When I looked at SICP I saw one thing: an introduction to “thinking about programming” for people who will have to re-learn everything and will maybe use a few things here and there. The fundamentals matter but the application is the “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” phase of actual learning. There are much better ways to go about studying and learning and I found SICP lacking, among other course work that I think is taught backwards and makes it hard to reason and apply.

Read “Great Programmers” by Bram Cohen. The wisdom is there, but it’s lost on people.

Just my 2c.

It’s not propaganda at all. The standards of living there are shit. But enjoy the particle collider, I guess?

I don’t know why this keeps coming up, maybe slow news day. It’s okay to be passionate about a craft or a job and for that job to be very technical and demanding. Many people feel that way about what they do, and they are perfectly okay not being engineers.

Fight Club had the answer to this, by taking a no-name Joe Schmoe (reflected as us), and putting a gun to his head: The Question, Raymond, is what did you want to be?

Queue the “always have been” meme.

This is a meme that will keep on giving.

Nonsense like this is why I don’t read lcamtuf. His “electronics 100” falls short of any standard-issue books - today and in the past. And you can open any of them up and very often the very first thing they discuss is the Diode, not only because it’s an “easy” case to begin understanding semiconductor materials (as opposed to tube diodes), but because it forms the basis of understanding more complicated semiconductor devices and why they work the way they work.

I’ve been wholly unimpressed by lcamtuf’s output on this subject because he’s trying to teach but doesn’t know how. He’s trying to come across as smart but his covering of the subject matter is dwarfed by someone like Forrest Mims, which is amusing to think about.

Pick up a book by someone like Melvino or Floyd. They cover analog, digital, computer systems, all sorts of shit. Even the old NEETS books along with technician manuals are a godsend. NEETS approach is particularly good because it moves between phenomena and application in a broad spectrum, which is what helps for concepts to stick.

Should I switch to something else or just keep on truckin?

[0] you sweet summer child.

People have quit HN. Very valuable people who found the shift in community was distasteful and appalling.

I don’t consider YT social media myself because there’s nothing social about binging Sam Ben-Yaakov videos.

I believe “oo” is probably an infinity error condition or some such not 100% sure. I didn’t see the author discuss it since they said it’s not used. Was probably used during development as a debug printout.

Peak I don’t even know what. Have these people worked a day in their life?