Daylight saving time
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You're assuming a relativistic flock of birds.
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I am assuming the birds, the cat and the alarm clock all can be approximated by Newtonian mechanics to sufficient precision that any error can be neglected. My brain doesn't do relativistic mechanics in a rotating non-inertial frame of reference.
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I am assuming the birds, the cat and the alarm clock all can be approximated by Newtonian mechanics to sufficient precision that any error can be neglected.
That only works for spherical birds in a vacuum
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She's a cat, therefore she is the most important thing in the world (to her), and you must tend to her every desire on demand.
Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.
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Damn. Was I this bad with math before I took that stupid learning disorder test a couple weeks back? I think being self-conscious about math has made me make more errors XD I meant to say they let their cat out 15 minutes before, because I think the alarm was 7:30 and 7:15 sounds about when someone would let their cat out after their own alarm went off at 7:00. Editing.
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being self-conscious about math
Self sabotage has always seemed like the biggest barrier to math (through high school, at least) for most people.
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I think being self-conscious about math
i used to be self conscious about my stellar spellar skills but then i learned to relax and let it go
now i have much more fun and i even occasionally proofread my posts (but only occasionally as proofreading is a barrier to high post counts)
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I had a math professor tell me I should change my major to math. I pointed out I was getting a solid D in his class (Calc 2). I tend to get the concepts thoroughly but mix up the fine details and implementations: transposing digits, dropping 0s, or forgetting to carry.
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I tend to get the concepts thoroughly but mix up the fine details and implementations: transposing digits, dropping 0s, or forgetting to carry.
That was my biggest problem in calculation heavy math classes. Fortunately, there are typically very few of those in the curriculum of a math major. Calc 3 was pretty much the last one for me.
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The guy was mostly pissy that I was "wasted" on a theatre major. This was just before I started my fateful compsci minor :)
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The guy was mostly pissy that I was "wasted" on a theatre major.
Um...
This was just before I started my fateful compsci minor
Congratulations on making it out to the real world.
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I was already working as a webdev part-time, but I could easily have ended up working in a costume shop and doing computers as a hobby instead of working in computers doing costuming as a hobby, so I hedged my bets :)
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I had a math professor tell me I should change my major to math.
I had a college prof try that with Biology just because I aced the AP exam. I didn't find the field sufficiently interesting, though.
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I had a math professor tell me I should change my major to math. I pointed out I was getting a solid D in his class (Calc 2). I tend to get the concepts thoroughly but mix up the fine details and implementations: transposing digits, dropping 0s, or forgetting to carry.
Sounds like a number of Math PhDs I know…
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People complain about math with letters (calculus, algebra, etc), but it does have the advantage of avoiding arithmetic errors (until you actually have to apply it).
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Being good at calculus is not a requirement to getting a math degree. Especially now that we've got computers to do the heavy lifting.
I should know, I've got one.
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I cannot do mathematics that involves numbers without serious effort (and still failing). I failed A-Level maths with an 'ungradable' but flew through my university calculus courses with near top marks.
I still can't do simple change in my head to save my life, it's incredibly odd.
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@Intercourse said:
It was a Comdial PBX system. FTWTFW (for the WTF win), it does not reference system time at all. You have to sign in to an admin voicemail, through the handset, hit a key combination and then key in the time in 24-hr format. This is for an end user to do.
I was wondering about that.
We still use that at some locations, including the one I work out of. The best part is we have a DXP back-end that we can't turn off DST management - so each spring and each fall we have to "fix" the time TWICE.
Our more advanced Comdial location has an FP at the back end, which has the DST management blissfully turned off.
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No, he never goes to sleep, so nothing from which to wake up.
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I still can't do simple change in my head to save my life, it's incredibly odd.
If you were to make a serious effort to sit down and spend half the time you devoted to rote-memorizing integrals to rote-memorizing tables of small-number arithmetic sums and differences, I bet that would change.
The main trick would be overwriting your existing tables of small-number arithmetic sums and differences, of which I'd bet money that most of the entries look like "5 + 7 = oh god I'm so bored right now".
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Hmm, that would explain a lot. When I was in college I experienced sleep deprivation (trying to finish end-of-term assignments); after three days I was hallucinating.
Nah, I don't buy it. If @blakeyrat never slept, he would be at or beyond Swampy's level of psychosis. Nobody would accuse him of being that crazy.
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Nobody would accuse him of being that crazy.
Very few people are Swampy's level of crazy. We need him back on here. He is amusing in a way. Like a circus freak, you point and laugh at the time but then you kind of feel bad about it later because he is obviously handicapped.
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@Intercourse said:
Very few people are Swampy's level of crazy.
Indeed, and most of them are in padded rooms — or were, before budget cutbacks and "it's cruel to lock people up just because they think differently" libtards forced them onto to the streets where they are utterly incapable of earning a living or otherwise functioning in society.
@Intercourse said:
We need him back on here.
I'm not at all sure I agree. Yes, he's "amusing in a way," but — I dunno, to me it gets old quickly, and then you're left with just the crazy.
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and then you're left with just the crazy.
True. Maybe he could just do some brief appearances every once in a while? For a day or so, in between jamming noodles and dancing away the apocalypse with some weird ass stones?
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He did make a couple of posts back when Dicsores first went live here, but I'm in no hurry for any more. Somebody posted a link to one of the old threads, one from before I joined, and that I didn't even know existed, and it had a link to an even older one. I only read a few pages of each1, but I'm pretty thoroughly Swampyed-out at the moment.
1I was also surprised to discover that, contrary to what I had been led to believe, MPS was capable of carrying on a reasonable and civil conversation (well, as reasonable and civil as one can be when conversing with Swampy, anyway), at least in the couple of dozen posts I read in those threads.
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MPS? Acronyms and initialisms are not firing the correct neurons right now. I am trying to uninstall Exchange on a server and it just won't let me. It keeps bitching about there still being mailboxes on there, but I don't care, nuke the bastards. I just want Exchange off the server!!
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@Intercourse said:
MPS?
MasterPlanSoftware. He was banned long before I even heard of TDWTF. This is the first time I ever read any of his(?) posts; somehow, I was under the impression they had all been deleted when he was banned, but clearly this is not correct.
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I don't think I am familiar with him either? Ahhhh, the long and varied history of these forums.
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IIRC, he1 is the only person ever to be permabanned from TDWTF.
1and at least one sockpuppet
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I was kind of wondering just what the hell you would have to do for that to happen, on a forum where trolling is SOP.
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Somebody who was around back then could answer better, but as I understand it, he was an exceptionally rude and persistent troll, and he got caught using a sockpuppet to avoid a temporary ban, or something like that.
Edit: Close but not quite. See subsequent post.
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I wonder if his sockpuppet was an asshole also?
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Here's basically what I know. I thought there was also an explanation that was a response to a question by me, but I can't find it (but haven't tried very hard after finding these), and I may be misremembering.
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/has-anyone-read-nageshs-profile/1588/117
http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-lurkers-thread-now-with-better-pluralization/399/15
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Interesting. Thanks for the insight. I might have to go back over to CS and poke around.
Also, Exchange is now gone. What a PITA. There should be an option to just nuke everything. I don't want to have to go through prereqs for uninstalling software.
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Editing.
If you make an error and someone pulls you up on it you shouldn't be able to edit the post! Makes it hard to get the discussion.
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"MPS" is an abbreviation for masterplansoftware - that brings up more results on here if you want to do more digging.
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@Intercourse said:
Very few people are Swampy's level of crazy. We need him back on here. He is amusing in a way. Like a circus freak, you point and laugh at the time but then you kind of feel bad about it later because he is obviously handicapped.
He's too busy doing that stuff IRL, judging by that recent video of him trolling the town meeting. I'm sure that's much more satisfying than trolling TDWTF: