School & army background - Bisqwit - Frequently Asked Questions, Part 2/4

[@TealJosh]

Quick more expansive explanation on Finnish school system using the chart on the video. You can mix upper secondary school and vocational school degrees together. The benefit of this is you get some of the book smarts from upper secondary and a profession from vocational school(I'm personally sad I didn't do this. I'm currently 23 and without profession). The next part is the higher education. I'm fairly sure there's no easy path from vocational school to university. Mixed degree I think can do it just fine. Some people might go as far to take the following route: Vocational school/mixed degree -> university of applied sciences -> University(as post graduate). There's also a lot of travel between university of applied sciences and university in general, for both directions. One thing that also happens is people who didn't do particularly well in upper secondary school can go to vocational school to get an "easy to access" profession. Most common route people take from upper secondary school going to university of applied sciences.

[@br2716]

As someone who is about to complete their college CS degree, you sir are among my most respected teachers. You may not have gotten the Master's on paper, but I consider you one of the greats when it comes to both teaching and programming.

[@glewfw7989]

you know most cs phds does not know anything about programming and I hate that mostly bc they only do theory

[@runneypo]

@@glewfw7989 thats because the point of cs phd's is to do research to further our knowledge of computer science theory and not to become the best in writing performant application software

[@joey199412]

@@glewfw7989 The theory is very important however. I respect CS phds for what they are: Scientists. The distinction is the same one as between a scientist and engineer. One pushes the boundary of the field while the other makes practical applications with the methods and knowledge generated by the former. Programmers, the people actually making stuff are like engineers while the theory people are the scientists. It's kinda a problem because both fall under CS. I personally got both a BSc in CS and B.Eng (bachelors of engineering) in Computer Engineering from the exact same bachelors course. They just decided to teach both heavily into the theory as well as actually engineering hardware so they award 2 degrees at graduation. The problem is when people think CS is about programming or about theory. It's usually both.

[@voxbine4005]

Indeed

[@turbo6780]

All the greatest programmers are college dropouts.

[@petabyt]

0:55 Uses foot to press keys

[@Bisqwit]

Standing up, too! Sometimes you have to go an extra mile for a silly two-second gag.

[@30p87]

Lol I didn't realised that

[@cortezphenix9569]

I had no idea. 😆

[@ArtyomGalstyan]

its not a bug, its a feature.

[@otonanoC]

The Finnish accent is one of the 7 wonders of science.

[@teachies902]

it isn't so much an accent as it is a refusal to conform to the blatant oddities and cross-linguistic phenomena that exist in english.

[@MystycCheez]

@@teachies902 which results in an accent

[@webgpu]

@@teachies902 People should only be able to criticize something on the day they come up with a better alternative to it. "Talk is cheap" (oh, by the way, what language are you using now to write your comment? it seems you're writing in English, aren't you? And it seems you're going to answer to my question in English too! English, English, English...)

[@spudwish]

Speaking of accent, I'd be interested to know in a future faq video why his accent is so bad, since typically finns speak very good English. His English is so bad that surely it must be some kind of a joke? /Swede

[@tissuepaper9962]

@@spudwish His English is excellent, and he is a very fluent speaker. I'm honestly not sure I've ever heard him make a real "mistake" that wasn't just slang or common usage. Strong accent ≠ Bad English.

[@Rohan20103]

Thank you so much for comprehensively explaining the Finnish education system!

[@bonbonpony]

Yup, that was very informative :)

[@NOCTUMSEMPRA]

Yeah, so informative. I wish here in Argentina the teaching was that good. Contents level has decreased over time. Generation is lost. Some teachers from "Estate schools" miss some basic multiplication rules when teaching. A shame.

[@bonbonpony]

@@NOCTUMSEMPRA I lost my hope in public education long time ago, when I noticed how much more I can learn alone than I ever learnt in any school. I mean, sometimes I can learn more from KZbin tutorials / video lectures in a week than I learnt in schools for all those years! And I can choose my teachers so that I could learn from the masters of the trade, not some cheap imitations :J Recently I checked the math questions from the SAT test in my country, and most of them I could solve in my head. (Not to mention that it was a multiple choice test, so the correct answer was always one of the answers listed.) It was ridiculously easy, and yet more people failed that test than ever before ;q It was definitely much harder back then when I was passing it.

[@Graphichorizon]

Education is also free.

[@bonbonpony]

@@Graphichorizon If you meant public education: no, it isn't. If you don't pay directly to the school, you do it anyway in your taxes. Which, in my opinion, is worse than paying directly to the school, because _you can't choose which school you want to support_ :q Bad schools get the same amount of tax money as good schools, which means there's less money for everyone and every public school is low on budget, no matter good or bad. If people could pay directly to the school of their choice, they would put more effort into making sure that the school of their choice is good, and good schools would get more support from the community, letting them grow, while bad school with bad teachers would either have to put more effort and become good too, or bankrupt and go off business. And before you say that "oh, but then I would have to pay for school, not everyone can afford that" - I remind you that you already pay for it in your taxes, so if you could keep that money instead and choose which school you want to support with the very same money, you would be better off in your education right now. Sure, there might be people who are _very_ poor and really can't afford education (even if they didn't have to pay so much in taxes). But then there's that idea of education grants sponsored by local communities or pro-education charity organizations who could help them in such case. That's how education system could work if it really were about good education and not just state brainwashing drone factory.

[@rollingrock3480]

Bisqwit, IMO you are a total genius and a genuinely fascinating person. Your FAQ's are some of my favorite content on the entire internet! I had no idea you served in the Finnish Army. I was in the US Army (speaking of bad decisions and questionable information, I believed in George W. Bush's War in Iraq haha). What weapon did you qualify Sharpshooter with? In Basic Combat Training and Infantry School I shot the M16A4 with iron sights, and before kicking in doors they gave us M4's with the M68 optic. Your family must have been very proud of your marksmanship!

[@ImKurono]

What years was that and where were you stationed?

[@rollingrock3480]

@@ImKurono 2007-2011, Fort Benning, GA.

[@cockatoofan]

Im guessing bisqwits sharpshooting medal is for the rk62 since he was in a communications unit and didn't decide to go further in the military The Finnish army seriously lacks diversity in weapons and apart from light machine guns pretty much everyone gets an rk62 and only the jägers can even dream of getting rk95tp's apart from some mechanised infantry who get them because of the collapsing stock

[@Bisqwit]

The only weapon we used in the basic training in the army was the assault rifle Rk-62, which is based on the AK-47.

[@paulwratt]

@@Bisqwit & @Rolling Rock: Styr and M60 - one bullet off Queens Marksman

[@DoomRater]

"What is your educational background?" *puts on glasses*

[@Bisqwit]

That was actually just a funny coincidence. Unlike the rest of the video, I filmed that footage _after_ someone had commented on part 1 saying they like me better with glasses.

[@victornaut]

We were lucky enough to be born just the right time, through the entire existence, to experience this great individual's content.

[@MrBreada]

Thank you for your constant inclusion of closed captions. I would like to say that I'm not hard of hearing, but the closed captions increase the enjoyability of any video I watch, and they aren't present enough on KZbin.

[@PU7MZD]

Soldier Bisqwit is something I have nerver imagined

[@jbtibbals8490]

I already thought highly of u for ur style and knowledge in programming. Then hearing u also chose the defense services makes me respect u even more. Kippis.

[@nuszkat9953]

I love how calm you are when talking.

[@drmprod]

Hey, Joel I'm a fan of your work, I have been for many years. I loved the chrono trigger translation development system you made! Also the Castlevania 2 retranslation article was a joy to read. Keep it up mate.

[@anirangoncalvesbr]

Im laughing my ass off on the keyboard part. Please never change Bisqwit! thanks for another round of entertaiment.

[@sznio]

About Rust: For what the templates are usually used for (polymorphism), just use type parameters. For what would've been a template hack in C++, use compiler plugins or procedural macros, which allow you to pretty much implement any syntax for anything. They work at the AST level so it might be hard to wrap your head around. For example, Serde is a procedural macro for automatically generating serializers for structs. I myself implemented a macro for automatically generating sqlite schemas for structs.

[@proloycodes]

whats the diff between templates and generic type parameters?

[@tucru5611]

In Israel there is a mandatory army service as well, for both male and female (at least for the secular jewish population, arabs and haredi jews, as well as female druze and religius female jews are not forced) and you can't really choose between army and civil service (well, there is the concept of gap year between highschool and the army when you do civil service or go to a pre military academy, but you still need to go to the army afterwards). If you are not required by law to join the army, or you get exempt for medical/mental reasons, you can volunteer to the army or for civil service. If you go to the army mandatory service is 30 months for males and 24 for females. So It was intresting It's different that around the world, I didn't know Finland had mandatory servuce as well! In Israel on senior year everyone is so concered on what unit of the army they are going to join, instead of higher education.

[@DjVortex-w]

Also, there are essentially two types of universities in Finland (although, like everything nowadays, I believe there have been a lot of push towards unifying everything, because nothing can be kept separate anymore for reasons known to nobody). I don't know what they are officially called, but one set of universities concentrates more on the "humanities" fields and the other in the technology fields, although there may be some overlap in what they teach. (The latter were for quite long in fact called "teknillinen korkeakoulu", but in order to differentiate themselves from "ammattikorkeakoulu" they now generally call themselves "teknillinen yliopisto"). While there are several educational paths you can take in order to study computer programming, the "highest" one is still going to a university of technology. Then there's of course an inscrutably complex web of vocational schools of different degrees that's so complicated that nobody can keep track of them (and the majority of which seems to exist solely to egregiously take advantage of government funding while providing completely sub-par education.)

[@runneypo]

its because the original purpose of universities when they first began was to provide a general education on all topics. This takes very little research to find out. It seems that some academics want to return to the original academy ideal first conceived by plato in athens greece

[@pixboi]

egregiously take advantage of government funding while providing completely sub-par education.) exactly

[@HiGuyMB]

> would need some serious motivation to learn rust Sounds like a job for the Rust Evangelism Strikeforce

[@jaythomas3180]

With someone like him who can accomplish so much in C/C++ with great ease the motivation to use Rust for non-critical hobby applications is likely non-existent. I prefer Rust only because I didn't really get far into C/C++ before picking up Rust and found Rust's community and ecosystem more pleasant to learn and grow from. In an alternate timeline I could see myself in Bisqwit's shoes though.

[@Mautar55]

SUCH IS THE FATE FOR THE NON-BELIEVERS!

[@dashl5069]

@@ottergauze I agree that it is pretty dumb that they try to force the language on other people, but I also think it is fine to use the language for as many things as possible (and talk about it). Nobody should have to use rust, but it is true that you can do almost anything with it if you want to and that is a perfectly good thing to show why it could be a good language for some people.

[@Totiimon]

@Ethan Ansell Yeah, you deserve to be a bigot comfortably and new things may scare you. Pathetic. It's a language.

[@proloycodes]

@Ethan Ansell umm what? the book & website wont force down your throat? if you go there, it means you want to learn rust, and so they have the right to?

[@zeropointzer0]

The Finnish education system is pretty simple compared to the German one - we have 4 years of elementary school...and then the fun begins. The next layer (simplified) is Hauptschule/Mittelschule, Realschule, Gymnasium (of which there is a variety of flavors), Fachoberschule, Berufsoberschule or IGS/Gesamtschule. In some cases this entitles you to attend a Fachhochschule (FH, re-branded to "university of applied sciences") or Universität, in some cases not at all or only if you go to school type A first and then to type B after getting a 2 or 3yr vocational training which then enables you to get sort of a "high school diploma" that enables you to go to an FH or Uni - the latter requires the "Allgemeine Hochschulreife" while the former only requires the "Fachgebundene Hochschulreife". Etc. Etc. Etc. And on top of that, the nitty-gritty details of all that shit depend on the state ("Bundesland") you live in (some school types like the IGS don't even exist in every state) - and we have 16 of them. Good luck when moving from one state to another with school kids. I'm not entirely sure, but the German education system must be at least in the top 5 of the most complicated ones in the entire universe. We really like things to be as twisted and as complicated as possible I suppose. :D

[@BirgerBurgerBargir]

Great video! That foot on the keyboard was really funny. Looking forward to your next video!

[@salainen6850]

Can't wait for the third part!

[@DallasLangdon]

This man can program and shoot. Dangerous man here

[@thomasmartin6623]

The old mechanical keyboards are great. Still have an old dell one that works perfectly.

[@bonbonpony]

Yeah, but how to attach them to modern computers? They don't exactly have those old DIN or PS/2 sockets anymore :q

[@Bisqwit]

There are adapters. PS/2 sockets are still commonplace, although maybe not ubiquitous. All motherboards that I possess have a PS/2 socket. For DIN you would need a DIN-PS/2 adapter. If you lack a PS/2 socket, you would need a PS/2-USB adapter.

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

@@bonbonpony you can get those ps/2 to USB adaptors

[@mariobrother1802]

Hi Bisqwit, I have a question regarding low-level programming. Which skills would you recommend for someone to learn to get a job in the field of low-level programming, such as e.g. embedded programming?

[@samzx81]

I would imagine that knowing some assembly language, C or C++, some basic electronics and having some knowledge of computer architecture would put you in a pretty good position. But that's just a guess honestly. I'm also interested in what Bisqwit would have to say about it :)

[@samzx81]

Also experience working with micro controller/s

[@seanjackson6474]

I assume learning assembly and the architecture of some older machines would help. I would also like to possibly go into this field someday.

[@amansaxena5898]

@@seanjackson6474 Why older? IMO architecture modern μC cores like cortex-m4 and system architecture of μC that around it such as STM32 are quite simple and can be understood by a single Person. Also, documentation for them is plenty

[@DjVortex-w]

C and Python are used a lot in embedded programming (although Python mainly on the PC side to do things related to things like building the project and testing, not so much on the embedded device side). C++ can also be useful with some embedded devices. Deep knowledge of Embedded Linux (such as Yocto Linux) is also very useful. Having experience in programming for embedded systems of all kinds (all the way from chips like the STM8 to systems like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino) help.

[@bob-ny6kn]

Why not a Dvorak keyboard? Or create a programmer's kybd for each language? You and I chose the same paths. I have no degree, but self-taught- even Pascal (c. 1985?!), applied, tested and accepted, but never entered uni, worked in computer based electronics, comms, 1553, web, optics, LASER... You made the right decisions. You are a genius. Live with it. :)

[@Bisqwit]

A radically different keyboard layout would break muscle memory especially with keyboard shortcuts.

[@bob-ny6kn]

@@Bisqwit Consider your "phone" and thumb-typing. Totally goes against "Zwerty/Qwerty" It is like spoken language... just a few mistakes and then you become bi-manual (just made that up).

[@Bisqwit]

@@bob-ny6kn Well I actually type on a touch-screen-phone using my index finger. And I don’t have any established hot keys there nor muscle memory to speak of.

[@NethTech]

PS/2&AT Series Keyboards and yet multiple threadripper based systems. Your insane.

[@bonbonpony]

I have a question: Where do you get information about the newest C++ standards? (like C++17 or C++20) I tried to refresh my C++ knowledge too a while ago, but I couldn't find any good resources / learning materials about it :q (Especially those that would teach C++ from 0 to C++20 to a total noob, not requiring any pre-existing C++ knowledge.) Are there any good books or online resources you could recommend? 02:55 I don't think this is true. If it's "free", then most likely you pay for it in your taxes ;) 05:18 Is it still allowed to teach in private school? (BTW I find that to be very asinine to forbid people from teaching other people. I think that as long as there are people willing to learn from someone, and they find their teacher's knowledge useful, they should be allowed to take lessons from him, and the state should stay away from their business. It's all between the student and the teacher, the state doesn't introduce any value into it.) 06:06 That's nasty ;q If those were my only options, I would rather go to prison ;q

[@DjVortex-w]

I think the wikipedia pages for C++11, C++17 and C++20 are good summaries of new features. If any such feature grabs your attention, you can search for it at cppreference.com or google.

[@Bisqwit]

Answered in part 3. Stay tuned!

[@bonbonpony]

@@DjVortex-w You think that I din't try that already? ;) That's the thing: lists of new features usually aren't good for _learning_ about them, because in order to understand something, one needs to know the _rationale_ behind introducing a particular feature; what problems from the past is it supposed to solve, and how exactly does it solve them. What are the _practical considerations_ of using that feature. When you should use it and when you shouldn't. How do they fit the bigger picture of the entire language. Also, some of those new features are very abstract and have very narrow field of application, they apply to some particular problems that might sound totally obscure to a typical programmer who never encountered them before (that is, it might not always be easy to understand for him what the problem actually is). Most of the resources I've seen are just that: lists of new features, or old books upgraded to support those new features, not something that would teach you the modern way all from the start and show those new features in a proper practical context.

[@Mateus.007]

@@bonbonpony A tour in c++ book teaches c++17. After that you can look up c++20

[@thesmart4128]

0:34 can't you just deactivate that with some combination of keys on like every laptop?

[@Tigrou7777]

You can disable touchpad in Windows device manager (so it will be turned off forever) and use a regular mouse.

[@gerryn2]

You can disable but sometimes you want it, it's a pain in the ass I have experienced myself, in particular with certain laptop brands/designs.

[@rhrkv]

damn, it's very interesting by just watching ur Q&A Video, i'd like to know more about in the next video 😌 anyway, those keyboard kinda cool af!

[@IBITZEE]

Thanks for sharing,,, Dude,,, when you put those glasses I thought I was seeing "Mr Robot"... ;-)

[@efa666]

Do you have much of a background in music? I think in one video you mentioned that you made the music for some program, it may have been the typing speed.

[@Bisqwit]

I have no background in music. Nonetheless, I have always been quite fascinated by it. Unlike with programming, the lack of formal training has proven to be a greater obstacle in getting better at it.

[@tonym5857]

Thank you for share it.

[@steven1671]

What motivates you to program at all?

[@doctard2990]

such a weird question to ask, the joy of learning and creating thing of course

[@steven1671]

@@doctard2990That's kind of a shallow and juvenile response to my question. Not all people think that learning something/making something is worth the effort. Programmers can get burnt out, or just lose interest. How does he not lose interest, or maybe he has? Also, some people are absolutely hate or are terrified of math, science, and yes, programming. How is he not terrified? How is he so comfortable, writing such complicated and non trivial code? Was there a time when he was not? How did he overcome any inhibitions he might have had?

[@CPalanysamy]

Finnish accent is so sweet :D. Companies realize now this fenomena of non graduates having massive knowledge and society has to find a way -besides youtube- to make the knowledge of people like you available without the degree wall.

[@andreslb151]

Dear Bisqwit. Now I know your opinion about Rust, what do you think about new (or relatively new) programming languages such as Swift, Vala, Go and Kotlin?

[@haroldmcbroom7807]

How do you learn new things, without forgetting old things. I had to keep copies of all of my computer programs from my employment so that I could refer back to them when I need them, and not have to find "old" solutions I've already discovered, without those programs I would have been lost so many times. Do you have a method, or just a good memory :) You're skills, and programs run circles around anything I've ever done. I have two years in Business Programming (BASIC, Pascal, C++, COBOL, DOS) and 1 Year in another vocational school that taught me "Typewriting, Touch Typing, Lotus 1-2-3, DisplayWrite). I had a German teacher, and she would not let us touch a computer keyboard until we passed a course in the use of a "typewriter" to gain an appreciation for how things used to be done, the hard way.

[@RamLaska]

I love the massively anti-climatic endings.

[@r0wdybandit015]

Thank you

[@eugenenovikov671]

Bisqwit, terveisiä Venäjältä!!

[@MarsofAritia]

what are your thoughts on free software, and the wider community surrounding it. and is it practical to only use free software exclusively?

[@Bisqwit]

I support it, prefer it, and produce it. However, if you want to use proprietary software, be my guest. On my desktop, the only non-free software are the NVidia driver, Microsoft Teams, and Teamviewer. The latter two are there only because of my work.

[@proloycodes]

you know currently rust is good when even bisqwit has 1 mins and 42 secs dedicated to rust in 2016.

[@motbus3]

Hey bisqwit. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts. I watch your channel for some years by now. I remember when you spoke something about cuda programming. Do you think in talking about gpgpu again ? Even if that's not cuda, there still sycl, opencl, and gl compute shaders. It is hard to find good content about the latter IMO.

[@jameshello38]

Are you vampire? Because you never seem to age 😁

[@정동호-i1r]

how old is he?

[@MrZarewna]

@@정동호-i1r 42, he answered that question in the first part.

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

@@MrZarewna what. The f

[@knmonlinemedia]

Getting barely any sun will not age u too 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@Bisqwit]

While it’s true sun ages the skin, you can’t avoid facial features changing…

[@attek.2947]

Oot muistaakseni sanonu työskenteleväsi bussikuskina? Mutta et kumminkaan ole käynyt bussikuskin koulutusta?

[@cockatoofan]

Käsittääkseni oli jollain teknisellä alalla alunperin jonka jälkeen vaihtoi bussikuskiksi ja nyt taas teknisellä alalla Bussikuski ei muistaakseni vaatinut mitään erityistä koulutusta vaan sai lähteä hommaan pelkällä b tai c ajokortilla joka sitten nostetaan d korttiin

[@Lunaholic94]

@@cockatoofan henkilöliikenteen ammattipätevyyden sekä D luokan ajokortin. Logistiikan perustutkinto toki plussaa mutta ei pakollinen

[@Bisqwit]

Ammattipätevyyskoulutus oli neljä kuukautta täysipäiväistä koulutusta, joka luetaan logistiikan perustutkintoon valmistavaksi koulutukseksi. Siihen päälle tosiaan D-kortin ajotunnit ja asiaan liittyvät kokeet, ja kahden kuukauden työharjoittelu, joka ei ole kuitenkaan pakollinen. Viranomaiskustannuksia lukuunottamatta nämä maksoi TE-toimisto, eli se oli minulle käytännössä ilmainen. Näitä koulutuksia en maininnut tässä videossa, koska en kokenut asiaa relevantiksi. Tämä kuljettajankoulutus ja n. 1,5 vuotta töitä siinä hommassa oli piristävä poikkeama muualle. Sai hyvin nollata stressin n. 13 vuodesta edellisessä työpaikassa. Olisin jatkanut pitempäänkin, mutta hävitty kilpailutus pakotti työpaikan irtisanomaan 85% työntekijöistään, enkä viitsinyt hakea sitten toisesta firmasta, johon en automaattisesti saanut siirtymäoikeutta koska työsuhteeni oli määräaikainen (jota oli kolme kertaa jatkettu uusilla määräaikaisilla). Nyt olen ollut Etteplanissa vakituisena suunnilleen neljä vuotta (nimeltään Espotel silloin kun vielä hain sinne).

[@thomass3193]

Did you shoot your Gold medal on an RK62 or something older like an M39?

[@Bisqwit]

The RK62.

[@Embedded_in_Reality]

bamboozled 4:44

[@s1nister688]

That's an unique outro.

[@zrx123]

Why don't you have marked up the path from "Lukio" to "Ammattikorkeakoulu"? It's very common one.

[@Bisqwit]

Because I didn’t know of that.

[@zrx123]

Actually it's pretty rare to continue from "Ammattikoulu" to "Ammattikorkeakoulu" especially if you compare to the path from "Lukio". Always learning. 👍😉

[@sibane288]

I believe you can even apply to a university with a vocational school diploma or no secondary education at all, as long as you can prove that you have the necessary skills.

[@user-dc9zo7ek5j]

Can you show us your best pratices on C ? Also what do you think about allocating memory outside main, do you think its better to pass the result and work with it or allocate memory inside the non-main function ?

[@curtmack]

I say this as a mech keyboard enthusiast: Good. Continue being happy with commodity keyboards. Don't fall down this rabbit hole. Before you know it you're seriously designing your own keyboard PCB and spending hundreds of USD on a set of nice keycaps.

[@kahootbird]

This is strange, 7:39 - 7:42 subtitles say "While I may understand the rational behind the design it feels awkward and clunky" yet he never says those words

[@Bisqwit]

Sometimes I forget to read some of my lines.

[@fredthechamp3475]

Isn’t 47 Terabyte of disk space overkill? Are you ever gonna come close to using all of that memory?

[@Bisqwit]

Things that take a lot of disk space: - Video projects - Backups - Photos - Data generation For example, the originals from my video concerning motherboard warranty were 200 gigabytes in total. Some of them are smaller, for example just 26 gigabytes for the originals of the C♯-D♭ -video. But I have a lot of videos I have made. And there are other videos that I have not made for public, for example recordings from seminars or personal events. Same goes for photos. A backup of a system can easily take several hundred gigabytes of space. One backup of my web server takes about 300 gigabytes, and the backup of my primary desktop is much larger. When I generate data for some analysis project, such as how to optimally combine NAND gates for a logic circuit, it can easily take several terabytes, although the data is temporary in nature. But it needs to be stored somewhere during the project. So yes, dozens of terabytes is not really that much in the end.

[@Alexander-jm1oi]

Fun fact: Gymnasium (Γυμνάσιο) and Lukio (Λύκειο) are Greek words. In Greece Gymnasium is 7th-9th class and Lukio 9th to 12th.

[@Bisqwit]

Thank you. I did not actually expect the word lukio to have Greek origin; it resembles so closely the Finnish word for “to read” (lukea) that I expected it to be some sort of derivative of that.

[@voxbine4005]

Did you have some problems with your body, i mean pain or something thanks to be a lot of time in the computer? And how you solve it?

[@Bisqwit]

I don’t have problems with my body that I could trace to being a lot at a computer. I do have symptoms that resemble the plantar fasciitis, but I don’t know their origin.

[@voxbine4005]

@@Bisqwit oh thats good, i have pain in my leggs, but maybe is the poor chair that i use, thaks for answer me :D its an honor have an answer of you.(if i say something strange is because english is not my native lenguaje heheh... )

[@DavidM_GA]

You should really try Nim. Its quite powerful and concise. I know Java, C, C++, D, Assembly, Python and Lua in addition to Nim.

[@MarquisDeSang]

What are your other passions and hobbies in your life?

[@StupidManWhore]

bisqwit.iki.fi/cv.html

[@Bisqwit]

I practice and teach Israeli Folk Dance, which is where specific songs popular in Israel each have a particular dance choreography, usually circle or line dances. The dance circle(s) might have anywhere from two to a hundred people, young, old, male, female, any skin color, no discrimination. Some of the dances are simple, some very complex, some calm, some very fast, and so on. I am also very passionate about Hebraic Roots, which is a loose term describing Bible-believers who believe in both the Old Testament and New Testament, and advocate obeying the commandments and statutes in the former, whilst being saved _only_ by grace as taught by the latter, and who identify neither with Christianity nor with Judaism, but (attempt to) have good ties with both. I have also played Go (board game) at mid-beginner hobbyist level, although it has been many years since I last played it.

[@marksmod]

what do you think of Haskell and have you ever delved into the wonderful world of mathematics?

[@telepcanin2878]

where does he work

[@diegofloor]

English is not my native language either. I think any words with R and L together can suck on a salty sausage! How am I supposed to say "world" or "girl" without contorting my mouth into an almost vomit inducing shape? And don't get me started on TH words! whenever there's a word with TH in it, my tongue goes to the teeth and remains there for the rest of the sentence! "I believe the threathon thith ith... THUTH THITH THITH!" About your education, as long as you know how to self teach anything you can do whatever you want. Degrees certainly open doors but not having them certainly does not keep you from opening some doors manually. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, seeing how this is a successful youtube channel about programming!

[@StoesA]

Hi, just know for a laptop that you can disable the touchpad (in sw). Sometimes (toshiba) manu have a pushbutton for it brgfs

[@Bisqwit]

I am aware. However, I did speak of a hypothetical situation saying “if the touchpad is the _only pointing device available”._ If you disable that, you have nothing left.

[@StoesA]

@@Bisqwit your keyboard 😅

[@DFsdf3443d]

what do you run on your servers?

[@Bisqwit]

servers

[@aleksanderwisniewski1407]

Bisqwit, what do you think about Finnish education system? It's often regarded as the best in the world as far as i know. I mean mostly lower and upper secondary education, not universities.

[@Bisqwit]

It is good, although it is getting worse because of overworked teachers, large group sizes, increased skill disparity due to immigration, and because of increased discipline problems due to reduced options for teachers to discipline.

[@alfred703]

@@Bisqwit Yeah, also many teachers are overall lazy in both Lukio and Ammattikoulu, mostly they lack motivation and the teaching is sloppy. Sometimes they just give you material and tell you to do something, not really teaching aspects of a certain subject.

[@sortof3337]

I passed my CS degree watching your videos. The programming language I made for my FYP is very similar to the one you did, only I wrote in Python, llvmlite and flex bison. :D :D If my professor had watched your videos, I would've failed.

[@Bisqwit]

Congratulations!

[@manvelbeaver520]

Would you ever be open to live streaming?

[@Bisqwit]

I have livestreamed sometimes.

[@Echelon-xh8mb]

Whats that ending about?

[@Bisqwit]

It’s about giving 20 seconds of time for the end-screen cards to show.

bamboozled

[@TheAceInfinity]

Touchpad shouldn't be a dealbreaker on a laptop, just disable the driver for it and use a mouse.

[@Bisqwit]

I am aware. However, I did speak of a hypothetical situation saying “if the touchpad is the _only pointing device available”._ If you disable that, you have nothing left.

[@albertpiekarski4569]

I finished high school (Lukio in Poland) lately and rewatching this video now I see it's kinda funny how your voice cracks when you talk about your vocational school 4:15 - 4:55. And I could totally understand if you felt some difficult emotions connected with it. I am very disappointed myself with my high school life mostly for that obivious reason you mentioned, which is memorising useless stuff and moreover stressing over grades, which is even more stupid. There were people in my school taking part in Informatics Olympiad and I was sure I was gonna take a part in it, but... time has passed and whatever idk, Im just disappointed. I got also pretty much messed up mentally during HS so yeah...Im not sure if Im gonna do some real programming in the future as I hoped to. P.S. I read that "Bamboozled" thing haha.

[@Bisqwit]

Any possible cracking in the voice had nothing to do with emotions here, only being tired or dry throated or something. Thanks for posting!

[@albertpiekarski4569]

@@Bisqwit Maybe. It just seemed to me like you got little upset talking about it.I was kinda ironic writing "difficult emotions".

[@Bisqwit]

Probably I was just trying to concentrate on my pronunciation at that moment…

[@albertpiekarski4569]

@@Bisqwit Understandable. However, now that you are further trying to clarify the situation, that seems fishy xd. Ok, just kidding. Leave it alone. Btw, coindcidentally I was looking at shool shootings list and at there were suprisingly two in Finland and I was reading about one of them right now ( yeah, I know nobody cares, but still some coincidence ). It proves that Finland is really developed country ( not ironic ). Ok, at this point I feel quite guilty of disturbing your peace. So, bye bye and Thank you for replies!

[@Bisqwit]

No problem _at all!_ Yes, there have been --two-- three in Finland, which is surprising, considering that the gun holdership laws in Finland are very strict. I don’t have a gun, nor could I get one, even though I have gone through army (defence forces) training, unless I qualified for one of the valid reasons. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Finland

[@NonTwinBrothers]

I like that the diagram's in the thumbnail, haha

[@jacobscrackers98]

What are your thoughts on army service being compulsory for males but optional for females? Do you think it's fair? (And btw I don't care if "life's not fair" or not, I'm asking for your opinion)

[@Bisqwit]

Men and women are both physiologically and mentally different. I am fine with it.

[@jacobscrackers98]

@@Bisqwit Do you also think that when it comes to business or politics?

[@jacobscrackers98]

​@@Bisqwit I'm assuming you mean that men are better at fighting than women. If so, how does that justify treating them differently in this way? If someone was better than someone else at, say, playing the piano or driving trucks, would that justify forcing them to do it against their will and threatening them with prison if they disobey?

[@Bisqwit]

Men are stronger than women, and less emotional. Note that when we speak about such differences, there are always examples of women who are stronger than examples of men, and examples of men who are more emotional than examples of women. It is not binary, but rather a spectrum that follows a bell curve. And the centers of those curves are in different positions on the axis for each gender. These attributes make most men better at battlefield than most women - again, there are exceptions, but this is the overall trend. Similarly, these attributes make most women better at professions such as nurse, preschool teaching, and so on - again, there are exceptions, but this is the overall trend. It is also these attributes that make women seek professions that are generally less well paid than professions that men typically seek - again, there are exceptions, but this is the overall trend.

[@jacobscrackers98]

@@Bisqwit Again. How does that justify compulsory human sacrifice?

[@aussieexpat]

"Optional" conscription.

[@personman1132]

Hm? Care to explain for a none Finnish person?

[@aussieexpat]

@@personman1132 It's an oxymoron www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron Conscription that is not mandatory is not conscription. It's some weird newspeak to make it sound like women have the same burden as men.

[@personman1132]

@@aussieexpat Ah, thanks. I didn't quite see what you were getting at the first time.

[@oo8dev]

I tried Rust once too. The simple SDL2 folder "Hello World" weighed 800 MiB. Yeah............

[@themenko]

... what? thats a lie

[@VanosTurbo]

Apparently you are not in need for any degree. Your are great in what you do, keep up the good work. If you want to work in Sweden I can hire you anytime :)

[@TheAlison1456]

How do you look so young? Does it have anything to do with living in the north?

[@Bisqwit]

Maybe. Sun ages the skin after all. But it’s mostly just a calibration issue. People of different origins look different.

[@voxbine4005]

You have some social media like Facebook instagram ?

[@Bisqwit]

Yes

[@voxbine4005]

@@Bisqwit can you give us the Name please?

[@Bisqwit]

See kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYevqIdmf86ojq8

[@luisz0339]

Where I can ask this questions? XD

[@Bisqwit]

Right here. However, this is a video series for _frequently asked_ questions, i.e. things that have been asked so many times by different people in the past years, that I find it easier to make a video about it, than to type an answer every single time.

[@HaKazzaz]

please tell me you were sarcastic when mentioning pageUp and Insert as "important keys".. or maybe you meant you don't want to press them by mistake...

[@Bisqwit]

You don’t really do much text editing do you? (Although to be fair, by insert I meant home - but delete works too)

[@HaKazzaz]

@@Bisqwit perhaps that's just because I am used to newer text editors but I would rather use Ctrl, Home , End and Shift to do most of my editing. if i press insert it's only to undo the first insert press (same goes for pageUp - it's only to undo a pageDown missclick) also, thanks for sharing and for the super quick response luckily i have linked my youtube and google accounts ages ago ;)

[@NOCTUMSEMPRA]

Bisqwit, I guess you probably know it (you know a LOT more than me) but you can disable touchpad in Linux. I also happened to get SO pissed off when my palm moves the cursor.

[@Bisqwit]

I know I can disable it. But I did say “when the touchpad is the _only_ pointing device available”. Then you cannot just disable it, or you have nothing left.

[@NOCTUMSEMPRA]

@@Bisqwit oh, my bad. I need to keep training my ears. Yeah, if you don't have a mouse then it's a shitty situation. Have you tried covering with a piece of paper or something to see if you can trick the sensitivity? Maybe something like that works. Hope is the last thing to lose :D

[@Bisqwit]

I was speaking in hypotheticals. I like to choose better laptops where this is not an issue.

[@teddybear0116]

What are your non programming related hobbies?

[@Bisqwit]

I practice and teach Israeli Folk Dance, which is where specific songs popular in Israel each have a particular dance choreography, usually circle or line dances. The dance circle(s) might have anywhere from two to a hundred people, young, old, male, female, any skin color, no discrimination. Some of the dances are simple, some very complex, some calm, some very fast, and so on. I am also very passionate about Hebraic Roots, which is a loose term describing Bible-believers who believe in both the Old Testament and New Testament, and advocate obeying the commandments and statutes in the former, whilst being saved only by grace as taught by the latter, and who identify neither with Christianity nor with Judaism, but (attempt to) have good ties with both. I have also played Go (board game) at mid-beginner hobbyist level, although it has been many years since I last played it.

[@teddybear0116]

Bisqwit That’s awesome! Thank you for the reply!

[@cyclicyttrium4318]

So... Where does the name Proguru come from ?

[@Bisqwit]

It was a portmanteau of programming and guru.

[@johnkristian]

Current generation? Last time I checked your build video, you used a 2000-series threadripper cpu, and that is last gen threadripper, not current gen.

[@Bisqwit]

I don’t have a 2000-series CPU. I have 3960X in desktop and 1950X in the other.

[@johnkristian]

@@Bisqwit ah. Guess I remembered wrong, then. By bad. Good choice, I have a 3960x myself.

[@Saturos02]

Olisin oikeasti iloinen jos tekisit lisää videoita suomen kielestä! Oon opiskellu kielesi silloin tällöin monen vuoden ajan, mutta hyviä resursseja on vähän

[@meanmole3212]

4:56 ylä-aste spotted

[@Bisqwit]

Oops, good spotting. I can’t believe I made a mistake with compound words.

[@DeepakYadav-tm7ce]

What's your main source of earning at present?

[@Bisqwit]

Being employed as an embedded programmer at Etteplan Embedded Finland Oyj.

[@jimadams7765]

@@Bisqwit Ha ha. "embedded programmer". 😉 That title sounds as if they can never get rid of you.

[@smallgoodwoodoodaddy]

Does military service somehow conflict with your religious beliefs?

[@Bisqwit]

Nope.

[@forgottenmohawks8734]

47 TB disk space :O

[@Trunkerad]

I doubt that school is free, probably it's tax financed. Anyway, I found it interesting that you were a telecommunications soldier. How was it? I was conscripted to the same position, but then the Swedish military was shafted economically and the unit I was supposed to go to was disbanded, so I quickly had to find something else to do for a year.

[@Bisqwit]

Of course it’s tax financed, but I meant, for the student. The service in defence forces was OK, although I never felt like I belong, rather always being sort of an outsider - a theme that persists throughout my life wherever I go. I was also sick a lot; I spent probably twice as many days sick as anyone else in the same platoon. Particularly, I always seemed to get feverish around or after the time of military camp trainings, and, after the first time (when I broke my knee), _always_ when skiing practice was involved. To the date, I don’t admit ever faking it. You cannot underestimate the power of psyche over the body. That’s also when I discovered that I have asthma, although it was officially diagnosed only 20 years later. Wet breath (as in, you sound like you have water in your lungs) is not fun.

[@lolnyanterts]

What is your favorite primate bisqwit?

[@Bisqwit]

Out of all 1 primate species extant to Finland, I would name humans.

[@sakshamkshatri9649]

i am surprised on how there are no questions about what OS does he use??!!!!

[@LangleyNA]

Bisqwit uses Debian and their desktop package of choice is Cinnamon.

[@AlexandrBorschchev]

@@LangleyNA please source

[@LangleyNA]

@@AlexandrBorschchev kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5aWaYKIp9CVqsU It's in that video's description, although Bisqwit will answer the question by voice several times in that series should you decide to watch. Again, "Debian" and "Cinnamon" are Bisqwit's personal choices.

[@davidgerstgrasser8650]

bro, what are those endings?

[@Bisqwit]

Durations

[@davidgerstgrasser8650]

@@Bisqwit sorry, I don't quite undertand. I meant why is the outro so sad. The gray overlay and your sad face are kind of depressing. I hope you are okay and that this is just a joke that i do not get.

[@Bisqwit]

By durations I mean it’s just a filler footage for the end-screen links; it needs to be ≥ 20 seconds long.

[@leksmut]

Have you been in Saint-Petersburg of Russia?

[@Bisqwit]

Yes, three times if I recall correctly. At least two.

[@JonBailey]

11th viewer checking in. 🤪 I want bisquit to host a cable show. And KZbin won't let me post this as a reply for some reason.

[@Bisqwit]

For visibility, it’s better actually to post a comment than a reply, unless you are actually _replying_ to something (i.e. a followup to something someone else said). KZbin sucks at notifying creators about replies, but we _always_ see new comments.

[@wau-l9]

You can also lie your way out of mandatory military service. I did that, and it works well. ^-^

[@Bisqwit]

Yes, there is an option of messing up your psychological evaluation such that they think you are clinically insane and unfit for service. Some people choose that option too.

[@24_sanketgolar96]

Military service and sharp shooter 👍

[@frognik79]

... or you go to prison. I did giggle a little.

[@Bisqwit]

I list that as an alternative, because annually a couple dozen people really do choose that. It’s called total refusal. The usual sanction is at max 173 days unconditionally in prison. Despite the criminal process involved with the sanction, this does not result in a mark in the criminal record.

[@frognik79]

@@Bisqwit Half a year of house arrest sounds good to me, I mean all I do is code and game after work anyway. But I'm a lazy Australian and our government couldn't make anyone do anything.

[@haroldmcbroom7807]

I pray that everything is going well for you, and your family during this global crisis. 1 Samuel 2:30 (NKJV) 30 Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: ‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

[@Dresmor]

Do you think that you are positive person?

[@Bisqwit]

Overall, probably yes. I have also depressive sides, but those usually appear only if the discussion veers to me personally.

[@legendarytwister3656]

Can you notice that he don't have any sponsors or wants us to subscribe or like and etc. I resptect that.

[@DoomRater]

FEET

[@TrevorScanlan]

Your shirts looks CGI

[@Bisqwit]

It’s not CGI, for the most part, but in the reading-the-question parts I have digitally recolored it.

[@TrevorScanlan]

I should have been more clear. I like the look