#compeng

[anonymousdormhacks]

Whats the opposite of gothic? I'm in love with comp sci anti-gothic where it's just people being surprisingly polite and nice and funny through computers. A program's first lines are always "Hello world!". SMTP protocols apparently say "hello, pleased to meet you" to each other to establish a connection with a handshake. Python has a different version called Andaconda, which has a smaller version called miniconda. C++ is just C continuously improving on itself, because the ++ operator means to add one onto a previous value, and C# is two ++ stacked on top of each other. Lawmakers have to talk about the ethics of saving "cookies" to computers because one guy liked fortune cookies and decided to call them that. The internet itself wasn't created with security in mind because it was just meant to be a way for a group of people who trusted each other using it to send each other information, and so on, and so forth

[zephiris]

Being autistic feels like having to emulate brain hardware that most other people have. Being allistic is like having a social chip in the brain that handles converting thoughts into social communication and vice versa while being autistic is like using the CPU to essentially emulate what that social chip does in allistic people.

Skip this paragraph if you know about video codec hardware on GPUs. Similarly, some computers have hardware chips specifically meant for encoding and decoding specific video formats like H.264 (usually located in the GPU), while other computers might not have those chips built in meaning that encoding and decoding videos must be done “by hand” on the CPU. That means it usually takes longer but is also usually more configurable, meaning that the output quality of the CPU method can sometimes surpass the hardware chip’s output quality depending on the settings set for the CPU encoding.

In conclusion, video codec encoding and decoding for computers is to social encoding and decoding for autistic/allistic people.

[404icy]

life lately... work and school got me so tired... i swear working while in college just ain't it... :'> i just finished aot and started reading tokyo ghoul... i love them both...

[conscientious-study]

It's another attempt at a 100 days of productivity, yay-a!

0/100

May God help the poor souls who check my homework (sorry TAs) :'D

[engineeringmee]

Personal Update - 1/14/2017

This semester I started at a new college! All though I was almost done at my old school I was very unhappy with where things were going there. My professors were very standoffish and unwilling to answer my questions and I was all around miserable. 

My first few days at this semester have been beyond amazing and I can’t wait to see where the rest of the semester goes.

[anonymousdormhacks]

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself forced to learn MATLAB

[anonymousdormhacks]

I'm not sure if it's just me getting a ton of "programmers as wizards" content recently, but I love LOVE the implication that sorcerers have to understand the world somewhat non-intuitively, looking for shortcuts and simplifications of the very fabric of the universe Like, a novice wizard might try and cast "fireball" by thinking "I should ignite a fuel source, which means I need to start by summoning an ignitable, and individually igniting every gram of the fuel until I run out", a practiced wizard says "You can simply cast fireball once on a basal ignitable and use the energy from the reaction to summon fireball & fuel again, triggering a cascading explosion effect until the room runs out of things to ignite" A third wizard points out it's indeed possible for the second wizard to actually contain the fireball if they'd just write a simple rune on their summoning circle detailing how much fuel the fireball should actually consume, and why would you just let your explosion spell go on forever because dude, do you WANT all of your spells to decimate your magic stores? You're going to run out of magic and die or you're going to cast this outdoors and kill everyone

[anonymousdormhacks]

It is absolutely amazing how much upper div computer science/engineering relies on vectors and probabilities, considering those two classes were basically footnotes in my school's computer science curriculum