Notices by T.C. Harris (q_aurelius@wandering.shop)

@louis @mekkaokereke

One of my former colleagues is a former conservative and he posted it to FB outraged about it and all of his family and friends are jumping all over him about misinformation, misleading still images, defamation, leftist lies, etc. etc.

"I wonder how you would do if someone had a camera on you 24/7 willing to take anything out of context, hm??"

This is who they are now. Who a lot of them always were.

@inthehands And to be clear, I don't think my education was bad or useless. That's just what would fit in a single post.

A detailed understanding of the fundamentals of computing helps me in lots of intangible ways.

And even for that era, my program was atypical. We were working in ANSI C while friends at other schools were using Java. My job in software engineering is akin to a skilled trade, and my computer science degree was organized to prepare me to do graduate research in computing.

@inthehands I have said many times that I use my humanities degree more directly in my software engineering career than my computer science degree.

My humanities classes taught me how to speak to an audience, how to craft an argument, how to spot rhetorical sleight of hand, how to work across cultural differences.

My CS degree taught me how to build data structures that I just use libs for and resource management that the VM does for me and algorithms that I have long forgotten.