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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Nov 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Porky Pangolin

      9/ the college where I went costs $80k/yr, all in, so $320k for a 4 year degree https://finaid.cornell.edu/detailed-breakdown-of-estimated-cost-attendance …https://twitter.com/PorkyPangolin/status/1461816925131096068 …

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      Porky Pangolin @PorkyPangolin
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      It doesn't cost a quarter of a million dollars to get a degree, unless you're going to Oberlin or some other overrated private college to get one in Useless Race-Gender-Word-Salad Studies.
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 19 Nov 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Porky Pangolin

      10/ eh, in the first few years post college, I - worked through SICP on my own - taught myself lex and yacc bc I wanted to write toy compilers - taught myself lisp so I could hack emacs - etc halfway decent engineers self-educate the others don'thttps://twitter.com/PorkyPangolin/status/1461817816064172034 …

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      Porky Pangolin @PorkyPangolin
      Replying to @PorkyPangolin @MorlockP
      Also, as a dev, by now you should have encountered lots of "I learned this on my own and have been doing it for years" types who don't even understand basics like recursion (which was something like Week 8 of my CS111 class).
      2:10 PM - 19 Nov 2021
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        2. Richie (retvrned to Seattle)‏ @Duderichy 19 Nov 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Didn’t know you were a lisper!

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        3. Porky Pangolin‏ @PorkyPangolin 24 Nov 2021
          Replying to @Duderichy @MorlockP

          I thought it was @robkroese who has the limp wrists.

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        2. José Camões Silva‏ @josecamoessilva 19 Nov 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          > halfway decent engineers self-educate In certain subjects, yes. I learned ~300% of the LV electronics (A&D) taught in my degree before I was 15. But [not rich and poor country] had just a multimeter (no oscilloscope, etc). And forget about real HV, power RF, chemistry 1/2

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        3. José Camões Silva‏ @josecamoessilva 19 Nov 2021
          Replying to @josecamoessilva @MorlockP

          and then there are things that you can't buy for home, either because of price ("for this one experiment I need a mass spectrometer and a 100 W 720 nm laser") or because they get you in watchlists ("I'd like 100 g of methylphosphonic acid for my organic chem homework.") 2/2

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        2. Porky Pangolin‏ @PorkyPangolin 24 Nov 2021
          Replying to @MorlockP

          Self-education only goes so far. Sure, someone could go through everything in a degree program to get the sort of broad, reasonably complete basic understanding of a technical discipline, but odds are they won't.

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        3. Porky Pangolin‏ @PorkyPangolin 24 Nov 2021
          Replying to @PorkyPangolin @MorlockP

          I mean, I've tried to pick up milling on my own. There have been dozens of times when I've struggled with getting something to work only to find something in the J&L catalog (I miss them, they were great) that I didn't know existed but that was designed for exactly that issue.

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