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" Linux programming 3rd edition …" alan cox 2004
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I am 21yo old, and I’m pretty sure next summer I’m going to forget all MIPS assembler commands that university wants me to learn.
In times when MIPS foundation itself moved to RISC-V.
I will never accept that in the middle ages and antiquity anyone was able to afford educate apprentices right at the place. But modern companies for some reason need a paper from organization which workers only function is being an organic TTS device for books and PDFs.
Why it’s even called universities? Whole purpose of the universities in the beginning was for to furfill a free man with already good wealth their desire to knowledge. And so as they had no struggle in money and need for job they could afford to learn anything, from theology to astronomy, in pack with dramaturgy.
But modern universities exists solely for making competitive specialists, which are needed by society/market. Though they’re still pretending to be universities of the old, and trying to make your chances to find job as small as possible.
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Academic institutions have always been fed by the political will in rule of a nation. Perhaps even in Socrates’ days…
It often is a drag, and more so these days. - I (63 years old) completely agree.
Nowadays as is mostly any bureaucracy structure they’re fed by tax money. And their real, not on-paper motivation, just to continue self-existance and to get more money.
I’ve studied in Russia, from 2019 in Spain, it’s all the same.
Like, literally. Structure, process, materials, little to no interests in education of the both most students and professors.
I wasn’t even surprised when I looked at USA Ivy-league universities and saw that their bachelor programs and materials are like 1:1 with ours.
Exams, styles of lectures, labworks, courseworks.
The only thing that maybe is a bigger scam than the higher education it’s a ranking system of the education.
But the funny is, in the world top colleges it can be even worse, like first 3 years of bachelor math and coding is just about 1/3 of total hours. And with weird perturbations like obligatory geology classes for CS degree.
The only good thing in Spain universities is that it’s less secure, you can go in to the nearly any facility on campus without having special student ID-card.
But the one Giant CONS it’s the worst crime against student that I ever encountered - negative points for wrong answer.
In Russia we’ve been taught taught that you shall never give up and try to answer on everything what is possible. But it’s seems that Spain gone even further with making educational system as worse as penal.
In Russia the main cons was excess of the assignatures. It’s a bloated mess which seems to be relative to more traditional approach, but funny thing, it’s not.
Higher education in Russian Empire was more straightforward.
And looking at amount of the nobel nominates whom learned in Russian empire before 1917 or whose teacher got education in RI, the fact that Nobel himself and Euler lived here, and Lobachevsky created a damn non-eucleadean geometry as a thing, for sure it’s was much more efficient.
I’ve thrown a stone to Ivy league for the perturbations like obligatory geology, but nearly at any bachelor program in Russia we have obligatory - philosophy, foreign language, history, russian language and physical education. What enrages me the most, each of this classes is just repeating last 3 years of the high school programm.
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The Spaniards are well known for machismo inherent in all their politics and public administration. An inherent lack of being organized, you already mentioned…
Can’t say anything about ecucation in Russia from my end… but you did it. Not really surprising what you say.
Hang in there! - Meet your goals!
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Did I mention bribery as a fashionable lubricant to anything you might want to achieve with any public administration? - I keep being told it works quite well in Spain…
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No, but I think it’s won’t be something that I’m unaware of.
I’m quite aware about how it’s working in Spain and other EU countries.
And if we speak about USA, well, I think everyone knows how even their politicians pretending to be relative with native americans, to get free top-education. And in last few years there were scandals that universities use such strategies very actively.
Quite funny that such “backdoors” are mostly used by billionaires and millionaires, like if they don’t have a 250k dollars to pay for bachelor, instead of giving 100k bribe.
And if to speak about EU in general, yours bureaucracy it’s like 9 rings of hell. I think I can write a book about it, but most annoying in compare to my homeland, you need to do nearly everything in person, and even few things which’re on the internet, do require you to fill all manually and to wait in a query, like it’s a quick time event.
In Russia, at least, everything is very well automated, nearly everything can be done remotely at home.
And not directly related to the government structures, it’s happened to me, and my spaniard friends all the time. Banks in Spain don’t want your money, you need to force yours manager to do his job. And just making him stop trying to run away, could take a damn hour.
In Russia… I can do everything on the web page or mobile app, even order to home delivery of the credit card.
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Thanks for the insight into Russian ways of administration. Yet I think, we both have been carrying this thread into getting off-topic.
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I think the Farmer and Architect labels should be swapped, other than that, spot on 
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(Share Your Linux Memes - #689 by SearingSunrazeSmash)
There is also:
Show your terminal prompt - #21 by Kresimir
Just added to Distrowatch list, what I think is an oxymoron:
from:
So basically it is Linux Mint with Snaps installed. 
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Memento mori
