The Official Status Thread
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Status: apparently giving someone an aneurysm by telling them that
hunter2
wasn't made up for a video game.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater General Physics. "A calculus-based treatment of particle kinematics and dynamics, work, energy, momentum, rotational motion, equilibrium, and simple harmonic motion."
Not the fun part at all. 0 - Snoring in 5 seconds material right there. Good luck.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
status: why in the fuck do I have physics lab, the most boring class in existence, from 4:30 to 7:20
What kind of physics are we talking about? Physics and boring in the same sentence sounds jarring.
Pick yourself up one of these: https://hivemill.com/products/science-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness
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Status: The "the two genders" meme is WAY too easy to do with my DF bot:
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater General Physics. "A calculus-based treatment of particle kinematics and dynamics, work, energy, momentum, rotational motion, equilibrium, and simple harmonic motion."
I feel asleep half way through that sentence.
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@homoBalkanus Then you'll love my professor, who I imagine could trick a voice recognition app into thinking he played the English professor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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@pie_flavor I had some of those. One had a 3-hour lecture slot. Best sleep I ever got at uni.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Next step, getting internet service. Comcast
Ugh. I've been a Comcast customer for less than an hour, and already I hate them so much.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Next step, getting internet service. Comcast
Ugh. I've been a Comcast customer for less than an hour, and already I hate them so much.
I am truly sorry for your experience.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
simple harmonic motion
...is the best kind of motion. Well, unless you have to be quick about it.
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Status: Got greeted by a robot at the office this morning.
Somebody (=likely the robotics group in our building) put up a small robot at the entrance to my office building that greeted me with "Good morning" when I walked past. First I thought it was silly, but later decided that it actually was kind-of cute (being greeted, that is, not the robot).
Also, I suspect it will remember me not greeting it back, which probably reduces my chances of surviving the robot uprising significantly.
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@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got greeted by a robot at the office this morning.
I greet anyone for the first time in the day with any one of three greetings. I'd like to think it momentarily improves mood.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Spoilered for your scrolling pleasure
Status: College as all living fuck.
I've once had to remove a shelf from the fridge to make room for more beer. (The space between shelves was too small to place bottles straight up, and they didn't fit when put sideways.)
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Status: Broken
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@Luhmann User error: MTBing without MTs. Maybe you should MBT instead.
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Status: Awake at 04:whatever. Can't get back to sleep. Restricted caffeine intake. Today is not going to be fun.
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@homoBalkanus said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor I had some of those. One had a 3-hour lecture slot. Best sleep I ever got at uni.
Thank fuck I took physics in high school so I can BS my way through this if I need to.
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@Luhmann Ouch.
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@HardwareGeek Same here.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Maybe you should MBT instead.
Methylbutyltryptamine?
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@HardwareGeek
E_MountainsFoundOnCurrentLocationI drove 1000km to do this shit. Look at that damn track! It is just asking to be ridden ... I walked half of it with a broken bike and still got a top 10 Strava time out of it ... Mostly because less then 10 users have ridden that trail but whatever.
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@Luhmann
E_USER_NOT_PREPARED
Hindsight 20/20 says carry a chain tool and/or a spare quick-link chain sized for a reasonably effortless pace fixie when on longer and/or far-away rides.
...Yes, neither do I. Fsck all those little silly looking tool bags weighing me down. I'D RATHER WALK!
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official Status Thread:
E_USER_NOT_PREPARED
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@e4tmyl33t What is going on with Illidan's shoulders/upper arms?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater General Physics. "A calculus-based treatment of particle kinematics and dynamics, work, energy, momentum, rotational motion, equilibrium, and simple harmonic motion."
That sounds like fun. No sarcasm.
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@mott555 Physics is always fun but calculus sorts of brings back the whole "jerking off but now with sandpaper" situation. Maybe it's just me cos I don't like math that much cos raisins.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
Physics is always fun but calculus sorts of brings back the whole "jerking off but now with sandpaper" situation
The whole point of calculus is to make physics easier when not dealing with just the most utterly trivial cases. You'll never understand the more complicated parts of physics without calculus (and especially vector calculus).
Some of truly complicated parts you'll probably just never understand. I know I don't bother trying any more. ;)
There's lots of other places where calculus turned out to be useful. If you ever start writing a simulation involving anything other than simple discrete variables, chances are you're going to end up using calculus. If you're unlucky, you're simulating a hybrid system (with both continuous and discrete parts) and those have some real subtle gotchas.
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@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Physics is always fun but calculus sorts of brings back the whole "jerking off but now with sandpaper" situation. Maybe it's just me cos I don't like math that much cos raisins.
I was weird. I despised math on its own, but when it was tied to physics I couldn't get enough of it. I guess it turned it from something nebulous and abstract into something with real uses. The concepts also made much more sense to me through physics. In math class alone, I'd think "What the f is a derivative and why do I care?" But in physics, it was more like "Oh, so that's what a derivative really means. Totally makes sense now."
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Physics is always fun but calculus sorts of brings back the whole "jerking off but now with sandpaper" situation. Maybe it's just me cos I don't like math that much cos raisins.
I was weird. I despised math on its own, but when it was tied to physics I couldn't get enough of it. I guess it turned it from something nebulous and abstract into something with real uses. The concepts also made much more sense to me through physics. In match class alone, I'd think "What the f is a derivative and why do I care?" But in physics, it was more like "Oh, so that's what a derivative really means. Totally makes sense now."
Di-fucking-tto. Math that came in the context of physics did not feel like normal math at all!
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
Some of truly complicated parts you'll probably just never understand.
Being aware of this saved me tons of time.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Physics is always fun but calculus sorts of brings back the whole "jerking off but now with sandpaper" situation. Maybe it's just me cos I don't like math that much cos raisins.
I was weird. I despised math on its own, but when it was tied to physics I couldn't get enough of it. I guess it turned it from something nebulous and abstract into something with real uses. The concepts also made much more sense to me through physics. In match class alone, I'd think "What the f is a derivative and why do I care?" But in physics, it was more like "Oh, so that's what a derivative really means. Totally makes sense now."
I was completely the opposite. I didn't like the idea of actual usage polluting the purity and beauty of maths, so I went for as much pure and as little applied as possible
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@Atazhaia His demon form's always been kinda hyper-muscled in the arm region like that. IIRC, that picture is from an official cinematic.
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@Jaloopa said in The Official Status Thread:
I didn't like the idea of actual usage polluting the purity and beauty of maths, so I went for as much pure and as little applied as possible
Id love to learn pure math but am not sure where one can get sources that teach pure math but don't make it painful.
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How do you make Jerking off but now with sandpaper - JOBNWS into a WTDWTF acronym?
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Status: T-Mobile is seriously taking a dump on my phone this morning. Works fine for a minute, then no data throughput, even with good signal strength. (And I can't even remember the last time I saw the LTE indicator.) Then suddenly no signal at all, then signal again, but still no data. Constant "Looks like your connection was lost" toasters.
Filed under: How many other telecom companies can make me hate them today?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Constant "Looks like your connection was lost" toasters.
I get this all the time when am using my phone. It's a way of life now.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
status: why in the fuck do I have physics lab, the most boring class in existence, from 4:30 to 7:20
(way back when) I had COBOL class from 8a to 1p on a Saturday. After getting off my 3rd shift job at 7a. Oh, that was fun...
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@dcon Five hours?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@stillwater General Physics. "A calculus-based treatment of particle kinematics and dynamics, work, energy, momentum, rotational motion, equilibrium, and simple harmonic motion."
oh boy oh boy
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Five hours?
It was a 5 credit class. Once a week.
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@dcon Still, that's painful. And why were credits 1:1 with hours? Here it's one credit is synonymous with three hours a week, whether that be class time or homework time or what-have-you.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Still, that's painful. And why were credits 1:1 with hours? Here it's one credit is synonymous with three hours a week, whether that be class time or homework time or what-have-you.
That's a polite fiction--they say that 1 credit hour = 1 hour of class + 2 hours outside of class. But then you have things like
- music classes that are 0.5 credits, meet for 1 hr/week, and require 2 hours of practice per day, logged, 7 days a week.
- Classes like my calc 2 class--4 credits, met 5 days/week for an hour each, and had homework due every class day that required ~2-4 hours if you knew what you were doing
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And why were credits 1:1 with hours?
That's how they did it. (This was at a community college on the quarter system back in the early 80s)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
And why were credits 1:1 with hours?
That's how they did it. (This was at a community college on the quarter system back in the early 80s)
That's how my college worked, too, around 8 years ago. The majority of classes were worth 3 credit-hours, and you had ~3 hours of class time per week.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got greeted by a robot at the office this morning.
I greet anyone for the first time in the day with any one of three greetings. I'd like to think it momentarily improves mood.
Might possibly depend on what the three greetings are, but sure...
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Awake at 04:whatever. Can't get back to sleep. Restricted caffeine intake. Today is not going to be fun.
This morning, I planned to wake at 04:whatever.
Still didn't get to bed until closer to midnight than I probably should've, but at least I had coffee...
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
The whole point of calculus is to make physics easier when not dealing with just the most utterly trivial cases. You'll never understand the more complicated parts of physics without calculus (and especially vector calculus).
Calculus makes it possible. It would be far easier to just generalize and not care about the specifics that require calculus.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@cvi said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Got greeted by a robot at the office this morning.
I greet anyone for the first time in the day with any one of three greetings. I'd like to think it momentarily improves mood.
Might possibly depend on what the three greetings are, but sure...
- Welcome !
- Welcome back!
- Hello!