The Haus of Talk Thread

[Le Neveu de Rameau]

Maybe you should buy a better internet.

[Leet]

I decided to make an apathetically bad choice and took BuzzFeed's "how millennial are you" quiz for the sake of boredom and seeing what dumb stuff it uses to judge this. I got a nice, probably accurate 23%, but Christ on a handcracker I was not expecting the quiz to be this offensive and even I think it's going too far and normally I'd be the one laughing at these questions.

Like my emotions reading these questions mix between and and I am genuinely impressed with how awful this quiz is.

quiz author's avatar is a generic dark cloak video game man so lol

i was curious how bad the questions were, while keeping in mind that it intentionally invoked stereotypes, but i gave up when it asked me about my opinion on somebody i had never heard of in my life that it described with a single name

[Ivy]

I don't even have any mental heath issues, or at least any diagnoses

Edit: 14% verdict. I only saw one or two questions like that which could be considered offensive to most?

[No Lynch]

[QubicTom]

I have 9 days left to submit my PhD thesis. I have to spend four of those days working 12 hour shifts in another job in another city 160 km away. Still have a lot of pages to add. Two chapters left to finalize. Proofreading has to be done too.

Just thought I'd put that out there.

[Coryman]

I was starting to think Finland seems like a nice place, but then it turns out it doesn't actually exist. Kinda a shame really.
(That's an actual conspiracy theory, look it up)

[Mata Hari]

I suspect that's probably satire

[freakin whatzit]

i am apparently a 50% millennial.

some of those questions were about things i have literally never heard of before.

[TheFinalSentinel]

I have 9 days left to submit my PhD thesis. I have to spend four of those days working 12 hour shifts in another job in another city 160 km away. Still have a lot of pages to add. Two chapters left to finalize. Proofreading has to be done too.

Just thought I'd put that out there.

Oof, have fun.
What on, by the way?

[QubicTom]

Oof, have fun.
What on, by the way?

It's gonna be lots of fun I'm telling you
It's for a PhD in electron attachment to molecules. So mostly physics and some chemistry! Thank you for asking! :D

It would be fun if the talkhaus did a survey one day to see what kind of jobs or education people here have. It's usually too personal to ask people what they do, though. There are definitely a lot of talented artists and programmers on the forum. I wonder how many other scientists are hanging about? There used to be an academic/college advice thread, but it has long vanished...

If anybody wants to tell me what they do, send a message, I'm super curious!!

[Coryman]

I wonder how many other scientists are hanging about?

Huuuge chemistry nerd right here :D going into University next year

[QubicTom]

Huuuge chemistry nerd right here :D going into University next year

Oh man! It's going to be fantastic, I promise! Now all we need to do is find a biologist

[Ashan]

The professor in my operating systems class on the first day referred to Windows as "an open operating system for developers" or something like that and I think I heard onpon4 scream in the distance

ping

He also said that all software that runs on OSX (or I guess macOS now) needs to be approved by Apple which just isn't true. I think this guy is a big Microsoft fan or something. Although oddly enough the labs are about Unix/Linux/GNU (and it's what we use) so I don't really understand why this guy thinks these things.

[onpon4]

I wouldn't have noticed this post if you hadn't named me. I couldn't care less what people think of Windows and Mac OS X.

[watho]

69% millennial baabyyyyy!

[Ivy]

I'm also a chemistry lad

[Ashan]

I wouldn't have noticed this post if you hadn't named me. I couldn't care less what people think of Windows and Mac OS X.

Yeah that's why I pinged you
I think you might be a robot

[TheFinalSentinel]

If anybody wants to tell me what they do, send a message, I'm super curious!!

Computer science. Woo, big surprise around these parts.

Right now just looking at general software design. Network security is another interest of mine, so that's another option.

[QubicTom]

Computer science. Woo, big surprise around these parts.
Right now just looking at general software design. Network security is another interest of mine, so that's another option.

Network security is a profession that can only grow, and let's be honest, infosec is absolutely fascinating! They have the only conferences where you can look forward to your credit card details being stolen, your laptop keylogged and your mobile phone remotely disabled, all in the name of progress in security, ha! I'd be scared to show you any code I've written, you'd cringe and ban me from using computers ever again

I'm also a chemistry lad

One of us, one of us! Although chemistry is broad, you have to be more specific!

[Whimsical Calamari]

game programming major, though my degree track was just recently reclassified by my school as "computer science", i guess because we were that thoroughly divided from the game designers anyway.

[onpon4]

Yeah that's why I pinged you
I think you might be a robot

Don't be silly. I'm not a robot.

I'm a cyborg.

[raekuul]

I wouldn't have noticed this post if you hadn't named me. I couldn't care less what people think of Windows and Mac OS X.

Even when what they think is provably false?

[onpon4]

Even when what they think is provably false?

How so? I don't see how Windows is objectively inferior on a practical level for developers compared to other systems. I didn't like compiling software on it when I tried, but I used MinGW, not MSVC. (And that's a subjective opinion, anyway.)

[InsaneIntentions1]

Of course work wants me to come in at eleven. The time where the weather is reaching its peak.

[Coryman]

Scientists of the Talkhaus unite, so that we may one day help the mighty raocow destroy the world!
...
Or further the various fields of science. Either or.