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  • I feel this. Fell into a similar rabbit hole when I tried to get realtime feedback on the program’s own memory usage, discerning stuff like reserved and actually used virtual memory. Felt like black magic and was ultimately not doable within the expected time constraints without touching the kernel I suppose. Spent too much time on that and had to move on with no other solution than to measure/compute the allocated memory of the largest payload data types.






  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzVery scientific.
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    It taught the value of mnemonics. :D

    No, I don’t think it was or is particularly useful, besides things like “brain fitness”. It might have helped me back then to get a better grade, though. (Yes, we see now again how useless it is in many cases to memorize stuff for school/uni/whatever.)



  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzVery scientific.
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    Mnemonics are useful for remembering stuff. (Shocking revelation, I know.) I barely know anything about history for example. But I remember “333 - Issos Keilerei”, rhymes on German and means “333 - Issos Brawl”. I didn’t even remember what this was about until I looked it up just now on Wikipedia.

    The Battle of Issus (also Issos) occurred in southern Anatolia, on 5 November 333 BC between the Hellenic League led by Alexander the Great and the Achaemenid Empire, led by Darius III.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Issus

    But hey, I remembered this. My history teacher back in school did something right.

    And now I know some critter stuff. Thanks!


  • Zacryon@feddit.orgtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLinguistics
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    One thing I learned as an information technology engineer: language is a tool for communication. As long as the sender can send its message unobstructed and as long as the receiver receives and understands the message as intended, the information transmission can be considered a successs.