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  • I wished they had taught us more context and concept in college EE classes. I guess super smart people figure that out on their own. It took me until several years after college before things started to click a little. I’m still working on it.

    Electromagnetics still seems like dark magic to me though. I hated that class because it seems like it should have been the coolest topic ever but nothing made any sense.

    Maybe they need to get dumber people teaching this stuff because at some point if you are too smart you take for granted leaps that elude some of us.

    I have done teaching in a Corp setting for several years, and I find that all the questions from and confusion of students really push me to explain better, understand deeper, question some of the concepts, etc. (We teach both concept and execution)

    I guess either our classes needed to ask more questions or the profs needed to work on their teaching or something.










  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldMustard
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    6 months ago

    Based on smell.

    Sulfur mustards are viscous liquids at room temperature and have an odor resembling mustard plants, garlic, or horseradish, hence the name

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_gas

    One of my relatives got hit with it in WWI. As a result, in later years, he went blind and had lung issues that ended up killing him way too young. He (and apparently others in his company) had to fight to get disability.

    I was told the enemy would first fire a gas that would induce vomiting so soldiers would have to take off their gas masks to puke just in time for them to fire the really bad shit. I haven’t verified that detail though so maybe it got mixed up hearing it third hand. He died years before I was born.