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Cake day: November 6th, 2023
  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.worldtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Elon bought Twitter for this exact purpose: voter disenfranchisementEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Musk overpaid a ton for twitter because he made a stupid joke, tried to back out, and got forced to follow through in the courts. It is of course possible that these were Machiavellian machinations with benefits a rube like me could not possibly understand. Or, and hear me out here, he is just a buffoon who fell ass backwards into something that ended up working for him.

    Either way, he is a serious danger. But the thing that makes him really dangerous is his wealth, a thing he did little to nothing to deserve.

    Because this IS a class war and our side has been consistently losing for over three full decades.

    100%. I’ll just point out that the Democratic party leadership is very wealthy and their class interests align with someone like Musk. Maybe one reason we’re losing is because the people we choose to fight don’t want to win.

  • aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.worldtoProgramming@programming.dev•How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be?English
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    2 months ago

    Practical programming itself does not require this kind of math. The stuff you’re trying to make a program do might; but even then I don’t think you’ll have difficulty in that context. The stuff you’re learning now will have had time to “settle”, and you’ll be working towards a concrete goal, which makes it easier in my experience.

    Another thing is that just because you’re struggling right now doesn’t mean you’ll be struggling forever. Math didn’t really click for me until I took calculus. I had a math professor who it didn’t click for until their junior year of college as a math major.

    So don’t sweat it. But it’s always a good idea to have another career idea or two in your back pocket just in case. There are lots of reasons you might not want to be a programmer as a career. You might hate it. You might love it enough that you want to be able to do it freely instead of at the behest of others for money.

    These kinds of anxieties are normal for someone your age (assuming you’re not nontraditional student). But one day you’ll look behind you in all these worries will seem unjustified. Everything will almost certainly turn out fine.