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Got my Master's Diploma with honours finally digitised in Diia app [1], and yet in Czech Republic I'm not allowed to prepend "Ing." to my name.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diia

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@oleksandr Probably not much of an issue though. The younger generation no longer views people flaunting their degrees around their name as worthy. If anything, you'd come across as a tryhard prick.
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@liskin I often notice people change attitude once I mention I've got a Master's degree. This observation is confirmed by other people too.

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@oleksandr Yeah, sure, mention it. That's fine. Just don't put it on your house bell label.

Imagine "vgn. Oleksandr Natalenko user of Arch". It's the same kind of silly.
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@liskin @oleksandr having everyone introduce themselves with the distro they use sounds about like the right kind of silly to me ;)
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@oleksandr @liskin i also think people without degrees don't deserve love

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@liskin @lkundrak you mean, without taking some 40 degrees inside first?

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@oleksandr @liskin you must emphasize the Інженер part though. If you say Master studies (magisterské in cz) people here will think you're a pharmacist. The only escape from having Mgr. and not Ing. is to upgrade to a doctorate :(
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@vbabka @oleksandr @liskin I have a masters degree too. Just don't ask me what in
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@vbabka @liskin @oleksandr in the UK it's made literally fucking no difference to my life whatsoever.
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@liskin @vbabka yup, this is what I tell people, I'm Ing. (Master of Science in Telecommunications originally)

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@ljs @vbabka @liskin @oleksandr I get to call myself Dr. Peter and that also never made any difference whatsoever. Those additional years at university were enjoyable though

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@liskin @vbabka @ljs can engineering be uncivil?

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@sven @ljs @liskin @oleksandr yeah got to visit some nice places for conferences. But that's also possible while doing kernel stuff.
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@vbabka @sven @liskin @oleksandr yeah it's pretty nice when you're invited to conferences isn't it?
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@ljs @oleksandr @vbabka Can you build me some bridges so I can burn them? I'm good at that.
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@liskin @oleksandr @vbabka no I did the wrong degree (long, long story involving crazy upbringing and yeah you don't want to know or maybe you do but then you have to buy me beer).

That + cramming + having gone to imperial which is the crammiest of crammy cram places means I know literally nothing about it
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@ljs @liskin @oleksandr @sven that was actually harder when it involved a paper to write and be accepted.
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@vbabka @ljs @liskin @oleksandr the paper writing was the non-enjoyable part of the entire ordeal ;)

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@ljs @oleksandr @vbabka I've been meaning to buy you a beer for a while anyway. The only question is do I need to cycle to Surrey or do you ever fly from Stansted? (I'm in E17 so the perfect place to couchsurf before a morning flight.)
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@liskin @oleksandr @vbabka I like this plan :)

I never fly from stansted because it is a cursed place.

I'm sure we can find some middle ground though, I come into the office once a month, so can maybe ping you on one of these days? :)
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@ljs @oleksandr @vbabka Sure, please do, I happen to find myself being rather flexible these days. Whereabouts is your office roughly?
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@ljs @oleksandr @vbabka I mean I'm quite happy to cycle to Surrey as well but maybe not in March 😂
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@ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka

Hello. I just didn't finish it. (Well I did finish it at Bc, three semesters away from master)

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@djasa @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka you're still the master of puppets, metallica says so.
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@ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka *changes attitude*

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@ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka i don't have a master's degree but i got a master's hammer record

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@lkundrak @ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka I don't have any degree at all, except my own 36.5 degree Celsius… And I'm (mostly) living a happy life. F*k them attitudes!

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@ptesarik @ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka we're the real impostors here!

but at least i don't *look* like a mathematician!

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@lkundrak @ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka Then you ain't no real imposter. I can even SOUND like a mathematician. And people would believe I have studied the subject. Until I'm asked to show a formal proof of Rice's theorem, or some such, of course…

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@vbabka @lkundrak @liskin @oleksandr my masters was by mistake since it was just an extra year on my bachelor's.
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@ljs @oleksandr @liskin @vbabka praise satan

🍷

SIR

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