• Still@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    well using someone’s code properly licensed isn’t plagiarism

    a fair few of my uni classes were like take this guys code and make it do this, which were like 4 lines changes

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      “Here’s this header file that implements 99% of the mathematics, because I’m not paid to teach mathematics.”

      Ironically I learned a lot more about linear algebra from that header file than from my actual teacher.

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        I just saw a “faster linear algebra” package scroll by on pacman. I almost pulled up the source/documentation.

        The only thing that stopped me was that I have about 199 things more relevant to my usage than linear algebra.