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@cremieuxrecueil Fake, there is no way mechanical engineering is above computer engineering.

Teachers average among the least intelligent university graduates. Little of what they 'learn' is even relevant to what they end up doing. In a given year, the lowest-scoring groups on the GRE, SAT, and ACT are usually those pursuing degrees in education.

@SaltyBMG @the_pauls_pizza The problem with that is the implicit assumption that the scammers time is more valuable then the restaurants

You should've taken all the way through the order process like you were really going to do it, then at the very end (after slowly reading the order back and making a bunch of mistakes) spring her with the ol' "will that be visa or mastercard?" Or, say something like, "the total will be 1,000. Did you want me to run the card on file?"

Goomba tried to scam me 😂

@leahfiles @BernieSanders While your intentions are good you must consider Bernie is a fraud and folds under any pressure like a lawn chair. Secondly who will regulate AI? Our clown government? That is just as bad as Zuckerberg controlling anything, but swapping high psychopathy for regulatory capture.

I'm a conservative, but in an AI world, we will need a Bernie because universal income will be a requirement for millions of Americans. We need to be slowing the advancement down until we have the proper infrastructure in place to support a society. That will be the make or break for us.

When the CEO of Verizon predicts AI & robotics could lead to 20%-30% unemployment within the next few years, we may want to take notice. AI is the most transformative technology in human history. We’re not prepared for it economically or socially. That must change. NOW.

@DesireeAmerica4 The biggest issue is you are using the wrong benchmark age. The annuitization of someone already at a minimum of 62 years old is much higher than an average life span averaged at birth which is what is implied in this video.

The biggest gamble of your life? Social Security. ​The system tells you to wait. Take it at 62: $1,800/mo. Wait till 70: $3,000/mo. ​Sounds like a no-brainer, right? Run the math. To actually profit from waiting, you have to live past 82. The average US life expectancy? 79. ​With the garbage in our food and the stress we carry today, making it to 82 is a massive bet. ​Are you taking the money at 62 and running, or holding out for the bigger check?

@rich_toad @Andr3jH “The” Tech Lead

@Andr3jH That’s TechLead

UCLA professor of mathematics Terrence Tao and Olympic gold medalist figure skater Alysa Liu are reportedly dating.

@sudbauer @flowidealism The best schools in Budapest were Catholic and Lutheran at that time, that’s where most of the Martians went

@flowidealism Von Neumann attended the Fasori Evangélikus Gimnázium, a Lutheran school, not the Minta.

A tiny country produced half of the mathematical geniuses of the 20th century. To an unrecognized extent, it was coffee shop culture. Hungary gave us von Neumann, Erdős, Teller, Szilard, and many others. Scientists called them "the Martians" because their brilliance seemed otherworldly. It was in the Budapest coffee shops where mathematicians gathered. Where problems were discussed openly. Where young people could observe and join. Where intellectual passion was the social currency. The Minta school created a culture of mathematical problem-solving. Students competed in mathematics journals. The brightest minds mentored the next generation in cafes, not classrooms. We look at exceptional achievement and assume exceptional genes. Usually, we are looking at an exceptional culture. The environment that produces world-class thinking has consistent features: immersion from a young age, visible role models, peer cultures that reward intellectual engagement, and opportunity to practice with real problems. Classrooms with a standardized curriculum and age segregation produce none of these features. The Martians were not born on Mars. They were raised in a culture that valued what they would become. We could create such cultures again. We choose not to because we believe standardized schooling is the only way to educate children.

@Arnonymeannd @Neednews1935 @flowidealism Not at all “the same thing”. The achievements may both be admirable but what was hapoening in Vienna is nothing comparable what the Martians were producing in Budapest

@Neednews1935 @flowidealism Because is the same thing. Both were part of the Austrian Hungarian empire and had the overarching Jewish culture (not saying it’s the only influential culture). Even the mentioned Kaffehaus culture was present in both cities.

@predict_addict @flowidealism All of the Soviet educational reform of Hungary, that you seem very proud o, happened after WW2. The Martians had left the country by then. Since the Martians all lived close to Budapest how is the former size of the Austro-Hungarian empire, collapsed by 1918, relevant?

The comment was never about the “Martians” (those brilliant Hungarian-born scientists like von Neumann, Wigner, or Teller who left before World War II) or about Budapest. It was about your casual description of Hungary as a “tiny” country — which instantly reveals a lack of both historical and geographical perspective. Modern Hungary may be modest in size (about 93,000 km²), but its predecessor, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of Europe’s great powers for centuries. Even today, Hungary consistently punches far above its weight in global science and culture. More importantly, Hungarian mathematics extends far beyond the pre-war émigrés. During the Eastern Bloc period under Soviet influence, Hungary developed and sustained one of the world’s strongest mathematical communities precisely because of the system’s heavy investment in STEM education and research. The Hungarian Academy of Sciences was restructured along Soviet lines in the 1950s. The very first “Soviet-type” research institute it created was the Institute for Applied Mathematics (1950). This model — centralized state funding, specialized research centers, and a rigorous nationwide system of math competitions and talent identification — mirrored Soviet practices but built directly on Hungary’s own pre-existing traditions (such as the Eötvös and Kürschák competitions). The result was a genuine Hungarian mathematical school that flourished under these conditions. This era produced world-class native Hungarian mathematicians who stayed and worked in the country, including: • Alfréd Rényi (foundational work in probability theory and information theory; the Rényi Institute of Mathematics is named after him) • András Hajnal (pioneer in set theory and combinatorics) • Vera T. Sós, Tibor Gallai, and many others It also nurtured the next generation — László Lovász and Endre Szemerédi — whose groundbreaking contributions (Lovász’s graph algorithms and the Lovász number; Szemerédi’s regularity lemma and theorem) emerged while they were based in Hungary during the communist years. By reducing Hungary to “tiny” and focusing only on the Martians, the original remark casually dismisses this entire rich chapter of native achievement. Hungarian mathematics in the Eastern Bloc was not peripheral — it was a direct product of talented individuals working within a Soviet-influenced but distinctly Hungarian institutional framework that prioritized rigorous training and competition. That legacy continues to shape global mathematics today.

@RudisRowley Not a kimura, an Americana or Keylock

Down 11-1 in the NCAA quarters and Austin DeSanto said forget it, I’m going full MMA The kimura attempt on Micic is one of the most unhinged moments in college wrestling history

@PranavaOmYogi @Adriksh Fact check: False

@Adriksh Nothing can replace C amigo. Rust and Go are just packaged C with OOP. C will always be here.

Rust is getting a lot of momentum. But do you really see a future without C/C++. do they still matter when real systems are built?

@TimSweeneyEpic @Andercot Increase the compute of the simulation increase the ‘c’ constant which will increase rendering speed.

@Andercot I want a faster photon.

"If I had asked people what they wanted they would've said quantum gravity"

@valentindmtr115 @Adriksh Are you saying you aren’t debating between Rust and TS or Java and JavaScript? I mean that’s my eternal dilemma.

@Adriksh Probably the debates start due to having the wrong mindset, I give you that, but probably it will bring you enormous knowledge due to the sheer amount of research you'll do on the spot to prove "you're right". Everyone benefits from those stupid debates paradoxically.

Rust vs C C vs C++ C++ vs Python Python vs Java Java vs JS JS vs TS TS vs Rust Rust vs Zig Zig vs Go Go vs C Entire careers get spent in comparison threads. Meanwhile, the people actually winning picked one stack, lived with its trade-offs, learned how the machine really behaves, and stopped caring about debates that don’t ship code.

@wilsonmura @AlanBRahn @nixcraft I wouldn’t trust most any institution especially any associated with oPeN SoUrCe . Just look at the Python crowd. However the language use case speaks for itself and it already bodied the Go language which isn’t nothing.

@Embedded_IoT_ @AlanBRahn @nixcraft I can’t say I trust the institutions backing Rust so that’s a hard no for me

Is it a good idea for new developers to learn ‘C’ language in 2026?

@Vicharak_In Thanks

@Embedded_IoT_ Give us some time, it’ll be soon under 10$

Learning FPGAs is cheaper than your @netflix subscription now.

@pindermason @Vicharak_In @netflix $200? Rember the Elbert V2, Papilio, and Nano DE-0

@Vicharak_In @netflix Huh a $4 fpga? I remember when they were like $200 for the cheapest dev board

@janetacarr Because they have to “show their work”. You can’t modify, customize, refine, or refactor non-human readable binary unless you are an autist. In addition we have specialized tools to covert code to 0’s and 1’s; having AI do this directly serves no purpose.

if LLMs will make software engineering obsolete, why don't they just generate binaries instead? not code & compile under the hood. Object code is data too. why do LLMs have to generate things that humans create?

@rogerhere @nixcraft Insight yes but remember the JVM and JIT for Java, transpiler and interpreter for Python, and the Javascript event loop and V8 engine. All these languages have their own varied methods of getting binary into the bit register.

@nixcraft Given how so many other languages use a syntax that is influenced by C, how hard would it be to learn C? My take is that if one learns C (and the Standard IO library) they’ll have insight into how the language they are using is interacting with the system.

@BSurrogate95671 @nixcraft What if I told you that Rust is going to for C what Java did for C++ bit without the JVM and JIT compiler issues?

Absolutely. C forces you to learn about memory management where in other scripting languages you never have to think about it. Its difficult coming from a higher level language and needing to think about it. Oh and the strings in C haha it requires work, planning, and thought. Basically forces you to use a debugger or finding issues becomes very difficult. Many devs use print statements, which works, but debuggers help you level up. Learn C. Learn how to use debuggers.

@AlanBRahn @nixcraft The biggest issue holding Rust back is tooling. That is a solvable issue. When that fully ramps up we move to replace a lot of C code.; especially with AI translation doing the work. Nothing moves fast in embedded, but it will happen.

@nixcraft I am going to disagree with most of these posts, and recommend focusing on Rust instead. It is the best replacement for C, and has several significant advantages - which is why some companies are currently rewriting legacy C/C++ code in Rust, for example.