Rust.
There's certainly a lot of interesting things happening with Rust but I'm one or two problems away from deciding that Rust isn't a viable replacement for the situations where I use C.
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#22More physics and mathematics. I am currently on Lagrangian mechanics and calculus of variations. Am also learning Jupyter and SymPy for visualizarions of the same. During my high school, only Newtonian mechanics was taught, whereas in engineering college, they introduced quantum mechanics with Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formulation, skipping classical mechanics with those two. The purpose of learning is just fun.
Where are you learning this?
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#23How to sail a dinghy, synthesizer in a band and a leadership course
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#24That in Europe you must NEVER be a contractor for those companies living off public tenders, whether they be companies winning contracts for wastewater plants or companies producing "research"
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#25Swift and iOS development! I've been lucky enough to spend a lot of my career being able to get my hands dirty with a bunch of different projects and at a lot of layers of the stack, but I never got deep into app development.
Now I'm diving in and scratching that itch! It's also been great because I've been able to start looking beyond that to making things for the entire apple ecosystem. It's also just been so good to dive into something without any work pressure there!
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#26Just signed up for the summer session of: https://www.eecs70.org/
I don't have much experience with proof-based math, which has been a constant thorn while studying physics.
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#27I am trying to learn Go and Rust. So far I’ve started doing advent of code problems in Go, and then planning to start doing the same in Rust.
Would also like to start learning how to DJ
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#28Rust. There's certainly a lot of interesting things happening with Rust but I'm one or two problems away from deciding that Rust isn't a viable replacement for the situations where I use C.
> but I'm one or two problems away
Been there. You are not alone.
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#29Longtime data engineer - web apps in vanilla HTML/CSS/JS with Node - and some fun with ncurses in C++. Copilot is helping me out a bit but I’m having fun!
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#30Working my way up to calculus for the first time in my life, at nearly 40 years old. I've always hated math :(
When I was a kid, they always told me math would be super useful, especially if I liked computers. Well, 20+ years of a dev career later, I still have never used anything more than basic arithmetic and rudimentary algebra (to calculate responsive component sizes). But with web dev jobs going the way of the horse-drawn wagon, I figured it was time for a career change. Hoping to get into (civil/environmental) engineering instead, but I guess that field actually does use math, lol. We'll see how it goes...
In the meantime, also taking singing classes at the community college, and enjoying THAT way more. We performed at a nursing home a few weeks ago, and that brought SO much joy to the audience there, even though we're just a bunch of amateurs. It's just such a different reception than anything I've ever seen as a dev. Tech rarely inspires such joy.
If I could start all over again, I wish I would've pursued music over computer stuff. Much harder life though!