
who wears that
that's not a vest lol @tranquil ridge
what, you guys dont?
well i don't at least
No, I don't
that's not a vest lol
ye lol
That’s the kotlin version of @nova ember 🦺
@keen burrow is there a kotlin version of me?
well, it is called a vest here
innerwear vests
yes, innerwear
plural is vests, singular vest, and i meant vest and not vest
but vest?
vest, i wear them in the summer so the sweat gets absorbed and i dont get rashes...
ok, it's not called vest it's called innerwear
well that's not the general term
i thought it was, MY BAD
I guess you can call it that there then, but that's not a way it's used here
when u say "vest" most people don't mean** innerwear**
You could be in a majority though. I don't know 🙃
this is what google says
a sleeveless garment for the upper body usually worn over a shirt. b : a protective usually sleeveless garment (such as a life preserver) that extends to the waist.
Do you mean a wasitcoat?
A waistcoat in BrE (/ˈwɛskət/ or /ˈweɪstkoʊt/; colloquially called a weskit), or vest in AmE, is a sleeveless upper-body garment. It is usually worn over a dress shirt and necktie and below a coat as a part of most men's formal wear.
#ot2-the-original-pubsta message
this is what he meant
Thats a shirt nicknamed a "wifebeater" horrible nick name..
:helpmenow:
väst
Also known as a A-frame shirt
XD
I guess you may want to see the new akarys art as well
@nova ember no.
an interesting cartoon or something, but most people think this is aklfic lol. it's not sorry, baees?
I couldn't make out a couple words lol
@slow valve so whats the status
Since this is where I share all my strange graphics today (sorry ak), I'll share this idea I had as well
whoa
cool
Ooh I like it
Lovely :)
how did u make it xD
Frame by frame animation
Drew it on my iPad by hand and erased part of the logo per frame, in reverse
Thankss
Drew it on my iPad by hand and erased part of the logo per frame, in reverse
@nova ember ohh, u good at drawing?
so I ran a cmd in linux
python3 --version
and it gave Python 3.8.5
how can I use Python
I don't want to use on terminal
download an editor?
3.9 is for any platform
How can I update it then
but your package repo might not have the latest version available
you'll need to compile it yourself
or add a third party repo that has it available
eh I will just use 3.8 for now to get my project done
should I go with stable or dev sublime?
stable
there you go
yes
?
I'd say yes
Nah
I will find the sublime text editor in?
@slow valve dude, listen to me and get pyenv, you will not regret it
and to install sublime
yay -S sublime-text
I already ran cmds to download sublime
ok
but just saying, use pyenv if you want multiple python versions
google how to install pyenv
no I don't want multiple python versions
you just said you want python 3.9..
why is it taking so much time to download sublime?
installed linux?
rip
@slow valve are you building it from source kek
anyways get used to linux
ok
with all the space to manjaro
I like how Meganz called Recycling bin Rubbish Bin xD
is google making gmail paid?
no lol
I saw the news but I think it is fake xD
obviously its fake lol, i will just stop using google if that happens, i don think google can get that stupid
dropbox gives how much gb space for free?
what
ugh
gmail service
@slow valve how did you start the installation desu
you are def building it from source
yup
curl -O https://download.sublimetext.com/sublimehq-pub.gpg && sudo pacman-key --add sublimehq-pub.gpg && sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 8A8F901A && rm sublimehq-pub.gpg
echo -e "\n[sublime-text]\nServer = https://download.sublimetext.com/arch/stable/x86_64" | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf
sudo pacman -Syu sublime-text
I am new to linux what do you expect from me
you should have asked me 
pacman -Syu
will update all the packages in your system
you should do that
first
oh, i thought he did that already
@somber belfry I am not doing that for 1 reason
bcuz I will start fresh anyway after my backup
pacman -S sublime-text will install sublime text
pacman -Syu sublime-text will update all the packages in your system and install sublime text
ok
so it is updating all the packages
I had like 273 something to update
would I need to reboot
it will take some time to update all packages, and thats necessary desu
mine sucks
but better than mine lol
Sick
you cant do much in xfce
wtf after all that Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
whats the error
f
screen short
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
shift + ctrl + prtsc
just tell me how to get sublime
why do u want sublime then
to complete my project file duh
just open it in mouse pad then duh
you can still update arnav. I recommend it.
Your packages could break otherwise
ok I will do it from the package manager
btw
to run script I do?
python <filename>.py?
yea ok
@tranquil ridge I have a Python Projects folder on the desktop
Well maybe when I’m done I’ll mail you my book
cd to it
how
What’s your experience level? You think you’re at level 1, 2, or 3? @jovial island
I’m level 0.5
You working on any projects?
@tranquil ridge never worked with terminal can you tell the command
cd Desktop/Python_Projects
What are you guys working on @tranquil ridge
@jovial island what’s your most recent?
API?
Did you use flask ,django or other ?
Is this all for fun or to make money? @jovial island
ok worked @tranquil ridge
@jovial island who do you work with? Americans?
@slow valve noice
but
@jovial island do they need another team member? I’ll work for free to learn
@jovial island damn that’s a long time

will they even continue that project xD
@jovial island okay that would be great. Like I said I’ll work for free!
School with corona still?
Want to work on one together?
Just create one. Something simple to learn and possibly publish.
I’d say maybe a game or a simple script
Can you say the whole acronym?
I might have
Object Oriented Programming
Yes
classes and stuff
Ty
Ohhh quiz
Just messing
But
Instances are in the class and give it defining characters inherent to that class
@jovial island classes are like blueprint and instances are objects of that class
Bad definition? I learned about it building a class for cars and electric cars
so basically instances and objects are same thing
yea but you can understand like that
so suppose weapon is a class
then the part of that weapon maybe be refereed as objects and maybe the type of weapon is instance
Right okay
I understand I said it bad I guess
I’d say using “parts” as term for instances is a little off. My thought was it as characters or attributes to a specific object or objects
Like I learned self.miles in a class for Cars in an instance which wouldn’t make it exactly a part
ohh @full summit i didn't know your team placed top 3 in both of the jams that u guys competed in.
That's impressive
haha thanks
attributes aren't instances @jovial island
@radiant socket shit okay. Can you explain it to me? Like let’s use his example of a class for Guns. Class Gun. Attributes would be the barrel size or mag size? Then when you create an instance you create the class?
Howdy
"class is blueprint to make weapons
and instance is the constructed weapons"
NICE EXPLANATION I REALLY MEAN IT @jovial island
let's move to #python-discussion
@full summit since you were here recently, rust's closures are even worse than python's :/
yeah i know
yeah
how is it worse?
hey, you listen to the pastaman
it's unsettling
that's why i'm asking
if he says it's worse, it's worse
unsettling? lol
Does anyone else feel unsettled, pastaman?
nice hat vivek
hahaha thank you
oh i just realized that psvm was pastaman
yes sire
that's me
21:04 means 9:04 pm right xD
subtract 12
did you need to post that 3 times @pallid violet
yep
cringe
......?
=)
Does anyone else appreciate the new Python logos for the server? Because I do! Whoever takes time out of their day to make these cool GIF logos, Thank You So Much... it just brightens my day to see a new Python logo!
@jade sapphire heyo! It’s usually some of us who hang out in #dev-branding. Come check it out if you’re interested in seeing the progress. It’s usually lemon, kutiekatj9 and I who do most of the such work, but I know kosayoda, scragly and a few others also do a lot. Anyone can help out though. Thanks for the message 😄
how come sometimes i dont get a response on a help channel ?
That could be because of quite a few factors
i guess this is peak time for them ?
We’re all volunteers here. The answer race we have here is incredible, considering that no one gets a penny to help out
@deep saddle But here is probably the most important part: Improve the question (check out https://pydis.com/pages/asking-good-questions)
It can also be a problem if no one knowing, but that’s not as common
hummm i see
are there any cheap beginner debugging help sites anyone would recommend ?
i think it is sometimes about questions being to complicated.
try to keep your questions as simple as you can.
its back tick. @deep saddle
next to 1 key?
yes
ty
cool ty man
@tranquil ridge definitely cringe
do you guy find listening to music while working make you more productive?
No. For me, at least.
!warn @severe socket You were already told not to dump random images here. Take staff instructions seriously.
:incoming_envelope: :ok_hand: applied warning to @severe socket.
LOLOLOLOLOLO
!tempmute 626165598384291847 3d Responding with "LOLOLOLOLOLO" to a warning is not taking staff instructions seriously.
@halcyon blaze It'll help me get in the zone or a flow state. It tends to be 1 song on repeat though
:x: According to my records, this user already has a mute infraction. See infraction #19894.
oh
It'll help me get in the zone or a flow state. It tends to be 1 song on repeat though
@wheat aurora same lol, i pick a song to listen to on repeat
anyone got link on java official discord if ever there is one? Cant seem to find any on disboard
it’s java together
I have 1 screwed up windows 10 install and another partition with unbuntu on it
I cant seem to re install windows because it says no bootable device found when I try to boot with my windows 10 flashed drive
I flashed this multiple times
never mess the boot efi partition for windows again
@fluid plank I can't even do that if I want to lol
yeah we learned something. i actually know that would happen yesterday but i wasnt entirely sure
Well I never needed win anyway
@slow valve u nuked it?
so you saved the files
and then you nuked it
I am still backing up and then re install Manjaro with all the space lol
windows 7 wont be supported anyway
Yea
End of Life sadness
i am a risk taker. kinda funny that linux kernel 5.10 worked fine
even though it has not been officially released yet
lol
hi
even though we can draw a distinction between CS and SE, I think some institutions pick one of the two names somewhat arbitrarily and teach whatever blend of CS theory and software design stuff they feel like.
@upbeat sandal I think that's definitely true, in part because SE is a bullshit engineering, because no one has figured out how to do this well yet.
@wicked hollow you just have to make classes and encaps it and single responsibility
it's not "engineering", not really, because in engineering your artisinal, bespoke solutions would get you fired from your firm. People figured out 2 or 3 good ways to build bridges, and everyone uses one of them.
I'm presenting some stuff to the upper-level engineering faculty this week and I'm already stressing over how much shared vocabulary there will really be with the non-CS crowd.
when I say "presenting to the upper-level engineering faculty", I mean I'm going to present my slides to the dean and she's going to give me a pat on the head.
and that's probably about it.
heh
to be clear, I think SE is probably more useful than CS if you want a job in industrydoing software development. Actual CS isn't that useful outside of academia, frankly. Knowing how to divide behavior between classes is more useful than knowing how to implement a parser, or traverse a graph, or understand finite automata...
anyway, CS is definitely the odd one out. But it's still applying science and math to design stuff.
well, I agree that graph traversal or DFAs aren't useful for designing software in industry
as for whether or not certain things are only useful in academia, well, academia has its place
sure, absolutely. I have friends who are academics, and we have much fun laughing about their tiny salaries and abusive relationships their PIs.
😄
@wicked hollow next you're going to tell me that you have friends who belong to other marginalized groups
Yes, academia is useful, but - a bachelor's degree ought to prepare you for something other than a masters' degree. And I don't think a CS degree does, not very well at least.
no, it doesn't
people sign up for CS degrees because they want to go to programming trade school
and the alternative is to do online coding bootcamps that everyone laughs at
yeah. And realistically, a programming trade school would be a better use of their time and money in lots of cases.
I'm glad I took the traditional CS route because the research I've done is valuable
but if I didn't get to do research, I'd very much doubt the value of all this
Is CS Degree worth?
@slow valve that's a very strong "depends" from me
the bootcamp situation is interesting. A CS degree doesn't prepare people well for a software development job in industry, so large companies have large training departments designed to teach CS graduates how to write maintainable software. My impression is that bootcamps don't produce worse developers, just developers with different blind spots - all theory, no practice, versus all practice, no theory.
How much does CS Degree affect job opportunities
Yes, academia is useful, but - a bachelor's degree ought to prepare you for something other than a masters' degree. And I don't think a CS degree does, not very well at least.
@wicked hollow Degrees are massively overrated
We should be moving away from degrees as a necessity
They are good for academia and a select few fields where you need a specific curriculum/education
it is much easier to get a job in industry given a degree, as things stand today. I know professional developers without degrees, but I know a lot more professional developers with degrees. There is an easier path to a job in industry with a degree.
I'm talking more broadly
That something needs to change because the idea having a degree makes you good at working (in most professions) is absolute garbage
oh, I agree with you in a the broad, societal sense.
but if Arnav's reason for asking is "I want to be a programmer, should I get a CS degree".... well, it's complicated.
It needs big companies to stop hiring based on degrees
I think degree should not matter the capabilities of that person and how much he knows should matter
In all fields
I'd say "yes, at a university with mandatory internships". My school had 3 mandatory 6 month internships over a 5 year program, and I think they made all the difference between it being worthwhile and not. I graduated with a much better appreciation for what I was getting into, and an understanding of what I enjoy and don't, and skills that were much better than my peers from other schools.
Unless you are working in a more senior role I don't even think how much you know matters
The biggest thing in a job is how quickly you can learn
And how well you actually work
yes, once you have the job - but for getting hired, as things stand today...
Yea internships paid or non paid are good way to learn
And frankly by the time you're senior enough for what you know to matter, your degree no longer does
and know the working environment
Unpaid internships should be illegal
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL THEIR FREEDOM
WORK BITCHES WORK
Well not illegal if it is with the consent of the person doing it
xD what
and should be
The same way that a minimum wage shouldn't be able to be circumvented
Because then it becomes defacto the standard
xD what
@slow valve you dont get it
You shouldn't have a system which encourages people to debase themselves like that
imagine getting work and not being paid
I would pay someone to give me pro experience at this point
internships are like that i guess
Or which lends itself to people with ample means being able to get the opportunities because they can afford not to be paid
Welcome to the "rich get richer" attitude which America has taken to extremis
It is technically illegal but not declared illgeal
They've convinced you that it is normal and acceptable to do unpaid work
well, I do put in quite a bit of time to (hopefully) helping out around here for free
Or which lends itself to people with ample means being able to get the opportunities because they can afford not to be paid
this is a really interesting topic and there are actually good studies on this. Particularly on racial discrepancies in journalists
what's the difference?
it's legal, under some relatively restricted circumstances. Unpaid internships are only legal if the company doesn't benefit from your work, essentially.
i see
Yea
how do they determine whether or not they benefit?
what's the difference?
@upbeat sandal pydis is a bad example, I get paid in hemlock's soothing voice
and how do they have to prove that they don't benefit?
Well they find loop holes
hemlock's soothing voice
@storm birch implying that my voice isn't soothing
So they make illegal legal
banend
If you know what I mean
Helping out here is totally incomparable to an unpaid internship
If you stopped it wouldn't affect you materially
@upbeat sandal I was genuinely going to include you in the list, but the hemlock thing made for a better one-liner
If you decided to just walk away from an unpaid internship 100% a company will probably blackball you
@storm birch keep your eyes on the ot names. That's all I'm gonna say.
how do they determine whether or not they benefit?
@upbeat sandal Essentially, unpaid internships are supposed to be a way for companies to train new workers up. But they must be used as a training program, not as unpaid labor. Interns must be losing the company money, rather than making the company money. Basically.
But yes, this is obviously hard to enforce.
LOL, ot name threats
it's not really a threat. I just added an ot name to memorialize what you said.
a company will probably blackball you
Blackballing isn't really blackballing if it's one company, FWIW. The thing that makes blackballing bad even in a capitalist system is that it's anticompetitive; companies that are competitors collude to all avoid hiring someone.
The reasons to have unpaid internships are basically non-existent
Blackballing isn't really blackballing if it's one company, FWIW. The thing that makes blackballing bad even in a capitalist system is that it's anticompetitive; companies that are competitors collude to all avoid hiring someone.
@wicked hollow You think companies don't talk?
Good luck explaining that gap on your CV when you were slaving at an unpaid internship that went bad.
well the reason is that companies that would not otherwise hire someone with such little experience, will essentially hire someone to give them more experience. It becomes a necessity when the system becomes so competitive.
🧃 + c
well the reason is that companies that would not otherwise hire someone with such little experience, will essentially hire someone to give them more experience. It becomes a necessity when the system becomes so competitive.
@storm birch Pay them though
Unpaid work should not be necessary to get a job
well, many companies literally would not hire otherwise, so the position would just be nonexistent if they had to pay
If you have been convinced otherwise you are foolish
Unpaid work should not be necessary to get a job
I very much agree with this though
@wicked hollow You think companies don't talk?
@azure current By and large, yeah. Companies don't take their competitors' advice about who they should hire.
I mean that's what references literally are
I've never had a job that didn't require them
No
Wales, perhaps, heh
on the other hand, if a company hired me to do devops for them, their entire system would be destroyed in a matter of hours.
So I need work experience. But no one should pay me to be bad.
So an "apprenticeship" makes sense
it is also a system that is as old as economies

You invest in people
I don't see many unpaid internships here
if you want to be a blacksmith, you dont get paid to do what the local blacksmith can do 100x better. Instead, you are paid by the experience of being an apprentice, maybe a little money thrown in, with the goal that you are experienced enough someday to do the job yourself
so - in the US, references aren't really a thing anymore, because companies are terrified of libel lawsuits if they say anything subjective about your time there. So, in practice, all any company will say is "So and so worked here from 2010 to 2015", and maybe "and was paid $x per year"
if you want to be a blacksmith, you dont get paid to do what the local blacksmith can do 100x better. Instead, you are paid by the experience of being an apprentice, maybe a little money thrown in, with the goal that you are experienced enough someday to do the job yourself
@storm birch But if the blacksmith wants a good apprentice, he should pay
People need to start valuing themselves ffs
why should nasa pay undergrads to stand around and stare at their windtunnel? they could easily hire someone with a masters+ to do a better job for them
Instead of being allowed/encouraged to debase themselves for no pay
why should nasa pay undergrads to stand around and stare at their windtunnel? they could easily hire someone with a masters+ to do a better job for them
@storm birch They should be paying to invest in talented grads..
maybe the blacksmith should, but that has never been how it actually is. Historically it is a privileges to learn from someone with experience.
Not hiring grads to do something pointless
@storm birch I'm not sure what specific wages you have in mind, but I don't think saying people with more experience deserve to be paid more is controversial
But no one should pay me to be bad.
Ya know, that's driven by the market, in a capitalist society. They shouldn't pay you to be bad if they could pay someone else to be good, but if they can't, then it's a perfectly rational move on their part to pay you to be bad in belief that they can make you become good.
the real question is where the floor should be.
well, in california, a livable wage is like 60K salary, and no company is going to pay that for someone who cant really do their job fully
that's an upstream problem, then
if I made 60k here, I would MAYBE be able to afford a mobile home in a trailer park
A condo for me, at least here
yeah, I could maybe find a condo haha
but like, 2.5K a month for a one bedroom, no company is going to pay that to someone without experience, which is why we have minimum wage and unpaid internships
there absolutely are companies in California that pay 60K to people who can't really do the job
the government and the economy as a whole need to serve the needs of the people, and if paying someone for a minimum standard of living isn't feasible for a large portion of a population (let alone even a single able person), that's a system-wide problem.
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That's a lot lol. I'm talking like 150k condo. That's livable by 50k+ wage.
there absolutely are companies in California that pay 60K to people who can't really do the job
@wicked hollow lolol, well yeah, but that is another problem LOL
I'd argue there are probably a lot of people who can't do their job properly being paid a lot more than that
@dense chasm we're having a conversation about something else. see if there's another ot channel available.
#ot1-this-regex-is-impossible should be good
Alrighty
In so many ways America is a failed state.
"failed state" has a pretty specific meaning that does not apply to America.
the government still has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force in the minds of the majority of Americans
yeah, that. a failed state is one where the government has lost control over territory.
would I be optimistic about America if current trends hold? not really
chaz
however I think this election has proven that our democracy is even more secure than we thought
I don't disagree with the broader point about where America is on a good trajectory or is a post-capitalist hellscape, but it's not a failed state. 🙂
all lovely sentiment
the current president can't prove that any election fraud has occurred anywhere in the country, in the largest election we've ever had.
how did this get political xD
inability, or choosing not to because of an underinformed electorate?
"The president now has more flagged tweets than electoral votes", heh
by underinformed, I mean willfully ignorant.
I would love to get any internship haha, they are ALL so competitive that it just makes sense for companies not to pay.
Is this a horrible shortcoming of capitalism? Probably
No its a shortcoming of America's obsession with deregulation
how did this get political xD
We hit rallying for a living wage and anti-capitalism a while ago. It's been political for a minute. 😉
You can have capitalism and still have regulation of things like minimum wages
sure, fine - restraints on capitalism.
No its a shortcoming of America's obsession with deregulation
@azure current exactly. America probably has the power to provide any American citizen with any necessity. We just choose not to.
I live in the poorest major city in the richest country in history. 🤷
That's a design flaw. It doesn't mean we lack the ability to provide services.
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yeah, no
F
Fine by me.
Whoa
Well he probably was going to ignore that warning
Let's not let him ruin our chat
If America couldn't get clean water even if it wanted to, that would be one thing
(and I know Flint is a terrible counterexample)
heh, beat me to it
lol, flint was just on a power trip
I don't know the details of that situation but my understanding is that it was poor planning and a heavy dose of disregard for the locals.
yeah, pretty much
Flint is still a mess, is the interesting thing about that. The water system was so badly damaged that 6 years later they still don't have clean water.
I just don't know how so many people can be persuaded that wage suppression is good for them
And it's not the worst city for water safety in the country, just the most famous.
Like, "but if we had a minimum wage small businesses would go under/be unable to afford staff"
Maybe that's a sign your business is not viable
I just don't know how so many people can be persuaded that wage suppression is good for them
@azure current so I'm in a bit of an awkward spot: I only get paid ten dollars an hour for my research, but the fact that I get to do it at the expense of any other undergrad who could have this position and get the experience makes it worth it to me
but I also have other income
Avoiding the failure of your business due to the market deciding it's not really viable by not paying your workers is some serious mental gymnastics for lovers of a free-market
and I don't actually know how much I could be paid before the university decides that undergrads can't do research
that's a bit of an edge case though
well, sorta. Academia is practically slave labor, but it's such a tiny portion of the overall economy that it's not an interesting area to focus on.
@upbeat sandal That's a shambles in the US where Universities are basically megacorp money farms
how are universities tied to megacorps?
they do behave similarly imo
I think it's the opposite - universities are subsidized by public money, not private.



