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That took me much longer to figure out than I would admit to in person.

I showed my wife at 14 and she was not impressed. At 20 she is impressed.

It’s possible to like one from that list or for one to be your favorite. I have a friend who says his favorite is great Gatsby.

It usually means we should ask more questions, because people who read who choose books from school are I think a minority. Most of those books are good for discussion and generally likeable but not “holy shit this it the book for me” kinds of books.

Hatchet is the plane crash. The other is “my side of the mountain”.

Lots of gut cherry references in hatchet, and one instance of profanity as I recall.

Some people are hiding in this category as well. I don’t trust people who, when you ask their favorite book, tell you it’s hatchet, to kill a mockingbird, Atlas shrugged, etc etc. If it was a school read, chances are it’s one of like 5 books they ever actually read.

Idk why we had to get rid of swipe up from the bottom where the 3 icons used to always be. Now if you want to get at all the open stuff I have to execute a corner.

That first day was a real bitch and a half.

Smart tube also looks like it’s working this morning.

That was a neat watch

I personally think anybody here saying your negative response is because people hate thinkers or anti intellectualism or whatever is totally missing the point. Those things are certainly true. But probably not why you get weird looks.

Probably it’s a combination of 2 things:

1. In 2025 philosophy, English, history, poetry, etc are to greater or lesser extents “hobby degrees”. People enjoy the topics generally but don’t see a way to repay loans using that degree, because if you’re not going to go teach it or write the next book, there’s no money in it. These are things we do with our free time for the love of it.

2. By extension of 1, if you CAN have one of these degrees you either a) have a boatload of money, b) you must be naive of the fact (according to people you are talking to) that your job prospects are very limited, or c) you have extreme aptitude to be part of the small group that can make it, but everybody will still limp you into b.

I have a friend who majored in music in college, but not to teach: it was specifically to play timpani. He also was perplexed at the negative reactions he would get. Unfortunately right before he graduated someone told him that there are only like 10 professional concert timpanist positions in the country that provide a salary you can live from, and the rest just moonlight and have other jobs. After 1 year if hunting a good position he sold his drums and got a job in marketing selling windows and siding.

Of course the world would be less vibrant without professionals in these areas, but there are a lot more philosophy majors working in, say, marketing than there are Humes, Kants, Socrateses, Hegels, and so on.

Basically it doesn’t look practical so it seems like either a bad financial choice or that you’re a spoiled rich kid unless you mention “double major” type stuff.

Yeah you can’t JUST do CS anymore. Why would you hire a CS grad to do your project when you have to plan it to the end and provide rigid specifications to follow? Instead you can hire an engineer or someone from stat or data analytics that ALSO comes with a boatload of programming (and often software architecting) expertise?

It only makes sense to hire someone with a CS specialty if the problem your company solves specifically calls for that specialty. That’s is getting increasingly rare in the age of SaaS, containerization, IaaS, etc.

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That could be. I guess I’ve got a tag!

You’re +8 for me!

I just have a little too much fun arguing with people trying to rationalize something that really just doesn’t need to be rationalized to be valid

We have that in common.

It seems like there’s an argument for axes of rotation to be made but I can’t find it. Or at least why a sliding window isn’t the optimal steering strategy for first person gaming but I can’t find the race.

To be fair, I am not even (outside of flight based games like aerofighters assault once upon a time) an inverted thumb stick user…

I agree. But it still feels right for up and down which is the only thing at issue.

No reason up and down can’t make sense that way and left and right be for rotating a different axis. Like driving a car with a joystick doesn’t mean if you expect pushing forward makes it go forward then logically when you go left or right on the stick you expect the car to strafe.

Tipping makes sense. Idk it’s like if the joystick is the top of your character’s head.

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I mean it just needs to be unique. Otherwise what’s stopping someone else from pretending to be you (if they got control of some other credentials) or weaseling out of something you did in fact sign for.

To quote Mr burns “you can’t all sign with an x”.

For sure no. I don’t want to live frugally for the long term. I played that game in college and I’m not excited to go back.

You got me. I was taught incorrectly in high school. I always assumed it was the same thing as different pronouns in those particular cases for, as an example Spanish “se” vs “le”. You’ve made me a better member of the alt write, formerly grammar nazis.