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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This was me for years.

And then I had to write some software that needed to visualise a rotary milking platform which is a circle, divided into segments, with different parts of each segment showing different things at different times.

Oh, and since it's rotary, the circle had to be animated and rotate in sync with the actual milking platform.

Oh and different clients had different numbers of bays in their platforms so I couldn't hardcode anything, it had to dynamically draw the platform, animate it and respond to events like window size change.

Suffice to say I had to drag highschool geometry out from the graveyard of my brain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Every day, I use them ever damn day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use them every day. Making science is rad as fuck.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sin, Cos and Tan were gifted to us by the gods, and it's solely your fault, if you don't use them daily in your freetime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Know any good resources for math-ignorant programmers that teaches how to use those in useful ways?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The smarter kids in your class probably do use them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah. I was labeled a dumb kid in high school because I had to work 40 hours a week. I went back to college as an adult and now have a masters in mech Eng.

Went to my high school reunion and the smart kids were largely abject failures. They never really struggled until college, then mostly failed out. I felt bad for them, but not too bad since most of them bullied me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like maybe there weren't the true smart kids. You finished high-school while working a full time job. You were capable and adaptable. Fuck them :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is at least one smbc for everything Smbc comic where a man and a woman discuss all the useless things kids learn in school

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never really understood people who say they don't use algebra. I use it very regularly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Programmer for 25 years. Only time I have ever used math more complicated than simple multiply/divide was... actually never.

That one time when I copy/pasted a formula for linear interpolation, was still just multiplication and division. And I still have no idea how it works.

I've even done OpenGL and graphics programming and still haven't needed any algebra/trig/etc, although I don't do complex 3D rendering or physics or anything like that.

I wish I knew how to do cool programming stuff like draw circles and waves and stuff though, but I've never seen a tutorial that didn't go WAY over my head immediately.