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armandine2:
I'm finding lots of good things in this thread to enjoy - Dunning-Kruger included.

I'm blaming the software-hardware simplification as a language problem - all sorts of false dichotomies ensue.

I imagine (in the UK) that the ratio going to a local university or studying farther a field is stable, not high, possibly increasing.

I agree, if it has been suggested, the UK university student may not be a wise purchaser of their instruction - and the UK university consists of departmental silos that struggle to offer multidisciplinary interdisciplinary options.

My limited experience includes two bachelor degrees (1992, 2017) - the second as a home student.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: armandine2 on September 08, 2022, 11:07:40 am ---I'm finding lots of good things in this thread to enjoy - Dunning-Kruger included.

I'm blaming the software-hardware simplification as a language problem - all sorts of false dichotomies ensue.

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False dichotomies do indeed ensue :)

But is it "merely" a language problem, or is it caused/perpetuated by a lack of breadth and/or only having shallow understanding?

Does the language cause the problem or reflect the problem?

IMHO the starting point is the silo mentality, which is compounded by lack of breadth. The silo mentality itself has several causes.
coppice:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on September 08, 2022, 09:18:23 am ---In the UK, as far as I can make out, there is little tendency to stay at home.

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Pretty much, with one big exception - London. There are a lot of people going to places like Imperial and UCL who live at home. Even if you don't live at home, you are probably commuting a considerable distance to college each day at those places. They have very little student accommodation of their own, and anything nearby is fearfully expensive.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---If you think x86 processors are hardware, how do they, when powered down, detect and respond to "wake on LAN" packets to apply power to themselves to start operating again.
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Well, they obviously aren't powered down - they are in a low-power state, presumably with the main processing stuff turned off. But, not knowing the internals of an x86 I am intrigued. How do they do it?

AFAIK there are a couple of ways:

1. They don't - the RTL whatever chip causes an interrupt which wakes  the CPU (or perhaps just dabs the 'wake up' soft button).

2. Some hardware bitstream monitor, no software involved (except for configuring).

3. The (not too secret now) separate onboard management processor does it all.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: coppice on September 08, 2022, 11:32:15 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on September 08, 2022, 09:18:23 am ---In the UK, as far as I can make out, there is little tendency to stay at home.

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Pretty much, with one big exception - London. There are a lot of people going to places like Imperial and UCL who live at home. Even if you don't live at home, you are probably commuting a considerable distance to college each day at those places. They have very little student accommodation of their own, and anything nearby is fearfully expensive.

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I lived on the very edge of London (there were iron tax posts in common land indicating that!). I didn't even look at the very good courses in IC or UCL because it would have been sensible for me to stay at home.
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