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4:11:58
ebrasca
beach: I am comlpiling assambly to 1 ELF file and run on qemu with this command "qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv9 -cpu power9 -nographic -kernel ./be_payload.elf"
4:30:26
no-defun-allowed
I have submitted my application to transfer universities. Upon re-reading the list of dates, they do say they will accept late applications if there are too few applications, so that situation is sort of expectable.
7:48:08
no-defun-allowed
Admittedly not really, I just...really disliked the first year at this university.
7:49:26
no-defun-allowed
Like surely how computers mangle arithmetic, and how things exist in memory should be the least of your concerns when you haven't written a "Hello, world" program, but apparently that's first week material. And most of the information was wrong, like saying the minimum number of instructions you need on a computer is about 10 (or is 1 about 10?)
7:51:41
splittist
no-defun-allowed: I am cynical, so take this comment in that spirit. I don't think you should expect to learn things at university from lectures (beyond what the examiners will want at the end of the year, or TAs will want for the coursework if that counts, too). You will learn things because you have time and access to facilities and, if you are lucky, fellow minds, that are curious about the same things.
7:51:49
no-defun-allowed
Apparently I have too high standards, never mind that I accumulate US$7000 of debt a year to rot my brain on this "education".
7:52:27
no-defun-allowed
splittist: I am well aware, I have acknowledged that I'm at university to get a piece of paper that suggests I can take this shit. Sometimes I wonder if I can.
8:00:13
no-defun-allowed
I've felt less capable of handling anything until I leave university, this week, let alone for much, much longer. But that's not a #sicl discussion.