merciBien

   1. All media and tools are allowed. You may use any media (texts, videos, . . . )
   and tools (apps, calculators, . . . ) in my course that you find useful. 
   This also applies to AI tools such as ChatGPT, which can be very helpful in generating ideas and writing texts, for example. 
   So these tools are available to you in my course just as they are now in your everyday life and later in your job. 
   By the way, the use of tools will also be subject of our course. Let’s find out together how to use tools in a meaningful way to solve tasks!

   2. You are responsible for your results. All tools have their limitations. 
   Information in media can be wrong. Calculators cannot work with real numbers. And AI language models like ChatGPT can produce well formulated texts, but they make errors and reproduce biases. 
   So before you proceed with results and impulses, you need to check them and revise them if necessary. The tool does not think for you, but you think with the help of the tool. The theoretical background is the approach of distributed cognitions:
   ”Cognitions become ‘distributed’ in the sense that the tool and its human partner think jointly. Whatever is produced is product of the joint system, resulting from the pooling together of the intelligences of both partners [. . . ]“ (Salomon, 1993, p. 182). In the end, however, you stand up for your solution. You have to be able to explain your solution to others. And you (not the tool) are responsible for errors in the solution.

I don't think you need to worry about nazi propaganda from this group, that's actually pretty amusing. For example, the group includes Erik Torenberg, I believe he may actually live in Israel.

Whoever titled the video was trying to be clever, there's nobody here saying America should create a 1000-year kingdom.

I think the title refers to Antonio Garcias Martinez saying America introduced liberal democracy long before other nations, i.e. at 36:35 he says "the US is chided for being so young, but it's not. American (democratic) institutions are way older than (European) ones. Spanish democracy is younger than me. Italy and Germany were unified after the state of Florida existed."

I learned this the hard way, I took down the company website on a Friday night, the lead dev had to call in from a camping trip with his kids to fix my error.

yuppie_scum's post is smart, the job market is hot for anyone who can code, even a little bit! Follow directions and keep learning, probably they won't fire you, and with time you'll get better. If they fire you, move on, learn from it and do better at your next gig.

What I did was learn to unblushingly ask questions about the things I didn't understand, and REALLY LISTEN to the answer. Listening is the key, close your laptop if you have to, turn off your external monitor and put away your cellphone. The devs I worked with would carefully explain stuff, and respond to my dumb questions. But if I didn't remember what they told me, they'd stop answering my questions. I learned to use the research skills I learned in school, read up on the tech the team used, take notes, played with it on my own time.

Eventually I realized they weren't smarter than me, and if I keep trying, keep researching, almost any problem is solvable. Good Luck!

edit: grammar