Seconding the FOSS advice from the perspective of a fellow learner.
I'm a scientist first and foremost, so I'm learning programming on the side. A lot of code that's written by scientists is pretty grim, so attempting to understand and contribute to FOSS projects has been useful in understanding how a complex project is organised, and how to read code as well as write it.
Contributing can be pretty small, even opening a git issue for a problem, or adding some info to an existing issue. You won't be able to just dive in and start solving problems all over, and it can feel overwhelming to try as a relative beginner, but it massively improved my skills.
I really respect people who edit comments to acknowledge when they're wrong, but leave the original mistake intact (but usually strike through). Like this:
~~I delete my comments when I'm proven wrong because it's embarassing and I don't want to perpetuate misinformation~~
Actually, I'm leaving my mistake up, because then people can follow the conversation easier and see how I came to realise I was wrong
I'm not clear on what data you would want more of. In terms of having a group to compare against, we're sort of losing that ability because nowadays, around 90% of young women in Scotland are vaccinated in school. I might be missing what point you're making; stats has a tendency to cook my brain when I'm not doing it on pen and paper
I cannot count the times that I have gone through the legitimate path to read a paper, by clicking "AcCeS tHiS pApEr ThRoUgH yOuR iNsTItUtIoN" and I log in through my university, faffing with 2FA, only to be told "nah, you don't have access". I just go straight to scihub nowadays.
"In Sweden, having drugs in the bloodstream is punishable with prison"
Oh wow, I didn't know that
What do you expect her to do instead?
What's your favourite scent/scent note? (Either scent to work with if you make perfumes, or just something you personally enjoy for your own use)
I know of Chappell Roan because she's recently been ruffling people's feathers by asserting boundaries against fans' parasocial weirdness; I've never heard any of her music, but this alone is enough to make me a fan.
On paper, the Equality Act 2010 is great in a bunch of ways. In practice, it's exceedingly difficult for the average person to pursue justice through it. I imagine the barrier is similar to how it works in the US, except the UK has way less of a litigation culture.
Ah yes, thank you for adding this.
Taken from Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/restlesshush/762621892466294784/my-friend-made-me-this
Link to John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (the thing referenced in this meme): https://archive.org/details/JFSP56
Taken from Tumblr
Link to John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (the thing referenced in this meme): https://archive.org/details/JFSP56
This was a switch that got its wires pulled out. I learned how to desolder today in order to remove it from the little switch board and now there's three holes where this used to be. Does this component have a name, because I'm wondering whether I can just get a replacement one like this. There are lots of tools and supplies at the makerspace I used, but I need to know what I'd be looking for.
Alternatively, what else might I be able to use to do this? I suppose I could just trim and strip the wires and shove those through and solder, but that seems...crude? I don't know. I'd prefer something with pins because I practiced soldering and desoldering using some broken electronics I had, and I'm more confident with pins than something so freeform.
Thanks for your time.
I just skip the in-between stages — I'm a botnet pretending to be a woman