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Neon Genesis Phijkchu

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July 17, 2020 – Present
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TinyBomby rawb
hiya Phijkchu, remember you're all cute and valid smile smile (That's an Earthbound reference hehehehehe) Anyway, I'm baking some cookies, who wants some!!! :)
TinyBomby rawb
Is that even an Earthbound reference people would know, it's an extremely random thing, maybe that's not fitting for making fun of these sorts of people
TinyBomby rawb
It's just that for whatever reason, it was really memorable to me that every cashier has to go "smile smile" at the end of every sentence.
mtcdood rawb
Software and computer engineering are fake professions. If you're not an electrical engineer, your code probably sucks. This is a graybeard joke.
Kribbles rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
software engineering is all about conforming to stupid outdated standards so your code has to suck
I'm already in the move to quit this software developer job
Kribbles rawb
I'm either going to be a research scientist back at my school and hang out with Mint, or I'm going back to the navy and I can say hi to Spooky once a month when I go to DC
legorhin rawb
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131
So instead of getting a Computer Engineering degree, they'd get a Biometric Engineering or Automation degree
at PhD level the degree title means very little anymore
mtcdood rawb
How much of your degree was worthless by the time you graduated? I've heard people say (depends on the degree but) half life is about 2 years.
legorhin rawb
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood
How much of your degree was worthless by the time you graduated? I've heard people say (depends on the degree but) half life is about 2 years.
none?
mtcdood rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
I would like to go down the professor route, but I would need much better spoken japanese proficiency to stay here
Couldn't you just call that expectation racist or does that not work in Japan?
mtcdood rawb
Replying to legorhin #jazardly
none?
Peepul say computer and electrical engineering is like 3-5 years on the low end, while civil and mechanical engineering are like 15-30 years on the high end. Faster changing industries so you spend more time in continuing ed.
Kribbles rawb
You should always be learning on an engineering job. The degree helps you know the fundamentals so you know where to continue learning.
mtcdood rawb
I don't think that's what I mean. If you need to replace an aging server farm you will have endless arguments about the principles to apply to the decision, because twice a decade new paradigms repudiate the old. Separate storage and compute or HCI, on-prem or cloud, KVM or k8s? With something like civil engineering your parking lot replacement isn't a "throw everything you used to know away" situation. Advancements in technology improve the existing science, they don't dogmatically replace it.
mtcdood rawb
Half life doesn't mean you only learn once every n/2 years. It's the speed at which the value of your knowledge creeps closer to 0.
mint rawb
Replying to mtcdood #mtcdood
How much of your degree was worthless by the time you graduated? I've heard people say (depends on the degree but) half life is about 2 years.
surprisingly for a career which only sometimes requires a degree and cares much more about certifications, connection, etc. and going to a shity university, my degree still super valuable. im also in a computer science related field, cybersecurity. will say the networking and resume building you do in college is just as valuable. i am under certified compared to my peers but leveraged my grass touching experiences (sports, clubs, confrence speeaking, volunteering, etc) and degree to still get the job

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